HP UX Hosting Company to Launch Website That Assists With Migration to The Cloud
Denver, Colorado – HP UX Hosting Company is a company that specializes in HP UX Hosting, data recovery, and data back-up. They also provide premium cloud-hosting services depending on what services their clients require. HP UX Hosting Company is a great option for any businesses that do not want the responsibility of managing their own infrastructure or are in need of migration assistance onto the cloud.
HP UX Hosting Company takes each client into individual consideration to come up with hassle-free migration plans to move from local installation to one of HPUX Hosting Company's data centers.
About HPUX:
HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system. This was based on UNIX System V, which was initially System III, and initially was first released in 1984. HPUX runs on a specific processor, an operating system that requires a specific hardware to run.
Many companies that are still using this software are looking for a simple way to migrate to the cloud. And that's where HP UX Hosting Company comes in. They offer their services to Fortune 500 companies for hardware and software storage in their data centers. With HP UX Hosting Company, these Fortune 500 companies can pass the responsibility of maintenance to their service providers and relax knowing their hardware and software is in good hands.
As HP UX is an aging technology that very few companies still support, HP UX Hosting Company can help companies still using HPUX to store hardware and software at their data centers, creating better security and safety.
Throughout their ten years of operation, HP UX Hosting Company has successfully cooperated with a number of Fortune 500 companies by helping them to streamline their internal operations and provide bespoke hosting services. HP UX Hosting Company believes that this systematic migration to the cloud will create higher levels of safety and security for various companies' hardware and software needs
"Some of our customers choose to host with us for backup and for disaster recovery installation of their mission critical applications. Whatever their reasoning for working with us, our company offers a maintenance free process that helps our customers with setting up the backup process. We develop an automated backup that can be made to happen monthly, weekly, or even daily. That way, after the recovery process, our clients do not have to worry about any data loss." – Martin Filip, CTO.
On top of their migration and hosting services, HP UX Hosting Company can create mirror-image environments that can be used for performance and stress testing. That way their original production systems are not affected in any way, but they can work towards better developing their hardware and software for increased functionality.
HP UX Hosting Company is made up of over 50 licensed and fully-qualified technicians that are experienced, dedicated, and always happy to offer 24/7 support for their customers. Their prices start at just $1300 per month. However, this quote can change based on individual customer needs as clients have the ability to choose between regular hosting and complete infrastructure management.
HP UX Hosting is the daughter company of Nicman Group, which was originally established as a web-development, software testing, and hosting management company and is now a leading provider in a range of services.
Nicman Group is a self-funded and privately-owned company that has been a provider of premium cloud services and technology consulting for more than 15 years. Nicman Group has been managing HPUX operating systems for over 10 years. Currently, they have three data centers in operation. These are located in Denver, Colorado, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Secaucus, New Jersey.
Nicman Group created HP UX Hosting Company for those companies looking for high-quality infrastructure management and hardware and software hosting. HP UX Hosting Company's goal is to take this responsibility off of these businesses' shoulders so they can worry about their company's other needs instead.
Get in touch with HPUX Hosting Company today to discuss your HP UX Hosting needs.
For more information on what HP UX Hosting Company has to offer, give them a call at 303-790-7172 or contact them at www.hpuxhosting.com/contact-us.
Media ContactCompany Name: HP UX HostingContact Person: Martin FilipEmail: Send EmailPhone: +1 303-790-7172Address:7074 S. Revere PkwyCountry: United StatesWebsite: www.hpuxhosting.com
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Website Hosting: Security Awareness Can Reduce Costs
Website hosting security has matured in recent years. Naturally, the types of security issues have changed because of it. For example, cross-contamination over multiple shared hosting accounts used to be a major problem for large website hosting providers, but this isn't really a huge threat today. However, malware attacks and other website security-related issues at the account level are still very real problems – just ask anyone who has had their website defaced, redirected, or abused in phishing attacks.
Adapting to The New RealityIn today's website security landscape, the problem really lies in how the website owner manages their server environment. This is traditionally beyond the scope of the website hosting provider. Attackers know that the weakest link is the end-user, and as such, they focus on opportunistic, automated attacks against end-user managed resources, such as plugins and extensions installed by the website owner.
More than 90% of attacks today are automated, looking for the low-hanging fruit. Typically, websites are attacked at scale in a few ways:
"How could you let me get hacked?"
Sound familiar? Website hosting companies of all sizes feel the pain when it comes to end-user website security, which is now consistently part of the conversation with their customers. Prepared or not, hosting companies have to provide support when their customers cry for help after their websites have been hacked, blacklisted, or attacked.
Web hosting customers today are excited about having a website. They want to be the next big thing. They want to have a voice and make an honest living. The vast majority of website owners don't want to learn about the technical security implications of having a website.
In most cases, they expect the host to take care of it all.
Taking Ownership and ResponsibilityWebsite owners aren't just geeky, over-caffeinated nerds anymore. Creating a website has become a very accessible opportunity, and now anyone can be a webmaster. We have to understand that the majority of website owners possess very limited technical acumen and resources. They want a site that is fully secure and stays that way. From our experience, they don't care about, or understand ambiguous services and up-sells. If it gets hacked, they want someone else to deal with it now, at an affordable cost. Once cleaned, they don't want to be hacked ever again.
We were at the cPanel Conference last week and the final session spoke to this very subject. The question came up around whose responsibility it really is when it comes to website-level security and there were mixed results. What this discussion really validated for us is that, in a room full of service providers and hosting companies, the theme is not unique. Customers are asking the question and it's the responsibility of service providers to have an answer.
