Aardman picks Observer for net monitoring

Aardman Animation has bought network monitoring gear from Network Instruments to help detect and fix problems on the high-bandwidth links that connect its four sites in Bristol. The company says that, as well as handling CGI files and database replication, its 10Mbit/s extended LAN supports a wide variety of creative …

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Posted Saturday 7th July 2007 11:09 GMT

Matt

Another El Reg advertisement #

Hmm... Wow...

My company just rolled out Nod32 to 250 users. Do you want an official statement?

Posted Saturday 7th July 2007 11:09 GMT

The Cube

Advertorial #

Did Open Reality pay for this advert? Or was the paper thin disguise as a 'press release' sufficient?

Whilst I like Aardman Animation's work, this has little to do with it and is hardly a major deployment or an early adoption of a key new technology, a more honest version might read;

"Aardman Animation has bought some software to monitor the not particularly large or fast network between its four sites in Bristol. It might buy some hardware too.

Aardman's new head of IT chose the software because had used it before."

Earth shattering news....

Posted Saturday 7th July 2007 22:17 GMT

Geoff Johnson

Howard Arnault-Ham? #

I thought their top technician was called Gromit.

Posted Monday 9th July 2007 07:47 GMT

Trevor

I thought that.... #

.....Wallace and Gromit built all their own hardware? Mind you those NASA trousers would be handy getting up a comms riser - as long as BOFH hasn't got the PFY jammed up there again

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