How to Choose a Cloud Hosting Service

	How the Cloud Democratizes and Complicates Disaster Recovery | How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall
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	How to Choose a Cloud Hosting Service Not sure what cloud computing is, or how it can benefit your business? In this article, I'll introduce you to the cloud, help you interpret the buzzwords, and explain how your business might save time and money using a cloud hosting service such as Windows Azure, Amazon EC2, or Rackspace. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Leveraging EMC Solutions for Backup and Long-term Retention In this white paper, ESG discusses how EMC's Data Domain data deduplication technology can be optimized for backup, recovery, and long-term information retention to effectively manage data growth on tight budgets. Read now. In this Issue How the Cloud Democratizes and Complicates Disaster Recovery How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall First Look: Nivio Cloud Software Service Is Promising, but Overly Complicated EMC unveils preconfigured private cloud tools for partners How to Implement Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure for Big Data Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 Register Now! IT Roadmap is the one day, cost free, professional-level conference and expo that's full of job-ready solutions you can put to work now. IT Roadmap surrounds you with technology's most-followed analysts and the industry's most-innovative solution providers, all focused entirely on building the roadmap you need in crucial areas of enterprise IT. Click to continue How the Cloud Democratizes and Complicates Disaster Recovery When it comes to disaster recovery, the cloud is showing itself to be a mixed bag. CIO.com's Jeff Vance explains how the great shift in technology has both lowered the entry barriers for DR technology and given smaller businesses what could be a dangerous sense of false security. Read More How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions carefully or risk finding themselves stuck with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward. Read More First Look: Nivio Cloud Software Service Is Promising, but Overly Complicated Because Nivio is still in by-invitation beta, with elements such as a native iPad app not ready in time for this article, it's a bit premature to develop a formal opinion on Nivio. An ambitious attempt to adapt Windows--and Windows applications--for mobile devices, Nivio could turn into a powerful service, but right now it's just too darn complicated to use. Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how EMC unveils preconfigured private cloud tools for partners EMC, along with Cisco, Brocade, Intel, Citrix and others, announced a pre-configured private cloud architecture that it plans to sell exclusively through channel partners. Read More How to Implement Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure for Big Data Managing the petabyte-scale and larger data stores that are a fact of life with Big Data is a different beast than managing traditional large-scale data infrastructures. Online photo site Shutterfly--which manages more than 30 petabytes of data--shares its strategy for taming the storage beast. Read More Rackspace launches new OpenStack-based cloud portfolio Company unveils array of new services, including a MySQL offering optimized for the cloud Read More SpiderOak launches secure storage cloud for businesses SpiderOak, a consumer cloud storage provider, today released a business-class service that places management and security control of data in the hands of the user. Read More
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