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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Rackspace Cloud Versus Amazon : Head to Head Comparison
Rackspace Cloud Versus Amazon or rather why you will go for Rackspace or Amazon for Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Storage, Network services or any managed service. You can check Rackspace Cloud Files Vs Amazon CloudFront if you are thinking only to compare CDN options, please check the latest prices from the respective websites as Rackspace has decreased the cost more now. Rackspace Cloud … [Read more...]
SAP HANA in the Cloud : An epoch-making Change
SAP HANA operates solely in memory HANA provides the ability to get information in real-time, a major advantage for many industries. Previously we wrote about SAP as part of Analysis of Cloud Computing Company. Often SAP is not that discussed like many other companies in the enterprise, there is never any particular relevant news but the Company as we pointed before works slowly and steadily with … [Read more...]
Types of Cloud : Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Types of Cloud is an easy to understand article on Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud with brief description of each types divided in this way. In the previous article - Cloud Computing Service Models and Deployment, which is basically another approach to classify the types of Cloud, we just touched the topic on Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud without going in to much … [Read more...]
Typical Errors in Deployment of Applications and Websites on the Cloud
Typical Errors in Deployment of Applications and Websites on the Cloud usually related to application performance, security and choice of tools for monitoring. The companies and individuals fail to do the necessary planning to determine which applications are good candidates for deployment in the cloud and which type of Cloud Computing Service models are effective for which usage. The aim of this … [Read more...]
Security in the Cloud : The Divided Responsibilities
Security in the Cloud in the part of the services offered by third parties is part of the prospects for risk management of a company to run assessments. An assumption is taken for granted that each service provider running their service from a data centre is safer than your own. However with assumption based ideation, a serious issue like security in the cloud can not be … [Read more...]
CloudSigma Versus Rackspace : IaaS or Cloud Server Providers
CloudSigma Versus Rackspace as IaaS or Cloud Server Provider is now coming up as CloudSigma has US based Server. Read our comparison to choose pros and cons. As we have tested various IaaS or simple Cloud Server Providers, written few hundreds of tutorials, this time we took a thorough look CloudSigma for this article on CloudSigma Versus Rackspace. CloudSigma Versus Rackspace : First … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing in the Past Year : Who Uses and Who Do Not
Cloud Computing technology is at its peak now and shows no signs of decline in the ranks of companies that make use of cloud services. With the emergence of Cloud Computing services, it is becoming increasingly unprofitable for the companies to maintain their active internal legacy software, which are no longer suitable to this time. There are, however, some contexts in which the adoption of cloud … [Read more...]