When an IT support ticket is passed to the network engineering group, one of the first steps in the troubleshooting process is to verify whether it is the network that is causing the problem or not. Especially when it’s not obvious to the naked eye that it’s the network’s fault….
There’s plenty of debate over the role of skeuomorphism in digital interface design. Do buttons still need to be “button-like” now that basically everyone knows how to click/tap on rectangles that resemble buttons? Is the flat design aesthetic of iOS 7 the way of the future? Is skeuomorphism dead? In…
The age when nearly everything in your house has an IP address could be upon us in the relatively near future. You’ll soon be able to leave temperature management to your smart thermostat, watering your yard to your smart sprinkler system, and be able to track and manage everything from…
Across all levels of education, the typical classroom is becoming more high-tech and more connected. During a typical lecture the instructor might play a short video from YouTube, ask students to take a pop-quiz on their laptops, or he/she might be teaching the class remotely. On top of that, campuses…
Raspberry Pi and WPA Supplicant It’s not a surprise that, at NetBeez, we love the Raspberry Pi! This little device can do magic on wired as well as wireless networks. Few weeks ago, Panos posted an article that offered some examples on how to use the Raspberry Pi for distributed…
Agent-based network and application monitoring has been gaining more and more attention due to the increased complexity of enterprise networks and the services they support. Nowadays, a typical medium to large company has users in multiple geographical locations that use web applications that might be served by an on-premise data…
Is the application down or not available? Is the root cause of the problem the network or the backend systems? I am sure that everybody understands the difference between uptime and availability, however I still see these terms used incorrectly as synonyms. Think about when you are troubleshooting a remote…
In the wake of the 2013 healthcare.gov failure, the private sector came to the rescue of the federal government. If anything, the incident brought to light the massive chaos that can be caused by sub-standard application development of a site intended to run uninterrupted in massive data centers and expected…
Importance of QoS TL;DR: In this article I want to provide a simple way to troubleshoot and validate QoS. All networks are not created the same. Every business has a different set of needs and requirements. How do you ensure your critical services and applications are receiving the highest priority…
In this article I would like to present a simple setup that allows you to interconnect a local area network to a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a private VPN tunnel. The tunneling technology used is OpenVPN. To implement this configuration you will need:…