May 06 2008
No more video at work?
“….companies across the U.S. are starting to prevent their employees from accessing Internet-video services at work
….According to a study released last month by Nielsen Online, an Internet tracking service owned by Nielsen Co., the heaviest consumption of Internet video is during weekday lunch hours between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., when most people are at work. Online video also is taxing already-strained corporate-technology networks.
Blocking online video isn’t easy. As people use the Web for a growing number of capacity-draining functions, from Internet telephone services to peer-to-peer file-sharing, it has become tougher for technology managers to sift through activity on their networks….
The confusion has created opportunities for small networking companies such as Palo Alto Networks Inc., BlueCoat Systems Inc., SonicWall Inc. and OpenDNS Inc., which offer products and services capable of peering into computer traffic and dissecting it.” WSJ
[…] here’s news that some companies are trying to block their employees from watching video at work! As if we didn’t have enough problems already. […]