| Kicking the tires of management software There is no shortage of free software available for download online from researchers, communities and individuals. But for every freeware application that solves a pain point fast, there is another no-cost application that offers little value, making network managers think: "You get what you pay for." 10 IT management start-ups to watch Venture capital is becoming scarce in some tech sectors, but that hasn't stopped these 10 start-ups from delivering new tools for managing IT systems. PacketTrap offers its network management Perspective Start-up PacketTrap Networks this month will unveil its network management platform the company says offers advanced monitoring and reporting features at a competitive price. Analyze Cisco's NetFlow for free Network traffic data holds a wealth of information about application response time, network usage and bandwidth consumption. Getting at that data in an efficient and inexpensive manner would help network managers better understand and control their networks. Cisco, NetQoS move a step closer to integrated network optimization, management Last time, we pointed out that network organizations have the opportunity to both show business value and do good things for the careers of network professionals by demonstrating how they ensure that the company’s key business applications exhibit acceptable performance. We also pointed out that ensuring acceptable application performance is difficult as it requires the tight integration of planning, optimization, management and control. Regrettably, most application delivery solutions do not provide a rich set of well integrated planning, optimization and management functionality. In fact, some WAN optimizations products can cause existing planning and management functionality to break. Today, we’ll discuss some of the problems with the current application delivery solutions and detail how NetQoS and Cisco have worked together to solve at least some of the problems. Cisco puts WAAS and more in router The market explosion around application acceleration and WAN optimization technologies in 2006 stirred up many discussions around how exactly these performance and speed enhancing technologies should be delivered. And industry watchers, enterprise IT managers and vendors alike debated how many features could be integrated into one appliance to deliver LAN-like performance to those distributed branch offices connecting to data centers via a WAN. Real network engineers put Cisco data center gear through its paces If you want to know how the Cisco Nexus line really works in practice, here's your chance to live vicariously through a group of network engineers who right now are testing out an end-to-end Nexus data center design. In their words "Yup, scary." QoS application classes Cisco Subnet blogger Dennis Hartmann gives an overview of data classes in transactional and network management applications, and discusses bulk data applications. Is my network healthy? Important IOS CLI info (Show version) Cisco Subnet blogger Avner Izhar shares his command line interface best-practices for assessing the network's health. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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