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As our use of the internet and cloud computing grows the demand for data centers is continually abounding. Data center providers are therefore increasingly looking for solutions to become more efficient, cutting their own costs whilst reducing their environmental impacts

LONDON--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--British authorities recently uncovered a terrorist plot to take out key Internet nodes in London*. In response to this and other growing threats - such as climate change-driven natural disasters - Interoute has launched a new Virtual Hosting Platform. As Europe's largest network, Interoute uniquely provides a Geographic Failover capability to ensure that companies' valuable business systems will keep working even if a disruption occurs in one location.

This trilogy of articles looks at the development of bigger and better data centres across the world. It considers what is driving this construction boom, some of the challenges it faces and examples of how it is being implemented.

The final instalment of this trio of articles looks at the features of the two cloud server deployment models, public and private, as well as discussing how they can deliver real cost savings to their customers.

The following instalments go on to discuss how they generated some of the key features that drive the adoption of the cloud at both a personal and enterprise level. This instalment covers the two performance related benefits of scalability and reliability.

This trio of articles introduces the key component in cloud computing, the servers that underpin each service and provide the computing resource, as well as describing how they provide some of cloud computing's most notable benefits.

From the first time online publisher to the multinational corporation, a significant proportion of the websites that exist on the world wide web today, perhaps around a third, are constructed using what are broadly known as Content Management Systems or CMSs...

Every website needs to be hosted somewhere and so every business or private individual who is looking to claim one small corner of the world wide web for themselves will have to get to grips with the idea of web hosting and find their way through the many options that will be available to them. The following three part article outlines a few of the paths that prospective web site owners can take to get their site online.

Of course if an e-commerce site has recurring down time or reliability issues, the consumer may be put off using that site due to the expected hassle it may cause them if, for example, they are half way through a purchase when things go wrong.

Having previously explored the main opportunities for making data centers greener, by reducing the amount of energy they use and using renewable sources, it is worth taking a look at some of the latest solutions and innovations that operators are coming up with to tackle the issues.

It is a fundamental part of a business's strategy to consider how their websites are hosted; how their servers can respond to high bandwidth if their sites become more popular, how they can ensure that they can keep up with changes in their online propositions, and the demands of their market place. The solution will often be colocation hosting, but what exactly is colocation and how does it work?

If you have ever set up either a personal or business website you will no doubt have encountered the concept of website hosting. The following article aims to give a useful overview to the options that are available to you and how they meet the differing aims of security, availability, cost, technical guidance and performance.

The following lens looks at the merits of two hosting options that are worth considering for clients or individuals who do not want to rent server/hosting resource from a hosting provider and instead invest in their own equipment.

The traditional path for most businesses and private clients to follow when they require web hosting is to purchase a hosting package which gives them access to space on a physical server, housed within a secure purpose built data center, together with a degree of support. This lens explores this route it a little more detail.