Posted on 28th February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
Cloud Hosting, cloud server, free cloud computing, Free Cloud Hosting, Free Cloud Server, NetHosting
Moving your whole life to the cloud can be a task and cost you a lot of money if you don’t know what you are doing. That’s why it takes the right team to help you out. You need to know what you really need and not just switch to the cloud because it’s the new thing or a fad that’s happening. I truly believe that the cloud is the number one thing a business can do to help cut costs and be on solid hardware.
Clouds, much like regular servers fail. You need to have backups of everything you do. Just because you are on a cloud doesn’t mean that you are 100% safe. A computer can only take so much and then it will fail. A cloud is a part of a larger computer that you have a personal chunk of.
Knowing if the cloud is right for you can be a bit of a task. Do you need scalability? Then find a company that will be able to scale with you and teach you along the way. I found NetHosting is a company that not only has hosted my websites for years but has taught me cloud hosting for some time. Get a free cloud server for 6 months here. Try them out and tell me what you think. They have a team of dedicated experts available to help you out and teach you how to use your cloud hosting account.
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Posted on 28th February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
#cloudfail, cloud #fail, cloud computing, Cloud Hosting, cloud server
By now you should have heard the problems people have been having with their Gmail accounts. 1000′s of E-mails have been deleted, accounts have been disabled, and while Google has been hard at work trying to make everything right. This is one of those things that makes people like you and me weary of the cloud. Is moving to the cloud the best idea?
The Google says that the glitch, which first popped up at the weekend, has only affected a small percentage of the Gmail userbase. Initial estimates hovered around less than 0.29 percent of all Gmail users, but that number has since been revised down to less than 0.08 percent of all Gmail users. It’s fair to say that calling the glitch “widespread” probably wouldn’t be entirely accurate.
Don’t move to the cloud unless you are ready for it!
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Posted on 24th February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
Box.net, cloud customers, cloud documents, cloud storage, cloud storage platform
Box.net has raised $48 million in new funding to enhance and grow it’s cloud storage platform. The new round of funding was led by Meritech Capital Partners with Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners and US Venture Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $78 million.
Box started as a simple cloud storage platform to a collaborative enterprise offering with mobile and social capabilities. The company now stores 300 million documents on its platform (more than the Library Of Congress) and has accumulated 5 million users (up from 4 million last year).
Enterprise customers include DreamWorks, Cisco and Dell and 60,000 other companies, or 73% of the Fortune 500, use Box to share, access and collaborate on business content online, as well as from iPads, iPhones and Android devices. In fact, Box has seen 400,000 downloads for its iOS and Android apps.
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Posted on 17th February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
Cloud Hosting, cloud server, Verizon Cloud Computing, Verizon Cloud Hosting, Verizon Cloud server, Verizon Terremark
Verizon has taken their first big steps and revealed their big plans in the cloud hosting space. It’s going after them very fast because it acquired Terremark for $1.4 billion, though that deal has yet to close.
In an interview with Data Center Dynamics, Verizon regional VP of Enterprise, Cloud and IT Services for Europe, David Howorth, said the company is already laying out plans to capitalize on the scale – in data center space and networking – that the acquisition will bring to the company.
Verizon’s cloud computing capabilities applied to Terremark’s data center infrastructure, he says, will enable the company to introduce a full set of cloud computing services.
“We will now be able to couple our computing infrastructure with the cloud colocation space to deliver a full solution for the client,” Holworth told Data Center Dynamics.
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Posted on 15th February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
App Store customers, Apple Cloud Subscriptions, Apple Subscriptions, Cloud Subscriptions
Apple has been planning to launch a new subscriptions model for content-publishers on the App Store. Today is the big day that Apple is officially announcing the new service for magazines, newspapers, video, music and more on the App Store. Yes, cloud subscriptions to magazines are finally upon us. This will mainly be for iPad readers but can also be accessed on iPhone and iTouch devices.
How does the Apple Cloud Subscription work?
When Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing. We’ve pasted the release below. You’ll be getting the best deal through the app, read below.
How will the Apple Cloud subscription help us?
Publishers are selling a digital subscription outside of the app and that is fine but the same cloud subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to App Store customers. In addition, publishers may no longer provide links within their apps that would allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app. This is a huge play for Apple towards dominating the subscriptions arena. They want their hands in everything!
What do you think about the new Apple subscription model? Is it going to work? Are publishers going to like that they are giving the control over to Apple? I personally love the fact that Apple would be doing the billing but what would stop people from scamming the system?
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Posted on 11th February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
Free Cloud Hosting
Anyone out there looking for free cloud hosting? Well, check out NetHosting.com where they are giving away free cloud hosting accounts. You can get a pretty rocking machine for 6 months with a no commit after. I’m trying it out and I love it!
* Up to 4GB Ram, 160 GB Disk Space, Windows Server 2003-08(R2) Web/Standard, Linux, C-Panel, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora
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Posted on 8th February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
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Amazon Web Services said earlier today that its plans to add the Oracle 11g database to its cloud hosting services this year. This will enable users “to perform relational tasks and development work on an on-demand hourly basis.”
Unveiled on Amazon Relational Database Services running Oracle Database web page to educate potential users about the service. The website also enables those interested to sign up to be notified when the service goes live.
“Customers were really excited when we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL because it allowed them to run familiar MySQL databases while offloading the operational responsibilities and capital costs associated with physical servers and datacentres,” Raju Gulabani, vice president of database services at AWS said in a statement.
“Enterprises asked when we will offer the same functionality for Oracle databases. We are pleased to share that we are not only releasing it soon, but are ready to have conversations with interested customers so they can plan for future deployments.”
We’ll see what the new Oracle 11g cloud hosting solution does for the average person, but I believe that it’ll help a lot of people out!
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Posted on 3rd February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
Amazon, C2100 server, C6100 server, Cloud Hosting, cloud server, dell, Dell Cloud Server, dell ubuntu cloud, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, UEC
The Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers have now been outfitted with Canonical’s Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an implementation of the Eucalyptus private cloud software. This is run by the Ubuntu Server Edition operating system. These two servers are specifically customized to run Ubuntu-based cloud services.
In the suggested setup, the C2100 server acts as a cloud compute node, while the C6100 can act either as a cloud compute server or as both a server and a node. Dell specifically set up these servers to organizations developing applications to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Organizations could use the servers to test the applications locally before uploading them to Amazon’s paid service. The servers have a preconfigured testing and development environment. Eucalyptus duplicates the AWS APIs (application programming interfaces).
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Posted on 1st February 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting
Aria Cloud Billing, Aria Systems, cloud billing, cloud billing platform, Cloud Hosting, cloud server billing
Aria Systems has raised $20 million to help expand billing in the cloud. Cloud based billing systems are growing and This brings Aria System’s total funding to $34 million.
Aria’s cloud billing platform handles the whole transactions process. This billing model is for online companies who have subscription models only. Most of the people using the subscription model are billed monthly in cloud subscription model. Another great thing about this cloud billing model is that they work with Authorize.net, Chase Paymentech, Cybersource, PayPal, TransFirst, and RBS Worldpay.
Aria’s large list of clients include Disney, Taleo, Internap, DreamWorks, VMware, Roku, and Ingersoll-Rand. It appears that Aria will be using this recent round of funding to expand it’s cloud billing platform to the UK and other European Nations.
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