by cloudtweaks on June 18, 2013
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, Images, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
Misconceptions Traits of Cloud Computing Services There will always be naysayer. Every time a new technology emerges, it’s soon followed be a long line of anti-supporters. Cloud computing is no different. It’s new. It’s trendy. It threatens the business model of some companies so drastically, that many misconceptions have been perpetrated to try and debunk cloud computing and force clients back to traditional methods of computing. Cloud Computing is Unreliable A truly cloud computing system, one that has been properly designed and correctly executed, has many layers of redundancy built in. The network is constantly backed up. Most are self-replicating,
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How One City Embraced Virtualization as the Key to Success “The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.” - Daniel P. Moynihan (1927-2003), American politician. You won’t normally associate government with speedy decision-making, especially as regards to the adoption of a new paradigm. Fortunately, things have been different as regards cloud computing and virtualization, especially for the Federal Government. Most of the Federal government’s enthusiasm about cloud computing have largely been an outcome of recently-departed Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra’s faith in the technology (The Architect of the Official Cloud Computing Revolution
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by cloudtweaks on June 6, 2013
in Amazon, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Host, Images, IT, Microsoft, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
Is Microsoft Winning The Public Cloud Wars? I came across an interesting survey the other day that details public cloud usage from the folks at the Everest Group. Their report provides a really great snapshot on the state of cloud adoption – both public and private. After reading the report and reflecting on the data, it had me asking: Is Microsoft winning the public cloud war? Now before you jump right to the comments section to tell me just how delusional or what a Microsoft homer I am, hear me out. Private Cloud: The Real Winner First, it should be pointed
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BYOD And The Issues Surrounding Cloud Storage As BYOD increases and employees increasingly use personal laptops, smartphones and mobile devices for work purposes, concerns over data security and data privacy remain the most significant barriers to cloud adoption, according to the latest research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF). Corporate IT managers and CIOs are rightfully correct in their trepidation as they open their networks to and data leakage plus lose control over data once it leaves the corporate confines. While employees benefit from the ability to work from anywhere by using the cloud services that provide BYOD support, they
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Mimecast Email Servers Go Down – 100% Uptime SLA? No cloud service provider should ever claim 100% uptime and it seems that Mimecast had a very tough day yesterday. Its mail servers went down in the UK, bringing down its cloud mail management services and angering many of its UK customers who couldn’t access the mail service. The company blames the outage on a series of servers coming down in one of its UK data centers. It later updated that a server by server check is underway and a good number of the servers have gone back up. This indicates the extent
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UK Government Cloud First Strategy Boosts SMB Cloud Vendors All government departments should first consider any public cloud solution before looking for anything else, states the latest set of IT recommendations issued by UK’s Cabinet office. This is momentous and not only for UK but for governments around the world and how cloud is being perceived. The actual statement is – while procuring IT solutions within any public sector organizations, IT “should consider and fully evaluate potential Cloud solutions first – before they consider any other option”. There are several factors which have contributed to a mature level of trust
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Cloud Infographic: The Cloud Is Here To Stay Three factors were individually tested to measure server performance – processor, memory and storage – and each were evaluated working jointly during workloads for an overall server performance grade. A bare-metal dedicated server was used as a benchmark control. Read More Edit: An infographic provided by Firehost with statistical sources from Cisco, Gartner and Forbes… -60% business workload report in the cloud by 2016 can be found at Cisco Global Cloud Index. – “Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011 – 2016 (Q4 Update published Feb. 8, 2013) as well as Forbes Infographic Source: Firehost
by cloudtweaks on May 14, 2013
in Backups, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, News, Security, Storage, Technology
First High Performance Cloud Benchmarks Unveiled Study highlights need for transparency in the cloud Dallas – May 14, 2013 – Until now, there have been very little verifiable, objective cloud performance benchmarks. FireHost, the secure cloud hosting company, has again bridged an important gap for enterprises that require a cloud they can trust before they’ll even consider moving production workloads to the cloud. To give IT stakeholders some genuine, meaningful and independently verified data about cloud performance, FireHost and six other leading cloud hosting providers were benchmarked by an independent, third-party research firm in a series of extensive tests to provide
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