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File Sharing: The Basics, The Myths, Some Tips

Would you like to see photos that someone else wants to share?
How about sharing a whole gallery of music you wrote and sang?
What if you want to share your resume?

Sharing files is something that has been done from the very beginning of the internet and you’re likely to want to do from time to time. There are many ways to share files and they vary in complexity and efficency and this guide will help you decide which choice is best for you. An additional concern is the legality of sharing and after reading this guide, you’ll have a firm grasp of what you can do, what you can’t do and when you’re going to need to find out more.

Executive Summary:

Each of the methods of file sharing has benefits and drawbacks. The significant benefits are speed, security and the ability to ensure the other people sharing the file will be able to receive it. The significant drawbacks are software requirements, complexity and security. Choosing the best method is going to depend on how many people you need to share with, what you can expect from them and how secure you need to keep the data. HTTPS for example is complex to set up but fast, secure and widely compatible and an appropriate choice for a business with many clients. SFTP is far less complex to set up, secure and fast, but requires specific types of software be used by recipients and is appropriate for people who want to automate recurring secure file transfers.

In addition to the methods of sharing files, it is very important to learn about the legality of sharing files. There are some instances where sharing files is necessary and completely legal while sharing those same files in different circumstances may be illegal. Generally speaking, you cannot share anything which is copyrighted by someone else without special exemptions.

Simple methods:

Pros: Fast and easy for “one to one” or “business to you” file sharing
Cons: Quickly becomes expensive, fails with very large files, fails with very many files

The two easiest ways to receive a copy of a file from someone else:
1) Download it from your email 
2) Download it from their web page

Terminology tip: downloading is the process of getting something from somewhere else onto your computer. Think of it as taking something ‘down’ from the isle in the grocery store and ‘loading’ it into your shopping cart. Uploading is the opposite process, think of it as taking something from your loaded cart and putting it back ‘up’ on the shelf.

Both processes are simple for you since getting email and browsing the web are the two most common uses of the internet. In the case of sharing a file by email, there is a cost incurred for the time it takes to move the data and the space it takes to store the file. It is compounded by the fact that email was not designed to manage files so they are turned into text making storing them and transmitting them significantly more costly than other methods. If you want to get a copy of a file from someone or share a file with someone and don’t plan to do it more than once and if the amount of data you’re sending isn’t too large, then email is a simple and acceptable way to exchange copies. Be aware that email is not considered secure and while most companies do try to ensure that you’re the only one that can get to your email, there is not built in security for the protocol. If you need to keep something secret, you shouldn’t trust email for the job.   Getting a file from a web page is simple for the recipient. This is probably the most common method of file distribution since it allows companies to exercise some control over who has access to files and potentially manage security. The disadvantages are the complexity of setting up a web site, maintaining it, managing security and efficiency. Even if a website does everything extraordinarily well, the cost of distributing the file is still the same for every person who requests it. Fifty people downloading the file means fifty times the bandwidth will be used and potentially only being able to provide 1/50th of the available server speed to each requester. If you want a file that a company has decided to share as a link from a web page, then most of the time that’s an acceptable method of getting the file. You should bear in mind that there is a difference between a secure connection and an insecure one and you should avoid getting anything you want secure from any web page where you don’t see the lock icon.   Sharing files with someone else by setting up a webpage for someone else to access is a complex enough process that you really shouldn’t plan to do it that way unless you have significant experience managing web sites including hosting charges, bandwidth fees, DNS management, certificate management and authentication scheme experience. If you’re running a business where you specialize in that sort of management or can afford to hire someone with the skill set, then distributing files by hosting a website is the right decision when you want to ensure customers or partners have the easiest access possible.  

Alternative traditional methods: One of the early methods of sharing files was called FTP, which means simply File Transport Protocol. It works much like a web page does and requires similar expertise but has the advantage of being faster and less expensive to host than using the web (HTTP – HyperText Transport Protocol.) Running an FTP server is typically simpler than running an HTTP server. FTP has minimal security built into it in that it requires a username and password exchange, but the communication is not encrypted so it shouldn’t be used for things that require strong security. The advantages are a lower cost, simpler configuration and widespread compatibility. Most web browsers will allow you to use and FTP link inside a webpage and many will handle the file management automatically so it is a good choice if you have many customers or partners but want to minimize your cost as a second priority.   Alternatively, if you want strong security with most of the benefits of traditional FTP there are three similar methods of setting up a server to allow file sharing.  FTPS is FTP with encryption bolted on later. The methods of adding the encryption on vary and the tools that will work with it have to consider many different implementations so it can be complex to use FTPS successfully. If you are already running an HTTP server with FTPS capability, and can ensure that your clients are going to use software compatible with it, then FTPS is acceptable.    A very similar alternative is SFTP which is essentially a secure communication with FTP bolted on afterward. SFTP is actually easier to set up for the person who wants to share files and easier for the client to use since it has far fewer options that might make it complex. SSH servers like KypM are relatively easy to set up and some systems (Linux, Unix and Mac) come with support for it as a standard option. SSH is the secure communication protocol and the FTP part is just a minor addition. It is possible to use SSH without FTP added since SCP is the secure copy protocol that is built into it, but SFTP is usually trivial to enable as an addition and comes with a variety of useful additional features. Since SSH supports the ability to manage key based logins, most SFTP servers can be managed so that you can manage security without the client needing to share their information, making it even more secure than other options. If a client manages their private key correctly and you manage their public key correctly, clients can use a single key to allow access to multiple servers without needing to constantly put passwords in. The cost of transport is higher than with FTP but secure and lower than HTTPS or FTPS options in most cases.   HTTPS is the standard secure method of managing file distribution. The cost is significant both in management and registration, but is most compatible of all the options for securely sharing files with clients. If you’re running an HTTPS server and want to offer files to clients then you’ve probably got the expertise necessary, however this is not something most people should use to share files with other people.  

