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Is Cloud Hosting Always Managed?
Thursday, March 14th, 2013Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One of the most welcomed features of cloud computing is the hands-off management that it offers its users. Software as a service (SaaS) allows you to have all of the features of on-premise applications without the management and maintenance they...

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Why Virtualization is Essential to the Cloud
Thursday, February 28th, 2013Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Cloud computing has become almost synonymous with virtualization despite the fact that they are two very different technologies. Part of that coupling of the lingo in business is due to the fact that the cloud is and has been extremely...

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5 Basic VPS Security Tips
Monday, December 10th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One of the advantages of virtualization is that it is secure in the fact that a virtual private server (VPS) would not be able to harm its physical host server even if its security were compromised. The catch is, if...

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Is Cloud Hosting the Same as Virtualization?
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE It is easy to get tech terms confused with one another. There are so many, and they change and develop very rapidly. This is particularly difficult with technologies that are often used together. Such is the case with virtualization and...

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4 Free Virtualization Tools for Hosting
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Virtualization has many uses, and in web hosting, it has gained a tremendous amount of popularity. It allows server administrators to maximize space and power usage while also offering more software options within a single server. Moreover, virtualization is great...

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The Relationship between Disaster Recovery and Virtualisation
Friday, July 20th, 2012THN News  
ARTICLE (The Hosting News) – Technological evolutions are driven by the fact that no matter how sophisticated a technology’s defence, security, productivity or efficiency measures are today, there’s always a risk that they’ll be unsuitable tomorrow. It is this simple notion...

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Hourly Cloud Services for Test Applications
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Imagine that you have just finished building what you hope to be the perfect web application. Hours of coding and preparation has led you to this moment. You install in on your server and begin your first test. To your...

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Dell Invests Further into Cloud & Virtualization
Monday, April 2nd, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Computer giant Dell recently unveiled a company acquisition that further invests in the areas of cloud computing and virtualization.  Dell is set to buy Wyse Technology Leadership, a company notable for industry client solutions providing integration...

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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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Venyucloud Virtualization Platform Accelerates Cloud
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Venyu today announced its VenyuCloud virtualization platform,  a low-cost, easy to deploy alternative to physical servers that offers high-availability, enterprise-class firewalling – all from Venyu’s secure data centers. A leading provider of offsite business continuity, cloud...

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