All Entries Tagged With: "Cloud"
Report: Google & Microsoft Ready Cloud Services for Developers
(The Hosting News) – Competing cloud services could be on the way from two top industry leaders. On Thursday, a report from tech site GigaOM signaled that both Microsoft and Google were readying cloud services similar to Amazon’s Elastic Compute, a solution that provides web-scaling to application developers. Both companies have long held cloud investments, [...]
Backing up Your Cloud Data
One of the major concerns IT professionals often express regarding cloud computing is that their data is left in the hands the cloud service provider, often without any manageable offsite backup solution. Furthermore, some cloud providers rely on proprietary technology that prevents users from transferring data to another provider if necessary. The following are a [...]
Seriously, What is the Cloud?
The formal definition is, well “formal” and we’re inclined to think it like a definition that has been made specifically to confuse rather than explain, but we will start with it and further explain everything one by one. American National Institute of Standards and Technology gives the following cloud computing definition: “Cloud computing is a [...]
Cloud Blogging vs. Blog Hosting
Blog hosting is a topic we cover every month on The Hosting News, and most of the time the topics are related to free blogging software and self-hosted blogging platforms. There is, however, another type of blogging platform that is extremely popular. For lack of a better term, I will refer to it as cloud [...]
Cloud Host Rackspace Unveils New OpenStack Solutions
(The Hosting News) – A variety of new cloud services were recently unveiled by hosting provider Rackspace on Monday. The move follows an announcement earlier this month in which the company launched a new Exchange 2010 solution for businesses. Discussing the matter in a press release, Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier said the offering provided what [...]
HP Unveils New Cloud Solution for Enterprises
(The Hosting News) – A new cloud solution was unveiled by electronics supplier HP on Tuesday. Covering areas such as public, managed and private clouds, the platform is called the HP Converged Cloud. Aimed at enterprises, HP’s new solution makes use of already available technology including OpenStack, the company’s Converged Infrastructure along with management and [...]
The Open Cloud: The Push for Standardization
When one thinks of cloud hosting, it is not difficult to imagine an entirely open platform. This is not a stretch, since the Web itself is open and based on open technology (i.e. HTML, Javascript, and others). Nevertheless, this assumption is actually false. Much of the cloud is closed and based on proprietary technology. For [...]
Cloud Hosting for Internal Business Applications
“The cloud” has become a very popular buzzword in the IT and business worlds. Whether it is in reference to the consumer cloud, such as Amazon’s cloud music player, or the business cloud, such as Microsoft Office 365, the basic principle is still the same. When applications and/or data are hosted on the cloud, users [...]
