Global leader in fact-based sales and marketing services for IT vendors and professionals for over three decades. #InformationTechnology #Enterprise
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Two WAN ports. Two ways to use them: link aggregation for speed, or dual ISPs for redundancy.
Kevin Tolly walks through both on the @zyxel USG FLEX 200H.
🎥 youtu.be/nzmYFlu5cJg
#Networking #SDWAN #Zyxel #TollyGroup
Third-party testing: @zyxel USG FLEX 100H outperformed SonicWall TZ270 on anti-malware efficacy AND costs 58-61% less at renewal.
Full @TollyGroup report: tolly.com/publications/22515… #Firewall #Zyxel
Temperature went up. Performance didn't move.
@TollyGroup’s 24-hour thermal test of @anduriltech’s Voyager VM 4.0:
• 0.22% CPU variation
• ~1% CPU + memory variation
• ~3% storage variation
Full report: tolly.com/publications/22611…
#EdgeComputing #Defense #TollyReport
Every layer. One view.
@TollyGroup validated @Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Splunk Observability Cloud monitoring network and storage across Cisco + @NetApp @FlexPod.
tolly.com/publications/22610… #FlexPod #Observability
PoE compliance failures don't always show up at power-on. Kevin Tolly's recent Analyst Preview covers the @SifosTech MPD-600 and how to catch them before deployment.
youtu.be/ooa5dh5w1UA?si=q98M… #PoE #Sifos
GTM effectiveness is only as good as the platform behind it.
We tested @useapolloio with a live campaign to find out.
2.37% cold-to-meeting conversion. Benchmark: 0.5–1.5%.
Report 👇 tolly.com/publications/22610…
#GTM #B2BSales #TollyGroup
How much of a 400GbE fabric do your GPUs actually get?
✅ 392.18 Gbps RDMA (98%)
✅ 389.84 Gbps NCCL, 32 GPUs (97.5%)
@DellNetworking SONiC, no measurable overhead.
tolly.com/publications/22610…
#AI #Networking #Dell
One @FlexPod. Three hypervisors. Zero new silos.
@TollyGroup validated @Cisco + @NetApp FlexPod running vSphere, OpenShift, and Hyper-V on one infrastructure, with 4 of 4 VM migrations off VMware completed.
tolly.com/publications/22610… #FlexPod #Virtualization
Cloud-native or VNF for DNS and CGNAT?
Kevin Tolly and @F5's Rich Lopez share our results on demand: higher DNS throughput, lower latency, better efficiency.
f5.com/go/webinars/accelerat…
#F5 #CloudNative #ServiceProviders
New @TollyGroup reports: @F5 BIG-IP CNE vs. VNF on OpenShift
✅ 1.9x DNS throughput
✅ 91.5% less CPU
✅ 98.5% less memory for L4+CGNAT
tolly.com/publications/22610…
#F5 #CloudNative #5G
What happens when a mainframe PSU fails?
@TollyGroup tested it. Zero traffic disruption. Auto recovery. 100% FICON qualification pass rate.
@IBM + @Cisco + Tolly: youtu.be/SMwoBxkcHVE #Mainframe #FICON
35% of enterprise AI projects still projected to fail by 2029. The infrastructure layer is where it goes wrong. @TollyGroup blog with @Citrix: tolly.com/blog/post/f4f18350…
#EnterpriseAI #NetScaler #AIGovernance
Independent @TollyGroup testing: @F5 BNK on NVIDIA BlueField DPU delivers 40% more tokens/sec, 61% better TTFT, ~80% CPU savings vs. HAProxy & Envoy. f5.com/go/report/your-ai-inf… #F5 #AIInfra
Hardware sets the ceiling. #SONiC determines what gets through.
@TollyGroup tested @DellNetworking PowerSwitch Z9864F-ON's RoCE mitigation for AI training. tolly.com/publications/22610…
#DellTech #AINetworking
The best stress test result is a flat line.
@anduriltech’s Voyager VM 4.0 held CPU variation to 0.22% over a 24-hour thermal test.
Predictable under heat. tolly.com/publications/22611…
#EdgeComputing #DefenseTech #Tolly
Most security tools react. Infoblox blocks at the DNS layer before attacks launch. Watch our conversation with @Infoblox on getting ahead of the threat.
▶️ youtu.be/WnWkczBcCVQ #DNS #Cybersecurity
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3 hypervisors. 1 infrastructure. Independently verified. Tolly's new report confirms FlexPod (Cisco + NetApp) runs VMware, Red Hat OpenShift, and Microsoft Hyper-V simultaneously - plus live workload migration via NetApp Shift Toolkit. 🔗 bit.ly/4dTqT4l #FlexPod
Powering up isn't the same as being compliant. Kevin Tolly's recent Analyst Preview covers the @SifosTech MPD-600 and what real PoE testing looks like. youtu.be/ooa5dh5w1UA?si=q98M… #PoE #Sifos
Tolly benchmark -- AI transcription WER: @8x8 (3.43%) vs. Dialpad (8.03%) vs. RingCentral (9.20%).
15 audio samples, 4 runs, open-source scoring. Full data: tolly.com/publications/22512… #SpeechToText #WER #AI
7 days into a training run, everything looked fine. Then one lane's error rate spiked, the link flapped, and the whole job had to restart.
@Keysight’s Avik Bhattacharya tells us why that's the real test for 1.6T Ethernet, not a compliance checklist.
▶️ youtu.be/JHtGZRi5R3E
