The Cloud’s Hidden Costs

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Visibility seems to be the primary culprit.   As cloud providers continue to expand and grow, often their visibility into and control over usage patterns decreases.  And CIOs can’t take full advantage of cloud economies since they may not know the who, what, where, when and how of the application(s) running in the cloud and thus, the overall cost implications.  Cloud management tools, which are also evolving, primarily focus on provisioning, capacity, utilization and workflows but not always the total cost of ownership.  Most organizations are not even fully aware of the costs until that big envelope arrives and they might not deal with or have a plan for ‘overages’ until it happens.  In addition, as more companies look to the cloud for business continuity/disaster recovery scenarios, as the recent disaster planning study from AT&T suggests, those ‘deer in the headlights’ gazes may become more common.

 

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Avnet Technology Solutions Debuts Dedicated Cloud Solutions Team

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"Cloud computing continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and Avnet's strategy is in lockstep and aligns well with high-growth market opportunities for partners," said Marco Mohajer, executive vice president at Technologent, a leading global provider of technology infrastructure solutions and Avnet partner. "At Technologent, we recognize that to be successful long-term, we need to develop our off-premise cloud computing business. Since this is more services-focused and annuity-based than traditional solutions sales, Avnet Cloud Solutions' approach will help us quickly pursue off-premise cloud computing opportunities with offerings that are specifically designed for the channel and match the needs of our customers."

 

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Avnet Technology Solutions Debuts Dedicated Cloud Solutions Team

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"Cloud computing continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and Avnet's strategy is in lockstep and aligns well with high-growth market opportunities for partners," said Marco Mohajer, executive vice president at Technologent, a leading global provider of technology infrastructure solutions and Avnet partner. "At Technologent, we recognize that to be successful long-term, we need to develop our off-premise cloud computing business. Since this is more services-focused and annuity-based than traditional solutions sales, Avnet Cloud Solutions' approach will help us quickly pursue off-premise cloud computing opportunities with offerings that are specifically designed for the channel and match the needs of our customers."

 

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Cloud Computing: OpSource CEO Treb Ryan to Present

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Going beyond traditional cloud and hosting services, OpSource provides the integration, engineering, marketing and sales support required to launch and scale cloud-based solutions. Since introducing OpSource Cloud Hosting in 2009, OpSource has partnered with SaaS ISVs and enterprise customers to provide a public cloud IaaS service offering pay-as-you-go flexibility, 100 percent availability as well as increased security, control and support for integration.

 

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Cloud Computing: OpSource CEO Treb Ryan to Present

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Going beyond traditional cloud and hosting services, OpSource provides the integration, engineering, marketing and sales support required to launch and scale cloud-based solutions. Since introducing OpSource Cloud Hosting in 2009, OpSource has partnered with SaaS ISVs and enterprise customers to provide a public cloud IaaS service offering pay-as-you-go flexibility, 100 percent availability as well as increased security, control and support for integration.

 

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BBH Solutions, Inc. Completes SOC 2 Type I Report for Confidentiality and Security

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 “Our cloud services portfolio has grown tremendously over the past year,” said Bruce Hoernecke, President and CEO of BBH Solutions, Inc. “We wanted our customers to know that we have controls in place that exemplify our dedication to the security and confidentiality of their information and critical business applications. The SOC 2 report illustrates our understanding of the requirements of organizations that are subject to regulatory compliance and serves as an indication of our commitment to providing trusted cloud computing services.

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Fundamental Research Initiates Coverage on El Tigre Silver

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“Our cloud services portfolio has grown tremendously over the past year,” said Bruce Hoernecke, President and CEO of BBH Solutions, Inc. “We wanted our customers to know that we have controls in place that exemplify our dedication to the security and confidentiality of their information and critical business applications. The SOC 2 report illustrates our understanding of the requirements of organizations that are subject to regulatory compliance and serves as an indication of our commitment to providing trusted cloud computing services.

