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Cloud computing: Are these the hurdles that trip you up? | ZDNet – ZDNet
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More companies are moving applications into the cloud, but the pain of the migration is holding them back from doing more.
Nearly nine out of ten companies are now using cloud-hosted applications or services, a number that has been steadily rising in recent years: in 2010 less than half said they were using such services.
But further examination of the data from tech industry group the Cloud Industry Forum reveals a mixed picture: while some companies are moving wholesale into the cloud, the majority remain cautious.
Although 88 percent of the organisations surveyed are using cloud technologies, they tend to be limited in scope. Web hosting (65 percent), Platform-as-a-Service and productivity packages tools such as Microsoft Office 365 and Google Docs topped the list. But companies remain cautious about moving their core business systems into the cloud: only 21 percent are using cloud-based finance systems (although those surveyed said that could rise to 43 percent in five years).
Most companies define their strategy as 'hybrid' (58 percent) and only a quarter said their primary approach to IT is on-premise. But that's still more than the minority -- 17 percent -- who said cloud was their main approach.
Part of the explanation may be that moving applications to the cloud remains far from painless.
The research found that on average it took 15 months to complete to migrate apps to the cloud, and nine out of ten companies faced some sort of difficulty during the process.
Complexity was the biggest headache listed (mentioned by 43 percent), followed by a lack of in-house skills (32 percent, and 41 percent of businesses with less than 20 staff) and concerns about the cloud's dependency on the internet (31 percent), the report found.
"The largest organisations in the sample and those from the public sector particularly struggled with data sovereignty during their cloud migrations," noted the Cloud Industry Forum. Data sovereignty was an issue for 26 percent, while 24 percent worried about a lack of clarity around the charges involved. And 22 percent struggled with the business case.
For three-quarters of respondents, these migration difficulties had consequences including delays in product and service development (in 39 percent of cases), plus lost productivity and revenue losses.
Data privacy remains a significant concern for users of cloud services, along with fears about loss of control and data sovereignty. But the biggest reason execs cited for not moving applications to the cloud was a lack of budget; this was followed by security and privacy concerns, and the integration challenges of legacy systems (although over a third said that replacing legacy IT technologies was the main business objective driving investment initiatives in cloud within their organisation).
Flexibility just edged out cost saving as a reason for moving applications to the cloud, but the report found that six in ten respondents made cost savings as a result of their use of cloud-based services. The average figure is 17 percent, and this is expected to climb to 30 percent over the next five years, as cloud users recoup the initial costs associated with their migrations. That cost saving is not apparently created by cutting IT jobs: only 15 percent said migrating to the cloud had reduced the size of the tech team.
The research polled 250 senior IT and business decision-makers in large enterprises, small to medium-sized businesses and public sector organisations.
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Macquarie Telecom scores Dell EMC public cloud hosting deal – ARNnet
James Mystakidis - Macquarie Cloud Services group executive
Macquarie Telecom will become the Australian home of Dell EMCs public Cloud offering, Virtustream, thanks to a recent agreement between the two companies.
Macquarie Telecom informed shareholders of the co-location deal during an investor presentation on Thursday, 16 March.
The telco also revealed a recent co-location deal with global systems integrator Accenture. Both hosting contracts will be fulfilled at the companys Intellicentre 2 facility in Sydneys Macquarie Park.
While the size of the two deals was not revealed, Macquarie Telecom said its Intellicentre 2 facility was estimated to achieve an average revenue $4.5 million per megawatt (MW) by the 2019 financial year.
Macquarie Cloud Services group executive, James Mystakidis, told ARN the deal sits well with Macquaries go to market strategy.
Every company out there is on a journey to the cloud, they are at various stages of their journeys to the cloud, and its all about hybrid, he said.
The deal with Virtustream covers two go to market strategies. We view them as a SaaS customer, because they need a datacentre and have reference architecture and it is around co-location, dedicated managed servers and VMware private cloud."
For Macquarie Cloud, Virtustream is also a go to market partner, and Mystakidis said Macquarie would provide services and support for the vendor when required.
As part of the deal, Macquarie has the potential to access Virtustreams data centres in foreign markets, but Mystakidis said that was not a use case for the company at present.
Virtustream was acquired by EMC in May 2015 for $1.2 billion. In October of the same year, EMC and VMware revealed they would be combining their Cloud services portfolio under the Virtustream brand.
At the time EMC CEO, Joe Tucci, said Virtustream would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in recurring revenue across 2016.
This growth was said to be driven by enterprise cloud services, specifically hybrid cloud, managed services for on-premises infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) which fits well with Macquarie Clouds value proposition.
"Through Virtustream, we are addressing the changes in buying patterns and IT Cloud operation models that we are seeing in the market. Our customers consistently tell us that they are focused on their IT transformations and journeys to the hybrid Cloud." Tucci said at the time.
