Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Hosting’

Cloud Disaster Recovery

Friday, September 17th, 2010

CommVault’s new Cloud DR is offering businesses an economical method to perform full or partial recoveries of Linux and Windows archives and backup data stored on Rackspace Cloud Servers, according to CommVault.  “CommVault is redefining mid-market disaster recovery by offering a fully integrated Cloud DR solution, which reduces the financial challenges associated with traditional DR services that provide affordable and rapid recovery of backup and archive data residing in the cloud,” said Jeff Echols, senior director of cloud strategy and alliances at CommVault.

This flexible solution leverages the integration between CommVault’s enterprise cloud computing-optimized Simpana software and Rackspace’s cloud hosting services. Using CommVault’s integrated cloud storage connector for Simpana, joint customers can use CommVault’s single console to move on-premises backup and archive data to Rackspace Cloud Files, which provide online storage for files and media, according to CommVault. This allows customers to cut internal IT costs by moving archived or infrequently used files and email off their tier-one storage solutions, the company said.

Seems like the new CommVault Cloud DR could be very useful to all of us with cloud hosting websites.  I do think it a bad idea however that they have nothing up on their website that talks about this or has any pricing. No links, no nothing about Cloud DR. If you Google “Cloud DR” you will find nothing but news articles.  CommVault needs to step it up and release a product and have it available for pickup on their website. #fail

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Elliot Curtis on Cloud Hosting

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Elliot Curtis delivered the second session Tuesday morning at the Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit, during which he set out to discuss Microsoft’s feeling and approach about the cloud, generally.

What has changed in the last 12 months or so, he says, is that the cloud has really captured the imagination of the IT industry.

A big part of that is looking at the way that customers – including small business, mid-sized companies, and enterprises – deal with the companies to which they outsource their IT services. Microsoft has a philosophy we’ve discussed before about becoming the “trusted advisor” to your customers (which may apply more directly in the smaller customer space)

Curis displayed a chart showing the dropping cost of hosting, which ended, of course, at zero – the current price of hosting, from a certain point of view.

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Racks 4 Acres

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

iomart Hosting Launches Racks 4 Acres Campaign to Support Rainforest Preservation.  Through the ‘Racks 4 Acres’ initiative, in conjunction with Rainforest Concern and supported by Green IT magazine, iomart Hosting will sponsor an acre of cloud rainforest for every additional megawatt of power that is consumed from September this year within its five UK data centres. This is expected to equate to at least 500 acres, which is the equivalent of 500 football pitches.

This seems like a great cloud hosting program to help the rain forest!  The ‘Racks 4 Acres’ initiative is a great cloud server program to REALLY save the world.  Cloud servers are the way of the future and they will help save the world around us.

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