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  Continuity of Operations - Is Your Plan Static?

  Over the past week, I attended the LandWarNet conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and heard a consistent theme from the military's best IT and networking experts regarding Continuity of Operations (COOP). Since the September 11 attacks and Katrina...

  Published 08-22-2008 5:09 PM
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  Join our PCI Discussion & Webinar

  We are fortunate enough to have one of our customers, Charles Chambers from University of Houston and Matt Shell from our partner company Coleman Technologies join us in a PCI webinar coming up next Wednesday on 8/27/08 at 2:00 PM ET. The webinar will...

  Published 08-21-2008 4:18 PM
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  Per-core licensing charges?

  Some vendors are charging licensing fees for each processor or even each processor core in a server. In an article on Network World Oracle is described as charging for each individual core on multi-cpu, multi-core systems. My view is that this type of...

  Published 08-18-2008 11:08 AM
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  Paris Traceroute

  Marty Adkins over at Netcraftsmen recently found an interesting network diagnostic tool: Paris Traceroute . It can find multi-path routes through a network where one device is doing load balancing of some sort. I've not yet used it,but it looks pretty...

  Published 08-14-2008 12:06 PM
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  Cloud Computing Applied to Network Management

  One of the new technology rages in the market today is Cloud Computing (and Storage), of which Amazon's Web Services ( S3 , SQS, SimpleDB, EC2, and HaDoop) is one example. As I was reading through the example of "Grep the Web" described...

  Published 08-04-2008 2:39 PM
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  Configuration Rollback

  We were talking with Debra Curtis of Gartner yesterday about Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) and the topic of Rollback came up. Juniper has supported the 'commit' operation since they started, allowing their devices to be rolled...

  Published 07-30-2008 3:40 PM
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  Cisco IOS 12.4(20)T Packet Capture Feature

  Jamey Heary, CCIE No. 7680, who writes for Network World's Cisco Subnet, recently wrote about a set of new features in Cisco's IOS 12.4(20)T release . One of the features he describes is pretty neat: Packet Capture. At times, the only way you...

  Published 07-29-2008 12:49 PM
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  Chilling Network Topology Discovery Patent Application

  I discovered a patent application (not yet granted) this week that gave me chills. Part of its claims* are performing Layer 2 and Layer 3 network topology discovery and display, as of October 2001. Huh? Network topology discovery and display was being...

  Published 07-24-2008 3:07 PM
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  Funding Update

  I am pleased to report that we have added a new investor to Netcordia as well as received the continued support from Trinity Ventures and Novak Biddle Venture Partners. In mid July, Gold Hill Capital, a leading provider of growth capital financing for...

  Published 07-23-2008 12:40 PM
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  Troubleshooting VoIP

  I've done a few seminars on troubleshooting VoIP at VoiceCon (Fall 07 and Spring 08). Somewhere along the way, someone mentioned a relatively new web site to me: voiptroubleshooter.com I finally took time today to look at it. The content is potentially...

  Published 07-21-2008 4:15 PM