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TurnKey Internet Launches WebMatrix, a New Application in Partnership with Microsoft
IT solutions provider TurnKey Internet today announced their partnership with Microsoft to launch a new application called WebMatrix, a free web development tool that includes everything you need for website development pre-installed in their Dedicated, VPS and Cloud servers.
Albany, NY (PRWEB) March 05, 2012
WebMatrix pools the best open source web applications (including DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress, Joomla!) and handles the downloading and installation of your new Web site. By utilizing built-in web templates or writing code yourself; WebMatrix is all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. Developing websites has never been easier. The days of hand-editing configuration files and making sure you have all the right components are long gone.
TurnKey Internets Windows web servers come pre-installed with the new WebMatrix application, with your choice of a Dedicated, VPS or Cloud server. Once youre up and running, WebMatrix provides all the tools and features needed in a single unified interface. Say good-bye to switching between multiple applications just to perform common web development tasks. With WebMatrix, youre always just a click away from easily editing your files, managing your database and modifying your server settings.
Tim Kirsch, Executive Vice President of Turnkey Internet stated, With a Windows Web Server, launching a new site from the WebMatrix application is simple smooth and fast. There are no more uploading files via ftp from one server to another. You can develop your site from right within the application and hit the publish button to make it available on the web. I am really happy to see that Microsoft is starting to integrate into the open source arena, this is a huge step for them.
In celebration of the WebMatrix launch, Turnkey Internet is excited to announce a promotional offer to include 50% off for life AND 3 Months free on their newest turnkey solution.
For more information visit TurnKeyInternet.net/WebMatrix, TurnKey Internet.net or contact Jennifer F. Hendricks at (518) 618-0999 ext. 119 or Jennifer@TurnKeyinternet.net.
About TurnKey Internet
TurnKey Internet Internet, Inc. is a leading provider of managed web hosting and IT solutions. Based in Albany, New York, TurnKey Internet, Inc. provides enterprise-class cloud based services to customers in over 150 countries via its Latham, New York data center. TurnKey Internet, Inc. has provided IT solutions since 1999, holding an A rating with the Better Business Bureau, Accredited Businesses.
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Hub’s future jobs may be in cloud
There are jobs in the cloud.
The rise of cloud computing services - running software and storing files online, rather than on a computer hard drive - is expected to create 20,000 jobs in the Boston area by 2015, according to a report produced for Microsoft Corp. by Framingham research firm IDC Corp.
Most of the jobs will come as companies shift from maintaining their own, expensive computer servers toward cloud services, which allow access to enterprise software and data via the Internet, according to the report, which was scheduled to be released Monday.
Shifting to the cloud could cut costs for companies and help create 1.1 million jobs in North America by the end of 2015 and a global rise in business revenues of $1.1 trillion.
Last year, the United States added 1.8 million new jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The forecast for cloud-related job growth assumes that when companies do not have to spend money on maintaining legacy systems, they will spend it on innovation elsewhere, and that will create new jobs, according to IDC analyst John Gantz.
The large enterprises are moving their computing into the cloud at a lower cost and they can repurpose that money into sales and marketing jobs, said Craig Hodges, general manager of Microsofts Northeast sales division. The report is the companys first analysis of the global impact of cloud computing.
In the Boston area, the primary drivers in the growth of cloud computing are education and financial services businesses, according to the IDC research. Hospitals and government services are slower to move to the cloud because of regulation and security issues, it said.
IDCs Gantz said cloud spending is growing almost five times faster than overall spending on technology. But with total information technology spending in 2011 of $1.7 trillion, the $28 billion spend on cloud services makes it a nascent market.
The report says that more than 50 percent of the job growth related to increasing adoption of cloud services will take place in small and medium-sized businesses. More companies are spending less on IT maintenance, but using the cloud does not amount to outsourcing tech support staff, Gantz said. Instead, those positions are being redefined when companies move to the cloud and away from servicing their own computer servers.
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Cloud computing growing jobs, says Microsoft
BY SANDRA GUY Business Reportersguy@suntimes.com March 5, 2012 6:36PM
Hostway Software Engineer Youngtae Kim works in the company's 100 N. Riverside office. Hostway is one of several companies hiring new employees because of the trend toward 'cloud' computing. The Chicago area is expected to gain 38,000 new jobs by the end of 2015 because of this trend, according to a new report being issued Tuesday. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
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The buzzword cloud computing a way for companies to buy less-costly computing power on demand is forecast to create 37,868 jobs in the Chicago region by 2016, a whopping 64 percent increase from todays number, according to a forecast released Monday.
The jobs range from cloud computing engineers who command $115,000 to $145,000 yearly salaries to cloud technologists who start at $80,000 annually, to jobs in sales, marketing, finance and production at both IT companies and their business clients.
Nationwide, cloud computing is forecast to add 1.1 million jobs and, worldwide, 14 million, in the next three years, according to the IDC research firm. Local companies said Monday they are adding jobs as cloud computing expands.
