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Drop responsible from bug disclosures Microsoft urges

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Drop responsible from bug disclosures Microsoft urges

Microsoft today pitched its own proposal for how software makers react to bugs reported by researchers, calling for a name change to describe the process it prefers.

Rather than dub the back-and-forth between bug finders and vendors “responsible disclosure” — a term that implies that the researcher reports a bug, then waits for the developer to patch it before going public with news of the flaw — Microsoft MCTS Training wants everyone in the security community to use a different moniker: “coordinated vulnerability disclosure,” or CVD.
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The company admitted the move is primarily a name change, and that much of the rest of its proposal is what Microsoft has urged in the past.

“This isn’t a drastic departure at all,” said Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), Microsoft’s in-house security team. “What we want to do is what works best to minimize risk to customers, and to remove emotion, which isn’t helpful to anyone.”

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Reavey argued, as others have before, that “responsible disclosure” is a loaded name, since by implication anyone who doesn’t follow its bug-reporting steps — going public with details or attack code before a patch is ready — is by implication labeled as “irresponsible.”

“[CVD] is the same thing as responsible disclosure, just renamed,” repeated Reavey. “When folks use charged words, a lot of the focus then is on the disclosure, and not on the problem at hand, which is to make sure customers are protected, and that attacks are not amplified.”

Other than the name change, Microsoft’s proposal — which was spelled out in several blog posts by company executives, including the most detailed by Katie Moussouris, a senior security strategist on the MSRC ecosystem strategy team — is essentially a more explicit rendering of previous positions and practices.

One of the key points Microsoft made is that it wants to keep the lines of communication open between itself and security researchers, even when the latter broadcast their findings without reporting a bug to Microsoft or waiting on a patch.

“We want to be more clear about our philosophy, so first, we would appreciate a heads-up, even if the researcher does ‘full disclosure,’” said Reavey, referring to the label applied when a bug hunter goes public with all the details he has about a vulnerability before a patch is available. “And two, that we’ve operated this way before, so that if a vulnerability is under attack, certainly, we’ll release some information and advice.”

Moussouris echoed Reavey in her blog. “For finders who still believe that full disclosure is the best way to protect users, we respectfully disagree, but we still want to work with you if you’re willing,” she said. “We’d encourage folks who support [full disclosure] to still contact us, as we can then attempt to coordinate release of information with protections that are available.”

Microsoft isn’t the first to propose changes to the sometimes-rocky relationships between security researchers and the vendors whose products they label as vulnerable to attack.

On Tuesday, Google published what it called “Rebooting Responsible Disclosure,” a proposal that featured, among other elements, a call for a hard deadline of 60 days to patch a problem.
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Reavey disagreed with Google. “I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all-issues as far as a timeline,” he said. “If the update doesn’t work, it doesn’t protect anyone.”

Microsoft has long taken the position that it fixes bugs as fast as it can, but that testing the quality of an update is just as critical as patching. Screwing up a patch, said Reavey, can have an enormous impact on Windows users, who often apply the updates without testing them themselves.

John Pescatore, Gartner’s primary analyst on security issues, took Microsoft’s side, saying that Google’s proposal was colored by the fact that most of its software is in the cloud, and that the most prominent exception, its Chrome browser, is simple in comparison to an operating system like Windows.

“Browsers are not typical of lots and lots of legacy software, like Microsoft’s or Oracle’s,” Pescatore said, adding that it’s unrealistic to expect every bug to get fixed in two months.

“There’s often a six-month time frame for an enterprise before they can even push patches [within their organization], even after a patch is released,” Pescatore said. “There’s all kinds of code that’s not as simple to patch as a browser, and that requires longer delays before a patch can be implemented.”

The Microsoft and Google proposals are the latest in an increasingly-heated discussion among researchers and vendors about disclosure that was prompted in part by an incident last month when a Google security engineer went public with a critical Windows bug just five days after reporting it to Microsoft.

In early June, Tavis Ormandy, who works for Google’s Switzerland office, published attack code for a Windows XP vulnerability, and immediately unleashed a heated debate. While some security researchers criticized Ormandy for taking the bug public, others rose to his defense, blasting both Microsoft and the press — including Computerworld — for linking Ormandy to his employer.

Ormandy said he disclosed the vulnerability five days after reporting it to Microsoft when the company wouldn’t commit to a patching deadline. Microsoft has disputed that, claiming that it only told Ormandy it would need the rest of the week to decide.

Reavey denied that today’s change was triggered by the Ormandy disclosure, saying that Microsoft MCITP Certification had been thinking about CVD for months, and had been working with outside researchers and security experts long before the June brouhaha.

But Reavey did admit that things might have worked out differently if the CVD philosophy had been in place last month. “We might have been more clear that we wanted to work together on this,” Reavey said. “That [event] was difficult for all of us. [With CVD], we want to explicitly make sure we communicate that we want to continue the dialog.”

Reactions by researchers to Microsoft’s name change and Google’s earlier 60-day deadline idea was mixed.

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Microsoft cloud strategy A question of feature parity

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Microsoft cloud strategy A question of feature parity
Microsoft often uses the phrase “feature parity” to describe its vision of providing cloud computing services that closely replicate the capabilities customers can already get by installing Microsoft software inside their firewalls. After all, Microsoft is “all in” for the cloud, as Steve Ballmer says.

While Microsoft’s hosted Exchange and SharePoint will achieve most of the desired feature parity within the next year, Microsoft admits it has no plans today to provide the same parity with Office Web Apps, the Web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
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Office Web Apps, released in June, provides a “high-fidelity viewing experience,” but only limited editing capabilities, says Evan Lew, senior product manager for Microsoft Office.

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Lew blames the disparity on the limitations of current Web browsers (of which the most widely used is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer).

“It has to do with the capabilities of the Web browser and the limitations today,” Lew says.

With the addition of HTML5 “the lines [between PC and browser] may start blurring,” he continues, but as of “today, there are performance reasons why editing, video and PowerPoint is something that is a much better experience in the client than in the browser.”

