ScaleUp Targets Cloud Services “Point of Purchase” Germany’s ScaleUp Technologies started offering cloud services after being in business as a managed service provider for over a decade, a fact that gives them a competitive advantage in terms of established business practices and management vision. The company delivers a self-service cloud management platform aimed at providers of Application Centric Cloud Solutions and Cloud Storage while offering public, private and hybrid clouds. ScaleUp’s data centers are located in Berlin and Hamburg and are well situated to serve various locations across Europe under strict supervision by the European Union authorities. In January, 2001
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Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing: How to secure your cloud hosting? Part 1 So having completed the migration of your application or site to the cloud, say to AWS or RS, be prepared to get surprised by the initial hacker attack attempts on your site! Recently, we had the experience of handling two projects, one with AWS and another with RS. We were surprised to take note of our system event viewer logs. (See the screen shot). RDP- Remote Desktop Protocol To start the hardening process first we disabled the RDP service in the server. This will have its own
Workbooks Develops CRM Solution with Cloud Computing in Mind A small team of Cloud Computing entrepreneurs founded Workbooks Ltd. in 2007, realizing that future is in cloud-based technologies and applications. John Cheney (CEO), James Kay (CTO), Jenny Robb (CFO), and Edward Berks (Sales Director) were among those European business people who successfully started technology companies before 2007 but their new start-up was entirely cloud-based, offering web-based CRM and business applications delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS). The flagship products of the UK-based company include Workbooks CRM and Workbooks Business that were developed with SaaS in mind (John Cheney founded
Having The Best Of Both Worlds With Hybrid Clouds “It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President of the United States. If a child is offered the option of candy or a rollercoaster ride at the amusement park, chances are he or she would love to have both. Even adults would like to have all the beneficial options instead of choosing only one of them. It’s common human psychology to want more, to yearn for “the best of both worlds.” Why
Moving Toward the Open Cloud Two weeks ago, Internap launched its Internap XIP Cloud ™ Storage service. I lead the Engineering organization responsible for development of this new platform offering. A significant amount of intellectual thought went into the question of how best to develop a cloud storage solution. We had team meetings debating the approach we would take from both a theoretical as well as engineering and architectural standpoint. In the end, we agreed on a single principle. Cloud computing must be open. The industry is at a point where open source and standards in cloud computing make tremendous
Virtensys Specializes in Virtualization Technologies for Cloud Computing Manchester-based Virtensys started developing I/O Virtualization technologies for servers and storage platforms and needed less than a year to secure its first round of venture capital funding in October 2006, after venture capital investors Scottish Equity Partners provided Series A funding worth GBP 6.41 million to the start-up founded by entrepreneurs who left market leaders such as Adaptec, Brocade, Fujitsu, HP, ICL and Intel to establish a new enterprise. The company has bet on an innovative vision that data center servers and storage systems will no longer physically contain complex high-speed I/O
Featured White Papers By Symantec Cloud. The Importance Of Data Security In The Cloud When considering adopting cloud computing or ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS), a question most potential customers ask is ‘How secure will our data be in your hands?” Customers are right to ask this question and should closely examine a vendor’s security credentials. At Symantec Hosted Services we have always recognized that protecting the security of our customers’ data is imperative. Our reputation as a trustworthy vendor is built on our past experience, comprehensive set of policies, processes and practices, and a continuing commitment to improvements. We
Cloud Computing vs Utility Computing vs Grid Computing: Sorting The Differences The Pacific Ocean is a water body, but not all water bodies are Pacific Oceans. This may be oversimplifying the situation but you do get the drift. Grid computing and utility computing, though sharing several attributes with cloud computing, are merely subsets of the latter. They may also be considered as implementations of cloud computing, rather than being different names for the same technology. Before analyzing this further, it is necessary to define grid computing and utility computing. It is noteworthy that the nomenclature of both grid and utility
