Time synchronization in the cloud
February 27, 2014
Grazed from FierceFinanceIT. Author: Renee Caruthers.
An added wrinkle to the challenge of time synchronization for financial firms is cloud computing. As firms consider how extensively they can rely on the cloud for critical business processes, they are beginning to explore whether the cloud environment adversely affects time synchronization. Unfortunately, the answer appears to be yes, it does.
"Timing in the cloud is just awful," says FSMLabs CEO Victor Yodaiken. "Traditional tools for time synchronization don’t work well at all. You will see the legacy technology lose 10 minutes over a day. If your eventual goal is to have thousands of machines running in the cloud, you will have the times between these instances radically diverge. That’s just unacceptable even for the lowest frequency kinds of operations that people want to push into the cloud."…
However, newer networking technology known as "network functions virtualization," or the buzzword NFV, has been very effective in addressing cloud challenges. "It allows us to use the time stamp feature on hardware network clocks to rapidly resynch as virtual machines start up or stop," Yodaiken says…
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