Data Center Knowledge – Microsofts James Hamilton has been collecting scaling stories for a while, and has shared a list of resources providing insider accounts of how the Web’s largest sites have managed their scalability challenges. The post focuses on Flickrs database architecture, but also provides links to similar [...] read more

The Security and Compliance Connection Blog – Could it be that the same oversight protections that were put in place to ensure consumer and shareholder protection are actually creating a higher degree of security risk? A closer examination of the issue may lead you to believe that [...] read more

T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – What gets sucked up faster than excess bandwidth? Disk drive space, thats what. If all you did was word processing and spreadsheets, one of those 150 GB drives would last forever. But with digital cameras saving multi-Megabits per picture and videos making still photos look puny, theres no such thing as too much disk.