Virtual hosting is quietly taking over the world, and whether we realise it or not, we’re all on the virtualised cloud in one way or another. There’s no resisting the virtual hosting takeover. This technological uprising is not about to slow down. It’s so vast that most of us don’t even realise that we are [...]
People talk about cloud computing, virtual hosting and Software-as-a-Service as a collective, but are they really the same thing? Cloud computing, virtual hosting, Saas (Software as a Service), CaaS (Computing as a Service), grid computing, utility computing, virtualisation, web server hosting – generally, these terms all refer to the same thing. But their meanings are [...]
Britain’s finances fell to pieces during the recession and we were estimated to have a public deficit of around £1.5 trillion. Can things such as outsourcing and virtual hosting save our economy? 2008 saw a financially crippling recession that swept Britain with redundancies, liquidation, collapsing businesses, unemployment, home repossession, and an unspeakable amount of public [...]
With so much hype surrounding virtual hosting, could we be ready for the cloud boom in 2010? Recent market research indicates that virtual hosting could be set to boom in the year of 2010. Over the last few years, virtual hosting has created a great level of interest and media attention. There has been a [...]
SMEs and independent organisations have been dipping their toes into virtual hosting for a while now, and the results are all positive – how will cloud computing cast its influence into the federal government? Just at the top of our heads, what percentage of today’s conventional IT methods do we believe that virtual hosting will [...]
There is no doubt that virtual hosting is changing our world for the better, improving our finances, reducing our carbon footprint and giving smaller businesses a fighting chance, but we mustn’t get bogged down by the myths. You don’t find men without baggage. And you don’t find women without a wardrobe full of skeletons (or [...]
One hundred years ago, the electric grid was the start of an economic and social transformation & today, virtual hosting is set to do the same for technology and computing. When once companies used steam engines and windmills to generate their own power, they now consume electricity from a shared facility and pay for their [...]
If your not-so-new computer isn’t advanced enough to handle the latest software that you’ve purchased, you’ll be pleased to know that this common problem can be solved as long as you have the internet. As long as you are connected to the internet, you’ll be fine. The internet is the answer for everything these days [...]
The virtual hosting platform continues to grow, and as we build up to a boom in the cloud market, here are some possible trends as discussed with senior editor and writer, David Hakala. David Hakala is an expert writer who takes a professional perspective on virtual hosting. He believes it to be similar to the [...]
Virtual hosting is a growing concept and IT leader, Microsoft is tapping into the market with all possible opportunities. Could they become the key player in the world of cloud computing? Not only is Microsoft due to launch a new Windows Azure cloud platform in 2010, to provide a scalable and highly available virtual hosting [...]