Vancouver Cloud Computing

  Today there is much discussion about cloud computing. Some folks are for it, some against it, and many have no idea what the discussion is all about. What is cloud computing and why should you care? Cloud computing basically refers to the use of external networks. For years when diagrams have been drawn, cloud-like shapes have been used to designate external networks. Someone, somewhere, starting using the term cloud, and it stuck. An external network, or cloud, is merely data that is provided and/or saved on external servers that belong to someone else. Many of us have been using cloud services for some time without really realizing it. Take your email service, for example. Do you use a major email service such as Yahoo! or Gmail? If you do, whenever you log into your email account you are really logging onto an external server upon which your emails are stored. When you save an email, it is not being saved on your computer, but on an external server, or cloud. Another example o...

  Private cloud computing offers a number of significant advantages — including lower costs, faster server deployments, and higher levels of resiliency. What is often over looked is how the Private Cloud can dramatically changes the game for IT disaster recovery in terms of significantly lower costs, faster recovery times, and enhanced testability. Before we talk about the private cloud, let’s explore the challenges of IT disaster recovery for traditional server systems. Most legacy IT systems are comprised of a heterogeneous set of hardware platforms — added to the system over time — with different processors, memory, drives, BIOS, and I/O systems. In a production environment, these heterogeneous systems work as designed, and the applications are loaded onto the servers and maintained and patched over time. Offsite backups of these heterogeneous systems can be performed and safely stored at an offsite location. There are really 2 options for backing up and restoring the systems: 1...

 Whether you like it or not, Cloud computing is here to stay. For many businesses, both big and small, it is making us all more connected and improving office procedures and upping our collective productivity. Whilst the early days of cloud computing may have been all about security, the latest vibe is how it is pushing business forward and, in the process, saving a good deal of money on IT support. There's no doubt that this growth has been supported by our increasing use of a number of portable devices such as smartphones and tablets. That means your cloud desktop is now a thing that operates on the move, travelling with you across the world, keeping you in contact with the office, business associates, and consumers whether it's at home in Brighton or 5am in Beijing. In short, we are no longer tied to one PC at a desk but can network and develop and collaborate anytime and anywhere we wish. For those of you who remember the humble floppy disk, we've come a long way in the...

 Many people have not discovered the difference between cloud computing architecture and traditional servers, then we put in five easy steps: Efficiency: A traditional server must contain a minimum of resources being used by the operating system, so if the system uses 10% of the server, the other 90 % are always available for services (web, FTP, email, etc.) This causes the server is underutilized in most of the time but still consuming power, network, temperature and cooling, increasing costs. In the cloud computing, you use the resources they need, avoiding waste in idleness. Safety: A virtualized server is divided into a cloud of computing resources , so your site does not leave the air in case of failure of some component of the physical server (or even fires and disasters in the datacenter) and would be in a traditional server. Scalability: If you have demand access variable (hours with thousands of hits and more quiet), need not maintain a super-machine that will be idle and ...