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As an alternative to the three tiered classification of cloud based services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Sevice (SaaS) - cloud computing can also be classified based upon how the underlying networks are implemented and accessed by the client. The following article provides and overview of the two principle models Public and Private clouds.

A guide to all things cloud hosting with news and advice on topics such as private vs public cloud models, IaaS & PaaS and Virtual Data Centres

London, 23 October 2013: Interoute, owner operator of Europe's largest cloud services platform, has today announced the launch of its free Jump StartUp package which will give startups and developers access to its flexible, on-demand cloud hosting service, Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC), for up to a year. Interoute VDC is the only cloud service to offer free data transfer across Europe, giving startups unrestricted access to Interoute's networked cloud computing.

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.

I attended the Cloud World Forum at Earls Court in London recently. The fourth addition of the event took place on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 June and is the world biggest Cloud computing conference.

Cloud hosting services provide hosting for websites on virtual servers which pull their computing resource from extensive underlying networks of physical web servers.

Security is often listed as one of the challenges to overcome with cloud computing. There can, though, be a number of security benefits, in particular when it comes to public cloud.

The following trilogy of articles investigates the benefits and drawbacks of cloud hosting in comparison to the more traditional 'all singing, all dancing' hosting solutions of dedicated servers. It aims to discuss why enterprise consumers in particular are so tempted to migrate to the cloud as well as the barriers that often prevent them taking the leap

IT professionals and private consumers of technology alike will no doubt be aware of the term cloud computing. A term and a concept that appears to be consuming everything in its path as the future of the IT industry. The following article looks at one incarnation of the technology that offers great potential for enterprise, that of cloud hosting.

The second instalment in this couplet of articles looks at some of the issues that the standardisation of cloud computing, including the European Commission's potential initiative, will aim to tackle and clarify in order to drive the adoption of cloud computing forward, particularly within its ripest markets, such as amongst SMEs.

European cloud hosting provider Interoute Communications announced on Wednesday it is expanding its European infrastructure to meet the growing demand for its cloud services.

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.

The first Italian Open University has launched a project designed to offer cloud-based e-learning. Marconi University says that the use of the cloud will move away from a colocation facility and this has come about as a means to improve the reliability of its digital learning resources.

Cloud hosting is a form of web hosting that is growing in popularity. This is due to the many benefits that include the potential to save on costs, scalability, and less chance of downtime.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one of the three fundamental service models of cloud computing alongside Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Cloud services provider Interoute Communications announced on Tuesday it has integrated the NetApp Storage Virtual Machines into Interoute Virtual Data Center.

The second instalment of this series of posts looking at how cloud hosting platforms match up to traditional dedicated hosting platforms focusses on a number of issues which businesses look for in a package, including reliability, flexibility and responsiveness

Having compared cloud with traditional dedicated hosting solutions on their respective costs and performance issues in the preceding posts in this series, the final instalment provides further analysis of the two in regard to security issues.

Video: An Introduction to Cloud Computing