Archive | January, 2010
The Feds May Soon Mandate Cloud Computing Usage
In a blog dedicated to Cloud Computing, published by InfoWorld, David Lithicum, the Cloud Computing guru, inform us that according to various published reports, the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) will mandate in the fiscal year 2011 (which starts in October 2010) that federal agencies not using cloud computing or making cloud computing part [...]
Continue reading...WAN symptoms within Cloud type Data Centers – Why would we test something like this?
25. January 2010
WAN symptoms in question are latency, packet loss, disconnects, bit errors, etc. usually exist on Wide Area Networks and as a result cause applications performance degradation. But our WAN’s essentially are LAN’s connected with each other and those connections impose geographical distance between those LANs, thus creating “WAN behavior”. Inside individual LANs those issues happen [...]
Continue reading...“From the Boulevard of Broken Dreams…”
22. January 2010
I was recently requested to support a Federal Agency that was tasked with validating the performance of an application to be globally deployed. Due to current events the timelines for testing and certification had become critical and the contractor responsible for the project was under enormous pressure to complete this engagement quickly. In conversations with [...]
Continue reading...Is Making the Transition to IPv6 Really Necessary In The Near Future?
22. January 2010
With the exponential growth of the Internet since the mid 90s, IP address space depletion has increasingly become a pressing concern. The reason that this issue has become more of a concern now than before is that the number of devices that can access the Internet has significantly expanded as compared to 10 years ago; [...]
Continue reading...Is the Internet in the United States slowing down?
21. January 2010
A post found today in Mashable, a blog focusing on social technology, reports that the Internet in the US is showing signs of slowing down, as measured by Aramaic, the global content provider. The performance in Q3 was bad enough to displace the US from the 10 top countries with fastest Internet access in the [...]
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27. January 2010