astro posted on February 03, 2010 16:13
Shhh....I’m just finishing a meeting with the Microsoft BPOS development team in Building 6* in Redmond and they just showed me MOSDAL. There is a webinar Thursday, Feb 4th at 11:00AM PST (sign up at this link) to learn about MOSDAL.
What is MOSDAL? In the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) world, this is a network analysis tool that allows you to evaluate your fitness of your internal and external network infrastructure to support cloud-based computing. If you haven’t connected the dots, the Achilles heel of cloud services is robust network connectivity. (Note to self – write a future blog on developed versus undeveloped countries and the world of hosted services). Folks – you’ll need a fantastic network infrastructure to do BPOS and other cloud services (e.g. we use NetSuite as our amazing ERP system and its supported by our robust fiber connection).
My “first look” at MOSDAL a BPOS-specific tool for common network analysis (ping, netstat, etc.) plus a speed test such as that provided by Speakeasy on the VoIP side. As my thoughts came together about this blog – I see this working for VoIP analysis in addition to BPOS. That’s what it’s a cool tool.
You can watch two quickie “Flip vids” I created during my Redmond MOSDAL demonstration. The first video is the download and installation of MOSDAL. The second video is the result – after MOSDAL – and how it reports it network analysis findings.
Video One: MOSDAL download and setup
Video Two: MOSDAL reporting and results
To learn more about MOSDAL and download this cool tool – go here