The Packet Scoop

We are pleased that our solution is getting traction in the distribution channel. In a challenging economic environment PacketTrap Perspective is demonstrating that its the most cost effective robust solution in its category. Channel partners are a key to our success and we couldn’t be happier that so many are starting to demonstrate the value [...]

[Read more →]

In late February, Digital Defense, an Internet security company, found a minor (certainly not “critical”) vulnerability in an early version of pt360. The vulnerability basically allowed someone with intimate knowledge of TFTP servers, to use our software to access privileged directories on target machines. That is, our software wasn’t the problem per se, but that [...]

[Read more →]

I was recently asked to write a blog entry on Age of Innovation, a Tech Web property, about technologies I thought were important in interacting with customers. I couldn’t think of a better one than the telephone. Maybe I’m just old school. Check it out here.
Networks are complicated; Network management doesn’t have to be (and calling your [...]

[Read more →]

David Davis is one of the better bloggers on the web in the IT space. His blog runs under Tech Republic, a leading industry information portal. This post today mentioned PacketTrap, and it’s good to know that highly regarded industry veterans are starting to notice the value we bring to the industry. You can read [...]

[Read more →]

The annual Apple Developer’s Conference is coming in two weeks to San Francisco’s Moscone Center, just two blocks from our office. Obliviously, being technology geeks, we typically slip out of the office for a day as we spend time at the conference (that’s the beauty of being a technology company in San Francisco – many [...]

[Read more →]

As I’ve been saying all along commercial open source, especially in the network management space, is doomed to fail. I attended Interop last week and while there this little exchange occurred between someone challenging commerical open source and the ‘open source’ panel. The problem with these panels is that they seem to be one sided [...]

[Read more →]

One of the large themes of now concluding Interop in Las Vegas is SaaS applications as they relate to connectivity issues. That is, now that applications are moving to the cloud IT professionals many times do not have a handle on why a remote office employee can’t access the SaaS application. For example, if headquarters [...]

[Read more →]

PacketTrap VP of Field Operations, Michael Blonsky, was featured on Internet blogging site Lovemytool.com and was a speaker last week at SharkFest, the conference dedicated to the Wireshark (previously called Ethereal) open source project. We really enjoyed ourselves at the conference and it once again proves that PacketTrap is leading Silicon Valley commercial companies in [...]

[Read more →]

There’s no question that San Francisco is a politically active community, but today’s events on the Golden Gate Bridge made Haight / Asbury, Castro marches, and left over hippies from the 60s seem like simple side shows. If you are living in a cave and didn’t’ see the national news, today protestors stopped traffic on [...]

[Read more →]

SolarWinds filed their S1 for their planned Initial Public Offering (IPO) recently. As most of you know SolarWinds is the 800 pound gorilla of our space – the middle market and SMB network management software space. Some folks call us the “Do it Yourself” network management space, which I tend to agree with.
As much as [...]

[Read more →]