4 posts in "Data Center"

Which Clouds have the best peering in the US?

posted 02/12/2012 by chris, comments: 0 comments

Collecting a billion measurements a day from over 30,000 networks provides insight I wish I’d had when managing hosted security operations at my previous job. We had over 2,500 physical and virtual instances across 3 main data centers. Each data center was, of course, multi-homed and we bought transit and peering from a redundant set

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Making Openmix Decisions based on New Relic Data

posted 01/26/2012 by Greg Unrein, comments: 2 comments

Last week we finished and demonstrated an integration between Openmix and New Relic, a service for monitoring server and application health, in which measurements from New Relic were used to decide whether a specific data center should be included in the list of candidate traffic destinations. This integration opens up the possibility of using any

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GeoLocation: Does Distance Matter?

posted 09/23/2011 by chris, comments: 0 comments

Here at Cedexis,  we receive more than 800 million measurements a day via the Cedexis Radar tag from browsers located all over the world. These data can answer all sorts of questions, including – “how effective is geo-location as part of a global performance strategy?” If we read the various white papers it would appear

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    Amazon EC2 US-East Weathers Hurricane Irene

    posted 08/28/2011 by Greg Unrein, comments: 0 comments

    With the bulk of Hurricane Irene past northern Virginia it is safe to say that Amazon EC2 US-East’s availability and performance has been impressive. Nice work! Availability over 24 hours (worldwide) Latency over 24 hours (worldwide) These results stand in stark contrast to the issues that occurred in April. All times are GMT. Cedexis Radar was used to collect the

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