Results tagged "outage"
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Hurricane Sandy Delivers Tricks, No Treats, to Tech Infrastructure
October 31, 2012 04:19 PM
Superstorm Sandy and last year's nor'easter turned Halloween into fright nights for technology users. This year's storm downed 25% of cell towers on the East Coast, flooded data centers and knocked websites offline.Superstorm Sandy Lessons: 100% Uptime Isn't Always Worth It
October 31, 2012 10:53 AM
Sandy brought out the worst in some tech pundits who were ready to pounce on companies that went offline in the face of a 100-year catastrophe. But in cases like Sandy, continuous uptime is the wrong goal.GoDaddy Outage a Harsh Reminder That Enterprises Need DNS Redundancy
September 13, 2012 01:58 PM
This week's GoDaddy outage proves that whether threatened by internal errors or outsider forces, enterprises need to ensure that their DNS is safeguarded just as much as mission-critical data.BlackBerry E-mail Service Crashes, RIM Tries To Bring It Back To Life
April 18, 2007 01:23 PM
RIM said it would reset the service in steps Wednesday morning because it doesn't want to overwhelm the system with a sudden and sweeping surge of traffic.Salesforce.com Outage Inconveniences Customers
December 21, 2005 09:00 PM
Database glitch is a reminder that users of on-demand systems should keep backup plans ready.Zotob Worm Is Bad But It's Not Sasser or MSBlast
August 17, 2005 09:47 PM
Don't panic. Take a breather. The Zotob bot attacks may be among the biggest of 2005, but they aren't anywhere near the level of last year's Sasser.
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VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
