Interop NYC – Notes from the Floor
We’re currently wrapping up the second day at Interop in The Big Apple. Much like the city itself, this event buzzed with a rich variety of folks from everywhere and every industry, including...
View ArticlePrepare Your Network for the Unexpected
Over the past few months, we have shared a variety of different infographics and statistics on the important role data centers and networks play in our every day lives. According to the Big Data Storm,...
View ArticleThree industries that need specialized data monitoring
On this blog, you’ve read many times that 100% network visibility on a 24/7 basis is important. But depending on the type of company you work for, it may not just be about total visibility....
View ArticleCommon Customer Challenges Alleviated via Intelligent Network Monitoring
Companies building their network monitoring solutions are primarily concerned with three things: maximizing network efficiency, making smart capital investments and saving money. Data aggregation,...
View ArticleHacking Isn’t All Bad
When we hear the term “computer hacking,” many of us may have an initial image of a scheming evil-doer in a dark room plotting to wreak havoc on some poor, unprotected network. In some cases, that...
View ArticleBig Data Flood Emphasizes ‘Time-Value of Data’
Financial managers, tax planners, investors, bankers and economists long have been required to understand the time-value of money. That is, the value of money changes constantly. Now, the question...
View ArticleLife Without APCON
Picture this. You’re in your data center. It’s late and you’ve just finished restoring a failing switch minutes before critical data was lost. You wipe a single drip of sweat from your brow and slowly...
View ArticleHackers Are Watching Everything You Do. Are You?
Hackers Are Watching Everything You Do. Are You? Equifax is a pretty big deal. As the oldest of the three largest American credit agencies, it gathers and keeps data on more than 400 million credit...
View ArticleData Is Exploding, But Your Monitoring Costs Don’t Have to Follow
Thanks to the explosion in video streaming and personal use of wireless devices that together are consuming vast amounts of telecommunications bandwidth, it is becoming exponentially more challenging –...
View ArticleFor the Retail Network Operations Center, the Holiday Pressure Is On
The Super Bowl is still a few months away, but for network operations managers who oversee retail datacenters, the big game has already started. The National Retail Foundation recently projected...
View ArticleThank you for 20 Years of Business
During this holiday season, it’s time to pause and reflect on all the things we are thankful for. This year has a lot of meaning for me because APCON has been serving enterprise businesses, large...
View ArticleA Gloomy 2014 Forecast for Network Security
Network security threats never seem to diminish from one year to the next – that’s not how the bad guys work, right? – but predictions for the year ahead are shaping up as especially ominous. The 2014...
View ArticleMulti Stage Filtering: It Protects Your Network Tools from ‘Drinking from a...
Have you ever been in a situation where tons of information was thrown at you and you were expected to learn and comprehend a lot of it very quickly? Then you’ve probably had the phrase “like getting a...
View ArticleHoliday Season Leads Retail Big Data Insights
As 2013 comes to a close, retailers are seeing a steady ramp up in network activities as U.S. holiday sales are expected to reach more than $600 billion. This holiday season, sales represent a 4%...
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Big Data: Enormous Opportunity Brings Unprecedented Challenges
Few people know that the term “Big Data,” a ubiquitous buzz-phrase now, can be traced back more than 20 years to John Mashey, chief scientist at Silicon Graphics, a cutting edge company that created...
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The Challenge of Velocity: Capturing Data at the Speed of Light
The “big” in Big Data doesn’t even begin to describe the enormity of the subject. An analyst named Doug Laney, now at the Gartner research firm, years ago came up with probably the best explanation...
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Today’s Data Volume Demands State-of-the-Art Network Management
Naturally, data generation at the staggering speeds we’ve already discussed in our Big Data series leads to not just mountains of data, but to whole Himalayas-sized mountain ranges of data being...
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To Leverage Disparate Data Requires Multi-Stage Filtering
Only 15 years ago, pretty much all data was structured. That is, it was searched for, processed, analyzed and stored by category. Today, however, data that companies are monitoring, generating,...
View ArticleHoliday Hackers Remind Enterprise Network Managers to Stay Vigilant
As we wrote on this blog last month, network security is constant to face unprecedented assault from hackers in 2014. Well, we were wrong: The assault commenced before the arrival of Baby New Year. In...
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TOMORROW starts here – notes from Cisco Live Milan
Today is the third day of Cisco Live in Milan. I am not surprised to see several thousand engineers and network operators here at the MiCo Congress Center, because it is essential to closing the gap...
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