Monday, December 19, 2005 - Posts

To be or not to be... Anti Virus solutions on a server

Not to be... (at least not always) Why? Simple, try to image, you are a real time mail server, doing 5000 I/O's per second and you're interrupted everytime by Anti Virus (AV) software when you try to write, or even worse try to read to and from a storage Read More

The sense and nonsense of scalability by adding CPU's

I'm often faced with the following customer situation: "I added additional CPU's to the system because the average CPU utilization exceeded 80%, but the application doesn't run any smoother. Why is that?". Well, let me try to explain. To determine a Read More

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