The problem with ntpd is the sudden performance degradations which can occur when conditions deviate from ‘ideal’. We have detailed these robustness issues of ntpd in prior work,
Read moreEconomics of Free Software
Fate has made me the “money guy” for OpenSSL so I’m going to talk about that for a bit. As has been well reported in
Read moreMeasuring Clock Synchronization in the Cloud- NTPd versus TimeKeeper
Measured on Amazon EC2. Standard deviation from reference time over 20 hours TimeKeeper: 23 microseconds NTPd: 6000 microseconds (6 milliseconds)
Read moreAt issue in Apple versus Samsung patent fight
A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an
Read moreManaged services (and cloud) for financial industry
The nature of data security is constantly changing for the financial industry. With the ever-growing need for tighter IT infrastructure security and the increasing prevalence
Read moreCassandra Cluster Synchronization
Cassandra is a highly-distributable NoSQL database with tunable consistency. What makes it highly distributable makes it also, in part, vulnerable: the whole deployment must run on
Read moreNTPd DOS attacks
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
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