Cloud provider sign up check list
By Joe Gardiner Friday, 16th July 2010
With a plethora of cloud hosting services available to the market it is becoming more difficult to find a provider that suits your specific needs.
I decided to put together a list of questions to help you analyse exactly the service a cloud provider can offer you, to help your move to a cloud platform go as smoothly as possible.
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How do large web sites benefit from cloud provisioning?
By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 14th July 2010
A cloud hosting platform offers many benefits. These are often reduced to four main categories, Cost, Stability, Security, and Scalability. You can read about these categories in more detail in a previous blog post…
For large websites arguably the two most important benefits are scalability and cost, and in a cloud environment they are closely linked. The nature of a cloud platform allows resources to be allocated and removed as a sites demand scales, which is reflected in the expenditure required from the business as quantities of resources are consumed. read more…
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Benefits of cloud hosting
By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 30th June 2010
Cloud hosting is often referred to as an “up and coming” technology that is, “the future”, and it is certainly taking the IT industry by storm. Cloud computing is already here and if there was ever a buzz word, “Cloud” is certainly it!
In fact it has been predicted that by 2012 85% of Fortune 1000 companies will be using a cloud hosting solution or infrastructure. Clearly more than an “up and coming” technology!
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