In the past few years, particularly in the wake of Stuxnet, SCADA and ICS software has come under heavy scrutiny from the security community for a variety of poor programming practices which has unearthed some critical security issues like as memory corruption attacks, hardcoded credentials, broken crypto, and web-based attacks such as SQL injection and [...]
As the demand for the consumption of computing resources becomes more relevant, it’s time to consider moving your infrastructure to a more flexible model, the cloud. I’d like to start off with a scenario: Suppose your SharePoint Solution is comprised of several physical servers: one with Active Directory, one with SQL Server, and one with the SharePoint application. Deploying [...]
Businesses with a professional look to them often employ a unified front. From a singular location, all of the customer’s needs are handled whether its support, billing, or purchasing initial products. SingleHop’s white label automation platform helps you present a unified front to your customer. Here are three key benefits: 1. White Label Automation “Look [...]
As the world wide web continues to evolve, so does search engine optimization. Techniques learned and employed over several years can be made obsolete by a single update to Google’s ranking algorithm. It pays to stay ahead of the trend so that your hard work isn’t destroyed by unexpected penalties. Here are seven ideas that [...]
Information Security is not just an IT issue, it’s an organizational issue. When companies attempt to address the organizational impact of information security, user awareness training is always first on the to-do list. However, in all of the security awareness training I have seen, one key component is usually left out, and that is clearly [...]
When SOA World was looking for an expert to explain service level agreements they came to us and tapped Mr. SLA himself, Dan Ushman. And why wouldn’t they? SingleHop’s Customer Bill of Rights is an industry leading SLA providing operational transparency between customers and ourselves. Our Bill of Rights was designed to be our moral [...]
My first hard drive was a big deal. Up until that time I was running everything off of floppies and that took forever. My first hard drive was a “daughter” card that was directly plugged into one of the ISA slots in the motherboard (we are in the way back machine mind you, circa 1980′s). [...]
It is no longer a debate whether or not solid-state drives are ready for prime-time, or if there are any performance benefits you yourself can realize from adding an SSD to your setup. Be it a cheap, light-purpose netbook, a desktop, or a mission-critical quad-processor server, an SSD will absolutely show you some performance gains [...]
Hey! I’m Noah Halter, Lead Designer here at SingleHop. As you may have noticed, both our website and blog has undergone a complete and total overhaul – SingleHop v5. We are all very excited about it, and consider it the best reflection of our brand to date, so I want to give everyone a bit [...]
As a system administrator, one of my recurring duties is to work on fine-tuning servers our company and client servers. Fine-tuning allows us to squeezing every possible ounce of capability out of each server so they are utilized to their fullest potential. Due to its popularity as an easy to write and implement language, PHP [...]