Microsoft touts the ability to import Office documents into Office Web Apps without losing formatting — a supposed advantage over Google Apps — but editing scenarios like inserting charts or pivot tables into Excel and editing videos require the horsepower of the PC and native desktop client, Lew says.

Microsoft is meeting the challenge from Google Apps by providing some online capabilities, but likely doesn’t want to give businesses a completely Web-based alternative to replace the more expensive Office, Forrester Research analyst Sheri McLeish said in a recent interview.

“They’re walking a very fine line,” McLeish says. “While they’re nervous and worried [about Google Apps], they’re not nervous and worried enough to dramatically reduce the cost of Office. They’re delicately managing the pricing to protect their margins.”

Regular Office licenses give customers rights to use Web Apps, but a full-fledged cloud offering “is not going to happen in 2010,” McLeish says.

Things are a bit different on the hosted Exchange and SharePoint front, at least according to Microsoft’s spokespeople.
Formally known as BPOS, the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, Microsoft’s hosted Exchange and SharePoint is still running on the 2007 servers.  But a planned upgrade to the 2010 servers will erase most of the feature differences between the hosted and on-premise versions, according to Microsoft.

We’re working toward a goal we call service parity,” says John Betz, director of product management for Microsoft Online Services.
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Customization is limited today, because the 2007 servers don’t fully embrace the concept of multi-tenancy, Betz says. With the 2010 rollout, customers will have access to the My Sites feature, which lets them run code in a sandbox, a separate process that has limited access rights and wouldn’t be able to take down an entire server farm.

Not every feature in BPOS will be exactly the same as the on-premise version, however. For example, BPOS support for data protected by ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) is available only for government agencies. Also, customers need their own PBX system when they integrate voice capabilities with Office Communications Online, because of network latency issues.

Another BPOS limitation, mentioned in a recent Microsoft blog, is lack of support for the Office 2003 client.

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“We won’t achieve complete feature parity,” because certain processes need to run on a customer’s own servers, for a variety of reasons, Betz says.

In addition to BPOS, there are other examples of Microsoft trying to provide similar functionality in the cloud as they do in packaged software. The next version of Microsoft’s CRM product will let IT customize their CRM deployments in the cloud the same way they can on-premise, for example with complex .NET programs, says Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft’s CRM business.

Microsoft has also turned some of its cloud capabilities into on-premise technology with the Windows Azure Platform appliance, which lets businesses run an Azure-like private cloud within their firewalls.

Why does BPOS get a better “feature parity” treatment than Office Web Apps? With BPOS, Microsoft is operating the backend servers on a customer’s behalf, in the cloud, in much the same way customers would operate the servers themselves.
“With SharePoint, the SharePoint navigation experience manifests itself in the browser whether it’s on-premise or hosted in Microsoft MCITP Certification [data center],” Lew notes.

Tim O’Brien, senior director of Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Group, recalls showing BPOS to a customer at a conference:

“He’s looking somewhat underwhelmed during the demo, and he shrugged his shoulders and he said ‘it’s just SharePoint.’ But that’s exactly the point. Your investment in SharePoint moves forward.”

But Office Web Apps, which requires a SharePoint 2010 back end, isn’t likely to offer the same functionality as Office on-premise anytime soon. Although Lew promises improvement, he says it’s too early to say what features will be added. Complete replication of features across the online and on-premise versions of Office is not being promised by Microsoft, at least today.

“We don’t really see Office Web Apps as a replacement scenario,” Lew says. “It’s really more of a companion for people who already use Office.”

The largest cloud customers have received the 2010 upgrade already, a broader preview will be available later in 2010, and full general availability is expected in 2011.

Upgrades in 2010 server rollout that will bring BPOS closer to feature parity, include getting voice mails in e-mail inboxes, role-based access controls, single-sign-on between on-premise and cloud, and the ability to upload custom code to SharePoint Online.

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Microsoft working on patch for critical Windows vulnerability

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Microsoft working on patch for critical Windows vulnerability
Microsoft signed a new agreement to license technology for the Arm microprocessor architecture, opening the potential for the software giant to follow in Apple’s footsteps and design its own Arm-based chips.

The new license greatly extends the technologies Microsoft MCTS Training can make use of from Arm Holdings. The companies have collaborated for years on software and devices mainly in mobile, consumer and embedded products.
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“We have licensed our architecture and our instruction set to Microsoft,” said Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at Arm. “This type of license allows you to design your own microarchitecture.”

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Only a select group of companies hold similar licenses to design their own Arm-based microarchitectures, including mobile phone chip giant Qualcomm, as well as Marvell Technology and Infineon Technologies.

“As an architectural licensee, Microsoft wants to go public about adding itself to that short list,” Drew said.

Arm Holdings licenses Arm technology to a number of companies around the world. Arm-based microprocessors are found in the majority of the world’s smartphones. Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has developed its Atom microprocessors in the hope of someday rivaling Arm-based microprocessors in smartphones and other small devices.

Microsoft and Arm said the size and scope of the deal are confidential.

“Arm is an important partner for Microsoft MCITP Certification and we deliver multiple operating systems on the company’s architecture, most notably Windows Embedded and Windows Phone,” Microsoft said in a statement.

Closer access to Arm technology gives Microsoft the ability to enhance its research and development around Arm-based products, the statement said.

A number of companies custom-design chips to meet the specific needs of a device or software. Apple said it custom-designed its A4 chip for the iPad and iPhone 4 to be more powerful for multitasking and yet extremely battery-efficient.

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Microsoft signs big licensing deal for Arm chip technology

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Microsoft signs big licensing deal for Arm chip technology

Microsoft signed a new agreement to license technology for the Arm microprocessor architecture, opening the potential for the software giant to follow in Apple’s footsteps and design its own Arm-based chips.

The new license greatly extends the technologies Microsoft MCTS Training can make use of from Arm Holdings. The companies have collaborated for years on software and devices mainly in mobile, consumer and embedded products.
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“We have licensed our architecture and our instruction set to Microsoft,” said Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at Arm. “This type of license allows you to design your own microarchitecture.”

