David Strom

Also see: VMware vs Microsoft vs Xen: 2009 Here’s the updated 2008 version of this article: Virtual Servers Update: VMware vs. Microsoft vs. Xen Server virtualization has become a great tool for the data center, helped by the leading virtual server software vendors literally giving away their product. And as more IT shops consolidate their […]

You’ve got firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, virtual private networks, and a perimeter that is as secure as can be. But the problem is that all this security apparatus can be made moot in a matter of milliseconds with one user bringing their infected laptop into your office and spreading its diseased little package around […]

New Web technologies to improve your site, Part 4: Outsourcing: let me count the ways Here’s a look at the different products and services available to help you augment your Web site. By David Strom December 1999 In this article: A table of outsourcing vendors An outsourcing vendor can deliver just about any part of […]

New Web technologies to improve your site, Part 3: These days it seems as if everyone is a dot-com company trying to sell something via the Internet. But behind the explosive rise in e-commerce is the very hard issue of how to process payments from online storefronts. This is perhaps the biggest hurdle of any […]

In the beginning, we had the World Wide Wait. We had browsers and Web servers, and not much else in between. While life on the Web was architecturally simple, there wasn’t too much that we could do about improving the latency of our Web connections. When we wanted to view a particularly complex Web page, […]

In the beginning, we had the World Wide Wait. We had browsers and Web servers, and not much else in between. While life on the Web was architecturally simple, there wasn’t too much that we could do about improving the latency of our Web connections. When we wanted to view a particularly complex Web page, […]

No matter how you calculate “Web years” in 1999, the World Wide Web has matured with a variety of new technologies, tools, and techniques. Gone are the simple days of the mid-1990s when Webmasters could be concerned with one or two programs such as a Web server and scripting and authoring tools. Today’s Web is […]

Are you considering building an extranet? It’s easy, to paraphrase sportswriter Red Smith: You just sit down and open a vein. Fortunately, yours isn’t the first company that’s had to build one. There are numerous good extranets in the field, and a few that can serve as benchmarks for your efforts. Take a look at […]

No matter how you calculate “Web years,” in 1999 the World Wide Web has matured with a variety of new technologies, tools, and techniques. Gone are the simple days of the mid-1990s when Webmasters could be concerned with one or two programs such as a Web server and scripting and authoring tools. Today’s Web is […]

No matter how you calculate “Web years,” in 1999 the World Wide Web has matured with a variety of new technologies, tools, and techniques. Gone are the simple days of the mid-1990s when Webmasters could be concerned with one or two programs such as a Web server and scripting and authoring tools. Today’s Web is […]