File Hosting Cloud Services: If you want to share files with other people but don’t want to incur the cost or learn how to manage your own server, then this is a pretty good compromise. You can take advantage of Dropbox, Box.net, Google Drive or in some cases if you want to share the right types of files, Flickr, Picasa or Youtube. There are many businesses who have taken their expertise and spending power and used it to make sharing files easier for the consumer.  If you have files that you want to share and don’t have a lot of computer and server expertise, then you can still make it easy for other people to access your files by using one of these offerings. Sites like Facebook, Google Plus, Flickr and Picasa make it easy to share pictures and Youtube and Facebook make it easy to share videos. Dropbox, Box.net and Google Drive (as a few examples) make it pretty easy to share files of nearly any type with other people. So long as you don’t have particularly large files, need significant security, or do a whole lot of sharing, then using a hosting service from a cloud service provider is a good method. Companies should be careful to avoid trusting too much to the security of these types of offerings without a contract and you as a consumer should consider how secret your data needs to be before using them, but they’re a great option for most people.  

Peer-to-peer file sharing: Sometimes someone will want to share files with a lot of people but not want to incur the financial or management costs of running their own server. One of the significant limitations of more traditional file sharing options is the speed with which you can transfer files from your computer (or server) to someone or many someones. With web pages and FTP type servers each client who wants a copy of a file has to share the total available bandwidth you have available which can be very costly to expand if demand is high. If you want to get a copy of large files or share many or large files, then file hosting cloud services may not be an option due to their rules or cost. Peer-to-peer file sharing is a method of sharing files that minimizes the cost and complexity of sharing large amounts of data.   A company or individual that wants to offer inexpensive or free software for example may not want to incur the cost of making files available through traditional methods. Peer-to-peer file sharing moves that cost to the consumer. Instead of the file to be shared coming directly from one source, the cost is spread across all the people who want to get a copy of the file. Large files are segmented into small pieces and indexed so that each client is both downloading and uploading pieces with other clients simultaneously. As a result a file that might be desired by 1,000 people is downloaded once from an original source then pieces of that file are downloaded from each client who wants the file from other people who are downloading the file at the same time. This way the speed of sharing is sped up according to how many people are wanting a copy at the same time without adding to the cost or speed limitations for the original provider.   There are several types of Peer-to-peer file sharing that have been popular and successful. Napster made the first significant inroads in the process by hosting a central system which allowed anyone to make available files they wanted to share with anyone interested in getting a copy. Napster was able to minimize their own costs while at the same time making files easy to share with thousands of people at a time. Later there were many alternatives created which overcame the limitations of Napster’s methods of sharing files, some of which have been quite successful.   The most popular current technology is probably bittorrent. Bittorrent works essentially like Napster did; it makes a file available by providing an index of clients who are currently sharing or trying to share a file, but doesn’t rely on a single source for the index. Anyone can download a bittorrent capable client and download files by finding someone who is providing the very small reference files responsible for directing you to other people sharing the desired file.   

