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• Lack of Network Security Stings Dave & Buster’s, Highlights Value of PCI Standards

  If you’re ever been to a Dave & Buster’s or Jillian’s restaurant and entertainment complex, you’ve probably had a great time with lots of fun and games. The IT and security team recently found out that dealings with the Federal... Posted Mar 30 2010, 12:37 PM by jhaines with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, PCI, PCI-DSS

• How Redundancy Hides Issues and Can Cause Bigger Problems Later

  Every successful IT organization has built-in redundancy and disaster recovery plans, but often overlook how these can often mask problems for a period of time and then when something else occurs - BAM - bigger problem or complete outage. Wikipedia just... Posted Mar 24 2010, 03:23 PM by mgowarty with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, outage, wikimedia, wikipedia, redundancy

• Capacity Planning - Do you know which ports are still being used?

  Over the past several years, the capacity planning area for IT professionals has become much more challenging when dealing with managing active switch ports. For most organizations, the challenge is threefold: The sheer number of ports requested has continued... Posted Mar 05 2010, 03:09 PM by mgowarty with | with no comments Filed under: Netcordia, Featured, Tech Tip, automate, NetmriMRI, capacity planning: switch port, capacity, port saturation, planning, automation

• Default Passwords Unlock the Back Door for Security Attacks

  A recent PCMag article by Larry Seltzer highlighted some of the security risks within routing infrastructures and how the uniquely named Chuck Norris botnet looks across network devices and finds default passwords as an entry point to spread harmful code... Posted Feb 24 2010, 07:57 AM by mgowarty with | with no comments Filed under: Featured, change management, PCMag, security, password

• Unscheduled Router Change Takes Down WordPress.com and TechCrunch Blog Community

  On February 18th, TechCrunch confirmed that its leading blog site was completely down for almost two hours because the site's host, WordPress.com , had been crippled by an unscheduled routing change to a core router. TechCrunch is one of millions... Posted Feb 19 2010, 08:38 AM by mgowarty with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, unscheduled change, wordpress, techcrunch, blogs, blog, router, down, hosting

• The Impact of Virtualization on VoIP/IP Telephony

  Eric Krapf , editor of No Jitter , leveraged Netcordia's 2010 Predictions of Top Causes of IT Headaches into a discussion on how virtualization can impact IP Telephony. I totally agree that voice will be one of the key applications where solid management... Posted Jan 26 2010, 10:54 AM by mgowarty with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: virtualization, Featured, network performance management, clould computing

• Network World Lists 5 Must-Have Technology Requirements for 2010

  As an avid follower of both Network World and Denise Dubie , I really enjoyed the a recent post on the " 5 Must-Have IT Management Technologies for 2010 ." While the article includes service hot topic trends like virtualization/virtual systems... Posted Jan 11 2010, 05:01 PM by mgowarty with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: EMA, Featured, Network World, 2010

• White House CyberSecurity Officer Includes Network in Biggest Security Risks

  The new White House CyberSecurity Officer has shared his top 10 predictions for 2010 and the network has now made it to the list. Bill Brenner takes it a step further, in yesterday’s article discussing the added risks to the network associated with 2009... Posted Dec 23 2009, 12:24 PM by mgowarty with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, white house, cybersecurity, Bill Brenner

• "These things happen" - Is this an acceptable response from IT?

  Last week,users of the BlackBerry e-mail service across North America were negatively impacted by an outage. Top Tech News reported a Sprint representative stated the outage was caused by routine maintenance. I recently did another blog on the impact... Posted Dec 18 2009, 12:53 PM by mgowarty with | with no comments Filed under: Featured

• Why is managing the network infrastructure overlooked and considered "old-school"?

  This weekend, I was researching some of the newest technology trends including virtualization and cloud computing and ran across an article "Will the Cloud Confuse Network Management? " which rekindled an IT debate that has gone on for years... Posted Dec 07 2009, 08:25 AM by mgowarty with | with no comments Filed under: virtualization, Featured, network performance management, cloud, cloud computing