Now that IT is becoming a metric-driven organization --and your success is measured in terms of user satisfaction with IT core business processes and service levels, you should add Apdex to the list of IT metrics and actionable measures you track and report on. With Site24x7 Apdex – an industry standard for measuring the satisfaction of...

Firewalls are a vital component of securing your networks, however they often are a challenge to configure even for the most experienced server administrators. This is why datacenter professionals need to be able to follow best practices for server operations while also being able to effectively handle firewall issues as they come up. As disc...

For software development companies today, moving from desktop to hosted software is becoming the de-facto standard for many developers. Although some legacy applications can be placed on servers and accessed remotely with ease, other applications require a bit more work. Fortunately by considering a few points, you can ensure that your cloud ...

Security in the data center already is a challenging aspect for many professionals to juggle. Aside from constantly dealing with digital threats, system administrators also need to ensure their systems are protected from physical attacks. In fact inside attacks often do more damage than outside attacks because they are harder to spot and the ...

Cloud computing is one of the hottest trends in the IT world today because it allows companies to tap virtually unlimited resources, as needed, while only paying for the resources that they use. Although it sounds great in theory, when implemented improperly, it can result in significant cost overruns that make cloud computing more expensive ...

With a fluid web application, you can be sure of two things; business growth and success. This is because the more fluid the web application, the better your end user's experience. Certain real user interaction metrics need to be considered to tailor application performance to suit your users.

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As you join the largest gathering of the global Amazon Web Services community at AWS re:Invent 2014, meet Site24x7 at booth no. 542 and grab an opportunity to interact with technology experts and share ideas on ways to improve developer productivity, increasing application performance and a lot more. We are also launching a new feature d...

You might think that running a high end data center requires constantly maintaining a tight upgrade cycle with hardware upgrades every couple of years, however by properly clustering your servers, you can lengthen your upgrade cycles and get more usage from your equipment. As discussed in an article by Wired, Google has been leading the way i...

Update: SSLv3 support to be disabled by 08th December 2014

You must have recently read about version 3 of Secure Sockets Layer (SSLv3) being vulnerable at the protocol level, many news sources and the OpenSSL team has confirmed this vulnerability.

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