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Hybrid Cloud Hosting Provider OnRamp Accelerates Channel Push With Eye On New Partners – CRN
Hybrid cloud hosting provider OnRamp, which launched its partner program two-plus years ago, is revving up its channel focus and actively recruiting partners across the board, including MSPs, VARs, master agents and sub-agents.
"We are really focused on growing based on the channel. That's our play and our focus over the next few years," Jean Carlos Carrasquel, senior director of OnRamp's channel partner program, told CRN in an interview at the XChange Solution Provider conference, hosted by CRN parent The Channel Company.
[Related: XChange: Positive Company Culture A Revenue Driver For Solution Provider Organizations]
OnRamp offers managed hosting, co-location and disaster recovery services. The Austin, Texas-based company also offers HIPAA- and PCI-compliant hosting out of its auditable data center -- two of which are located in Austin and one in Raleigh, N.C. However, OnRamp's expertise stops at the operating system layer, Carrasquel said.
"We are not experts on everything when it comes to servicing an end customer, so for us to engage and work with partners it's the best of both worlds because it's reciprocal," he said.
Innovative Communication Systems, an MSP and OnRamp partner for about a year, is enjoying its close relationship with the company, something it said it wouldn't get from a partnership with a hyper-scale cloud provider.
"I like being able to directly dial [OnrRmp reps] because of that one-one-one relationship. When you have a provider that can really help you build your network and your book of business, that's really important. Amazon isn't going to come to me and say, 'Let's shoot out an email marketing campaign together,' so that relationship really outweighs everything else for us," said Anna Gross, head of strategic marketing development for ICS.
San Antonio-based ICS specializes in VoIP and managed IT support and works largely with small- to midsize-business customers. About 25 percent of ICS' revenue today comes from cloud-based solutions and that number is growing as on-premise-based IT ages, Gross said.
"As our customers' IT equipment ages, or as it becomes obsolete and they are looking to make that change to move [to the cloud], we are there to help them," she said.
For its part, OnRamp has worked with a wide range of channel partners VARs, MSPs, and telecom agents alike. Today, the company is working on developing master agent relationships to reach more agent partners, Carrasquel said.
OnRamp also wants to help VARs make the transition from selling hardware to including cloud in their portfolios, he said.
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Silicon Valley Leaders Join OVH US Executive Team to Challenge … – Marketwired (press release)
Global hyper-scale cloud provider staffs US executive team with industry veterans
RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - Mar 14, 2017) - OVH, a global hyper-scale cloud provider, today announced the addition of seasoned executives to lead OVH US with a mission to bring best-in-class products and support services to the largest cloud computing market in the world. OVH US is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the France-based OVH Group, the largest European cloud hosting provider since 2011. Russell P. Reeder, veteran chief executive in the cloud services and hosting industry, takes the helm as president and CEO of the new organization.
In late 2016, KKR and TowerBrook invested $250 million to support OVH's global expansion, including the US market. To date, OVH owns 26 data centers across four continents, thousands of miles of dark fiber, which deliver a capacity of 10+ Tbps, and 32 points of presence worldwide.
"Today, companies see no borders and must deliver great performance globally," said Reeder, president and CEO of OVH US. "The US cloud market is ripe for disruption -- companies deserve better service at an affordable price. We will bring the same innovation to the US market that led OVH to its position as one of the top five hosting companies in the world, while also delivering best-in-class services and support for small, medium, and large enterprises. With our experienced and respected executive team, which helped to grow many cloud and technology companies to record revenues, including Media Temple and GoDaddy, I have no doubt we will duplicate our past success and exceed customer and shareholder expectations while disrupting the cloud hosting market."
Known for its vertical integration of data center infrastructure, OVH owns its data centers and uses proprietary water-cooling technology that more efficiently cools servers and optimizes energy usage while simultaneously increasing performance. In February, OVH announced the acquisition of its second US data center, located in Hillsboro, Ore. A facility in Vint Hill, Va., is currently under construction. Initial offers for businesses interested in expanding to the US data centers are targeted to be available in summer from the Vint Hill location.
"OVH has long been a leader in cloud and hosting services across Europe, known for unique energy efficiency in its data center operations and competitive pricing," said Liam Eagle, Research Manager, Hosting and Cloud, at 451 Research. "The US market for cloud infrastructure is dominated by a handful of large players. However, there is an opportunity to win market share and impact the existing cloud space through a combination of proven leadership and true technology differentiation."
The new US team will establish offices in Reston, Va., dubbed the Silicon Valley of the East, Vint Hill, Va., and Hillsboro, Ore. OVH US is a separate legal entity and wholly owned subsidiary of OVH, and will have a independent board.
