Avoiding Sourcing Pitfalls
 
For years outsourcing has provided many benefits to businesses. Lately many businesses have experienced difficulties when using an external service for application development regardless of whether the work is performed offshore or onshore.

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Open Systems Software Development

There is increasing demand for interaction between individual software systems whether new or legacy. This is true in almost every domain of computer software.

Softura’s Open Systems Model (OSM) addresses integration and interoperability of systems of system interfaces. Our open systems approach is a mature software development method and technique for the development of applications that offer for broad-based and sustainable integration and interoperability across components, systems, and interfaces.

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Hosting Services

At Softura, we craft solutions that meet your Internet Infrastructure needs. Drawing upon our extensive product line of co-location, dedicated services, managed services and web development— our skilled staff can assemble just the right Internet Infrastructure components for each layer in the Internet Delivery Stack.

Our Product Line Includes:

• Developers' Dedicated Environment - Our DDE solution is a bundled environment of Internet products and service that enables design and development businesses to compete on something other than price - compete on service.
• ASPs' Dedicated Environment - Softura has made it easy for you to scale your IT needs, have a dependable industrial-class infrastructure for credibility, and control your costs through the various stages of your business.
• Data centers - Co-Location in our Top Tier redundant data centers; FM-200 Fire protection; Biometric security; 24 x 7 access; N+1 Environmental controls; UPS; Natural gas generator; Anti-static environment
• Connectivity - Redundant Internet connectivity from Tier 1 Global provider UUNet, Peer to Peer direct connect, Fiber Infrastructure
• Managed Network and Services - Anomaly and intrusion detection, Firewall services, Load balancing, Virus and Spam protection, VPN service
• Dedicated Servers and Managed Operating Systems - Brand name, Windows or Linux, OS patches, Backup to disk, Off-site tape backup
• Database Services - Shared and Dedicated Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL
• Application Services - Cold Fusion and .Net; Email accounts; Web hosting; Microsoft Exchange services; Streaming media

Revolutionizing Football

By Brittany Saucer

New Computer Modeling Software Could make gridiron coaches rethink their decisions and look to science for guidance.

Startup venture, EndGame Technologies, has designed novel computer modeling software to assist National Football League coaches with critical play-calling decisions--the kind that often determine the outcome of the game. Should a team punt on fourth down--or go for it? Or attempt a two-point conversion after a touchdown? The software, called ZEUS, is designed to answer such questions by calculating the consequences of each decision in a matter of seconds.

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Founded in 1991, Softura is a world-class application development company specializing in web services, integration and hosted solutions.

White Papers/Tools/Press

Agile Methods white paper
9.16.06

University of Michigan
9.8.06

Microsoft Certified Gold Partnership
8.2.06

B1 Dev Acquisition
6.8.06

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Have your own online Registration website with Registration Manager. Customers can browse for classes, register and pay online easily with Registration Manager.

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Using Wi-fi safely: Encryption, Upgrades & Other Tips by Christopher Elliot, Microsoft Small Business

Yes, the internet can be a dangerous place, with viruses, worms and spyware lurking behind every URL and waiting to pounce on your PC every time you check e-mail. But that's nothing compared to what can happen with a wireless hookup. Connecting to the Web through Wi-Fi can make your laptop even more vulnerable to hackers and pernicious code. Just ask Peter Shankman, who recently returned from a business trip to Europe. On a stopover at the KLM lounge in Amsterdam, he opened his laptop and tapped into the wireless connection. Big mistake. "By the time I got to Berlin, the machine was totally and completely dead," says the New York communications consultant. "My computer had gotten infected. My file trees were completely shredded."

When it comes to wireless networks, safety is a top concern among business owners. Nine out of 10 executives in a 2003 Jupiter Research survey cited security as the biggest factor influencing their decisions about the deployment of wireless networks. However, more than half of all businesses take only basic precautions — or none at all — to protect their wireless networks. How do you make your Wi-Fi experience safer? Here are four new and existing security protocols and the level of security they offer.