The application of Virtual Personal Assistants like Siri, Google Assistant and Cortana is making devices smarter and improving users’ search experience. “By 2025, the vehicle will be sophisticated enough to configure itself to a driver and other occupants. It will be able to learn, heal, drive and socialize with other vehicles and its surrounding environment.” IBM Automotive … [Read more...]
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What is load balancing in Cloud Computing and what are its advantages?
IT industry is growing each day and so is the need for computing and storage resources. Large quantities of data are generated and exchanged over the network which further necessitates the need of more and more computing resources. Organizations, to better capitalize their investment, are opening their infrastructure to new found virtualization technologies like Cloud … [Read more...]
Limitations of Shared Hosting and Reseller Hosting
How lovely it is when you can do things your own way. Be it on the professional or personal front, having your freedom or independence is very important. Same is true for your web hosting. The kind of freedom you get in a privately-owned server or with cloud hosting is different from what you experience in a shared or reseller hosting environment. In a shared environment, … [Read more...]
What is Ransomware and how can you protect your files and system from it?
While we have all sorts of technologies to protect the computer systems and the data, cyber-attacks are still rampant today. The latest to add to this list is the global ransomware attack by WannaCry or WanaCrypt0r 2.0 that has hit around 100 countries within a timeframe of 48 hours. The attack, not only has hit hospitals, telecommunications, rail systems and courier … [Read more...]
A quick guide to cluster architecture – how it benefits data base and web applications
The goal of any kind of application, computer system or a processor is meeting customer expectations by rendering high-grade performance. But a computer system or web application faces millions of requests per second and it's practically impossible for a single system to respond to such a huge number of requests. A cluster architecture helps a system do that. To explain it … [Read more...]
What impact does sleep query have in your web application?
Data is the soul of any computer system. Without its availability, all the applications we use, websites we run will become dysfunctional. Web hosting providers use database management systems like MySQL to help them in better data management. MySQL is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that can store data, run commands, and answer data related queries of the … [Read more...]
A Quick Guide to Determine the Edition, Version and Update level of SQL Server and its components
A popular RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) by Microsoft, SQL is a full-featured data management system that supports ANSI SQL, the standard language of SQL and has many features including support for XML datatype, DMVs (dynamic management view), text-search capability and database mirroring. It is used for creating and maintaining databases, analyzing data via … [Read more...]
Cloud or CDN Hosting. Which One is Better?
What most of the organizations today strive for is - better operational efficiency, through improved speed and connectivity between the services and the end users. The question is how we fill this gap between the service and the user, or how we can deliver most of the services within lesser time frame. For instance, when we talk about the ecommerce companies, the only medium … [Read more...]
Differences between Website Builder and WordPress Hosting services
We all are much familiar with the word “blog” and visit various kinds of blogs every day, ranging from simple travel tips, to tech-rich blogs. Have you ever wondered, how they come into existence and what makes them attractive? Well! Maybe they were built using an HTML website builder or a content management platform like WordPress. Millions of people and organizations run … [Read more...]
Top IaaS storage requirements to consider.
“The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 16.5 percent in 2016 to total $204 billion, up from $175 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. The highest growth will come from cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service [IaaS]), which is projected to grow 38.4 percent in 2016.” * With time, IaaS – Infrastructure as a service has … [Read more...]