Hot on the heels of our recent post about SSL certificates, I have read with interest another security story about the dangers of phishing. In case you have not come across it before, phishing is defined as “the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details [...]

Currently on Microsoft Windows 2003? Running IIS 6?

II’S Express’ No – not a revival of the 80′s British dance act but a new release from Microsoft …. IIS Express is a lightweight installable version of the popular web hosting platform Internet Information Services (IIS) 7, which can run on XP and above operating systems.  Features and benefits include: Lightweight and easy to [...]

Intel & Dell have been at it again.  Both companies have release new server/processor and associated technologies. Intel, having released the Nehalem based 5500 ’Gainestown’ series processors back in early 2009 are now releasing their 5600, ‘Westmere’ series processors. At the time of 5500′s release, there was siginificant impact and discussion in the marketplace about the enhancements to [...]

Overview of the origin and reason for ISO standards and the specifics of the ISO27000 standards. What does such an accreditation lend clients and consumers of hosting services?
History
Aim
What is the ISO27000 family all about?
ISMS
ISO27001
ISO27002
What makes an ISMS?

Something I’ve never blogged on but often take advantage of are the Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides.

Over at the Windows Server Divison Team WebLog, news that a couple of new addons for IIS have been released. Take advantage of these new technologies and the latest Windows Server operating system and see your site soar up the rankings!

Developers looking to take advantage of the new features in R2 should be delighted to hear about a new training kit made available for download by MS.

The latest IPA Bellwether report tells us that businesses are now more confident about economic conditions, however the vast majority are still not prepared to increase their offline marketing budgets. Is this the right approach in this climate? It may seem strange for an internet business to be supporting the idea of offline marketing spend [...]

It is no surprise that over the last 18 months marketing spend has decreased as businesses tighten their belts against recession. Spending money on speculating for new customers always seems to be the first expense to be cut back. However, proving that no businesses can do without any advertising, notoriously ad shy Google has just [...]