The OVH US executive team includes:
Russell P. Reeder - President, CEO, and Member of US Board A veteran technologist and chief executive to software and cloud businesses with more than 25 years of experience, Russell P. Reeder joins OVH US from icitizen, where, as president, CEO and co-founder, he led the creation of a software platform to increase civic engagement. He has a history of building businesses that achieve successful exits, including acquisitions with LibreDigital to RR Donnelly and Media Temple to GoDaddy. Reeder specializes in leading high-growth, disruptive businesses that marry a customer-centric vision and strong technology innovation -- ranging from his enterprise software experience at Oracle to ebooks, IPTV, and web hosting. His breadth of experience, including sales, branding, and programming, enables Reeder to build teams that execute market-impacting business plans, consistently generating value for customers and shareholders.
Dean Gels - Chief Financial Officer and Member of US Board Dean Gels brings more than 15 years of financial experience in technology M&A, equity and debt financing. As an investment banker for RBC Capital Markets, Gels completed more than 40 deals, amounting to $17 billion in transaction value. He was instrumental in the sale of Media Temple to GoDaddy in 2013 and in RBC's role as joint bookrunner and lead arranger for GoDaddy's $2.25 billion recapitalization in 2011. Most recently, Gels served as the VP of corporate development at Borderfree, managing the sale of the business to Pitney Bowes for $489 million in 2015.
Brian Kuhn - Chief Digital Officer Brian Kuhn is a product and marketing executive with almost 25 years of experience focused on creating right-fit solutions to customer problems. His tenure with industry giants including YP, AT&T, ebay, Palm and HP led him to building brand experiences for millions of users and managing critical Fortune 100 customer relationships, including a strategic relationship with J.P. Morgan Chase. As VP of product and user experience at Media Temple, Kuhn built product and marketing organizations that scaled quickly to put customer needs at the forefront of the business. He created a managed service offering around AWS that quickly generated a multi-million dollar business.
Robert Gregory - Chief Customer Officer Robert Gregory joins OVH from GoDaddy, where he served as senior director of hosting support. A global customer sales and support executive with 13 years of experience, Gregory has devoted his career to fostering employee growth, optimizing customer satisfaction, and increasing profitability. Over the last 10 years, he grew Media Temple and GoDaddy's hosting and sales support teams from 100 to 600 employees, and drove revenues from $3 million to $100 million annually. As VP of customer support at Media Temple, Gregory developed managed service programs, growing revenues from $3 million at Media Temple to $20 million annually at GoDaddy.
Scott Brown - Senior Vice President Engineering & Operations With more than a decade of experience launching innovative products and services in the hosting industry, Scott Brown has a proven track record of product innovation and revenue growth. As VP of engineering at Media Temple, Brown oversaw software engineering, architecture, quality assurance and operational support of cloud services, shared hosting, dedicated hosting and more. He led development of new PaaS offerings that resulted in $725,000 in new bookings in a single year. At GoDaddy, Brown led a team of more than 150 to expand web hosting offerings from 500,000 hosted sites to more than 5.5 million sites.
"When I started OVH 18 years ago, my focus was to create a way for customers to take advantage of then-nascent cloud computing technology," said Octave Klaba, CEO and Chairman of the Board of OVH Group. "Today, customers face a different challenge -- buying cloud services from any one of a number of identical companies. OVH US will challenge what businesses believe to be the industry norm for cloud services, and exceed their expectations for value. Russell and the OVH US team have the industry pedigree and market expertise to start a ripple that becomes a tsunami as we take the US IaaS market by storm and set a new industry standard."
Join OVH US OVH US is hiring for multiple roles based in the US. To learn more, visit: https://www.ovh.com/us/careers/available-positions/?country=we
About OVH US OVH US is a global, hyper-scale cloud provider that offers businesses industry-leading performance and value. Vertically integrated to own its network, server technology and green data centers, OVH US operates more cost effectively and passes these benefits back to customers. Controlling each step in the global solution allows OVH US to provide the best performance, price, security, and customer service in the industry. OVH US is a subsidiary of OVH Group, the largest European hosting provider, with more than one million customers across 138 countries and four continents. Thus, OVH US customers join a global network with 26 data centers, 32 points of presence, and thousands of miles of dark fiber.Learn more about OVH US.
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VPS vs. Cloud Hosting – rackspace.com
VPS vs. Cloud
When it comes to choosing between cloud servers and virtual private servers (VPS), which is best? In short, the main difference between virtual private servers and cloud servers is scale.
VPS has long been recognized as one of the ways in which businesses can reduce IT costs and increase operational efficiency. By isolating applications and programs within one virtual server thats set aside solely for you, VPS provides high levels of privacy, security and control. But while VPS delivers cost savings on hardware and offers the flexibility to run multiple operating systems or sets of programs on individual servers at the same time, it doesn't scale well.
In contrast, buying a cloud server is like buying a much larger ecosystem that allows for scaling up and out. A cloud environment allows you to more easily add more resources to your server, such as RAM, processors or even cloned copies of your server for data back-up.