Legal considerations: There is nothing inherently wrong with sharing files, but it is not legal to share all types of files. Napster and similar companies that have made sharing files with Peer-to-peer networks have often been shut down because they were found to encourage sharing files that the people sharing them didn’t have legal rights to share. If you don’t want to be bankrupted by lawsuits, it is important to know not only how to share files, but what kind of files you are legally allowed to download for your own use and to share with other people.    What you can do: If you produce a file that contains something you have the rights to, such as your own resume, videos or pictures you nearly always have a right to share that file. Things that you own or create are yours to distribute as you please so long as doing so doesn’t violate other very specific laws. You’re nearly always allowed to share software that you build from scratch or modify according to licenses such as GPL which allow you to redistribute your work.   If you’d like to share pictures or video that you create then you’re nearly always allowed to do so by whatever means you find most convenient. Web pages that you or your company create, software you build and things which specifically allow redistribution are typical examples.    Software like Debian Linux is often distributed by bittorrent to minimize cost and is completely legal both to download and share. Videos you create are usually legal to share with Youtube. Pictures you take are usually legal to share with Flickr, Google Plus or Picasa.   What you cannot do: You are not allowed to distribute things which belong to other people who don’t explicitly allow for redistribution. That means that you can’t legally share songs, videos or software which you don’t own rights to unless they’re purposely exempted from that restriction by the original creators and owners.   Napster and many bittorrent hosting sites have been successfully sued for encouraging people to share things they didn’t have a right to share.   Individuals have been successfully sued for sharing songs, videos and software they didn’t have a right to share.   It is illegal to share certain types of software with entities in regions which aren’t supposed to have access to that type of software. (Confusing? Yes, but there is a pretty easy to understand concept behind it.) Certain countries where specific ideas are deemed to have military value are prohibited from sharing those ideas in too much detail with other countries. Encryption is considered potentially critical to a country’s military strategy so some countries don’t allow software using certain types of encryption to be shared with countries which might be a potential enemy. For example, the US developed a variety of very secure methods of encrypting data that cannot be shared with many foreign countries. As a result, many of these types of secure encryption methods were duplicated independently in foreign countries without such restrictions so it is permissible to get encryption from places and share software using it with them, while at the same time it is illegal to share software containing US specific encryption that does the same thing with them. In some instances, it is illegal to download software from foreign countries that infringes on these types of laws specific to the US. (Many countries have similar laws, the US is used as a strong but not unique example.)  

What you should research before doing: If you create something that includes the work of someone else, then you need to research exactly what is allowable in your specific instance. If you’re creating something built on software licensed under GPL and you want to redistribute it, for example, then you’re not so much allowed as required to provide specific things if you choose to share.   If you produce a video which contains music owned by someone who doesn’t allow redistribution, then you may not be allowed to redistribute it, or you may be allowed to, depending on how and how much was used. A video of your child singing along to a Prince song may not be legally uploaded to Youtube for example, but a skit where you use the same music to make a humorous satirical point may be.   The US and other countries have a concept of “fair use” which allows for to reuse works created by other people within specific limitations. Humor is a part of free speech which often allows someone to make fun of something which the owner may not approve of, but making a point with humor may be a right. Small portions of a work such as a song or video may be reproduced and shared without the consent of the owner for the purpose of journalism. Significant reproductions may be shared for the purpose of education which might not be require consent.   If your own work falls into one of these categories and you wish to share your work, then you need to research the fair use restrictions and allowances which pertain to the work you want to share in your legal environment.   Your own resume may be an example of such a work. If you are a musician with expertise in reproduction of music by Meatloaf for example, it might be legal to include clips of you playing provided the clips are short, but not legal to provide the full song. If you are an editor, it might be legal to provide short examples of your proposed editing of a popular novel, but not legal to provide large segments of the same thing.  

What you might not realize you need to know: There are some myths about file sharing which you need to be aware of.    Sharing something without making a profit does not make it legal. Many people believe that they can share songs, videos or articles created by other people so long as they don’t plan to make a profit by sharing. Your intent to make a profit or not does not determine whether you are guilty of copyright infringement. There is an idea that sharing something for free limits the ability of someone else to control the rights to what they create. Sharing a music file for example might allow people who would purchase the file to get it for free and thus limit the value that producing the song would otherwise offer. Rights of redistribution are given to the copyright holder regardless of the intent of people who might want to share.    Sharing something with only your personal friends does not make it legal. Most copyright holders don’t pursue lawsuits against someone who shares something interesting with a friend or co-worker, but it is still illegal to share something you don’t have the right to share regardless of the size of the audience. Many small offices share emails and articles with each other without realizing they are infringing on the copyright holder’s rights. Software is a particular issue since software producers have copyrights which limit the options for reusing software even if it is only with a small number of people.

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If you are interested in any form of content marketing then chances are you have heard of Articlesbase. The site at it’s peak generated over 20 million visitors per month and delivered advertising revenue of over $500,000 each month.

However this is where the success story ends, fast forward only 5 years and the site is dying a fast and painful death. Currently the site gets around 200,000 visitors per month (that’s a 99% decline) and generates revenues of around $3,000 per month. After paying for hosting, online tools and general running costs, that does not even leave enough for a single person’s salary.

Why the epic fail from a site which was so strong just 5 years ago?

Previous owner Simon Gelfand explained

“we were hit massively by google’s algorithm changes over the years with both Panda and Penguin, with our focus on other projects we were unable to react to the changes quick enough. We with the best of luck to the new owners, we had over 10 happy years but it’s now time for some fresh ideas.”

Andrew Slack the new owner, who also owns MoreNiche had the following to say:

“The site has had huge success in the past and is a piece of internet history, however they have failed to evolve.

The site is riddled with duplicate content and offers users very little value, the internet has moved on and sadly Articlesbase has not.

It is our aim to change that, we need to pack 5 years of evolution into a small window before it’s too late. It feels like we’re experiencing life or death surgery right now and we are running out of time.”