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Profit By Outsourcing Is Now An Amazon AWS Solution Partner

India’s #1 Web Development Company, Profit By Outsourcing is now an now an Amazon AWS Solution Partner. Profit By Outsourcing has become a Solution Provider for Amazon AWS providing systems integration, cloud migration services & Managed Cloud hosting services. This partnership recognizes Profit By Outsourcing's strategic presence in the cloud computing eco-system.
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Insurance Broker CGSC To Use NaviSite Europe Limited For Cloud Hosting, Managed Services

Retail insurance broker Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has chosen NaviSite Europe Limited for a number of cloud hosting and managed services. The firm will use NaviSite, Inc.'s solutions for cloud hosting, MS Exchange Managed Messaging and managed MPLS network services.

CGSC will take advantage of NaviSite's suite of reliable and scalable managed services, which include application services, enterprise hosting and managed cloud services. In addition to cloud computing solutions, the company offers cloud computing security, DaaS solutions and the NaviCloud Intelligent Storage offering.

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Kansas City IT & Managed Services Company Announces 98 Percent Customer Retention Rate

KANSAS CITY, MO, May 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- MDL Technology, LLC, an IT and managed services company, recently announced an astounding client retention figure of 98 percent over the last five years.

T.J. Bloom, COO of MDL Technology, explained that with recent innovations in the company such as cloud computing, more achievements are sure to follow in the near future.

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Orange Business Services provides global network to shipping industry leader ZIM

Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, is a leading global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. With the world's largest, seamless network for voice and data, Orange Business Services reaches 220 countries and territories with local support in 166. Offering a comprehensive package of communication services covering cloud computing, enterprise mobility, M2M, security, unified communications, videoconferencing, and broadband, Orange Business Services delivers a best-in-class customer experience across a global landscape.

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Orange Business Services provides global network to shipping industry leader ZIM

Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, is a leading global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. With the world's largest, seamless network for voice and data, Orange Business Services reaches 220 countries and territories with local support in 166. Offering a comprehensive package of communication services covering cloud computing, enterprise mobility, M2M, security, unified communications, videoconferencing, and broadband, Orange Business Services delivers a best-in-class customer experience across a global landscape.

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Profitable cloud hosting growth helps iomart Group plc post strong annual results

Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart Group plc, said: “This is another great set of results and shows that we continue to consolidate our position within the large, highly fragmented and growing UK cloud hosting market. We are investing in both storage infrastructure and in our network connectivity to maintain our leading position and offer premium levels of service to customers.”
Revenues from the hosting division grew by 38% to £24.3m (2011: £17.7m), mostly due to iomart Hosting which, in the last four financial years, has experienced a five-fold increase in revenues from £4.6m in the year to March 2009.
Over 600 new orders were won, including a substantial amount of additional orders from existing customers - recurring revenue levels are around 95%.

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Cloud computing firm Iomart riding high

Hosting and cloud computing company Iomart has increased full-year profits after being boosted by a number of acquisitions.Mr MacSween said: "The fundamental shift to products and services being delivered over the web is changing the way companies organise their internet or 'cloud' infrastructure to ensure resilience, scalability, security and value for money."
   

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Cutting edge: Taking your business into the ‘clouds’

ISLAMABAD: Imagine having access to all your important data at any time, anywhere in the world, with no need to constantly back it up. Imagine a fully functional computer with less storage space needed than a flash drive. That is the concept behind cloud computing.

Much to the delight of the tech-savvy, Cybernet unveiled RapidCompute – Pakistan’s first cloud computing service – at a local hotel here on Tuesday.

Breaking down the etymology, the ‘cloud’ refers to the internet, while computing refers to the use of computers for any activity.

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NaviSite appoints new CTO

Hosting and managed services provider NaviSite has appointed its head of research and development David Grimes as its new CTO. Grimes will be replacing Denis Martin, who will step down from the role on 1 June, the company announced Tuesday.

NaviSite president Brooks Borcherding, said he was pleased with the appointment. “[Grimes] has been instrumental in the creation of NaviSite’s innovative cloud computing platform which has become the foundation for our next generation managed services,” he said.

