Control Panels, Guest Blog, Plesk Panel 11

Cirrus Tech Pumps Up VPS Hosting Plans with Parallels Plesk Panel 11


 

Cirrus Tech, a Canadian web hosting provider specializing in shared, VPS and cloud hosting services, is participating as an official launch partner for the release of Parallels Plesk Panel 11, the latest version of the award-winning web hosting control panel. 

 

At Cirrus, we are committed to providing our customers with the most up to date technology available. When we were approached by the Parallels team about participating in the launch, we jumped on board without hesitation and are thrilled to provision version 11 of the Parallels Plesk Panel on our Virtual Machine and Virtual Private Server hosting plans as of June 26th, 2012.

 

Users will continue to enjoy all the benefits of the intuitive and fully integrated Plesk control panel, and can now also take advantage of the new and improved features of version 11, including:

 

– An updated, modern look and feel to the user interface

– Improved web server performance and load times thanks to nginx high-performance architecture 

– Better security features including improved password encryption, options to enforce the use of strong passwords for users, and the ability to configure Parallels Plesk Panel 11 for PCI compliance

– A new Software Development Kit (SDK) that makes the addition and customization of extensions easier than ever

 

At Cirrus, we’ve built our VPS hosting services from the ground up to offer a flexible, reliable, and cost effective solution that can meet the hosting needs of any business. Parallels Plesk Panel is a big part of our recipe for success. 

 

Ehsan Mirdamadi, CEO, Cirrus Tech Ltd. – a Canadian web hosting company providing affordable, dependable VM and VPS hosting services since 1999. 

 

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Get Cloud Certified at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

The Cloud Essentials course is a two-day, interactive, classroom-based learning experience. The course provides a balanced curriculum and addresses the business and technical perspectives of cloud computing. It will also explain how to adopt, operate, and govern the cloud. The course enables participants to successfully complete the associated CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam to become a Cloud Essentials Professional (CEP). In addition, the course complements the Virtualization Essentials course, which they can do either before or after they’ve taken the Cloud Essentials course.

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BoogarLists Named “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley

SYS-CON Events announced today that BoogarLists 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.
With a qualified directory of more than 2,000 Venture Capital and Mid-Market/LBO private equity firms, BoogarLists is an excellent place for entrepreneurs to begin their search for investment capital. Whether starting a new company or striving to take an early stage company to the next level, CEOs and CFOs will invariably want to seek out new sources of capital or other financial services. BoogarLists provides an extensive directory of financial, operations and marketing services, as well as a comprehensive directory of conferences and associations, across the technology, media and communications industries.

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Cloud Computing Bootcamp at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
The new, «super-sized» four-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp is a brief introduction to cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics. Solutions built around these topics require a sound cloud computing infrastructure to be successful while helping customers harvest real benefits from this transformational change that is happening in the IT ecosystem.

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Health care provider, LifeWatch, Medical, Medicine, Mobile, Smartphone

LifeWatch V: Smartphone with Healthcare Sensors Built In

LifeWatch AG, a wireless cardiac monitoring service and home sleep test provider in the U.S.,  today released LifeWatch V, a healthcare smartphone. The smartphone allows patients as well as health- and wellbeing-conscious consumers to self-operate a wide range of embedded medical sensors, wellness-related applications, cloud-based services and 24/7 call center support.

By using the barely visible sensors on the phone’s frame, patients as well as health- and wellbeing conscious consumers can track, capture, collect and analyze their health and medical measurements anywhere anytime. The features include ECG, body temperature, blood glucose, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, body fat percentage and stress levels (heart rate variability). All collected data can be retrieved from the cloud for a follow-up anytime anywhere. Users can thus take corrective action, plan their diets and activities, securely share the information with a health provider or family member, trend and analyze the data and more. Patients are also able to program the unit to remind them of their drug type, dose and intake time.

LifeWatch V was designed with a flexible service-product ecosystem in mind, allowing easy integration of services. The LifeWatch V handset unit includes a service enablement platform to support the transmission of medical data to be analyzed, evaluated and communicated to health professionals and call center personnel around the clock. The device wirelessly interacts with a cloud-based environment allowing users direct access to a wide range of valuable complementary medical and wellness related services.

