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The 3 Biggest Differences Between Cloud Hosting and Traditional Hosting (And Why It Matters).
|The talk of cloud hosting solutions is impossible to avoid, but it’s impossible to still not understand the difference between cloud hosting and traditional hosting. Let’s take a look. Traditional hosting comes in two flavours, if you will: dedic...
4 Reasons Why Testing Is Critical to a Successful Cloud Hosting Service Migration
|Server breakdown, database errors, data loss, application and website crashes, usually encountered by businesses during their journey to the cloud can lead to lost time and resources causing damaged customer relations, loss of employee productivity, ...
Cloud Services For Consumption: Maximise Your Returns by Adopting an As-A-Service Model
|McKinsey – in its IT as a Service Cloud and Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure surveys – predicts that organisations are switching away from a build to a consume as-a-service model for corporate IT services. The consulting firm predicts that the a...
Resilient data centres: Water-cooled versus air-cooled?
|Resilient data centres, technology time lapse. I had the opportunity to visit several data centres in Europe this week. They were all pure colocation plays, primarily selling conditioned real estate (data hall space, power and cooling) to large enter...
Understanding the benefits of managed cloud services
|Foreword: This article is an excerpt from a white-paper designed to help IT and business leaders understand the exciting opportunities enabled by a successful migration to the cloud, particularly the hybrid cloud. Click here to download your free co...
Crucial Questions Companies Should Answer Before a Cloud Migration
|Lost in the cloud. Ignorance is not bliss. A long-standing myth about cloud is that it is simple. It simply is not. The reality is that when it comes to the cloud, what you don’t know can hurt you. Companies attempting a go-it-alone cloud migration...
Why Is Hybrid Cloud Emerging as the Dominant Deployment Model?
|Why Cloud? Let us count the ways. Cloud brings a new model to IT, one based on the delivery of services rather than the delivery of technology. With cloud computing as the foundation for IT modernisation, organisations can reduce capital expenditure...
Keys to Successfully Undertake a Hybrid Cloud Migration
|In IT today, all signs are pointing in one direction: to the cloud. By 2020, nearly 70% of all enterprise IT spending across the globe will be for cloud-based offerings1. In Australia, a hybrid IT strategy—incorporating a mix of on-premise and colo...
Don’t Forget The Basics of Network Security (Part 2)
|In an earlier article, we looked at network security basics and how we can borrow guidance from the PCI Data Security Standard to make sure our firewall rules are documented and reviewed on a regular basis. This articl...