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RapidScale Cloud Server and Cloud Backup are two products that have been able to increase the scalability and accessibility of server technology for enterprises. Through the utilization of Data Centers across the United States, RapidScale is able to provide a geographically diverse location to store your data. RapidScale will replicate the Data in a diverse location, it will be protected against any natural disasters.

Private Line is designed to transmit data in a digital format from end-to-end, ensuring a high-quality, dependable, and protected signal. Our superior T1 Private Line Services include DS3 Private Line Services, Gigabit Ethernet Private Line Services, Opteman Private Line Services and Gigaman Private Line Services. Private Lines can be used for Video conferencing, LAN connectivity, Network consolidation of voice/data traffic, Remote database backup, collocation centers for data storage, e-commerce applications, and web services.

While adoption rates are high, the cloud still suffers from certain myths and half truths. In this post, we highlight three that every MSP should be aware of.

As John Lewis and Waitrose rolls out Google Apps, cloud computing appears to be finally gaining traction in retail. Retail Week looks at what the technology can do.

A talk programme by Dr Rajkumar Buyya on 'marketing oriented cloud computing and big data applications' will be organized at the department of computer science of Acropolis Technical Campus here on Tuesday.

How cloud computing can be beneficial for small and medium sized businesses. Read 7 financial benefits of moving to the cloud.

Now CIOs are looking for ways to access customer's personal information like birthdays, anniversary dates, or other important events in their lives to be able to provide better services.

Lessons Being Learned about Cloud Computing

Parallelism and performance go hand-in-hand. But achieving maximum performance can be a balancing act, as Intel senior engineer James Reinders explains to Dr. Dobb's editor in chief Jonathan Erickson.

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.

Cloud services are being talked up as a fundamental shift in web architecture that promises to move us from interconnected silos to a collaborative network of services whose sum is greater than its parts. The problem is that the protocols powering current cloud services; SOAP and a few other assorted HTTP-based protocols are all one way information exchanges. Therefore cloud services aren't real-time, won't scale, and often can't clear the firewall. So, it's time we blow up those barriers and come to Jesus about the protocol that will fuel the SaaS models of tomorrow--that solution is XMPP (also called Jabber) .

"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."

Exclusive Q&A with Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Computing, Yahoo! Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model

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?

The physical and informational barriers we once used to differentiate between our "private" and "public" selves are being eroded by technology, and the erosion is accelerating. If we persist in utilizing a zero-sum, spatial conception of privacy to implement the Fourth Amendment, we will render it ineffective as a guarantor of privacy in the face of arbitrary government action. If we continue along this path, the Fourth Amendment will become, in effect, an artifact - a device that protects against a limited class of real-world intrusions (which will become increasingly unnecessary given the other alternatives).

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.

Informational self-determination refers to the ability of individuals to exercise personal control over the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information by others. It forms the basis of modern privacy laws and practices around the world. [...] At the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), we have long advocated a strong role for individuals in managing their personal information, not just by exercising their privacy rights under Ontario law, but also by becoming better informed and using privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). [...] This paper explores what will be possible if proper digital identity services are deployed and the full power of Cloud computing is realized.

aim of this paper is to: - point out that not everything is best implemented in clouds; it may be best to operate some business functions using a traditional non-cloud approach - explain the different cloud formations that the Jericho Forum has identified - describe key characteristics, benefits and risks of each cloud formation - provide a framework for exploring in more detail the nature of different cloud formations and the issues that need answering to make them safe and secure places to work in