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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Web Hosting Leaders to Discuss Congressional Reform

August 3rd, 2011 By: THN News

(The Hosting News) – Leaders of some of the world’s largest web hosting companies are meeting in San Diego on Monday, August 8 to discuss major threats to their industry and businesses posed by legislation currently pending in the U.S. Congress. 
The gathering, entitled “Save Hosting!,” will take place at noon at the San Diego Convention Center, room 30A, in conjunction with the HostingCon conference.

Attendees at the meeting will include Christian Dawson, COO of ServInt and industry leaders from SoftLayer, Hosting.com, SingleHop and other innovative hosting companies.

Host company officials and other members of the Internet infrastructure industry are encouraged to attend this important meeting and learn about the scope of the threats posed to their business and efforts being organized to counter these threats.

According to Dawson, since its inception, the hosting industry has primarily been allowed to operate under fairly business-friendly regulations.
 However, legislation that is making its way through Congress represents a significant change in the way government regulates the dissemination of data in the U.S.

This legislation would impose regulatory and compliance programs on businesses that only the largest hosting companies could afford. 
The hosting industry is primarily comprised of small to medium service businesses.
Hosting companies are organizing to address the potential threats to their businesses if the legislation were to pass, including liability for customer’s content and burdensome record retention requirements.

One such bill is S 968, the so-called PROTECT-IP Act, which Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced to prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property, as well as for other purposes. According to Dawson, under the legislation, even if host companies comply with the provisions of the bill, they may still be sued since, unlike provisions benefitting credit card processing companies, compliance does not result in immunity from civil suits.

Other pending bills – including S1207, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 201; S 1408, the Data Breach Notification Act of 2011; HR 1981, Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act; and, HR 1841 Data Accountability and Trust Act – do not take into account the hosting industry at all, and as a result create regulatory gaps that could lead to confusion about enforcement and enforcement targets.
Those interested in learning more about the legislation and its effect on the hosting industry as well as Save Hosting! can visit:

http://www.hostingcon.com/blog/privacy-public-policy-future-hosting/
http://facebook.com/savehosting
http://twitter.com/savehosting

The organizers of HostingCon have provided a discount code which will allow those not participating in HostingCon to attend the meeting. 
At registration, individuals can use the code “AssociationPlanMonday” to receive $60 off either a full conference pass (with or without lunch) or off a single day pass for Monday.

Online registration is available at http://www.hostingcon.com/account/register/

HostingCon 2011 will be held on August 8 – 10, 2011. The conference features 52 educational sessions across 3 full days presented by more than 100 speakers and panelists, including numerous industry thought leaders and trend setters. More than 1,800 people from all areas and niches of the hosted services industry are expected to attend.

Monday, August 8, 2011

cPanel Expands Its DNS Cluster Functionality

August 3rd, 2011 By: THN News
(The Hosting News) – cPanel, Inc. officially began extending its core DNS (Domain Name System) Cluster functionality by integrating with two major Partner NOCs, SoftLayer and UK2Group (under the brand VPS.NET).
On the Internet, the DNS system translates IP addresses into domain names (like SoftLayer.com, cPanel.net, or VPS.NET). But the process of turning web servers into centralized DNS servers can challenge many first-time server owners.
Fortunately, both SoftLayer and VPS.NET offer hosted DNS solutions that are geographically diverse, scalable, secure, and free of charge to their clients.
cPanel & WHM 11.30 includes new functionality and integration efforts that allows server owners to easily use the SoftLayer and VPS.NET hosted DNS systems, right from within the WHM interface.
cPanel’s newly extended DNS Cluster system provides server owners with the ability to enable DNS, obtain a secure API key, and use SoftLayer and VPS.NET hosted DNS services in just minutes.

cPanel CEO, Nick Koston, said that cPanel was able to rapidly develop this key piece of software once all the pieces were available from SoftLayer and UK2Group, and cPanel is looking forward to offering integration possibilities to other cPanel partners in the near future.

“We are very excited to be able to integrate and extend functionality with our Partner NOCs’ DNS services and other third-party DNS services,” Koston said.

