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• Heat maps can monitor system latency

  While datacentre managers have long used heat maps to help determine where to best position racks of servers and cooling units, this mode of visualisation can also be handy for better understanding system latency, argues an Oracle engineer in the July issue of Communications of the ACM.

• Podcast: The L word

  Ian Graham is a unique figure in the New Zealand ICT landscape. One of the founders of UK-listed network probe vendor Endace, he holds a PhD from Cambridge, where he worked on microwave receivers for radio telescopes.

• The return of the 'L' word

  What is the "L" word? It's latency.