We recently added Web Application Firewall (WAF) to our portfolio of security technologies for our Custom and Agile Hosting platforms. A WAF is deployed to protect web-based applications or services from external malicious attacks. Unlike a network firewall which monitors general network activity, a WAF focuses on application-specific protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, XML and [...]
Improve application security, compliance with Web Application Firewall (WAF)
04.30.2013 By:
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NYeC meets health IT requirements with Internap’s managed hosting solution
04.23.2013 By:
Companies in the healthcare industry face unique business and technology challenges, especially regarding IT Infrastructure, security and compliance. The process of moving from paper records to electronic health records (EHR) is no easy task, considering the regulations and requirements that govern how patient information is managed and shared. The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC, pronounced [...]
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Managed hosting can solve healthcare patient engagement problems
04.17.2013 By:
If you’ve spent any time interacting with the healthcare industry in the past couple of years, whether as an employee or a patient, you’ve probably noticed that IT systems are a much bigger part of the healthcare experience. The rise of EHRs (Electronic Healthcare Records) and other IT solutions have created a major opportunity for [...]
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Managed hosting helps businesses handle mobile device challenges
03.19.2013 By:
Mobile device ecosystems are contributing to major changes in how businesses get the job done. If you look around your office, you’ll probably notice that most people are still at their desk like always, but many of them may be using their personal mobile devices on the side. Smartphones will often be pulled out at [...]
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Customer Spotlight: YouSendIt talks cloud, mobile, performance and team leadership
03.06.2013 By:
YouSendIt is a leading cloud file collaboration service that gives users anytime, anywhere access to content via web, mobile and desktop applications. In this customer spotlight, Sumeet Rohatgi, Sr. Director of Engineering at YouSendIt, shares his vision on current technology trends, cloud security, performance and building a successful team. To stay successful and meet the [...]
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PS4 event showcases importance of managed hosting in video gaming
02.27.2013 By:
Last week, executives from Sony Computer Entertainment and many video game industry leaders spent just more than two hours introducing the PlayStation 4. On top of all of the hardware and game-specific content displayed, much of the conference focused on how Sony is planning to drive social and intuitive video game mechanics in the next-generation [...]
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Top Five Online Gaming IT Infrastructure Challenges
02.05.2013 By:
The creative forces behind the online gaming industry will always push the limits of technology. But to turn new ideas into reality, it’s critical that online game developers have the right IT Infrastructure in place. Let’s take a look at five challenges that online gaming publishers must address in order to maintain player loyalty and [...]
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Trends for content owners in 2013: online privacy concerns (Video)
02.01.2013 By:
Trend 1: Online privacy concerns threaten content consumption and preference sharing Businesses today are collecting massive amounts of data on their consumers. But what do customers really think of these tactics? This presents a new challenge for content owners to find the balance between online privacy and gathering data on their market. Watch Internap’s Drew [...]
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What does an online gamer look like?
01.30.2013 By:
It’s well-known that the online gaming industry is evolving quickly, and is poised for exponential growth within the next few years. For online game publishers, the key to success involves more than just brilliant new ideas for games, characters or superpowers. It’s also essential for online gaming companies to establish the IT Infrastructure required to [...]
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Intelligent appliances call for advanced hosting strategies
01.24.2013 By:
The Consumer Electronics show has passed and left plenty of us salivating over new gadgets that could be coming soon. Of course, this year’s CES made one thing clear – gadgets aren’t what we always thought they were. Where we once looked at gadgets as handy little technological items, we now can call a refrigerator [...]
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Sahara Force India and Internap – one year later
01.15.2013 By:
Sitting in my office on a dreary British January day (a Monday to add further insult to injury), I have just come off the telephone to our good friends at Internap HQ, based in Atlanta, Georgia. The weather may not be much better on the other side of the pond at this time of the [...]
5 Tips for managing your IT Infrastructure service provider relationship
01.10.2013 By:
Ideally, your IT Infrastructure service provider is an extension of your company, reflecting the high quality and focus that you expect from your own organization and employees. These types of relationships require a concerted effort by all parties and tend to evolve over time. To be sure, it is time well spent because key benefits [...]
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YouSendIt controls their IT Infrastructure with ability to quickly scale
01.04.2013 By:
As a leading provider of services that span from simple file sharing to a comprehensive content collaboration suite of services, YouSendIt wanted to expand its European market providing integrated tools for sending, sharing and signing business content online. But challenges they faced were important to overcome as well. Specifically, YouSendIt wanted to: Save on overall [...]
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Game publishers turning to web content, making managed hosting essential
01.03.2013 By:
Video game content is no longer about what you see while actually playing the game. During the past few years, more and more developers and publishers have been implementing web and mobile sites that allow users to interact with their games anytime. As these types of community interaction methods become more popular, Managed Hosting solutions [...]
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Sahara Force India Formula One Team creates fast online communication with fans
12.27.2012 By:
How do F1 teams stay connected with their international fan base? Some of the challenges Sahara Force India faced when creating a new website included integrating social media and providing real-time video, news and information. As a key competitor on the Formula One racing circuit that includes 20 races across four continents, they pride themselves [...]
