As world cup excitement reaches fever pitch, millions of footie fans will be taking to their office computer to stream football live. But while you may be ready for the fun to begin, you may find yourself screaming at your computer rather than cheering on your favourite team if your network isn’t up to the job. Your company may also be ...

Although Amazon is known for its reliability and advanced features, problems and outages can still occur. In a nutshell, Amazon EC2 instances act as virtual servers to run your applications (you can select multiple combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity), so they are the fundamental building blocks for your cl...

When Web applications slow down, you are the first line of defense dealing with user complaints. Did you know that Web performance issues and bottlenecks are traced back to database issues in over 50% of the cases? Unfortunately, when you are trying to troubleshoot problem with your back-end databases, developers will point the fing...

Date - 24th - 26th June 2014

Venue - Santa Clara Convention Center, CA

With Wimbledon fast~approaching,~it’s time to~start thinking~about how we could improve our own game. And there’s no better place to start than by looking at image formatting and compression techniques which can have a dramatic effect on website performance.~ It can also help boost sales.

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Have you seen an increase of user escalations and complaints about slow Web apps and poor performance? Are you getting intermittent Site24x7 alerts that you can’t troubleshoot? It may be time to arm yourself with a Web performance waterfall chart, and visit your friendly Web development counterparts to have some informed discu...

A quick glance at the Wikipedia list of programming languages~reveals a startling~number. Fortunately, there are only a handful most developers want or need to learn. And with countless certification programmes available to help developers hone their skills, choosing the right one can be just as mind-blowingly challenging as learnin...

Mobile is exploding. Just a couple of months ago we saw that for the first time ever, mobile devices accounted for 55% of all Internet traffic in USA in Jan 2014 (Source- comScore), surpassing desktop usage. Moreover, mobile ecommerce is expected to be double that of desktop ecommerce by 2018 (Source: Goldman Sachs&#x...

The latest~BCI annual Horizon Scan survey reveals the concerns most likely to keep Business Continuity Managers’ awake at night. Undertaken in association with BSI, the report suggests that unplanned IT and telecom outages, cyber attacks and data breaches remain the biggest threats to business continuity worldwide.

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Update: Use the Heartbleed Test Tool to ensure your websites are protected against the bug.

The only chance of you not knowing about the Heartbleed vulnerability would be if you had completely abandoned your internet lifestyle or had been meditating in some far away~uncharted~island. Jokes apart, recently the internet was...