The Small Business Cloud We take a look at 5 world-leading tech companies that have brought ground-breaking new cloud services to SMEs Plenty of organisations have broken into new markets with innovative cloud-based products. Discover which companies have successfully taken on the small business Cloud. Cloud based computer systems are ideally suited to support the…
HappyApps New Monitoring Experience This is part of our ongoing CloudTweaks Pinup series featuring new startups. Contact us for more information on how to get involved. Happyapps.io is a young yet promising start-up that provides cloud-based, real-time monitoring services for applications across a wide range of platforms. Founded in 2015, the company is a newcomer to…
Transitioning To Cloud Infrastructures Painlessly ProfitBricks is a comprehensive IaaS provider whose goal is to make the transition to cloud infrastructures as painless as possible. On April 15th, it was announced that ProfitBricks will be launching a new DevOps Central and REST API. In combination with API features already in place, this will enable ProfitBricks to…
Small Business Cloud Computing Trepidation is inherently attached to anything that involves change and especially if it involves new technologies. SMBs are incredibly vulnerable to this fear and rightfully so. The wrong security breach can incapacitate a small startup for good whereas larger enterprises can reboot their operations due to the financial stability of shareholders. Gordon Tan contributed an…
Kaggle – Data Scientists Unite In terms of sheer density of data, we live in an unprecedented age. Firms, individuals, and even governments can access an overwhelming quantity of information on their customers and constituents. But all this data is useless without interpretive mechanisms; merely looking at the data is not enough to develop concrete,…
The Importance Of Having A Flexible Monitoring Tool (Post Sponsored By Site 24×7) The world is increasingly moving towards a web-based economy. Regardless of what industry you are in, it is almost impossible to be competitive and to maintain a brand presence without a strong online offering. It means that your company’s website is increasingly…
Cedexis – Cloud Compute Benchmarks Using Cedexis Real End User Measurements for Cloud Compute and Cloud Storage benchmarks Cedexis is a cloud-based Global Traffic Management (GTM) solution. What makes the Cedexis solution (Openmix) special are the billions of Real User Measurements (RUM) of every public cloud computing and cloud storage vendor. Cedexis refers to these…
WordPress CMS Managed Hosting Services WordPress has exploded in popularity as a blogging tool and content management system in recent years, and is now used by more than 23.3 percent of the top 10 million websites worldwide. Due to its popularity, several web hosting providers have chosen to offer ‘managed WordPress hosting’; a concierge service where…
The Global Rise of Cloud Computing Despite the rapid growth of cloud computing, the cloud still commands a small portion of overall enterprise IT spending. Estimates I’ve seen put the percentage between 5% and 10% of the slightly more than $2 trillion (not including telco) spent worldwide in 2014 on enterprise IT. Yet growth projections…
Is Docker The Next Big Thing? We often hear that a particular product or idea is going to be the ‘next big thing’, and analysts and commentators are frequently falling over themselves to predict an emerging trend or developing idea. In the case of Docker, it might actually be justified. The open source technology is…
CIOs Must Transform IT The emergence of the Cloud and its three delivery models of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) has dramatically impacted and forever changed the delivery of IT services. Cloud services have pierced the veil of IT by challenging traditional method’s dominance…