All internet users should be familiar with cloud computing. Anyone that uses a web-based e-mail service (think Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo!), or manages a social networking profile (such as Facebook or Twitter) should be familiar with the cloud computing concept.
Read more on Tech Trend: Cloud Computing…
We all familiar with Cloud Computing, mostly considered as future of computer world. It saves you a lot of time, money, and energy. Cloud Computing utilize computer resources over Internet using a vibrant, remote and measurable computing system. Cloud Computing offers IT services a technological infrastructure that doesn’t require an investment in physical computing resources. Its better to make computing system available through internet rather then expensive in-built systems. Many Data Center services like data protection, disaster recovery or data storage can be done without a dedicated IT department which is costly. As an alternative of large server rooms, complex mixture of computing equipments which are the basic requirements for running a business, all the important IT services can be run remotely. This can save a lot of money in the business since its remove expenses of software and computer upgrade and maintenance, expenses of managing a large IT staff and large capital expense building an in-house Data Center. Below it is explained how Cloud Computing save a lot of money.
Security of Data
As in the business we all know the importance of Data Security. From destroying the government websites to corporate surveillance computer security has become an vital part of the business. Now Data Centers are well suites for the security of the Data as its their core business. Data Centers not only saves your data against natural disasters, viruses and threats but also provide you backup in any case of data loss. Cloud Computing supports technological services as offering remote services and with lower operating costs investments from the users end are reduced to a great extent.
Cost Cut in Expenditures
Capital expenses are reduced to a great extent in information technology, when Cloud Computing is involved. Via Cloud Computing IT infrastructure which also includes software and hardware services are offered on utility plan. Following this service any IT company can have outstanding It infrastructure without having to set up even a single software or hardware install. Cost are tied to us not with physical assets, since Cloud Computing delivers managed IT services. Weight of management and heavy infrastructure is removed from the end user when working with Cloud Hosting. All the implementations, management, firmware, hardware and software are managed by the IT service provider. User end companies can use new advanced technologies without any risk.
Planned Operating Expenses
Instead of leasing or renting computer equipments for your business better bought them because operating cost is almost same as that of the price of the equipment. But if you have Cloud Computing it will save you a lot of money as reducing the overall operating expenses of the same computing equipments. Just for an example, suppose a Data Center for some average business runs 12 Hours a day. Through the off-hours all the systems are unoccupied. Cloud Computing turns IT services and IT infrastructure to be utilized interminably. Efficiency is maximized as computing power is persistently available. Cost savings are passed to the customers of cloud computing. This just like leasing a traditional IT department in off hours to reduce cost for everyone involved. Just like this personnel cost can also be reduced. Manpower in many IT services is not required for custom support but the staff needed while peek usage loads, any problem arise, upgrades or rotation. Cloud Computing offers a dedicated 24×7 support for the data center. This reduces the cost in comparison to the in-house built Data Centers.
Read more on Future of Web-world Cloud Computing…
When choosing any storage solution it’s important to consider the workload and data usage patterns. This even goes beyond storage – application workloads drive server, network and all IT infrastructure decisions. Sure, most vendors will tell you that their product is the best solution for any workload, and when choices were few, that was somewhat accurate. However, today there are many different offerings, each with strengths and weaknesses in different situations. This article will review six workload scenarios and identify where cloud storage is a good fit and where it is a poor fit.
Read more on Real-world Use Cases: Cloud Storage Workloads…
The Cloud. Originally, it was just a metaphor for the internet, the area outside of your own network. That was how it appeared on the network diagram during college (and probably still appears, if Cisco has anything to do with it.). The past few years have brought new meaning to “the cloud”. It has gone from being a way to represent unknown complexity, to the buzzword for every information/application programmer in the known world.
The promise of “The Cloud” goes something like this: You will be able to access all your information simply by using your internet connection. All the processing and “grunt work” will be done by other computers(usually servers) located elsewhere. The data will be stored there as well, along with your user privileges. You will pay, based only on the amount of data/processing time that you use.
This is great, considering the fact that you could buy a very cheap netbook, for around $300 or so, and run all the apps that you are having. It is basically a thin client/server model that banks have been using for years, extrapolated over a huge network. One of the many purported advantages is the lack of hardware obsolescence. Right now, when a game with extremely high graphical requirements shows up on the horizon, gamers have to go upgrade their graphics card/physics processor and RAM to keep up.
