Taming the Wild Corporate Video

Of course, we don't really need industry experts to remind us that video on the corporate web is red-hot, pervasive, and dangerous.  You can't review the news these days without seeing filler stories on YouTube and Google video alongside the critical news on wars and terrorism. Video sites are all the rage for creating user-created content on an unprecedented scale, which means millions of users are viewing it, too.  If your company has yet to come to grips with a personal viewing and download policy, it might be time to do so. Before, we were focused on whether it was appropriate, legal, and how much impact it had on network bandwidth. Hopefully, these inappropriate, unwelcome downloads were the exception rather than the rule.

But how much time can you really devote to this type of monitoring without bringing your entire operation to its knees? You now need to regularly monitor for exceptions, rather than waiting for a crisis to erupt. NetScout provides visibility into how much this is occuring, when it is ocurring, and with whom.

I say, be informed to be forwarned.  Network Computing takes a look at the five most popular video sites: AOL, Blip.tv, Google Video, Yahoo Video and YouTube.