When your database is not optimized, website speed can slow to a crawl and users can encounter bottlenecks when querying, editing or analyzing data. By taking the time to properly optimize and index your cloud database at the outset, you can ensure that your resources are already accessible and that employees can utilize the database quickly, cleanly and remotely. Optimizing Your Cloud Optimizing measures c ...

No company would scatter its departments and employees all over town without good reason. Keeping an organization tightly knit is how a company effectively manages its operations and gets things done each day. If a company wouldn’t intentionally locate its physical resources in random places, why would it do the same with its virtual resources? By consolidating mail servers, sender policy framework (SPF) re ...

Hybrid Cloud integrates public and private computing and can provide economies of scale for IT processing that don’t require security, while ensuring that systems that need to be secure, or that require industry compliance such as PCI or HIPAA can achieve that level of security and confidentiality on a Private Cloud. Building a bridge leveraging the strengths of public and private clouds is a challenging ex ...

With security in the news lately because of the NSA leaks, people are wondering about the security of the data on their personal and work computers, servers and cloud storage platforms. Especially when data is stored off-site, such as on a cloud server, data management and security lose a certain level of transparency. Whether you view the cloud as an emergency backup or use it as your main file storage sys ...

Storage options have been getting much more competitive. Yes, we're talking speed and money. Your storage options are solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) — both of which are very different and can benefit your company in unrelated ways. Decide which benefits your company most. If we compare the two storage technologies on cost per gigabyte, SSDs run $0.70 to $1 per gigabyte. Comparatively, ...

A Web page that takes just four seconds to load will lose 25%, who view the site as too slow. Improving the load time of a website reduces this user loss, but it isn't something you can do alone. While there are steps you can take to improve page loading speed, such as decreasing image file size, your hosting company largely determines your website loading time. If you're running a Web app, your database ho ...

Your website was built to serve your business and do more than just occupy space in the digital world. How your site is designed and organized should be tailored to meet your goals and increase your company’s success. When considering these issues, put yourself in your customer's shoes and look at your website from his or her perspective to improve its organization and generate more conversions. Organizing ...

When it comes time to launch your website, you need to know what you intend the site to accomplish. Is it a gaming site or a retail site? Does the site simply need to inform users about your products or does it need to sell directly to them? Determining what your website needs to accomplish, and the types of conversions you want to get on the site, is your first priority when it comes to launching your onli ...

Dependability, Persistency & Control: Cloud Files vs. Cloud Block Storage Any business can tell you that data is growing increasingly complex at an exponential rate. As computing resources, applications and tools become more connected, the demand to manage big data in a cloud-storage solution is becoming widespread. An effective means for solving this problem is through cloud block storage. For the unin ...

Business processes are rapidly changing with the adoption cloud computing. Within powerful cloud storage and backup environments, you can instantly access and share documents and files with colleagues all over the globe. Still, for many small and medium businesses, the question is whether cloud technology gives them a competitive edge. This is an increasingly important question to answer as more companies c ...