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Virtual Internet Nominated for Multiple Awards

Cloud hosting provider, Virtual Internet, has had its fantastic work and dedication recognised this month as the company has been nominated for two awards in July's Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA) Awards.

Virtual Internet has established itself as a market leader in cloud services and exceptional managed services with tailored SLAs whilst also offering website hosting and applications without the need to manage the infrastructure that goes with it.

Virtual Internet is also a provider of high availability hosting solutions for corporations of all sizes. Virtual Internet can offer cloud servers, private cloud and hybrid cloud amongst others.

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Unbelievable Machine Company Launches OnApp-Based Cloud Services

German cloud hosting provider the unbelievable Machine Company announced on Tuesday it has partnered with cloud as a platform provider OnApp for its  Cloud computing services.

Based in Berlin, *um specializes in cloud computing, web operations and data science services for enterprise clients, which include high-profile companies like Nokia, Deutsche Post and Volkswagen.

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China’s growing cloud industry

China’s cloud computing market is estimated to reach US$31.6bn in the next three years, thanks to investment from public and private players

Cloud computing is emerging as one of the China’s fastest growing industries. The nation may account for less than 3% of global cloud computing market share – valued at US$90bn in 2011) but it is growing with an annual rate of 40%, according to analyst firm Gartner.

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China’s growing cloud industry

China’s cloud computing market is estimated to reach US$31.6bn in the next three years, thanks to investment from public and private players

Cloud computing is emerging as one of the China’s fastest growing industries. The nation may account for less than 3% of global cloud computing market share – valued at US$90bn in 2011) but it is growing with an annual rate of 40%, according to analyst firm Gartner.

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Cloud computing center comes to Wallingford

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NextCloud was founded in 2010, and is an innovative provider of enterprise-class cloud computing services. The company’s solutions are designed to augment, or replace, the need for organizations to have their own computer server rooms and datacenters. The rate of technology change continues to accelerate, which can be very challenging for companies to keep pace and continue to innovate. For example, the widespread use of mobile devices has introduced a new set of issues and challenges to the IT staff at businesses of all sizes. Similarly, the amount of data to be stored is doubling every year and computing capacity and network requirements continue to expand at an unprecedented rate. NextCloud’s approach is to provide an enterprise-class datacenter and IT infrastructure on a pay-as-you-go basis. Rather than having to own and operate a dedicated set of computer servers and information systems, it is possible to pay for these services on a monthly basis.

 

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How do you stop leaks to the personal cloud?

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The last week saw IBM putting a stop to utilization of personal cloud services like DropBox and SkyDrive.

IBM identified the service as a risk to security, and they are right. BYOD brings many challenges and a big one for organizations is stopping users from storing company documents public cloud drives. Cloud drives create a huge funnel through which organizational documents can be siphoned to a location outside the organization. It's never immediately clear where the endpoints of cloud drives are and just who has access when a document is copied to a cloud drive folder.

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Washington-area business events for the week of May 28

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The Fairfax-based American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council’s three-day Management of Change conference is to focus on the “Coming Clouds of Change.” Sessions and discussions are to look at security and mobility and how they are affected by moving to Web-based cloud computing.

 

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Cloud9 Real Time To Host Cloud Summit 2012 In San Diego

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Cloud hosting provider Cloud9 Real Time will host Cloud Summit 2012 at San Diego's Paradise Point on November 8th and 9th.

Cloud hosting provider Cloud9 Real Time announced on Thursday it will host Cloud Summit 2012 at San Diego’s Paradise Point on November 8th and 9th.

Now in its third year, Cloud Summit 2012 is an exclusive conference for business owners, accounting professionals, Cloud users and alike to demo the latest technological advances in virtual solutions.

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ISO Certification Part Of Telstra’s Continuing Cloud Investment

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Telstra’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform has been independently certified as compliant to the ISO27001 international standard, as the company continues its ongoing multi-million dollar investment in cloud services.

