Data Centers in China to Increase in 2015
With nearly 1.4 billion inhabitants, China leads the world in Internet traffic. It is also the second largest market for San Francisco-based CloudFlare. The online security and performance company has…
Website Copyright Violations: How Will Web Hosts Respond?
Copyright violations aren’t anything new under the digital sun, but measures taken by Russia will most certainly strike an unfamiliar chord across the world. Starting in May of 2015, any…
All Things Email: History, Security, Marketing
Email has touched every aspect of our lives since it’s inception over 45 years ago. There hardly seems to be an area of our lives where email doesn’t come into…
Privacy is one of those modern issues that is in fact as old as time. In our guide to How the Digital Age is Impacting Our Personal Privacy, we look…
How Will the Virtual World Create Storage Problems for Web Hosts?
Virtual computing has created a tremendous opportunity for businesses to offload their IT requirements to cloud providers. Today, businesses with very large storage requirements, such as distributors of video media,…
Will IoT Devices Overload Web Hosts?
One of the most exciting architectures to emerge in 2014 is Internet of Things (IoT). IoT uses the existing Internet to connect a wide range of embedded computing devices from…
HealthCare.gov the Second Time Around: Will the Website Handle the Traffic This Time?
Millions of Americans watched in eager anticipation as late last year, the federal health insurance marketplace’s website HealthCare.gov came online. As the centerpiece of President Obama’s plan to overhaul the…
Use of DNS TXT Records to Amplify DDoS Attacks
DoS (Denial of Service) attacks cover any type of malicious interference that degrades website services. Attackers use bots to clog the data pipeline of a server, reducing the amount of…
Web Hosting Wars: How Far Will a Host Go to Gain Your Business?
Finding the budget for the huge expense of web hosting is a thing of the past, from a time when there were only a few large companies offering web hosting…
Speak Human! Should IT Workers Learn to Speak to the Layperson?
As an IT professional, you are one of the busiest employees at any organization. Not only do you multitask problem solving for issues that come in at unpredictable rates, but…
Has the Worldwide Server Market Rebounded?
In August of 2013, the worldwide server market revenue was down 6.2% from the previous year to $11.9 billion. In many geographic regions, the demand continued to soften. According to…
What is the Growth Potential for IT Jobs and Data Center Specialists Over the Next 10 Years?
While unemployment rates have eased slightly as of late (falling under 6% for the first time since 2008), the effects of the recent recession are still felt in numerous industries….