I want to talk about dedicated firewall appliances. This is purely out of the blue, I am answering a question a reader sent to me about why would anyone want a firewall appliance, what does it do, et cetera.
Essentially firewalls keep bad stuff from entering a computer and bad stuff from leaving [...]

So one of the buzzes I have seen in the 100% uptime guarantee. People say it is impossible to have 100% uptime and that this is a shady deal. The fact that a hosting company is promising you that you will not have any downtime when it comes to hardware is of course absurd. Hardware [...]

As we greet the beginning of the New Year, it is an opportune time to review and if necessary revise and update your website’s title tags. First things first, so what exactly is a title tag? The title tag for a web page is displayed in a visitor’s web browser to identify the page, but [...]

A new study has come out on the popularity of social networks. Not surprisingly, social network users are becoming more prevalent. The study found that 35% of all Internet users use social networks and the bulk of those users have multiple social networking accounts.
All though the main reason people use social networks is still to [...]

According to Evans Data Corporation (otherwise known as EDC), roughly half of the developers in a recent study have said that they are either currently working on or will work on a SaaS project within the next year.
*cue Imperial March*
The survey is a global survey and the largest area for SaaS adoption lies [...]

When it comes to the data center, one of the highest priorities for the IT department is security. IDC’s Frank Gens, Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst said, that security ”is always the number one concern of IT.” Gartner and Forrester studies also put security up as one of the high priorities that a data [...]

According to Net Applications, rivals Firefox and Safari continue to eat at Microsoft IE’s market share. Microsoft lost another 1.6% points in December giving Internet Explorer a total decline of 10.4% since December of 2007. Mozilla’s Firefox in contrast gained 4.5% in 2008 and Apple’s Safari ends the year with 7.93% of browser market share.
Researchers [...]

In an open letter to the public, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, discussed his continued health problems, Macworld, and his duty as CEO.
Jobs cites a hormone imbalance for “robbing” him of proteins and thus causing him to lose weight. The drastic loss in weight has made many question if Jobs is still healthy enough to be [...]

Several Twitter accounts have been hacked including Barack Obama, CNN’s Rick Sanchez, Britney Spears, and others. Hackers used these accounts to send fake messages. Twitter locked down the affected accounts and has since given control back to the original users.
“I am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today,” from Rick [...]

VPS and virtualization are still relatively young technologies in the grand scheme. Here’s what I mean:
In 1776 the first steam engines were installed and working in commercial enterprises. This technology development leads to the Industrial Revolution.
In 1870 the Second Industrial Revolution commences. Developments from the Second Industrial Revolution include the introduction of steam-driven steel [...]