Andrew Slack who have run successful online brands for over 12 years in very competitive markets, went on to list some of the short­ term plans for ‘reviving the site’ which included:

• Fully integrate with Copyscape to clean up the content on the site (any duplicate content will be gone) even if Articlesbase is the original source.

• Introduce new minimum posting standards to vastly improve the quality of new content being posted, the site has focused on quantity of content over quality, this will need to change.

• Evolve the look and feel of the site and contributors area to meet today’s standards, including more dynamic content.

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• A ‘ranking system’ similar to how google rank webpages for both authors and articles, allowing them to determine which content adds the most value to the readers and give that more exposure across the site.

• A collaboration system similar to Wikipedia so that contributors can help improve and build upon the original author’s work, eventually allowing multiple authors to collaborate on single pieces of content what they call ‘co­authors’.

Andrew Slack went onto say:

“We hope this will allow authors and collaborators to build their own personal brands within the Articlesbase ecosystem.

We will encourage authors to add more embeddable content by recommending relevant Tweets, Facebook posts, YouTube videos and more during their article crafting journey.”

It is clear that the new owners have some work cut out for them, but seem extremely excited by the challenge.

If you have any suggestions for the new owners or would like to voice your appreciation for the service and past owners, please do comment in the box below. Please do share this article if you think others will find it interesting.

Other sources:

• http://www.whatsnewinpublishing.co.uk/content/articlesbase-bought-moreniche
• http://www.themarketingblog.co.uk/2016/07/articlesbase-is-bought-by-moreniche-with-plans-to-revive-declining-visitors/

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Cloud Computing, Next wave in Computing: Upcoming Trend in Industry

Cloud computing is Internet (cloud) based development and use of computer technology.

Cloud Computing is an emerging computing technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth. Cloud computing is broken down into three segments: “applications,” “platforms,” and “infrastructure.” Each segment serves a different purpose and offers different products for businesses and individuals around the world.

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities.

In June 2009, a study conducted by Version One found that 41% of senior IT professionals actually don’t know what cloud computing is and two-thirds of senior finance professionals are confused by the concept, highlighting the young nature of the technology. In Sept 2009, an Aberdeen Group study found that disciplined companies achieved on average an 18% reduction in their IT budget from cloud computing and a 16% reduction in data center power costs.

Depending on who you are talking to, you will see different perceptions about what Cloud Computing actually is, from the simplest web-hosted solutions right through to virtualized processing environments with Web-Service initiated provisioning and decommissioning.

The main challenges for Cloud Computing before it is likely to enjoy wide-spread adoption are the following:

• Persistence & Availability – The ability to continue working during outages or the ability to mitigate outages.
• Privacy and National Security Concerns – The hosting of information outside of your country’s borders does concern Public Sector organizations. The US Patriot Act for example is a concern for some countries in adopting cloud services. It is thought that Country-silted Clouds may be able to address this.
• Geo-Political Information Management Concerns – The Political risk a country takes on by housing information for another country.

Cloud Computing is all about:

1. SaaS (Software as a Service)

These type of cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to conventional hosting.

2. Utility computing

The idea is not new, but this form of cloud computing is getting new life from Amazon.com, Sun, IBM, and others who now offer storage and virtual servers that IT can access on demand. Early enterprise adopters mainly use utility computing for supplemental, non-mission-critical needs, but one day, they may replace parts of the datacenter. Other providers offer solutions that help IT create virtual datacenters from commodity servers, such as 3Tera’s AppLogic and Cohesive Flexible Technologies’ Elastic Server on Demand. Liquid Computing LiquidQ offers similar capabilities, enabling IT to stitch together memory, I/O, storage, and computational capacity as a virtualized resource pool available over the network.

3. Web services in the cloud

Closely related to SaaS, Web service providers offer APIs that enable developers to exploit functionality over the Internet, rather than delivering full-blown applications. They range from providers offering discrete business services to the full range of APIs and even conventional credit card processing services.

4. Platform as a service

Another SaaS variation, this form of cloud computing delivers development environments as a service. You build your own applications that run on the provider’s infrastructure and are delivered to your users via the Internet from the provider’s servers.

5. MSP (managed service providers)

One of the oldest forms of cloud computing, a managed service is basically an application exposed to IT rather than to end-users, such as a virus scanning service for e-mail or an application monitoring service (which Mercury, among others, provides). Managed security services delivered by Secure Works, IBM, and Verizon fall into this category, as do such cloud-based anti-spam services as Postini, recently acquired by Google. Other offerings include desktop management services, such as those offered by Center Beam or Ever dream.

6. Service commerce platforms

A hybrid of SaaS and MSP, this cloud computing service offers a service hub that users interact with. They’re most common in trading environments, such as expense management systems that allow users to order travel or secretarial services from a common platform that then coordinates the service delivery and pricing within the specifications set by the user. Think of it as an automated service bureau. Well-known examples include Rearden Commerce and Ariba.