Telstra general manager of cloud computing, Mark Pratley, said the ISO27001 certification was part of the $800 million investment Telstra was making in cloud computing over the next few years and followed on from recent certifications of Telstra infrastructure from global application and hardware vendors.

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WordPress Cloud Hosting

Cloud Hosting is the delivery of web hosting services from a “cloud” of connected computer servers (Typically thousands of servers).

Effectively, cloud hosting is a web hosting model where the hosting is provided as a service on demand, rather than a pre-packaged product: a popular anology is that of the dlivery of electricity and other utilities.  When you turn on an electric switch, the electricity flow and you are billed for what you use.  If you have the elctricity connected but use very little that month, you are billed less.  Likewise, if you ran a lot of appliances and used a lot of electricity you would pay more, but the supply would meet your demand.  This is in contrast to normal web hosting models where the user buys space on a server (either shared hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private server (VPS) Hosting or a Dedicated Server) and they pay for their allocated “space” whether they use it or not.  If their website becomes very popular and exceeds their allocated resources, it is very common that their site or server will “Crash” or slow down till it is unusable.

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WordPress Cloud Hosting

Cloud Hosting is the delivery of web hosting services from a “cloud” of connected computer servers (Typically thousands of servers).

Effectively, cloud hosting is a web hosting model where the hosting is provided as a service on demand, rather than a pre-packaged product: a popular anology is that of the dlivery of electricity and other utilities.  When you turn on an electric switch, the electricity flow and you are billed for what you use.  If you have the elctricity connected but use very little that month, you are billed less.  Likewise, if you ran a lot of appliances and used a lot of electricity you would pay more, but the supply would meet your demand.  This is in contrast to normal web hosting models where the user buys space on a server (either shared hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private server (VPS) Hosting or a Dedicated Server) and they pay for their allocated “space” whether they use it or not.  If their website becomes very popular and exceeds their allocated resources, it is very common that their site or server will “Crash” or slow down till it is unusable.

 

What is Cloud Hosting?

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Cloud Hosting is a new way of hosting your websites: instead of being stored on a physical machine or cluster or servers, your website is hosted in the cloud across thousands of servers.  This structure creates incredible speed and resilience which results in lower downtime, better site loading and fewer problems commonly encountered by website owners, such as sites going down when hit with a traffic spike or due to problems with your site.

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Cloud Hosting : don’t believe the hype?

Cloud Computing is the technological breakthrough which makes cloud hosting possible.

Cloud web hosting is the web hosting that becomes possible through the technology of cloud computing. Cloud web hosting is an example of cloud computing applied to the web hosting industry.  We are going to see a large proportion of computing functionality which we currently run on our own computers taken over by cloud based services over the next few years.

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Cloud Hosting

While Cloud Hosting is a massive industry internationally, Australian Cloud Hosting providers have been a little slower onto the market.   Cloud Computing and Cloud Hosting are massive buzzwords in the internet industry, and for good reason, yet there is a lot of mystique around what actually constitutes Cloud Hosting.

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Cloud Hosting

While Cloud Hosting is a massive industry internationally, Australian Cloud Hosting providers have been a little slower onto the market.   Cloud Computing and Cloud Hosting are massive buzzwords in the internet industry, and for good reason, yet there is a lot of mystique around what actually constitutes Cloud Hosting.

Read more: http://cloudhostingproviders.com.au/australian-cloud-hosting/

Australian Cloud Hosting Providers – Professional Cloud Hosting Services

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Cloud Hosting – Australian Newest Trend on Hosting Websites

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Cloud computing slugs it out with legacy

Adoption of cloud computing has reached a tipping point - but don’t expect legacy systems to disappear for at least two more decades according to Paul Daugherty, chief technology architect of Accenture. 

Speaking at the SuiteWorld conference in San Francisco Mr Daugherty said that Accenture, which is a systems integration partner with NetSuite, has now completed 1,700 cloud projects. “We initially saw interest in solving very specific issues. Now there are broader roadmaps for cloud,” he said. 

