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Who hosts Warhammer Online?
With the recent launch of EA/Mythic‘s Warhammer Online MMORPG, comes my usual curiosity about who’s providing the infrastructure. Mythic has stated publicly that all of the US game servers are located...
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Ranking of ISPs
Datahounds might be interested in the Renesys ISP rankings for 2008. Renesys is a company that specializes in collecting data about the Internet, focused upon the peering ecosystem. Its rankings are...
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Identity overflow
Back in 2005, my colleague Monica Basso and I wrote a research note titled, “Wide Array of Communications Overwhelms Users“. In it, we pointed out that the proliferation of communication mechanisms and...
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ICANN and DNS
ICANN has been on the soapbox on the topic of DNS recently, encouraging DNSSEC adoption, and taking a stand against top-level domain (TLD) redirection of DNS inquiries. The DNS error resolution market...
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Akamai and Riverbed partner on SaaS delivery
Akamai and Riverbed have signed a significant partnership deal to jointly develop solutions that combine Internet acceleration with WAN optimization. The two companies will be incorporating each...
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Common service provider myths about cloud infrastructure
We’re currently in the midst of agenda planning for 2012, which is a fancy way to say that we’re trying to figure out what we’re going to write next year. Probably to the despair of my managers, I am...
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Performance can be a disruptive competitive advantage
All of us are used to going to travel sites, especially for airline tickets, and waiting a while for the appropriate results to be extracted and displayed to us. I recently saw Google Flight Search for...
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Beware misleading marketing of “private clouds”
Many cloud IaaS providers have been struggling to articulate their differentiation for a while now, and many of them labor under the delusion that “not being Amazon” is differentiating. But it also...
View ArticleTerms of Service: From anti-spam to content takedown
Many consumers are familiar with the terms of service (ToS) that govern their use of consumer platforms that contain user-generated content (UGC), such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But many...
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