
Yawn, Joyent Announces Windows And Linux Virtual Machines On Cloud
Joyent (See previous CloudAve coverage), the San Francisco based infrastructure cloud service provider, today announced the availability of Windows and Linux virtual machines in their cloud. They are targeting the enterprise customers who want to move their existing apps to VMs on the cloud. The new Windows and Linux solutions are available at all of […]

It’s About Focus – SMBs, SaaS, Knitting and Dogfood
Awhile ago I posted a bit of a rant about an experience one of my businesses was having with a particular ISP who didn’t seem to understand the concept of customer service. Briefly I told the sorry tale of woe that we experienced with our site hosted on a traditional ISPs VPS offering. I got […]

StrataScale – Hosting for the Edge Cases
There’s quite a divide between traditional hosting in physical servers and the somewhat ethereal (actually completely ethereal) concept of cloud hosting. Into this breech walks StrataScale. StrataScale call themselves the first fully managed server hosting solution – that’s physical servers, not virtual ones. In an answer to many peoples concerns around virtualization and cloud storage, […]
Enstratus Helps SaaS Provider Save Big On Hosting
Enstratus, the company offering management services for Amazon Web Services, recently pointed out to a case study where they helped a SaaS company save big on hosting. I have been following Enstratus for sometime now. I also had a chance to talk to their CTO, George Reese (Cloud Ave interview with him about his recently […]

Cloud Hosting – A Business Case
A week or so back, I posted a case study where a company called Imageloop managed to save 2/3rds of their fixed monthly costs by moving from web hosting to cloud hosting. The idea of tapping into the cloud for hosting purposes always had a strong business case even though many small businesses are not […]

Web Hosting To Cloud Hosting – A Case Study
Image via CrunchBase The recent Rackspace Survey clearly hints at a lack of awareness about Cloud hosting among small businesses. I thought I will take upon this opportunity to push this idea further in this space. If you are a small business owner and if you rent dedicated server(s) from a data center, this post is […]

Rackspace Survey And Its Implications
Image via CrunchBase Rackspace’s recently published survey on Cloud Hosting tells us that Small Businesses are unaware of the term compared to mid sized businesses. Before I offer my take on this survey, I want to point out something else. When I read the Read Write Web’s post on the topic, I felt that the […]