The Application

All you need to use Glasnost is an internet connection (preferably broadband), a web browser such as IE 7 or later or Firefox or Safari and Adobe Flash installed in your browser (Version 9 or later).

At the back end we use MySql for databases.

You can read more about Adobe Flex here.

Storage

Our servers, software and databases are housed in a Tier 1 Data centre in the UK with fully redundant failover to another UK based data centre. Images and documents are stored securely using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) which provides a highly-scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure. As of early 2009 S3 was being used to store over 52 billion objects and serve over 1 trillion requests per year from customers in over 90 countries.

Security

Glasnost runs under "https", creating an industry-standard secure environment.