Exclusives

The hosting industry has come a long way since Affinity Internet entered the market in 1996. Hundreds of dot-com companies have disappeared or been reinvented. Clients are more sophisticated, with even the smallest operation demanding better products and more personalized service. Fort Lauderdale, F...

Today's corporations -- both large and midsize -- increasingly are turning over the operation and support of network- and Web-based applications to managed-hosting companies. These businesses specialize, either solely or through divisions, on providing high levels of uptime, protecting their clients...

At a time when the Internet represents a notable percentage of many organizations' revenue and market presence, it is becoming increasingly crucial for businesses to ensure their Web sites are performing well. Uptime is no longer enough. Today, organizations must make sure customers enjoy their onli...

Companies jostling for top billing in the crowded Internet search space are spending more and more money on pay-per-click sites. In addition to investing in search engine advertising, many companies are delving into search engine optimization to build the volume of traffic to their sites. By 2005, a...

From the Sasser worms to phishing attacks, the Internet has been crawling with malware this year. Fortunately, there are people like Ken Xie who are ready to fight the good fight. As founder, president and CEO of network-protection firm Fortinet, Xie has seen more than his share of the techno-enemy....

Web performance measurement firm Keynote Systems recently acquired NetRaker, a developer of customer experience management software. Most of NetRaker's employees -- including president and CEO Douglas van Duyne, who became senior director of customer experience products and designs -- joined Keynote...

In October 2003, Lane Bess, who joined Trend Micro in November 2002, was named president of the company's North American operations. Bess, who has 20 years experience in sales, marketing and general management, previously held positions at NCR and AT&T. During his career, he has seen virulent ne...

In the first installment of this two-part exclusive interview, the E-Commerce Times spoke with Gomez CEO Dr. Alex Stein about the Internet performance management industry -- a field that is booming as more companies see a need for this sort of technology. In today's edition, Stein discusses the natu...

Reflecting businesses' growing need to wring ROI from Web operations, subscriptions to Gomez' Internet Performance Management grew 51 percent in 2003 from the prior year. In addition, the privately held company received two rounds of financing, added 90 new clients and claimed subscription renewal r...

With its release of the Google Search Appliance last year, the long-time leader of consumer Web search turned its attention to the needs of complex, data-intensive enterprises. Its device -- which includes hardware, software and support -- interacts with an organization's datacenter to search either...

Recently, a seemingly endless string of worms and viruses has focused attention on the sometimes-questionable security of firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs) and even the Internet itself. Amid this onslaught, network security software provider StillSecure aims to tackle the security issue at ...

In part 1 of this interview, F-Secure director of antivirus research Mikko Hypponen spoke about getting his start in computer security 13 years ago and the changes he has seen over the years. In this continuation of his chat with the E-Commerce Times, Hypponen talks about what it might take to nab m...