Posted by mike@plixer.com on May 19, 2013
High volume NetFlow Collection usually can’t be attained by simply placing the NetFlow collector on beefier hardware. It requires understanding of the protocol, the preprocessing necessary to meet the demands of the front end, tweaking memory, optimizing database settings ...

Posted by sysblogeditor on May 18, 2013
Application Performance Monitoring needs to evolve from a Network Map to an Application Map.  It is amazing to me that most companies do not have a map of the applications that their business depends on.   When application performance is crawling the network is often the ...

Posted by sysblogeditor on May 17, 2013
When considering Ipswitch’s WhatsUp Gold Vs. Solarwinds Orion it is important to start off by listing the features that are important to maintaining optimum network performance for your business.  Clearly both are capable of monitoring networks.  Both vendors maintain a ...