Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a plague on the Internet. In the last 5 years, the magnitude of DDoS attacks has steadily increased to the point that in a recent NYT interview Matthew Prince from CloudFlare compared DDoS attacks to “nuclear bombs” in their capacity to cause wide-spread damage. While, as the CEO […]
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The “Edge/Origin” Cloud: A New Paradigm
Edge/Origin Cloud Hosting: A New Paradigm While reliability, security, performance, and affordability remain the fundamental business objectives of all web hosting solutions, the best way of achieving these objectives continues to change with rapid shifts in web hosting technologies and services. The most recent and hyped change is the emergence of cloud hosting platforms. Unquestionably, […]
Three Rules for SLA Management: Tips for Enterprise SaaS Providers
While working with a SaaS company that delivers medical information to large pharmacy chains, I was reminded of how Service Level Agreement (SLA) management is a challenging and often overlooked part of delivering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). This is especially true when these services are aimed at enterprise customers. A number of years ago I wrote a […]
Carbon60 and Akamai: Two Halves of an Ideal Public Sector Hosting Solution
Carbon60 and Akamai have a long history servicing the public sector in Canada. Last week we announced a partnership to deliver a cost effective, fully-managed cloud hosting solution that meets the public sector’s rigorous availability, performance, and security requirements. Below, we look behind-the-scenes at how this partnership came together and some of the technical details […]
Google Chrome and the Browser Wars!
September 8th, 2008 was a big day. This was the day that Google Chrome was released. Who would have thought that it would only take 3 1/2 years to go from initial release to the most popular browser in the world? That’s right, Chrome is the number one browser in worldwide (number two in the […]