IT Blog Hi folks! One of the greatest things about today's network is that it seems to be able to handle anything. It doesn't seem to matter what you want to do on your network, there is always a technology around the corner that can make it happen for you. Well one of the most common things happening toda...
VoIP, data network, engineers IT Blog It is ironic that right as Gartner released research showing engineers are managing 20% to 30% more network components than they were last year, networking pros are about to receive even more on their plates by way of facilities management of all things. This week the IP for Smart Objects (IPS...
IT Blog Google is obviously a great tool for everyone including hackers. If you have never heard of Google Hacking, then I highly recommend you take a look at what might be exposed and found through a Google search. This Google Hacking tutorial might help get you started. It is important that you understand...
IT Blog In a recent post, I reported that network address translation (NAT) is becoming a tougher sell for internal test and development systems. In lieu of NAT, firewalls are clearly becoming the solution to use for segregated networks for various systems that represent different security zones, compliance...
IT Blog Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds, a provider of downloadable network management software, has released a free tool to monitor the performance of VMware Inc. virtual environments. The new tool, SolarWinds VM Monitor, and an update to its flagship Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) gives IT a way ...
Product announcements, Virtualization, Virtual machine IT Blog Though it's only tangentially related to the IBM i, this joke about IBM and Microsoft software engineers would probably have a lot of iHeads nodding and laughing. Let's just say it involves three IBM software engineers, three Microsoft software engineers, and only one train ticket between all of the...
IT Blog NEW YORK -- Bill Weihl, Google's green energy czar, told a group of data center operators here that some of them need to stop making excuses for not improving their facilities' energy efficiency. After years of secrecy around how its data centers operate, Google has now drawn the curtain to show ho...
Google data center, PUE, Uptime Institute IT Blog Update 11:56 am: Added additional link to feedback page started by Technochic. This is one of the most frequent questions we receive in our mailbox -- member logs in, member asks question, member comes back later to check on question, question has mysteriously disappeared. So why the mystery? Are t...
IT Blog Open source has been buzzing lately: Gartner identified it as one of the top 10 trends for 2008, and last week Microsoft announced it was publishing 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista and launching an "Interoperability Initiative." Google is pushing open applicat...
Networking, Network security, Network management IT Blog If the Internet really is a series of tubes, it's network engineers who keep those tubes running. But how, exactly, do you keep it running today while keeping an eye on what you'll need tomorrow? Get the experts' opinions from our picks of the top networking blogs. Know of a great networking blog ...
IT Blog Talk to David Hashman about how to build out and finance fiber to the home (FTTH) and you know you're talking to someone who has drawn the plans for the trenches, been in the trenches, and knows where the fiber is buried (couldnt pass up a lame criminal organization joke). Even if you're Verizon,...
fiber to the home, broadband, optical networking IT Blog Guess what your Routers support zone-based policies, which really helps with multi-interface restrictions (rather than just one outside & one inside interface with individual access list applications). Likewise, it now supports application inspection to catch those scandalous peer-to-peer pr...
Cisco, Routers, Cisco IOS IT Blog Mark! You still there? My eyes snapped open. The floor was sideways in my view, the phone lying a foot away, voices coming from the speaker. It was 2 am; Id fallen asleep at home, on the floor, while the tech team was hard at work debugging a server problem. Gad! I held up ...
data center, Data Center Jobs, 3rd shift IT Blog Privacy, the Internet and the workplace -- should boundaries exist? Dave McMahon and Margaret Rouse take sides on whether or not employees have the right to expect privacy on social networking sites. Dave McMahon "Be very careful of what you put on the Web. Anyone can see it." ...
privay, Social networking, Twitter IT Blog Network pros must feel like they carry the world on their backs. One of my big takeaways from Interop was that with the tide of new applications being delivered across the network, network pros have to work across organizational and technological silos in order to keep things running; that they must...
IT Blog This sponsored guest is from Cisco Systems and was written by Mark Leary, a Cisco seniorstrategistand Chief Marketing Officer - Network Systems. In the first two segments of this blog series, I focused on two of the three cornerstones to success in Borderless Networks Workplace Transformati...
Cisco, Networking in 2010, Guest Post IT Blog Tell me you haven't heard this before: Getting a certification earns you more pay. This week, however, Foote Partners LLC released a study revealing just the reverse: the average premium pay for uncertified workers trumps those who are certified. They have seen the average premium pay for uncertifie...
Networking, Network, IT certification and training IT Blog In one of my past posts, I mentioned about the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer, still I am testing some more netflow analyzers . Manage Engine recently released the latest version of its Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer 7.5. So I though let me try the demo version of Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer...
Networking, Manage Engine Netflow Analyzer 7.5, Cisco IOS IT Blog After all the money you've diverted from your (enterprise's) coffers, don't you deserve a little something back? I mean, your requisition orders must pay the salaries of at least a few marketing types, sales types, and even a few engineers, so a kick back is the least they could give you. Well, you...
Cisco, Network, IT certification and training IT Blog Have you heard about Cisco's latest branch router? They recently released it and I admit that I am very impressed. First, take a look at what it looks like: Different, right? I didn't shrink the picture - it really isn't full rack-width. It is pretty small actually. As you can see, it has swit...
Networking, Cisco, Blogroll IT Blog If you're looking for aprecisevideo on configuring an IP address on your Cisco router, than this is the video for you. Itsteps you through thehow-to's and just as important, the why's of the process. It's so helpful for you as an Admin. For instance,knowing that aswitch can only switch...
IT Blog Article after article and post after post have compared and contrasted Xen, VMWare, Veridian, and a host of other virtualization technologies, with opinions on performance, management tools, implementations, etc., etc. in abundant supply. Inevitably when it comes to Xen, the story comes full circle ...
Virtualization, Virtualization management, Virtualization platforms IT Blog The best way to learn about Cisco networking is to have your own lab. However, that is hard to do (costly, takes up space, and time-consuming). The best way to do this is to have a virtual Cisco lab using GNS3. This is easy to do with proper instruction. Fortunately, Train Signal Training recently p...
IT Blog Of all the storage companies competing to sell data deduplication, Quantum is unique. That's because it is primarily a tape vendor and data deduplication was developed to replace tape. Look at some the other vendors involved in what Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman calls a "land grab" for deduplicati...
IT Blog Note to self: Acquire notebook computer before next business travel commitment in early September. Filing blogs from an iPhone distinctly not fun. Remind TechTarget team to super-duper spell check this. How do teens and 20-somethings cope with texting, which is like water torture to me? But more ...
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