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Cloud hosting is an overwhelmingly popular option among small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as shown by a new survey from Clutch, one of the leading B2B ratings and reviews sites. Nearly 95% of SMBs say they either already use a cloud hosting service or plan to transition to it.

According to industry analysts, the Clutch survey findings are indicative of a necessary trend, who suggest the transition to cloud hosting services is a good strategic move for SMBs.

"I don’t think you can truly move forward within a company without using cloud in some way, whether that’s by buying software as a service from somebody or creating your own cloud infrastructure for your business," said Rachel Bair, Director of Hosting and Client Services at Unleashed Technologies, a web development and hosting service. "To stay competitive in your own vertical, cloud hosting will be the way to go."

As a Microsoft Gold Partner with deep expertise in virtualization technology, Hostway recently launched its Hybrid Cloud offering, giving organizations a choice of Azure-consistent environments backed by proven Hostway managed support, including:

According to a recent study by GetApp, a Gartner company, 90 percent of small business owners and managers place importance on the availability of a mobile app in order to use software on the go. Additionally, a new global study by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) revealed that organizations leveraging a mobile-first strategy saw a 16 percent boost in productivity with 49 percent of survey respondents citing the importance of being able to work anytime, anywhere as the single biggest impact on their productivity. 

NeuVector’s Container Security Solution – Join Beta Program

There are many benefits of containers which are driving the popularity of container platforms like Docker.

It is easy to forget that container deployments are fairly new and the threats unknown. Like virtualization did, containers will bring a new set of risks, threats, and vulnerabilities to be assessed and mitigated.

At NeuVector we’re developing a run-time container security solution which protects running containers where and when they are most at risk – at run-time. In a nutshell, without giving away too many secrets, NeuVector will:

Grazed from RTInsights. Author: Carlos Aragon.

The speed at which technology evolves these days is amazing. Although we are still in the middle of the cloud revolution, suddenly a new networking paradigm has appeared: fog computing. And it seems to be a key component of another popular trend, The Internet of Things (IoT), or as we prefer to call it, the Internet of Everything.

A Little Bit of History

The evolution from cloud to fog computing shares similarities with the history of computing itself. Just as computers evolved from bulky mainframes to personal computers as processing power and local storage became smaller and more affordable, networking and applications that started with a centralized model have also evolved…

Grazed from LARB. Author: Kevin Driscoll.

The internet is disappearing, fading into the background of everyday life. With pervasive mobile broadband, there is no longer a need to consciously connect. Our smartphones are always already online. In the absence of Ethernet cables and dial-up modems, the network itself is rarely seen or heard.

For many, the internet is simply infrastructure, and infrastructure only merits attention when it breaks down. Just as we don’t identify as “plumbing users” or “toilet owners,” few of us would think to call ourselves “internet users,” no matter how much time we spend online.
As the internet recedes, something called “the cloud” rolls in…

Technavio’s latest report on the global hybrid cloud services market provides an analysis on the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2016-2020. Technavio defines an emerging trend as a factor that has the potential to significantly impact the market and contribute to its growth or decline.

Amit Sharma, a lead analyst from Technavio, specializing in research on cloud computing sector, says, “Hybrid cloud provides the organization a self-service approach that allows them to work independently without delay or even eliminating the need for additional capital expenditure. In a hybrid cloud environment, applications can be moved back to the enterprise data center to establish in-house production environment. Hybrid cloud helps organizations to achieve speed and agility for line-of-business and security and control for IT operations.”

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Charles Cooper.

By now, you have to look long and hard to find a business hasn’t heard about the advantages it can gain by moving data to the cloud. The conventional wisdom has it that migrating to the cloud is no longer a question of if, but when. At least on paper. Rather than bounding into a new era of computing, the reality is that many organizations are still struggling to figure out the right cloud migration strategies.

There may no longer be much argument that cloud computing represents the future, but the reality is that line-of-business managers and their IT counterparts often find themselves working at cross purposes–leaving many organizations stuck in neutral when it comes to putting their cloud plans into practice…

Read more from the source @ http://mspmentor.net/cloud-services/cloud-deployment-crossroads

Grazed from YahooFinance. Author: JP Mangalindan.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) reported stellar fiscal first-quarter earnings on Thursday propelled by revenues that spiked 59%, surging past Wall Street estimates. And while talk of e-commerce transactions soaring on mobile dominated the announcement, analysts also paid close attention to the company’s cloud computing business, Alibaba Cloud — and for good reason.

Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud has evolved into China’s dominant cloud computing services provider, offering clients including Dutch electronics giant Philips, Schneider Electric and marketing platform Blogmint a wide range of storage, security, and database management options. For its fiscal first quarter, the company reported Alibaba Cloud revenues swelled 156% year-over-year to $188 million with 577,000 paid users…