There exist a number of open source projects trying to tackle accelerated file transfer via UDP. Some solutions are more mature than others and also use different technologies to solve the same problem of large data transfer over WAN. This article should provide the reader enough information to compare the different solutions and gauge if an open source project could be used...

The life cycle of a file transfer follows this basic pattern: Image                 The first and last step in the diagram, Disk IO, were covered in Part 1 of the series: Improving Throughput Part 1: Disk IO. Disk IO is always a good place to start when analysing a system to see why files are not transferring fast enough. In...

This post is the first of a series and continues in Part 2: Memory In light of the release of FileCatalyst Direct v3.0, I thought I’d write a few articles about the road to achieving 10Gbps speeds. It seems to me the best place to start is with the endpoint of the transfer: the storage media. Why? Before we even think about the file transfer protocol, we have to be sure that...

Image On the 3rd of June, CriticalPast announced the launch of CriticalPast.com, an absolutely astonishing archive of historic footage and photographic images:  From the press release on Business Wire: CriticalPast’s library of more than 57,000 video clips is drawn from government sources and digitized, making it easy for users to...