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How Can a Data Center Transform Your Business?

A data center is the place where the computing, storage, networking and virtualization technologies that are required to control the life cycle of the information generated and managed by a company are centralized.

It plays a fundamental role in the company operations, since data centers help them to be more efficient, productive and competitive. At the same time, they adjust to the new needs of the businesses and respond quickly to even the most demanding consumers.

Data centers have adapted to this new reality and have developed services, not only to store valuable information of a company, but also with the purpose of automating processes and guaranteeing that each enterprise takes advantage of 100% of their data.

How a data center can help your business

  • Higher productivity– By having a data center, companies can increase their agility and productivity by simplifying their administrative processes and obtaining flexible and scalable environments that meet each of their objectives. Most companies and individuals have to deal with problems related to the flow of their work, customer service, and information management on a daily basis. All these situations distract the management teams, impairing their ability to keep the boat afloat and focus on sales or product development.
  • Technological flexibility– Through data centers, companies can also obtain flexibility in their technical infrastructure, since part of their information can be migrated to the cloud, operated on internally, or given to a third party. It brings other benefits such as low operating costs, high levels of security, and confidentiality of their information.
  • Automatization– A data center can help automate your processes and services. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, now you can establish automated customer service channels and monitor the tasks of each area of ​​your company through project management platforms.
  • Physical security– A data center provides an efficient team to perform a series of activities, such as monitoring alarms (and in some cases, calling security agents for emergencies), unauthorized access, controlling access through identity confirmation of the collaborator, issuing reports, and answering telephone and radio calls.
  • Refrigeration and Energy– Excellent cooling and energy systems ensure the proper functioning of equipment and systems within a data center. Refrigeration plays the role of maintaining the temperature of the environment at the right levels so that everything operates in perfect condition. Generally, to avoid damage and problems with the power supply, the system as a whole has no-breaks and generators, in addition to being powered by more than one power substation. This ensures performance and efficiency — your business does not need to invest in either of these critical services, saving you a lot of money.  
  • Business visibility– Companies can have visibility into the traffic of their data centers, both physical and virtual, since they allow gathering business intelligence information, identifying trends and acting quickly and intelligently. This facilitates quick decision making.


You can try to establish your servers, with limited human resources and resources at hand, to protect all your know how, or you can trust an expert and ensure the computer security of your company and the welfare of your business — but a data center is always a good option. You get everything you need with an affordable price and all the features you would want.

Data centers must be designed with an appropriate infrastructure to support all the services and systems of the company, in such a way as to allow the perfect functioning of the center and foresee its future growth by adapting to emerging technologies.

Do not forget that the primary function of a data center is to provide technology services for the development of your operations and ensure the integrity and availability of your business information. So make sure your provider helps solve the needs of your company. In a world where information has become an invaluable asset, each company is tasked with making the best use of their data and protecting themselves.

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Can You Get Paid for Your Data?

It is said that data is the new oil of this era because it nourishes the economy in one and a thousand ways. Social networks, search engines, and e-commerce platforms use data to generate personalized ads; some companies use it to optimize processes and thus save money or to create products increasingly oriented to the needs of their customers.

The point is that currently this data is delivered for free every time a person registers on a platform, when using a browser and visiting a page that, through cookies, stores the user’s movements within the site. Telephone companies can also obtain lots of data because they know the location of users at any given time.

Even when a person goes out, and sensors or cameras capture the image or movements in the city, digital data is produced that is used to create solutions that could translate into money. It is how the big data universe works.


What would happen if companies could be charged for the use of that personal information?


Sometimes you let companies use your data, just by accepting privacy conditions without reading, downloading apps that need access to view your photos, allow a GPS to know at all times where we are, or storing images in a cloud, to name a few.

Aware of the growing value of information in the economy, more and more companies are emerging that try to treat people’s personal info with care as a differential value.

One solution would be to create a decentralized market of data so that users can appropriate their information and sell it safely and anonymously.

It is estimated that, at present, the data that a user passively generates annually just by browsing the web, using social networks or different applications can be worth USD $240.

From the point of view of the data-buyer


Organizations receive anonymous data packages and use them for their research or projects. Being a decentralized market of anonymous data, the challenge is to know if that information is reliable because there could be many false profiles generated from different devices to create money.

Banks, for example, could be financial data verifiers and telephony companies could be responsible for verifying geolocation. The truth is that all entities that can collect and control data could eventually become verifiers.

Who would want to buy data that circulates for free?


For starters, it should be noted that although several companies collect information, not all can do so in an adequate, safe and orderly manner. Proof of this is that there are companies responsible for processing the large volume of information that is circulating on the web and then offering it, anonymously, to different companies.

Within the various measures that are specified in this regulation is the portability of data — which will allow the user to receive the personal information that has been provided to an entity, in a structured and commonly used format, to grant to another organization. It will work like number portability, but in this case, the asset that the user has is his personal info.

