Secure Cloud Hosting Now Available in Europe: Firehost At Cloud Expo Europe last month, FireHost officially announced our expansion into Europe, with our newest data center locations in London and Amsterdam. We’ve taken our unique cloud hosting environment, un-matched security, support and scalability that you have experienced in the US, and made it available in [...]
Secure Cloud Hosting Now Available in Europe: Firehost
by cloudtweaks on February 8, 2012 at 12:13 pm in Backups, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, Press Release, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, VPN, Web Hosting
4 Tips for a Successful Cloud Migration
by Rick on January 6, 2012 at 7:29 am in Backups, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Tutorials
4 Tips for a Successful Cloud Migration Perhaps to recap some of the things that I have written about during the year, I would now like to propose a set of best practices for a cloud computing implementation, the ones that I believe are crucial. Here are the 4 most important aspects to determining the [...]
A Look Back to 2011 On Cloud Computing
by Rick on December 8, 2011 at 7:19 am in Blogs, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Dell, IT, Lists, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology
A Look Back to 2011 On Cloud Computing Here we are, at that time of the year when we look back and analyze how things went, decide what should be improved and hoping for the best in the following year. Looking back to 2011, from a professional perspective, I find it easy to say that [...]
Cloud Computing – As You Like It
by Rick on September 20, 2011 at 6:39 am in Blogs, Cloud Computing, Computing, SaaS, Technology
Cloud Computing – As You Like It In one of my previous articles, How To Choose Your Cloud Provider, I was mentioning how important flexibility is when choosing a cloud provider. I believe this is important because I know this is a question being asked by many: will the cloud software be tailored how I [...]
Fifth Annual Amazon Web Services “Start-Up Challenge” Begins Today for Start-Ups Worldwide
by cloudtweaks on August 1, 2011 at 8:47 am in Amazon, Awards, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, News, SaaS, Security
Fifth Annual Amazon Web Services “Start-Up Challenge” Begins Today for Start-Ups Worldwide Fifteen regional prizes and one global grand prize to be awarded to start-ups with the most innovative businesses built in the AWS cloud SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, Aug 01, 2011 – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the call for entries to [...]
IBM Extends Backup with New Cloud Services
by Anuradha on June 21, 2011 at 6:01 am in Cloud Computing, Computing, IBM, IT, News, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology
IBM Extends Backup with New Cloud Services IBM has changed the way clients protect, store and retrieve their most critical data through its new cloud services. Disasters can cause significant damage to businesses and the company claims that the new IBM SmartCloud Resilience services allow clients to retrieve their most critical data in minutes versus [...]
Brocade Distinguished With Multiple Best of Show Grand Prix Awards at Interop Tokyo 2011
by cloudtweaks on June 17, 2011 at 11:48 am in Blogs, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, IT, Press Release, SaaS, Security, Stocks, Storage, Technology
SAN JOSE, CA and TOKYO — (Marketwire) – 06/17/2011 – With intense competition and more than 130,000 attendees at Interop Tokyo 2011, Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) won top distinction for its industry leading Brocade MLXe core router and Brocade VDX Data Center Switch. The Brocade MLXe Series router was selected from more than 300 highly competitive [...]
Should You Be Concerned? A List of Recent Cloud Computing Failures – Intuit Goes Down
by sourya on June 2, 2011 at 9:45 am in Backups, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Education, Google, Host, IT, Microsoft, News, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Web Hosting
UPDATE: June 2nd, Intuit Goes Down… Based on a recent visitor tip to CloudTweaks. FYI — Intuit is in the midst of another payroll server outage right now (June 2, 2011) and it has been going on since noon yesterday, June 1st. Hundreds of small business owners are outraged over the lack of service by [...]
About Private or Shared Cloud and Everything in Between
by Rick on May 26, 2011 at 7:43 am in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, Security, Storage, Technology
Private or Shared Cloud and Everything in Between When deciding to implement cloud computing in order to manage your IT processes, you should start by deciding on the type of cloud you want to store your data on. Since there is no universal receipt for success when implementing cloud computing, you must carefully consider all [...]
