Posts Tagged ‘cloud server’

HostingCon 2010: Building a Strong Cloud Hosting Business

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Day one at HostingCon 2010 has been amazing so far.  Tier1 Research’s Agatha Poon delivered a presentation, “Building a Strong Cloud Hosting Business”.  She general overview of the past, current and future state of the cloud hosting industry, including the many opportunities available for hosting providers.

Poon stressed throughout her speech that succeeding in the cloud market all comes down to establishing strong partnerships are in gaining capabilities and providing greater value for customers.  Here are the majority of her thoughts;

  • She explored the factors of growth for 2010, including a significant emphasis on consolidation, such as Desutsche Telekom’s acquisition of Strato and a considerable increase in the European and Asian cloud markets.
  • How there is some discrepancy in the projections for how big the cloud market is worth.
  • While many estimate the market at anywhere between $42 billion to $300 billion, Tier1 says it is worth just under $1 billion.
  • Talked all about cloud assurance and security, enforcing strict SLAs, automated management, hybrid solutions and federated clouds, and unified deliver platform.
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Bench The Cloud

Monday, July 19th, 2010

According to a press release that I just viewed by MSPmentor, Bench the Cloud was co-developed by Web Hosting Talk and The Planet. Web Hosting Talk will own and manage the site, and The Planet will become a charter member of Bench the Cloud’s advisory board.  An official announcement is expected later today about this matter.  Here is what both of them are saying about the new “Bench the Cloud” website:

“Bench the Cloud is built on a suite of open-source benchmarking tools and measures three key criteria essential to running cloud applications: CPU performance, disk read and disk write speed. Further information about these three performance indices is detailed in an individualized dashboard. Users can sort and filter the public benchmarks according to provider, virtualization status, total RAM and CPU cores. The application can also be used to test non-virtualized machines, and can be downloaded onto any Linux-based machine.”

I think it’s a good idea for a hosting company to team up with a blogging company to make this venture successful.  Cloud hosting is gaining ground with all the major corporations out there and there are so many that are looking for cloud server information.  Good call The Planet, and even better call for Web Hosting Talk.  Hopefully this service will live up to what they have promised: “to give visibility into the performance of cloud or virtualized server platforms, and provides standardized performance feedback and comparisons.”

So what are your thoughts on this?

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OpSource Partner Ecosystem

Monday, July 19th, 2010

OpSource announced the OpSource Partner Ecosystem, a comprehensive new program designed to enable integrators, developers, ISVs, cloud platform companies and telecom providers to offer integrated solutions for their joint customers. OpSource’s unique offerings address the needs for high security, control, performance and ease of integration.

OpSource said in a statement that more than 50% of its revenue will come from the Partner Ecosystem channel.  The OpSource Partner Ecosystem will speed enterprise adoption of cloud hosting by reducing the burden of integration, shortening time to market for new services, and lowering the total cost of implementation and ownership for both partners and customers. This will help companies thinking of switching to cloud servers to switch faster, and get the best option available to them. Cloud hosting is going to be huge.

“For the enterprise cloud to realize mass adoption, companies must recognize the importance of the channel,” said Antonio Piraino, Vice President and Research Director, Tier1 Research. “The majority of hardware and software is delivered through the channel today as part of larger solutions, but until now very few in the hosting space have acknowledged this simple fact. Companies that recognize the power of the channel and build their businesses around it will gain significant business advantages.”

  • Consulting and Development: OpSource’s Consulting and Development Partners provide professional services, integration and software development services to their enterprise and SaaS ISV customers. Partners include Montclair Advisors, Scio and Surge.
  • Cloud Platform: OpSource’s Cloud Platform Partners provide software, hardware and Platform-as-a-Service solutions that enable end users to more effectively test, develop, integrate, monitor, manage, analyze and secure cloud infrastructure and cloud applications. Partners include Apprenda, AppZero and Zuora.
  • Infrastructure: OpSource’s Infrastructure Partners provide best-in-class solutions that power the OpSource Cloud and Managed Hosting Platforms. Partners include Gomez, Oracle and VMware.
  • Telecom: OpSource’s Telecom Partners provide voice, data, ICT and managed services solutions to enterprise customer. For our Telecom Partners, cloud hosting represents an important component to their overall solutions portfolio. These partners are typically involved at all stages of development and launch and resell OpSource solutions. Partners include NTT America and NTT Europe.
  • Distribution: OpSource’s Distribution Partners resell cloud or managed hosting services as part of their distribution, VAR, agent, systems integration and outsourced solutions. These partners resell OpSource solutions. Partners include Cloud 49 and Healthcare Practice IT.

“As cloud computing continues gaining traction with enterprise customers, cloud services and managed hosting providers like OpSource have quickly responded to customers’ needs for security, portability and web application performance management,” said Tom Meusel, Vice President of Worldwide Channels, Gomez, the Web Performance Division of Compuware. “As innovators in this rapidly growing marketplace, we’re helping to advance cloud performance for companies of all sizes.”

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