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Scared of the Cloud? Look Who’s Already Inside.

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

The cloud is a nebulous term. Everyone seems to be talking about this cloud where you can store files, listen to music, and receive computing power from.  And even scarier, everyone is moving into that cloud and wanting you to come along!

But what is cloud computing exactly? Why is it so attractive to people? What can you experience?

The cloud is simply a large pool of physical servers, located elsewhere, that can power a website or store information.  Instead of having all of your power confined to onsite servers, you simply receive all of your resources from a giant server pool offsite.  This giant server pool is called “a cloud.”

People are attracted to the cloud because it contains a potentially unlimited amount of computing power on demand.  If your website receives a large, sudden amount of traffic, you can order more power from “the cloud” and meet those traffic demands almost instantaneously.  This ability of being able to handle any sort of traffic situation is called, “scalability” and “instant.”  Some other buzz words associated with cloud computing.

Cloud computing is also much more cost-effective.  Instead of paying for the bills of having physical servers onsite, a large IT team taking care of those servers, and paying for power that isn’t even used, you pay for what you want and use.  Computing power becomes just like a utility, like electricity or heat.

Many large companies have switched to cloud computing because of these three advantages.  Netflix switched to cloud computing in order to handle all the streaming on its site.  Google utilizes the virtually unlimited amount power to handle the loads of information it has to sort through and store.  Amazon, Groupon, SalesFoce.com all use cloud computing to make shopping for millions around the world run smoother.   Many of these companies even attribute their enormous success to cloud computing.

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Merry Christmas

Sunday, December 25th, 2011

We here at bestcloudserver want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas

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Cloud Database Startup Xeround Raises $9.3M

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Database virtualization startup Xeround has raised $9.3 million in Series C funding Benchmark Capital, Giza Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership. This would mean that the startup has raised over $30 Million to days.

Xeround offers a cloud database-as-a-service for MySQL-based applications. Currently the service is offered for EC2 MySQL databases, as well as Rackspace-MySQL and Heroku-MySQL applications.

Xeround’s cloud database allows service providers, ISVs and customers to run their applications in the cloud and automatically scale up or down, all while ensuring availability in the event of failure or schema changes.

The startup promises auto-scaling, elastic-usage, high availability and multi-tenancy, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround’s service currently has hundreds of paying customers.

Xeround, which competes with Salesforce’s Database.com, will use the funding to expand its cloud database solution as well as further marketing and sales operations.  You should be expected to see some pretty amazing cloud database offerings in the next 1-3 years out of these guys.  Their offerings are pretty sweet.

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