7. Internet integration

The integration of cloud-based services is in its early days. OpSource, which mainly concerns itself with serving SaaS providers, recently introduced the OpSource Services Bus, which employs in-the-cloud integration technology from a little startup called Boomi. SaaS provider Workday recently acquired another player in this space, CapeClear, an ESB (enterprise service bus) provider that was edging toward b-to-b integration. Way ahead of its time, Grand Central — which wanted to be a universal “bus in the cloud” to connect SaaS providers and provide integrated solutions to customers — flamed out in 2005.

Citrix Cloud Center

C3 is designed to give cloud providers a complete set of service delivery infrastructure building blocks for hosting, managing and delivering cloud-based computing services. C3 includes a reference architecture that combines the individual capabilities of several Citrix product lines to offer a powerful, dynamic, secure and highly available service-based infrastructure ideally suited to large-scale, on-demand delivery of both IT infrastructure and application services. This architecture consists of four key components:

• Platform – Powered by Citrix XenServerTM Cloud Edition:  The new XenServer Cloud Edition is a powerful virtual infrastructure solution optimized for service provider environments. It combines the cloud-proven scalability of the Xen® hypervisor which powers most of the world’s largest clouds, with all the virtualization management and dynamic workload provisioning capabilities of the full Citrix XenServer product line ( see separate announcement on XenServer 5), enabling cloud providers to host and manage any combination of Windows® and Linux environments. XenServer Cloud Edition also features an innovative consumption based pricing model to meet the needs of service providers that charge their customers based on metered resource use.
• Delivery – Powered by Citrix® NetScaler’s®:  Through its rich policy-based AppExpert engine, Citrix NetScaler’s delivers cloud-based resources to users over the Web, continually optimizing user application performance and security by dynamically scaling the number of virtual machines (VMs) or servers available in response to changing workload demands and infrastructure availability. This allows cloud providers to balance workloads across large distributed cloud environments and transparently redirect traffic to alternate capacity on or off premise in the event of network failures or datacenter outages.  NetScaler’s can also dramatically reduce server requirements in large cloud centers by offloading protocol and transaction processing from backend server pools. NetScaler’s proven architecture is designed for highly scalable, multi-tenant Web applications and delivers Web services to an estimated 75 percent of all Internet users each day.
• Bridge – Powered by Citrix WANScaler:  As larger enterprises begin experimenting with cloud-based services for parts of their own infrastructure and application hosting strategy, cloud providers will also need reliable and secure ways to provide a seamless bridge between hosted cloud services and premise-based enterprise services. Over time, C3 will incorporate a set of open interfaces that allow customers to easily move virtual machines and application resources into a cloud-based datacenter and back again as needed. WANScaler technology will play a critical role in this enterprise bridge by accelerating and optimizing application traffic between the cloud and the enterprise datacenter, even over long distances.
• Orchestration – Powered by Citrix Workflow Studio TM: Tying it all together, Citrix Workflow Studio provides a powerful orchestration and workflow capability that allows the products in the C3 portfolio to be dynamically controlled and automated, and integrated with customer business and IT policy. Workflow Studio allows customers to control their infrastructure dynamically–integrating previously disconnected processes and products into a single powerful, orchestrated and cohesive system. This unique capability will make it easier for cloud providers to enable highly efficient burst able clouds that automatically scale resources up and down based on demand, shifting hardware resources to where they are most needed and powering them down for maximum power savings when not needed.

Today, with such cloud-based interconnection seldom in evidence, cloud computing might be more accurately described as “sky computing,” with many isolated clouds of services which IT customers must plug into individually. On the other hand, as virtualization and SOA permeate the enterprise, the idea of loosely coupled services running on an agile, scalable infrastructure should eventually make every enterprise a node in the cloud. It’s a long-running trend with a far-out horizon. But among big megatrends, cloud computing is the hardest one to argue with in the long term.

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Shared hosting is one of the plan options you have when you are looking for web hosting services. It is basically an environment where one server and its resources are shared between a number of websites or users. It is one of the most popular plans majorly because it is affordable considering that server operating costs are split between the users, but before you go right ahead to choose it as your ideal plan, there are important things you must know about the hosting.

Customization – When on shared hosting, you can customize your website to match your preferences using a user friendly control panel. As a user you can manage image and file uploads and check statistics even though you share the server. It is a much better option as far as customization goes compared to free hosting.

Cost effectiveness – The hosting rates are extremely affordable and this is the major advantage you will have when you choose shared hosting for your website. If your site is yet to grow in terms of traffic, then this type of hosting would make the best choice. If the space allocated to you is not sufficient any more, you can acquire some more at a fee to match your growing needs but you might need to go for dedicated hosting if your space demands are not achievable.

Convenience – The shared hosting services are managed by skilled and professional experts taking worries off your shoulders so you are able to concentrate on other important areas of your business. Convenience and efficiency also come in the sense that shared hosting gives your business time to grow without pressing you financially for the hosting. You are able to run your website affordably and upgrade and add more resources based on growth.

