The network has often been viewed as “no man’s land” for the DBA-  Our tools may identify network latency, but rarely does it go into any details, designating the network outside our jurisdiction. As we work through data gravity, i.e. the weight of data, the pull of applications, services, etc. to data sources, we have to inspect what connects it to the data and slows it down.  Yes, the network. We can’t begin to investigate the network without spending some time on Shannon’s law, also known as Shannon-Hartley Theorem.  The equation relates to the maximum capacity (transmission bit rate) that…