Drew Bird

In an environment where margins are tight, competition is fierce, and customers want everything for nothing, being a reseller is tough. That’s not to say that there aren’t resellers making good money, but those that do have to work hard to make it, and those that don’t fall by the wayside in short order. Being […]

I was chatting with a customer the other day when the topic of testing their firewall solution came up. During the conversation I asked who he was going to use to do the testing. When he pointed toward the systems administrator, a capable individual, but one who has had nothing to do with firewalls, I […]

For many organizations, particularly smaller ones, the concept of fault tolerance extends only as far as doing a nightly tape backup. In many cases, the reason cited for using just this measure is a lack of available funds, but perhaps more prevalent is simply a lacking full appreciation of the impact a downed server brings. […]

A user’s perception of how good a network is will generally be based on two main factors: speed and reliability. These demands, coupled with the need to accommodate ever more bandwidth-hungry applications, means that network administrators are under continual pressure to provide a faster and more reliable system. So how do you give your growing […]