Barry Koplowitz - Articles

Barry Koplowitz founded Interpath Technologies Corporation in 1999. He has been consulting in the IT field since 1984 and has specialized in the area of Network & Application Analysis/Troubleshooting--with various Protocol Analysis Tools--for the last 11 years. He spent 3 years with Network General and NAI traveling around the United States teaching for Sniffer University

• Packet-Sniffer Filtering Concepts-01
  12/02/2008 | Computers
  This article is also available as a "The Sniffer Guy" Podcast on iTunes. The most frequent questions we receive are about how to create filters with a packet-sniffer. In an article titled "The 7 Most Common Mistakes Using Packet-Sniffers" I do touch on this topic. However, it was just one of... Read
  
• The Missing Link In It Management
  05/02/2008 | Computers
  There is a role that is needed within the IT Management Structure that is missing. In my opinion, this role could save large corporations many millions of dollars per year while contributing greatly to the overall health of all IT departments, and their personnel. While working on muti-month projects that... Read
  
• The Myths Of Network Utilization
  26/01/2008 | Computers
  The Interpath Technologies Networking Myths Series™ This artilce is also availabe as a Podcast of "The Sniffer Guy" though iTunes. Mythology is not fantasy or lies. It describes a basic truth-but as metaphor. If you understand that it is describing a fundamental reality-by telling a story-you know to look for the reality... Read
  
• The Application
  18/01/2008 | Computers
  This article is the topic of Episode 5 of "The Sniffer Guy" podcast series available through iTunes. INTRODUCTION: Application & Network Performance Analysis is a team sport. Rarely are all the required skills in one skull. Perhaps it is best understood once you think in terms of functions and skill-sets within a... Read
  
• The Importance Of Application
  13/01/2008 | Computers
  Awareness of performance problems in a large enterprise network comes from different sources. Sometimes it is a monitoring tool and sometimes it is complaints from business users. Monitoring tool notifications stay within IT--quietly. With all the alligators to shoot, such issues may be left for a quieter time. Nevertheless, since those... Read
  
• The 7 Most Common Mistakes Using Packet-Sniffers
  08/01/2008 | Computers
  This article is also covered in a "The Sniffer Guy" podcast--available at http://www.interpathtech.com --and--through iTunes. 1) Believing the "Intelligence" of the Software without understanding how it makes determinations. Software default settings are very seldom correct for YOU. For example, a device may say that a SQL server should respond in 50ms. But,... Read
  
• Performance Tuning Is A Process--Not A Tool
  29/12/2007 | Computers
  MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR loses occur every day due to poor application testing plans, too much trust in automated testing tools and a general lack of the big picture. Plans are made without understanding how IT all works together. Yet more automated tools hit the market every day. The Web is alive with... Read
  
• How To Build A Simple Open-Source Distributed Protocol Analyzer
  29/12/2007 | Computers
  This is the way that Network General (the creator of Sniffer ®) has deployed Distributed Sniffer ® since the beginning. While the product that you are using may be from another or Open-Source vendor,( i.e. Ethereal ®/ WireShark ®), this process is time honored and as such, is considered to... Read
  
• Interpath Technologies Transactional Analysis Methodology For It Troubleshooting
  28/12/2007 | Computers
  During 11 years of troubleshooting high profile network & application performance issues across global enterprises up to 120,000 nodes--Interpath Technologies Corporation developed its specialized Network & Application performance Analysis methodology. We have helped companies like IBM, ING-Direct & Lucent Technologies find Resolution for under-performing networks & applications. Application & Network Performance Analysis... Read