Archive for the 'Hosting Industry' Category

Silverlight for Web Hosting

Earlier this month, I posted about Microsoft Silverlight, comparing the recent release from the software giant to Apple’s iPhone. While the adoption of Microsoft’s new web platform may not rival that of the iPhone, which recently reached the 1 million units sold milestone, websites, seminars, and tutorials will slowly become available. Michael Sherotter, an evangelist […]

Network & Server Security

Security relating to computers and networks has always been a concern for IT managers tending to Enterprise-class operations. Despite all their efforts to keep their networks free from intruders - be it a hacker, a worm, a trojan, or a virus - the biggest security risk to these systems is most often the users themselves. Over time, more […]

The effect of the current American – and global – economic downturn on hosting

As we all know, America (and most of the world as a consequence of America and some of its own doing), is in a recent economic downturn - quite likely on its way to becoming a recession, caused by alarmingly high default rates on recklessly issued sub-prime mortgages by many American and some European lenders. […]

Grid Computing – Hype or Next Generation of Hosting?

Everywhere you turn, people are talking about the latest trend in the hosting industry; grid computing. For those who have yet to hear about it, grid hosting is neither new or is it anything radically different; it is simply using server clusters to deploy enterprise level hosting.
Much fanfare has erupted especially over the likes of […]