Does cloud computing really reduce energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions? This has been a subject of debate for some time. The large data centres used for cloud computing are usually more energy efficient than in-house data centres, but there are transmission costs and other overheads. Add to that the difficulty of proper metrics for […]
Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. Cloud computing is used in many different ways these days, but not everyone is completely on board the cloud train quite yet. For those holdouts who just aren’t sure whether or […]
Way to go, NSA: America’s lead in cloud computing is in jeopardy because of you. Foreign competitors think they can grow market share in cloud computing because of concerns raised by the National Security Agency’s PRISM program and other government collection of electronic data from third parties. U.S. cloud computing companies could lose $22 billion […]
About Graeme Caldwell — Graeme works as an inbound marketer for InterWorx, a revolutionary web hosting control panel for hosts who need scalability and reliability. Follow InterWorx on Twitter at @interworx, Like them on Facebook and check out their blog, http://www.interworx.com/community. If we accept that all businesses, when creating an infrastructure to support their online […]
Cheap ways to a fully redundant cluster Over the past 18 months, cloud computing has become an increasingly important component of the individual business; large and startup alike. More and more companies are turning to the cloud for their hosting, storage, and application needs. As companies switch their infrastructure over, the high-availability of these services […]
GigeNETCloud V3.0.6 Release in LA! Chicago customers will soon be migrated to new portal! We are excited to announce the latest version of our cloud portal version 3.0.6! This is only available in the LAX cloud at the moment but we will be replacing the Chicago Legacy portal (V2) with the new GCloud Portal (V3) […]
A recent AMD global cloud study reveals growing trust in cloud computing as businesses achieve measurable value. The study examined attitudes and approaches to Cloud Computing across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. AMD surveyed IT decision makers in public and private sector organizations. The most notable finding is that IT decision makers name Infrastructure […]
The results of an IBM survey of 3,000 chief information officers around the world have revealed that cloud computing and business analytics are the top technology priority for CIOs at mid-market companies and organizations for the next five years. The study found that “Eighty-three percent of the mid-market CIOs identified analytics, including the ability to […]
Managed cloud computing is when a cloud provider providing the managing of scalable, on-demand, and redundant computing resources which are virtualized on many servers. Managed cloud hosting has the security and reliability of private cloud hosting, but it is as cost efficient as a public cloud. Clients will pay for a managed cloud hosting service normally […]
K-12 Schools in the United States Shift their IT Budgets toward Cloud Technologies According to the ‘CDW-G 2011 Cloud Computing Tracking Poll,’ conducted by O’Keeffe & Co on behalf of CDW-G, “K-12 schools in the United States will spend more than a quarter of their IT resources on the cloud within five years.” The study […]