VPS vs. Cloud does not have to be an either/or option. You can host your VPS in a virtualized environment. This allows you to convert one physical server into multiple virtual machines, each of which acts like a unique physical device for running both IT resources and web applications in a flexible, instantly scalable and cost efficient manner.
Powered by OpenStack, Rackspace open cloud hosting is fast, flexible and reliable. You get the ultimate in power, control and performance with the ability to dynamically scale up at a moments notice to meet demand while paying only for what you use. Take advantage of a wide portfolio of compute, storage and networking products to keep you in total control of your hosting infrastructure. Or select a managed service and let our team of experts work with you to build a unique solution that incorporates exactly the right service level and architecture design to meet your specific business needs.
A managed virtualized cloud solution from Rackspace, powered by VMware, is the ideal option for businesses experiencing rapid growth or fluctuating needs such as seasonal or marketing-driven peaks in demand that require a single tenant solution dedicated to their individual needs. It is the cost-efficient way to scale your resources and consolidate your physical hardware footprint. Rackspace gives you the ability to rapidly scale up to meet your performance and capacity needs while only paying for what you actually use. You also get the security of dedicated servers along with automatic backups, recovery and snapshots. Plus, you get the support of our virtualization team, including VMware specialists who manage your physical server, virtualization layer and virtual machines so you can get the most out of your solution.
Rackspace Private Cloud is the best option for businesses requiring control and high levels of security due to strict compliance or regulatory requirements. Its also ideal for organizations that require a dedicated VPS solution, but want to maintain the flexibility of open standards and avoid vendor lock-in. Built using OpenStack technology to give you the same freedom, flexibility and scalability as the public cloud, we will design, build, install, host and support your single-tenant server environment. We also offer a wide range of storage and network products, plus the benefit of 24x7x365 Fanatical Support.
For customers hosting their VPS in our open cloud who also need to address PCI compliance, we offer RackConnect. This unique, hybrid solution bridges your entire hosting infrastructure including dedicated servers, virtual servers and public cloud to deliver the best of both worlds. With RackConnect, you have the ability to store customer data and payment information and conduct transactions on a dedicated server while still harnessing the cloud for scaling when demand is high.
Getting the right Virtual Private Server option for your business could not be simpler.
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Silicon Valley Leaders Join OVH US Executive Team to Challenge … – Yahoo Finance
RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - Mar 14, 2017) - OVH, a global hyper-scale cloud provider, today announced the addition of seasoned executives to lead OVH US with a mission to bring best-in-class products and support services to the largest cloud computing market in the world. OVH US is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the France-based OVH Group, the largest European cloud hosting provider since 2011. Russell P. Reeder, veteran chief executive in the cloud services and hosting industry, takes the helm as president and CEO of the new organization.
In late 2016, KKR and TowerBrook invested $250 million to support OVH's global expansion, including the US market. To date, OVH owns 26 data centers across four continents, thousands of miles of dark fiber, which deliver a capacity of 10+ Tbps, and 32 points of presence worldwide.
"Today, companies see no borders and must deliver great performance globally," said Reeder, president and CEO of OVH US. "The US cloud market is ripe for disruption -- companies deserve better service at an affordable price. We will bring the same innovation to the US market that led OVH to its position as one of the top five hosting companies in the world, while also delivering best-in-class services and support for small, medium, and large enterprises. With our experienced and respected executive team, which helped to grow many cloud and technology companies to record revenues, including Media Temple and GoDaddy, I have no doubt we will duplicate our past success and exceed customer and shareholder expectations while disrupting the cloud hosting market."
Known for its vertical integration of data center infrastructure, OVH owns its data centers and uses proprietary water-cooling technology that more efficiently cools servers and optimizes energy usage while simultaneously increasing performance. In February, OVH announced the acquisition of its second US data center, located in Hillsboro, Ore. A facility in Vint Hill, Va., is currently under construction. Initial offers for businesses interested in expanding to the US data centers are targeted to be available in summer from the Vint Hill location.
"OVH has long been a leader in cloud and hosting services across Europe, known for unique energy efficiency in its data center operations and competitive pricing," said Liam Eagle, Research Manager, Hosting and Cloud, at 451 Research. "The US market for cloud infrastructure is dominated by a handful of large players. However, there is an opportunity to win market share and impact the existing cloud space through a combination of proven leadership and true technology differentiation."
The new US team will establish offices in Reston, Va., dubbed the Silicon Valley of the East, Vint Hill, Va., and Hillsboro, Ore. OVH US is a separate legal entity and wholly owned subsidiary of OVH, and will have a independent board.
