API vs Web Service

What is an API? API stands for application programming interface. An API is a mechanism by which allow you to write code that allows interaction with another program or application. For example...

SSL vs VPN

What is the difference between SSL and a VPN? Why you would use a VPN when SSL is used everywhere now. Without getting into the finer details of how VPNs and SSL...

Deep Web vs Dark Web

Did you know only a small percentage of the internet is easily accessible via major search engines i.e. indexed by Google etc. The parts of the internet that are not accessible via...

Converged infrastructure simply explained

Things move fast in technology. Yesterday’s buzz word was cloud. It seems we have a new buzz word floating about in enterprise technology. That buzz word is converged infrastructure. Data centre technology...

What is DevOps?

On the theme of buzz words. Here’s another one that’s been around for a little while. No one seems to be able to explain what the hell this is. This is becoming...