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The Infrastructure-as-a-Service Market Opportunity
Hosted Infrastructure (also known as infrastructure-as-a-service): This category includes dedicated servers, virtual private servers (VPS), managed hosting, and utility or elastic computing. Hosted Infrastructure has the lion’s share of the current Cloud service market in the U.S and Globally, with a national SMB spend of approximately $4.9B in the US. This figure encompasses all types [...]
Cloud Computing Market Overview for SMB’s
Cloud computing has given small and medium businesses (SMBs) access to computing power, applications, and services that were formerly available only to large enterprises. Looking at the IT landscape at the end of 2010, we see SMBs participating in the Cloud opportunity to varying degrees—ranging from leasing a single server, to sophisticated customer relationship management [...]
What is the future of Web Hosting?
It’s a safe bet that the Web hosting industry of the future will look very different from the one today’s hosting providers are used to, and that’s certainly cause enough for concern to those in the business. An even greater concern, though, is the serious possibility that the future isn’t as far away as some [...]
Gmail vs Microsoft Hosted Exchange
Businesses are looking to hosted e-mail services to reduce costs and ease of management, and the choice often comes down to Google’s Gmail or a hosted version of Microsoft Exchange. For many, the decision will hinge on the features and functions. I have provided a snippet of Pro’s from both – Microsoft Hosted Exchange 1/ [...]
Privacy Issues in the Cloud
A cloud computing service has a number of potential legal and commercial issues that need to be carefully considered: The privacy and confidentiality obligations in relation to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information. Your cloud hosting provider must comply with all applicable privacy laws, which may differ depending on the jurisdiction [...]
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