Archive for March, 2010

Force Majeure (less secularly known as “Act of God”) clauses are standard contract language and should be included in your data center checklist. Having your data center wiped out by a meteor strike means you’re not getting service credits and there’s not much you can do about it (more…)

Posted in Data Center & Colocation | 2 Comments »

Craig Labovitz, at Arbor Networks, a company that makes packet inspection gear, released a great article about how much traffic Google serves.

It has a few key points that the content delivery, content, and telco companies should note:

1. Google is deploying cache servers in ISPs
2. Google generates upwards of 5% of all internet traffic
3. Upwards of 60% of Google’s traffic is delivered via peering

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Posted in CDN & Streaming | 3 Comments »

Today’s devious device is a playbook page that’s intentionally left blank. Omitting meaningful measurement from IT Service Level Agreements (SLAs) or leaving them to the discretion of the vendor can effectively nullify their effect along with service credits of 2%-5% of your monthly bill for a single violation up to 50% or more for serious / repeat violations (more…)

Posted in CDN & Streaming, Data Center & Colocation, Managed Services | 4 Comments »

Thanks to Marty Lafferty and the Distributed Computing Industry Association for inviting me to speak at the Digital Music Forum East last week. I spoke on a panel discussing digital music access “from the cloud” and via peer-to-peer technology. (more…)

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