Cloud Computing
Gartner on Public & Private Cloud Computing
According to Tom Bittman, vice president at Gartner, IT managers are more concerned with security and privacy than they are with the next three public cloud problems combined. In a separate poll on public cloud computing versus private cloud computing, 75% of IT managers said that they will be deploying a private cloud strategy by [...]
Why We Use Enterprise Drives in our Managed Servers & Private Cloud Servers
Many low end dedicated servers on the market are desktop computers that are stacked on metal shelves or put on roll-able baker’s racks and sold as dedicated “servers”. At Online Tech, desktop computers aren’t what our clients are looking for in a managed server. Our clients need managed servers with 24×7 reliability to run their [...]
Private Clouds Win
According to Yankee Group’s recent survey on Cloud Computing, more enterprises are considering cloud computing a viable technology. Nearly 60 percent see the technology as an enabler, compared to just 37 percent a year ago. Even more interesting, the Yankee Group found that private cloud computing is preferred 2:1 over fully managed public cloud solutions. [...]
Cloud Computing: Your Company’s Game Changer?
In the April 19th edition of NETWORKWORLD there is an article entitled “Cloud Computing is the big story at Interop Las Vegas”. The article written by Brad Reed states ”Clearly cloud computing is a game changer and it’s one technology that we think people should know about”. We at Online Tech feel the same way. [...]
Measuring Public Cloud Performance
The New York Times ran a story today on how public cloud performance is being measured – a key issue when subscribing to a public cloud where you have very little control over the architecture, performance, or how resources are shared between you and hundreds of other users in the same cloud.
What are the Benefits of Private Cloud Computing Hosting?
A private cloud computing platform is a stack of network, server and storage hardware dedicated to you for the purpose of cloud computing. With a managed cloud computing service, the stack of hardware becomes a customizable cloud of computing and storage resources for you to configure as you wish. Why is this ability to configure [...]
Can The Cloud Help Startups?
While reading an article in the March 22nd edition of NETWORKWORLD by Jon Brodkin entitled “DEMO start-ups for the cloud”, I made note of a particularly interesting quote by Jeff Crown, president of DEMO, presenter at VenueGen, that “ this is a tough time for start-ups looking raise venture capital.” Venture capitalists are looking for [...]
The Maturing Cloud: Is Your Organization Ready to Cross The Chasm?
At the IDC Directions 2010 conference a few weeks ago there was a presentation entitled “The Maturing Cloud: What it will take to Win” Frank Gens explained that the most significant growth opportunities in the IT market will be in cloud computing and Software as a Service ( SaaS ) solutions. He contends that this [...]
All Roads Lead to Data Center Consolidation and Using IaaS
One of the big takeaways from the cloud computing hype over the last year is that everyone wants to do more with less. Keeping your IT infrastructure in-house no longer makes sense from a cost perspective. The cloud computing media coverage certainly has emphasized this. One of the main advantages of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) companies, like [...]
Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy: Where do you fit in?
By Bill Ryan on August 24, 2010
In the 5/3/10 InformationWeek article “Microsoft’s Cloud Plan: What’s In It For You?” by Chris Murphy, he says that Microsoft is all in. The article suggests they are actually trying to help people do what they really will need to do for the modern time. I guess if you are a complete Microsoft shop there [...]
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