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"aaS Providers Shifting to Commercial VMs. IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers have focused on open source and internal technologies to deliver solutions at the lowest possible cost. But that's changing. In the past year, there's been a rapidly growing trend for IaaS providers to add support for major commercial VM formats - especially VMware, but also Hyper-V and XenServer. The reason? To create an easy on-ramp for enterprises. As enterprises virtualize (and in many cases, build private clouds), the IaaS providers know that they need to make interoperability, hybrid, overdrafting, migration as easy as possible. The question is whether that will require commercial offerings (such as VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services, or Microsoft Dynamic Datacenter Alliance), or if conversion tools will be good enough. I tend to think that service providers better make the off-premises experience as identical to the on-premises experience as possible - and I'm not sure conversion will get them there."

We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS. As soon as you launch some EC2 instances, you want visibility into resource utilization and overall performance. You want your application to be able to scale on demand based on traffic and system load. You want to spread the incoming traffic across multiple web servers for high availability and better performance. You want to focus on building an application that takes advantage of the powerful infrastructure available in the cloud, while avoiding system administration and operational burdens ("The Muck," as Jeff Bezos once called it).

Cloud based data recovery is about preparing to recover business-critical data or technology infrastructure after disaster strikes. With a well-designed data recovery plan in place, your business could save money, time and valuable customers. Data recovery plans get your business back on track as quickly as possible. With data recovery within the cloud, implementation of service is almost immediate and scalability is rapidly adjustable. So implement this service now and improve your business efficiency.

Cloud based data recovery is about preparing to recover business-critical data or technology infrastructure after disaster strikes. With a well-designed data recovery plan in place, your business could save money, time and valuable customers. Data recovery plans get your business back on track as quickly as possible. With data recovery within the cloud, implementation of service is almost immediate and scalability is rapidly adjustable. So implement this service now and improve your business efficiency.

Service providers need to realize that the Cloud business is different than their earlier offerings - traditional hardware or solution and infrastructure managed services. They must transform quickly and direct their focus on modern applications, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), or containers and PaaS rather than just on infrastructure management. The only way forward is to incorporate agility in operations, leverage new-age toolset, establish governance, increase optimization, and invest in security as an integral part of managed services.

Ethernet Internet Connections provide the high reliability and high performance, with speeds ranging from 3MB all the way up to 100GB per second. Ethernet Internet Connection prepares your business for where you are today and where you want to be tomorrow to make your business as efficient and productive as possible.

Whether delivered over fiber or copper lines, a 10Mb Internet Irvine connection provides substantially more bandwidth than a DSL, cable, or even an Internet T1 connection. Moreover, it is ideal for the daily operations of small to mid-sized businesses, as well as access for Cloud applications. The largest providers to offer 10Mb Internet service in Irvine, CA are AT&T, Level 3 Communications, TW Telecom, and XO Communications.

Whether delivered over fiber or copper lines, a 10Mb Internet Irvine connection provides substantially more bandwidth than a DSL, cable, or even an Internet T1 connection. Moreover, it is ideal for the daily operations of small to mid-sized businesses, as well as access for Cloud applications. The largest providers to offer 10Mb Internet service in Irvine, CA are AT&T, Level 3 Communications, TW Telecom, and XO Communications.

ConnectHere provides VoIP Services that deliver high quality voice communications over the Internet. It helps you create a telephony system with advanced communications features such as call routing, voice mail, etc. VoIP has become an integral part of running a business today that offers business communication services such as conferencing, local call as well as long distance calling services.

RapidScale's Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) or CloudRecovery allows you to back-up your infrastructure and data in remote, mirrored data centers that have failover servers. It offers effective, scalable protection while eliminating upfront costs for expensive maintenance and equipment, making it ideal for any size business.

Disaster Recovery as a Service, or DRaaS, provides businesses with an effective approach to replicating and recovering information from your organizations servers. Fastblue utilizes RapidScale, XO Communications, Earthlink, and CenturyLink/Savvis to supply fully managed servers for your data. Additionally, disaster recovery will provide you with multiple storage locations and resources off-site.

Cloud computing -- defined by the ACM Computer Communication Review as a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources that can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust to a variable load and operated on a pay-per-use model -- has been generating considerable attention throughout the high-performance computing community, in both the commercial and academic sectors. This new model is seen as a possible way for researchers to move from processing and managing their own data sets locally, to relying on large, off-site, commercially-managed data clusters.

What about privacy in an era of cloud computing? If I store my data in a cloud, is the data in a "closed container" and therefore private under the 4th Amendment? Or is putting data in a cloud analogous to giving the numbers I dial on my phone to the phone company?

Towards the end-goal of a thorough comprehension of the field of cloud computing, and a more rapid adoption from the scientific community, we propose in this paper an ontology of this area which demonstrates a dissection of the cloud into five main layers, and illustrates their interrelations as well as their inter-dependency on preceding technologies. The contribution of this paper lies in being one of the first attempts to establish a detailed ontology of the cloud.

This report discusses the issue of cloud computing and outlines its implications for the privacy of personal information as well as its implications for the confidentiality of business and governmental information. [...] The World Privacy Forum is a non-profit public interest research and consumer education group.

This document is intended to initiate a conversation that will bring together the emerging cloud computing community (both cloud users and cloud providers) around a core set of principles. We believe that these core principles are rooted in the belief that cloud computing should be as open as all other IT technologies.

"The entry of the Google App Engine into the "Data Stores in the Cloud" arena on April 7, 2008 increases the number of high-profile Storage as a Service (StaaS?) players to three. Here's are brief highlights of the three entrants' features in the order of their arrival as beta versions" [Note: Not updated since 2008-05-06?]

More than a year old, but still useful...?

I'm as big a believer in the transformational power of cloud computing as anyone you'll meet.

SMAC is upsetting the domain. No CIO dialogue is accomplished devoid of considering influence of SMAC on industry and business. Rapid developments in this technology pile are accumulating value to complete breadth of businesses and industries. Rewards are several and appear very captivating, with assurances being made as big as - forecasting future (Analytics), accessible everywhere (Mobile), everything is so easy and networked (Social), and at a very low cost (Cloud). This fresh technology pile has begun changing tomorrow's organization and has influence on every part of a business, therefore consequently on the every software applications being utilize inside the company and by the company.

Microsoft is likely to appoint its cloud-computing head, Satya Nadella, as its next chief executive, a source familiar with the matter said last night.

As longtime Microsoft insider Satya Nadella becomes the company's CEO, he is declaring a new focus on a "mobile-first, cloud-first world."

Level3's Content Delivery Network ensures fast and flawless delivery of your website to online customers with rich high-quality content. It offers a two-pronged solution to this. Firstly, Level3 Edge Distribution caching platform is able to accelerate content delivery as much as 70 percent, providing the maximum security of your content. Secondly, it uses website acceleration technologies to render your site instantly. This is crucial, as a quick page load keeps customers engaged.