VMware Races Forward on Hybrid Cloud Management... announced a series of significant enhancements...

VMware announced a series of significant enhancements to their virtualization and cloud management products. Some of the highlights of the new VMware releases are posted/reviewed over @ WindowsITPro

• vCloud Automation Center 6.0—Changes to the vCloud Automation Center enables customers to create their own custom IT services. In addition, the 6.0 release introduces support for VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service. VMware's vCloud Automation Center 6.0 is included in the VMware vCloud Suite 5.5.
• vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8—The updated vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8 now provides enhanced performance monitoring for business critical applications including Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. In addition, vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8 provides deeper visibility into applications running on Microsoft Hyper-V and Amazon Web Services. The vCenter Operations Management suite is included in the VCloud Suite 5.5
• vCenter Log Insight 1.5—The new vCenter Log Insight 1.5 product delivers real-time operational insights by monitoring log data from applications and combining it with data analytics of structured and unstructured data for end-to-end operations management. VMware's vCenter Log Insight is priced at $200 per operating system instance.
• VMware IT Business Management Suite—The new VMware IT Business Management Suite Standard Edition 1.0 is designed to help smaller and medium sized organizations understand the cost and consumption of their virtual infrastructure across private and public cloud environments. In addition, the VMware IT Business Management Suite Advanced and Enterprise Edition 8.0 provides integration with VMware IT Benchmarking, allowing enterprises to compare the cost of their services against industry peers and other similar companies. The VMware IT Business Management Suite Advanced and Enterprise Editions are licensed per user.
• vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced—Based on EMC's Avamar data protection technology, VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.5 Advanced provides network-efficient backup, data replication, and integration with EMC Data Domain. The 5.5 release includes a new Microsoft SharePoint agent and automated backup verification. VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced 5.5 is expected to be available in Q4 2013, and is priced at $1,095 per processor

What's Next For The Cloud? The Intercloud...

Interesting news announced by Joe Weinman's @ IEEE...

"The IEEE—”the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology,” and the one that standardized Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11)—has brought together industry and academia to help develop Intercloud standards as part of its Cloud Computing Initiative and today announced an effort intended to test those standards under real-world conditions.(Disclosure: I am the chairman of the IEEE Intercloud Testbed executive committee)"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joeweinman/2013/10/08/whats-next-for-the-cloud-the-intercloud-2/

TOPHOSTS.com - Web Hosting Resource Since 1997

TopHosts.com is the complete Web hosting resource. It combines years of experience and technology to give small business owners, developers, Webmasters and e-commerce businesses the most comprehensive, up-to-date information and tools available to launch your Service Provider business and sustain it's profitable growth.

Web Host Industry Review (http://www.thewhir.com/reseller-web-hosting/) 

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – October 25, 2013

Picking an Online Backup Service

Check out a great site! Online Backup Reviews (www.OnlineBackupReviews.com) - Provides insight into the Online Backup market with assessment of emerging trends and in-depth exploration of industry participants and their products and services.

Research the latest news and developments in the Online Backup Industry, check out new Articles & Guides that provide fundamental knowledge required to make purchasing decisions, review the Top 25 List of the most successful online backup providers in the market with the best solutions available to consumers and businesses of all size's, check out Company Spotlights on leading solution providers making an impact in the Online Backup business world.

Online Backup Reviews (www.OnlineBackupReviews.com)

Parallels Containers for Windows Server 2012 for Highest Virtual Environment Density

Parallels Containers for Windows Server 2012 for Highest Virtual Environment Density

Cloud Computing Conference during National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event:
NAB Event Cloud Computing Conference; Communications and Cable operators have struggled with Server and Data Center Consolidation projects due to the nature of their applications.  Parallels Containers for Windows provides the highest density per physical server and includes application isolation and control no other virtual environment solution can provide.

Parallels Containers for Windows 6.0 - Application Isolation & Control with the Highest Utilization of your Physical Compute & Storage Assets.  (Maximum Virtual Environment Density)

Parallels Containers for Windows is the highest density, lowest cost virtualization solution for Windows. Parallels Containers for Windows is uniquely suited to cloud server virtualization, enabling near instant provisioning and on-the-fly modification of hosting and cloud server plans. And now Parallels Containers for Windows can be deployed together with Parallels Cloud Server and Parallels Cloud Storage to provide high availability Windows cloud servers.