This initiative puts greater responsibility concerning one’s data in the hands of the user. In this sense, rights of the user are recognized, and a mechanism is provided to enforce these. 

Democratize access to data and the benefits it generates


The battle for some is not to oppose the collection and processing of data but to ensure that users can also take advantage of this new form of wealth generation. At present, the benefits are concentrated in few hands, but through some new proposals, data could be democratized and its benefits distributed in a more equitable way.

With a positive outcome, we will be able to cash in on our data and have extra income just for doing data-generating day-to-day activities.

In the centralized internet model, the user transfers his data to large giants such as Facebook, Google or Microsoft. In return, he receives information of all kinds and for different utilities: from a job offer to meeting friends and beyond.

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Artificial Intelligence on Data Centers

Artificial Intelligence tools can handle more data than human security professionals and find anomalies that are invisible to humans.

According to a recent survey of 400 security professionals conducted by Wakefield Research and Webroot, a provider of cybersecurity, 99 percent of respondents in the United States believe that artificial intelligence, in general, could improve the cybersecurity of their organizations and 87 percent. One hundred reports that their organizations are already using artificial intelligence as part of their cybersecurity strategy.

In fact, 74 percent of cybersecurity professionals in the US they believe that within the next three years their companies will not be able to protect digital assets without artificial intelligence (AI).

AI and machine learning are used to detect malware never seen before, recognize the suspicious behavior of users and detect anomalous network traffic.

According to the survey, 82 percent of US respondents, they said that artificial intelligence could detect threats that would otherwise be lost. But finding problems is only the first brick in the defensive wall.

Smart systems can also detect indicators that pose the greatest threats, suggest actions such as re-generating server images or isolating network segments, and even carry out remediation actions automatically.


Artificial intelligence can also collect and analyze forensic data, scan codes, and infrastructure for vulnerabilities, potential weaknesses and configuration errors, make security tools more powerful and easy to use and learn from experience to quickly adapt to the changing conditions.

All of that has the potential to dramatically improve user safety and user experience, said David Vergara, head of global product marketing at VASCO Data Security, which provides identity and authentication solutions to more than half of the 100 banks and financial institutions.

Measuring server temperature to detect problems

Smart systems can also detect behaviors that are too subtle for humans, said Terry Ray, CTO of cybersecurity provider Imperva.

For example, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be used to model hardware temperatures and compare them with typical activities or compare the access times of individual users with their peers to detect suspicious anomalies.

Larger and more forward-looking companies will invest heavily in the AI ​​experience to gain an advantage from artificial intelligence. But even the smallest data center operators will benefit because most, if not all, major cybersecurity providers are adding AI to their products.


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Big Data ?

What is Big Data?


When we talk about Big Data we refer to data sets or combinations of data sets whose size (volume), complexity (variability) and speed of growth (speed) make it difficult to capture, manage, process or analyze them using conventional technologies and tools, such as relational databases and conventional statistics or visualization packages, within the time necessary for them to be useful.

Although the size used to determine whether a given data set is considered Big Data is not firmly defined and continues to change over time. Most analysts and practitioners currently refer to datasets ranging from 30-50 Terabytes to several Petabytes.

The complex nature of Big Data is mainly due to the unstructured nature of much of the data generated by modern technologies. Such as weblogs, radio frequency identification, sensors incorporated in devices, machinery, vehicles, Internet searches, social networks like Facebook, laptops, smartphones and other mobile phones, GPS devices and call center records.

Why is Big Data so important?


What makes Big Data so useful for many companies is the fact that it provides answers to many questions that companies did not even know they had. In other words, it provides a point of reference. With such a large amount of information, the data can be molded or tested in whatever way the company considers appropriate. By doing so, organizations are able to identify problems in a more understandable way.

The collection of large amounts of data and the search for trends within the data allow companies to move much more quickly, smoothly and efficiently. It also allows them to eliminate problem areas before problems end their benefits or reputation.

Big Data analysis helps organizations take advantage of their data and use it to identify new opportunities. That, in turn, leads to smarter business movements, more efficient operations, higher profits, and happier customers. The most successful companies with Big Data achieve value in the following ways:

Cost reduction. Large data technologies, such as Hadoop and cloud-based analysis, provide significant cost advantages when it comes to storing large amounts of data, in addition to identifying more efficient ways of doing business.


Faster, better decision making. With the speed of Hadoop and in-memory analytics, combined with the ability to analyze new data sources, companies can analyze information immediately and make decisions based on what they have learned.


New products and services. With the ability to measure the needs of customers and satisfaction through analysis comes the power to give customers what they want. With the Big Data analytics, more companies are creating new products to meet the needs of customers.


