cloud
HostReview had an opportunity to speak with Cameron Bahar, founder and CTO of cloud storage start-up ParaScale. In the interview, he discusses the market for cloud storage solutions, the current trends and the future of cloud computing, and much more.
Would you tell us a few words about yourself and your professional background? How long have you been involved in the cloud computing space?
It's that time of the year again. In time honored tradition, the giants of the internet announce the most stupendous projects imaginable on April 1st. Just don't take their announcements at face value.
3Tera, a leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing, will be holding an online event today, featuring 3Tera executives and Forrester Research Principal Analyst and acclaimed cloud computing expert, James Staten.
Staten will share his observations on what enterprises are looking at as they build their cloud strategy, and what their concerns and considerations are.
Recent news publications and industry events have revealed important details about IBM's cloud platform. IBM's Blue Cloud Initiative has enlisted new clients and will partner with Juniper to develop new technology for its 13 global cloud centers.
In the beginning, there was the command line. And then Amazon Web Services's EC2 solution could be configured and controlled using a number of in-house and third-party GUI (Graphical User Interface) tools. Enter the free browser add-on Elastic Fox, the commercially distributed applications RightScale and Elastra, and finally, Amazon's own AWS (Amazon Web Services) Management Console.
Ever looking for insightful views on the topics of internet technology and business, HostReview conducted an exclusive head-to-head interview with executives from two major web hosting companies. Our topic was web hosting trends 2009: what does the year hold for the web hosting industry and its clients? We talk to John Lee, Senior Vice President of Small Business Hosting, with Hostway, and Urvish Vashi, General Manager, Dedicated Hosting, with The Planet. Both companies have strong, and well deserved, presence in our Annual Web Hosting Awards listings.
We've just launched a new online listing with cloud computing service providers. The cloud computing showcase points you to the best solutions to your cloud computing needs, all on a single page.
Google has extended the Service Level Agreement for the paid edition of its online productivity suite to offer 99.9% availability. Strictly speaking, the "three nines" uptime guarantee translates to less than 9 hours of service interruption per year, total, but Google's calculation of uptime will disregard outages shorter than 10 minutes. Read on for details.
Last week, Rackspace announced the acquisition of two companies - VPS provider Slicehost and cloud storage service Jungle Disk. While both acquisitions are indicative of Rackspace's new cloud hosting strategy, Jungle Disk is an interesting case, being a cloud storage/backup service originally based on Amazon S3. JungleDisk uses Amazon's global cloud service to allow the sharing of an unlimited amount of information through a secure, mountable network drive and automatic backup. The pricing model is also innovative -- users pay only for the amount of data they store, per gigabyte, without additional setup and support fees.
Will existing and upcoming cloud computing platforms spell trouble for traditional hosting providers? This is an important question, given the massive amount of new developments in that area. But it is really a matter of valid concern?
