There are many reasons to think OpenStack, an open-source cloud project that hundreds of companies are involved with, will shape the cloud of the future. However, not every company is on board with this free open-source cloud software project started by NASA. Before deciding how to use the cloud in 2013 and beyond, businesses should [...]
Consumers are reminded through many media campaigns of the importance of “backing up to the cloud”. Saving everything from thousands of family photos to the presentation you’ve spent weeks perfecting to prevent an untimely loss are offered as incentives. Fortunately, there are some excellent companies out there for the best in cloud storage: MyPCBackup.com, with its [...]
Unless your company maintains a large server that can handle heavy web traffic, you probably use a provider to host your website. This service is performed as a cloud application; it is not physically at your location. However, there are differences between services that act solely as web hosts and those that provide full cloud [...]
When you are looking for a reliable cloud computing provider, big companies may try to lure you in with all sorts of promises and flashy advertising. Since they have a larger customer base they can afford more advertising and overshadow other providers that aren’t as big. Some of the mega-companies have a tendency to ignore [...]
Yesterday Amazon had another outage. Outages happen, sometimes unforeseen disasters strike that organizations can’t prepare for. However, organizations outsourcing to the cloud, or any services for that matter, can. Rather than sitting, waiting for an outage to happen, take the steps to procure your service will never go down. We’ve gone over the importance of having a back up, we’ve [...]
Cloud providers are companies that provide computing components, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and allow you to use the equipment of the provider. It is the responsibility of the provider to run the equipment, house and ensure the maintenance of it. Part of what the cloud provider gives is support, storing the equipment, networking the system, hardware, and [...]
In the cloud computing industry, there are a vast number of IaaS providers, but there’s a shortlist of clear-cut leaders in IaaS. Amazon is one of those cloud computing juggernauts successfully providing infrastructure-as-a-service. While it may seems like all other providers are cloud computing copycats, there may be a new standard for cloud computing soon. [...]