When it comes to artificial intelligence, most small business owners are already aware of the basics: chatbots, customer support automation, and maybe a few auto-generated blog posts. But AI is evolving fast—faster than most of us realize—and it’s unlocking…
In the digital age, data is the new electricity—and data centers are the power plants. They are the backbone of our connected world, housing the infrastructure that supports websites, cloud services, business systems, financial networks, streaming platforms, and more….
Had a client email me a few days ago, panicked that their web site was down. It wasn’t. Instead, their registrar’s domain name servers (a.k.a., DNS) were down. Despite the fact the registrar had four domain name servers, spread across diverse geography,…
Well, maybe. On July 29th, Microsoft will launch their latest version of Windows, known as “Windows 10.” What happened to Windows 9? It’s a bit of a mystery. Reality is, actual software version numbers used to track technical changes by…
In their recent versions, the folks at Parallels have done a nice job of minimizing the differences between their Linux and Windows Plesk control panel. While I generally prefer Linux for a variety of reasons, one of the nice things about Plesk for Windows is the…
It’s not easy to get comprehensive information on hard drive reliability. Most of us in the information technology world have anecdotal tales of hard drive reliability and failures, but one or even a few data points about brand and model hard drive reliability…
The Shellshock vulnerability and evidence of its use has now been widely reported in tech media. Like the Heartbleed exploit I wrote about back in April, the sheer breadth of the vulnerability is staggering. All of the mainstream Linux distributions contain the…
I’ve had a chance to experiment a bit with the latest beta version of the upcoming WordPress 4 release. It’s safe to say that users of recent versions of WordpPress 3 will make an easy transition to WordPress 4. There are no radical design departures. …
Server admins, security experts, and the world wide web were caught by surprise with the announcement of the Heartbleed exploit. In a nutshell, Heartbleed is a bug in the open source Linux encryption software known as openSSL. The flaw allows hackers to potentially…