Performance – The performance of shared hosting might not be that bad, especially when you choose a reliable web host provider, but it is one of the drawbacks of this plan. A sudden increase of traffic to another website sharing the server can dramatically affect your web performance and the impact is not always positive. The plans also face downtimes because of the number of users sharing the same server and machine failures are common with the shared plan. Slow performance is one of the biggest setbacks you can experience when you go for shared hosting, but you can improve on it by ensuring that you choose a provider offering better and reliable hosting services.

Security – It is among the most important areas on websites and for business, especially considering how serious cybercrime can get. You want to have a website that is well-secured, but unfortunately this might not always be the case with shared hosting. If one webmaster sharing the server chooses to misuse sensitive elements or HT access, then you are not very safe because intruders can have access to important data. Apart from web hacks, your site could end up being blacklisted when malpractices on a server are recognized. But then again this is an issue you can improve on by choosing a good web host.

Apart from offering very good hosting plans and prices, Bluehost customer service is excellent. You can be sure to get support whenever the need for assistance arises with the services you are getting from the company.

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Deleting any file doesn’t suggest that file is not in existence. It is still in hard drive. Professional can take out it by using some technique. File store in hard drive and each has an index number whenever you give command to open the file, hard disk search that index number and open that file. When you delete any file then what happened that the link between the index and the file disappear that mean this file is not going to be in use further and the space taken by that file can be overwritten by you. Your OS cannot find this data but it is still there. Your hard disk is a compilation of your business and life’s data. Whenever you erase hard drive data, you think that you have delete and this will not be read by anyone but you are highly mistaken my dear any computer knowledgeable professional can take out that file and can misuse it. You may say that formatting the hard disk is solution but most of the time formatting also not met to that point.

When you sell your old computer first thing what you do is, you will delete your entire file and sell your computer feeling that file is not present but if the person to whom you have given is shaky then he can take out those data with the use of software and can misuse that. So what is the solution for that? Erase hard drive data securely and completely. There are many such softwares are available in the market that fulfill this requirement. Software erases your hard drive and proactively ensures your data privacy. Software has the function that it wipes out all hard disk partition completely by secure overwriting data on physical level, erases partitions, logical drives and even not used disk space.

Softwares can disk wipe completely. It is more secure then formatting the hard drive. When you format the hard drive then you will allow overwriting those spaces not the files have gone out from hard disk. Erase hard drive data completely and securely and protect your confidentional data.

Source by maria

  MediGate HMS Complete Hospital Management System

  Why MediGate-HMS ?

1)   World’s First Ever Mid-Segment Hospital Management System

2)   Easy to learn & Operate-No Training Required

3)   Highly Modular- To Suit Each Hospital’s Need

4)   Best Affordable Price

5)   Multiple Tier Server Architecture-Scale Easily-Thousands of Users

  How MediGate-HMS benefits Customer ?

  Ø Better visibility, control, and efficiency to improve your       services through Enhanced healthcare experience

Ø Provide clinical information to doctors at a mouse – click

Ø Almost Nil – wait time for patient discharge and payment     settlement

  Ø A single- click generated, consolidated bill to the patient for  all services availed.

  Ø Improved hospital administration.

  Ø Reduced administration costs due to better tracking of     expenses.

  Ø Reporting, and effective management of beds and hospital     inventory.

 Ø Mitigating cost and compliance issues.

 Ø Maximized asset utilization through integrated asset     maintenance.

 Ø Improved inventory management by supplier consolidation.

 Ø High-Tech ICU/Ward Alert System.

 Ø Effective monitoring and management of clinical staff.

  Why Choose Us?

  We have overall expertise in the healthcare industry: Pharmacy, Healthcare Product Development and Implementation.  Our large pool  of skilled associates is experienced in designing, implementing, and supporting health care applications.  Our consultants take complete responsibility for analysis, estimation, design and programming, application testing, problem resolution, acceptance, documentation, and status reporting.  They draw from experience and capabilities in healthcare delivery, clinical practice, medical informatics, security and privacy, biomedical engineering, and information technology.

Technology Used :-

Front End :-   Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft .NET 1.1 Framework)

BackEnd  :-   SQL Server 2000 / SQL Server 2005   Can be implemented on LAN / WAN , network based architecture.   Main Modules of the Product (Medigate ) are as follows  

1.  In Patient Department
2.  Out Patient Department
3.  Patient Registration          
4.  Ward Management
5.  Stores Management
6.  Appointment Schedule    
7.  Roaster Management
8.  Hospital Administration
9.  Pharmacy               
10.  ICU Management
11.  OT Management
12.  Purchase Management
13.  Billing
14.  Security
15.  Patient Information System
16.  Nursing
17.  System Administration
18.  Equipment Maintenance
19.  CSSD
20.  MIS

For more info please visits

http://www.chinarsoftech.co.in/medigate.html

Source by ravi_kaul

The visual studio report tool collects the graphical query and design tools that are hosted within the environment. As long as the report designer provides the report data pane, then the visual studio report designer will easily organize the data in the reports of people. As long as the visual studio report tool provides the query designers to help them specify the data that they need in order to retrieve from the data sources. As long as the expression dialogue can specify the report in order to use the layout.

