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  • When to use cloud platforms vs. dedicated servers

    Posted November 9, 2012 - 9:00 am

    A decent dedicated server can take you well beyond an initial launch for most companies but a small cloud instance may be cheaper in the short term. Here are some Pros and Cons to each to help with the decision.

  • Anatomy of a Twitter malware scam

    Posted October 29, 2012 - 4:03 pm

    When a funky Direct Message showed up in my inbox, I had to investigate -- and narrowly missed getting infected with malware. (Kids, don't try this at home.)

  • 9/11: Are Lessons Learned Still Being Applied?

    Posted September 9, 2011 - 7:36 pm

    Disaster - is your IT continuity and contingency plan ready for another 9/11?

  • Carrier that helped invent the idea of cloud now has to buy one

    Posted January 28, 2011 - 2:01 pm

    Verizon, which has huge data centers but little flexibility, bought Terremark, which had flexible, dynamic clouds, but no resistance to $1.4 billion.

  • Akamai, Rackspace announce something interesting only to them

    Posted January 14, 2011 - 5:30 pm

    Rackspace and Akamai are high-quality providers of complex services; what do you get when they combine forces? A press release that gets too much coverage.

  • Rackspace buys cloud-server management start-up Cloudkick

    Posted December 16, 2010 - 11:10 am

    Cloud computing and IT hosting company Rackspace on Thursday announced the acquisition of cloud-server management applications start-up Cloudkick for an undisclosed sum.

  • Servers in Three Minutes with BitNami Cloud Hosting

    Posted December 3, 2010 - 5:28 pm

    BitNami Studio has been letting users create stacks for quite a while now. What BitNami Cloud Hosting does is take a lot of the functionality in Studio and streamlines the process to make it far simpler and much faster.

  • IronScale Servers in the Cloud

    Posted December 10, 2008 - 3:38 pm

    We all know that the nebulous term “the cloud” floats on real, physical hardware. If you use shared hosting (as I do) you share a server with dozens of other Web sites. If you need more performance or more control, you move to a dedicated server owned and supported by the hosting company, or you host your own server in house. You can also put your own physical server in a hosted site called co-location. You provide the server and software, and they provide the location, power, physical security, and Internet access. Now let's talk about a new wrinkle in the cloud called IronScale, a company trying to create a new niche they call “automated managed hosting.”

  • Google sets pricing for app hosting service

    Posted May 27, 2008 - 9:14 pm

    Google is announcing pricing for its App Engine service for Web application hosting Wednesday, maintaining a free tier, then charging for storage of more than 500MB of data.
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