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📅 - Mirror Image Delivers NYC Marathon Web Site - Distributed Web and content delivery service provider Mirror Image Internet (mirror-image.com) announced on Wednesday that the New York City Marathon Web site (nycmarathon.org) is using Mirror Image's instaContent Delivery service for the third consecutive year. During the month of the race, the NYC Marathon Web site receives 1.8 million hits per day, says Mirror Image. And on race day, traffic is expected to exceed 12 million hits. As the site's Web caching provider, Mirror Image enables the site to service millions of requests simultaneously, minimizing the load placed on origin servers. "Internet presence has become a vital source of information and ente
📅 - Nexcom Announces Xeon-Based Blade Servers - Computing hardware developer NEXCOM (nexcom.com) announced on Wednesday that it has introduced its new HiServer 420, an Intel Xeon-based blade server designed for use in high performance computing, dynamic Web page delivery, streaming video service and server farm. NEXCOM says the HiServer 420's patent-pending authentic cooling system guarantees excellent airflow, enabling up to ten server blades to be housed in a 4U rack optimized chassis. The components of the new solution include: the 4U, 19-inch rack-mount chassis with slots for ten server blades; the single or dual Intel Xeon server blade; one PCI-X expansion slot on each Server Blade for installing an
📅 - Sword Host Launches Redesigned Web Site - Application service provider Sword Comp-Soft Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has re-launched its hosting venue Sword Host (swordhost.com). The company says it has made the site, now entering its third year of operations, more user friendly, expanding the company's capacity to serve its clients. Sword Comp-Soft says the improved site now offers Web hosting, Web site management, domain registration, Web site design services and secure certificates. The company says enhanced firewall protection, real time support and competitive pricing are favorite features among existing and new clients. Adding new features such as two new hosting packages,
📅 - SANS Prepares Perimeter Security Webcast - Internet security information organization SANS (sans.org) announced on Friday that it has released the lineup for its November 6 "Wednesday Webcast" presentation, entitled "Can't Boil an Egg Without a Shell - Why Web Perimeter Security is a Necessary Step to a Secure Site." SANS says Web sites are often a main target of network-based attacks against an organization, making perimeter security to protect Web servers a major concern. Opportunities to enhance perimeter security have been evolving, says SANS. Along with basic security precautions, Web site security may now involve the use of application firewalls, system call monitoring and content monitoring p
📅 - Red Hat Introduces RHCT Certification - Open source and Linux developer Red Hat (redhat.com) announced on Monday that it has expanded its skills certification program to include the new designation, Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT). RHCT, says Red Hat, continues the company's performance-based approach to certification, requiring candidates to experience a hands-on approach, working with the systems directly to demonstrate their capabilities. RHCT covers the skills specific to production technicians, a subset of the skills tested in the company's Red Hat Certified Engineer certification. RHCT certified technicians can continue their studies to qualify for RHCE certification. Red Hat says RHCT
📅 - October Netcraft Survey Results Released - Internet research organization Netcraft (netcraft.com) released the results of its Web server survey for the month of October on Friday, showing that very little change took place in the Web server market during the month. Market share in the Web server developer market, which is led by Apache, followed by Microsoft, remained almost unchanged during October One market showing significant changes, says Netcraft, is the SSL certificate market, which has seen upstart SSL provider Geotrust gather 10 percent of the market in the past three years, cutting into the 99 percent share held by VeriSign following the purchase of Thawte. In the last few mon