Mike Pennacchi
Instructor Profile - Mike Pennacchi is one of the world's leading experts on pinpointing the causes of network and application performance issues. Unlike most companies that only identify the cause, Mike’s company, Network Protocol Specialists in Seattle, Washington, works with companies to solve performance issues. When Mike is not analyzing networks, he can be found lecturing or offering training on the topic for Server and Network Admins. During November 2007, Mike was appointed as the Lead Network Engineer for InteropNet which is the mission critical show network for Interop New York 2007, leading a team of networking professionals, volunteers and vendors support personnel.
April 24, 2008
Network Troubleshooting with Open Source Tools
Interop is approaching rapidly and we are excited with the classes we will be presenting this year. In addition to our long running Ethernet and Application Analysis classes, we are teaching another class on how to use Open Source tools (GNU) that are free and readily available to help monitor, analyze and troubleshoot today’s complex networks.
This will be the second year that we are presenting this class in Las Vegas. Based on the success of last year, we have added a whole new dimension to help you take advantage of more powerful and dynamic tools. The idea for a class on how to use Open Source Tools successfully came from our own consulting experiences where we find that many of the customers we have met are not employing any type of comprehensive network management solutions within their networks. Sadly, in many cases they are simply waiting for the users to notify them when problem occur.
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April 23, 2008
OSTU - Tutorial on SmokePing & Cacti
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April 09, 2008
Panel Discussion @ Sharkfest 2008
Panel Discussion: The Future of Open Source Network Tools - a distinguished panel of industry experts in a lively discussion on the future of open source versus commercial network tools.
Panel Moderator: (standing) Mike Pennacchi, Network Protocol Specialists, LLC
Panel Participants: (sitting, right to left) Scott Haugdahl - CEO of BitCricket; Gordon Lyon (aka Fyodor) - Founder of insecure.org and Creator of NMAP; Mike Kershaw - Creator of Kismet; Gerald Combs - Creator of Ethereal/Wireshark; Michael Blonsky - VP of Field Operations of PacketTrap
Editor's Note - As an experiment, we have turned on the feature that allows anyone to add comments within the videos. Hopefully this will promote further discussions regarding open source tools. Please keep it clean and civil. Thanks in advance.
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October 29, 2007
Interview @ Interop New York 2007
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