5 Capabilities That Your Wireless Network Needs Now Posted on August 21, 2014 by Tim Burke We can’t afford to ignore the myriad of mobile devices and apps currently saturating our attention and wireless connections. In my last post, I laid out some of the industry’s eye-popping numbers. This time, I’m offering up just one graphic (from Cisco’s recent Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update) showing why you must upgrade your network infrastructure. Pronto. Continue reading →
Building Better Wireless By Mapping Your Goals Posted on August 18, 2014 by Tim Burke Wireless chatter really is everywhere: I recently saw an ad from a major pain relief company touting the benefits of its latest product, a “wireless” pain patch But wireless implementations can be plenty painful, and there’s no magic patch to ease the strain. When clients ask us the best way to ensure that a wireless service performs as desired, we advise them to begin by asking — in non-technical terms — what they’re trying to accomplish. Continue reading →
What to Look For in IT Operations Analytics Capabilities Posted on April 24, 2014 by Tim Burke In my last post, I discussed how IT operations analytics can transform the masses of IT performance data into insight that provides broad, cross-tier network and infrastructure visibility so that … Issues may be proactively recognized and resolved before they affect your business Future capacity and provisioning requirements may be anticipated A performance baseline built from multiple metrics can be established, reducing the time, money, and headaches associated with planning and deploying new projects, such as cloud deployments or virtualization. But how should you go about choosing an IT operations analytics solutions? This is worth paying attention to, since such solutions are new, called by a number of different names (though likely not for long) and are available both as appliances and cloud-based services. Continue reading →