Hostway Corp., which employs 60 at its data center and corporate headquarters inside the Boeing building in downtown, expects to expand its workforce by 10 percent in the next four to five years to accommodate cloud computing growth, said Chief Financial Officer Mark D. Adolph.
We will see growth in hiring in the data center, network operations and network systems, as well as cloud-related salespeople, product managers and research-and-development employees, he said.
Cloud computing lets companies in retail, banking, insurance, transportation, construction and professional services eliminate the expense of buying their own computer servers, which can cost $30,000 to $300,000. That is expected to enable these companies to hire more employees not only in IT but in jobs that help them innovate, said Adam Hecktman, director of the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago, which employs 700. Microsoft also operates a data center in Northlake.
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More Flexibility with the 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server
Accurate hourly billing model enhances server management and performance. Machine capacity of up to 99 cloud servers possible in one contract and Server Management and Monitoring is available with 1&1 Mobile Apps.
Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) March 05, 2012
1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server (DCS) offers users a virtual server environment with full root access. The innovative aspect of this model is found in the adaptability of each machines basic settings that can be changed to suit users own needs over time. It is also possible to switch between either a Linux or Windows operating system. 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server can be a sophisticated alternative for companies whose resource requirements change frequently or for start-ups that cannot accurately estimate how much computing power they will need for their online project.
If a company using a traditional dedicated server requires an increase in computing power, significant time and resources are needed to change configurations over to a new machine. 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server eliminates such a time consuming process by enhancing usability and accessibility. If, for example a promotional campaign or one-time project attracts more website visitors than usual, this cloud server would allow the performance parameters to be increased with the help of an intuitive slider for expanding computing power up to 6 cores, 24 GB RAM and 800 GB of hard disk space. An upgrade or downgrade to a server would be complete in less than five minutes.
For users whose online projects exploit the capacity of a single cloud server completely, 1&1 offers a multi-function virtual infrastructure. That means that up to 99 virtual machines can be added to an existing contract and ordered conveniently via the users 1&1 Control Panel. After setup, users can configure each Dynamic Cloud Server as usual, with individual capabilities to start, stop, reset or delete them.
Managing and monitoring the server on-the-go is also not a problem. 1&1 provides you with mobile apps for the DCS that can be downloaded for free via the following links:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/1-1-mobile-monitoring/id409369112
[http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cloud-server-management/id392277406?mt=8
[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.oneandone.mobile.monitoring.server
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.unitedinternet.cloudserver
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“Cloud storage served from an array would cost $2 a gigabyte”
New Australian cloud storage operator Haylix says building a cloud on storage arrays would mean prices of $2 a gigabyte, rather than the 12 cents it has been able to achieve by building a cloud out of servers.
Arrays are great for active servers with high I/O, said Michael Richardson, a Manager at Halyix. But the company has instead cooked up a cloud from lots and lots of Dell servers and OpenStack, a combination it says is more affordable and flexible than even dedicated cloud arrays like EMC's Atmos.
Richardson also feels his homebrew cloud allows Haylix to differentiate in ways that would not be possible if it used off-the-shelf cloud kit. It won't be enough just to say we are Australian, he said. We are an engineering company at heart. It was not enough for us to re-badge a service.
One example of that engineering-led differentiation is deep integration with Akamai, thanks to tweaks to OpenStack. The result is a feature Richardson hopes will make the new service attractive to customers beyond Australia by reducing latency.
Another differentiation is a user interface which, in a demonstration to The Register, appeared rather more user-friendly than that officered by Amazon Web Services.
Richardson would not disclose just which Dell servers Haylix will employ or even which form factor his machines possess, but did confirm the company's VIA Nano-powered servers did not make his shopping list. He did confirm that Haylix has many terabytes of live storage and many more terabytes in stock but not yet online.
The company also intends to introduce a cloud computing product later in 2012.
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Leap Day brings down Microsoft's Azure cloud service
Microsoft has been running its Azure cloud services since 2009, touting the technology as a robust and secure way to built and deploy cloud-based applications, Web sites, and other technology that can be available to users anywhere they can get Internet access and without having to worry about complicated stuff like VPNs and secure tunnels back to corporate HQ. However, on Wednesday the service experienced a 12-hour outage thanks to one of the most embarrassing bugs a programmer can make: Azure didnt handle February 29 leap day correctly.
Without noting the specific problem, Azure lead engineer Bill Laing noted in a blog post that the outage was determined to have been caused by a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year. Data Center Knowledges Rich Miller reported that Microsoft attributed the problem to a cert issue which would likely mean that certificated used to establish secure communications and access between related systems failed to validate correctly on February 29. Liang apologized for the outage and the inconvenience to customers, and promised a full analysis would be published within ten days.
The incident serves to highlight the essential problem with all cloud services: every once in a while, they will treat their customers to a bright, sunny, cloudless day. Back in April, Amazons cloud services suffered a sustained crash that resulted in the loss of customer data; in August both Amazon and Microsofts cloud services were taken offline in Europe by a power failure in Dublin, Ireland.