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Cloud computing slugs it out with legacy

Adoption of cloud computing has reached a tipping point - but don’t expect legacy systems to disappear for at least two more decades according to Paul Daugherty, chief technology architect of Accenture. 

Speaking at the SuiteWorld conference in San Francisco Mr Daugherty said that Accenture, which is a systems integration partner with NetSuite, has now completed 1,700 cloud projects. “We initially saw interest in solving very specific issues. Now there are broader roadmaps for cloud,” he said. 

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Mobile shopping service StreetHawk hosts in Ninefold's cloud

StreetHawk, a new location-based mobile personal shopping service, has chosen to host its business with Australian cloud computing and storage company, Ninefold. According to Ninefold, "At launch, the app needed to support terabytes of real-time retail inventory from 50 retailers and 300+ shop locations to successfully connect traditional bricks and mortars retailers with smartphone shoppers in Sydney.

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Cirrus Tech Launches Windows® Server Cloud VM Hosting

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Toronto, Ontario – Cirrus Tech Ltd., a Canadian web hosting company specializing in shared, VPS and cloud hosting services, announces the launch of its latest offering – Windows® Server Cloud Virtual Machine (VM) Hosting. Their VM plans are designed for users looking for a bare-metal hypervisor solution and offer all the benefits of running a dedicated server with the advantages of virtualization such as lower costs, scalability, and high-availability. Cirrus VM hosting services include guaranteed dedicated resources, a fully redundant infrastructure and the ability to manage, control and customize your environment.

 

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Google, Microsoft said to be creating new cloud services

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The two rivaling software giants are rumored to be in a run-off to introduce new Infrastructure as a Service platforms for the cloud, which could mean trouble for Amazon.

Google and Microsoft are reportedly neck and neck to get an Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing offering off the ground in the near future.

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Manufacturer to move hosted JD Edwards ERP to 'virtual private cloud'

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For some companies considering cloud ERP, managed hosting might be the vehicle that takes them there. It’s true of TUG Technologies Corp., a manufacturer of aviation ground support equipment based in Kennesaw, Ga., that is moving its Oracle JD Edwards ERP to a “virtual private cloud” at its New York-based managed hosting provider, Velocity Technology Solutions Inc.

 

To others, hosting a private cloud on remote virtual infrastructure is enough. "The 'virtual cloud' is real," said George Goodall, senior research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, based in London, Ontario. "We've seen an evolution in hosting. Initially, enterprises put their own hardware into a provider's data center. And then the provider offered managed services with patching and upgrades on standardized hardware. And now that hardware actually hosts a variety of different applications in a virtualized infrastructure, hence the virtual cloud."

 

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UltraServe Selects IBM Technology for Rapid Cloud Platform Expansion

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UltraServe Selects IBM Technology for Rapid Cloud Platform Expansion SYDNEY, Australia, 17 May, 2012:  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that UltraServe, a local leader in trusted cloud and managed hosting services, has selected IBM technology to support its next generation cloud platform expansion to deliver a significant capacity increase to its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform providing its clients with cost effective Australian public and hybrid cloud solutions. 

 

UltraServe’s orchestration software is layered above the IBM integrated platform, empowering the combined solution to deliver customised cloud services with agility and flexibility. This enables customers to self-serve and brings a full-service IT catalogue to their fingertips.

 

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BitCloud Achieves VMWare Enterprise Partner Status

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Sydney, 16 May 2012 – BitCloud, Australia’s leading provider of cloud-based services and business solutions, has announced that it has attained VMware Enterprise Partner status.

 

BitCloud’s engineering team has continued to enhance and expand BitCloud’s stable, secure and highly scalable cloud platform in recent years enabling the ongoing rapid growth of the company’s customer base.

 

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Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront web hosting service

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Amazon Web Services has extended its CloudFront web hosting service to include dynamic content that can be personalized for each visitor.