The open architecture of the extended DNS Cluster functionality provides hosted DNS providers with a streamlined process of handling integrations with cPanel & WHM. Future integrators will be able to use SoftLayer and VPS.NET as models to learn methods for offloading DNS traffic and services from their local servers to any hosted DNS provider.

About SoftLayer Technologies

Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed Hosting, and the largest private hosting company in the world. SoftLayer provides cloud, dedicated, and seamlessly integrated computing environments, with world-class data centers in Dallas, Houston, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington D.C., with network Points of Presence nationwide. The company integrates and automates all elements of its platform, empowering enterprises of any size with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. For more information, please visit http://www.softlayer.com/ or call 866.398.7638.

About UK2.net:

Founded in 1998, UK2.net is one of the biggest web hosting companies in the UK, providing everything from domain name registration, web hosting packages, cloud VPSs, e-commerce packages as well as reseller & E-mail exchange hosting. They are part of the world-renown UK2 GROUP that represents a family of 13 hosting brands (UK2.net, WestHost, midPhase, Autica, Resell.biz, 10TB.com, AN Hosting, US2.net, WingSix, Dotable, Supreme Support, VI.net, and their most recent addition VPS.NET) both in the UK and USA, giving them a completely global presence. For more information, please visit: http://www.uk2.net/

About cPanel, Inc.
Since 1997, cPanel has been a leading innovator and developer of control panel software for the web hosting industry. Headquartered in Houston, TX, cPanel builds software that allows web host professionals to transform standalone servers into fully automated point-and-click web hosting platforms. cPanel licensed software allows owners of servers and websites, along with resellers and developers, the ability to optimize their technical resources and replace tedious shell-oriented tasks with dynamic, intuitive web-based interfaces. For more information, please visit: http://www.cpanel.net/

Global Cyber Attack Revealed by McAfee

August 3rd, 2011 By: THN News

(The Hosting News) – A new breach has been identified in the area of global cyber hacking.
Recently internet security company McAfee detailed “Shady Rat,” a hacking operation that targeted 72 top worldwide entities.
Such victims included various U.S. defense contractors, government agencies, top companies, the United Nations, and plenty more.

The operation occurred over five years.
Although it mostly had U.S. targets, various other victims were based in countries such as Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The security company’s analysis of the attack was based off of accessing the intruders’ “Command & Control server.”
Despite the magnitude of the breach, McAfee says that most of the targets had already corrected problems caused by the infections.

According to the report, the operation relied on setting up a backdoor channel through malware.
Concluding its findings, McAfee stated, “This is a problem of massive scale that affects nearly every industry and sector of the economies of numerous countries, and the only organizations that are exempt from this threat are those that don’t have anything valuable or interesting worth stealing.”

Although the source of the operation wasn’t revealed, many tech analysts have suspected China as the source of various recent cyber-attacks.
Despite denying any involvement, the country was said to be the source of a recent high-profile attack on Google’s Gmail service.

Meanwhile, countries such as the United States have looked to increase their efforts against global cyber security threats by working with other nations, as well as developing new technology.
Other recent global cyber-attacks have included a breach on defense contractor Lockheed-Martin and one involving the Pentagon (which the U.S. said likely originated from an unidentified nation state).

Besides these larger scale global breaches that seem more mysterious, this year has seen plenty of other attacks where individual hacking groups have openly taken credit for particular breaches.

Groups LulzSec and Anonymous have recently dominated the headlines.
LulzSec has been responsible for attacks on sites belonging to Sony, PBS, the U.S. Senate, the CIA, and more while Anonymous has recently targeted the likes of U.S. defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and Monsanto, an agricultural company.
Fighting back, authorities in various countries have recently arrested people suspected of involvement in the organizations.

Even with all the bad news recently regarding cyber breaches, hopefully such developments have spread awareness and pushed entities to increase their protection against large cyber threats.
You can access the entire report by McAfee in PDF format here: http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/white-papers/wp-operation-shady-rat.pdf

Web Host Web.com Acquires Rival Host Network Solutions

By Justin Lee,August 03, 2011

 screenshot of the Network Solutions news section

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Web.com (http://www.web.com/) announced on Wednesday it has acquired host Network Solutions (http://www.networksolutions.com/) from private equity firm General Atlantic.
The announcement comes a full year after Web.com acquired Register.com in a high-profile, $135 million deal for the domain registration provider.

