Firewall: the great protector of your network
A firewall is your protection from the internet Another place you might be familiar with a firewall is in your house. When building a house with a garage, it needs a fire rated wall. The ...
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SANs Solved the Data Sharing Problem
Storage Area Networks (SANs) were created to solve data shares. In the old days, a server would host its own storage. As tech has progressed, application reliability became as issue. When your data and application ...
Databases are spreadsheets on steroids
In their simplest form, databases are massive spreadsheets. The information stored in a database has logical structure like a spreadsheet. It has headers (columns) like a spreadsheet. You can sort, update, and new records to ...
Email: the most common and misunderstood technology
Email is an essential tool for everyone. The only communication used as much as email are text messages. It is in the center of everything we do. With as much as it is used, few ...
Server Clusters Keep Applications Running When Failures Happen
Server clusters keep applications running by allowing one server to switch to another server when it fails. Applications need to be available all the time. There’s many ways to accomplish high availability. We discussed load ...