This is an interesting paper, but Telecom has not yet come to grips with the problems and advantages of fast shared commodity ethernet interconnect. North
Read moreWhat happens when you do not use enterprise quality technology.
News from last year. Aug. 26, 2013 11:52 a.m. ET A glitch in time synchronization caused German exchange operator Deutsche BoerseAG DB1.XE -0.16% ‘s Eurex
Read moreMeasuring Clock Synchronization in the Cloud- NTPd versus TimeKeeper
Measured on Amazon EC2. Standard deviation from reference time over 20 hours TimeKeeper: 23 microseconds NTPd: 6000 microseconds (6 milliseconds)
Read moreCassandra Cluster Synchronization
Cassandra is a highly-distributable NoSQL database with tunable consistency. What makes it highly distributable makes it also, in part, vulnerable: the whole deployment must run on
Read moreNTPd DOS attacks
Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends, EA.com, and other online game services used a never-before-seen technique that vastly amplified the amount
Read moreChallenges upgrading time synchronization in a global financial company
The real-world challenges of trying to upgrade time-synchronization without TimeKeeper are described in an excellent 2012 technical paper about a project at the company IMC
Read moreTime Synchronization in the Cloud
Synchronizing clocks in the cloud, especially for virtual machines, is way beyond the capabilities of ordinary synchronization methods. Tests show that virtual machines in the
Read moreThe business case for being time protocol agnostic.
Time Synchronization and Distribution is a business critical issue but it is easy to become bogged down in arcane technology/marketing controversies. One of those controversies
Read moreChallenges deploying PTPv2 in a Global Financial company
Interesting article – most of these problems and more were solved in TimeKeeper years ago. But the most interesting part is the enormous engineering effort
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