The acquisition will create an "end-to-end online solutions company with a clear path to $500 million in non-GAAP revenues," accorodng to the press release.

On a strategic level, the acquisition makes a lot of sense for Web.com since the two companies offer a comparable range of services aimed at the SMB market.

These services include web hosting, domain registration, web design, e-commerce solutions, online security products, SSL certificates, and search engine marketing and optimization.

Web.com said the combined company will be positioned to deliver "revenue growth in the low teens".

Upon closing, Web.com will pay Network Solutions $405 million in cash and issue 18 million shares of Web.com common stock. In addition, it will refinance the existing net debt of Network Solutions and pay certain fees.
"This transaction represents a unique opportunity to dramatically expand our scale, add further momentum to Web.com's already improving top line growth, and further expand our market share as the nationally recognized go-to provider of online marketing solutions specifically tailored to small and medium-sized businesses," said David Brown, chairman and CEO of Web.com. "Our integration strategy will be similar to our successful acquisition of Register.com, and we will be in a strong position to cross-sell and up-sell our services to Network Solutions' approximately two million retail customers and hundreds of thousands of wholesale customers. We believe this combination will provide significant long-term shareholder value as we grow our business, capitalize on synergies, improve our margins and generate substantial cash flow to invest greater resources in growth and branding initiatives."

The acquisition is expected to be completed in the fall, and at the close, General Atlantic and other current Network Solutions shareholders are expected to own about 37 percent of Web.com.
As part of the acquisition, Anton Levy, General Atlantic managing director and principal stakeholder in Network Solutions, will join the Web.com board of directors.

The combinted company is expected to earn revenue in the mid-$450 million range for 2011 and EBITDA of at least $120 million for 2011 before cost synergies and transaction expenses.

The combined companies have about 1,900 employees around the world and 3 million paying subscribers, which includes more than 9 million domains under management.

  Article Source http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/080311_Web_Host_Webcom_Acquires_Rival_Host_Network_Solutions permits  to republish here.

Intel Opens Cloud Computing Research Center

By Justin Lee, August 03, 2011
 screenshot of Intel's cloud computing page
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Intel Labs (techresearch.intel.com) announced on Wednesday it has opened the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing, which combines the efforts of Intel data center experts and researchers at Carnegie Mellon.

These researchers will work towards resolving issues in device and task specialization, automation for agility and scalability, analysis of large bodies of data, and interaction between intelligence at the edge and in the data center.

In October, Intel and several other large IT end-users formed the Open Data Center Alliance as part of this program.
The research center is just one of two Intel Science and Technology Centers at Carnegie Mellon University Intel opened as part of the combined $30 million investment, which also includes the Intel Embedded Computing Center.
The centers are a part of Intel's five-year, $100 million ISTC program to increase university research and accelerate innovation in key areas.

Intel said the centers will encourage "tighter collaboration between university thought leaders and Intel" by using open IP models with results publicly available through technical publications and open-source software releases.
"These new ISTCs are expected to open amazing possibilities," said Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel. "Imagine, for example, future cars equipped with embedded sensors and microprocessors to constantly collect and analyze traffic and weather data. That information could be shared and analyzed in the cloud so that drivers could be provided with suggestions for quicker and safer routes.”

The ISTC forms a new cloud computing research community that broadens Intel's "Cloud 2015" vision with new ideas from top academic researchers.
Intel has also expanded the ISTC program by openly inviting researchers from across the US academic community to submit information to be considered in the process to define additional ISTCs.
The company has also posted a new video clip where Intel Data Center Group VP and GM Kirk Skaugen discusses the opening of the new Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing.
The organization expects to award at least one center before the end of 2011 and subsequently launch in 2012.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Go Daddy Appoints Former Whitehouse Advisor Deputy General Counsel for Global Policy

By Justin Lee, August 02, 2011
Andrew Kline, deputy general counsel for global policy at Go Daddy

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) announced on Tuesday it has appointed former Obama policy advisor and attorney Andrew Kline as its new deputy general counsel for global policy.

The move comes a week after Go Daddy officially launched its 4th Generation cloud-based hosting services.

