Smörgåsbord of links

Nagios vs OpenNMS vs Zenoss

A thorough and detailed review/comparison of Nagios, OpenNMS, and Zenoss by Jane Curry (Tivoli trainer at Skills 1st).Zenoss wins her preferred networking management tool.That came via John M Willis  who also has an interesting post about what makes for a good monitoring tool “in the cloud”

State of the tubes Internet

Akamai have a “state of the internet” pdf out (free registration required).

• Which countries generate the most dangerous “attack traffic”
• How’s ipv6 rollout going?
• Where/who/what are building out Terra-bit/sec trans-continental submarine backbone pipes
• Which parts of the world have the fastest/slowest home internet speeds

DropBox - sync between computers (linux/mac/win)

getdropbox.comIf you trust your documents on a remote “cloud” server, it looks like a nice twist on the regular online backup idea.It will sync documents between multiple/all your machines and it works on linux, mac os x and windows.

CDN - living on the edge

A nice review/overview of the many many Content Distribution/Delivery Networks (CDN) that exist.On a related note, Amazon’s latest tease is an AWS CDN.Store your files on Amazon S3 and get super cheap, super resilient storage and then get those files to your website users super fast using their CDN.   A really sweet idea.As ever, if you have any suggestions or feedback feel free to post a comment below or send us an email.