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Oct 21 2009   5:00PM GMT

Overheard - WAN clustering



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
WAN clustering, failover, load balancing, wide area network, WAN
“It’s going to involve different parts of your organization to really construct a true WAN cluster. You are going to have to involve your data storage team, your software team, your network engineering team and really look holistically at everything.”

Jeff Boles, WAN clustering emerges to provide transparent failover between physical sites

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is WAN clustering.

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Nov 12 2008   2:38AM GMT

Overheard: Using fast flux for nefarious purposes



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Security, load balancing, Technology, botnets, fast flux
skoudis3.gif Since the summer of 2007, there has been an explosion of large-scale fast-flux botnets. With this technique, bad guys can leverage thousands of disposable drone machines as intermediaries, rapidly switching between different systems, confounding investigators who try to trace back a constantly fluctuating set of targets.

Ed Skoudis, Thinking fast-flux: New bait for advanced phishing tactics
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