CloudFront serves content from 30 locations worldwide, compared to the more than 1700 locations in Akamai's CDN (content delivery network).

AWS is beefing up the CloudFront service: Last month it added the ability to stream live content to Apple iOS devices and to PCs running Microsoft's SilverLight.

 

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HP expands Cloud services beta

Organisations can test out HP's soon-to-be commercialised compute, storage and content delivery services.

Preparing for its entry into the market for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), has launched a second beta program of Cloud computing services it plans to offer commercially.

The company's HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network services can now all be accessed by the public. All the services will be offered on an hourly pay-as-you-go model.

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Up next for the Cloud: Big data analytics?

It's all about adding complementary services.

In an effort to diversify its Cloud offerings, NaviSite - a Time Warner Cable Cloud computing and managed hosting company - announced plans to offer storage service for customers in what one analyst says could the beginning of service providers looking to offer big data analysis from the Cloud.

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CloudSigma Launches First SLA-Backed Distributed SSD Storage Solution in Public Cloud IaaS

LAS VEGAS, May 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, today announced SigSTORE, the industry's first SLA-backed distributed SSD storage solution, for its public cloud IaaS offering at Interop Las Vegas. SigSTORE effectively eliminates growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud, while achieving seamless delivery and unprecedented cost efficiency.

SigSTORE is uniquely sold as a utility service, unbundled from other resources, including RAM and CPU, so companies can purchase gigabytes and IOPS in terms of minimum performance levels, without issues of over- or under-provisioning. With up to 2 terabytes of space on each SSD drive and the ability to set minimum guaranteed IOPS on an individual, drive by drive basis, companies using CloudSigma's IaaS platform can ensure they have the flexible storage resources for any business scenario or critical application, at a cost that doesn't break the bank.

 

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Private Cloud and Software as a Service Drive Cloud Adoption by Interop Attendees

LAS VEGAS, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Adoption of cloud computing is largely being driven by software as a service and private cloud adoption according to a study released by Network Instruments. Although the majority reported improved application availability and user experience, over twenty percent indicated their ability to monitor and troubleshoot worsened after deploying cloud.

Cloud Becomes Commodity: Seventy-four percent of respondents have cloud computing services running on their network. Of these respondents, 45 percent have implemented some form of software as a service (SaaS) like Salesforce.com or Google Apps. This was followed by infrastructure as a service (16 percent). A smaller number (11 percent) rely on some form of platform as a service (PaaS) such as Microsoft Azure or Heroku.

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Open Source Spotlight - OpenStack: Building a more open Cloud

What is OpenStack? The greatest fear for some IT managers with making the leap to Cloud is not security but being locked in to a proprietary system. OpenStack emerged to address this fear and, as Rohan Pearce explains, it shows every sign of successfully opening up the Cloud
OpenStack is a collection of open source software for building public and private Clouds. It can be used either by providers who want to deliver infrastructure as a service to customers or enterprises that want a private Cloud for on-demand, self-service provisioning of compute services for departments.

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What is OpenStack? The greatest fear for some IT managers with making the leap to Cloud is not security but being locked in to a proprietary system. OpenStack emerged to address this fear and, as Rohan Pearce explains, it shows every sign of successfully opening up the Cloud

OpenStack is a collection of open source software for building public and private Clouds. It can be used either by providers who want to deliver infrastructure as a service to customers or enterprises that want a private Cloud for on-demand, self-service provisioning of compute services for departments.


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Cloud Hosting Your Website: Cloud Hosting Providers

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NSW Technology Strategy Released

The NSW Government today released its final report on how it will buy and use billions of dollars in technology for the next ten years.

The process is thought to be an important step that leads to cloud computing, which saves money and improves flexibility by hosting computers in off-site locations connected to users via the internet.

But while cloud computing is the basis of products like Google’s Gmail and Facebook, it also comes with risks because all services become dependent on the internet.

The Government is moving much slower on cloud systems than industry would prefer and has only committed to establishing a pilot “private cloud” that uses systems owned by its own agencies by Q2 2013 with agencies migrated to “private cloud” systems by 2015.

