News of new developments in computer technology are often missed by business people. In a series looking at developments in Internet technology, we investigated cloud hosting and its benefits.
What is Cloud enterprise-level hosting? Cloud hosting is a system of new generation web servers that enable small and medium businesses to integrate the industry’s best technologies into their online presence at modest fees. Many businesses can now abandon their own server banks and reinvest the money elsewhere in their business. When a bank of servers can cost up to tens of thousands to millions of dollars to buy or replace, many businesses look to Internet professionals running cloud systems to take over the running of their websites & I.T. services.
CloudEnable is a US business that has invested in people and technology to bring the best options in business hosting to their customers in the USA and around the World. Cloud server technology can be tailored to any customer’s specific needs. The best server technology can be accessed at a low start up cost by businesses to develop their web presence. Later, when their product sales or web traffic increases they do not have to shift web hosting. The cloud technology allows instant scalability. More servers in the cloud server network can come online to deliver the content to customers.
Business operators often want to get on with generating new business and making money. With cloud hosting, a business can set systems in place and then forget their website hosting while leaving professionals to “monitor and manage”.
There has been some reluctance on the part of business owners to risk the transfer of their existing databases, email accounts and website storage as they migrate from the servers that worked well for years. Fear of data loss, downtime, missing emails and training staff in new procedures, used to deter many business managers from making money saving changes. That “decision inertia” was noticed by cloud computing businesses and they now offer a painless migration service to new servers. Everything is done quickly and efficiently. Here at International.to we migrated to cloud hosting without losing data, risking security or enduring any downtime.
We asked James Gard of CloudEnable what makes cloud servers attractive to small and medium businesses. “CloudEnable is an on-demand resource that liberates a business’ IT personnel and capital from infrastructure support and expense. We design and deliver cloud architecture to meet every new customer’s performance requirements. It is always scalable, secure, online, fail-over and protected with disaster recovery in a cost effective manner.”
“The scalability aspect of cloud servers allows users to pay for only what they use. If demand picks up, say during the day, additional servers can be provisioned in minutes and used for peak demand and then de-provisioned for low demand, say at night, or seasonality. It mean users do not have to buy hardware to meet their peak demands, they only pay for what they use and this is almost instantly scalable.”
“At CloudEnable, we closely monitor our cloud infrastructure and provide attention 24/7/365. We are alerted when there is an issue at 2 am or on Sunday or whenever and address the issue before reporting back to our customers” Mr Gard said.
Another aspect that makes cloud computing so attractive is that someone highly qualified always manages the servers. A cloud hosting business will manage the infrastructure and as a client’s needs change, it will react rapidly in the event of any issue like huge traffic increases.
What is cloud hosting.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a metered service over a network (typically the Internet).
Cloud computing is a marketing term for technologies that provide computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. A parallel to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid, wherein end-users consume power without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.
Most cloud computing infrastructures consist of services delivered through shared data centers, which appear to consumers as a single point of access for their computing needs. The tremendous impact of cloud computing on business has prompted the United States federal government to look to the cloud as a means to reorganize its IT infrastructure and to decrease its IT budgets. With the advent of the top government officially mandating cloud adoption, many government agencies already have at least one or more cloud systems online.
Source:http://www.international.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4607:cloudenable-computer-server-technology-ensures-secure-scalable-all-device-cloud-business-website-hosting&catid=64:business&Itemid=117
