Archive for February, 2011

Why Companies Fail In The Cloud

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Moving your whole life to the cloud can be a task and cost you a lot of money if you don’t know what you are doing.  That’s why it takes the right team to help you out.  You need to know what you really need and not just switch to the cloud because it’s the new thing or a fad that’s happening.  I truly believe that the cloud is the number one thing a business can do to help cut costs and be on solid hardware.

Clouds, much like regular servers fail.  You need to have backups of everything you do.  Just because you are on a cloud doesn’t mean that you are 100% safe.  A computer can only take so much and then it will fail.  A cloud is a part of a larger computer that you have a personal chunk of.

Knowing if the cloud is right for you can be a bit of a task.  Do you need scalability? Then find a company that will be able to scale with you and teach you along the way.  I found NetHosting is a company that not only has hosted my websites for years but has taught me cloud hosting for some time.  Get a free cloud server for 6 months here. Try them out and tell me what you think.  They have a team of dedicated experts available to help you out and teach you how to use your cloud hosting account.

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Cloud #fail

Monday, February 28th, 2011

By now you should have heard the problems people have been having with their Gmail accounts. 1000’s of E-mails have been deleted, accounts have been disabled, and while Google has been hard at work trying to make everything right.  This is one of those things that makes people like you and me weary of the cloud.  Is moving to the cloud the best idea?

The Google says that the glitch, which first popped up at the weekend, has only affected a small percentage of the Gmail userbase. Initial estimates hovered around less than 0.29 percent of all Gmail users, but that number has since been revised down to less than 0.08 percent of all Gmail users. It’s fair to say that calling the glitch “widespread” probably wouldn’t be entirely accurate.

Don’t move to the cloud unless you are ready for it!

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Box.net Raises $48M For Cloud Storage Platform

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Box.net has raised $48 million in new funding to enhance and grow it’s cloud storage platform.  The new round of funding was led by Meritech Capital Partners with Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners and US Venture Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $78 million.

Box started as a simple cloud storage platform to a collaborative enterprise offering with mobile and social capabilities. The company now stores 300 million documents on its platform (more than the Library Of Congress) and has accumulated 5 million users (up from 4 million last year).

Enterprise customers include DreamWorks, Cisco and Dell and 60,000 other companies, or 73% of the Fortune 500, use Box to share, access and collaborate on business content online, as well as from iPads, iPhones and Android devices. In fact, Box has seen 400,000 downloads for its iOS and Android apps.

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