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Network Emulation and Monitoring: Call for Input

Feb 5th, 2010
by Tommy P. Landry.
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Good morning to all of our readers, and thank you for your time and attention here on our blog.

In the past year plus, we’ve covered a wide gamut of topics on The Network View. We’ve done a series about how to calculate an ROI (or cost savings, more like it) for simplifying the complexity of passive monitoring tools in the data center. We spent many weeks sharing insights from SPoTs (Security Pros on Twitter), many of whom you already knew, and a few who were very likely new folks to some of you. We shared some key players at a few security tool vendors in our ALIST series. And we’ve covered research, trends, 2010 predictions, and even some network emulation topics.

Monitoring Optimization ROI Part VIII: Wrapup

Jul 8th, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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Over the past several weeks, we have taken you through the three “pillars” upon which Monitoring Optimization is built: Network Visibility / Coverage, Tool Utilization, and Staff Productivity. We’ve also taken a deep dive into a hypothetical case study for Simson Confections. Let’s wrap it all up now and look at the total ROI for all three scenarios.

ROI for Optimizing Monitoring Staff Productivity (Case Study)

Jun 29th, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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Simson has struggled for a couple of years to quantify the impact of lost productivity. Tradeoffs for staff priorities can lead to a gap in coverage, which is a secondary effect of stretching the network operations team too far. That said, for the purposes of this hypothetical example, we will assume they are not making tradeoffs between maintaining filters over time and troubleshooting, so we can isolate the productivity problem accurately.

Monitoring Optimization ROI Part VI: The Productivity of the Staff Managing the Data Center

Jun 23rd, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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When analyzing ROI for network monitoring, most data center managers focus on Asset #1, The Network, and to a lesser extent, #2, The Tools. However, the amount of time and effort it takes to set up, manage, configure, and troubleshoot cannot be overlooked. Any solution that claims to solve the first two problems must also be easy to use, or it will actually introduce more complexity and less efficiency into the process.

Monitoring Optimization ROI Part V: Optimizing Tool Utilization, CASE STUDY (Simson)

Jun 16th, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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Let’s return to our discussion of Simson. The convection purveyor began a transition to 10G in their data center recently. They considered delaying the switchover to avoid the cost of replacing all of their 1G tools with the 10G equivalents (or cost to buy additional duplicate tools), however, corporate priorities mandate the change now.

Monitoring Optimization ROI Part IV: The Tools

Jun 9th, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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Now we clearly understand why we need tools and how to use them to best cover the network. However, on the flip side, it is important to optimize the utilization of the tools themselves. Tools can range from “free” for open source (some debate whether free is free, or whether the cost is hidden elsewhere) to hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit. With such hefty investments of money and effort, particularly in tight economic and budgetary times, it is imperative to squeeze the most that you can out of those tools.

CASE STUDY (Simson): ROI for achieving full network coverage/visibility

Jun 1st, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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For the purposes of this blog series, we will be calculating the ROI for Monitoring Optimization on behalf of a hypothetical company: Simson Confections (“Simson” for short). While it is typical for companies to strategically manage monitoring coverage in an incomplete fashion due to cost and other limiting factors, Simson wants to…

Monitoring Optimization ROI, Part II: The Network

May 19th, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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The Network View is offering a series of ROI-related posts focused on the question: “Why optimize my network and/or security monitoring?” This is the second installment, which delves into the negative impacts of having incomplete coverage of your network.

Monitoring Optimization ROI, Part I

May 12th, 2009
by Tommy P. Landry.
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NOTE: The Network View is offering a series of ROI-related posts focused on the question: “Why optimize my network and/or security monitoring?” This is the first installment, which will review the meaning of ROI briefly and set up the second entry.

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