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Network management and monitoring market remains crowded, fragmented
IDC's new assessment of the network management and monitoring market reveals a crowded and fragmented landscape where leading vendors don't necessarily compete against one another. Instead, they are solving different problems for network managers, wh... Article | 30 Apr 2009
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Xangati help desk 'DVR' feature speeds up trouble ticketing resolution
Xangati's Visual Trouble Ticket portal allows users to create DVR-like recordings of their network problems. IT staff can use these recordings to resolve network trouble tickets much more quickly, without having to speak directly with users. Article | 21 Apr 2009
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Network change and configuration management vendors see big changes
Two leading independent network change and configuration management vendors have seen big changes this winter. Netcordia gave its product a makeover, while AlterPoint changed ownership. Article | 04 Mar 2009
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YouTube, Facebook make bandwidth monitoring best practices challenging
Network performance can be dragged down by sites like YouTube and Facebook, but cutting them off completely can lead to new problems. Two veterans of the bandwidth monitoring wars share their advice for keeping your network performance up to par. Article | 19 Feb 2009
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How a new casino manages a giant network with 500 switches, IP voice
When Station Casinos built its newest property, Aliante Hotel & Casino, a new computing model for slot machines forced the company to deploy a network that was 10 times bigger than anything it had built before. Find out how it was done and how the co... Article | 10 Feb 2009
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How network performance management can save money, boost applications
A Washington hospital uses network performance management tools to save money and to ensure performance of critical applications. Article | 04 Feb 2009
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Network management software vendors offer virtualization management
Network management software vendors SolarWinds and PacketTrap have added server virtualization management and monitoring into their products. Experts say this is a good first step as virtualization forces IT to break up the silos that exist between n... Article | 05 Nov 2008
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Hospital gains network visibility by convincing vendors to collaborate
When Concord Hospital needed to install a network behavioral analysis (NBA) tool into a Nortel network built on multi-link trunking, the hospital's network chief had to convince Nortel to collaborate with his preferred NBA vendor. Article | 30 Oct 2008
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Retrospective network analysis might have found Google's lost billions
When Google's stock price mysteriously dropped hundreds of points within minutes, network professionals probably called on retrospective network analysis technology to solve the problem. Article | 16 Oct 2008
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WildPackets' packet analysis tool helps newspaper fix network problems
The network services team at the Seattle Times newspaper streamlined its repair of network failures by installing OmniPeek, a packet analysis tool from WildPackets. Article | 17 Sep 2008