The OVH US executive team includes:
Russell P. Reeder - President, CEO, and Member of US Board A veteran technologist and chief executive to software and cloud businesses with more than 25 years of experience, Russell P. Reeder joins OVH US from icitizen, where, as president, CEO and co-founder, he led the creation of a software platform to increase civic engagement. He has a history of building businesses that achieve successful exits, including acquisitions with LibreDigital to RR Donnelly and Media Temple to GoDaddy. Reeder specializes in leading high-growth, disruptive businesses that marry a customer-centric vision and strong technology innovation -- ranging from his enterprise software experience at Oracle to ebooks, IPTV, and web hosting. His breadth of experience, including sales, branding, and programming, enables Reeder to build teams that execute market-impacting business plans, consistently generating value for customers and shareholders.
Dean Gels - Chief Financial Officer and Member of US Board Dean Gels brings more than 15 years of financial experience in technology M&A, equity and debt financing. As an investment banker for RBC Capital Markets, Gels completed more than 40 deals, amounting to $17 billion in transaction value. He was instrumental in the sale of Media Temple to GoDaddy in 2013 and in RBC's role as joint bookrunner and lead arranger for GoDaddy's $2.25 billion recapitalization in 2011. Most recently, Gels served as the VP of corporate development at Borderfree, managing the sale of the business to Pitney Bowes for $489 million in 2015.
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Brian Kuhn - Chief Digital Officer Brian Kuhn is a product and marketing executive with almost 25 years of experience focused on creating right-fit solutions to customer problems. His tenure with industry giants including YP, AT&T, ebay, Palm and HP led him to building brand experiences for millions of users and managing critical Fortune 100 customer relationships, including a strategic relationship with J.P. Morgan Chase. As VP of product and user experience at Media Temple, Kuhn built product and marketing organizations that scaled quickly to put customer needs at the forefront of the business. He created a managed service offering around AWS that quickly generated a multi-million dollar business.
Robert Gregory - Chief Customer Officer Robert Gregory joins OVH from GoDaddy, where he served as senior director of hosting support. A global customer sales and support executive with 13 years of experience, Gregory has devoted his career to fostering employee growth, optimizing customer satisfaction, and increasing profitability. Over the last 10 years, he grew Media Temple and GoDaddy's hosting and sales support teams from 100 to 600 employees, and drove revenues from $3 million to $100 million annually. As VP of customer support at Media Temple, Gregory developed managed service programs, growing revenues from $3 million at Media Temple to $20 million annually at GoDaddy.
Scott Brown - Senior Vice President Engineering & Operations With more than a decade of experience launching innovative products and services in the hosting industry, Scott Brown has a proven track record of product innovation and revenue growth. As VP of engineering at Media Temple, Brown oversaw software engineering, architecture, quality assurance and operational support of cloud services, shared hosting, dedicated hosting and more. He led development of new PaaS offerings that resulted in $725,000 in new bookings in a single year. At GoDaddy, Brown led a team of more than 150 to expand web hosting offerings from 500,000 hosted sites to more than 5.5 million sites.
"When I started OVH 18 years ago, my focus was to create a way for customers to take advantage of then-nascent cloud computing technology," said Octave Klaba, CEO and Chairman of the Board of OVH Group. "Today, customers face a different challenge -- buying cloud services from any one of a number of identical companies. OVH US will challenge what businesses believe to be the industry norm for cloud services, and exceed their expectations for value. Russell and the OVH US team have the industry pedigree and market expertise to start a ripple that becomes a tsunami as we take the US IaaS market by storm and set a new industry standard."
Join OVH US OVH US is hiring for multiple roles based in the US. To learn more, visit: https://www.ovh.com/us/careers/available-positions/?country=we
About OVH US OVH US is a global, hyper-scale cloud provider that offers businesses industry-leading performance and value. Vertically integrated to own its network, server technology and green data centers, OVH US operates more cost effectively and passes these benefits back to customers. Controlling each step in the global solution allows OVH US to provide the best performance, price, security, and customer service in the industry. OVH US is a subsidiary of OVH Group, the largest European hosting provider, with more than one million customers across 138 countries and four continents. Thus, OVH US customers join a global network with 26 data centers, 32 points of presence, and thousands of miles of dark fiber.Learn more about OVH US.
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FastComet Announces Launch Of New Cloud Hosting Packages – HostReview.com (press release)
FastComet Announces Launch Of New Cloud Hosting Packages
San Francisco, CA, March 14, 2017 --(PR.com)-- FastComet, a San Francisco-based company that provides premium web and cloud hosting solutions hosting for small business owners, entrepreneurs and developers, has today announced a dramatic overhaul of its shared hosting platform. The company stated a significant change to its plan structure by upgrading its shared hosting plans to offer clearer limits and plenty of room for growth.
The new hosting plans affect new shared hosting customers. Current cloud customers of FastComet will still enjoy their current shared hosting plans, as all existing plans and hosting subscriptions are automatically grandfathered to their current pricing, features and infrastructure.
"FastComet's offerings are now suited to all phases of a business's web hosting cycle. Our new services fulfill the needs of those businesses just beginning to build a web presence as well as the needs of growing businesses demanding more out of their hosting plans. As our customers web hosting needs grow, we grow with them," said Elena Tileva, Director of Marketing.