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Only a select group of companies hold similar licenses to design their own Arm-based microarchitectures, including mobile phone chip giant Qualcomm, as well as Marvell Technology and Infineon Technologies.

“As an architectural licensee, Microsoft wants to go public about adding itself to that short list,” Drew said.

Arm Holdings licenses Arm technology to a number of companies around the world. Arm-based microprocessors are found in the majority of the world’s smartphones. Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has developed its Atom microprocessors in the hope of someday rivaling Arm-based microprocessors in smartphones and other small devices.

Microsoft and Arm said the size and scope of the deal are confidential.

“Arm is an important partner for Microsoft MCITP Certification and we deliver multiple operating systems on the company’s architecture, most notably Windows Embedded and Windows Phone,” Microsoft said in a statement.

Closer access to Arm technology gives Microsoft the ability to enhance its research and development around Arm-based products, the statement said.

A number of companies custom-design chips to meet the specific needs of a device or software. Apple said it custom-designed its A4 chip for the iPad and iPhone 4 to be more powerful for multitasking and yet extremely battery-efficient.

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Microsoft licences ARM architecture

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Microsoft licences ARM architecture
Microsoft and ARM have signed a new deal that will see the technology giant licence the ARM architecture Microsoft MCTS Training.

The deal marks the first time Microsoft has full access to ARM’s architecture. Previously, Microsoft and ARM have worked together on building mobile and embedded operating systems for devices featuring ARM processors.
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The only other two firms to licence the ARM architecture, chip manufactures Qualcomm and Marvell.

It is thought Microsoft may use the licence to develop a version of its Windows OS to work smoothly with ARM processors, which currently feature in a number of low-power PCs, such as netbooks and tablets.

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“ARM is an important partner for Microsoft and we deliver multiple operating systems on the company’s architecture, most notably Windows Embedded and Windows Phone,” said KD Hallman, general manager, Microsoft

“With closer access to the ARM technology we will be able to enhance our research and development activities for ARM-based products.”

Mike Muller, CTO at ARM, added that Microsoft has been an important member of the ARM ecosystem for many years Microsoft MCITP Certification.

“With this architecture license, Microsoft will be at the forefront of applying and working with ARM technology in concert with a broad range of businesses addressing multiple application areas,” said Muller.

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Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco
While Avaya’s contact center and unified communications announcements last week signal the company wants a dominant position in those areas, it faces internal challenges and formidable competitors including Microsoft MCTS Training and Cisco.

The company is in the midst of digesting and integrating Nortel’s enterprise division, which it bought last year for $900 million and from which it expects to reap big returns by next spring. At the same time, it is dealing with the same generally soft economy that other vendors are — though Cisco is registering surprisingly strong revenue gains.
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Avaya’s CEO says the next six to nine months are critical as it tries to integrate the former Nortel Enterprise division — including network infrastructure and business telephony — into its fold. The purchase was finalized last December, so the company has just completed its second full quarter since the acquisition. “On most operational details we have the normal first quarter challenges from shipments and logistics. Second quarter things are feeling pretty good, and the litmus test is ahead of us,” CEO Kevin Kennedy told Network World in an interview at Avaya’s offices.

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That test is whether the company can nail down significant long-term commitments from Nortel telephony and contact center customers and lock them into a migration toward Avaya UC. At the heart of that challenge is convincing Nortel customers to buy Avaya Aura, the company’s flagship communications server. With Aura customers can step into IP telephony, glue together disparate VoIP systems and — most significantly for Avaya — lay the foundation for adopting UC.

Kennedy says Aura can support Session Initiation Protocol trunking immediately to bring cost savings to corporations and over time bring increased productivity that will save money long-term but might have a longer return on investment Microsoft MCITP Certification.

He acknowledges that getting Nortel communications customers interested in sticking with Avaya as they make plans for transitions to UC is key. The company is trying to draw them in with a flurry of announcements about new products, product enhancements and integrations with Nortel products. “This period right now is about bringing a lot of innovation to market. Now the question will be, are our customers as excited about it as we are?” he asks.

The stakes are high since just 17% of Avaya accounts overlap with Nortel’s, and competitors are gunning for the rest with attractive deals. “These customers are a pretty loyal base,” says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with Yankee Group. “But they’re loyal to Nortel, not Avaya.” Historically, until Cisco entered the VoIP market, very few telephony customers shifted from one vendor to another, Kerravala says, and the recent turmoil of Nortel’s bankruptcy and Avaya’s purchase of its telephony business puts Nortel customers in play.

Surprisingly, the purchase of Nortel by Avaya didn’t result in Avaya catapulting to the top of the IP telephony market as some analysts expected. With Nortel and Avaya ranking solidly among the top five for years with very nearly equal shares of the market led people to think combining the two would result in a formidable lead for Avaya, says Matthius Machowinski, an analyst with Infonetics. “We expected them to be ahead of everyone else,” he says.

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What is Visual Certkingdom?

Monday, July 26th, 2010

What is Visual Certkingdom?

The Visual Cert Exam Suite consists of two programs; a Manager and a Designer. According to Visual Certkingdom.com, the designer was developed “for authors involved in practice exam development” and the manager was “designed for taking exams created with Visual Certkingdom Designer”. Unfortunately, one of the popular features of the designer is the ability to import and convert TXT, RTF, and PDF formats to the VCE format which is read by the program and displays the questions and answers in a format that is more like the actual exam Microsoft MCTS Training.
How is the VCE Manager used in the IT Industry?

As with the PDF braindump when it was first released, the VCE braindump is a tool used to dupe the Inadvertent Cheaters into risking their certifications. The easy to use import feature of the designer has made it very popular among the same crowd of people that originally created the PDF braindump. Yes, the braindumps that used to be all PDFs are now PDF and VCE formats. If you’re looking for VCEs to study with, you’ll most likely find yourself studying with an authentic braindump.
How does the VCE affect the certification industry?

