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10 tips for choosing your cloud management system
Whether you’re building a private cloud for internal users, or a public cloud for paying customers, the first challenge is finding the best way to “cloud-enable” that IT infrastructure.
Some companies build their own clouds from scratch, but for most the quickest path to the cloud is to invest in a third party cloud deployment and management tool. There are many available. This is a vendor-neutral guide to ten areas a company should focus on when choosing a product and vendor...
Hardware shopping list…
Every day for the past few months, on average, we've set up one or two OnApp clients, and held somewhere between three and six demos. And most clients ask similar kinds of questions. One thing we always end up spending a long time discussing is hardware, so I thought I'd present you with a shopping list of a decent-sized OnApp cloud setup.
Cloud adoption is accelerating
Tier1Research recently presented the results of a survey that showed that roughly 60% of SMBs will adopt an IaaS solution within the next 12 months, as a part of their IT strategy. These are strong numbers that point to a growing trend for cloud adoption in the SMB market...
The cloud is a game-changer for hosts
Last week I spoke at the Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit in Las Vegas. One of the points I wanted to get across was how the cloud changes the business mechanics of hosting.
1001 ways to deploy a cloud
We've been done 50-75 demos of OnApp now, I guess, and signed close to 30 new clients. It's been a few crazy weeks. One of the great things about these demos is to hear about the different user scenarios that our clients are deploying OnApp for.