To continue our series, let’s look at SEO and Silverlight. The vast
majority of web traffic is driven by search. Search engines are the first
stop for many users on the public internet and is increasingly so in
corporate environments as well. Search is also the key technology that
drives most ad revenue. So needless to say, SEO is important. But how
does SEO work in a Silverlight application where most of the interesting
content is dynamically generated? I will present an application pattern
for doing SEO in a Silverlight with the minimum of extra work.
There are three fun-and-easy steps to making your Silverlight application SEO
friendly.
Step 1: Make important content deep linkable Step 2: Let the search engines
know about all those deep links with a sitemap Step 3: Provide a “down
level” version of important content
Let’s drill into each of these areas b... (more)
Opening Keynote at Cloud Expo
At the @Cloud Connect event this week in Silicon Vally, CA, writer and cloud
economics guru Joe Weinman, who is also VP of Strategy and Business
Development at AT&T, discussed the inevitability of the cloud and its
benefits.
A few years back, Weinman coined the term “Cloudonomics,”a treatise on
why the cloud makes sense economically. I’d like to repeat these 10
commandments, rather, laws, that Weinman came up with in this space because I
think many of us in the IT industry need a refresher from time to time.
Perhaps we get too caught up in the inse... (more)
Security Track at Cloud Expo
Education of users has become a hot topic of late.
The final keynote at the recent RSA Conference was all about using education
to combat cybercrime.
This article has statistics showing that, when Small and Mid-Market companies
were asked, ‘what would help improve the level of security at their
companies,’ 75% (48% for employees & another 25% for senior management)
said Security Awareness.
And, the recent issue of SC Magazine featured an article where Dan Beard, the
Chief Administration Office for the House of Representatives says that
organizations... (more)
Performance Track at Cloud Expo
Fujitsu on Wednesday introduced in North America the PRIMERGY Cloud eXtension
server. The PRIMERGY CX1000 server provides scale-out capability, ideal for
cloud computing environments, and sets new standards in data center economics
by optimizing the operating cost drivers of power, heat and space.
The PRIMERGY CX1000 server is designed from the ground up to deliver as much
computing power as possible per square foot, at the lowest-possible price,
packing 38 server nodes into a single rack to provide a minimum savings of 20
percent in power and cool... (more)
Security Track at Cloud Expo
McAfee has announced the McAfee Cloud Secure program, a program for
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to add additional security to their
cloud deployments. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a pioneer in cloud computing
and SuccessFactors, a SaaS provider, are expected be among the first
providers to leverage the new program, which combines cloud security
certification services, provided by leading certification and attestation
providers, with automated auditing, remediation and reporting capabilities
provided by McAfee.
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