Every successful IT organization has built-in redundancy and disaster recovery plans, but often overlook how these can often mask problems for a period of time and then when something else occurs - BAM - bigger problem or complete outage. Wikipedia just reported a recent global outage that had a huge...

The Baltimore-Washington area has been hit with several significant snow storms this winter and those storms have impacted the operations of a large metropolitan area network. Problems range from power outages at some sites to link problems between sites. The result is that a large number of interface...

One of the best sessions I attended at CiscoLive this year was titled "BRKRST-3365, Unified HA Network Design: The Evolution of the Next Generation Network" by John Cavanaugh, Chris Cornwall, and a whole team of contributors. They talked about the High Availability (HA) network designs that...