I’ve been using Firefox on my Mac as my default system browser for years until I got really irritated with the need to kill it once in a while after it became non-responsive. Switched to Google Chrome, but was still running Firefox for testing of my HTML/JavaScript code with the great add-on Firebug. It looks […]
Sensationalized Press Coverage Will Not Kill the Cloud
You don’t have to be a techie to have heard about the challenges Amazon’s faced with its EC2 elastic cloud offering over the weekend. States of emergency were declared up and down the eastern seaboard after a destructive line of thunderstorms knocked out power in over 4 million homes — including Amazon’s East Coast cloud […]
Considerations for Choosing a Cloud Load Testing Solution
There are many cloud load testing solutions. However, very few enable you to capitalize on the opportunities of load testing in the cloud. Load testing with the cloud offers clear advantages over traditional load testing in certain circumstances, but the tools you use are even more important to the quality of your tests. This post points out things to keep in mind when considering a cloud testing solution.
If you choose a solution that is not integrated with one or more cloud platforms, there are several manual steps you’ll need to perform on your own. First, you’ll need to learn how each platform you’ll be using works, including its limitations and constraints. Second, you’ll need to build, maintain and access the machines you wish to use
New Relic, Inc. Named “Platinum Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that New Relic, Inc., the SaaS-based cloud application performance management provider, has been named Platinum Sponsor of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Nov. 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
New Relic, Inc. is the all-in-one web application performance management provider for the cloud and the data center. Its SaaS solution combines real user monitoring, application monitoring, and server monitoring in a single solution built from the ground up and changes the way developers and operations teams manage web application performance in real-time. More than 25,000 organizations use New Relic to optimize over 8 billion transactions in production each day. New Relic also partners with leading cloud management, platform and hosting vendors to provide their customers with instant visibility into the performance of deployed applications. New Relic is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
SecurityStockWatch.com Named “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that SecurityStockWatch.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SecurityStockWatch.com is the #1 security solutions portal for “Secure ID Solutions” and “Fraud Prevention Solutions.” We invite you to visit Google to verify our top rankings first hand. Our B2B and B2Gov channel reaches your target markets and based on our demographics and traffic, we can assure your company of an excellent business development opportunity. What is YOUR cloud computing solution?
Hybrid Clouds – Beyond the Private Cloud Horizon
The million dollar question has been “Can an organization move all its applications to a public cloud?”. Instead of moving all applications to the public cloud, many organizations are choosing a hybrid approach where on-premise resources can be leveraged and can interact with external resources. A hybrid cloud is a combination of public, private and community clouds. Most private clouds are internal, however there can be situations where private clouds are hosted at a vendor site. For this discussion, I am focusing on the private clouds that are hosted internal to the organization. Utilizing hybrid clouds may require redesigning systems based on a determination of what data resides internally and what data can be moved externally. Generally organizations choose to have critical and sensitive data reside internally and move non-sensitive data outside the organization. Core business applications or services can be retained internally and can interact with the non core applications or services that can reside external to the organization. One of the programs I led in the past used the public cloud to gather non sensitive information and subsequently this data was funneled internally. This information was then manipulated and rendered for applications that performed customer reporting and related business intelligence.
ByteHouse Offering to Make Your ‘Web Hosting Life Easier’ with Plesk 11
Parallels has always been the leader in the web hosting control panel market and we are pleased to be a launch partner and provide their latest and most advance feature packed version to all our web hosting clients. Plesk 11 is an easy to use language rich control panel that has addressed many of the concerns of the web hosting community with an upgrade of the reseller package that enables users to have complete control of their customer facing stores, discounts, billing and US and international taxation.
The new feature rich product also provides you Parallel’s upgraded site builder re-branded “Web presence builder” that provides an easy to use point and click drag and drop instant web site builder. There are over 100 pre-configured templates to cater to the myriad of small business and hobbies that you may have. For those more adventurous, you have the option of clicking on the hundreds of open source applications such as WordPress or Drupal web development products and downloading them pre-configured hassle free.
“We are excited to offer such a powerful and extensive range of feature rich products to our web hosting customers that we believe will make their web hosting life easier whilst having greater control of their hosting environments” says Fred Jones, ByteHouse product development manager.
How Web Content Filtering is Affected by Social Networking
Research and Markets has added Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Analysis of Global Web Content Filtering Market” to their offering. anylises
The prevention of malware exposure, content liabilities, and meeting government compliance has grown significantly in demand in the last three years. However, vendors are in a constant state of competition in which acquisitions, partnerships, volatile rebranding, consolidation, and aggressive pricing structures have created global strategic and tactical marketing. Cloud solutions have become a disruptive technology for on-premise appliances where cloud solutions are seen as a new way to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and capital expenditures (CAPEX). Mobile and remote devices are becoming a new paradigm for corporate environments with laptops, tablets, and smartphones as a major concern.
-Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook and Twitter, along with a growing establishment of new Web sites, opened new channels for malware distributors to perform malicious attacks.
-Organizations face the complexity of managing evolving malware, maintaining productivity, and meeting compliance.
-Number of malicious sites identified each day, percent of legitimate sites compromised by malware distributors.
-Employees have become a liability to an organization’s security; throughout 2011 major corporations experienced security breaches as a result of Web 2.0 Web site access.
-Access to inappropriate content such as pornography, violence, and racism can create litigations and lawsuits that could range in the millions of dollars.
-Loss of productivity remains a top concern with executives, where content management becomes highly complex and laborious.
-Social networking sites can cause productivity concerns because of cyber slacking activities.
-Large enterprises seek solutions offering simplified, single-console management features that can control a large number of devices and users.
-Web content filtering vendors must address requirements presented by legacy systems, different platforms, and a variety of information technology (IT) environments in enterprises.
-Additional features such as data loss prevention (DLP), antivirus, and network optimization tools are becoming increasingly integrated within secure Web gateway solutions.
-Cloud computing, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) Web content filtering solutions, provide SME’s with low total cost of ownership (TCO) and efficient offsite filtering abilities.
-Partnerships with major Web 2.0 sites and major acquisitions of smaller security vendors indicate a new trend in achieving market leadership and penetration.
-Frost & Sullivan believes convergence of Web content filtering with additional security solutions will become the new paradigm within the next five years.
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2mgc9n/analysis_of_global
The Web Host Industry Review “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that The Web Host Industry Review has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web hosting industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, reviews and resources to the hosting community. TheWHIR Blogs provides a community of expert industry perspectives. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers. WHIR TV offers on demand web hosting video interviews and web hosting video features of the key persons and events of the web hosting industry. WHIR Events brings together like-minded hosting industry professionals and decision-makers in local communities. TheWHIR is an iNET Interactive property.
Dating site dumps Amazon EC2: “100% uptime a required SLA”
The storm which accounted for Amazon’s cloud outage over the weekend has resulted in one company ditching the AWS system over fears of further unavailability.
From 2300 EST on June 30 users of several high profile sites such as Pinterest, Netflix and Instagram were unable to access content, with AWS “investigating connectivity issues”. The issue was resolved by 0054 EST on June 31 but updates on power restoration appeared sporadically throughout the day.
It appears, however, that for one company this downtime was the final straw.
WhatsYourPrice.com, an online dating service which allows users to arrange dates by naming their price, has gone its own way with Amazon following the provider’s latest EC2 outage. Reports state that WhatsYourPrice.com has now upped sticks and moved to Las Vegas-based cloud provider FiberHub.
Perhaps the most worrying aspect of this was that, according to WhatsYourPrice, Amazon’s support team …