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
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.
Fortinet Partner Testimonial: Internet Solutions (MSSP)
The Fortinet Advantage – Internet Solutions South Africa
Fortinet Customer Testimonial: P&T Telecom Luxemburg
The Fortinet Advantage, P&T Telecom Luxemburg
Fortinet Partner Testimonial
Fortinet’s International Partners’ Testimonial Videos
Fortinet Customer Testimonial: PayLife
Fortinet End User PayLife, financial institution in Austria, gives its view of the Fortinet advantage.
Virtually yours, NetFlow on VMWare vSphere 5 !
NetFlow is turning out to be the primary IP Accounting technology in the world of networking.
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