Posts Tagged ‘cloud server’

Cloud Services With Isilon

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Isilon today announced that NetHosting has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its new cloud storage service. Using Isilon’s X-Series, powered by the OneFS operating system, NetHosting has consolidated its new cloud service operations onto a single, shared storage resource, simplifying data management to improve service quality and reduce operating costs. With Isilon, NetHosting can scale storage capacity and performance in lockstep with demand, enabling the hosting leader to deliver highly reliable, flexible and efficient cloud storage services to its growing customer base.

If any of you haven’t tried the new Isilon system you need to.  It’s worth it.  It makes everything work faster.

  • A single, scalable volume provides true operating leverage.
  • Isilon applications including SmartConnect and SmartQuotas simplify the administration of common cloud tasks such as balancing load across the system, have native support for on-demand storage and enforcing/reporting on actual end-user utilization.
  • With the ability to add capacity and/or performance in less than 60 seconds, Isilon enables you to balance spending with actual storage usage – key for a successful cloud business model.
  • With Isilon, you dramatically reduce management time with a single file-system and avoid spending your time managing multiple systems, multiple volumes and multiple filers.
  • The Isilon Scale-out storage platform enables you to support virtualization solutions and provide for shared access on the same storage device with varying degrees of isolation.
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Azure Cloud Server Now With More Control!

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Microsoft unleashed a raft of features for its Azure cloud service this week, bringing it several degrees closer to a true cloud infrastructure service. New features, announced in beta, include remote desktop viewing for Azure “roles” (or virtual machines), full support for Internet Information Services (IIS) roles, the ability to create and maintain customized virtual machines (VMs) in Azure and a host of other services.

“We’ll see if it works,” said Chris Bardon, chief software architect at Toronto-based ComputerTalk, a unified communications and automated voice interaction software maker. Bardon said he thought Microsoft was walking a tightrope between letting users mess around on their own versus delivering a headache-free service people would actually pay for.

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VPS vs Cloud Server

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Virtual Private servers (VPS) are a wonderful innovation in the internet service world. It allows persons to economize on costs while not cutting back on the service that they receive. What happens is that a single server is divided into many virtual servers and still is able to provide all the resources of a dedicated server. It is the midpoint between dedicated and shared hosting.

Some of the best thing about VPS is that it is very easy to use so that applications and software can run with ease. It offers the option to add more resources if necessary which make sit the perfect solution for many businesses. It is also able to host a number of unique websites. Virtual private servers are ultimately cheaper than the other hosting services.

Unlike cloud hosting the virtual private server is your responsibility. You have to do all the initial legwork, sort out security, get updates and perform maintenance.  Performance may also be an issue as you have to share resources on the same server.

Cloud hosting, on the other hand is a service which offers power and resources from a network of servers. The cloud as it is often called is the provision of computing resources that have been grouped together and delivered via the internet. This allows for the limitations on resources to be virtually non existent. It optimizes on bandwidth with the use of major connectivity providers and fully redundant networks.

The customer is able to have access to as much or as little resources as they need without restriction. It is an extremely cost effective and ultimately reliable service. Companies will also be pleased to know that will not incur any additional overhead or need to purchase any additional inventory to utilize the service. Another great benefit is that it bills the customer on what they use only. Its billing process is much like a utility bill. This is a relief to many as they will have the added security of knowing that they will not incur any charges for services that they did not use at all during the billing period.

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