A Digital Border Wall We Can All Agree On?
A new digital border wall for your network, datacenter or device? Compromise of the wrong database can be catastrophic to a nation, customers, the organization - and you! United States "data sovereignty" can be better protected United States "data sovereignty" can be...
Diverse Thinking Solves IT Problems – Pentagon 911 Root Cause
The Pentagon was locked down; our team was escorted by heavily armed forces outside the emergency perimeter, through security and past the office of the Secretary of Defense until we arrived in the basement entering the network control center where we would assist in...
Root Cause Analysis Eliminates Recurring Help Desk Tickets
Technical Efficacy is the belief through learning and experience that root causes of Information Technology slowness related lost productive time has solutions.
Network Performance Fails Media Giants
If only Don Draper, Mad Men’s famed Creative Director, played by Jon Hamm were here in the 21st Century to help with this advertising firm’s failed computer network delivery of time sensitive media. What would he do if suddenly dozens of the firms multi-billion dollar...
Oracle Client Slow
Datacenter consolidation creates performance problems for slow Oracle 11g Client queries. An application's server infrastructure was moved from an international location into a central datacenter in the USA. The application uses data sources on a MS-SQL database, but...
IT Performance Validation
How Close To Maximum Theoretical Performance Are Your Applications? What Would It Cost To Improve? If Key Applications Ran At Near Theoretical Speed How Much Would It Save? How Long Will It Take To Recoup Investment? Apalytics' Executive NetAnalyst identifies how to...
Network Performance Fails Media Giants
If only Don Draper, Mad Men's famed Creative Director, played by Jon Hamm were here in the 21st Century to help with this advertising firm's failed computer network delivery of time sensitive media. What would he do if suddenly dozens of the firms multi-billion...
TCP Selective Ack TCP Dup Ack TCP Previous Segment Lost
TCP Selective Ack TCP Dup Ack TCP Previous Segment Lost TCP Selective Acknowledgment creates performance complexities. Bill Alderson provides a short TCP tutorial on the function of selective acknowledgement troubleshooting. TCP checksum offload engines (TOE) and WAN...
Network Redundancy Another Single Point of Failure SPOF?
IT Network Redundancy - Just Another Single Point of Failure (SPOF)? Trace by reverse engineering the Network logical packet flow to find out! What is redundancy? Network redundancy attempts to reduce single point of failure (SPOF) by having two or more active-active,...
WAN Optimization, Acceleration Raises Enterprise Complexity
Complexity of WAN Optimization, Application Acceleration devices makes analysis of problems and root cause analysis more complex. Yes, they are beneficial, but if you have an issue only the manufacturer has the ability to fix the problem. Sadly not much motivation...
Application Performance Monitoring Tools in the Theatre of War
APM Application Performance Monitoring Tools in the Theatre of War tells the story of how application performance management tools were deployed to analyze and report on key inteligence biometrics applications throughout US CENTCOM Area of Responsibility, and CONUS...
IT Crisis Avoidance
Enterprise Architecture IT Disaster Recovery Plan Steps to APM Under Pressure This session takes ideas from many IT disaster critical problem resolution IT consulting engagements and puts them together into 30 minutes on how to avoid IT Crisis. This presentation...
Pentagon Lessons Learned IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Pentagon 911 Lessons Learned - IT Disaster Recovery Plan Bill Alderson discusses the technical and IT Best Practice lessons learned from the events subsequent to the Pentagon 911 disaster. Several key IT Disaster Recovery Plan lessons can be learned from this video....
MTU setting across VPN or L2TP Tunnel – Network Performance Issues
MTU defines Maximum Transmission Unit. Firewalls blocking ICMP disables IP's dynamic Path MTU Discovery causing fragmentation at VPN, L2TP tunnels impacting performance. Gateways are not able to respect native DF bit flags (Don't Fragment) because they are isolated on...
Oracle Performance Tuning with On-The-Wire Optimization
Oracle performance tuning -SQL and for that matter MS SQL tuning or any SQL server performance tuning can be analyzed by capturing TCP database transactions at the packet level. The Oracle Performance Tuning video is an example of the value of network analysis to...
CIO’s Oracle Performance Optimization ROI Justification – Save $20M over 5 years
Watch Bill Alderson's video on Oracle performance optimization ROI justification based on detailed packet analysis findings. This video is for CIO's to help justify portfolio spending on database improvements... a technical companion Video is posted showing the case...
Slow Domain Logon Analysis – Root Cause Identified – Solved!
Slow Domain Logon Analysis - Root Cause Identified - Solved! Root Cause Identified - Application Performance Optimized are the words CIO's and End Users enjoy hearing. Network Slow, Application Slow - these trouble tickets take more time and are rarely definitively...
Defining an IT Organization’s Technical Architecture
Every organization has a unique technical architecture “fingerprint,” characterized not only by the products it has chosen to deploy, but also by the organization’s business culture and its impact on the technical evolution of the enterprise. Even organizations using...
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