One of the most fundamental constructs in the Amazon cloud is the Virtual Private Cloud, or VPC as it is usually called. For those who might not be familiar with a VPC, it is a mechanism that provides ...

Sudden crowds are part of the Internet: a blog post gets popular, and people flood in, sometimes straining servers to the breaking point. Online virtual worlds are subject to the same phenomenon, and ...

Overlay networks and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems form a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, offering resilient, scalable frameworks for resource sharing and content distribution. By creating a ...

When Windows Server 2019 is released this fall, the updates will include features that enterprises can use to leverage software-defined networking (SDN). SDN for Windows Server 2019 has a number of ...

Facebook Inc.’s engineering team today revealed how it overcame one of the most time-consuming problems in networking by automating a process called “network peering” that enables more efficient ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...