Part 1: Dispelling Doubt in the Cloud
In business these days, it’s hard to go it alone. It’s almost impossible—at some point almost everyone needs to rely on some other party to be successful. A great illustration of this reality is moving to the Cloud—an industry with the capability and power to take a significant technological and operational weight off your shoulders.
But it also means putting your chips in with a new way of doing business, new technology, and a new partner—your cloud services provider. And that can be unsettling. It might feel like you’re outsourcing the guts of your business to strangers: What do they actually do? How can you be sure they’re secure? Will you be left holding the bag if things go south?
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Earlier this week, INetU hosted a webinar with special guest, Phil Shih from Structure Research. This webinar covered the analyst’s perspective on the latest trends and issues regarding managed hosting and complex issues.
The Complex Issues in Managed Hosting webinar:
- Looks at the rise of the outsourced hosting model
- Gives an analyst’s perspective of the hosting industry Assesses the complexities in managed hosting
- Delivers directional guidance for companies considering outsourcing options
- And more!
Click here to view the webinar on demand!
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Horizontal Scaling – Come, scale away. Come, scale away. Come, scale away with me.
So, it’s almost the holidays, and your website, DIYCandyCanes.com, is getting ready for that annual sweet, spiraling gush of cane-curious web surfers. Or, maybe you’re the CIO of Happy Widgets, Inc. and your CEO has just buzzed your desk to announce the next generation of Happy Widgets (The Widgets With a Kick!). They are ready to ship and the PR office is readying a multi-channel advertising blitz that will lead to thundering throngs of happy Happy Widget seekers to your E-commerce web properties. Or maybe you’re some kind of nation-wide aeronautics and space administrative body, and your latest robo-rover, GravCat, just found a shallow pond of bona fide Martian protzoa.
The point is, everyone around you at your office is excited except you, you’re anxious. Anxious because you know your servers are about to be hit hard, and your strategic information architecture plan included a fast-track Horizontal Scaling Initiative and it better now work as planned (mostly because the Happy Widget CEO now knows where your desk is).
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You will notice that starting this week, Server Smarts will be blogging more frequently. We’ve decided that our blog needs some new fresh content and we could really use your help! We are looking for some new guest bloggers and we figured what better way than to ask our readers!
Is there a topic that you are passionate about and would like to share your expertise with the public? We would love for you to contribute to our blog, and we would attribute it to you to add to your writing portfolio. Sounds like a win-win situation, right?
The types of content we are looking for can be anywhere from a technical topic that you are knowledgeable about to current trends in the industry you work in that would affect other members of our readership. We can also help you edit your content for you before we put it up.
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It’s that time of year, again. The weather gets a little colder, the days shorten and the thoughts all around you turn to…the Internet!
Yes, what once meant meal preparation and tree felling now includes getting your website ready for the holiday rush.
What does this mean to you? Traffic. Whether or not your business actually engages in E-Commerce, you should expect to see a bump in holiday Internet traffic.
If your website, app or service is already quite popular, this could mean bad news for your web server environment. If you were close to your bandwidth limit, or your hardware was just barely chugging along as is, you may need to think about scalability. There are typically two types of scaling, vertical and horizontal. We will talk more in depth about the two types of scaling in parts 2 and 3.
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