Cloud Computing in Business is to develop a cloud strategy, you have to get a view that it is a valuable to invest in cloud computing today is to move forward. Otherwise the phrase, Cloud Computing in Business will remain to you as a meaningless phrase. Cloud Computing is more about business than a technology itself. Cloud Computing in Business : Risks and Responsibilities The … [Read more...]
Rackspace Cloud Server : Managed or Unmanaged To Choose?
Rackspace Cloud Server boldly comes in two flavors apart from Rackspace Cloud Sites. Which one will suit you - Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server ? The cost of managed is $100 / month extra, but there is also other charges for Managed Rackspace Cloud Server. To make your decision easier, as a long term user we are presenting you some idea to select from Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace … [Read more...]
Amazon Cloud Computing : Why it is a Danger to Hosting and Web Services
Amazon Cloud Computing is a Danger to Hosting and Web Services. What must be clear is that Amazon Cloud Computing is expanding rapidly, perhaps too much which is never good. Our previous article on Reasons Not To Use Amazon Cloud Computing was basically discussed the matter around the technical and software structure parts, but this article on Amazon Cloud Computing is purely business … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing Market is Not Just the Cloud Services
The cloud computing market is growing rapidly. But the scenario in which we live is made not only of cloud service providers, but also of many companies working in related services, covering the greatest needs of businesses and professionals who have to use a cloud computing platform or possibly its more about Cloud Services or Software as Services rather than Cloud Computing. Cloud … [Read more...]
Google Compute Engine : Get Started
Google Compute Engine has a provision to get a limited free preview after filling a survey like form. Let us look at the form as well as the technical backend. It is noteworthy to mention that, Google Compute Engine is Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS which was announced by Google on Mid 2012. Google Compute Engine uses KVM as the hypervisor and has normal Unixoides like CentOS. Unlike other … [Read more...]
ROI Analysis and Costs of Lock-in of Cloud Services
ROI Analysis and Costs of Lock-in of Cloud Services are needed to to find the true value of the return on investment in cloud or rather shifting to Cloud. We discussed before about Return on Investment (ROI) and the potential risks of Lock-in effect that is associated with Cloud Computing. This article, ROI Analysis and Costs of Lock-in of Cloud Services basically combines these two divergent … [Read more...]
Availability in Cloud Computing
Availability in Cloud Computing is quite well hear terminology ! We often read High Availability Cloud, we read the percentages of probable Availability. So let us see what this terminology Availability actually means. Availability in Cloud Computing and Other Terminologies in Computing These terminologies are not actually specific for Cloud Computing, rather they are for computing … [Read more...]
Convincing Clients to Switch to Cloud Computing
Convincing Clients to Switch to Cloud Computing - Some people have the ability to convince anything they want, client is blessed if it is for the better option. If it sounds great then the credit of the construction of the sentence is from another source in a bit twisted manner, but it does speaks of some right points. Cloud computing is the future of consumer applications, web applications and … [Read more...]
How to Get Started with Cloud Server
How to Get Started with Cloud Server - be it Rackspace or Amazon or any brand which basically delivers Cloud Server as IaaS so you can allocate RAM yourself. This basic question How to Get Started with Cloud Server has been asked by a new user, who used Server before, but knew that, Server means a Web Hosting Control Panel. He tried both Rackspace or Amazon and found no way how to get started with … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing and Dangers of Ignorance
We often speak of the potentiality of the cloud computing platform, but now everyone with the access to an unmanaged server with a few dollars, raising the risks of Cloud Computing security issues, especially it is related to the fact that not all customers have the necessary skills to manage a server and this carries risks for everyone. There is no specific a pattern unique to this platform : … [Read more...]
Java and Lock-in in the Cloud Computing Platforms
Java and Lock-in in the Cloud Computing Platforms is obvious result of combination of three factors. To avoid some fundamentals must be taken into account. Cloud computing and specifically the model PaaS is becoming more and more practical guide point for businesses and it can happen that a developer is required to deploy on fully or partially vendor locked cloud platforms such as Amazon Cloud or … [Read more...]