Archive for July, 2010

Cloud Colocation Provider

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Now I know what you are thinking…Cloud colocation, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of cloud servers?  Well,  Telx announced that it has been selected as a cloud colocation provider by DediPower.  This will help enable secure, reliable delivery of on-demand cloud application and managed hosting services, including its recently-launched Public Cloud offering, to customers in three continents.

“DediPower was in need of a Manhattan colocation facility to extend our state-side coverage and provide connectivity to our overseas customers,” said Craig Martin, CEO of DediPower. “We looked for the colocation partner within the U.S. that had the most strategic locations and the largest number of service providers we could choose from to ensure reliable application and storage service delivery. Our international and North American customers can directly tap into our infrastructure on a guaranteed, high-speed connection in the 60 Hudson Street location, without going over the public Internet. The Telx solution provides our managed private cloud network the high redundancy, security and connectivity choice we require.”

Again, I think the fact that they have started tagging cloud colocation is hilarious but I guess they can get away with it right?

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eUKhost Launches Private Cloud Service

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

eUKhost announced earlier today that it will now be offering a new private cloud hosting service.  As may of you will recall the latest update from eUKhost; “Installatron” auto-installer script installer plugin for shared and reseller hosting customers.

The new service is based on a dedicated cluster of web servers deployed in a VMware cloud structure. The eUKhost’s private cloud hosting is nothing more than a VMware cloud server.  Nothing to special. eUKhost just wants to enter into the cloud hosting world and this is their time. eUKhost clients will have the usual access to provisions, licensing, setups, monitoring and complete cluster management, ensuring that they have enhanced security measures, improved backup, better equipment and experience no downtime.

New cloud hosting customers will have access to eUKhost’s 24-hour technical support at no additional cost(as of right now).

Their new cloud servers will be VIcentre server with Windows 2008, an SAN storage server for centralized shared storage and four ESX host servers, which can be customized to each of the new cloud hosting customer’s requirements.

“We’re delighted to be able to offer our clients private cloud hosting and are looking forward to hearing customer feedback in the coming weeks and months,” says Ryan Watson, business development manager at eUKhost. “The benefits of our private cloud hosting are numerous. You will be guaranteed 100 percent uptime for instance and have dedicated disk space and monthly bandwidth for your needs. There are also a number of operating systems that can also be employed including Linux CentOS 5.x, Ubuntu 9.x and more besides.”

Please let me know if you have tried eUKhost’s cloud servers out.  I would like to know if they are as good as some of their larger cloud hosting providers servers!  Prices starting at £ 33 a month.

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What To Look For In A Private Cloud Provider?

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

The following video is “What To Look For In A Private Cloud Provider?” It goes into the basics of what a person or company should be looking for when investigating whether you should go to a large cloud server or a small cloud server.  How important is cloud hosting hardware, cloud hosting software?  Is it a one stop shop?  Do they have reliable cloud servers?

Also note, that I’m not saying that the person or cloud hosting provider that put this video out are the correct option but they do put out some very valuable points that you should pay attention to before selecting a cloud hosting provider!

Check out this video to find out how to protect yourself:

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