In this position, Kline will help Go Daddy expand internationally, as well as combat online illegal activities such as rogue Internet pharmacies and copyright infringement.

Kline will be based in Washington, DC and joins vice president for government relations Martha Johnston, who joined Go Daddy in December of 2005.

"After seeing Go Daddy's commitment and pledge to 'do the right thing,' I was inspired ... and knew I could go into the private sector and make a difference," said Kline. "Go Daddy has demonstrated its commitment to keeping the Internet safe in a way that gets results and I want to be a part of that team."

Kline, who is a former federal prosecutor, has spent many years focused on Internet enforcement issues.

As the chief of staff and senior advisor in the Office of US Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement, he was responsible for cracking down on counterfeit pharmaceuticals and copyright and trademark infringement, many with links to organized crime, gangs and terrorism.

"Andrew's record speaks for itself," said Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons. "Like our General Counsel Christine Jones, Andrew is an attorney who knows how to get things done, a leader and a person who works to make a difference ... and as fast as the Internet is growing, Go Daddy is going to stay ahead of it."

Go Daddy recently announced its plans to enter into partnership with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures in an investment reportedly estimated at around $2.3 billion.

Virtual Bridges and Savvis Partner

August 2nd, 2011 By: THN News

(The Hosting News) – Virtual Bridges, Inc. and Savvis, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced a partnership to deliver Virtual Bridges VERDE™ virtual desktop management and provisioning capabilities as an on-demand solution to organizations worldwide.
Featuring online, offline and branch VDI, VERDE is proven to help organizations reduce the cost and complexity of managing desktops, while minimizing security concerns and business risk.

With Savvis’ Managed Hosting platform and VERDE, organizations looking for on-demand managed VDI services now have access to an enterprise-class hosting and cloud infrastructure.
Using the joint solution, customers can easily scale their environment to meet fluctuating business demands, without sacrificing security or performance, regardless of whether the solution is deployed on a customer’s own infrastructure, hosted or delivered as a service by Savvis.

Virtual Bridges was recently named a “Major Player” in desktop virtualization by IDC, which cited the company’s current strengths and long-term strategy in delivering VDI solutions to market.

VERDE is designed for organizations that want to escape the constraints of physical computing, simplify desktop management, improve security and increase business agility.
As the industry’s only VDI Gen2 solution, VERDE provides end users access to both Windows and Linux desktops from any location or device — including tablets, netbooks, laptops and thin clients.
In addition, IT professionals can manage desktops centrally, reducing the costs and challenges associated with provisioning, updating and securing highly distributed PC environments.

“Cloud computing and VDI are both well-known for driving efficiency, reducing costs, increasing scalability and improving performance,” said Jim Curtin, president and CEO at Virtual Bridges.
“Savvis is one of the leaders in providing reliable, powerful cloud solutions. Together we’re bringing to market a compelling solution that will drive measurable ROI for customers.”

Among its many advantages, VDI Gen2 is helping organizations streamline their Windows 7 migrations. Instead of having to re-image all desktops and laptops, VERDE allows Savvis customers to create, test and deploy a virtual desktop with Windows 7 in minutes. Additionally, VERDE offers unified monitoring and management of desktops across onsite and offsite environments; high-definition multimedia support; automatic bi-directional sync for true mobility; and advanced cloud branch capabilities including disaster recovery and business continuity.

“Savvis provides enterprise-grade infrastructure services for Virtual Bridges to deliver a Device-as-a-Service offering to the market.
Our partners are providing high business value applications that leverage our cloud infrastructure for government and enterprise clients,” said Jaywant Rao, vice president, global alliances at Savvis.
“We are excited to team with Virtual Bridges as a partner of the Savvis global alliances program.”

For more information on Virtual Bridges, please visit: http://www.vbridges.com/
For more information on Savvis, please visit: http://www.savvis.com/

How to Setup Google Apps Email in cPanel

July 31st, 2011 By: Tavis J. Hampton\
 

Web Hosting Automation Content Sponsored By: cPanel


Most hosting accounts offer customers email services that are quite adequate. 
Some of them even provide web-based access to those accounts. 
Still, some customers may prefer the familiarity of their cloud email service, such as Gmail. 
They may also have their business tied to Google Apps or another cloud service. 
In such a case, you can easily make Google Apps your default email server in cPanel.

