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10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance

Posted by kdawson on from the do-not-dilute dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Paul Venezia and Matt Prigge provide hands-on insights for increasing the efficiency of your organization's network. From losing the leased lines, to building a monster IT test lab on the cheap, to knowing how best to accelerate backups, each tip targets a typical, often overlooked IT bottleneck."

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  1. Backups by natehoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I learned from the BOFH that the fastest backups are written to /dev/null.

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    1. Re:Backups by darkpixel2k · · Score: 4, Funny

      The whole point of /dev/null is that it's writable, but not readable.

      Exactly. Backups to /dev/null, restores from /dev/random.

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  2. Get high. by TrisexualPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plug wires in again in a more colorful way.

  3. Outsource everything to Google. by ickleberry · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just give Eric Schmidt a call, tell him you have nothing to hide from his company or the government and they will replace all your machines with shiny new Google Chrome OS based "Net tops", put all your data on their servers, give you a brand new direct fibre optic connection to their nearest office and all they want in return is the ability to meticulously sift through your data in order to find the best way to bombard you with text-based ads.

    Everything is more shiny with Google.

  4. Re:11. by lgw · · Score: 4, Funny

    2.Ban Microsoft shares
    3.Ban NFS

    If you ban CIFS and NFS, what's left? Sneakernet has great bandwidth, but the latency sucks and it's a bitch to search.

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