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Dynapp Adds The Planet Server Cloud

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The Planet announced that Dynapp has adopted the company’s new Server Cloud as an added service for its existing hosting platform.Dynapp provides a broad array of applications and services for websites and web-based businesses, all built on its proprietary content management system. Additional Dynapp services include development of e-commerce systems, e-mail newsletters and other web-related requirements.

“Our clients count on us for unequivocal service and reliability,” said Dynapp Chief Technology Officer Wes Byrd. “We’ve had a number of questions from clients about cloud solutions, so we carefully evaluated a number that we felt were possibilities. Hands-down The Planet provided the best solution for our business. The fact that bandwidth is included with each virtual server, accompanied by predictable pricing with no surprises, provides us with assurances that our clients will find this to be a good product for their specific requirements.”

“We expressly designed Server Cloud to meet the requirements clearly articulated by our customers,” said Tom Blair, vice president of Global Sales for The Planet. “Customers rely on us for high availability, seamless scalability and generous bandwidth, which they’ll find in our new Server Cloud. There’s already been tremendous interest in this new offering, as an important and attractive option to add to their existing hosting capabilities, because of the significant value it provides.”

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Open-Source Cloud Hosting

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

We all know Rackspace right?  They are one of the largest  hosting companies and a cloud computing service provider on the planet.  They are the 2nd largest cloud hosting company out there.  They are gambeling that big customers will prefer an open, free roaming cloud to one with a proprietary wrapper. On Monday, the company heralded the launch of OpenStack, an open-source take on the underlying technology behind cloud computing services.

Large organizations Dell, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and NASA have signed on to back the OpenStack idea and think that it will change the future.  Companies like Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google, VMware and I.B.M. often hold discussions around building standards in the cloud computing arena. And  various programs are under way to make it easier to move data from one cloud service to another, so that customers feel as if they have real choice in this market.

Do you think open source cloud hosting is the answer?

My thoughts on open source cloud hosting:
It will help standardize the arena.  I don’t know if a company like Rackspace should be behind it, but I do believe that it will help. Open source software is critical to the growth of both software-as-a-service and cloud computing, and cloud-based computing in turn is making it easier for open source vendors to lower costs.

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HostingCon 2010: DedicatedNOW Educates Attendees about Cloud Hosting Infrastrucutre

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

CEO of DedicatedNOW Jason Silverglate, will be speaking at HostingCon 2010 in Austin, TX. The hour presentation will be at 4PM on July 21st in the tradeshow’s “Cloud Track” and is focused on cloud design, from start to finish.  He will be talking about DedicatedNOW Educating Attendees about Cloud Hosting Infrastructure and how it can help their online business.  It should be a good session to attend.  I will be there if any of you have questions for us!  Looks like DedicatedNOW cloud hosting is going to be here very soon.  Maybe they will get rid of their virtual clustering server and switch to a cloud server.  I guess we’ll see!

“There is a lot of confusion about what a cloud is and even more confusion over how to build a truly efficient and sustainable cloud,” says Silverglate, CEO of DedicatedNOW, a managed dedicated hosting company. The CEO’s presentation will cover all facets of cloud design, including hardware, network configuration, storage considerations, selection of hypervisor and cloud management software.

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