The use of the VCE has flowed over to the cheating crowd that is always looking for “FREE” practice tests and has made a very huge impact in how people (illegally) study for certification exams. The invent of the VCE is definitely changing our campaign on braindump usage and now that we’ve seen the program used primarily for converting braindumps, we are beginning to understand

We all know that PDFs (~99% of them) are braindumps and violate the Non-Disclosure Agreements of every certification vendor in the industry, so it shouldn’t be too hard to accept the fact that ~99% of all VCEs will also be classified as braindumps.
Is the VCE Manager a valid tool that can be used to study with?

To put it bluntly, no. An explanation is in order, however. Although there is nothing wrong with the program itself, it is extremely rare that you will find a legitimate practice test provider using this tool to create their practice tests. Any use of this program we’ve seen has been in converting the old braindump PDFs to the new braindump VCE format. There are many websites out there that provide such materials and we have most, if not all, of them classified as braindumps Microsoft MCITP Certification.

As always, before you jump into any contract with a practice test provider, make sure they’re not putting your certifications at risk by violating the Non-Disclosure Agreement you have to sign.

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Certkingdom Official Braindump Quiz

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Certkingdom Official Braindump Quiz
We at Certkingdom are always looking for ways to expand education on the Internet when it comes to preventing braindumps.  Today, we are pleased to announce the Certkingdom Official Braindump Quiz.

This quiz was designed by the team at Certkingdom to not only be fun, but also in hopes that it will teach everyone a little about identifying potential braindump websites. The quiz will give you the knowledge you need to avoid them when researching study materials. We hope that this will be educational for those in and outside the IT field.

Give the quiz a try today:

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Good Luck!

Forensic Analysis, it’s not just for catching killers anymore!

This post goes out to all the people who are incessant about cheating because they feel deep down in their hearts that they will never be caught. If you are one of those people, you may want to grab a smoke and a coke, then come back, kick your shoes off and relax for a while while you read this. If you know one of these people (we run into them in nearly every certification forum on the internet) then pass this link on to them. And, well, if you’re not one of them, you may want to learn a bit, so enjoy Microsoft MCTS Training!

Now, since I know there are quite a few people that still can’t seem to grasp the concept of Forensic Analysis and yet others firmly believe forensics are only used to catch killers (murderers), I thought I would post some more information on the topic so that everyone involved in the certification or testing procedures would better understand just how they can get caught by using braindumps.

Before I do get into the meat of the topic, I would like to point out that all the information I’m presenting here is public knowledge and could easily be found with a few google searches.

Something else that cheaters (primarily those that make a habit of cheating) should know is that no matter what you do, or try to do, to circumvent the system, you’re going to get caught eventually. The reason: Data Forensics find anomalies in behavior. And no matter how you TRY to behave while taking your exam, you’re merely creating another abmormality that can still be measured. So trying to take the information presented below and using it to your advantage probably won’t work.

Are these “scare tactics” to keep people from cheating? Hell Yes! But it doesn’t mean that the methods aren’t being used. They are infact being used, and they are continuously being improved upon.

One method Certification Vendors employ to catch braindumpers is planting specific questions in their exams. These quetions are generally questions that have already been exposed to the public via one or more of the 1000+ braindump sites so they are known by individuals that have previously cheated and once were once correct.

Here is an example that was presented by Dennis Maynes of Caveon in his blog on March 2, 2008 which covers the Trojan method of seeding exams. Please, take a few minutes to read that, it is extremely interesting.

Here is another interesting blog from Dennis on the probability of tests with identical answers. Here’s what is so ineresting about this. Braindumps are questions and answers that have been taken from the actual exams, and certification Vendors seed the exams (as shown in the first link), so wouldn’t it be pretty obvious to the certification vendors if you have correctly (or incorrectly, you choose) answered the same exact questions that they’ve seeded Microsoft MCITP Certification?

I’ll leave you with this question (and the link to the answer): Can you prove cheating on tests using statistics?

Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies
G.B. Prabhat is the founder and CEO of Anantara Solutions, the pioneer of Second Generation Outsourcing (SGO), a business model that focuses on delivering a whole bouquet of business benefits that help clients secure a competitive advantage Microsoft MCTS Training.

The vision of second generation outsourcing (SGO), and hence of Anantara, is to eliminate the extreme fragmentation that characterises the IT outsourcing and consulting industry today by destroying the entrenched borders between clients and service providers, service providers and service providers, and those between disparate technologies. Hence the name of the company, ‘Anantara’, which, in Sanskrit means ‘the continuum’ or ‘without interstices’, which explains the tagline of the company: ‘the power of the continuum’. The realisation of this vision would dramatically revise the state of both the global consulting industry and the global IT outsourcing industry.

My aspiration is that Anantara should become a world-leading, revered company that integrates consulting and IT services into one package, whose sole aim is improving clients’ business performance. Anantara will also, hopefully, lead the world in establishing a new business order – the company as a community. With the growth of the Anantara Ecosystem, we expect to be able to orchestrate the world’s most powerful community of service providers. Anantara should become synonymous with innovation in the outsourcing industry Microsoft MCITP Certification.

More importantly, Anantara should become an institution that is proud of its human capital. The Anantara Credo is a combination of the rational and the emotional. Every employee at Anantara is called an Anantsol (coined from ‘Anantara Solutions’). The credo lays the foundation for the mother of all our goals: ‘To build a company of happy Anantsols.’

Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Private Employment Agencies Vs. Professional Employment Agencies

Private employment agencies have the largest share of the market and are now quite well known to most people from personal experience at local offices and advertisements in the press. Local employment agencies deal with jobs that are clerical, junior administrative, shop staff, IT professional etc. Another type of private agency concentrates on recruitment and, sometimes, the initial stages of selection of middle and senior managers or of professional and specialist staff in fields such as, law accountancy, engineering, etc. Private employment agencies provide at times a very valuable service, especially in recruiting staff in situations where there is a shortage of the particular types of employees required. However, since they exist to make a profit, employers have to pay for any employees they may recruit in this way.

There are also pros and cons that have to be carefully weighed, especially when these private employment agencies are used to assist in the selection of managerial or professional staff. The advantages are the specialist knowledge that an agency can acquire of the employment conditions and requirements in particular fields, objectivity of view and skill in conducting the selection procedure. The main possible disadvantage in using external assistance for recruitment and selection purposes is the agent’s lack of first-hand experience of the cultural and environmental aspects of the organization’s work and life Microsoft MCTS Training.

