Amazon Cloud Player Review

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Posted on 29th March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Amazon the cloud hosting and storage giant beat Apple, Sony, Microsoft and all the other music sites to the punch when they released a fully working cloud storage and playback system. Seems like it’s working well on the majority of desktop web browsers. The Amazon cloud players is also working on Android devices but it’s still not working on my iPhone or my iPad.  It really sucks that they didn’t optimize it for that kind of traffic because I think those are the majority of the people that are well off enough to pay for this service.  Most Android users complain about paying a $1 for an app where Apple users pay tons of money for their apps and devices.

It’s not a Flash issue, it’s pretty sad and STUPID but it appears that Amazon may have simply blocked the mobile version of Safari from playing back songs through Cloud Player. When you load the player on any of your iOS devices like the iPhone, you get a warning that the browser isn’t supported. You just left out MILLIONS of potential customers.

If you are an Android I think this is a good platform to run on but if you are running anything Apple such as the iPhone, iPad, or iTouch you will want to think twice before downloading this or purchasing anything that has to do with this.

Amazon Cloud Player Review Bandwagon : How is it going to work with all the carriers throttling my bandwidth?  Amazon is great at selling a service but can the large bandwidth cell phone carriers give us the bandwidth we need to stream this all the time?  Can I even access my movies that I’m paying to be on a remote cloud players servers? If 50 million people are streaming a movie at the same time at work is AT&T going to crap out on me like it does even without people doing this?

I give the Amazon Cloud Player a NEGATIVE Review because it won’t play on any of my iOS devices.  Amazon builds these types of apps and knows how to work with everything. They chose to leavout the iOS devices on purpose and I think that is not only stupid and will lose them a ton of money but bad for karma.  It’ll come back to bite them.

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Aerohive Raises $25 Million in Series D funding

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Posted on 28th March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Aerohive distributes cloud based wifi and routing products raised $25 million in series D funding from New Enterprise Associates with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Northern Light Venture Capital participating in the round. Aerohive’s has raised close to $70 million so far.

The money should go to good use for marketing and sales efforts.  Should also go for new acquisitions in the near future. Aerohive not so long ago acquired a fellow competitor Pareto Networks.  This has made them the leading cloud-based networking company in the world. PPC Management

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New ECM Cloud Connect Tool

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Posted on 22nd March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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http://www.iphone-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/box_logo.pngThe new ECM Cloud Connect offers a bridge between content and the Box.net cloud server.  Box.net, the owner of ECM Cloud Connect acts as a bridge between on-premise enterprise content management systems and Box.net’s cloud platforms.

Here’s how it works. Box is partnering with EntropySoft to offer businesses a peice of software will sit behind firewall and will connect to both on-premise solutions and Box, acting as a bridge between the two platforms.  Once you connect the box ECM Cloud Connect will automatically synchronize data between any enterprise content management system (like SharePoint) and Box. Businesses can then migrate specific content to the cloud, and seamlessly archive it back to any internal infrastructure, all while keeping the same folder structure, permissions, and version history
(metadata support will be coming soon, says Box).

According to the Box.net website they have 60,000 companies using its cloud platform, including 73 percent of the Fortune 500. EMC Cloud Connect could bring in a number of new enterprise customers who are on the fence about moving data to the cloud.  At box.net you can store and share your content with confidence. 99.9% up-time guarantee, SSL encryption, redundant storage, configurable permissions, and more.

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Indsoft.net Cloud Hosting Solution

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Posted on 21st March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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IndSoft.net launched a highly advanced Cloud Hosting Infrastructure, offering a number of new cloud hosting services. Their new cloud server offering is a self-serving web hosting and Internet Infrastructure platform that is known for its attributes of being highly scalable, highly reliable, cost-effective and fast. Typically, offered on pay-as-you-go basis, the concept largely facilitates in off loading selective IT workloads and ensure increased responsiveness towards your business needs and superior efficiencies.

“We are thrilled to bring to our customers the absolute cloud hosting solution. It is today’s industry-leading hosting solution,” stated Mr. Murphy John, the M.D. of the company. “We are well equipped and have the expertise to manage and maintain all critical applications and infrastructures for leading companies, worldwide”.

