Archive for October, 2010

Cloud Hosting Pitfalls

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

According to IT experts, cloud computing is the next best thing since the internet. A few years after the inception of the internet, those experts had also opined that the net was the ultimate compliment to personal computers. As things stand now, breach of security, personal or commercial, is one of the major worries for users of the internet. Nobody is safe on the internet, regardless of the security measures employed and since cloud computing is totally dependant on the internet, the pitfalls inherent to the latter, is also applicable to the former.

Undoubtedly, there are many benefits of internet-based computing, which permits end-users to access costly software and resources through their browser, and use them locally on their personal computer. However, what happens when the server hosting those programs breaks down? Configured properly, the server should seamlessly pass on control to a mirror server hosting the same programs. The bitter truth is that this does not happen all the time.

There are innumerous cases of abandoned time-sensitive, abandoned because the local PC undertaking them could not establish a network connection with the software hosting mainframe. This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the cons of cloud computing is concerned. If hackers can compromise the airtight security of the servers of leading international corporates, including banks, they can also find their way into the secured mainframes used in cloud computing.

Once they manage to do so, they can easily navigate their way into each node (PC) connected to those mainframes. If any of these personal computers were simultaneously coupled to more than one mainframe, it would provide the hackers an easy path to gain control of the other mainframes too. One can safely conclude that, as of date, cloud computing is akin to a huge terror network… just waiting to explode.  You need to have the right systems in place so that these cloud hosting pitfalls don’t crush your system.

Best Cloud Server is here to help you avoid some of the major cloud hosting pitfalls that some people are making.  We hope that you enjoy this site and everything it has to offer.

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XyberSecure Cloud Server Tools

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
XyberSecure has joined Rackspace Hosting’s Cloud Tools Program to provide XyberSecure’s XyberShield, a behavior based, real time web application security software as a service (SaaS).  This will help cloud hosting customers meet mandatory PCI-DSS and web security requirements at Rackspace Cloud.

“We are excited to have XyberSecure develop on top of The Rackspace Cloud and offer XyberShield through the Rackspace Cloud Tools Program,” said Nishan Sivathasan, director of corporate development for Rackspace. “XyberSecure’s XyberShield helps to enable its users to implement security applications to meet compliance policies and protect their environments, which we think is a great tool to make available to cloud customers.”

“For the past several years, our Fortune 500 customers have relied on us for the latest in web application protection,” said Rick Maharaj, XyberSecure’s Chief Technology Officer. “Many of our current users utilize shopping carts within their websites and need to meet PCI-DSS 6.6 compliance. Others just require real-time protection from the most common cyber-attacks. With our service available through the Rackspace Cloud Tools program, all Rackspace customers can quickly set up our robust security system to protect their web applications.”

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cPanel Conference 2010

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

SingleOS announced that it will host a “Cloud Hosting Lab” during the cPanel Automation Bootcamp 2010, a conference that takes place in Houston, Texas between October 4th and October 6th 2010.

They will be will showing us at the “cPanel Automation Bootcamp 2010” how to deploy, set-up and maintain private or public Clouds based on its enterprise hosting automation platform Fuscan Linux Cloud.  SingleOS will also present its Cloud management software products called Fuscan LBC and Fuscan EHA.

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