LifeWatch intends to launch the healthcare solution smartphone world-wide. In the initial markets LifeWatch has identified several local partners to enter into strategic partnerships.


Backup, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity

Infographic: How Critical is a Business Backup?

BUMI, a provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses,  announced the findings of its annual industry survey, which analyzed current approaches to data backup and recovery. The survey, which polled CEOs, business owners and IT professionals at small- to mid-sized firms, found that 98 percent of respondents felt that more than one day to restore data after an incident was unacceptable even though almost a quarter of respondents did not regularly check the restore process of their data backup operations.

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“Backing up your data is only the first step in protecting your organization. What really counts is how quickly and effectively you can recover your information,” said BUMI CEO, Jennifer Walzer. “A common misconception is that once backups are put into place, you’re all set. Unfortunately, data backup is not a flawless process. Glitches occur and hardware fails. It’s important to routinely test backups so that you can catch problems before they become disasters, but most organizations just don’t have the time or resources.”

Survey Highlights:

  • A large number of organizations test their restore process infrequently if at all. Nearly 24 percent never test and 17 percent only test yearly. Of the organizations that test more regularly, 27 percent do so quarterly, 19 percent monthly, 12 percent weekly, and less than one percent test on a daily basis.
  • More than one-third (36%) of respondents have no idea how much an hour of downtime costs their organizations. Of the organizations that were able to place a dollar amount on downtime, 31 percent estimated the cost at thousands of dollars per hour. The rest valued it at hundreds of dollars (26%), hundreds of thousands of dollars (6%), and one million dollars or more (less than 1%), respectively.
  • Thirty percent of respondents felt that business continuity was the most important consideration in backing up their data. Twenty percent listed disaster recovery as their top priority, while the same number ranked compliance the highest. The remaining participants were mainly concerned with security (16%) and redundancy (13%).
  • Virtualization is playing a role in many of the survey participants’ disaster recovery methods. Forty-one percent of respondents already use virtualization and 31 percent plan to in the near future. The rest do not currently use virtualization and do not plan to.


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Cloud Storage for Active Directory Users

As a continued discussion from previous blog – Migrate your file server to the cloud, this article discuss how to migrate active directory users to the cloud as well.
When you have an existing file server that you are migrating to cloud storage, in a hybrid access mode, you would like to keep the active directory users too. Hybrid mode means the local file server and cloud storage are in sync, allowing you to both accessing the local file server the old way, while accessing the same file server content from the cloud in the new way.
When you are accessing the file server the old way, the user identity is validated by active directory. When you are accessing the file server from the cloud, you would prefer the same active directory user allowed to access. This is the background context of the article.

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How PaaS Can Change Manufacturing Software

Although cloud computing is just starting to make its way into the manufacturing industry, I think the cloud holds great potential for the future of manufacturing software. And I don’t think the potential of the cloud is limited to the application.
Cloud development platforms – or Platform as a Service (PaaS) – stand to change the way that manufacturing software is developed, distributed and consumed. Because PaaS significantly lowers the barriers to entry to develop manufacturing applications, it makes it significantly cheaper and easier for third-party developers to create applications for manufacturing-specific problems.
If you’re unfamiliar with development platforms, just think about an iPhone. The iPhone is the platform that third-party developers build apps for. To develop for the iPhone, you just need to build an app on the iPhone platform and anyone in the world can download it directly to their iPhone. PaaS takes that and moves it to an enterprise level.

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Will CliQr end fears of cloud vendor lock-in?

As the Google I/O conference gets underway in San Francisco, a Google-backed start-up has launched a cloud solution which aims to eradicate vendor lock-in.

Cloud management providers CliQr Technologies has launched CloudCenter, a product which “enables applications to get to and fluidly move between clouds with optimal price-performance and without migration disruption and expense”.

The product will have an official unveiling at the Google I/O conference, with both Google Ventures and Foundation Capital providing venture capital for the start-up.

CloudCenter consists of two key products; Orchestrator and Manager. Orchestrator is an enabling technology which allows software to move effortlessly across different cloud providers, while Manager is an optimisation software allowing users to manage every aspect of their cloud applications through an intuitive dashboard.

Gaurav Manglik, CliQr CEO, stated his belief that the promises of on-demand resources and elasticity that cloud computing offers may now start to be fully …