Data gravity highlights the importance of data in our modern economy. Organizations are facing a huge growth in enterprise data due to data-intensive applications like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). No matter the industry, data continues to grow within companies as they move forward and it is becoming increasingly strategic. What
Getting the infrastructure ready for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the Christmas campaign is a must to ensure maximum performance and avoid downtime. Online shopping is more alive than ever and these strategic campaigns account for an important percentage of the annual sales. Therefore, it is a great opportunity for online businesses to win new
Both colocation and cloud servers help companies increase efficiency and optimize IT spending by outsourcing data center management. However, opting for one solution or another — or combining both of them — will significantly depend on the company’s strategy and requirements. Comparing colocation and cloud servers IT infrastructure requires a high level of resilience, redundancy
Linux kernel 6.0 introduces diverse performance improvements, support for new hardware and security fixes, among other things. This new major version is the successor of the Linux 5.x.y series, whose last version is Linux 5.19. Linux 6.0: some new features and improvements On October 2, 2022, Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.0 as an update with
Stackscale participates in the technological and entrepreneurial event Tarugoconf 2022. The Tarugoconf event stands out for including a lot of interesting content, inspiring experiences and networking opportunities. Besides, the conference is always full of activities and workshops to learn new things and have a good time. 7th edition of the Tarugoconf The Tarugoconf 2022 event
Georedundancy or geographical redundancy allows companies to increase availability, resilience and fault tolerance. Relying on geographically distributed data centers contributes to building a stronger business continuity strategy. It is also referred to as “geo-replication” or “geographical replication”. What is georedundancy? Georedundancy consists in replicating data and IT infrastructure in multiple remote data centers. Its goal
HTTP/3, based on UDP, is the new version of the HTTP protocol. The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) met in Bangkok in November 2018 to adopt this new Internet draft. What is HTTP/3? The HTTP/3 protocol is the new version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and is based on the UDP protocol. It became
A good web page load speed is an essential factor for a web page’s success. Nobody likes to wait, much less to waste time waiting for the information they are looking for to show up on the screen. That is why, in order to avoid losing visits and sales, it is very important to decrease
On August 23rd 2022, VMware confirmed an important-rated security vulnerability affecting VMware Tools. This local privilege escalation vulnerability impacts Open VM Tools as well. VMware Tools vulnerability: CVE-2022-31676 Identified as CVE-2022-31676, this VMware Tools vulnerability can allow a potential attacker with local non-administrative access to the guest operating system (virtual machine) to escalate privileges as
Nginx and Apache are undoubtedly the two most used web servers worldwide. Each of them holds about a third of the market. According to W3Techs’ data, Nginx holds about 34.2% of the market and Apache about 31.2% — 28.9% and 22.6% respectively according to Netcraft’s data. This list includes some of the most popular web
