Archive for April, 2011

Iperf – Measuring Network Performance in an Enterprise Environment

“Is the Internet slow? why is it taking so long for me to get to the file server?”, “Someone needs to reboot the internet!”. I know you have either heard or uttered those phrases in the last month or two; I know I have. But how do you measure ‘it is slow’? Slow network connections [...]

Securely Wiping Hard Drives

“Canadian hospital loses hard drive containing 3,600 patient photos”, “Hard drives sold with government data, Sensitive data including child abuse records on drives readied for secondhand market.”.    Two news reports only day’s apart that send shivers down my spine.  And no, they are not from last year, but last week.  I could dig through years [...]