Rackspace took over an abandoned shopping mall in downtown San Antonio and built an amazingly scaled-up cloud hosting center.
From that point forward, the company started to use cloud hosting with Amazon Web Services to support the website.
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By launching a big data cloud hosting platform alongside its marketplace, Infochimps is seeking to build on the importance of data locality.
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Their new Creative Cloud and their Publishing Suite are all attempts to capture ongoing cloud hosting revenues from creative and content assets.
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The site, which has been blamed for encouraging illegal file-sharing, will now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world.
The competition in Cloud services and hosting is filled with companies that have deeper pockets than does Rackspace, including Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, and the service integrators, respectively.
These cloud and web hosting customers appreciate the cost savings associated with a lower cost infrastructure, yet still want to deploy a server-class product with reliability and security features and server OS certification.
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We also note that the inherent growth in its cloud and managed hosting base underscores our thesis that the data center and managed hosting sectors will continue to demonstrate the best organic growth in the telecom sector.
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At its heart Cloudee is a cloud-based video hosting and sharing service, not terribly dissimilar from YouTube at first glance.
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Meanwhile, while Amazon has been cleaning up the various problems, other cloud providers like Rackspace Hosting have been trumpeting their services as an alternative to Amazon.
These include services such as hosting, cloud-computing and network integration.
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Huberty sees a divergence in the server market, with a 1% decline this year in server shipments into company-owned data centers, while managed hosting and cloud server shipments grow int he double digits.
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Our play in the cloud business is to attract as many of these managed and dedicated hosting companies that are selling the cloud offerings to put their cloud infrastructure into our data centers.
More specifically, cloud computing refers to a hosting environment that leverages pooled computing resources by way of virtualization.
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To this end, the company is now providing cloud services, such as hosting.
But now, the new cloud upstarts are capitalizing on outsourced hosting solutions, such as from Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) and Rackspace (NYSE:RAX).
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Or, as a growing number of my clients are doing, we let our outsourced cloud infrastructure providers, who are hosting all of our applications and databases, worry about connecting these remote people.
Designing and implementing shared IT services involves moving existing and new services to the cloud (both government or commercial hosting) to increase service elasticity, reduce system equipment footprints, free IT organizations from the expensive work of data center storage, maintenance, backup and recovery burdens.
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The ATOs are processed in accordance with NIST 800-37 and 800-53 (rev 3) and can be accepted by any federal agency for cloud storage, virtual machines, and web hosting at the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate Impact Level or lower.
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The answer: The cloud, the various data access, storage and hosting services available remotely over the Internet.
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The space of cloud services is quite different from the landscape of traditional hosting and roll-your-own data centers.
The set up usually requires hosting space (whether it be Web, Cloud or ISP) and some technical knowledge and skill.
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One sign that the cloud-computing trend is for real: the Web-hosting sector is suddenly awash in acquisition talk, real and theoretical.
According to Mr. Smith, "hosting providers, businesses, and people with a cloud server who set up their own DNS resolver" often neglect to configure their servers using proper security settings.
You can set up rules for someone hosting an application, but you can't set rules for a cloud model.
This effort by NYSE is a classic example of a community cloud in that it is a private IaaS solution (yes, there is dedicated hosting too) designed specifically to meet the needs of a particular market and open to all members of that community.
While hosting is growing at 24% year over year growth, the higher-margin Cloud segment is growing at 89% over the same period last year.
The study of 1, 300 U.S. and U.K. executives, conducted by Rackspace Hosting with support from Manchester Business School in the U.K., finds cloud engagements are delivering positive impacts, from cost savings to more innovation.
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But the actual hosting of the application, the actual requirements for that application to exist in a cloud environment, to connect to the virtualized resources and whatever administration tools the cloud providers may give you to configure and maintain the application, will be, for the most part, controlled by the cloud provider.
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They must sell public cloud compute IaaS as a stand-alone service, without the requirement to bundle it with managed hosting, application development, application maintenance or other outsourcing.
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