Al-Jazeera, DDoS, and bandwidth utilization
On the same day that stories are running about Al-Jazeera being the victim of DDoS attacks, LinuxJournal runs a piece on how to stop them.
From a technical standpoint, the most interesting thing in the story is that the Al-Jazeera sites typically receive traffic "in the range of 50 or 60 Mbps." If you skimmed over those numbers, you shouldn't. Ladies and gentleman, that is some serious traffic, and I say that having watched the MRTG graphs at some pretty big media web sites. If you ever wondered if Al-Jazeera was for real or not, there's your answer.
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04:11 PM
Preparing for InfoWorld's CTO Forum
This week, I'm spending a lot of time preparing for two panel discussions at InfoWorld's CTO Forum conference running March 31-April 2 in Boston. While doing these panels requires a lot more upfront preparation that audiences might realize, it's always a rewarding and educational experience engaging with people who are very often much smarter than you are. Expect to see some dispatches from there next week (the full agenda is here).
The first panel on April 1 from 2-3pm is "Redefining the Supply Chain: Market-Makers, Standards, and Web Services," which includes Justin Abel (Head of Americas Development for Reuters), Jean Paoli (XML Architect for Microsoft), George Rimnac (CTO at WW Grainger), and Kaj van de Loo (Director of Product Strategy at SAP). The second panel ("Business Process Integration") is on April 2 from 1:15-2pm and includes Curtis Brown (CTO of Princeton Review), Herve Gallaire (CTO of Xerox), Phyllis Michealides (CTO of Textron), and Phil Wiser (CTO of Sony Music Entertainment).
I hope to see some of you there.
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01:57 PM
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