Read this full article at http://goo.gl/To9SG

Cloud Web Hosting Reviews – Australian Cloud Hosting Providers

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What is Cloud Hosting? – Australian Cloud Hosting Providers

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NSW Technology Strategy Released

The NSW Government today released its final report on how it will buy and use billions of dollars in technology for the next ten years.

The process is thought to be an important step that leads to cloud computing, which saves money and improves flexibility by hosting computers in off-site locations connected to users via the internet.

But while cloud computing is the basis of products like Google’s Gmail and Facebook, it also comes with risks because all services become dependent on the internet.

The Government is moving much slower on cloud systems than industry would prefer and has only committed to establishing a pilot “private cloud” that uses systems owned by its own agencies by Q2 2013 with agencies migrated to “private cloud” systems by 2015.

Read this full article at http://goo.gl/To9SG

ElasticHosts Expands Cloud Hosting Portfolio with Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers

London, UK May 3, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to meet the needs of all organisations; from micro businesses with no technical expertise right the way through to larger enterprises that want additional services such as cloud migration, server management, managed back-up and disaster recovery for their cloud based infrastructure.

ElasticHosts’ existing solutions provide flexible, pay-as-you-go, self-service cloud servers to organisations. With full admin access, customers log in, configure their software and adjust server capacity to match demand. By partnering with Hybrid Sites, ElasticHosts’s Cloud Sites provides scalable, redundant cloud web hosting for standard PHP/MySQL websites without the need for any server administration. Cloud Sites hosts files for the customer, giving them all the redundancy and scalability of the cloud without having to manage the underlying servers.

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SingleHop Expands Operations, Opens Data Center in Phoenix, AZ

CHICAGO, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SingleHop, Inc., a leading dedicated server and cloud hosting provider, today announced the opening of a Data Center in Phoenix, AZ. The facility, operated by IO, the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services, is the first Western US expansion for SingleHop. The company will now offer its customers the option to choose which data center they want their hardware to reside within.

Initially, the modular data center technology will allow SingleHop the capacity for 2,500 servers and act as the third location for all of its cloud hosting products. Unlike traditional data center build-outs, modular data centers allow for the deployment of data center capacity in a fraction of the time.

SingleHop is a dedicated server and cloud hosting provider that offers highly scalable, on-demand infrastructure services to both end-users and resellers primarily under monthly contracts.

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Google Drive Begs the Question: Who Owns Your Data in the Cloud?

Like any new technology, data storage in the cloud has gone through a maturation period. Employees started out, way back in 2007, moving a few files over to Dropbox.com. Then, IT started experimenting with cloud storage through more robust services like Rackspace Cloud Files. Now, executives are starting to wonder if all enterprise storage can be hosted in the cloud, and not in an on-premise data center.

Questions About Google Drive

Every so often, a debate about cloud storage crops up, and it presents a good opportunity for IT executives to take stock of their own agreements, especially when it comes to storage. Last week, Google announced Google Drive with great fanfare. Within a few hours, users were already gaining access to the service, which provided 5GB of document and media storage for free.

Enterprise Cloud Storage: Read the Contract

That's why, for enterprise cloud storage, most experts say the most critical step with storage policies is to investigate the actual contract you have with the vendor. This might require scrutiny from a corporate attorney, and further investigations into such intangibles as how to retain data archives if a cloud storage vendor goes under and how to encrypt access to the cloud storage.

In the end, Google Drive is a good reminder about studying vendor agreements and terms of service, negotiating terms that match existing corporate policies, and deciding which data is appropriate for the cloud and which data should never leave the servers in your own data center.

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Amazon Cloud Drive Gains Desktop App

Amazon has introduced a desktop application for Cloud Drive, its consumer data-storage service, to better rival the recently launched Google Drive and other cloud storage services.