The new plans are designed so that even new website owners will have a stress free and easy experience. FastComet's entry-level shared hosting plan, the StartSmart, allows customers to host one domain name with their account, while the mid-level plan, now called the ScaleRight plan, allows customers to host unlimited domain names within the same account. The newly launched SpeedUp plan, offers enhanced platform, increased reliability and extra speed.
SpeedUp will exceed what was offered before in the other plans, providing even more server resources and less limitations for the clients. Faster than its two fellow plans, the new SpeedUp shared hosting solution boasts Solid State Drive (SSD) for storage and databases and set up in a redundant RAID 10 configuration for optimal speed and data security. With this setup you will never have to worry about failed hard drives and data loss.
It also leverages 5-layers custom caching configuration including Varnish, APC, OPCode and Memcached, CDN (Content Delivery Network), a global CDN powered by industry leader in website security, 3 x more CPU and RAM, 3 times less populated servers, that increases website speed up to 300%. "In addition, it runs on the blazingly fast LiteSpeed LSAPI PHP for optimal TTFB that Google will fall in love with."
What is impressive is the list of amazing features and included extras that come at no additional cost: SpamExperts Mail Protection, Patchman, Free GlobalSign Private SSL for life and many more.
Weve always wanted to be the final hosting decision someone had to make, said Daniel Lee, Director of Product at FastComet. We understand the trouble it takes to research, plan for and study a web hosting provider. Our goal was always that once you choose us, theres never a need to go through that process again. Our new cloud hosting plans help us get closer to that goal.
Coming from a different host? Help is available at no cost FastComet will make the transition from another host hassle free with free website transfer service offered on all shared hosting plans.
About FastComet
FastComet Inc. is a full service web hosting provider located in San Francisco, California focusing on server stability, excellent customer service and ease in web hosting. They continue to impress current and potential clients with speedy replies and exceptional support.
FastComet Team has been in the web hosting business for more than 7 years. While providing professional services in the field of System Administration to private and business clients, the team grasped the opportunity to launch our public cloud hosting service in late 2013. By doing so FastComet preserved their core values and built on our previous experience to deliver a finely crafted PaaS (Platform as a Service). Learn more at http://www.fastcomet.com
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SAP is now hosting VMs in its cloud. Just don’t call it HANA – The Register
SAP probably isn't high on the list of companies you'd contemplate as a host of a virtual machine in the cloud, but the company's just doubled down on a service that offers just that.
The company's not trying to be a general-purpose cloud platform. Instead, the offering is part of the recently-re-named SAP Cloud Platform. Previously known as SAP HANA Cloud Platform, the company changed the name because the product has nothing to do with HANA: there's nothing in-memory about the offering. Indeed, the company has figured out that it slapped the HANA name on too many things, deterring those who worried they weren't ready for in-memory computing.
The Cloud Platform is a platform-as-a-service into which SAP has just tossed things like a new SDK for developing iOS applications, an Internet of Things service it says can hoover in data generated by things using 40 different protocols and a Hadoop-powered big data service.
Cloud Platform's overarching purpose is to let SAP users build apps that connect to either legacy software, third party software both on-premises and SaaSy, and to SAP itself. For the latter, SAP is banking on the fact it knows exactly what's going on inside its own applications and is therefore in prime position to pump out information so it can be put to work. Hence the imminent ServiceNow-like Cloud Platform Workflow service that will debut on March 30th and make it easy to create new composite workflows for business processes.
And then there's that virtual machine hosting service. SAP's not bidding for your critical cloud workloads. Instead, it figures that if you've built something to work alongside SAP, that workload may well do better in the cloud than it would if it had to traverse the internet to get anything done. The service runs on SUSE and OpenStack and creating it is one of the reasons the two companies are so tight and so invested into the open source cloud stack. The VM-hosting service is also expanding about to expand: it kicked off in Europe late in 2016 and has now reached North America.
We can expect more services to appear in SAP Cloud Platform before long: the company's representatives today told The Register its SAPPPHIRE conference in May will see it announce more to go beyond the current total of 45.
Just don't call any of this HANA: that name's now reserved for SAP S for Hana, the current version of the company's application stack. If you run that in the cloud, it's SAP S for Hana Cloud.
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Security and Reliability Top Hosting Concerns for Web Businesses – CIO Today
Security and Reliability Fuel Hosting Concerns for Web-Dependent Designers, Developers, Digital Agencies and SMBs -- Liquid Web Survey Reveals Business Challenges as Web and Cloud Reliance Grows
As more and more companies move to the web and cloud, the expectations put on the infrastructure supporting these platforms, such as web and cloud hosting services, increases exponentially. Security (88 percent) is on par with reliability (89 percent) and considered as the two most important criteria when selecting a hosting provider, survey respondents said. And, when these businesses are dissatisfied with their current hosting provider, security becomes the most important factor when selecting their next provider as indicated by 91 percent of respondents. Survey respondents said that DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks and other types of hacking attacks were the two security issues most experienced or feared.
