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Performance Engineering Fundementals Podcasts

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Besides being a Senior Consultant, I often get the privilege of conducting customer training sessions for Shunra. It is always a great time educating people on the value of WAN performance engineering and its immense importance when dealing with remote users and clients. Part of our base training package is ‘performance engineering basics’. This is the [...]

The three-way race for cloud-computing’s future

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I try to follow the trends in the emerging cloud computing technologies and see how this revolutionary concept finally settles into mainstream. Cloud computing has been the hot buzz for over a year now with everyone trying to innovate or get a piece of the action. A recent article out of CNET (article here) shows that [...]

Make Lemonade when an Outsource Gives You Lemons

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Outsourcing has become a reality in a larger companies IT strategy and budget. Whether it’s long or short term, companies find they need outside help with the complexities of technology from testing, to implementation, to management. I ran across a really interesting article out of InfoWorld (article here) that gives advice about what to do [...]

Challenges for Branch Office Computing

Thursday, January 29, 2009

This NetworkWorld article was forwarded to me by a colleague and definitely needs mention here. The article (click here) centers around challenges faced in managing ‘branch’ users, whether a small remote office or remote users out of home offices. As companies find innovative and cost effective methods to be more productive, the needs of collaboration and [...]

‘Cloud Computing’ takes off in 2008

Monday, January 5, 2009

Every year about this time, CNET and various other technology sites start putting out ‘Year in Review’ articles. These articles talk about what has come and gone in technology and what the hot topics are. The one that caught my eye was Year in review: The ‘cloud’ soars. This is a subject that I personally [...]

Crowdsourcing mobile application testing

Friday, November 14, 2008

I ran across an article on cnet this evening (article here) that Mob4Hire presented at Under the Radar recently. ‘The pitch began with a compelling use case: You need to test the app on 20 handsets in another country where you don’t have an office. Mob4Hire’s Web site connects testers all over the world with [...]