A few years ago, I was involved in a consulting project with a large company in the healthcare industry that was in the middle of a data center migration. After the networks and servers were stood up ...

We're working on a project testing optimizations of the TCP/IP configuration on web and database servers with particular focus on communications across data centers. The current dB architecture ...

High-bandwidth replication over long distances, whether to a hot site or the cloud, requires a solid grasp of TCP to steer clear of bottlenecks Following Hurricane Sandy, let’s say you’ve been asked ...

Five years ago, a company may have housed its data in one part of Johannesburg and maintained a mirrored site nearby. Management approved of this and saw the mirrored site as an almost sure route to ...