Cloud Price Ranges
March 22, 2011
Cloud Pricing Ranges And Cloud Hosting Options
There are several Cloud Hosting Options Available
Public Cloud Hosting And Pricing
This is a shared cloud hosting infrastructure. It provides flexibility, a cost effective solution and scalability. Most companies use this for test environments, short term projects or dev environments or web hosting. You can control the VM’s and scale your cloud infrastructure when you need it and on-demand.
Prices range in the $40 to$300 per month range depending on the number of CPUs, the amount of RAM, Storage and bandwidth.
This usually comes in a variety of operating systems like Linux, CentOS or Windows. Security preference is on secure VLANs and router firewalls Read more
Cloud Hosting
March 22, 2011
Cloud Hosting Choices
How To Select A Cloud Hosting Platform – SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
While cloud hosting is still in its beginning stages, cloud hosting has grown rapidly. Several hosting options are available depending on your requirements. Cloud hosting can provide the following benefits:
- Cost Savings – Cloud hosting can avoid CapEx (capital expenses) costs and reduce total IT operating costs by up to 50% while shifting to an OPEX (operating expense) model.
- Reliability – Ensure dependability with Service Level Agreements of 99.95% plus.
- Scalable – Offers scalability with on-demand services.
- Fully Managed – IT simplification for your staff.
- Predictable Pricing – Increased ROI with predictable monthly billing.
- Lower Risks – Multiple layers of data protection with security and application availability.
Understanding Cloud Service Terminology Read more
Phoenix Colocation Las Vegas Colocation
March 9, 2011
PHOENIX COLOCATION AND LAS VEGAS COLOCATION WAS HOT. NOW IT’S NOT… WHY?
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR PHOENIX COLOCATION SPACE AND LAS VEGAS COLOCATION CAGE SPACE?
When large west coast companies, in areas like California, discuss colocation for their primary data center or disaster recovery site, the discussion always revolves around which is the best city for colocation or building a data center. That is a very challenging conversation in today’s data center space and pricing wars. You often read that colocation space is shrinking fast and that the supply is dwindling. NOT TRUE! Well, maybe it’s true for a few major metropolitan areas. All you have to do is subscribe to various blogs to know there are 100’s of thousands of square feet of data center space available and several 100’s of thousands of square feet of data space coming on line at this moment. Some people feel that colocation space could experience similar overbuilding like the residential and commercial real estate.
PHOENIX COLOCATION AND LAS VEGAS SITE EVALUATION AND COMPETITION
Companies like to discuss where the lowest incidence of natural disasters are, what are the power rates in the state and what fiber carriers are in the data center? After an in-debt evaluation, many indicators for California companies pointed to Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada particularly for the relatively low incidence of natural disasters and proximity to California large cities. Actually there are many other locations that have cooler temperature environments to place a data center than Phoenix or Las Vegas. While you cannot deny the success of those locations, companies should consider alternatives as well. Eventually the conversation always comes back to…. PRICE. It is common to hear “I know it has a low incidence of disasters and low power costs but why is the price still high?” The new component to consider is COMPETITION for colocation space. Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada data centers have experienced fast growth in the low cost colocation market due to their proximity to large markets like California. Now, their rates have inched higher and higher to maximize profitability as their facilities start to fill. In some cases, the rates for Phoenix colocation or Las Vegas colocation are actually climbing higher than in some areas of California. Competition for data center space in other states with equal or better environments have lowered their colocation rates to compete with the media hype of Phoenix colocation and Las Vegas Colocation. Rates can be 10 to 20% lower than Phoenix or Las Vegas. The message here is keep looking for colocation space in other places. Read more