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RightMobileApps White Label Program – Video
01-03-2012 18:10 RightMobileApps has a white label program to help you grow your company by offering mobile apps to your clients. Build apps without any programming knowledge whatsoever in minutes. RightMobileApps is powered by Top-Tier, Secure, and Scalable cloud servers. Create an additional revenue stream for your company with mobile apps.
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Web Host 1&1 Provides More Flexibility with Dynamic Cloud Server
2 March 2012, London: 1&1 Internet Ltd., http://www.1and1.co.uk, a global leader amongst Web hosting providers, has made its Dynamic Cloud Server now even more flexible. From now on, configurations for all essential features such as CPU or RAM can be scaled hourly as needed. For small and medium businesses, the innovation of such flexibility with server resources allows them to manage their IT needs just as efficiently as major corporations who leverage such tools for long-time success. This lowers the costs of small business IT and enhances the competitive nature of the market.
1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server (DCS) offers users a virtual server environment with full root access. The innovative aspect of this model is found in the adaptability of each machines basic settings that can be changed to suit users own needs over time. It is also possible to switch between either a Linux or Windows operating system. 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server can be a sophisticated alternative for companies whose resource requirements change frequently or for start-ups that cannot accurately estimate how much computing power they will need for their online project.
If a company using a traditional dedicated server requires an increase in computing power, significant time and resources is needed to change configurations over to a new machine. 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server eliminates such a time consuming process by enhancing usability and accessibility. If, for example ,a promotional campaign or one-time project attracts more website visitors than usual, this cloud server would allow the performance parameters to be increased with the help of an intuitive slider for expanding computing power up to 6 cores, 24 GB RAM and 800 GB of hard disk space. An upgrade or downgrade to a server would be complete in less than five minutes.
For users whose online projects exploit the capacity of a single cloud server completely, 1&1 offers a multi-function virtual infrastructure. That means that up to 99 virtual machines can be added to an existing contract and ordered conveniently via the users 1&1 Control Panel. After setup, users can configure each Dynamic Cloud Server as usual, with individual capabilities to start, stop, reset or delete them.
Managing and monitoring the server on-the-go is also not a problem. 1&1 provides mobile apps for the DCS that can be downloaded for free via the following links:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/1-1-mobile-monitoring/id409369112
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cloud-server-management/id392277406?mt=8
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.oneandone.mobile.monitoring.server
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.unitedinternet.cloudserver
1&1 mobile server apps can be used with all current iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices as well as mobile phones running the Android operating system.
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AMD Acquires Cloud Server Maker SeaMicro for $334M USD
AMD's heavily threaded Bulldozer, APUs, GCN are good fits for Seamicro's compact cloud computing servers
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) has struggled mightily in the server market in recent years, seeing its market share fall from nearly 15 percent in 2007 to less than half that -- roughly 6.5 percent in 2011.
I. AMD Server Division -- In Need of a Turnaround
AMD can try to write off part of its struggles to rival Intel Corp. (INTC) usinganti-competitive techniquesto squelch its performance during its strong years in the middle of the last decade, a big part of the troubles have come due to AMD'strailing die shrink timing, which has not improved since itspun off its fabs. While AMD finallydropped a new architecture (Bulldozer) in Sept. 2011, it disappointed in clock speeds and power performance -- something that may be attributable to die shrinks. Difficulty getting to 32 nm may have left AMD with too little time to thoroughly test and refine the new cores.
Approximately 21.89 percent of AMD's market share is tied up in its server sales, so clearly this is a major issue for the company and its shareholders. AMD desperately needed a new tactic. Whileallowing competitive interplaybetween Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp., Ltd. (TPE:2330) and GlobalFoundries in die shrinks may be a potential long term solution, AMD needed something more immediate.
That's why the news of its acquisition of SeaMicro for $334M USD (a mix of $281M USD cash and stock) is a bit surprising, but a bit unsurprising. The small 80-person Silicon Valley server maker is known as a premium maker ofhighly dense and power-efficient servers. It sells heavily to large-scale cloud computing businesses.
The move is also a boon toSanta Clara, California manufacturer NBS. Unlike Apple, Inc. (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ), Dell, Inc. (DELL) and others, SeaMicro doesn't have its servers assembled by Chinese laborers working under sweatshop like conditions. It's made in America, by blue collar workers earning a respectable living.
While it only spends a tenth of the research and development budget (~$50M USD per year) as Dell or HP, SeaMicro's product is viewed as very competitive from a technology basis. But SeaMicro can work intimately with its American manufacturing partner, building prototypes, trialing optimizations, and working out bugs before production hits.
SeaMicro currently exclusivelysells Intel-based servers-- a mixture of Xeon (Sandy Bridge) basedtightly-packed 10 RU designsand mixed 10 RU designsincorporating Intel Atom chips for lighter workloads. The Atom servers use the dual-core 64-bit Atom N570 chip (8.5W TDP). SeaMicro's unique 10 RU form factorsqueezes one to two tower racks into a single compact box-like form factor.
SeaMicro claims four-fold power reduction and six-fold space reduction by eliminating the typical busy server chipset to just three chips, via proprietary interconnect technology.
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