On the reliability front, companies with fewer than 100 employees reported significant frustration with their hosting provider, and almost half of these respondents experienced technical issues from their hosting company in the past 12 months (on average 4.5 times per year). Among the 450 web-dependent professionals surveyed, 68 percent described the relationship with their hosting partner as a client-vendor relationship. Respondents also noted the importance of choosing the correct hosting provider for them in the current business climate. In fact, 86 percent of those surveyed reported that they felt a company's competitiveness would be impacted by this decision.
"If a website or application fuels the revenue generation of a business, the choice of a hosting provider should be a strategic one," said Liquid Web CTO Joe Oesterling. "Yet, often businesses make the mistake of choosing their provider based on price rather than ensuring they have a dependable partner. It's important not to buy into empty promises of 'best support' or 'most secure' without validating the performance and security of the offered hosting solutions, reviewing current customer testimonials and customer satisfaction results, and researching the skill level of the resources that will be assisting you to design, migrate and support your solution. It is definitely worth the time to make sure you are picking a partner, not a vendor."
Another trend the survey reported is the mass adoption of easy-to-use applications such as content management systems like WordPress. WordPress has enabled SMBs, designers, developers and agencies to grow their businesses; however, this has created a need for managed hosting solutions to support them throughout this growth, helping to scale the content management system accordingly.
About half of the respondents (48 percent) build websites on WordPress with 71 percent using a managed WordPress hosting solution. Of those who build websites on WordPress, 78 percent reported that they are considering using a managed WordPress service in the next 6-12 months. This included 88 percent of current managed WordPress users and 53 percent of non-managed WordPress users.
These results indicate that developers, designers, agencies and SMBs are looking for ways to find efficiencies in their work and worry less about the underlying infrastructure. Among current managed WordPress users, performance guarantees, simple installation and automatic backups are the top 3 benefits they reported experiencing with managed WordPress hosting.
"We see designers, developers, agencies and the SMBs they serve demanding simpler, more scalable hosting solutions as they become ever-more dependent on the web and cloud," said Oesterling. "We see this audience of web-reliant companies largely underserved as bigger players focus primarily on the enterprise."
When selecting a hosting provider, survey respondents noted the top five factors that are most important to them are reliability, security, performance guarantees, knowledgeable customer support representatives, and 24/7 customer support. Respondents, however, felt that they were not receiving most of these elements with almost 40 percent experiencing dissatisfaction in pricing increases and inexperienced customer support. To complicate matters further, 35 percent say their dissatisfaction is driven by a poor migration experience, ultimately preventing these businesses from switching to a better hosting provider.
"It's clear that hosting providers need to be a partner in their clients' businesses, not just a service," said Oesterling. "At Liquid Web, it's our mission to provide speed, reliability and security for our clients' websites and applications. That is their business, and we see it as part of ours, too."
Methodology
The survey was conducted in the second half of 2016. The total number of participants for the study is 450, including about 40 percent web designer (182 respondents), 48 percent web developer (218 respondents), and 11 percent digital agency decision maker (50 respondents). Of those, 77 percent belonged to companies with less than 999 employees and 23 percent were from companies with more than 1,000 employees.
About Liquid Web
Liquid Web powers content, commerce and potential for SMB entrepreneurs and the designers, developers and digital agencies who create for them. The $100 million web hosting and cloud services provider known for its high- performance services and exceptional customer support delivers reliable, highly-available, secure and hassle-free hosting backed with a human touch. Liquid Web offers a broad portfolio designed so customers can choose a hosting solution that is hands-on or hands-off or a hybrid of the two.
The company owns and manages its own data centers, providing a diverse range of offerings spanning from bare metal servers and fully managed hosting to managed WordPress and continues to evolve its service offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of its web-reliant, professional customers. With over 30,000 customers spanning 150 countries, the company has assembled a world-class team, global data centers and an expert group of 24/7/365 solution engineers. As an industry leader in customer service, the rapidly expanding company has been recognized among INC Magazine's 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for the last ten years. Liquid Web is part of the Madison Dearborn Partners family of companies. Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP") is a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago.
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2017’s Best "Cloud Hosting" Providers | 100% Real Reviews
The late Steve Jobs once said, I dont need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster. The year was 1997, the Internet itself was only in its infancy, and here was the Apple Co-Founder and longtime web industry leader talking about our future in the Cloud.
That term and this idea of storing and hosting data on a connected network of virtual machines rather than hard disks has grown in popularity since, just as Steve predicted: Carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison. Here we cover all the questions one could possibly have about the concept of cloud server hosting from the cloud infrastructure to the cost and features to look for and beyond.
