BoxIntense, managed hosting services provider, is now offering New Relic Standard free of charge to its customers. New Relic is a web application performance management provider, combining real user, application and availability monitoring in one solution. The New Relic Standard add-on creates an all in one solution for BoxIntense, allowing customers to monitor and manage their cloud apps to optimize performance and success.
Pay-as-you-go, on-demand model offers small and midsized businesses features including built-in security and prebuilt server templates.
The storage industry, however, long ago transcended Moore’s Law, with new hardware components, systems, software and services being developed at a pace unmatched in any industry. Hard drives with capacities of 3TBs? Storage appliances that can scale capacity to infinity? Good old-fashioned -- and cheap -- IP networks replacing high-speed Fibre Channel and InfiniBand? Things that would have seemed impossible five years ago are now commonplace. None of this would have been possible without the early realization that the cost of raw storage capacity would start approaching free, and the vision that new ways to store, back up, retrieve, archive and, above all, manage users’ and companies’ data would be required. Enter the storage visionaries. This group of talented individuals -- some of the smartest people on the planet -- live and breathe storage. They protect, nurture and grow the storage on which business, academia, industry and entertainment thrive.
Watch as Floyd takes on ThePlanet.com's Server Challenge at the Web 2.0 Expo. Can he dethrone the champion and etch his name in the annals of history?
Cloud computing is one of the most overhyped phenomena to have hit the IT industry in a long time. It is a business model that definitely has its advantages. The trouble is vendors of all sizes and stripes are so desperate for a piece of the cloud action, they are willing to blur distinctions and fudge definitions for their own ends.
We all know about hosting, you sign up for server space, upload your files to the server, connect that with the domain name, maybe setup a database and BOOM you have a website! For years this was called hosting, most people now call it the cloud.
