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Playbook: Staying One Step Ahead of Performance: Page 14 of 15

Eliminating system or network failures is critical in today's fast-paced environment. Contributing Editor Eric A. Hall walks you through how to analyze and manage your applications performance requirements to help
September 27, 2003

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Pros: Local traffic has high-bandwidth, low-latency access. Server-to-server traffic can be limited to only mandatory data, which lowers WAN costs.

Cons: All application data has to be either partitioned or replicated across sites, which isn't always feasible. System outages in this architecture can be killers.

Best For: Latency- or bandwidth-sensitive applications in which data has local relevance, such as groupware, configuration management and departmental applications.

Hybrid

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