SaaS and the Hosting Provider

In a previous article, we explored the coming of age of software as a service (SaaS), web based applications used through a browser. The SaaS market is growing at a pace of 20% a year, and SaaS start-ups are attracting a large proportion of venture capital funding, putting them well on their way...

Hosting at Home: The Pros and Cons

Quite a few of us have an idea or a personal project worth sharing with the world through hosting on the Web. Most of us also have an older computer which is either collecting dust in the closet/attic/garage, or is in a lonely corner, waiting for someone to use it, while the family flocks to the shi...

Grids and Clusters Part 1: Grids and their Applications

The use of computer clusters and computational grids to reach very high computational speeds have been making the news lately. Terms like cloud computing, volunteer computing, clusters and grids are regularly appearing in the media. Some of the technologies involved are quite mature, and their adopt...

Busting the Myths About Network Security

Network SecurityKnowledge is power… so what happens when hackers know more about your network’s security than you do.  Many online businesses have a false sense of security because they subscribe to numerous myths about their network’s security.  This false sense of secu...


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