While I was at VoiceCon in San Francisco, CA a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to stop by Cisco and record two video segments for the Cisco Learning Network . The first of these videos is now online: What CIOs Should Know About Network Analysis . I did this presentation a while back for a the Baltimore...

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 in the paper Cloud Architectures , I wondered what...

We just announced the NetMRI Event Analysis system, which analyzes syslog and snmp trap events, and is pretty exciting (see the press release ). Most syslog collectors provide forensic analysis (after the fact). Some organizations have created complex scripts to filter out the noise and identify important...