Auto Scaling Strategies For Windows Azure, Amazon’s EC2 And Other Cloud Platforms
by cloudtweaks on May 23, 2011 at 3:13 pm in Apps, Business, Case Study, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, IT, Microsoft, Open Source, Performance, Security, Storage, Technology
Auto scaling strategies for Windows Azure, Amazon’s EC2 and other cloud platforms The strategies discussed in this article can be applied to any cloud platform that has an ability to dynamically provision compute resources, even though I rely on examples from AzureWatch auto scaling and monitoring service for Windows Azure The topic of auto scaling is an [...]
Oracle Health Sciences Cloud: An Optimized Infrastructure and SaaS Platform
by cloudtweaks on May 19, 2011 at 8:29 am in Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Invest, IT, News, Oracle, SaaS, Stocks, Storage, Technology
Launch of the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud Just a few years back, everything from health records to appointment scheduling was accessed and updated by development and maintenance of some on-site technology in almost all the healthcare organizations. And now, of late, SaaS has emerged as a pattern changer and gained immense popularity in the health [...]
TELUS To Build $65 Million Green Energy Data Centre
by cloudtweaks on May 18, 2011 at 11:01 am in Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, IT, News, Press Release, Stocks, Storage
TELUS to build $65 million Intelligent Internet Data Centre Investment will provide local and international businesses with the highest levels of IT management reliability, security and scalability Rimouski (Quebec) – TELUS today announced construction of a new $65 million Tier III* Intelligent Internet Data Centre in Rimouski. This new green facility, the first TELUS Internet [...]
Cloud Start-Up Review: Viravis (Online Database Application Platform)
by cloudtweaks on May 13, 2011 at 7:45 am in Amazon, Business, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, IT, Programming, Reviews, SaaS, Startups, Storage, Technology, Venture Capital
Viravis – Cloud Start-Up Review Overview: Viravis is an upcoming cloud based platform for developing database rich applications by anyone regardless of their programming skills and globally accessible via internet. Based in Turkey, a Microsoft Bizspark Startup founded in mid 2010, Viravis with its simple, centralized, web-based development platform makes it remarkably easy for end [...]
Netmagic Leverages Cisco, VMware to Develop Cloud Platform
by Anuradha on April 15, 2011 at 8:00 am in Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, Invest, IT, News, Security, Storage
Netmagic Leverages Cisco, VMware to Develop Cloud Platform Indian managed IT hosting services provider Netmagic jointly collaborated with VMware and Cisco to develop its next generation cloud computing platform. The company has announced the beta release of its high performance Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Netmagic’s newest release leverages VMware vSphere and Cisco’s Unified [...]
Cisco, EMC, VMware Evolve Australian Data Centre to Private Cloud
by Anuradha on April 8, 2011 at 6:37 am in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google, Invest, News, Storage, Technology, Trends
Cisco, EMC, VMware Evolve Australian Data Centre to Private Cloud Cisco, EMC and VMware have teamed on helping KPMG Australia, part of a global network of firms providing audit, tax and advisory services, to evolve its data centre to a private cloud with a Vblock infrastructure platform. The companies claim that this platform successfully blends [...]
Which Cloud Computing Quality Works For You?
by sourya on April 1, 2011 at 9:20 am in Backups, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Education, How to, Invest, IT, Lists, Rackspace, SaaS, Security, Startups, Storage, Technology
Which Cloud Computing Quality Works For You? As any successful entrepreneur worth his millions will tell you, “The customer is always right.” However, in a technology paradigm as new as cloud computing, the customer does not always know enough to be right. In such a situation, the customer has to go ahead to what is [...]
How Green Is Cloud Computing?
by sourya on March 10, 2011 at 9:55 am in Cloud Computing, Force.com, Music, SaaS, Technology, Trends
How Green Is Cloud Computing? “There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.” – Sir Paul McCartney, singer-songwriter and member of the legendary ‘Beatles’. What with all the news about global warming and rising sea levels, sustainability and [...]
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