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How to Setup a WordPress blog on Rackspace? Beginner Tutorial
Aug 27th
How to Setup WordPress blog on Rackspace:
Rackspace is a cloud based web hosting application. You can host your blogs on Rackspace using WordPress, the most used and popular CMS blogging application tool on the market.
Some Easy Steps to Follow
You need to follow these steps to upload your blog files into the Rackspace cloud:
1. Open the Rackspace web application and Click on Hosting under Control Panel.
2. Choose web sites from the list of test sites, in case you haven’t created any test sites, you better create one before starting WordPress setup.
3. It will show the site information with traffic details of the selected web site.
4. Click on the Feature tab and select the database from the already existing databases in the table.
Continue…Setting Up The Database
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Advantages of SaaS (Software as a Service)
Aug 26th
SaaS Applications
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Nowadays software-as-a service (SaaS) is the most promising development in marketing and business world. Despite the increasing popularity and market share of SaaS, traditional in-house software vendors still seem to be resisting this concept.
However, as time moves on and individuals grasp a better understanding of Cloud Services the number of firms are adopting. Almost all types of business applications such as: CRM, Inventor, Accounting, Marketing and Project Management to name a few are now SaaS based.
Reasons behind the success of SaaS:
Vendor’s Responsibility
SaaS providers are responsible for managing and maintaining both the software and hardware components of the application. The network issues such as data redundancy, data backup and recovery are also planned and managed by the vendors. They upgrade the software on regular intervals.
Economic
Ownership
Since SaaS vendors charge a set price per user per month, the firms don’t have to pay extra money for modules they don’t even use. It literally removes the maintenance, end user support, and administration costs of the software. The implementation and customization costs of SaaS are also lower than the traditional software. All this results in a very low total cost of ownership (TCO).
Scalability
Hosted software, another term for SaaS offers you more scalability in using the software. By utilizing SaaS you are free to use as much or as little part of any software as you need. This gives you easy and economical access to many programs.
Regular Upgrading
SaaS Vendors regularly upgrade their software, so that the users don’t have to put any effort into installing and upgrading the applications.
Easy Access
A major advantage of SaaS is it can easily and quickly be accessed from anywhere with a web browser. This gives users a great facility even when they are at home or in another country. They can access real time synchronized applications from Laptops and Smart Phones.
By CloudTweaks
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3 Cloud Gaming Companies To Watch…
Aug 25th
Cloud Gaming
is going to be one of the more interesting areas of cloud computing to watch over the next few years. There is a lot at stake and companies are simply trying to figure how to position themselves. There is no doubt cloud computing will be hugely beneficial to the public gaming industry. We have 3 such cloud gaming companies that have entered into this arena. Let the gaming begin!
OnLive
OnLive seems to be generating the most interest of the 3. They have a good number of backers and appear to be in a very good position to capitalize in this huge market. 
OnLive provides the world’s highest performance Games On Demand service, instantly delivering the latest high-end titles over home broadband Internet to the TV and entry-level PCs and Macintosh® computers. Founded by noted technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman (WebTV, QuickTime) and incubated within the Rearden media and technology incubator, OnLive spent seven years in stealth development before officially unveiling in March 2009.
Gaikai
Gaikai, like Onlive has some growing interest and have investors actively seeking a piece of the action. The big difference between the two is that there is no console but rather a cloud gaming browser.
Gaikai is a cloud-based gaming technology that allows users to play major PC and console games like Call Of Duty or World Of Warcraft instantly, with one click. No download or install required. Gaikai has already inked a deal with Electronic Arts, which will see EA titles like The Sims, Mass Effect and Medal of Honor available via the service; in short, this isn’t just like playing Farmville in your browser.
Sony PS Cloud
Sony is by far the biggest on the block and we expect them to make some huge noise. However, things have been a little quiet on the PS Cloud Front. Sometimes that is just the calm before the storm. 
Sony Entertainment patented the PSCloud according to a filing at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Sony filed the patent on March 24, 2009. You can expect them to make a big big push in the coming months.
