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Tips for private cloud success

Posted by: altabel on: April 18, 2012

Private cloud (also called internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a marketing term for a proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people behind a firewall. Advances in virtualization and distributed computing have allowed corporate network and datacenter administrators to effectively become service providers that meet the needs of their [...]

How could your company gain from Windows Azure?

Posted by: altabel on: April 14, 2012

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud-based application platform for developing, managing, and hosting applications off-site. Azure consists of several components: the cloud operating system itself; SQL Azure, which provides database services in the cloud; and .NET services. Below we’ll look at the reasons to consider using Windows Azure as your cloud computing platform. Familiarity of Windows [...]

How small business could benefit from cloud computing

Posted by: altabel on: March 14, 2012

We all use cloud services in one way or another. When you access your Gmail, use Facebook and store photos online, you are actually leveraging cloud services. For small businesses, saving money, increasing productivity and enhancing uptime are some of the major reasons why a move toward the cloud computing platforms available today should be [...]

Several surest ways to spoil the Cloud

Posted by: altabel on: November 8, 2011

Many companies are having great success with cloud computing, and it’s evident that the market continues to grow quickly. Here are three surefire ways to fail with cloud computing and what you can learn from them to avoid suffering that same fate. First, put the wrong people on the project. This is the most common [...]

Microsoft, Google Suffer Outages: Can You Trust the Cloud?

Posted by: altabel on: October 4, 2011

Definitely, there are certain benefits of using cloud services, but the cost of these benefits may be too high if you can’t rely on the cloud. So do you trust the cloud? It’s not so much to the cloud itself – you really have to consider the number of dependencies between you and the cloud [...]