Care for Cloud Computing

As a buzz solution, we have talked and read a lot about the Cloud Computing. There is a lot of information available on the Internet about cloud computing, which is enough to understand the cloud hosting concept, its advantages and technology.

However, in the report presented by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which addresses initiatives and policies to ensure the development of cloud computing had shown that,  a negative trend is developing. Out of 24 countries that took part in the survey, many of the countries placed below 50 points out of 100.

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The most important point that contributed to the bad result is that in most of the countries like Brazil, there is no legislation to combat against computer related crimes. Some people believe that when it comes to cloud computing, the risk increases as the focus of data in large amounts in data center can be considered as critical.

Here, our focus is mainly on micro, small and medium enterprises, we will discuss the measures that can be taken to avoid surprises when you enter the “cloud” world.

Ensure the applications and data you want to migrate to the cloud

Before buying a cloud based solution forcefully, you must ensure that you and your team should be able to access it from anywhere. Internet access is must to use a cloud computing solution. One of the best advantages of adopting a web based solution is that you have access to it from any corner of the world, from any device having an internet connection available.

Planning the Migration

Once you are done deciding your business requirements and advantages in choosing the cloud computing solution, there must be a plan ready. I personally recommend that migration should be done step-by-step and whenever you move a step forward, first examine the environment before making it permanent. Doing migration this way will bring more confidence to those involved.

Choosing the appropriate and advantageous solution

Due to increasing demand, many new companies have entered the web hosting market to offer web solutions. Multiple options for both applications and space in data center are available in the market, but don’t get fooled by the price and company name. Get details about the solution such as structure of the equipment, backup policy, uptime, etc… Make sure the company offers redundancy for storage and network connectivity.

Ensure who, when will have access to information and for what purpose

Make sure to adopt a policy that treats permission levels differently, it will ensure greater security for your information.

These are some measures to be taken to avoid future issues. However, I believe that following the above measures, cloud computing users won’t face any security issues.

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This post was written by admin on April 9, 2012

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Why free web hosting is not the right choice?

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The information published on this blog has its material support – the physical space on the hard disk of a server. The service, to provide this space is called affordable web hosting, and the organization, it provides – known as a web hosting provider or a web host.

However, you can do without a hosting provider, placing all the necessary information on your own computer. This requires a specialized program that allows you to publish a site on the Internet which is hosted on a computer. Such program is called a web server. The most popular among web servers use the freely available Apache and IIS (Internet Information Services), distributed with the operating system Windows.

However, to use such software requires special knowledge. In addition, placing the site on your own computer has several disadvantages. For example, most web users are not able to secure my server as a quality defense like the one that is guaranteed by the host. Bandwidth Internet channel, coming from the provider to the home user, and gives the channel capacity. That’s why most of the website owners prefer to use the web hosting services.

Several companies provide Web Hosting for free, but the most important disadvantage of free web hosting is that generally they do not support most of the programming languages. The fact that free hosting comes with force ads (advertising banners), which are placed on websites that gives them revenue.

Whereas, companies that provides website hosting for a fee, commit themselves to keep the server always up that hosts your website, as well as provide high speed network connectivity. In addition, they provide their customers with additional services: register for their second level domain names, keep statistics on site visits, etc., and round the clock customer support always ready to assist in solving problems. As a fact, paid web hosting providers support many programming languages. Also, since WordPress has been a very popular platform, many affordable service providers offer support for WordPress Hosting as well.

To enjoy variety of discounts and bonuses, you can pay once a year to your hosting provider.

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This post was written by admin on December 1, 2010

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