There has been substantial growth of so-called ‘head-hunters’ or recruitment consultants. As the terms suggest, these are private firms and agencies of recruitment consultants who earn fees by meeting the job needs of organizations for specialist and senior managerial staff. Much of their work is carried on by means of an informal network of contacts, whereby they keep records of career profiles of people likely to be in constant demand, and obtain information about the needs of employers for appointments to be filled. This method has provided its value to the employer and employee clientele of these agencies.

Professional Employment Agencies

Several different kinds of agencies are included under the heading or Professional Employment Agency. The features they have in common are that they are all agencies set up by particular organizations to help their own members or ex-members find employment and that they are generally non-profit -making. The agencies of this kind that employers are likely to need and use most regularly are:-

1. Career services of academic institutions: Universities and similar institutions maintain a full-time career advisory service. They serve as an employment agency for graduating or recently graduated students, are centers of information for graduates about employment opportunities and for employers who are seeking potential managers or professional specialist.

2.Employment services of professional institutions: A number of professional institutions, such as those representing accounts, engineers, etc. have an employment advisory service whereby a register is kept of members seeking employment and information is collected from employers seeking staff in particular professions Microsoft MCITP Certification.

3. Employment exchange provided by the state service for young people provides a regular liaison between employers and unemployed youth.

While both types of employment agencies have flourished, a private employment agency with experience and professionalism is the most sought after.

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Online Business Models To Sell Digital Media Online

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Online Business Models To Sell Digital Media Online
Want to make a killing selling digital media on the Net? Well, here are a few ideas to get you started.

A transition from offline brick ‘n’ mortar to online virtual retail stores was bound to happen as the digital age progressed. This shift required innovative and legal business models to sell digital media online. But, as in many cases, this is an area where business models that have proven their worth in the West cannot be transplanted here on an ‘as is’ or ‘readymade’ basis. The psyche of the Indian consumer has to be factored in too Microsoft MCTS Training.

Apple’s Microsoft-style iTunes

For instance, Apple’s iTunes, which makes outright sales of digital media protected by digital rights management (DRM), was considered a breakaway yet very successful business model vis-à-vis, say, Napster’s subscription rental model that allowed unlimited, legal downloads of digital media unprotected by DRM.

Nevertheless, as Ajay Tripathi, business director, Id8labs points out: “Apple thought that it was very smart by forcing people to use only iTunes for syncing music to their iPods. It thought people would get addicted to iTunes and thus, eventually, purchase songs from its library. I perceive this launch as a typical Microsoft-style strategy. But what happened? Social application developers proved to be even smarter by creating applications similar to iTunes that could be accessed by the iPod! Besides offering the same functions and facilities as iTunes, these applications also allow the editing of the file and folder structure of the devices.”

Dealing with the Indian mindset

In India, Tripathi observes that an online seller of digital media would have to come up with especially innovative solutions, since its mass consumers are still diffident about the concept of e-commerce. He elucidates the consumers’ viewpoint: “When it comes to digital content, the target audience would not be inspired to pay even Rs 10 for a song, when it knows that it can get an entire DVD filled with 800+ MP3 songs from a roadside shop for a mere Rs 100. Indian users are aware of torrents and peer-to-peer (P2P) software that allow them to download entire movies for free.”

The bottom line is that Indian consumers must see a cost benefit in whatever they purchase—legality be damned in the process—unlike in the US, where time and convenience play a major role in influencing a purchase decision Microsoft MCITP Certification.

For these reasons, Tripathi seeks inspiration from the likes of Google, Yahoo! and Facebook to formulate an innovative and legal business model that would work for Indian online sellers of digital media. He points out that these sites have pumped time, effort and money into creating a digital services platform and yet are able to offer the service (search, mail and social activities/games/groups, respectively) to users, for free. This is because the sites seek compensation from the brands that use these platforms to reach out to their consumers in a cost-effective and precise manner.

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GIS Challenges Abound

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

GIS: Challenges Abound!
Developing applications for Geographical Information Systems is the rage these days. But there are problems that we take a closer look at, along with some possible solutions.

Techies love venturing into application development areas that are seen to be fun, as well as sought after by consumers. This perhaps explains the scramble among the tech community to enter the space of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) applications for GPS-enabled mobile phones. But in truth, the utility of GIS extends far beyond digital mapping to help solve cartography problems. Any environmentalist will tell you that GIS is an essential tool, which enables the modelling, analysis and management of fast degrading and scarce spatially-related natural resources. And while the masses using GIS-based location applications want relatively simple tools, the needs of more serious users calls for a full-scale GIS software environment.

But developing a GIS application is not a lark! Here’s a rundown of the difficulties that an application developer is likely to face, as well as the solutions suggested by experts Microsoft MCTS Training.

Capturing data

Collection of data often influences the cost of implementing a new GIS application, simply because of the sheer volumes of data that must be accumulated and edited. The fact is that a GIS application does not only make use of map geometry generated by vectorisation technology, but also requires the addition of feature information, such as a lake or river, so as to generate meaningful topology and the association of user data. This difficulty has led to the creation of raster databases based on data generated by remote sensors (satellites), rasterised paper maps generated by scanning, and grid data derived from digital terrain models. {quotes}Unlike the difficulty of data capture faced by developers creating vector-based databases, remote image processing systems face computational problems in dealing with the sheer bulk of data available.{/quotes}

It is increasingly believed that an ideal GIS system is a hybrid integrated system based on a raster vector database that facilitates the manipulation, viewing and analysis of both forms of data in a seamless environment. According to Rajesh C. Mathur, president, ESRI India, the voluminous data entailed in such a hybrid system is best handled by an RDBMS (relational database management system) Microsoft MCITP Certification supporting spatial geometry in a seamless manner such as ESRI’s vector and raster ArcSDE. A developer using this application would simply have to identify the mechanisms of the spatial relationships and structures that are common in the voluminous data and analytical techniques that are unique to both spatial (vector and raster database) data. This process is made easier by the wide range of geodata services ArcSDE provides for data extraction, replication, warehousing, mining and synchronisation. ArcSDE also provides a framework and the tools to manage large spatial datasets in an RDBMS, such as IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Oracle, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL (structured query language) Server, and PostgreSQL. ArcSDE implements data warehousing and data mining sub-routines through its unique design.

