Cloud Hosting: Identifying the Essential Elements

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Cloud Hosting

• Identifying the Essential Elements

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Cloud Hosting

• Identifying the Essential Elements

• Cloud hosting remains a hot topic and companies
  are trying to separate marketing hype from
  reality
• Cloud hosting is basically applications and data
  residing in a virtual network instead of computer
• Virtual networks allow you to access your
  applications and data from any location at any
  time and through any device
• Because the cloud has become the latest buzz,
  companies need to carefully analyze available
  offerings and compare them to their requirements

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Cloud Hosting

• Identifying the Essential Elements

• The Essentials of Cloud Hosting
• All cloud solutions should have five critical
  characteristics. According to National Institute
  of Standards and Technologies (NIST), required
  attributes include
• On-demand self-service the mainstay of cloud
  hosting. Applications and data can be used any
  time and from any location as needs dictate
• Broad network access the ability to access the
  services you need from any device
• Resource pooling allows multiple users to share
  computing resources
• Maximum agility companies can deploy resources
  as needed. You can scale up or down easily and
  economically
• Measured service you only pay for what you use

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Cloud Hosting

• Identifying the Essential Elements

• All characteristics has the ability to lower
  capital and operating costs, improve productivity
  and enhance a companys responsiveness
• Allows IT operations to match supply and demand
  quickly and easily
• Gartner, Inc., a well respected industry research
  company estimates the market for public cloud
  infrastructure services will grow to 9.95B by
  2013
• CyrusOne offers an enablement platform for cloud
  called Sky for the Cloud, which is designed for
  optimizing Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and
  enabling fast interconnection to an ecosystem of
  business partners, content providers, networks,
  carriers, Internet service providers and Ethernet
  buyers and sellers
• Sky for the Cloud includes peering within a
  single location to more quickly and affordably
  putt content from the edge of the Internet to the
  heart of data center

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About the author

• Nicole Aguillard is marketing director for
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 23 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about Cloud Hosting by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.