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Though a lot has changed over the past 20 years, NetCraftsmen’s core values are still the same. Our longevity is based on those values, our people, and our approach to [...]

You’ve heard it before: “The application is slow!” It’s impacting the business and is frustrating for employees. Both application and network teams say they can’t find problems in their respective [...]

A previous blog discussed shortages of networking and especially security staff, along with some parts of the changing landscape. Other recent blogs considered shifts in Security from firewall / positional [...]

I have some observations about network and security staffing and especially security products, including what I think is happening in some or many sites. Having said that, I make no [...]

Some recent QoS discussions got me thinking. I want to share some of my perspectives on QoS in the hope that you find them useful. The starting point here is [...]

All right, who applied the curse “may you live in interesting times”? COVID, climate change, floods, fires, and so on have us thinking about disaster planning, among other things. Nationally, [...]

Your business has a problem. Your IT Department is reporting slow performance for internet streaming applications. It’s impacting your operations and is frustrating for employees. No one has solved it, [...]

I’ve recently had the pleasure of being involved in some long-term discussions about replacing the building switches and core network for a medium-sized city’s network. That was at the initial [...]

I’m shocked. There is a reasonably good topic I failed to blog about! It’s not like I didn’t write about it. I’ve expounded on this topic in several design writeups [...]

The vulnerability found in the Log4j logging system should be old news for you at this point. However, what your company does about it is still worthy of your attention. [...]

Challenge NetCraftsmen’s client needed to build a new hospital network, including initial design and requirements gathering through implementation and go-live.  The scope included thousands of devices and technologies with legacy [...]

This is part 2 of a long blog. You should probably start with Part 1 if you haven’t already read it! Given the title, I hasten to state that nothing [...]