The reality is many companies still need physical dedicated hosting for legacy applications that cannot run in a virtualized environment.

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As public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web servers are also growing.

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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.

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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.

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If performance is vital, like running a business-critical database, then we would suggest a physical dedicated managed hosting environment.

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The AMD Opteron 3000 series offering is designed for hosting customers who require dedicated servers for their customers.

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Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).

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Part of the Water Pavilion is dedicated to a special programming for children, with a teaching area and the hosting of educational and recreational workshops.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Hosting your own IT means buying the hardware and software at a regular basis, recruiting and training dedicated staff and struggling with painful evolutions.

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