Both Cisco 6500 & 7600 serve as Core devices on a network to distribute large amount of traffic. The high volume of packets and packet rates of traffic on some device links which leads to more utilization of CPU and memory for performing traffic analysis in this scenario
Virtual Machine Sprawls: How can you keep them in check?
Is too much of a good thing bad? The answer is yes
5 major benefits you could get out of traffic analysis
We see and hear a lot about traffic analysis and traffic monitoring but have you ever wondered what exactly is the very purpose of carrying out such an exercise? Why is traffic monitoring important? Is there any practical benefit that they get out of it?
Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for October 2011 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released their advance notification for October 2011 patch Tuesday. Microsoft will release 8 bulletins on October 11 , 2011 addressing 23 vulnerabilities.
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus-Desktop Central Integration
Integrating ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and Desktop Central www.manageengine.com
How do you share privileged passwords in your enterprise? [Part-1]
Assume that you are an IT administrator managing servers, databases, network devices and numerous other IT applications. All these resources are accessed/controlled through administrative passwords and are being used in a shared environment. That means, a group of administrators use the common privileged account to access the resource
IT’s New Reality
Jason Hiner over at TechRepublic wrote a blog the other day entitled What the IT department will look like in 2015 . He
Efficient IT Management: Silos aren
Uptime, downtime, business continuity, cost, productivity and thousands more of such adjectives are the ones that we in the IT world have to hear on a daily basis. Customers or end users expect high uptime and boards expect reduced IT investments without compromising on the productivity. Today productivity has become a serious issue and it needs to be handled with efficiency
ISP and Enterprise Billing in NetFlow Analyzer-Part 2
The previous blog dealt with Billing and as a continuation here is a brief account of IP group billing which is one of the unique features of NetFlow Analyzer. IP Group Billing:- Consider a scenario where billing has to happen across different users from different departments sharing the same link. This scenario is very typical in large enterprises where a given project is handled by different departments & they have their unique ways of using the bandwidth to handle the project
ITAM – a key step in reducing operations costs
Economy is not in your control, your organization’s operation costs are! The economy curve isn’t exactly going north and it is important for you, as an asset manager, to contribute for reducing operations cost. In a recent article by Gartner titled “10 Key Actions to Reduce IT Infrastructure and Operations Costs by as Much as 25 Percent”, one of the key steps mentioned was IT Asset Management (ITAM). “ITAM by itself doesn’t reduce I&O costs; however, it is a very effective tool to identify and assess cost reduction opportunities.” IT Asset management is not only a business practice of discovering and monitoring the assets, it encapsulates much more than that – cost monitoring, history, contracts management, notifications, software asset and license management, to name a few