Blog Entries tagged 'saas-hosting'

PCI Compliance

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Major credit card issuers created PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards to protect personal information and ensure security when transactions are processed using a payment card. All members of the payment card industry (financial institutions, credit card companies and merchants) must comply with these standards if they want to accept credit cards. Failure to meet compliance standards can result in fines from credit card companies and banks and even the loss of the ability to proce [...]

SaaS Hosting Infrastructure as a Service Hosting

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

If you are an Application Service Provider (ASP), or deliver Software as a Service (SaaS), the Internet is your lifeline. SaaS targets businesses (mostly small and medium ones, but also large enterprises in some markets) with mission-critical applications. As a customer of SaaS Hosting Infrastructure you have extended a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to your customers, and now must not only meet your own stringent requirements for quality, but also the expectations of those who rely on you for [...]

PCI Compliance

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

PCI DSS Compliance is mandatory

The PCI DSS- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a worldwide information security standard assembled by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council .

The standard was created to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud through increased controls around data and its exposure to compromise. The [...]

An Introduction to SaaS Hosting

morris@stewartmedia.biz — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Virtualisation is the new word in computing where multiple servers are required. Often referred to as cloud computing comes in many forms, and SaaS is a widely used.

What is SaaS?

Software-as-a-Service or Seas, is a highly evolved delivery model that is changing the way software providers market and sell their products. While many vendors are familiar with the concept of hosting applications and serving them via the web, many have only recently began to appreciate the elements th [...]