As consumers and businesses continue to adopt connected appliances, the amount of data being sent to data centers will increase astronomically. According to a recent report from Gartner by 2020 the internet of things (IoT) will encompass 26 billion units. Aside from gathering a large amount of data, these devices are a unique challe...

Agile methodologies are commonly associated with development methods today, however as system operations becomes more complex, the concepts from agile development are now becoming vital for managing complex server networks. As discussed in a previous article, system administration and software development are similar to the point that a new f...

Gone are the days when IT was primarily focused on site infrastructure and the network.

Today, user satisfaction rules, and is the ultimate measurement of IT success. Moreover, your business success and revenue depends on your ability to ensure top-notch Web and mobile performance on an ongoing basis. But then again your users are more ...

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The mad dash of shoppers may be behind you for the 2014 holiday season, but another rush is already right around the corner.

Over recent years, we've seen a staggering rise in the popularity of rich internet applications (RIA) like Google Drive, Flikr, Facebook and Google Maps. These browser-based applications, with much of the functionality we'd historically have expected only from a piece of desktop software, have not only been made possible b...

For any~ successful IT Team, it is vital that the server monitoring solution should be top-notch. But have you ever wondered what capabilities to check when evaluating a cloud based server monitoring vendor, apart from the usual monitoring and alerting?

Try asking the following questions.

Is your organization's rising network security concern making you think of subnetting it? Site24x7 IPv4 subnet calculator and IPv6 subnet calculator free online tools make your task simple. For the given network address block, Site24x7 IPv4 calculator provides the number of subnets, hosts, broadcast address, host range, wildcard mas...

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions have been a boon to system administrators due to the versatility it offers datacenter professionals. Unfortunately the dynamic nature of cloud solutions makes them difficult to maintain. When instances are being created on the fly, security often becomes an afterthought. Fortunately you c...

Lets face it, downtime cannot be avoided, but if handled well, can bring a sense of security and trust among customers. Business~transparency goes a long way, as It is critical to keep your customers informed about the availability and maintenance schedules of your services which helps in nullifying a case of an unexpected downtime that ...

Retailers needed to pull out more tricks in 2014 to get shoppers in the virtual aisles, relying more on IT and less on traditional strategies of years past, and the strategies worked in a big way. Record numbers for e-commerce, with holiday shopping across US and Europe approaching $130 billion (Source: Forrester Research)...