Is your IT Infrastructure ready for on-demand mobile access?
12.04.2012 By:
Anytime, anywhere access is becoming the standard. According to Forrester Research, nearly 60% of all corporate employees share, access and manage content outside the office – with their laptop, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android and more. Indications are that number is only going to increase. Just take a look at an infographic on working from home. [...]
Top five business infrastructure resolutions for 2013
11.27.2012 By:
It’s never too early to start reflecting on New Year resolutions for 2013, including those that relate to business infrastructure services and planning. With a new year, there is a sense of starting with a clean slate and having the opportunity to improve over prior years. Often, the goals and objectives remain the same, but [...]
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Do disks really matter?
11.13.2012 By:
Online video gaming capabilities have completely changed the landscape of the industry during the past few years. Countless independent and second-tier games that otherwise never would have hit the market have been produced, because they could be hosted online or downloaded, avoiding the expense of producing boxes, disks and other physical media. As the video [...]
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Gaming’s mega month
11.06.2012 By:
It’s going to be a mega month in the gaming world with today’s release of Halo 4 and other big title releases such as Assassin’s Creed III, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, F1 Race Stars, Madden NFL 13 and Lego Lord of the Rings. With all the scheduled releases, it’s obvious that gaming is [...]
Business planning, as we know it, is finished
10.26.2012 By:
The age of business planning is finished? What? That’s what Forbes’s contributing author Dov Seidman recently suggested, stating that “What business needs now is to journey, to embark on a curvilinear path that eschews quarterly reports and gives room to explore new initiatives… Companies need to compete against former partners, partner with former competitors and [...]
Appterra faces a global interconnectivity challenge head-on
10.23.2012 By:
Appterra is a SaaS global B2B solutions company. We focus on enabling inter-company transactions between commercial trading partners. Our solutions are cloud based and enable mission-critical multi-company business processes for enterprises in the global supply chain for the manufacturing, distribution and energy industries. As a managed service SaaS solution, uptime is critical for our customers. Simply put, if we [...]
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Presidential – and now Facebook – politics?
10.19.2012 By:
Last week I mentioned the vice-presidential debate in my mashup, so in fairness I feel it necessary to mention this past Tuesday night’s debate with our presidential candidates. But not for the reason you think. Rather than debate their answers to the questions or who won, I want to mention the social media surrounding it [...]
Technology that changes the world in an instant
10.12.2012 By:
Gangnam Style. You’ve probably seen the video, heard the song, watched the interviews and are aware of its extremely viral nature. (If you’ve been living in a cave — which apparently I was because I only learned of it late last week – check it out on YouTube. Nearly 440 million others have.) Another example [...]
Gaming: Not the usual suspects
10.05.2012 By:
From gaming execs and developers to casino owners and agency CEOs – all had gaming top of mind this week. Gaming industry professionals from around the world attended Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2012 and one of the hottest topics was Internet gaming – the next frontier for casinos. Ad agency CEOs are in New York [...]
Five trends to watch for content owners: HTML5 versus Flash
10.04.2012 By:
This is the final segment of a five-part series on trends for content owners. Catch up on the rest of the trends here. In November of last year, Adobe confirmed what the news analysts had been predicting for months: Adobe was discontinuing its development of mobile browser Flash in favor of HTML5. It’s true — [...]
Five trends to watch for content owners: Mobile and the demise of the content schedule
10.02.2012 By:
This is week four of a five-part series on trends for content owners. Catch up on the rest of the trends here. Humans are creatures of habit. We are hard wired to build routines and establish schedules, even subconsciously. It’s nice to know that on Thursday night at 9:30 PM ET you can sit down, [...]
Online gaming continues to explode — and not because of a grenade
09.20.2012 By:
Not surprisingly, there continues to be a growing library of online games. What may be surprising, however, is the rate of its growth — how quickly and how much. According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, the global gaming market was worth $70.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach [...]
Don’t wait — another hurricane is already forming
09.05.2012 By:
Last week, as folks were bracing for Isaac and what wrath he would bring to Louisiana, Mississippi and beyond, my mashup referenced making other preparations – those beyond the personal – that are necessary to avoid data loss. But for many it may have been too late. According to a comment on a related article: [...]
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What? No more bricks-and-mortar shopping?
08.22.2012 By:
It’s that time of year to stock up on school supplies and replace those often worn items that your child has outgrown or destroyed beyond recognition. So, where to go? According to USA TODAY, the convergence of smartphone technology, social-media data and futuristic technology such as 3-D printers is changing the face of retail in [...]
Achieving the high score: Trends in online gaming webcast tomorrow
08.21.2012 By:
Do I have game? I’d like to think so. Now back in the day, I’d dabble a bit at the arcade with some Donkey Kong, Centipede and Q-Bert (that orange guy with the big nose sure was cute). Move to the 90s and add a little Nintendo action with the Super Mario Brothers and then [...]
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