| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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Inter-Silo Communication in IT Organizations |
| All companies have Silos. They are probably an unavoidable byproduct of corporate hierarchy.
IT organizations or corporations that use complex advanced technology are more prone to this than most. IT is comprised of departments that are specialists in a piece of the puzzle. Servers, OS, Middlew... |
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Horizontal Knowledge and Vertical Knowledge in the IT World |
| IT Career Planning is an area that all IT workers must take seriously. This article and podcast discuss one area of such planning. The difference between Horizontal and Vertical growth in your technical career. |
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Consulting Compared to Being an Employee - Part One |
| Discusses the various types of Consulting as preparation for a discussion on the differences between Consulting and being an Employee and how to succeed in each. |
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The Ethical Conflicts Created by MBO Incentive Programs |
| Describes the inherent conflicts of interest created by corporate MBO Incentive Programs. |
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The New Information Technology Marketplace |
| New energy systems and a rewrite of the way that the Health Care Industry does business will be heavily steeped in Information Technology. Our skills are going to be in more and more in demand as companies around the world, and here in the United States, scramble for ways to create a sustainable fut... |
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Multi-Tier Latency Concepts-01 |
| The issue of latency of any kind, is a complex issue. Latency measurements in multi-tiered designs are the most complex of all. That being said, below are Five Concepts to help get you started. |
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The Myths of Network Latency |
| Describes the real and often hidden forms of latency hidden under the Myth of Network Latency. Shows area where they hurt Network, Application,Database Performance. |
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The Saturation Point |
| Describes how enterprise networks reach a point where they become unmanageable and costly in many ways--and how to avoid this saturation point. |
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The Technical Enterprise Practitioner (TEP)™ |
| Describes the need for a Technical Enterprise Practitioner (TEP)™ that provides the same oversight to the IT Industry that the Family Practitioner provides to the Medical Industry. |
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Testing Enviroments--Cost Justification |
| Provides the cost justification that management may need in order to make needed budgeting decisions regarding the funding of Enhanced Testing Environments. |
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Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--Oh My--Part TWO |
| Describes Best Practice for the creation of various types of Testing Environments such as DEV, QA, UAT, Parallel Prod, PROD, Labs and more. |
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Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--Oh My--Part ONE |
| Describes the impact of IT vendor product's limitations and abilities on how IT workers "think" about Troubleshooting and Performance Analysis. |
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How IT Vendors Direct IT Best Practices |
| How IT Tool limitations and abilities direct IT workers approach to problem resolution. |
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Plastic Lock Security |
| Plastic Lock Security is a security policy that will ONLY keep out those who obey the rules. |
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Interpath Application Flow Diagrams-01 |
| An Interpath Diagram (application flow diagram or process flow diagram) is NOT a network diagram, although there are similarities. When I ask for this type of diagram, nine out of ten times, what I receive is a Network Diagram. Let’s discuss the differences. |
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The ROOT Cause |
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What's So Great About Packet-Sniffers? |
| Describes a good case study and compares protocol and packet analysis to other tools that are available. |
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Mentoring in IT |
| Discusses the critical need for Mentoring Programs within IT organizations in light of the pending mass retirement of the Senior Level staffers that are all baby boomers. Describes some guidelines to identify potential candidates. |
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Packet-Sniffer Filtering Concepts-01 |
| Discusses basic concepts of Packet-Sniffer Filtering that apply to all packet-sniffer products. The first article of this topic but not the last. |
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The Missing Link in IT Management |
| There is a role that is needed within the IT Management Structure that is missing. In my opinion, this role could save large corporations many millions of dollars per year while contributing greatly to the overall health of all IT departments, and their personnel. While working on muti-month proje... |
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The Myths of Network Utilization & Automated Metrics--Combined |
| Myths are metaphors for basic truths--and so are automated testing tools and metrics like Utilization. They point toward a truth; they are signposts in the right direction. But they are not literal or hard data. |
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The 7 Most Common Mistakes Using Packet-Sniffers |
| The 7 most common mistakes that cause IT professionals to fail to get accurate or actionable results from Packet-Sniffers. |
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The ROOT Cause - Podcast Series |
| The ROOT Cause- Podcast. A series on the Art and Science of Network and Application Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting using Protocol Analyzers and other tools. Emphasis is on Application Transaction Testing and Root Cause Analysis |
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The Myth of Automated Metrics |
| An article that compares the effectiveness and "reality" of automated testing compared to a Network & Application Perfomance Analysis utilizing a Transactional Analysis approach. |
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The Myth of Network Utilization |
| The Myth Series: “The Myth of Network Utilization” Why art and not science? It is science—but a science of approximation. The tools involved all act like they are sure, but they too are estimating. The trick is to do things in a manner where your estimates are meaningful and produce actionable r... |
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Why Network Assessments Must Include Application Behavior |
| Why the Network Assessment process MUST include Application & Network Protocol Behavior. |
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Case Study 62: Location, Location & Location |
| Case Study describing a situation where two remote locations equally far from the same Application Server experienced VERY different access times--describes causes. |
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Excessive TCP Connections |
| Article describes problems with excessive TCP connections in legacy applications developed for non TCP networks -- later adapted for TCP networks. Describes symptoms and causes. |
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Performance Tuning Is A Process -- Not A Tool |
| Why automated network application performance monitoring and tuning tools frequently fail to resolve or predict problems--and what to do about it. |
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Case Study 47: Layer 2 loss shown by Layer 4 errors |
| Campus with plenty of bandwidth still downloads so slowly staff cannot get files over 1 MB. |
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