If the game is being run over the cloud, via a high speed internet connection, and a game server is handling processing, then there would be no need to run anything but a low power pc,(it might even be running my beloved Ubuntu, as it would be platform agnostic). The server would simply translate the game into vectors. Essentially, you would be working with an interactive video of the game, rather than playing a video game. It’s a subtle difference, but one that would forever alter the gaming landscape. For one thing, you would no longer own a physical copy of the game. Rather, you would pay for a subscription for the game, and then unsubcribe once you lost interest.
This sounds like an ideal situation, but there are some very real problems with the model. Consider the fact that your gaming subscription, is say, $9.95 a month. You beat the game in the average of 8-13 hours that it takes to play the game through. It costs you $1 or so an hour for your experience. That’s not bad, for a pretty decent game. That’s cheaper than the $45-$50 you would currently pay for a new release on the PC platform. From a cost/benefit perspective, you win, at least in this situation. Now, let’s talk about the games that people play on a regular, shall we say, compulsive basis: Titles like Call of Duty 4, Starcraft II, HALO, any of the titles that have made loads of money at $50 a pop.
In many places, you buy these for the multiplayer experience, rather than the single-player, story mode. Now, let’s revisit the $9.95 a month subscription fee. Many people play these games each and every day, over servers hosted by the game manufacturers. The costs of hosting these games is built into the purchase price of the game. Under the subscription model, you will pay $120 for this game, over the course of a year, rather than $50 for a lifetime of play. Under the subscription model, you don’t own the game.
Now, let’s imagine you really like this game. The subscribers keep falling on this particular game. In fact, subscription levels are so low, that they have decided to drop this game altogether. Your favorite game has now vanished, and you don’t have a physical copy. Now, there’s always that whole “contact the developers, and pray they let you pay for a downloadable version”, but what would you do with it. Your hardware no longer has the specs to run it. Now, you have to go buy a $2000 machine, to run a game, that by this point would be in the bargain bin at $14.95 . You have been owned, to the tune of several hundred dollars.
That’s from a gameplay perspective. What about a business perspective? To a certain extent, most of us are already “cloud” reliant. We all use webmail, and our email is stored remotely. A recent outage of Gmail in Europe showed the vulnerability of this model. You’ve got your data stored next to your competitors data, and managed by someone else entirely. You are no longer managing the security of your organization. They take no responsibility in their terms of service for downtime, or lost business. In fact, this outage was caused by a minor software upgrade, rolled out across thousands of servers, worldwide. Imagine the profits lost, and problem caused by email being out for a couple of hours. What if you are using hosted documents, or your calendar is out? Think about the mass confusion that this would create in a large organization.
What if you are a graphic designer, using Photoshop CS7 over the cloud? This is your bread and butter. During a crucial project, the servers grind to a halt. You miss your deadline. Again, it’s out of your hands, but business still needs to be done. You could run an older local version, but the file format of the new version is not backwards compatible. Oh, and you pay $65 a month for this.
Now, let’s talk about something that is even more frustrating, and glaringly obvious: Your internet access goes out. Welcome to a serious problem. Now, you have zero access to your data, apps, and the like. This is not to say that there will not be any contingencies thought up. They will just be insufficient, and inevitably fail. Even if they don’t, however, remember this: The company that you pay the subscription to has your stuff. They can now hold it for ransom, should you forget to pay.
Even worse, they are only responsible for keeping copies of your work while you are a paying customer. Yahoo already deletes the data in accounts that haven’t been accessed in more than 6 months. While it is to the company’s advantage to keep an archived copy, in case you want to resubscribe, they are not usually under obligation to do so, and can change their terms of service at any time, just by sending you an email notification. There are inevitably hiccups along the way, and while these situations are far-fetched, they have to happen to someone. Are you willing to take the risk that it will be you?
While there are plenty of advantages to the cloud model, the disadvantages need to be weighed before subscribing to any such service. In terms of privacy, ownership, and reliability, the cloud model leaves plenty to be desired. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go upgrade my video card, and pay an outrageous price for a game.
