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In this video, GreenPages Solutions Architect Ralph Kindred talks about the latest industry trends around unified communications and video collaboration and the positive impact it has on businesses today.
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With the Cloud becoming more and more popular for the public, a debate has popped up between Cloud providers and Cloud users. That debate centers around the use of Local Data Backups vs. Cloud Data Backups. For the vast majority of companies and personal tech consumers, the idea of storing your critically needed data locally makes sense. Use an external hard drive. Set a reoccurring backup time on a daily basis. Forget about ever backing up your data ever again. However, with the Cloud becoming more accessible to private consumers and companies of all sizes, local data backups are giving way to Cloud backups. Here’s why. The Problem with Local Backups Local Backups Require Personal Data Encryption – Here is the thing about using your own locally stored hard drive to backup all your critical business data – it’s unsafe. Unless you are an IT expert who knows how to properly secure your local hard drive with secure encryption methods and security codes to make sure hackers can’t get in, your critical data is open to the world. For the personal user who only stores music files on their local external hard drive, a hacker doesn’t mean much. But for a company storing sensitive financial data or classified documents, security is a very real threat. Local Backups are Limited – A local external hard drive is a physical piece of equipment which takes up place on your desk and is limited to a storage capacity limit. Unable to grow from its stagnate state, a local external hard drive will not grow and scale with your company as you need more storage space for sensitive data. A local hard drive is 80gb, or 120gb, or 500gb. Once you reach that maximum potential, it’s time to purchase another hard drive. This might not seem like that big of a deal but for a company of any size, who shuffles through a ton of data on a daily basis, your local limit is going to be met and exceeded quickly. This will cause headaches and cost a lot of money. Local Backup Hardware Can Go Missing -Local backups performed via an external hard drive have a major built in security downfall. An external hard drive is easily stolen and can easily go missing. It’s not like your external hard drive is too heavy to move or is secured to your desk via a series of dead bolt locks. Just as easily as someone can pick pocket you while walking down the road, an external hard drive can easily be stolen and all the data siphoned off. The Physical is a Pain -So, let’s say you have a position which requires you to travel around the globe on a constant basis. You travel for business meetings. You travel for trade shows. You travel for industry events. You travel for industry work shops and your travel because sometimes you need a vacation. With all this traveling, the last thing you want to do is have … Continue
With the Cloud becoming more and more popular for the public, a debate has popped up between Cloud providers and Cloud users. That debate centers around the use of Local Data Backups vs. Cloud Data Backups. For the vast majority of companies and personal tech consumers, the idea of storing your critically needed data locally makes sense. Use an external hard drive. Set a reoccurring backup time on a daily basis. Forget about ever backing up your data ever again. However, with the Cloud becoming more accessible to private consumers and companies of all sizes, local data backups are giving way to Cloud backups. Here’s why. The Problem with Local Backups Local Backups Require Personal Data Encryption – Here is the thing about using your own locally stored hard drive to backup all your critical business data – it’s unsafe. Unless you are an IT expert who knows how to properly secure your local hard drive with secure encryption methods and security codes to make sure hackers can’t get in, your critical data is open to the world. For the personal user who only stores music files on their local external hard drive, a hacker doesn’t mean much. But for a company storing sensitive financial data or classified documents, security is a very real threat. Local Backups are Limited – A local external hard drive is a physical piece of equipment which takes up place on your desk and is limited to a storage capacity limit. Unable to grow from its stagnate state, a local external hard drive will not grow and scale with your company as you need more storage space for sensitive data. A local hard drive is 80gb, or 120gb, or 500gb. Once you reach that maximum potential, it’s time to purchase another hard drive. This might not seem like that big of a deal but for a company of any size, who shuffles through a ton of data on a daily basis, your local limit is going to be met and exceeded quickly. This will cause headaches and cost a lot of money. Local Backup Hardware Can Go Missing -Local backups performed via an external hard drive have a major built in security downfall. An external hard drive is easily stolen and can easily go missing. It’s not like your external hard drive is too heavy to move or is secured to your desk via a series of dead bolt locks. Just as easily as someone can pick pocket you while walking down the road, an external hard drive can easily be stolen and all the data siphoned off. The Physical is a Pain -So, let’s say you have a position which requires you to travel around the globe on a constant basis. You travel for business meetings. You travel for trade shows. You travel for industry events. You travel for industry work shops and your travel because sometimes you need a vacation. With all this traveling, the last thing you want to do is have … Continue
“There is a real shift that’s going on in the data center and it’s accelerating, moving away from these big iron, legacy architectures toward something that looks much more like Amazon, Google and Facebook,” stated Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
OVH.com has unveiled its next generation of custom-made dedicated servers dubbed “2013 Reloaded” and designed specifically for hybrid Cloud infrastructures.