Stay tuned for more future developments regarding the Cloud Gaming Market..
By CloudTweaks
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Top 10 Cloud Computing Load Test and Performance Monitoring Companies
Aug 20th
Top 10 Cloud Computing Load Test and Performance Monitoring Companies
Keynote
Test Perspective is a cost-effective, completely self-service With Test Perspective you can run the most realistic load tests on-demand and . With Test Perspective you can run the most realistic load tests on-demand and receive immediate feedback on modifications you make to your Web site.
Soasta
Is available as an on demand service in the cloud or as a physical or virtual appliance, SOASTA CloudTest’s seamless integration of test design, monitoring, and reporting offers everything you need to test and deliver high quality Web applications and services at an affordable price.
Monitis
With its Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework, Monitis can now sync to other Cloud computing providers very quickly – from Rackspace, GoGrid, 
Softlayer, and more. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework will automate monitoring in highly dynamic cloud environments, where customers’ servers maybe added and terminated according to the load by management software or manually.
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The Top 10 Cloud Computing Trends
Aug 19th
Cloud computing is the technology of today and tomorrow.
People, companies, businesses, and organizations are fast shifting to cloud computing from client-server model. It is very hard to guess what cloud 
computing will exactly look like in the future or how it will bring changes in IT. However, we can see some trends, IT and business world are setting in cloud computing.
Following are the top 10 trends observed in cloud-computing;
Building Private Clouds
Larger organizations and enterprises are building their own private computing cloud. IBM’s “Blue Cloud” is such an example. Microsoft introduced its private cloud just last month. Private clouds are huge datacenters possessing information and data of all types. They remove the security concerns about cloud computing.
Shift in IT skills of the Professionals
With the paradigm shift from client server model to the cloud computing model, IT workers will need new sets of skills. They won’t have to operate and maintain IT infrastructure, but now they will have to know how to extract and use the best information from computing clouds.
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Top 10 Cloud Computing email services for Enterprise Businesses
Aug 18th
Top 10 Cloud Computing email services
Google Apps
Reliable, secure web-based office tools for any size business Powerful, intuitive applications like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs can help reduce your IT costs and help employees collaborate more effectively – all for just $50 per user per year.
Offers 50X more storage than industry average – 25GB of email storage per employee.
PanTerra Networks
PanTerra Networks is the leading provider of cloud-based unified communications Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 
solutions for small and medium sized enterprises. The Company’s WorldSmart solution is delivered from the cloud through a 100% browser-based UC client, eliminating any premise-deployed hardware or software. WorldSmart provides unified communication services for unlimited digital voice, video and fax, instant message, mobile text and email all with presence through a single user and administrative interface
Cisco WebEx Mail
Cisco WebEx Mail reduces the burden of email management so IT can focus on strategic projects instead of routine tasks. Yet administrators remain fully in control through a web-based console, allowing them to adapt to ever-changing organizational needs. Cisco WebEx Mail includes advanced migration tools that simplify the migration process. The solution interoperates with existing email infrastructure as well as archiving and security solutions. This minimizes disruptions during the transition to a hosted email solution.
Yahoo Zimbra
Zimbra is a next-generation collaboration server that provides organizations greater overall flexibility and simplicity with integrated email, contacts, calendaring, sharing and document management plus mobility and desktop synchronization to users on any computer. Zimbra Collaboration Suite’s advanced web application and server is built on open standards and technologies to deliver unparalleled per-user scalability and lower overall total cost-of–ownership (TCO).
IBM LotusLive iNotes
LotusLive iNotes e-mail is a business-class messaging solution for everyone in your organization. Remote employees, retail workers and anyone who doesn’t work behind a desk will appreciate the easy access to company e-mail. With web-based e-mail, all of your employees will have real-time e-mail access from a Web browser and Internet connection. In addition to a web-based interface, all e-mail accounts are enabled with POP, authenticated SMTP and IMAP capabilities for use with e-mail clients such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook.