Cloud Drive, which launched last year, gives people tiered levels, starting with 5 gigabytes of free storage, or enough to hold about 1000 songs or 2000 photos. Services are then available for US$20 to US$100 per year, depending on disk space, maxing out at 1000 gigabytes.

Google last week launched Google Drive, a similar service for storing and sharing files online, which also offers 5GB of free capacity — which is cheaper than the popular service Dropbox. With the desktop application, Amazon's service makes Cloud Drive a bit easier to use, and better integrated with a computer than its browser-based version.

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Copyright Lost In The Cloud

KPMG reckons that cloud computing will add $3 billion to our GDP in 10 years. But will the opportunities of the cloud be constrained if we don't fix copyright law?

Until now, the issue of copyright and the internet has been focused on the consumer space, but the implications could soon be felt in the business world, too.

Senator Stephen Conroy said that the copyright issue will be fixed by the inquiry into copyright reform being undertaken by the Law Reform Commission (LRC). The question is, of course, whether the inquiry will try to add to the existing complexities of copyright law, or whether it set a few high-level principles that will enable us all to benefit from the cloud. The LRC has a big, important job on its hands.

How do you think the copyright issue can be fixed?

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Go Daddy Serves It Up In The Cloud

Web hosting and domain name provider, Go Daddy, is now offering a cloud server service which it says gives businesses the ability to move from traditional hosting to more advanced, scalable servers with flexible network options, and at a lower cost.

Go Daddy vice president of hosting development, Brian Krouse, who oversaw the development of the technology says cloud servers takes “Infrastructure as a Service to a whole new level," and he adds, “helps businesses that need both cost effective flexibility and scalability."

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Clouding the Issue

Though “the cloud” may sound like a cult or a threat from a horror movie, it’s actually an incredibly smart, efficient and cost-effective way of managing data in a business setting.  On its most basic level, cloud computing is the practice of using virtual data storage technology.  This can range from something as specific as Google Documents, to something as simple as uploading photos or documents onto a profile.

Former New York Jets quarterback, Tony Merendino, runs ServIT; an infrastructure company that provides hardware, middleware stacks, IT services and most importantly, cloud hosting and managed services, primarily for the manufacturing and distribution industries.

ServIT also provides what they call image-based backup, a process for a computer or virtual machine that creates a copy of the operating system and all the data associated with it, including the system state and application configurations. The backup is saved as a single file that is called an image. This insures that a company’s data and entire IT infrastructure are completely safe in the cloud.

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Fast Cloud Adoption Risks IT Export: AGIMO

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has urged caution on cloud adoption, saying that it doesn't want to be on the leading edge. IT departments that wait too long and get left behind might find themselves redundant, according to one industry analyst.

Speaking at the Trend Micro Evolve.Cloud conference in Sydney today, AGIMO first assistant secretary of agency services, John Sheridan, said that there are many considerations when adopting cloud, warning that adoption isn't as simple as "ticking the iCloud box on your iPad".

Forrester vice president and principal analyst for Asia Pacific, Michael Barnes, who spoke earlier in the day, said that there is an air of urgency to cloud adoption, as there are external organisations out there that may represent a credible threat to internal IT departments.

"Internal IT has competition. Cloud providers and even traditional hosting service providers and other folks who have been in this space, who are now embracing cloud approaches — they are legitimate competition to us," Barnes said.

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Virtual-Q Announce Strategic Relationship with Rackspace®

Virtual-Q, a leader in Hosted Virtual Desktops, today announced a strategic relationship with Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, for its hosting needs. Virtual-Q will use Rackspace's global datacenters to host their 'Q' hosted virtual desktop platform. The decision to select Rackspace was driven by Virtual-Q's rapid growth and the increasing needs of its customer base for a complete hosted virtual desktop solution that utilizes scalable and reliable datacenters.

To support a growing global presence, Virtual-Q needed a world-class data center provider with a geographically redundant infrastructure, robust network and industry leading uptime. Following an extensive evaluation process, Virtual-Q chose Rackspace to host the 'Q' not just because of their technology, but because of their Fanatical Support® service.

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