Joel Snyder is an internationally known expert in the area of telecommunications and networks, with an emphasis on security. His thesis, from the University of Arizona's Department of Management Information Systems, analyzed the development, use, and technologies of computer networks in the former Soviet Union. He is currently a Senior Partner at Opus One, a consulting firm, in Tucson, Arizona.
As a consultant with over two decades of experience, Snyder has written compilers, data management applications, conferencing systems, VLSI layout applications, firewalls, and network software; designed and implemented information systems for clients as small as a two-person brokerage house and as large as NASA; built network systems for clients on six continents; assisted software and hardware vendors in design, review, architecture, development, and testing of products; and served on ANSI, IEEE, ISO, and CCITT working groups developing telecommunications standards.
Snyder has also held full-time positions with CompuServe, Inc. (at their Research and Development Center) and with the University of Arizona (in the College of Business).
Snyder's clients include organizations throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including Apple, AT&T, Australian Broadcasting Company, Cisco, Citibank, Daimler-Benz, Fidelity Investments, Hoffman-La Roche, Honeywell, Juniper, MCI, Motorola, Nokia, Schlumberger, State of California, the Swiss Stock Exchange, the UN, Visa, Xerox, the White House, and World Bank.
As an author and trainer, Snyder has given keynote speeches at conferences in the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and throughout the former Soviet republics. He has presented training seminars to many clients, including both private and public agencies.
Snyder has written hundreds of articles, has been published in over a dozen different journals and industry magazines in the US, UK, Russia, Germany, Australia, Portugal, Denmark, Japan, Spain, Italy, and France. His product testing work in network and telecommunications products is well known and respected in the field, and his published reviews have received several awards for editorial excellence.
Dr. Snyder has also written three books and edited two journals.
Recent tests and articles by Joel Snyder:
Palo Alto's performance holds steady as security measures increase Oct. 06, 2008 In August, we tested Palo Alto Networks' PA-4020, the first fully application-aware firewall to be commercially marketed. When we attempted to test performance on the PA-4020 we ran into a hitch: Palo Alto's application ...
How we tested Palo Alto's PA-4020 firewall Aug. 11, 2008 We spent two weeks putting the Palo Alto Networks PA-4020 through a series of tests designed to measure its capabilities. During our testing, the PA-4020 was connected to the Internet and was able to download virus, ...
Palo Alto provides great visibility into network threats Aug. 11, 2008 Palo Alto's PA-4020 is not just another firewall. Yes, it has what you'd expect in a basic firewall: 24 ports, divided into16 gigabit Ethernet ports and eight SFP ports. It has a rule base, some basic VPN capabilities, ...
UTM - the buzzword Palo Alto won't cop to Aug. 11, 2008 The PA-4020 is indeed a unified threat management firewall, even if Palo Alto Networks would like to pretend it isn't. Because it's a firewall with integrated VPN, intrusion prevention and detection, URL filtering, anti ...
Is Palo Alto's firewall a firewall or not? Aug. 11, 2008 Palo Alto Networks has no illusions that a product on the market less than a year is going to have the feature set and depth that enterprise competitors Check Point, Cisco, and Juniper are offering. And, since most of ...
Internet radio appliances roundup Aug. 11, 2008 Web-based applications and products like Apple's iTunes have made it easy to turn a laptop or a desktop into a music player. At the same time, thousands of radio stations are re-broadcasting their audio over the ...
How we tested Check Point's IPS Aug. 04, 2008 We installed the Check Point IPS-1 Sensor 200C on our production network. The IPS-1 Sensor 200C has four IPS interfaces which are paired into two sets of fail-open (or fail-closed, if you want) Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Dell (Equallogic) PS5000XV Jul. 28, 2008 When Dell acquired Equallogic early this year, it bought an up-and-coming storage vendor. Our testing of the Dell PS5000XV shows that Equallogic was a first-rate choice.
HP StorageWorks sets the bar for iSCSI SAN server security Jul. 28, 2008 Our testing of iSCSI SAN servers show they all handle basic functions as advertised. But we had to dig deeper into other enterprise features offered — such as security, high availability, and expandability -- to find ...
How we tested the iSCSI SAN servers Jul. 28, 2008 We tested iSCSI servers by installing and configuring them, putting them through a series of typical tasks, and running performance tests.
Products take multiple paths to interoperability Jul. 28, 2008 With iSCSI SAN servers called upon to serve many different operating systems at the same time, an initial concern for any deployment is simple interoperability: Do these products work with different operating systems?
FalconStor, NetApp lead the way on data protection Jul. 28, 2008 If there's any easy way to tell products apart in the iSCSI SAN server space, it's in the support for advanced data protection features like snapshots and replication.
ISCSI SAN server management is a very weak link Jul. 28, 2008 In the storage business, a popular metric for measuring management costs is to compute "T-byte/FTE", which is how many TB a FTE can manage. While that may seem a bit over the top at first glance, based on some of the ...
Dell, LeftHand, NetApp score highest in performance testing Jul. 28, 2008 Performance is difficult to measure, because there are few trustworthy tools. Performance is also difficult to characterize, because every application (and even versions of the same application) uses the file system ...
Going green with iSCSI SAN servers Jul. 28, 2008 Using iSCSI arrays is already a "green" approach to the data center. By giving each server as much storage as it needs, considerable efficiencies in numbers of hard drives, RAID controllers and power utilization can be ...
Nexsan SATABeast Jul. 28, 2008 The SATABeast is a 3U high chassis with 42 SATA drives, giving it the highest density of any system we tested, by far. The chassis also accommodates two controllers, providing integrated high availability.
D-Link DSN-3200-10 Jul. 28, 2008 D-Link entered the SAN business, quietly, over a year ago and has been carving out a niche in the budget-minded space ever since.
LeftHand Networks NSM 2120 Storage Node Jul. 28, 2008 LeftHand Networks has a very different approach to scaling storage-area network bandwidth than other products we tested. LeftHand is a software company, and its SAN/iQ software is offered on many different platforms.
Kano Technologies NetCOR 7500 Jul. 28, 2008 While the NetCOR 7500 needs some work to compete in the high-end enterprise market, the strong pricing, expansion capability, and simple management make it an ideal solution for mid-range enterprises.
FalconStor Software's NSS-S12 Jul. 28, 2008 The FalconStor NSS-S12 is a packaged offering based on FalconStor's own SAN Disk Manager, a combination of operating system and SAN management toolkit. As a software company first, and a hardware company second, ...
Reldata 9240 Unified Storage Gateway Jul. 28, 2008 So with a fairly high price per Gbyte rating ($12.20), and very middle-of-the-road performance, it's hard to see a compelling case for choosing Reldata when its best feature seems to be the technical team standing ...
HP StorageWorks 2012i Jul. 28, 2008 The HP StorageWorks 2012i is a 2U system with 12 drive bays that can house either SATA or SAS drives. Ours came half of each type of drives, an attractive feature for someone who wants a storage-area network but doesn't ...
Celeros EzSANFiler XD34S Jul. 28, 2008 The EzSANFiler is a 16-bay, 3U storage server with both SAN and NAS functions. Built on industry standard hardware (Supermicro chassis and motherboard coupled with an Areca ARC1680ix RAID controller), Celeros brings an ...
Compellent StorageCenter Jul. 28, 2008 What stood out most about the StorageCenter in our testing was its manageability. Compellent has the best management console of any of the systems we tested, providing more control, configuration visualization, and ...
The Evolution of Network Security
- Check Point Software Organizations are facing up to the fact that their perimeter network defenses no longer afford the protection they once did. But the good news is a slew of new technologies are available to help companies stay out in front of the bad guys
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