Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends, EA.com, and other online game services used a never-before-seen technique that vastly amplified the amount
Read moreData tiedowns with reliable time stamping
Management teams are growing more reliant on the ability to immediately access and quickly sort through massive amounts of data to find the information they
Read moreChallenges upgrading time synchronization in a global financial company
The real-world challenges of trying to upgrade time-synchronization without TimeKeeper are described in an excellent 2012 technical paper about a project at the company IMC
Read moreTime maps for visualizing time distribution networks
Without this information, a time distribution network is a black box. TimeKeeper looks at all the sources of time, in any protocol, that it can
Read moreData integrity depends on time synchronization
In a distributed compute system, such as any multi-device transaction system or database, time synchronization is essential to data integrity. The simplest case is a
Read moreEfficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks
Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects
Read moreTime Synchronization in the Cloud
Synchronizing clocks in the cloud, especially for virtual machines, is way beyond the capabilities of ordinary synchronization methods. Tests show that virtual machines in the
Read moreMitre and GPS spoofing
Some slides on GPS timing vulnerabilities.
Read moreThe business case for being time protocol agnostic.
Time Synchronization and Distribution is a business critical issue but it is easy to become bogged down in arcane technology/marketing controversies. One of those controversies
Read moreChallenges deploying PTPv2 in a Global Financial company
Interesting article – most of these problems and more were solved in TimeKeeper years ago. But the most interesting part is the enormous engineering effort
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