For any business-critical system, resilience is important: the ability to maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of faults. When you hear about aircraft flying on after the failure of one engine, that’s […]

In this month’s feature, we list our pick of the topics tipped to dominate online technology news in 2010. All of these predicted trends point to an interesting and innovative year ahead for web based services.

Online security has again been in the news recently with reports that thousands of logins for webmail services such as Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail have been compromised and details posted online. Here we list some […]

Hosted web-based services can provide many benefits, usually requiring no hardware or software installation, and enabling users to log in from anywhere whether they are using PCs or Macs. However, developing a browser-based application is […]

Companies are increasingly turning to hosted, web-based services as an easy and affordable way to manage their systems. There’s now an impressive range of free and cheap services out there, and we’ve listed some of […]

We make extensive use of automation to manage the day-to-day running of DataSalon, using our ‘robot staff’ to handle most recurring or repetitive tasks. Below we share some of the trade secrets which allow us […]

The security of customer data is an increasing area of concern for many organisations. There have recently been several high-profile stories in the press of data being stolen through ‘hacking’ of systems, or of the […]