ElasticEmail
Elastic email makes email sending easier for both the developer and business manager of a cloud application. Several cloud application platforms such as Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 do not provide an email delivery service and may even set limits on your email sending. Elastic Email provides direct email sending through a simple REST API. This means, instead of having to setup and configure an SMTP email server or service you can begin sending email immediately, without worry using one of the code samples found in our API Documentation.
Microsoft Exchange Online
Microsoft Exchange Online is a web version of the ubiquitous on-premise e-mail client. Features include the ability to log on to your account and wipe your mobile phone of sensitive data if it’s lost or stolen. Some drawbacks: The program works best on Internet Explorer.
AppTix
Apptix provides hosted communications services so you can focus on what’s important—growing your business. Apptix is the industry leader in business-class communications services—the proven company of choice for hosted Exchange email, business VoIP services, and SharePoint collaboration services to more than 20,000 organizations worldwide.
AppRiver
AppRiver was founded in April of 2002 to provide simple, yet powerful email and web security solutions to businesses of any size. The company’s award-winning Secure Exchange Hosting simplifies the setup, provisioning and management of Microsoft Exchange by creating a complete managed service for administrators and end-users.
RackSpace Email & Apps
Rackspace Email provides all the benefits of a desktop program without being tied to the desktop. Log into Rackspace Email from your desktop, laptop, or mobile phone, and get instant access to email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes.
By CloudTweaks
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5 Cloud Computing Operating Systems (OS) to take notice of!
Jul 27th
Here is a short list of some very good cloud based operating systems to look into.
icloud Consists of a desktop with applications and files that you run through your web browser. Because it’s running in the cloud (the internet) it can offer you impressive features such as easy sharing and rich collaboration. The icloud team is 100% committed to providing you with an exciting, reliable, and productive computing experience.
eyeOS Includes 5 powerful applications out of the box thought to be simple and easy to use: Word Processor, Calendar, Mail Client, Spreadsheets and Files Manager.
Cloudo When personal computers were introduced 25 years ago our lives looked completely different. We spent most of our days behind a desk and mobile phones didn’t exist. Today our lives are far more mobile, but computers haven’t evolved that much. Until now. Cloudo is a free computer that lives on the Internet, right in your web browser. This means that you can access your documents, photos, music and all other files no matter where you are, from any computer or mobile phone.
Jolicloud Brings all the benefits of cloud computing today, making your netbook the natural extension of all your other computers and mobile devices. We have mixed a super-optimized Linux* that makes the most of your netbook hardware, battery, graphics and connectivity with a cool interface that will make your life easier.
Cornelios CorneliOS is a web based OS (aka “Web OS“) that runs in your web browser. All applications and files are stored on the CorneliOS server and are accessible all the time and anywhere. CorneliOS is platform and browser independent and is available as free Open Source software under the GPL as well as under a commercial license.
By CloudTweaks
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SaaS Market Is Growing Faster Than On-Premise: Marc Olesen, McAfee
Jul 19th
By Varun Aggarwal
What portion of your revenue comes from SaaS offerings? How do you expect it to grow?
Globally, our SaaS business constitutes 5-10 percent of our revenue. We expect this to grow to 10-15 percent in the next couple of years. IDC has predicted a growth of 27 percent in the Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) market over the next five years, so we also expect similar growth in our SaaS revenue. The on-premise market is growing at roughly 10 percent. Thus, the SaaS market is growing three times faster than on-premise, offering opportunity for our partners and us.
How are you taking SaaS to the market? How do partners benefit from this offering?
A recent report released by Zinnov Consultancy states that cloud services in India will be worth $1 billion by 2015, while an IDC survey reveals that 87.5 percent of users surveyed cited security concerns as the primary issue in adopting cloud-based services. McAfee plans to leverage its comprehensive SaaS portfolio of cloud-based security services along with its global threat intelligence network to help make the broader cloud computing ecosystem more safe and secure. As in the case of our other products, we will be using channel routes to bring this product to the market, and will therefore look at adding a few channel partners in the near future. Partners will be entitled to similar margins and benefits from McAfee.
What are the challenges of security in the cloud?