It is very important to provide the query designers in order to help the specify data in order to retrieve from the data sources. As long as the visual studio c# will go for the expression dialog in order to specify the report data in order to use the report layout. You can also go for the query design tools that require for the reporting services in order to connect to report the data. When you work with the report expressions then you can always design the report layout. If you have the visual studio c#, we suggest that you connect the reported data with the report expressions. You may also go for your ideal layout in order for you to actually host the visual studio c# option.

If you also have the option to go for the Report Designer that can start the menu, then you can point to the programs in order to go for the SQL server 2008 that will comply with your system. After you open the business intelligence development studio, then you can always create and open the new project template. Once you’ve selected the report server project, then it will be easy to just go for the report designer that you opt for. The visual studio report tool will then provide with you the project that you need as long as the data that you already have with you.

It is very easy to learn how to create the reports that you need with the visual studio report tool. You can always opt for the report design basics in order for you to understand the tutorial with the creation of the basic table report. If you have the tabular, chart, matrix and freeform reports and gauges, then you can always opt for the visual studio report tool needed for you to actually make things work.

The visual studio report tool may also come with the report definition that is listed in the reported description of the changes and the saved .rdl files that are connected to the reported changes. When you are designing the report with the software, you can always go for the reports that are processed and rendered whenever you go for the report server uses. When you ensure these then you can always decide on which report to go for. You can also publish the report of the company in the visual studio report designer. Once you have decided to publish this to the server, you will see that the hard drive is copied to the report server database.

Whenever you go for the deployment and building up of the commands available in order to go through the visual studios for more information that will go for the publishing data sources and reports that provide the multiple way in order to export the report and the different file format like the Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. If you can also get the information that you need to view and save the reports, then you can check whether these are outstanding and beneficial to your company. Once you’ve decided on this matter, then this is the one that you can go for the visual studio report tool.

View on-line demo:

http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Demo/Rss/RssWebDemo.aspx?lang=en&pid=21

Source by Perpetuum Software Team

The world is growing and fruiting with the help of technological conceptual advancements. These improvements in technology, has brought a change that all the sectors now use to serve with modern facilities and maintain the best coordination among these facilities. The introduction of medical software like EMR and EHR is the advancement in medical sector which coordinates with the areas of clinical decision making, drug prescribing etc. The clinical decision making, and drug and treatment prescribing are the first hand uses of EHR data. But there are some alternate uses of EHR data also. We better can say it to be the re-use of EHR data. Mostly in case of clinical and other drug related researches and studies the reuse of EHR/EMR data is incorporated. A clinical research is geared by the need to provide reliable data to support safety and efficacy. And the data from EHR lays the foundation for the reliability of the data from a clinical research which is to be used in furtherance. Data retrieved from medical software systems like EHR should be of such a quality that it improves the efficiency of patient care. This quality concern should not be there only from the point of first use of EHR data but also from the re-uses of data mostly by researchers to support healthcare. But the re-use of EHR data must be treated with caution, because the data protection issue is always pertained to reuse of data like the EHR data. So, we need a system that can help us in achieving a proper balance in between the protection of data in one hand and more optimized reuse of data on the other.

The use and re-use of EHR data in the healthcare information segment is always accompanied by various drawbacks. These drawbacks accompanying re-use of data vary from lack of legal and technical standards to uniformity of use. We need proper standards and protocols of data collection and the re-use. Only a properly collected piece of information whether primary or secondary can help in achieving research objectives. The re-use of data, generated by a medical software be it an EHR or any other record keeping system, should be cost-effective. Clinical experiments or trials done with re-use of EHR data is a cost effective way than collecting the data afresh. The uniformity in approach in re-use of data from medical software (EHR) is another point of concern in our discussion. The present situation in health care requires researches to carry out research studies in isolated fashion at different locations. The use of the EHR which is the common medical software in use varies widely across different nations worldwide and so challenges the re-use of EHR data in clinical researches and other uses. Other issues like the maintenance of patient confidentiality, requirement of time and cost effective resources are a few to requiring attention in the field of re-use of EHR data. A qualitative control on re-use of EHR data can lead to a sustainable, beneficial and commercial impact on treatment and drug development which ultimately will lead to better healthcare system in a viable economy.

With the increased focus on HIT (Health Information Technology), the situations in US and EU in re-use of EHR data is changing positively. Introduction of HITECH act in US is an initiative in the direction of Health Information Technology. The European Seventh Framework Program for research and technological development is the initiative by EU to focus on HIT. The use of proper EHR systems in place is growing fast in US. The vision of the EFPIA EHR task force is another forcing factor that will help in attaining the standards for re-use of EHR data.

And in future with such a huge amount of efforts we surely will have a proper system with proper medical software in place which will coordinate in re-use of EHR or any such data with satisfaction.