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Money to Purchase Software and Videos to Learn the Skill of Internet Marketing!

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Money to Purchase Software and Videos to Learn the Skill of Internet Marketing!
Is the entire marketing hype frustrating you? Are you consistently spending your hard earned money to purchase software and videos to learn the skill of internet marketing and still perceiving the entire endeavor worthless? Thus, it’s high time that you need to channelize your pursuit and join reliable internet marketing training programs to make the most of your time Microsoft MCTS Training.

It is important to learn various marketing strategies to make the best use of internet or web marketing. For more detail go to: www.internet-marketing-online-goldmine.com.At the same time, you also should learn the impact and various consequences which these strategies have on your business. So, you should be very clear about the objective of the internet marketing training so that you too, like millions of others internet illiterate populace don’t come with high hopes but eventually fail in a miserable manner.

It is very important to have mentors which have years of professional expertise so that they can teach you right from the elementary level of the internet marketing skills. At the same time, in a training session, you learn what should the exact plan for marketing be and how to establish better and lasting client base.

What the trainings and their different types with respect to internet marketing? How are the professionals planning to train and educate you? Normally in the trainings, whether done through video conferencing or through the live Weimar sessions, you are taught regarding different kinds of strategies of internet marketing and what you should do at a particular time frame. Mostly, there is more than just one person who conducts the training sessions, so that you get to have a better and more refined idea.

This is the core of the entire web standardization. Most of the times, the professionals face heavy and disheartening failures because they do not know even the fundamental steps to market themselves. There are several things to be learnt like the Google advertising, the social media, Search Engine Optimization, the web 2.0, the video marketing etc. With these strategies, you get to learn the different methods though which you can have a better target audience for your site and business.

At the training sessions you are also taught regarding a variety of manners in which your website should be made or revamped so that it can sell. for more detail go to:www.tried-tested-marketing-strategies.com.All the internet marketing skills fail, if your basic website, the platform for your business is not strong enough to advertise and establish itself.

No matter, whether you have ever read the different testimonials placed on the websites, but in the training sessions you come to know that these testimonials are one of the important types of tools of marketing Microsoft MCITP Certification.

The esteemed writer of the article, Michael Russell has been writing numerous articles on the fundamentals of internet marketing training. He has also been taking various seminars and trainings to educate the professionals regarding the various fundamentals of the internet marketing including SEM training and Ad Words related marketing education.

More Web Site Promotion Ideas Than You Can Shake a Stick At!

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

More Web Site Promotion Ideas Than You Can Shake a Stick At!
Do you feel you’ve been working hard on your website but not getting a lot of results for what you’ve done? Are you still trying to figure out effective methods of website promotion that will get your website seen by a larger audience and increase your profits at the same time? Are you still trying to find the best and most effective ways to promote your website but coming up short?

If your answer is yes to any of the previous questions then this article is exactly what you need to read. I’m going to give you so many ideas for website promotion that it’s probably going to make your head explode. Don’t worry though because each idea I’m going to share with you has been proven to be effective and ultimately profitable for each website owner that has put these ideas into practice. So let’s get started with the list, shall we Microsoft MCTS Training?

1. Submit your website to search engines.

2. Submit your website to online website directories.

3. Contact other website owners in your market and see if they will trade a link with you.

4. Post your website to free online classifieds sites.

5. Sign up for free and low-cost Internet banners to exposure website to places they would not be normally exposed to.

6. Try pay per click advertising, one of the fastest ways to get traffic to your website.

7. Article marketing is a must, so if you aren’t already doing it then you need to start doing it now. Start submitting your articles to online article directories.

8. Do article swaps with other related websites in your market.

9. Search engine optimization is a must. You have to use the right keywords and keyword phrases to optimize your website in each and every search engine on the Internet.

10. Become involved in forum posting. Join and dissipate in as many forums related to your market as possible. Most search engines will recognize that each one of your posts equals equality link back to your website and this helps your search engine optimization.

11. Visit Yahoo! Answers and Google Groups and answer questions pertaining to your niche. In your reply, be sure to link to your website.

12. If you don’t have a blog, now is the time to create one. Blogs are highly effective in promoting your website and are becoming more popular with each and every day.

13. Write unique articles about your niche and submit them to quality article directories.

I have even more ideas that you can use to effectively promote your site but this list is more than enough to get you started. As a matter of fact, you really don’t need to do anything else until you start doing what’s in this list. As you start doing what’s listed here, more ideas will come and you’ll have another list of more site promotion ideas than you know what to do with Microsoft MCITP Certification!

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Laptop Hard Drive Recovery: What to do after data loss

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Laptop Hard Drive Recovery: What to do after data loss
You happen to be using your laptop when all over sudden all your information disappears! Or as you are carrying it, the bag strap accidentally gets cut and your laptop drops! So then, what do you do?

The good news is that your data can be recovered depending on the amount of damage and scope of the data. Your laptop can go through a hard drive recovery process so that your information may be retrieved. If, for example you lost data through accidental erasure, you may want to check your recycle bin. If it’s there, you can right-click on the file and choose the ‘Restore’ option and you will have recovered your data Microsoft MCTS Training.

Let’s say you don’t get your information in the recycle bin. You cab use ‘do-it-yourself’ recovery software to recover your files. This recovery software has got procedures and instructions that can be followed to retrieve the files. Such software can be downloaded free from the internet, even for free. But there is a risk involved: the software may or may not work and it has also been known to cause more damage if not carefully followed. More damage means more or even permanent data loss. This software should be used with IT technicians who have knowledge on the software, otherwise KEEP OFF or risk losing your data PERMANENTLY!