Challenges of data quality in Big Data

The special characteristics of Big Data mean that its data quality faces multiple challenges. Volume, Speed, Variety, Veracity, and Value, which define the problem of Big Data.

These 5 characteristics of big data cause companies to have problems to extract real and high-quality data from data sets that are so massive, changing and complicated.

Data Governance plan in Big data

Governance means making sure that data is authorized, organized and with the necessary user permissions in a database, with the least possible number of errors, while maintaining privacy and security.

It does not seem an easy balance to achieve, especially when the reality of where and how the data is hosted and processed is in constant motion.

In the end, considering the confidence in the data, extracting quality data, eliminating the inherent unpredictability of some, such as time, economy, etc., is the best to reach a correct decision making.


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osCommerce vs. Zencart

osCommerce

osCommerce is a free option for an online shopping cart. It is a basic, quick, and easy Open Source eCommerce solution for setting up an e-store. It is PHP based and uses the MySQL database. This is an option that requires little to no effort to get up and running (at its basic level), has several add-on features, and it has been released under GNU General Public License.

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Dedicated Server Best Practices

Causes of Connectivity Problems with ISP

For most organizations, a reliable internet connection is a lifeline to business productivity and customer communications. An Internet Service Provider should provide your enterprise with the connectivity it needs. To maintain business continuity and productivity. Your ISP should also be capable of accommodating ever-changing business needs. With an emphasis on a reliable and secure Internet connection. But sometimes there are connectivity problems with ISP.

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Dedicated Server Best Practices

Advanced Storage and the Impact on Your Business

Data storage in today’s business environment has never been more challenging with the increased reliance on information technology.  The information requiring storage is more critical than ever for businesses of all sizes.

The storage capacity requirements for many companies are increasing at astounding rates with costs rapidly exceeding the growth rates for most IT budgets.  In addition to this dilemma, compliance standards and regulations for storage standards are becoming rigorous. And most companies are working with older legacy IT systems.  As a result, backup and restore processes are not meeting requirements, disaster recovery objectives are costlier and do not meet compliance due to the growing number of applications. And dispersed technology increases management overhead.

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Minecraft Server – Setup Guide

Instructions to a user to manage Minecraft server:

1.       Login via ssh.

a.       Download an ssh client like putty.exe (http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe)

b.      After the download is complete run the putty application.

c.       In the “Host Name (or IP address) field enter the IP address provided above.

d.      In the “Saved Session” field enter a name to refer to this server as and click “Save.”

e.      The saved details will now be available under the name you gave it each time you run the software.

f.        Click the name you gave it and click “Open” to launch the connection.

g.       The first time you connect you will be prompted to approve the security, click “Yes.”

h.      You will then be prompted for a username, type “root” and hit enter. This username is case sensitive. (your mouse does not work in this interface)

i.         You will then be prompted for a password, type the password provided in the server details email and hit enter. This password is case sensitive.

j.        You are now logged in

2.       Type ”./start” to start the server.

3.       To add your Minecraft user as an administrator of the Minecraft server type “op username.”

4.       You can now connect to the server with your Minecraft client software.

a.       Open the Minecraft executable you downloaded when you created a Minecraft account at Minecraft.net (https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/Minecraft.exe)

b.      Enter the username and password provided to you when you purchased your account with Minecraft.net.

c.       Select to “Remember Password” if you’re on a private computer and don’t want to retype the password each time you log in.

d.      Click “Login” and then select the “Multiplayer” option.

e.      Click “Add Server” and type any name for the “Server Name” field, this is what it will appear as when you open the client not the server.

f.        Type the IP address provided in your server details email as the “Server Address.”

g.       Click “Done, and it will return you to a page that lists all of the servers you have saved.

h.      Click the name you gave the server and then “Join Server.” It should connect you to your Minecraft server.

i.         You can issue additional moderator (operator) commands in the typing fields from the client by typing “/” before the commands.

i.      For example “/op username” would give that username operator right.

ii.      For example “/ban username” would ban that user from connecting to your server.

5.       From the ssh interface (CLI – command line interface) type “help” for local commands that can issue at the server.

6.       Other commands with similar format are “stop,” “deop,” “ban,” “game mode” (0 for standard 1 for creative).

7.       To rollback, the world to a previously saved version, stop the game and type “./rollback.” Hourly backups for the last 30 days, or however long the server has been active) should be displayed.

ServerPronto offers the best affordable and secure hosting service in all dedicated server packages.

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Create your own Virtual Host

Create your own Virtual Host – share your dedicated server resources – for reselling or other business purposes.

For our Xtreme package we now offer the virtualization platforms:

  • VMWare VMvisor 5 (ESXi 5)
  • XCP 1.0 (XEN Cloud Platform)
  • XenServer 6.0 (Citrix XEN Server)

ServerPronto offers the best affordable and secure hosting service in all dedicated server packages. You can create your own Virtual Host any time.

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