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Busting the Myths About Network Security
Article provided by ControlScan©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 securi ...
Grids and Clusters Part 1: Grids and their Applications
By Zvi Grauer 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 mat ...
Grids and Clusters Part 2: Clusters and their Applications
By Zvi Grauer In Part 1 we reviewed the types and applications of computer grids, dynamic swarms of loosely interconnected computers that are used for problem solving. Now we focus our attention on computer clusters, collections of tightly integrated systems, set in close proximity to each ot ...
Hosting at Home: The Pros and Cons
By Zvi Grauer, ContributorQuite 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, whil ...
How PEER 1 CDN Works for Social Network Sites
By Rob Station, PEER 1The growth of social networking since its start in the late 90s has been exponential. Beginning as a way to find and keep contacts, the social network site has grown into a method for people to express themselves, through blogs, pictures, videos and music. The modern social ...
HOW PEER 1 CDN Works for TGP or Adult Sites
By Rob Station, PEER 1The Adult Market, Pushing LimitsThe Adult Entertainment business is one of the most technologically advanced sectors of the online world. Lots of images, flash, movies and other high bandwidth files are being displayed to potential customers. People want to be overwhelmed v ...
Intel DC vs. AMD DC Server Plans at PEER 1
By Alex SooThe trend in modern processor development is a movement towards multi-core processing. Rather than focus solely on increasing clock speeds, manufacturers are now using multiple cores on a single processor to increases both performance and efficiency. In this arena, there are two signi ...
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard vs. Enterprise Edition
By Alex Soo, PEER 1Microsoft’s flagship database product, SQL Server 2005 comes in several different editions that offer varying levels of functionality. While the decision to go with the Workgroup edition may be driven solely by costs, the choice between Standard and Enterprise editions m ...
PEER 1 Leads the Hosting Industry in Storage, Backup and Recovery Solutions
Anticipating its customers' increasing need for the utmost in storage management, backup and recovery, PEER 1 now provide industry leading storage, backup and recovery solutions from IBM and EMC. PEER 1's new systems, unmatched in the hosting industry, combine IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager softw ...
PEER 1's Load Balancing Solution
By Alex Soo, PEER 1 As online companies and businesses grow there comes a point where it becomes necessary to rethink the design of the server solution. There are several ways to accomplish this, from splitting the different applications onto separate servers, to upgrading hardware and adding a ...
SaaS and the Hosting Provider
By Zvi Grauer, PEER 1 ContributorIn 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 fundin ...
SaaS Coming of Age
By Zvi Grauer, PEER 1 ContributorSoftware as a Service (SaaS) is finally ready to explode onto the IT scene. SaaS products for the Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) market have been joined by initiatives from Oracle, SAP, Business Objects, and others, directed at large enterprises. For example ...
Using Virtualization
By Zvi Grauer, PEER 1 ContributorVirtualization of servers has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Let's see what virtualization is, why it is important and how we can use it to our benefit.What is VirtualizationSomething is said to be virtual when it is visible and perceivable, but does not actu ...
Web Hosting: Managed vs. Dedicated vs. Co-location
Managed HostingManaged Hosting is a form of web hosting where a client chooses to lease an entire server housed in an off-site datacenter that is dedicated to their uses only, and not sharing it with anyone else as in a shared hosting environment. Managed Hosting gives the client complete contro ...
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