Managed Services: March 2012

Monday, March 19, 2012

Data Centers: A Boon To The New Age Organization

The advent of computers and computing technology brought in the concept of transfer and storing of data and information electronically. This technology during the early years made use of huge systems, which occupied large spaces and needed air conditioning of the rooms to keep these functioning for long hours. As technology progressed, these systems were replaced by microcomputers which cud now be placed on any small spaces.

However, with the use of Internet and the World Wide Web and increase in the use of computing technology, there was an increase in the number of microcomputers used in organizations. This resulted in the need to be replaced by systems, which take in more workload than small microcomputers and be placed in areas, which could be manned properly. This gave birth to the concept of data centers. It now becomes necessary to understand the role of data centers in the networked business operations.

Besides providing the organizations with fast and efficient computing services, the data center also renders a safe and secure storage system for the mission critical data. Housed in small rooms or several floors of buildings datacenters are primarily for storage of computer systems, servers, storage devices, and other related components including telecom and networking systems. Designed and developed to provide unmatched security to the users, the datacenter have efficient security systems, environmental controls and power backup ensuring an even flow of business process.

The need for world-class infrastructure and networking systems to cater to the e-commerce and technological requirements of global organization demands for a large amount of investment. Hence, the cost factor restricts the setting up in-house data centers to the elite and large business houses. However, with the growth of datacenter service providers, the small and medium enterprises can also enjoy the benefit of e-commerce, and can make their presence on the web. These enterprises can make use of the web-based services and other networking and data storage services offered by the data centers. The datacenters facilitates the use of its infrastructure as a dedicated server, colocation servers or simply shared hosting services. The Dedicated Servers are generally used by users with high volume of data transfer, high volume of visitors, large storage space requirement and higher level of security.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Types of Web Hosting Services

Datacenter In the internet age, not having a presence online affects the chances to increase sales and to maximize profits. It optimizes the chances of small and medium businesses to expand their businesses overseas. With more than 900 million internet users, having a website can help not only in letting the whole world know about the companies but also in creating a channel for the potential customers to get in touch with them. Hence, websites play an important role in marketing businesses and organizations.

However, just as well-presented websites are critical for the success of business online so is web hosting. Choosing the right kind of web hosting is necessary to ensure that your potential customers do not face any problems when getting services from your website. However, before choosing the best web-hosting partner there is the need to pick a web hosting service that matches your requirements. Given below are the different types of web hosting services.

Shared Web Hosting Services

It is the most common and one of the cheapest forms of web hosting. In this type of web hosting, the server is shared among different clients and so the name shared web hosting. Not only the physical server but also the software applications within the server are shared.

Dedicated Web Hosting Services

In this type, a client can rent an entire server. Since the server’ resources are used entirely by a single client, the performance is faster and better. Though the client does not own the server, the client has full control of the server. Those who go for dedicated hosting services can host more than one website. This type of web hosting is useful for those clients who need either a lot of system resources for hosting their websites or a higher level of security.

Free Web Hosting Services

Free Web Hosting is meant for small sites that generate less traffic such as personal sites. In this type, the client receives limited technical support and almost no software options. Moreover, the client cannot use his/her domain name. The client has to be satisfied with one offered by the host.

Managed Web Hosting Services

In managed web hosting, the client gets his/her own server. However, the managed service providers do not grant the full control of the web server to client in order to ensure good quality and performance.

Collocated Web Hosting Services

In this type, the client owns the server but it is placed at a location owned by a service provider. It is the most expensive type of web hosting.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Shared Hosting Services: A Growth Scope For E-Commerce

The advent of technological innovations and globalization demands the enterprises provide the best of services to their clientele. In a techno savvy business environment, every project undertaken is dependent on the data and information across a wide network spanning geographical boundaries. Thus, an effective method would then be the efficient management of the data centers and the web hosting services.

Further, management and maintenance of data centers and providing for world-class IT infrastructure in the data centers to meet the competitive world, tends to increase the financial load on the enterprises. The other option available to the enterprises is then to partner with existing data centers and make use of their web hosting services.

Most of the leading service providers have Internet Data centers with good infrastructure, which would meet the world-class standards. With such an infrastructure, expert team and a 24/7 service, these data centers are ready to provide dedicated hosting, shared hosting services, firewall, backup solutions as well as colocation services for their clienteles.

Shared hosting or virtual hosting as it is commonly known, is a type of web hosting wherein a single physical server hosts a similar web server more than once. In other words, one server tends to host many websites at the same time. The server resources, such as network connection and disk space, are shared between the websites. This brings down the server maintenance and management costs as it is being shared by a number of individuals, and works out as the best option for clients not ready for dedicated servers or virtual private servers.

However, the shared hosting offered by data centers doesn't offer the flexibility of dedicated servers, as this demands a good level of system administration, but the responsibility of the service providers in either case remains the same with installation, technical support and management. Most of the data centers operating on a global level have a number of shared hosting services basically catering to the small and medium business enterprises as well as to large Corporates, which make use of additional data centers for their day-to-day functioning.

With organizations, trying to stay ahead in the competition, e-commerce and web hosting has become the trend. In the bargain, more and more enterprises look forward to have their footprint on the World Wide Web. This trend has seen many enterprises opt for the Datacenter managed shared hosting services which besides bring down the costs of maintenance and backups provides the enterprises the freedom to concentrate on website designing and other core issues.

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