The most advisable thing to do after losing your laptop data is to call a data recovery specialist or company. These are people who have the necessary knowledge, skill and technology for recovering your data. They will carry out the necessary diagnosis and give a detailed report on the data can be recovered. For example, if your laptop hard drive fails and the problem is mechanical, the data recovery companies have special labs in which the hard drive can be opened and reconstructed. They also have the necessary software and technology for carrying out the data recovery process Microsoft MCITP Certification.

Therefore, if you lose your files, folders or anything important, make that all important call to the data recovery company. The choice is yours. Make it wisely!

Blogging for Fun

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Blogging for Fun
Although blogging can be used for a variety of other purposes such as generating income, promoting a cause and providing information there are many bloggers who enjoy blogging simply because it is fun. These bloggers enjoy blogging for reasons such as staying in touch with friends, expressing themselves or keeping a record of important events. This article will explain how blogs can be used for these purposes.

Blogging to Stay in Touch with Friends

Staying in touch with friends and family members is just one of the many reasons a person may wish to start a blog. This is especially useful for those who move far away from their friends and family members. Staying in touch by phone, regular visits and even email is not always easy. This is because it can be difficult to keep up long distance interactions with several different people at once. However, by maintaining a blog, a person can greatly simplify the process of staying in touch with friends and family members because they do not have to repeat information in individual phone calls or emails or make time to visit several different people Microsoft MCTS Training.

When maintaining a blog, the individual can choose to post a variety of information and photos. Through this information and photos the blog owner can keep others informed about current events in his life. Friends and family members can view the blog at their convenience to catch up on important events in the blog owner’s life and in most cases can post comments to the blog owner. They can also read comments from others. This is beneficial if those viewing the blog know each other because they can not only stay in touch with the blog owner but also have a chance to communicate with other friends and family members through the comments section of the blog.

Blogging as a Form of Expression

Some bloggers begin blogging as a form of expression. They may right poetry, songs, short stories or even use the blog to vent about personal events or politics. These bloggers may wish to keep their blog private or can make the blog available to the public. Keeping the blog private is sort of like keeping a diary or a journal. It gives the blogger a multi-media form of expressing himself without the risk of others discovering his true feelings, innermost dreams or frustrations. Other bloggers opt to make these blogs public. This may be for a number of different reasons. Sharing these feelings with others allows the blogger to reach others who may have the same interest as the blogger.

Bloggers who use their blog as a form of personal expression may want to be cautious and consider the decision to make a blog public. This is important because the blog owner may initially not see problems with allowing others to view his personal thoughts. However, over time he may realize his blog could either be offensive to others or could result in problems if friends or family members view the blog Microsoft MCITP Certification.

Blogging to Keep a Record of Events

Another common reason for blogging is to keep a record of important events. Examples of some types of events which a blogger may wish to document include a pregnancy, weddings, vacations, sporting events or completion of school events. Using blogs to keep a record of these events gives the blogger an opportunity to record daily events in one simple location where they can easily look back on the blog or share the postings with others who might be interested in the events. In these cases the blog can serve as a form of scrapbook documenting the events as they occur. The blog owner can post as often as he desires and may choose to include elements such as photos, music, audio files and video files into the blog. The blog can also be designed to suit the events being documented. For example a journal depicting a vacation may have backgrounds, fonts and colors representing the vacation location while a pregnancy blog may feature elements which represent pregnancy, babies and being parents.

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10 Easy Ways to Boost Your Business Sales

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

10 Easy Ways to Boost Your Business Sales
If you have a business, any business be it online, a retail shop, a wholesaler, a service business. This article can help you boost your business sales. The internet has made the world closer and marketing cheaper. Gone are the days of just marketing in your local area. There are options out there that can turn your business into a national or international business Microsoft MCTS Training.

Still these tips are equally important and relevant regardless of the marketing type you choose. It is about capturing, holding the readers attention and getting them to follow through and purchase.

1. Spend money on targeted advertising instead of mass media advertising. You don’t want to waste your ad dollars on people who aren’t interested.

2. Increase your profits by concentrating on small details. Improving small things like text size, color, or graphics can really make a positive difference.

3. Keep your offers flexible. If you offer a set price for your product, you could offer the people that can’t afford it an optional payment plan.

4. Offer your knowledge or consulting as a bonus product. You could offer a free 15 or 30 minute consultation. This will add value to your product.

5. Personalize all your e-mail messages so they get read. Include the recipient’s name in the subject line. This will grab peoples attention quickly.

6. Keep your web site consistent. You don’t want to keep things on your web site that are unrelated to the theme of your web site.

7. Attract more subscribers to your free e-zine by giving them free bonuses like e-books, software, online services and other incentives.

8. Sell advertising space in your e-zine and on your web site. This will create an extra income stream for your business.

9. Make your web site ready for the public. Have an “About Us” page and clear descriptions of what actions you want your visitors to take.

10. Don’t just start advertising everywhere, plan out your marketing. Locate places and publications that your target audience would congregate around.

We strongly recommend you read your local papers classified section to get a feel for what type of advertising catches your eye. It will help you get a feel for the words and phrases that work.

There are also terrific classified sites all over the internet that you can look at Microsoft MCITP Certification.

If you are subscribing to newsletters or emails consider the headlines that make you want to click further. Jot them down and use them.

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Earning Money From Internet Marketing

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Earning Money From Internet Marketing
There are so many ways that you can earn money from internet marketing. Sell your service as an internet marketing coach, second hand clothes parlor or just a merchant for collectables.

But the most important thing you need to do is to have the right system to it.

There are a lot of successful internet marketers offering free tips and guides in their newsletter. You just need to enroll to their list and you will learn how to grow your internet marketing business. You can enroll to as many list as you like but the bottom line is you need to apply what you learn from the internet marketers Microsoft MCTS Training.

Then you need to decide on your business model. Do you want to sell your own product or do you want to be an affiliate for other merchants? You might need to build your marketing materials if you want to sell your own product and if you want to be an affiliate marketer, the merchants might supply all the marketing materials you need.

