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2011 Cloud Trends and Best Practices Report

Hosting.com recently surveyed nearly 600 individuals regarding Cloud Computing industry and purchasing trends. The resulting Cloud Trends and Best Practices Report provides insight into the expectations businesses have of cloud computing, their intended uses, and obstacles.  The Report indicates explosive cloud growth in the next twelve months, the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery in cloud planning, and legitimizes cloud’s threat to traditional IT.
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White Paper: Microsoft SQL Server Databases Thrive in the Cloud

This white paper demonstrates how companies that have moved their SQL databases to the cloud have overcome past performance and security concerns to increase operational efficiency, improve availability and scalability, reduce costs, gain a faster-time to-market, and achieve a better return on investment. 
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eBook: Hosting.com and VMware Cloud Collaboration and Vision

VMware and Hosting.com have created a unified strategy to provide customers with cost-effective and secure public, private and hybrid cloud service offers.  Hosting.com continues to play a pivotal role in the vCloud, ISV and Virtual Appliance marketplaces as they rapidly evolve.  Together, VMware and Hosting.com provide cost-effective, secure and compliant and scalable cloud service offers for both SMB and Enterprise customers.  This eBook highlights Hosting.com’s key areas of differentiation and feature-rich cloud service offers that drive real relevant business value to our mutual customers as a VMware Cloud Service Provider.
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White Paper: Accelerating the Value and Penetration of Virtualized IT

Cost savings and increased server utilization have long been the promise of virtualization. While most organizations initially embraced virtualization for its benefits in saving money and improving IT productivity, business agility and server consolidation, research shows that organizations that lack adequate human and technical resources are experiencing a phenomenon known as “virtualization stall” (or VM stall), which limits their utilization of virtualization to approximately 30% of their servers. By breaking through the virtualization stall barrier, companies can realize the benefits a full-scale virtual environment has to offer. In this white paper, you will understand the technical and management challenges that have created VM stall, and how combining the right human and technical resources can help businesses accelerate the value and penetration of virtualized IT.
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White Paper: How Real Are Cloud Security Concerns?

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing has very quickly grown from an exotic concept to a known solution, with countless successful implementations. However, concerns remain about some aspects of IaaS clouds, and security is at the top of the list. When properly managed and configured, an IaaS cloud can be as safe and secure as any in-house solution running on dedicated servers. This technology briefing addresses some of the sources of confusion as they apply to IaaS implementations and then outlines the practices and technologies available to keep clouds safe in the areas where they do have unique vulnerabilities.
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White Paper: What Cloud Computing Means to You: Efficiency, Flexibility, Cost Savings

The success of companies offering infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) based on cloud computing is a strong indication that cloud computing will become increasingly more important over time. Meanwhile, as the debate over the exact definition of cloud computing continues in academic circles and technical chat rooms, the reality of cloud computing is giving companies cost efficiencies and flexibility that have never before been possible.
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