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IT Support July 28, 2014

Which Content Management System to Choose?

Content Management Systems allow website owners to quickly publish content to the web. News sites and blogs are especially easy to run from a Content Management System. As they consist of articles and posts on a site with a relatively uniform theme. There are, however, much more flexible Content Management Systems. Some of these systems even have features of social networks. Which can be deployed in a corporate environment and managed internally. All CMSs have support for templates and multiple users, but the exact set of features available varies quite drastically.

Virtualization July 25, 2014

Virtualization Implementation in the Enterprise

Smart and efficient investments are the backbone of any successful enterprise. Thus the implementation of enterprise virtualization has become familiar among the top companies in many sectors. Some examples:

Cloud Hosting July 22, 2014

Cloud Servers are Changing the Automobile Industry

The ability to utilize cloud servers in the automobile industry is a relatively recent development. But one that many believe is going to be the next big thing in car technology. In fact, many cars are already equipped with advanced entertainment systems that are set up to utilize the retrieval of data from a personal cloud server. A cloud server has several uses for cars, but all relate back to one simple goal: synchronicity.

Server Security July 19, 2014

Simple Steps to Secure Your Server

In order to ensure a safe and secure server environment for databases, web applications and other services, IT server administrators have to take certain precautionary steps that will provide a higher level of protection to the server environment.

Database Hosting July 16, 2014

Should I Move to Using NoSQL?

According to a survey by Information Week, almost half of all business IT professionals haven’t heard of NoSQL (44%). With such a significant number of professionals unaware of this technology, why should you switch to this type of data collection and storage format? The advantages of NoSQL are compelling and will only get more compelling as data storage needs continue to increase exponentially in years to come.

Dedicated Server July 13, 2014

Server Traffic Requirements

In the good old days before the Internet, when was talked of a network we meant the corporate network at the office. And traffic came no greater distance than employees down the hall connecting to the file server. Before installing a new server, it was obligatory to estimate how much server traffic you were likely to receive. Accordingly, namely, choosing CPUs, disk drives and network connections that could handle the anticipated traffic. That was before the global internet arrived.

Cloud Hosting July 7, 2014

Preparing your Business for Big Data

The term big data is being heard with ever-increasing frequency in the corporate world. Businesses of vastly different types all need to prepare themselves for the onset of big data as soon as possible.

Big data is defined rather simply as the collection and storage of vast amounts of information. With todayâ€™s technologies, the collection and storage of massive amounts of data is not a challenging task, certainly not like it was in years gone by. The key issue for a business enterprise is determining how to utilize the massive amounts of stored data as a valuable resource.

IT Support July 4, 2014

osCommerce vs. Zencart

osCommerce

osCommerce is a free option for an online shopping cart. It is a basic, quick, and easy Open Source eCommerce solution for setting up an e-store. It is PHP based and uses the MySQL database. This is an option that requires little to no effort to get up and running (at its basic level), has several add-on features, and it has been released under GNU General Public License.

Dedicated Server Security June 15, 2014

How Does a Firewall Work?

The main aim of a Firewall is to stop intruders from getting into your network or your computer. A Firewall is supposed to monitor what goes in and what goes out of the computer/network. It is supposed to block suspicious traffic whilst allowing regular traffic to travel through unhindered.

Dedicated Server Security June 13, 2014

The Basics of DDoS Protection

A DDoS attack is when a network or online resource is denied to the intended user, and usually via a malicious means. DDoS means distributed denial-of-service. Protecting against denial of service is done in a number of ways.