Manage an enterprise network? Please fill out my survey - for Science! :-)

Tue Nov 1 02:23:21 UTC 2011

Hello Justine,

I find it interesting, to say the least, that all of the communication
that you have about a Berkeley research program while your email came
from washington.edu?

Thanks,

'Ayo

..... Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you
get - Ingrid Bergman

... the sky is too low to be my limit ....Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 31, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Justine Sherry <justine at cs.washington.edu> wrote:

> Hello! My name is Justine and I am a graduate student at UC Berkeley
> (http://cs.berkeley.edu/~justine).
>
> I'm doing a research project on middlebox appliances such as proxies,
> WAN optimizers, and firewalls. Middlebox appliances are any
> networking-related hardware other than routers and switches. I'd like
> to learn a little bit about how middleboxes are used in real world
> deployments in enterprises. Vendors often engage in surveys of this
> type - but the research community knows less than we'd like to about
> typical concerns in an enterprise network.
>
> If you work on network management in an enterprise, I'd love to hear
> about your experiences through this survey:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHo1NGZ3eU04SlBaSnNsSlBYZGNYSlE6MQ#gid=0
>
> Some promises:
> (1) If you give me your email address, I will not give it to anyone
> else, nor will I add you to any annoying mailing lists.
> (2) If you mention the name of your organization, I will not share it
> with anyone else.
> (3) If I publish any data from this, statistics will be reported in aggregate.
> (4) I will not share the raw data from this survey with anyone other
> than my advisor, Professor Sylvia Ratnasamy
> (sylvia at eecs.berkeley.edu).
>
> Feel free to skip questions and please provide approximate answers if
> you have them.
>
> Finally, to thank you for your time, we'll enter you in to a lottery
> for a $100 Amazon gift card; we'll select two people to win and
> contact them on November 16. Thank you!
>
> If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me.
>
> Justine
>
> PS: The survey is here! Don't miss it!
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHo1NGZ3eU04SlBaSnNsSlBYZGNYSlE6MQ#gid=0
>