Rackspace announced a new Cloud service, desktop virtualization on the Cloud. Rackspace Hosting is a major Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing service provider. With this new service, customers can host their virtual desktop platform with Rackspace as opposed to internal solutions such as, Citrix XenDesktop. According to Gartner hosted virtual desktops will be the...
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A lot of talk has been done about cloud computing and the most cited topics remain security and compliancy in the cloud, and rightly so! However, having experienced a bit of hands-on with Public cloud environments I would like to put security aside for a moment and deal with an equally important risk that...
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From time to time I come across analyst reports stating that many mid sized organizations are reluctant to implement virtualization infrastructure and may decide to go for the cloud. So, I decided to share with you a couple of statements that are in favor of this strategy. That is, skipping in-house virtualization and moving...
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Tags: cloud, Iaas, Private Cloud, public cloud, virtual machines, Virtualization, virtualized, virtualized environments
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Cloud computing can be anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. Cloud services are categorized as, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service or Software as a Service. While, the name cloud, is the symbol used to represent the Internet in various technical and non-technical documents. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...
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Tags: cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Security Alliance, cloud services, CSA, google app, HP, Iaas, PaaS, Planet, RackSpace, Saas
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