Read more on The Not So Obvious Problems With Cloud Computing…
LONDON and TAMPA, FL–(Marketwire – December 7, 2009) – Kualo, a leader in managed business hosting, announces the launch of its new hosting service, theCloud, available immediately though Kualo’s newly re-branded Web site. theCloud provides flexible virtual servers on-demand enabling customers to build a hosted cloud server of any size using intuitive sliding scale controls (http://www.kualo.com/cloud/discount-cloud-hosting) and have it provisioned after submitting payment details.
Read more on Kualo Launches theCloud — On-Demand Cloud Computing Solution…
Computer Network Services Manhattan: Cloud Computing & Security
Cloud computing, as pioneered by the Google Apps suite, is the name of the game for small business computer network services in Manhattan. But what is cloud computing? And what does it mean for your computer network services (http://www.uptimeus.com/Services/systems-integration.html) and IT security?
Cloud-based Network Services Save NYC Companies Money
At its core, cloud computing is all about virtualization—of infrastructure, applications and even security. This cloud-based NYC IT infrastructure benefits small businesses in particular because it offers consolidation of servers, applications and even operating systems. This translates into IT efficiency and significant IT cost savings: your team can begin working immediately with cutting edge collaboration and presentation tools from diverse locations without investing a lot of money in computer network services.
But cloud computing, in conjunction with social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the ilk, are also exposing NYC small business computer networks to an unprecedented number of security risks.
Does Virtualization Make Manhattan Computer Networks Vulnerable to Hacking?
At the heart of the issue is the very thing that makes virtualization so attractive to begin with: everything is linked. This means, on the most basic level, that if your employees’ email account is hacked (as was recently the gmail account of Twitter founder Ev Williams), your process and management systems, servers, Docs, Calendar, and Contacts are also compromised.
Unfortunately, while more and more companies are adopting virtual collaboration tools and cloud-based network services, only a portion of these businesses are simultaneously adopting virtualized security measures.
“You can’t simply rely on your existing New York network security infrastructure, although making sure traditional security measures and maintenance plans are in effect before adopting any sort of cloud-based strategies is a good idea, says Einat Aviraz-Sibony, President of Manhattan IT services firm UPTIME. (http://www.uptimeus.com) “Because in essence, the basic IT security concepts are the same: data protection, identity and access, and business continuity.”
But as you take your team to the cloud, you need cloud-based security measures to protect your NYC-based computer network. And a number of security vendors are reworking their current applications to fill the current gap: Check Point, for example, has a new WebCheck feature that protects browsers from known malicious sites and analyses unknown sites for potential damage.
Virtualization will bring your team’s capabilities to a new level without overtaxing your IT budget, but keeping an eye on web-based security as it emerges warrants your attention. If you outsource your computer network services, make sure your provider performs routine virus detections and inoculations and ask them to check if your Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor—like a Google Apps reseller–offers the Novell Cloud Security Service, the newest in cloud security offerings.
Read more on Computer Network Services Manhattan: Cloud Computing & Security…
With BigGyan eLearning stands for Easy Learning – easy for administrators to implement, easy for teachers to maintain and easy for students to use.
Get Started Today
Build WebPresence Integrated approach of teaching – Online course management- Superior Instruction 24X7 support to students Tracking Student Performance Parent Portal BigGyan Services Environment Friendly
Read more on BigGyan Cloud eLearning for Coaching Institutes…
With BigGyan eLearning stands for Easy Learning – easy for administrators to implement, easy for teachers to maintain and easy for students to use.
Get Started Today
Build WebPresence Integrated approach of teaching – Online course management- Superior Instruction 24X7 support to students Tracking Student Performance Parent Portal BigGyan Services Environment Friendly
Read more on BigGyan Cloud eLearning for Coaching Institutes…
Computer Network Services Manhattan: Cloud Computing & Security
Cloud computing, as pioneered by the Google Apps suite, is the name of the game for small business computer network services in Manhattan. But what is cloud computing? And what does it mean for your computer network services (http://www.uptimeus.com/Services/systems-integration.html) and IT security?
Cloud-based Network Services Save NYC Companies Money
At its core, cloud computing is all about virtualization—of infrastructure, applications and even security. This cloud-based NYC IT infrastructure benefits small businesses in particular because it offers consolidation of servers, applications and even operating systems. This translates into IT efficiency and significant IT cost savings: your team can begin working immediately with cutting edge collaboration and presentation tools from diverse locations without investing a lot of money in computer network services.
