While Internet of Things is very much in its infancy, 2015 is looking to be a breakout year for this emerging and disruptive technology. The development and inflection of SMAC (social, mobile, analytic, cloud) technologies over the past 5 years; the release of Apple Watch later this month; and the pace and development of the […]

This is the first of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. It presents an overview and some installation tips. The second article talks about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips in the third article and SQL tips in […]

Everyone can agree that mobile has dramatically changed the world – the way we work, communicate, and do our business. It also goes without saying that your small business must be “mobile first” to compete in the digital marketplace. The impacts of all this are significant as end users expect the same level of 24/7 […]

1. Native 64-bit and IPv6 support Forefront TMG is installed on Windows Server 2008 64-bit edition and is able to function even on Layer 2 of the OSI model, which means it can support the upper-level IPv6. Forefront uses the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) driver in order to reach Level 2. With ISA Server […]

In a previous article, we looked at monitoring HBase – a NoSQL distributed database running on top of Hadoop. But how does one deploy an HBase cluster in the first place? Installing Hadoop and HBase on numerous cluster nodes, making sure they communicate properly, starting up the cluster – and making sure everything works flawlessly […]

Do you want your customers and/or employees to have a speedy, no-hassle end-user experience when they use your website or server, respectively? Of course you do – because an unsatisfied end-user means lost business – as in the case of a customer – or a really annoyed employee – as in the case of a […]

Gmail is a terrific email service which stands well on its own. It comes with many great features and apps which make emailing simple and efficient, but can only be made better with the many add-ons that are available for the email program. Gmail is free, and ad-supported, which means that you will pay nothing […]

Google AdWords is Google’s pay-per-click advertising program – you create simple ads directly related to your business that users see when they’re searching online for information. Sounds great, right? That’s why this is one of the most effective ways to get quality leads to your website; but it can be really expensive though. As with […]