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:
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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?
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 ...
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.
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 (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.
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.
Scorecard Jul. 28, 2008
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Interop Labs test results: Microsoft gets it NAC act together Apr. 28, 2008 The world of network access control is being drawn, irresistibly, into Microsoft's orbit now that the Redmond giant's full repertoire of Network Access Protection client, server and policy components are out there in ...
Interop Labs: Network engineers focus on NAC, UC products Apr. 28, 2008 In early April, in a drafty warehouse in Belmont, California, dozens of network engineers attempted to piece together hundreds of commercial and open source products as part of the 2008 Interop Labs initiative.
UTM firewall review: SonicWall smashes speed records Apr. 07, 2008 Last month, SonicWall rolled out its next-generation UTM firewall appliance geared straight for the enterprise. In our exclusive test of the Network Security Appliance E7500, results show that SonicWall has, indeed, ...
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