As we all keep our eyes on Hurricane Gustav, our first thoughts turn to the safety and well-being of everyone caught in the storm’s path. In the days ahead, MSPmentor will write about contingency planning, managed services and cloud computing — and their potential role in disaster recovery efforts. But ultimately, we’ll strive not to lose sight of the fact that millions of Americans have been displaced by Gustav.
Stay safe.
Nirvanix, an online storage provider, is making some interesting head-to-head claims against Amazon.com’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Specifically, Nirvanix claims that its Storage Delivery Network offers downloads that are roughly 200 percent faster than S3. The data is based on testing done by 3Tera Inc.
The move from managed service provider to software as a service (SaaS) can seem intimidating, but the barriers to market entry continue to fall. Each week, yet another company introduces a SaaS framework that you can plug your managed services business into.
Whether it’s Amazon.com’s Simple Storage Service (S3) or Jamcracker’s expanding Service Delivery Network, MSPs have a growing list of cloud-oriented platforms from which to choose. The continued reinvention of Jamcracker is of particular interest to me. Here’s why.
Move over, Steve Jobs. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is teasing press and analysts with a cryptic invite to a major announcement on April 14. Salesforce.com won’t say what’s cooking.
But we’ll be all ears, as Salesforce.com continues to evolve from a hosted CRM system into an application platform. Will Benioff start preaching about cloud computing? Does a key partnership await us? Other deadlines are calling, so we’ll need to chase down details about this event at a later event.
In recent weeks, my inbox has become filled with “cloud” computing press releases. The good news: Many of the high-tech industry’s smartest companies are allocating resources to hosted services, managed services and software as a service.
The bad news: Just about anybody with a heartbeat in high-tech now claims to offer cloud computing services. Similar to the ASP (application service provider) hype cycle from nearly a decade ago, we should expect some cloud computing companies to thrive — and many to fail. Read More >
