Cloud Hosting

The Economics of Cloud Hosting
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One of the primary reasons a company might turn to cloud hosting is the perception that it will save money. With rising energy costs, the demands for faster and more powerful hardware, and the cost of maintaining in-house servers, cloud...

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Cloud Deployment Options for Web Applications
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When you decide to run your applications from the cloud, it is important to understand what you are getting. The term “cloud” often conjures up notions of some obscure technological phenomenon that is unique and completely antonymous to web hosting....

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How to Avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-in
Saturday, November 12th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE For decades vendor lock-in has been one of the fears that businesses, large and small, have faced. The problem frequently occurs when a company invests a great deal of money in a proprietary software product that only one vendor develops...

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Evaluating Public Cloud Performance
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Your decision to use cloud hosting for your business or other organization is not the end of the decision-making process. In many ways, it is a beginning. The next phases of the process involves deciding the type of cloud computing...

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How Secure Is Cloud Hosting?
Monday, October 24th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Cloud computing and other cloud-related words are the talk of the IT world right now. Businesses frequently flirt with the concept, but some shy away from the cloud when they consider the perceived security weaknesses. According to a CSO survey,...

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How to Configure Your DNS to Use Cloud Apps
Saturday, October 8th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One of the features of many cloud services gives you is the ability to run web-based applications that are hosted remotely on the provider’s servers. Normally, to use these apps, you would open a web browser and point it to...

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Open Platform as a Service (PaaS) Solutions
Saturday, September 24th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE VMWare has been providing the IT world with virtualization solutions for several years, but it is not surprising that the company has now branched out into cloud computing. Through this natural progression, VMWare developed Cloud Foundry, a cloud platform as...

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The Benefits of a Cloud Application Platform
Thursday, September 15th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One of the terms you might have heard from cloud service providers is “cloud application platform” or simply “cloud platform”. You are likely at least somewhat familiar with cloud services, either from personal use, with web-based email, or business use,...

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Running Your Applications in the Cloud
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE The traditional model for business applications are either locally-installed software on individual machines or local client software that accesses server-installed applications. In both instances, the user machine is required to have specific software installed to make the applications run. To...

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A Quick Guide to Cloud Terminology
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE You have undoubtedly heard about cloud hosting or cloud computing, but you may not quite understand some of the terminology people involved with it use.  Some of the terms are not very well defined, but this quick guide should give...

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