Infoworld reported recently that photo-sharing web site Instagram is using SSD technology as their storage medium. That might prompt folks who are storing data and images in the cloud to wonder if they should be exploring the same technology. Here’s a primer to help you decide. The Options Think of an SSD, or solid state drive, as [...]
The basic idea of the cloud is always the same. It is a form of technology that allows enterprises, and small business alike, to run applications that are housed away from the enterprises itself. In spite of this shared basic definition, however, there are several different types of cloud computing. Web Based Cloud Computing. With this [...]
One of the most common things you will find among every industry is the use of “buzz words.” Buzz words have their fleeting moment in the world, from when no one exactly knows what they mean, to where they are used in every single article, at least 10 times. The ones we are going to [...]
Every month, although it feels like every day, we are inundated with the latest craze in technology. From a new iPad every three months, to software updates on the hour, our entire lives have become one tech undated after another. But, there was a brief time period when time stood still. Where families would crowd [...]
We all want a faster website that’s able to keep up with consumer’s needs, traffic spikes, and loads quickly. Great, but how do we make it happen? Check out these three tips from Yahoo!’s best web developers for three easy ways to instantly increase your website’s speed: Use a Content Delivery Network A content delivery [...]
Imagine never having to carry around an actual computer in order to access everything you normally store on your desktop. Instead, you just carry around a light-weight black box and a connector cord for a monitor. This is what using a cloud desktop would enable you to do. That little black box stores your information, when [...]
A few years ago there was no cloud VPS hosting. There was cloud hosting, and VPS hosting. VPS : Virtual Private Server which is a mechanism to slice a physical server into virtual chunks (think of it as slices of the physical computing resources such as RAM and CPU time) that each run and respond as [...]