Network Instruments is about to embark on a 10-city North American troubleshooting tour. The tour, Destination: Performance, will introduce network professionals to the latest troubleshooting trends and techniques including:

Application performance monitoring
VoIP and Unified Communications analysis
Device and route monitoring
Back-in-time troubleshooting
Enterprise-wide reporting

Join NI for lunch and enjoy highly relevant presentations from their resident network [...]

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Say that 3 times fast… Network World’s Debbie Dubie’s article on “How to troubleshoot sluggish apps” talks about how poor performing applications has affected overall corporate revenue by as much as 9% (according to a survey conducted by Aberdeen Group).  She looks at 3 scenarios where application-performance problems can impact business productivity and [...]

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Today’s networks are extremely complex with a wide variety of application demands.  Emerging technologies pose new challenges as performance spikes and recreational users threaten business critical applications, not to mention productivity.  Below is a list of the top 5 challenges that network managers face when it comes to distributed networks.
1. Voice, Video & Data Convergence
VoIP [...]

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Happy New Year!!! I hope that everyone’s 2008 is off to a great start. In keeping with the tradition of New Year’s Resolutions and Predictions, my colleague, Charles Thompson — Manager of Sales Engineering at Network Instruments, was recently interviewed by NetworkWorld Magazine where he discussed the top trends of 2008 in Network Management. [...]

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I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “Out of Site, Out of Mind” before. Well, that’s usually what I run across when I speak to Network Managers about their network traffic problems. “If I can’t see it, then I can’t fix it”. I’m sure all of us at one time or another has gone [...]

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Steve Brown from Network Instruments posted the other day on his blog about Tim O’Neill’s piece in LoveMyTool on the drawbacks to SPANs or port mirrors, and a justification for using network TAPs. Tim (an Ex-Network General colleague of mine) is a technology consultant with over 30 years experience working in the WAN, Analog, ISDN, [...]

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