The concern is largely around the integrity of data. Customers could be storing business-sensitive data in the cloud. What we must do is build customer confidence. If we are able to prove that the technology which cloud providers are using is vulnerability-free, and that the technology can’t be penetrated, we’re driving up the customer’s confidence.
Today we have a solution which automates the validation. From a cloud we can identify vulnerabilities in the cloud provider’s cloud and help him understand what these vulnerabilities are and also help to remediate them. Security certifications such as ISO27001 happen just once or at the most twice in a year, whereas we update our security assessment for a cloud provider on a daily basis.
You have appliances, on-premise tools and cloud-based security, so which tools are meant for which requirement?
We want to be delivery-agnostic. Our customers could opt for an appliance, a cloud-based service or on-premise software. We want to be able to meet their needs. We are seeing customers of all sizes use appliances. UTMs are growing significantly in India, especially in the SMB sector because they get all the technologies they want in just one box. A larger organization won’t look for an appliance that combines all features and functions because to scale to say 1,00,000 users would push the architectural boundaries of appliance technology.
While we have a firewall only as an appliance, other solutions such as e-mail and Web filtering are available as an appliance as well as over the cloud. We are seeing a gradual shift in e-mail and Web filtering toward the cloud. Over 50 percent of SaaS is e-mail security—that’s moving fastest to the cloud. However, we feel that firewalls and intrusion detection will continue to be in the appliance form.
The key would be to be able to manage a large number of gateway appliances from the cloud using a management console. The console should be able to manage all the types of security solutions that you have.
What were your channel activities in the last 6-8 months?
We recently held the McAfee Partner Advisory Council which was an interactive platform for us to share with our partners our technology, product roadmaps and info about the various channel programs being rolled out.
We also launched our Star Trac training series for our Elite and Premier Partners. By the end of the training partners were able to articulate McAfee’s value, key differentiators, and successfully sell our solutions.
What are you doing to enable your partners in newer technologies such as MOVE?
The McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) is a platform which addresses emerging threats to the modern business. MOVE technology provides a platform through which we and our partners will be able to use our research and expertise in virtualized environments as a leverage to provide specifically-designed security for our customers.
We have already briefed our partners and have made prices available to them for the Indian market. We will work with our partners to generate leads and support them in closing new business in this emerging area.
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The top 5 mistakes cloud vendors make — and you should watch for
Jul 15th
The cloud computing market is overheated, and many cloud providers are making some very avoidable blunders
As the cloud computing market continues to heat up, I’m seeing some very profound mistakes made by both established and emerging cloud computing providers. Watch out for these blunders as you explore possible cloud providers.
Cloud computing mistake No. 1: Not focusing on the APIs
Whether the vendor is providing applications, infrastructure, or platforms, their clouds need to provide API access. APIs should be required for everything from accessing a credit report, such as for a CRM provider, to provisioning a virtual server, such as for an infrastructure provider. Even social networking providers, such as Twitter and Facebook, provide exceptional APIs — and that’s typically the way we interact with them.
Unfortunately, APIs are often an afterthought, and they exist as a subset of features the cloud provider offers — or not at all. In the future, cloud providers will be defined by their APIs, so they’d better get good at them.
Cloud computing mistake No. 2: No integration strategy
The fact of the matter is that companies won’t place their data in the cloud if there is no clear way to sync it back to on-premise systems. Cloud providers should not offer consulting engagements when you say the “bad” word “integration.” Instead, they should offer you a predefined strategy and sets of technologies. That means having partnerships with the right technology vendors and a clear map for how to synchronize data from on-premise to cloud as well as from cloud to cloud.
Cloud computing mistake No. 3: Outage defensiveness
IT systems go down from time to time, and cloud computing providers are no exception. However, there seems to be a quick circling of the wagons when an outage occurs and no admission of the facts behind the issue, nor approaches to avoid the problem in the future. Providers shouldn’t spin their mistakes. Instead, they should admit to them and learn from them. We’ll understand.
Continue reading article by: David Linthicum at InforWorld