Alright, so first: What is a cloud server, and how does it differ from your run-of-the-mill physical servers?
Cloud servers are just virtual machines (VMs) that run on whats called a cloud computing environment. Rather than having a physical hardware server, which is susceptible to hardware fail, cloud-hosted servers communicate over a network of connected servers theyre all online, but none of your data is stored on your hard drive. Cloud-based servers are software-independent, making them a highly available alternative to on-premise servers, especially if youre in need of resources on demand.
Your cloud host is just the service provider connecting you to this software-independent server network.
The Cloud is known for giving us the ability to send, store, and retrieve data in massive quantities, from anywhere in the world, at any given point in time. As such, there are several benefits of cloud hosting, but like anything else, those perks come at a cost.
Now, for the downsides: Most of these disadvantages can be offset by strategic use of public and private cloud environments (more on this further down).
To quote Steve again, Managing a network like this is a pain in the butt, but for those in need of on-demand resources only when you need them and always where you are this can be a solution with an awesome cost-to-stability ratio.
Its important to realize that there are several cloud-based services out there apart from web hosting services. Backing up your files online (e.g., Dropbox, Google Cloud, etc.), web applications, and other as-a-Service offerings (SaaS, Paas, IaaS) make up what we call cloud computing. In short, cloud computing just means a bunch of computers are sharing processing power and data with multiple devices.
Cloud service providers are not necessarily the same as your cloud hosts, like the folks listed on this page. This can seem convoluted at first because those computing jobs are done on cloud server networks, but think of it this way: You can can sign up for many various Internet-based resources and not have a website hosted on a server in the Cloud. Just because you need cloud-based storage, for example, doesnt mean you are shopping for cloud hosting. Get it?
To recap, cloud computing providers might offer any or many of the following:
There are plenty other specific examples of services, but the ones listed above are some of the more well-known representations of the as-a-Service models of cloud computing. Much like the web hosting end of things, the benefits of cloud computing include fast access to tons of data whenever, wherever.
Yes much like web hosting services can be broken down into shared, vps, and dedicated options, the Cloud is divided: public and private. Here, well also get into whats called hybrid hosting and how cloud hosting fits in with its commonly confused sidekick, VPS hosting.
The main difference between the public and private cloud sectors is the latter means the hardware, storage, and network are all allotted to a single tenant one client or company. In contrast, a multi-tenant environment, or the public cloud, means that you can buy a slice of a cloud computing environment and share space with other customers.
The Google Cloud platform, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace are all examples of public clouds and the perks include pay-as-you-go pricing, getting to set up and manage your own servers, and no contracts. Private clouds, on the other hand, offer the advantages of PCI/HIPAA compliance, high-level security, and hardware customization. You can also breed hybrid deployments via the private cloud, which cant be done in the public cloud.
Put simply, hybrid hosting is using a mix of public and private hosting environments i.e., ideal for those who want to harness the security of the private cloud while capitalizing on the economical benefits of public cloud resources.
For more on this, check out our guide to getting started with hybrid hosting.
Finally, virtual private server (VPS) hosting versus virtual machine (cloud) hosting know the difference. While a VPS is a physical server thats been partitioned into multiple hardware slices each acting as independent server environments, a cloud server is running on a network of connected machines. A VPS is still subject to hardware failure, whereas a cloud web server will just transfer data to another machine without the owner experiencing downtime or data loss.
To be clear: A VPS can be hosted in the Cloud, making it a cloud VPS, but not all cloud servers are VPSs. To see the top VPS hosting plans, including many leading cloud options, check out our VPS reviews.
The best cloud hosting providers are going to help you capitalize on all the advantages of cloud hosting instant provisioning; scalable, on-demand resources; and flexible hardware options for a reasonable cost.
Some of the top features we look for in determining the best hosting services for cloud customers:
When it comes to premiere customer support, SSD speed boosting, and managed servers, InMotion is particularly great at all of the above.
You can pay anywhere from $15 to more than $50 a month on a reputable cloud hosts server.
Lets review: With hosts like InMotion or Bluehost, youre getting immediate provisioning and deployment of super scalable cloud resources, a bunch of processing power, and industry-leading expert support in the pricing ballpark of $15 a month. This is as cheap (and as highly valued) as cheap cloud hosting gets, folks. You get your moneys worth.
Yes, free cloud hosting is a thing, but it mostly comes in the form of a free trial. You have to sign up with a credit card, you get a taste of the awesome resources for 60 days or so, and then you have to pay for anything you use thereafter.
I cant communicate to you how awesome this is unless you use it final words from Steve, and truer words could not have been said of cloud platforms. For those whose businesses need highly available, on-demand cloud computing power, those who cant afford hardware failure, and those who like the idea of paying for a service by the hour, the Cloud is awesome. Whats more, the top cloud hosts can have you launched and live in minutes may the force of the Cloud be with you.
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