Archive for May, 2010

YouTube Cloud Hosting

Monday, May 17th, 2010

YouTube turns five years old today. Did you know that there is 2 billion views a day. 2,000,000,000. As Google points out, that is significantly more traffic than US broadcast television networks get, although Americans continue to watch much more television than YouTube in total hours. YouTube, now by far the most popular Internet destination for video, will mark that anniversary today by announcing its traffic has exceeded 2 billion daily views.

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The site, created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, became a cultural phenomenon nearly overnight, drawing 8 million daily views. Youtube is now owned by Google. A Citigroup analyst predicted that YouTube could generate $945 million in revenue this year and Google executives have said the video site is nearing profitability. Youtube hosting has to be through the roof. Youtube cloud hosting is the true question? Is YouTube hosted in the cloud? What are your thoughts on this matter? With most of Googles products in the cloud such as Gmail cloud hosting, buzz cloud hosting, and other google applications that are all hosted in the cloud.

What are your thoughts? Is YouTube hosted in the cloud? Would it be better to host YouTube in the cloud?

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Host.net Partners with StillSecure

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Host.net’s cloud computing customers now have access to new 24/7/365 managed security services as a result of their partnership with network security provider StillSecure.  This will cause immediate response to security threats and compliance reporting for enterprises using cloud computing services for line-of-business applications and complex hosting.

Host.net is one step ahead of most data centers because they truly understand the importance of embedding security within the virtual environment,” said Steve Harris, vice president of managed services at StillSecure, in a statement. “Host.net customers save time and money by leveraging the pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run VMware version of our ProtectPoint managed security services.”

“We had the rare opportunity to team with StillSecure during the strategy and design phase of their new platform. The result is a product that protects the customer’s mission with CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability),” said Roger Barranco, Host.net’s chief technology officer and vice president of operations.

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Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service at Ultraspeed

Monday, May 17th, 2010

3PAR announced that leading UK managed hosting provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner Ultraspeed has deployed the 3PAR InServ F-Class Storage Server in its new carbon-neutral datacenter in Amsterdam.  So what does this mean for cloud hosting recovery? It means that there will be a robust cloud-based disaster recovery for all your cloud files.  This cloud recovery can all be done remote and is very easy to do.

“The efficiency and cost advantages of our 3PAR infrastructure have helped us maintain a competitive edge by becoming the only European managed hosting provider to offer off-country replication as a standard element of our Diskless hosting service,” said Jordan Gross, CEO at Ultraspeed. “We chose 3PAR again because it was the only storage platform with the backup and disaster recovery capabilities we needed to expand our disaster recovery services.”

“Ultraspeed delivers enterprise-class hosted storage solutions to mid-sized organizations exceedingly well,” said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. “3PAR has long been the ‘go-to’ provider for public cloud deployments. The agility and cost efficiency that 3PAR has brought to Ultraspeed’s Diskless platform is an excellent example of how a best-of-breed approach to storage has enabled service providers of all types and sizes to deploy an enterprise-class infrastructure that meets customer needs flexibly and responsively at a much lower cost than is generally associated with legacy storage.”

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