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IT Budgets Have Been Axed
IT budgets have been slashed by 73 per cent of Australian organisations for 2009, with 46% cutting budgets in absolute dollar terms for this year, according to a recent survey by Compuware(NASDAQ:CPWR).
Experts Push Guidelines to Halt Data Breaches
After a series of high-profile attacks and security lapses, government and private sector experts pull together a list of recommendations....
Gmail service outage points to a hole in the cloud
It's more than just Gmail, as Google Apps users in the UK and elsewhere this morning couldn't sign on....
Kaminsky Calls For DNSSEC Adoption
The much-debated protocol to help secure the Domain Name System received a big boost today when DNS security guru Dan Kaminsky said the industry must adopt the DNSSEC protocol....Red Hat, Microsoft Set Differences Aside To Compete With VMware
Red Hat and Microsoft might seem unlikely bedfellows, but they have something in common. Both believe virtualization is a feature of the operating system --...Gartner Warns on SaaS's Hidden Costs
Think SaaS is cheap and quick to deploy? One analyst says that might not be the case....
A Slice of Perspective
I was reading on the forums about someone who wanted to pay less than $10 a month of various features and the Host had to provide 99.99% uptime....
Becoming an IT consultant?
Thinking of striking out on your own? Ex-CIOs who have made the jump share their hard-won advice....
What is all the fuss over SMBs about?
I was asked recently, what is all the fuss over SMBs about? The gentleman who asked the question is a small business owner and he believes he is nothing special. Because of this belief he wonders why does he hear so much about the SMB market especially in Web hosting....Early Mozilla mobile browser has 'showstopper' flaw
The alpha of Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser has a flaw that makes it unusable for most people ...
Data Center Capacity Running Out!
Data centres are experiencing a rapid increase in business, and a UK-based data centre and co-location service provider is warning that if current growth rates are replicated across most other data centres, then capacity could be seriously stretched by the end of the year....Microsoft Hit With Suit Over XP 'Downgrade' Fees
A Los Angeles woman sues Microsoft for having to pay extra to get rid of Vista...
Four Fixes for Eight Vulnerabilities
Microsoft issued four security bulletins for Patch Tuesday, addressed eight vulnerabilities. Three critical patches are for Microsoft Exchange Server and Internet Explorer. Microsoft said an attacker can gain control of the Exchange server. The patches for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser fix easily exploited vulnerabilities. ...
What's Next for Craigslist?
Founder of the giant community classifieds site Craigslist, says it's not an altruistic calling. ...
How to avoid 5 common storage mishaps
Blindsided! These companies thought they had their stored data locked tight, but they were wrong. Here's how you can avoid a similar fate....
What is a 100% Guarantee and is it Trustworthy?
So one of the buzzes I have seen in the 100% uptime guarantee. People say it is impossible to have 100% uptime and that this is a shady deal. The fact that a hosting company is promising you that you will not have any downtime when it comes to hardware is of course absurd. Hardware fails....Cybercriminals Try Phishing With Fliers
The link advertised leads to malicious hacking script that attempts to establish a connection to a Web site that Symantec said has been associated with malware. ...Parallels Day 2: Conference Sessions and Exhibits
I got a chance to interview Jack Zubarev, President Service Provider Division of Parallels, and he told me that if you are losing money or if your company is failing, the cloud is not going to fix the problem. I found this statement to be very satisfying because of how true it is. If your company is not doing well then you really should find ways of fixing that before you make a leap into a different technology. But that is a different article....Parallels Day 1: Press Rooms and the Cloud
The Press Room made my cry. It was the single most beautiful thing I have seen in my 10 years of covering the Web host industry. Coffee, snacks, water, power sockets in the long table, coffee, comfy chairs, coffee, and did I mention comfy chairs? Journalist heaven, but I digress....Parallels Summit Day 0: Golfing, Drinking, and Watching Men in Blue
In a departure form Parallel Summits of the past, 2009's Summit is taking place in sunny Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. ...Microsoft's IE loses more share, slides to new low
And Apple's Safari outgains Mozilla's Firefox third month in a row...
Virtualization Set For Desktop Surge In 2009
The push for cost savings will sweep virtualization solutions from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others past the server, onto the desktop and into the cloud....Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again
It is unclear if the latest delay will affect final delivery of Firefox 3.1, which was expected this quarter...Author info
David Dunlap
David Dunlap has been both a Web host industry analyst and commentator for the past eight years. Prior to his active writing career, David was a network and communications technician for four years. He currently is the Editor-in-Chief for WebHostMagazine.com