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What Is A Cloud Server

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

The advancement in technology has eradicated the distances and enhanced the technological advent towards cloud servers. Time has now changed from costly and unpredictable inter-located corporeal servers that were supposed to be devoted with rents but now the trend has shifted toward a more easy and modified version of servers that we now term as cloud servers. These versions of server is more like and operated in an integrated collection of computing possessions and act more like a virtual mechanism. It is more compatible to virtual private servers in a way that they operate in an integrated network of server but differs in a way that they are separate if any stoppage occurs in any individual hardware attached to the server. Cloud server somehow differs from normal plan of virtual private server hosting.

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These new ventures are said to offer a great extent of reliability and affordability to the users and networks associated with these servers. Cloud server can be counted as one of the premium and excellent performing technologies of recent times in advancement that has enabled companies to reach their distant goals in much faster pace than they were normally performing before. The technical and professional experts have integrated their networking more towards cloud hosting because the effectiveness and efficiency it is operating to its ultimate users. It is not only search solutions for businesses but a storage port as well powered by a more virtual technique. Among the premium features of cloud server the most premier and the prominent are as follows:

Flexibility Of Functioning:

Cloud servers allow the flexibility of modification. It can be fortified with addition of extra constituents and elements in its operations. The hardware can also be added as modification that will also serve to save additional overhead costs so it’s the payback of the cost which is incurred at the time of purchase.

Cost And Performance Efficiency:

The flexibility factor of these servers has cut down the additional cost along with cutting down the consumption of extra time that gets installed in setup of server. The introduction of this dynamic server solution along with other modification of this package has enhanced the performance efficiencies creating opportunities for better expertise and competencies as well

Reliability Of Operations As Well As Accessibility:

Cloud environment has been given an in built networking aspect by amalgamating numerous numbers of other servers in a cloud mode that’s why it is named cloud server. The accessibility and consistency is definite with induced error forbearance.

Summarizing the overall value of cloud server it can be said that these servers has gained the minimization of huge databases to  a more specific forum of database more appropriately  called  precise databases that are supposed to enhance both the server’s as well as networking excellence.

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Heat Your Building With Cloud Servers

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Microsoft knows that the future of computing is in the cloud server, and released a paper today that would address some negatives of the cloud computing revolution and turn them into positives. The paper starts out pointing out the similarities between today’s common furnace and water heater to a modern day data server. All three devices are large metal boxes that give off a lot of heat, and Microsoft argues that we can use that heat to warm up our buildings. By using energy that is already going to be used to heat a building, it would negate the power consumption of the data server.

We need to heat buildings in the winter, and we need cloud servers. Microsoft uses the example of an office building that could host its cloud servers in the basement. Having the dedicated data center so close to its users would increase performance, and reduce the building’s carbon footprint. Currently computer servers consume three percent of our nation’s energy, and heating houses consumes six percent.  If Microsoft can change those numbers around, and remove the energy used solely to power a “Data Furnace,” then the whole world would benefit.

You can read the rest of the article here.  What do you think of this?  All they really talk about are cloud server furnaces to heat buildingsand not about cloud server and how we are to cool them in the summer.  That would be a heating nightmare!

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NetHosting Receives Type II SAS 70 Certification

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Web Host NewsOrem, UT – NetHosting, a global provider of Cloud, Dedicated, VPS Server, and Virtual hosting products, today announced that it has received SAS 70 Type II certification through independent service auditor, The Cadence Group, after an extended audit of its internal processes.

“We want our customers to be assured of our consistent and dedicated pursuit of security in our data centers,” stated NetHosting CEO, Lane Livingston. “So we’ve taken our Type I certification to the next level by becoming SAS 70 Type II certified.”

SAS 70 certification became a market standard after the Sarbanes Oxley act of 2002. While the audit required for Type I certification takes a snapshot of a company’s adherence to its policies at a given point in time, Type II certification is largely recognized as the more valuable analysis of a company’s security-oriented protocols because the audit takes an in-depth look at its internal operations over a much longer time span.

A report issued by The Cadence Group details the controls NetHosting has implemented to safeguard user data throughout the processing of any given transaction and certifies that NetHosting’s facilities are fully compliant with SAS 70 Type II protocols. This report is available upon request.

“With our Type II certification, we’ve done the footwork for those customers that also must obtain SAS 70 certification,” said Mr. Livingston. “As a service provider, having the appropriate certifications is critical for our customers to qualify for their own certifications. Maintaining SAS 70 and PCI compliance takes a huge burden off of our customers and adds tremendous value to our hosting services.

“In fact, an enhancement to the SAS 70 model has recently entered the market, called SSAE 16, and NetHosting is already in the works to receive certification in the form of a SOC 1 report. We also have plans for SOC levels 2 and 3, which have more stringent criteria for security policies and procedures.”

In addition to SAS 70 Type II certification, NetHosting received PCI compliance in April of 2009, establishing itself as the first PCI compliant data center in Utah and one of the first in the world to be added to the credit card industry’s list of approved service providers.

About NetHosting
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