Should my organization have a strategy for implementing multi-cloud? TL;DR – Yes (in fact, you probably already have implemented multi-cloud). Now that we have that out of the way, let’s talk about what you need to know to do it correctly. The multi-cloud approach is a type of hybrid cloud architecture, hosting services across multiple […]
If you’re in the habit of sending HTTP requests from the US to destinations in Asia, you’ve probably encountered major packet loss. Packet loss in Asia can happen for a number of reasons, including: Inferior routes to the destination Peering issues between the host and the destination Government implemented firewalls High latency, resulting in timeouts […]
Did you hear the one about SaaS application response time? Stop me if you’ve heard it before- SaaS Application #1: How do you keep a user in suspense? SaaS Application #2: I don’t know, how? SaaS Application #1: … SaaS Application #1: … SaaS Application #1: … SaaS Application #1: server timeout Actually, just like […]
Today, a vast number of companies are going through a digital transformation by adopting a cloud-centric approach to application delivery. As core business applications move to the cloud, the Internet becomes the business-critical network: when the cloud is the new datacenter, the Internet is the new LAN, and Internet performance looms large. A high portion […]
I read an excellent article in CIO magazine about the role of a DevOps engineer versus that of a site reliability engineer. The opinion piece, SRE vs DevOps: What’s the difference?, compared and contrasted the functions of the two roles and how they each benefit an organization. What struck me more than anything is that […]
CDN security issues like #CloudBleed show that overlay networks make tradeoffs between performance and security. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is like ball bearings for the Internet. Without edge caches to speed up the load times of pictures and other static content, the gears of the Internet would grind to a halt. “Think of CloudBleed […]
BGP Routing Needs to Mind Its MANRS I’m not sure if anyone has told you this yet, but there are people on the Internet who want your money. Not only that, but some of them are prepared to do some pretty shady things to get it, particularly identifying, and then exploiting, system and network vulnerabilities. […]
UCaaS Vendors: Feeling the Churn Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) has been on an accelerated growth path the past couple of years, with vendors like RingCentral, Dialpad, 8×8, and others aggressively growing and converting premises-based phone system customers to Internet based VoIP and collaboration solutions. There are wild fluctuations in analyst estimates of the […]
The Cloud and The Internet: An Uneasy Partnership Long, long ago, Marc Benioff started a little company in San Francisco called Salesforce, and the Cloud had taken its first tentative baby steps into the world. As it grew, Salesforce famously proclaimed “Software is dead” with a giant logo of a triumphant cloud. In 2011 another Marc- this time Andreessen– declared that […]
Strategies for Optimizing Web Application Performance Collaboration and productivity web apps are powering the worldwide growth of the SaaS market. That growth is due to an increasingly mobile workforce and the potential for meaningful collaboration around the globe. Particularly in these highly personalized and interactive areas, a positive and engaging user experience is key to […]