2 Imaging the medical business: DICOM

The efficiency in every sphere of life due to the technological and scientific advancements includes the health sector also. With the technological and scientific progress the people are becoming more aware of their health and nutrition. And due to this growing importance on health, the medical sector is also experiencing a huge growth. This growth in the medical sector is accompanied by the technological improvements as in the cases of other sectors. Almost all the hospitals and clinics are using technological advancements in their practices. Be it the medical software for billing or the EMR software system they are using. It is estimated that the use of an appropriate medical software product in place has the potential to increase the earnings by a considerable amount of more than or equal to 30%. So, simply you cannot neglect the importance that a right medical software product bears in medical industry.

And in this age of advancement any medical business unit without the imaging division is just incomplete. Imaging in medical business is of a great importance that nobody can ignore and even alter. The image reports like cardiographs, biomagnetic imaging, computer radiography, tomography, diaphanographs, microscopy, endoscopy, mammography, spectroscopy, radio fluoroscopy, thermographs, ultra sound, x-ray angiography are a few of the imaging services to name that comes into the scene when we talk about medical imaging reports. Today’s treatment of a patient is incomplete if no one of these images accompanies his records. And with these imaging services there is a common standard for the handling, storage, printing and transmission of imaged information in medical imaging. This common standard or the common format for the images is known as DICOM.

DICOM is the abbreviation for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine. The Picture Archiving and Communication System or simply PACS which is a system, uses this standard for the all the medical imaging. DICOM includes a file format definition and a network communication protocol. And this network communication protocol uses TCP/IP for communication in between the systems. DICOM enables the integration of scanners, printers, workstations, computer systems and other network hardware into PACS. DICOM supportive devices come with the capacity to support different DICOM classes separately. DICOM is developed by American College of Radiology (ACR) and National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). The present DICOM is the third version of this standard. The first version was released in the year 1985. It was ACR/NEMA 300. The second version came in the year 1988 by the name ACR/NEMA V2.0.

DICOM bears some very necessary information along with the images like the patient ID, which is inseparable from this information even by mistake. While handling DICOM data different medical software products are used. Software tools for the transfer, organizing of DICOM data, for image supports etc. are very widely used. Trial Wire is a very useful medical software used in DICOM data transfer, de-identify and handling. There are other software products like GDCM, OsiriX, ImageVis3D, VRRender, ImageJ, MicroDicom, Medstrat, kPacs, UniPACS etc. which are very commonly used in DICOM interpretation.

Trial Wire is a medical software product used to transfer DICOM image from one to another web enabled computer.  It is a java based tool available free of cost. The use of a medical software product like Trial Wire reduces the cost associated with the couriers used to transfer DICOM data from one location to the other. Trial Wire also provides an audit trail for any changes made to the DICOM data in order to comply with the HIPAA regulations.

3 Medical Software in HIS sphere:

Automated health practice management systems, e-prescribing, CAT scanners, heart rate monitoring with software are a few of the names from the medical area in the 21st technology driven century. From the patient’s personal data to the cardiographs everything has got the driving force of technological advancement. Introduction of PACS or Picture Archiving and Communication System and DICOM or Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine has changed the way of imaging in the medical practices. Similarly the introduction of EMR/EHR medical software has changed the way of medical record keeping. In most of the hospitals and clinics in EU, US or Canada you would notice the use of medical software like an EMR system in practice very well. Likewise the introduction of medical software for billing purpose is another important contribution of modern technology. Medical billing software used in billing has introduced the comfort of coordination among other medical services like lab report of patients and its coordination with proper insurance claims etc.

Medical Software is the modern technological term that has driven the medical sector to an unalterable stage of advancement. The introduction of various medical software products has changed the way of management and even the administration concerned with hospitals and clinics across EU and US. Medical software use even in health informatics like HIS is of great help. HIS or Hospital Information System is the platform covering all the medical related clinical as well as administrative sections. From the simple hospital discipline management to the management of health records, financial records, and other medical reports all are covered under this single umbrella named HIS.

Hospital Information System or simply HIS is the information system assisting all the administrative, financial and clinical aspects of a hospital or a clinic. HIS also known as CIS or Clinical Information System comprises of a comprehensive, integrated information system covering all the papered and non-papered software based clinical as well as administrative medical areas of concern. A simple HIS construction can be understood as the sphere covering the entire medical aspects from EMR systems to the software based billing services. A proper HIS is always aimed at achieving best possible support towards the health care of patients and an adequate management by deploying either medical software products or machineries along with responsible technicians/persons. Radiology information system, Laboratory Information System, PACS, etc. are the sub categories of Hospital Information System. EMR, EHR, software based billing services, insurance claims, patient care, profit drive, hospital management, administrative works all belong to the sphere of HIS.

The advantage from HIS includes well maintained decision support system in healthcare, exchange of information towards the betterment of the healthcare services, coordinating the standards of ancillary services with the primary one, enabling referring physicians and doctors to access all the studies and reports via a single user interface etc. In a nut shell a proper HIS with adequate medical software support is the demand of the time, conforming to which can rise your business in the medical sector to an incredible level.

Source by chandan kumar