To configure cPanel to use Google Apps mail, do the following:

1. Login to cPanel and navigate to Mail section.
2. Select MX entry.
3. If you have multiple domains, select the domain you want to configure.  Otherwise, skip to step 4
4. In the “Email Routing” section, choose “Remote Mail Exchanger”
5. Giving it a priority of zero (lower priority is first), set the destination to your cloud service provider
(This may vary, but for Google, it may be something like ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM)
6. Click “Add New Record”
7. Repeat steps for the other records (Google requires several).

If you have any existing MX entries, delete them or give them lower priority than your cloud provider’s.
Now, any email sent to addresses at your domain will automatically be routed to your Google Apps gmail accounts, according to the addresses you have setup within that system. 
It should be noted that your web host will still have to route the email, so it will need to rely on your host’s DNS servers.
 For more information about setting up your email for other cloud service providers, you should consult their documentation.

34SP.com Offers 25% Off Domain Names

August 1st, 2011 By: THN News
(The Hosting News) – For a limited time UK web hosting and domain name registrar 34SP.com is offering 25 percent discounts on every new domain name registered, including the popular .com, .co.uk, and .net top level domain extensions. The special domains offer is valid during the month of August 2011. To search for an available domain name and take advantage of the special 25 percent discount pricing please visit: http://www.34sp.com/domains.

34SP.com is a Nominet certified registrar based in Manchester, United Kingdom. The company has been registering domain names since the year 2000 and has registered domains for customers in over 100 countries. The company reports that each 34SP.com domain name is furnished with the following upon registration:
  • Full DNS (domain name server) Control
  • Email Forwarding
  • Full Domain Forwarding including Framed Forwarding (masked redirection)
  • Advanced DNS Control Panel including MX Record Control
  • Complete Name Server Management
This latest domain promotion is the first time that 34SP.com has offered a 25 percent discount on every new domain. The 25 percent off pricing is available on new domain purchases only (excludes renewals or transfers) and will revert to standard pricing upon renewal.

Stuart Melling co-founder of 34SP.com explained the new promotion, ”In these difficult economic times we feel that it is appropriate to help out those web developers and small businesses who seek to register domains and create new websites to generate additional revenue.

Therefore, 34SP.com has created this special domain pricing allowing a superior discount over standard domain prices. While this pricing is for a limited time only, we expect savvy developers and small businesses to stock up on the domains they need for the next few years at this time.”

The special domain promotion comes as 34SP.com is celebrating a decade in the web hosting and domain registration business. Additionally, 34SP.com has also recently completed its entry into the world of peering, with the advent of a 1 Gigabit per second connection to the London-based peering exchange, LONAP. Peering at LONAP enables 34SP.com to connect directly to other ISPs and CDNs in both the United Kingdom and abroad, providing lower latency and higher performing connectivity to customers and visitors alike.
To learn more about 34SP.com web hosting and domain name products please visit: http://www.34sp.com/.
About 34SP.com
34SP.com offers domain names, dedicated servers and professional website hosting services for professional web developers, designers and small businesses. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers industry leading support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Web hosting services offered include: dedicated serverswebsite hosting and WordPress hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Tucows Acquires German Domain Registrar EPAG for $2.5 Million

By Nicole Henderson,August 02, 2011

A small selection of TLDs available in Europe from EPAG

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) --Domain registrar Tucows (http://www.tucowsinc.com/) announced on Tuesday that it has acquired all the shares of EPAG Domainservices GmBH (http://www.epag.de/) from QSC AG (http://www.qsc.de/) for about $2.5 million in cash.

German-based EPAG is an ICANN-accredited registrar that manages more than 400,000 domains. The registrar offers more than 200 TLDs as well, according to the press release.

This acquisition will increase Tucows exposure to the German reseller market, as well as bolster its OpenSRS wholesale domain registration services.

Tucows says it will continue serving EPAG customers and resellers via existing EPAG tools. Tucows will integrate EPAG's domain services into its OpenSRS wholesale domain registration service, according to the report.