“You don’t need to learn Cloud computing. Just start using it”. stated by Mr. Sameer Kambli, the head of technology. he also added, “Cloud hosting built on the platform can scale to 8 CPUs with 96GB RAM and run virtually any operating system. We also provides High Availability hosting services powered by a load-balanced cluster of servers”.

More details about the cloud servers available  through Indsoft you can visit: http://www.Indsoft.net/Cloudhosting/

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Update on Fibernet and HIT Customer Situation

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Posted on 16th March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

Fibernet released some news yesterday assuring former HIT clients that it has no intention of shutting down HIT’s servers, which must obviously be a great relief to HIT’s 15,000 plus clients. All in all, Fibernet seems to be getting a handle on the situation, taking calls and connecting clients to web design providers so that they can get a move on the design projects left hanging when HIT closed practically overnight.

It’s slow going but hopefully a messy situation can be smoothly resolved for the people at Fibernet and HIT’s clients.

 

 

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Amazon Cloud Hosting Now With Internet Access

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Posted on 15th March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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http://freehostingtips.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Development-on-Cloud-hosting.pngAmazon Web Services is furthering their dominance in the cloud hosting by allowing users to make their cloud serverdirectly accessible to the internet (bypassing the need for a VPN).

Users can actually specify which of their Amazon VPC (virtual private cloud, also known as a cloud server to all the non-cloud techies) resources they wish to make directly accessible to the Internet and which they do not. Customers would have more control over the virtual networking environment, including selection of IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.  This will allow them to overall have much more control and customization over their cloud server.

What does this mean?

When you break it all down is means that Enterprise users can create a public-facing subnet for web servers that have access to the Internet, and placing backend systems such as databases or application servers in a private-facing subnet with no Internet access (and a VPN connection).  They can now store large amounts of cloud data on the Amazon S3, with specific permissions being only allowed to VPC cloud server

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What you need to know about Heritage Web Design and Fibernet

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Posted on 10th March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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FibernetFibernet posted a question and answer on their website yesterday about what is going on with Heritage Web Design/HIT Web Design and the Fibernet relationship. It looks like Fibernet is keeping all of heritages websites live and trying to work directly with it’s customers to help them out and not shut them down. Good of Fibernet to step up to the plate and help these people out.

Heritage opened in 2001 and shot to become one of the the top of the website design companies in the world.  They hit the Inc 500 list in 2007. Heritage Web Solutions closed it’s doors on Tue March 8th at noon directing all its’ customers to Fibernet a local company that hosted Heritage. Fibernet is a local Utah company that has hosted Heritage over the past 10 years. Fibernet is currently taking all phone calls and customer service that Heritage Web Solutions dumped on them. No, Fibernet did not acquire Heritage but they are stepping up to help their customers and make a bad situation a good one.

Below is the question and answers, you can also find it by clicking here.

Q: Did Fibernet buy Heritage?
No. Fibernet did not buy Heritage. Heritage was a customer of Fibernet for many years, and was a reseller of Fibernet’s Hosting Services.

Q: What happened to Heritage?
Heritage shut down its operations on March 8, 2011.

Q: Who is Fibernet?
Fibernet is a 16-year veteran of the Internet and Hosting industry. We specialize in Colocation, Dedicated Hosting, and Managed Hosting Services.

Q: Why is Fibernet involved?
Heritage was a long-time customer and reseller of Fibernet’s hosting services. Most of the services sold by Heritage were provided through Fibernet’s Hosting Platform. As Fibernet is in a unique position to maintain all of the Heritage Web Hosting accounts, we will endeavor to help and support all of the Heritage customers that would like to remain on our servers and transition them into Fibernet clients.

Q: How can I get support for my website?
Fibernet is experiencing much greater than normal call volume and we are working diligently to lower the wait time in our support queue We would advise you to fill out the form below with your questions and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Q: When will I be able to get support for my website?
We are working as fast as we can with the unusually high call volume. We will return your inquiry as soon as possible.

