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Winter is coming

Winter is coming. Economic winter.

The economy is cooling down a bit. My customers see their visitors holding back with purchases. That makes the speed of your website or shop even more important to retain more visitors and to have those visitors buy more. In other words, your site needs to fast enough to keep converting.

Whether you're on target or not

Did you meet your goals for this year?

Are you going to meet them in the final weeks of this year? In this time of year everybody is trying to get you to set your goals for next year, but to set realistic goals for next year you need to know how well you met this years goals and why. If you don't you're not setting goals but making...

Sometimes you need help

Sometimes you need help to learn what you know

One of my customers is experiencing slowness in their entire infrastructure, especially in their helpdesk application. All specialists form all suppliers have looked at the problem, nobody has identified the cause. 'It's not us'

The world is changing.

The world is changing. You should keep up.

Do you sometimes have 'sudden' or 'spontaneous' changes? An application that's suddenly very slow, without any reasonable explanation? Resulting in overtime, stress and sleepless nights?

You can make more money, even when everything seems OK.

You can make more money, even when everything seems OK.

Are you used to traffic jams every morning? How much time would you gain if traffic kept moving? Every day you're in more traffic jams than you know. They are electronic. It cost you, your employees and your customers a lot of time. And hence a lot of money.

It's about making your business efficient

It's about making your business efficient, not your hardware

Your IT department insists everything is OK. All their lights are green and they're meeting the SLA's you agreed on with them. And still your customers and users are waiting a long time before your applications and websites respond. Your business needs to work efficient It's nice when the technology...

costs you money

How baking bread the wrong way costs you money

You need a program that feeds a group of people. You have a programmer make an algorithm for buying bread (drive to the baker down the road, wait in line, buy a loaf of bread, drive back).

If you need to wait before you can even start

If you need to wait before you can even start

If you need to wait for your report you're wasting time. But what if you need to wait before you can even start your report because your data isn't ready?

Different types of traffic mixed together.

Your home workers complain that your data center applications are slow

Before the crisis all your applications worked fine. But not so much now that everybody works from home. Citrix/RDP/VDI traffic is next to nothing. But your home workers are complaining: "Why doesn't my mouse cursor follow my mouse movements and why is the text on my screen behind on my typing? I...