Working in the greater Philadelphia area now for nearly 17 years has given me the opportunity to work with many of the large pharmaceutical companies located in this area. And one thing you learn quickly is how heavily regulated they … Continue reading
Problem to Solve: How can we best identify and mitigate Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks? Everyday, service providers and large enterprises are victims of denial of service (DoS) attacks. Over the last few years, Sony and Microsoft couldn’t deliver gaming … Continue reading
Problem to Solve: What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism, specifically in the area of Critical Links and Infrastructure? Have you ever seen any of your critical business links that look a “little congested“? I bet that some of … Continue reading
Throughout our Patient Care Performance Management (PCPM) series, we have reviewed individual performance management categories. When I consider the notion of “Advanced APM”, I see it as APM (based in traffic flow data) combined with a “service based” mentality. This leverages APM+ metrics … Continue reading
Problem to Solve: What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism, specifically in the area of Critical Services? As we work from the bottom up in creating the strategy, I will admit that this topic may not be extremely “sexy”. But … Continue reading
Problem to Solve: What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism? How can I use my Application and Network Performance Management tools to help assist? Nope, not starting this article out with 80’s movie reference, music video, silly … Continue reading
In the first article in this series, we reviewed how NPM statistics will provide details of the operation and performance of internal network super highways. The second article introduced the role of service enablers and how their poor performance can drastically … Continue reading
While traffic utilization and link error rates (NPM) have their place and uses, we must look deeper to truly impact patient care. Service enablers for example are services which are often overlooked and neglected, yet have the most widespread impact to … Continue reading
Network Performance Management’s (NPM) roots date back to the early 90s with emergence of SNMP, MIBII, and NetFlow. Quickly every IT shop, small and large, had various toolsets graphing all sorts of network metrics. Many of Network Managers lived and … Continue reading
When I refer to Patient Care Performance Management (PCPM), I am referring to applying Application Performance Management (APM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) strategies in a healthcare environment. (While this is directly applicable to healthcare, these can also be applied to other … Continue reading