Q: I have an emergency. What can I do?
If you have an emergency (your website is down), please call our support team at 800-305-6995, or start a chat with us by clicking the chat link at the top of the page.

Q: My website has not been finished. What can I do?
If you paid for Web Design services from Heritage within the past 90 days and have not received your site as promised, we would encourage you to request a chargeback from your Credit Card Company.

Fibernet does not do the Web Design work provided by Heritage. We are working with a partner to fulfill your needs directly and would be happy to establish that relationship soon.

 

 

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74% of Businesses To Increase Cloud Hosting Spend

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Posted on 7th March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

Nearly three in four (74%) small and midsize businesses (SMBs) will increase their spending on cloud-based software in 2011, according to a recent survey conducted by Egnyte.

Over half — 51% — of SMBs, meanwhile, will bump up their budgets for collaboration software this year. Egnyte, which sells storage, backup, file sharing, and other Web-based services, polled 125 of its resellers on the 2011 spending plans of their SMB customers. The survey was conducted online earlier this year by Zoomerang.

Those rather rosy outlooks for the year ahead could turn even brighter: 44% of respondents to the collaboration software spending question said “I don’t know,” while just 6% answered a definitive “No.” (Egnyte rounded up the final percentage breakdowns in its report, which results in a total of 101% for the collaboration question.)

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Attending Cloud Connect Conference

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Posted on 2nd March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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http://blog.gogrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/cloud_connect4c1.jpgBest Cloud Server will be represented at the upcoming Cloud Connect Conference by CEO of  BestCloudServer Lane Livingston.

Cloud Connect is one of the best conferences around for people to go to meet other people in the cloud hosting industry.  If we all work together in the cloud, it will further the technology.  This will save people more money, save us time, resources, and hardware.

The Cloud Connect 2011 conference will be held in the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, March 7-10, and will bring together industry leaders from across the globe to share in informative and strategy-oriented discussions of the cloud’s emerging impact on business today.

“With the recent release of our cloud server product, we’ve experienced tremendous response from business and website owners who are eager to tap into the power and convenience of the Cloud,” stated NetHosting CEO, Lane Livingston. “Attending venues like Cloud Connect is part of an enveloping strategy to further optimize our customers’ experience with our cloud product.”

Cloud Connect, produced by TechWeb, is known for being the only event that brings together the entire cloud eco-system to engage in stimulating and innovative dialogue designed to drive the growth of cloud computing as a profitable, game-changing technology. Keynotes will include Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO and VP, and James Staten, VP and Senior Analyst of Forrester Research, to name a few.

 

 

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Egnyte Cloud Hosting App

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Posted on 1st March 2011 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Egnyte announced today it will launch an enterprise application this week for the new iPad 2.0. The Egnyte Enterprise for iPad app is the only solution of its kind with enterprise class data security, 24/7 access to files and complete file server user management capabilities, including complete control on file access rights, file access audit information and version tracking.

“Enterprise adoption of the iPad is exploding. Companies are looking to make all critical information and application assets available via the iPad anywhere, anytime,” said Matt Murphy, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and manager of its iFund. “Egnyte’s storage solution has hit the market at exactly the right time to address critical needs around security, management, and simple data access.”

As many of you may not know, Egnyte recently closed a $10 million round of venture capital Series B financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) with additional support from previous investors Floodgate and Polaris.

Egnyte’s unique hybrid cloud technology combines the accessibility and flexibility of cloud storage with increased performance offered by local storage. By automatically detecting and synchronizing changes to files on either local devices or in the cloud, Egnyte ensures that users have reliable and fast access to the files they need wherever they are.

“iPads aren’t just cool, they’re a great tool to increase productivity across the enterprise, particularly with such a large percentage of workers taking on the position of mobile warriors,” said Vineet Jain, CEO of Egnyte. “What’s been deterring so many businesses from developing iPad strategies in the workplace are the security and connectivity issues. The Egnyte Enterprise for iPad app is the only solution designed for all user classes — administrators, employees and business partners.”

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