But cloud computing, in conjunction with social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the ilk, are also exposing NYC small business computer networks to an unprecedented number of security risks.
Does Virtualization Make Manhattan Computer Networks Vulnerable to Hacking?
At the heart of the issue is the very thing that makes virtualization so attractive to begin with: everything is linked. This means, on the most basic level, that if your employees’ email account is hacked (as was recently the gmail account of Twitter founder Ev Williams), your process and management systems, servers, Docs, Calendar, and Contacts are also compromised.
Unfortunately, while more and more companies are adopting virtual collaboration tools and cloud-based network services, only a portion of these businesses are simultaneously adopting virtualized security measures.
“You can’t simply rely on your existing New York network security infrastructure, although making sure traditional security measures and maintenance plans are in effect before adopting any sort of cloud-based strategies is a good idea, says Einat Aviraz-Sibony, President of Manhattan IT services firm UPTIME. (http://www.uptimeus.com) “Because in essence, the basic IT security concepts are the same: data protection, identity and access, and business continuity.”
But as you take your team to the cloud, you need cloud-based security measures to protect your NYC-based computer network. And a number of security vendors are reworking their current applications to fill the current gap: Check Point, for example, has a new WebCheck feature that protects browsers from known malicious sites and analyses unknown sites for potential damage.
Virtualization will bring your team’s capabilities to a new level without overtaxing your IT budget, but keeping an eye on web-based security as it emerges warrants your attention. If you outsource your computer network services, make sure your provider performs routine virus detections and inoculations and ask them to check if your Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor—like a Google Apps reseller–offers the Novell Cloud Security Service, the newest in cloud security offerings.
Read more on Computer Network Services Manhattan: Cloud Computing & Security…
Today, IT usage by business is all pervasive. Whether it is in the form of Utilities that keep the wheels of business running or niche computing where in, IT is embedded in the business processes, optimized to bring value and competitive differentiation – most shades of IT usage by business is here to stay.
Even then, self integrating, owning and maintaining IT internally has been a tough call for firms. In retrospect, The journey so far of IT organizations appears to be more of a labyrinth which branches onwards in complex and confusing ways. If we take the case of IT assets purchases such as hardware, software and licenses, buyers are increasingly preferring standardisation over customization in a bid to cut costs. The automation of internal business processes, connectivity with suppliers, partners and customers usually spawns a whole range of specialized enterprise wide applications, infrastructure and services, which may be sourced from one or more vendors. Unfortunately, the business environment changes too fast for the monolithic IT organization to keep pace with.
Outsourcing has stepped in to address this pain point, but with continued pressure on margins, fixed rates and stringent Service Level Agreements ,which are contractual risk-reward related penalty clauses tied to performance of service delivery, outsourcers’ agility has reached a tipping point. These vendors are stepping up all the guns,trying out more radical engagement models, innovative solutions and global delivery.
Beyond these dire moves, vendor strategists have to take a long range view to ensure continued success of the firm. In this backdrop, on the radars of vendors and rightly so, are the small specs of clouds appearing on the technology horizon. Cloud computing simply refers to broad range of technologies that help business information to reside on the internet and that are accessible from anywhere and at any time. Unfortunately, cloud confusion is also central issue because there are multiple definitions and vendors hype floating around preventing building up of common view.
Cloud computing is gaining adoption from bellwether clients. Most adoptions seem to have tested the waters with movement of emails and other less critical data. Still it is a positive sign. What remains to be seen is the how fast the security and multitenancy issues are addressed in a credible manner to assuage the concerns of sectors such as financial services, Insurance etc. Another barrier seems to be the issue of environment sustainability of cloud computing.
The benefits to the businesses are many. It helps free up resources and allows focus on strategic initiatives. It helps businesses to rapidly provision services in response to rising demand and scale down in leaner periods. Ideally, Cloud computing helps them to avail of IT as a variable cost. To provide maximum business value,Vendors need to tap into global innovation networks to rapidly package emerging technologies as standardized process bundles for a sector and offer it on pay as you go model. As noted above,the drive to reduce IT assets costs has led to the trend wherein Hardware and software purchases are increasingly standardized. Now,this trend of standardization is purported to extend to business processes for industries and widespread adoption of cloud computing is expected to further accelerate this trend.
Read more on A quick Introduction to Cloud Computing…