“We believe combining the power of OpenSRS’ 12,000 active resellers in over 120 countries with EPAG’s ability to register such a broad range of TLDs will make OpenSRS unique in the industry,” Tucows president and CEO Elliot Noss said in a statement. “We expect that the deep expertise in registry integration we gain from EPAG will add invaluable bench-strength to our team as we prepare for ICANN’s roll-out of new TLDs.”

In July, the WHIR interviewed OpenSRS director of product management Adam Eisner on ICANN's decision to approve new TLDs. Eisner will present at HostingCon 2011 (http://www.hostingcon.com/) on Monday, August 8, about what the new TLDs will mean to hosting.

With this acquisition, OpenSRS will now manage more than 11.5 million domain names and, by the end of the year, OpenSRS resellers will be able to access more than 200 TLDs.

Tucows says it had "relatively little exposure" to the German-language reseller market before this acquisition.

In an OpenSRS blog post on Tuesday, Eisner says existing resellers can expect to see "significant gTLD and ccTLD coverage improvements, with a particular focus on regions like Europe, South America and Asia."

Since 2000, EPAG has specialized in the management of domains for domain resellers and  small and medium-sized enterprises.

Last month, web hosting provider ResellerClub launched customized programs in the UK and German markets to support the demand of domain and internet services.

The Five Benefits of Managed Cloud Computing

July 29th, 2011 By: THN News


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(The Hosting News) – In previous blogs I wrote about the benefits of private cloud computing and the benefits of public cloud computing based on the unique models of each.
Sitting between secure, dedicated private cloud computing and open, low cost public cloud hosting is a secure, shared cloud middle ground we call managed cloud hosting.

Public cloud hosting is typically built around the “compute as a utility” model where cost is the driving consideration, overriding security and availability, to deliver commodity-level pricing where computing is sold at pennies per hour.

Managed cloud hosting sits the other end of the spectrum in the shared cloud world. 
Like public cloud computing, servers can be purchased “by the slice”, or a virtual server at a time. 
However, the entire design premise for the managed cloud is to put security & high availability ahead of cost considerations. 
Rather than purchasing servers by the hour, managed cloud hosting is sold on monthly (or longer) contracts for businesses that are running enterprise critical applications for the long haul.

At Online Tech, we built our managed cloud hosting solution around our secure, high availability private cloud hosting architecture.
We chose to build our shared servers on an “N+1” redundant architecture and data center infrastructure.  That means there is redundancy in every component of the system – from power and internet delivery to the hardware and network components with no single point of failure in the system. 
Should any component fail, there are redundant components in place to maintain the server and Internet availability.

The five benefits of managed cloud hosting include:
  1. High Availability - Because the managed cloud is built around a high availability private cloud architecture, redundancy is built in with multiple hosts, SAN storage and network security.  This provides for failover protection and the unique ability to update and maintain the hardware without a maintenance window.
  2. Automatic Failover & Resource Balancing – Built with VMware Enterprise Edition as the virtualization technology, failover and resource balancing between hardware hosts is automatically handled at the virtualization level – allowing the cloud servers to take full advantage of the high availability infrastructure should any host fail.
  3. Network Security – Dedicated, secure VLANs, firewalls and IDS/IPS can be put in place for any set of cloud servers – delivering the same highly secure, dedicated network environment found on private cloud solutions.
  4. Hybridize with Physical Servers – Applications and data base engines that can’t meet their performance requirements on a virtual server or need to run on a physical server to access all of the hardware resources can share a dedicated network with cloud servers, creating a hybrid of physical and virtual servers in the same system.
  5. Cost Effective – On a monthly basis, managed clouds are as cost effective as most public clouds.  True, you can’t buy servers by the hour, but long term enterprise applications are rarely run on an hourly basis.
Not all applications are geared to take advantage of managed cloud hosting.  Research computing, development servers and test servers are good examples of non-critical systems that can take advantage of the hourly or spot demand pricing available in the public cloud utility market.

On the other hand, most businesses want to assure the security & availability of their corporate and client data with either managed cloud hosting or a private cloud.  Managed cloud computing provides the security and availability of a dedicated private cloud at a fraction of the cost.

By Mike Klein
ONLINE TECH | http://www.onlinetech.com/