The new servers are perfect to boost the performance of already deployed solutions – like Big Data, databases, critical applications – integrating the last generation of RAID cards, with 6Gbps of bandwidth (unbreakable) and 3 options of access acceleration: the CacheVault technology (with ultra-fast Flash memory), FastPath (improving I/O performances using SSD drives) and CacheCade which combines SSD and SATA/SAS drives for frequent access (SSD) and primary storage (SATA/SAS). A hybrid configuration that enables to reach the best I/O performances in the market, without the heavy cost of a 100% SSD solution.
Did you know that there are over 400 services that can be sold through Parallels Service delivery platform? These are all based on the APS standard. It is important to have such a broad portfolio as the cloud needs of SMBs are quite diverse. At the same time, there are a core set of services that customers expect. They include Web Hosting, Email, Collaboration and Infrastructure. In most cases the preferred choice of customers are Microsoft products. This is why Parallels has always made sure that Parallels software and Microsoft software work well together and that we always have the latest and greatest versions available.
We make this happen by spending time with Microsoft engineers in the product groups and Microsoft sales and marketing in the field. It assures us that we are building solutions that are optimized for service providers and bring out the best of Microsoft products and services.
This has enabled above market growth rates from our service provider partners for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, and Microsoft Lync.
This week we have updates for all of these products as well as a few more including Microsoft Lync Hosting Pack and soon, Microsoft Azure Pack for Hosting Providers.
If you want to offer Microsoft-based cloud services and offer them soon, let me know.
Thank you Microsoft for being a great partner.
John Zanni, Vice President SP Marketing and Alliances
SHI International has teamed with Ariba to streamline IT product discovery and purchasing processes for large agricultural machinery builder AGCO.
A global provider of IT products, procurement, and related services, with more than $4 billion in annual sales, SHI has tapped into the networked economy to improve their business productivity and sales. To learn more about how agile procurement works well, we’re joined John D’Aquila, Applications Support Manager at SHI International Corp. in Somerset, New Jersey.
IBM said Monday that it had closed its estimated ~$2 billion acquisition of public cloud infrastructure house SoftLayer Technologies, which is supposed to help Big Blue compete against IaaS market leader Amazon Web Services.
The eight-year-old company has been paired with IBM’s private SmartCloud unit to create a new Cloud Services Division reporting to GM Jim Comfort to pursue a share of what IDC figures could be a $105 billion market by 2016.
Before the acquisition IBM had an internal goal of reaching $7 billion in cloud revenue by the end of 2015, a bogie that reportedly remains unchanged. IBM’s cloud revenues were up a reported 80% last year.
SoftLayer brings IBM 13 data centers worldwide and 21,000 customers, largely SMBs. The new IBM division where SoftLayer now lives will be chasing both IBM and SoftLayer clients, ISVs, and channel and technology partners.
EMC said Monday that it had bought privately held identity verification specialist Aveksa for its RSA authentication unit. The Times of India, where the Massachusetts-based Aveksa does core development work, broke the story and claimed that EMC paid upwards of $225 million in cash for the place. The start-up was reportedly afraid that if it didn’t sell EMC or another big company would develop Aveksa-like capabilities.
EMC said Monday that it had bought privately held identity verification specialist Aveksa for its RSA authentication unit. The Times of India, where the Massachusetts-based Aveksa does core development work, broke the story and claimed that EMC paid upwards of $225 million in cash for the place. The start-up was reportedly afraid that if it didn’t sell EMC or another big company would develop Aveksa-like capabilities.