After you decide on your business model, the next thing is to start building your own website. There are free software and templates that you can use to create your website. You don’t need to create any fancy website if you are just starting out on the business. Starts with a basic landing page to collect your visitors’ details and promote your product to them later.

After that you need to get traffic to your product for you to earn money from internet marketing. There are a lot of ways you can do that and referring your list members to your product is one of the easy and direct ways. Your members are more receptive to do as you ask because they trust you.

The following thing you should consider to earn money from internet marketing business is to craft your sales message. Now, your visitors can only see the picture of your product online. So, you need to write in a convincing way for your visitors to believe that the product is indeed what they need.

Then, you need to determine your product price. You won’t be earning any money from the business if you price your product wrongly. If you price it too low, you will be having a hard time supporting your business but if you price it too high, there will not be any buyer Microsoft MCITP Certification.

So, it is best that you look at other merchants with similar product of yours. How do they price their product? Do they offer anything else as a bonus? You can also email your list members and ask them about the best price for your product. Process your findings and propose a price that is worth your customers’ investment.

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3 Strategies to Promote Your Internet Marketing Business

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

3 Strategies to Promote Your Internet Marketing Business
Maybe you have been promised easy money in the shortest time possible when you first started internet marketing. But the problem is you were not thoroughly shown how to make that easy money in that short time possible.

Let’s be realistic, you obviously can’t grow your internet marketing business if no one looks at your offer. Then what are you going to do to expose your product?

1. Write articles

Readers like quality and informational articles. They would like to find out more about you and your offer once they enjoyed your articles. So, it is important that you share what you know in your articles and have a link to your website.

The next thing you need is to submit your articles to article directories. Find out about the page rank of the article directories you are submitting. You will have a hard time getting traffic if you submit to a low page rank article directories Microsoft MCTS Training.

2. Pay Per Click (PPC) ad

This is another favorable way to promote your internet marketing business. You just need to create a free account on the search engines and they will have tutorials to guide you through the setups of your PPC ad.

You are only required to pay for the service if someone clicks on your ad. So, you can maximize the exposure of your advertisement to the desire market.

But take note that PPC is a big topic to master and the tutorials from the search engines are just for basic setup. You need to look for other sources to learn more about the topic and do your research before you determine your investment for each keywords. Or else, you will be burnt mercilessly.

3. Other people list

You know that the money is in the list but what if you don’t have your own list?

Then, you can try to advertise on other reputable internet marketers’ list to promote your internet marketing business. Your offer will be more receptive as it is recommended by the list owner.

Let’s say that you advertise in a list of 10,000 people. Can you imagine the traffic you will receive if 20% of them visit you daily? What if 1% of them bought your $67 product this month? You just cashed in $6700 this month and that is just one of your products.

You might earn even more if you have more product.

Of course the main issue you need to take into consideration is your budget. Generally, you need to pay more if you are advertising to a bigger list. Contact the list owner and ask for a discount or partial distribution to his members Microsoft MCITP Certification.

Who knows, maybe the list owner is kind enough to help you get started in internet marketing.

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Frequently Used Control Panels For Windows And Linux

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Frequently Used Control Panels For Windows And Linux
Today, a myriad of players, counting from individual to big corporation are challenging each other in the field of web hosting. It is definitely a highly competitive field and an important requirement for webmaster to make his website available to the entire world. In fact, the raging competition has now reached to an advanced stage, where all the web hosting companies are taking up sincere efforts to excel each other. Also, they are providing very efficient technical support. However, the additional features such as free domain name and site builder and total expense keep varying from company to company. Here, the control panel points out a difference and you have to select the appropriate service that meets your demands the best.

Provided by a web hosting company, control panel is a software to direct and manage your website hosting. It lets you manage all your vital activities such as email creation, opening of your FTP accounts, statistics report and many more Microsoft MCTS Training.

Windows Only platform

For windows, helm is a Windows only web hosting control panel. It comes with numerous customer friendly features along with the very conspicuous aspect of the billing information. Excluding the H-sphere, almost none of the commonly used control panel provides billing information inside the control panel. Moreover, Helm control panel has been taken as one of the most easy to operate panel with good standard interface.
Another windows only web hosting panel is Hosting Accelerator. Presently, in the market, it appears to mark a better impression by screening more stuff. However, on the contrary, it has also stated the unplanned interface and largely lacks in offering various additional features. Hence, it best suits the players with intermittent need.

Linux Only Platform

cPanel is doubtlessly, the most preferred choice among all the other control panels. It comes with several productive features with easy operation at affordable expense. In fact, to get more precise over the economic issue, it would be interesting to know that it costs only $20 per month/server.

Second in this queue stands Interworx. It is tremendously sophisticated yet uncomplicated enough to manage for even the beginner. Of course, the ease of use starts with the simple interface where all of the crucial controls are in basic view with wide-ranging tools to direct you through the configuration course. Moreover, the learning curve is totally unswerving, enabling you to develop into a more advanced one after surpassing each task.

Third in a row comes the DirectAdmin control panel serving Linux platform. It is considered as an economic solution and provides as low hosting cost as $10 per month. Moreover, it is also known for its easy and uncomplicated usability. However, irrespective of its various claims to have many fruitful features, it still needs to add a lot of improvements to beat in competition, the other Linux only control panels.

Both Linux and Windows

Plesk is an amazing control panel that works for both Linux and Windows. It is quite a standard pick up for people working on both the mentioned operating systems. Plesk interface appears like Windows XP and it is obviously little expensive because of its ability of suiting both the platforms. Moreover, the website builder tool and other features amalgamate easily with Plesk as well.

Also, H-Sphere is one commonly used control panel for both Linux and Windows. The panel is extensively used by the web hosting sites and lacks many good features when compared to Plesk and cPanel. However, on the contrary, it does provide several features from key functionalities to complete automation Microsoft MCITP Certification.

However, it goes without saying that you must choose your preferred control panel as per your requirements and suitability. However, as far as the factual details are concerned, so far, the ratings suggest that cPanel is preferred for Linux platform and Helm control panel is quite more than suitable for Windows platform. To know more about these control panels, you may log on to gigaweb.co.uk.

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