We were at WHD the week before cPanel, and Tony addressed our responsibility as service providers and how we should be thinking about all of this.
The Cost of Supporting Website Security IssuesIt has become such a widespread issue that many providers are growing staff (or entire departments) dedicated to supporting customers with compromised sites "just to help them out". They are dealing with really frustrated customers that may choose to leave when the rubber hits the road.
This effort doesn't make a lot of financial sense for hosting providers in most cases. The host is forced to dedicate valuable resources in an attempt to remediate hacked websites and offer a security solution for which they, quite frankly, don't control. Still, they risk the customer potentially leaving them anyway when it's all said and done. Security isn't their core competency and the effort becomes a cost center for them. The overhead caused by resources and time spent, which is then passed on to the customer, becomes far too large to manage at scale. This hurts the host and isn't something easy for the customer to chew on either, especially when they are experiencing a hack and are in a vulnerable, highly emotional mental state.
The host should be involved, but it starts well before the point of infection. We need to change the discussion. We need to become leaders in awareness. Service providers have an inherent responsibility to be educators to a very broad audience. By educating customers that there is a difference between infrastructure security and account security, providers are helping them understand that with traditional hosting, it's not so cut and dry. Steps should be taken to correct false expectations that the provider is the responsible party for a site owned and controlled by the end-user. Hosting providers have an opportunity to educate the end-user about options they need to be considering, based on their requirements. There are trade-offs between things like traditional shared hosting and managed WordPress, for example. Security should be a part of the discussion from beginning to end.
Making Website Security a Profit CenterThere is a lot of opportunity for hosting providers to sustainably help their customers, reduce operational and customer costs, and even economically benefit by offering website security options to their customers. It may make a lot more sense to partner with a professional security company who can provide dedicated resources and services at reduced costs. Depending on the host configuration, there is an opportunity to turn security into a new revenue stream while upping their website security game at the same time!
They can also extend user knowledge and secure users by leveraging a more intuitive, long-term strategy. Effective website security solutions require dedicated professionals who understand how the threat landscape looks now, and how it will evolve in the future.
A good website security provider also requires a customer-first approach that prioritizes time to resolution with respect to each customer's level of technical ability. As an example, Sucuri is recommended by web professionals for our commitment to providing users with cutting-edge technology and excellent customer service.
The idea here is to extend your security team and kill off any pricing ambiguity or arbitrary controls to the end-user. Partnering with a proven security organization can give you a full website security stack at fixed prices. This will allow you to offer firm pricing to your customers for a service that's guaranteed and won't end up costing more based on the number of pages protected or which portions of the site are remediated during an attack.
We have found that doing active scans of your user base's websites on a continual basis and doing outreach to help them better understand their security status is helpful in educating customers all while helping gain a better understanding of the overall health of accounts in the environment.
ConclusionIn the end, we all have a part to play in making the web safer. It's our job as service providers to educate and offer clear, sustainable website security options to our ever-growing audience of people who are simply trying to build their businesses and online presence.
Let's be educators. Let's be leaders. Our customers will appreciate us for doing so in the long run!
Have questions or want to add to the discussion, email us at partners@sucuri.net
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Oracle Takes Another Swing at Amazon Web Services
Like all legacy technology companies, database giant Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has been forced to adapt to the continued rise of cloud computing. The switching costs associated with Oracle's products are significant, but the last thing the company wants is its customers moving databases to cloud computing providers like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services.
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference, the company unveiled the next step in its plan to go toe-to-toe with AWS. Oracle's autonomous database cloud, powered by the next-generation version of Oracle Database, comes with some big promises. And Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder and executive chairman, had some fighting words for the cloud computing leader.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison speaking at Oracle's OpenWorld conference. Image source: Oracle.
Undercutting AWS
Oracle's cloud strategy up to this point has been mostly defensive. The company's database product is dominant, with a market share in excess of 40% in 2015, but we're still in the early innings of the shift to the cloud. As Oracle's on-premise database customers consider moving to the cloud, the company needs to ensure that they choose Oracle's cloud over the competition. Moving an Oracle database to AWS is the first step in dumping Oracle altogether.
Oracle announced its Generation 2 cloud infrastructure about a year ago, promising that Oracle's database would run dramatically faster compared to Amazon's Redshift database running on AWS. Ellison said at the time: "Amazon's lead is over. Amazon's going to have serious competition going forward."
Oracle's autonomous database cloud ups the ante, and instead of simply being aimed at keeping existing customers, the company is now clearly going after AWS customers. Ellison said during his keynote that Oracle would guarantee, in writing, that this new database service would cost less than half the price of running the same workloads on Amazon Redshift on AWS. That's quite the promise.
Oracle can make this promise because the autonomous database cloud lowers costs by automating processes. The company claims that the system eliminates the human labor typically needed to tune, patch, update, and maintain databases, thus lowering costs for its customers. Using machine learning, the system will tune performance automatically, upgrade and patch itself, and allow for resizing compute and storage with no downtime. Oracle is guaranteeing 99.995% availability, above the 99.95% availability promised by Amazon's relational database services.
How much of this talk about machine learning and automation is marketing, and how much is genuine innovation remains to be seen. Oracle's autonomous database will be available by the end of the year for data warehouse workloads, with support for other types of workloads coming in 2018.
Betting on the cloud
Oracle's cloud business represents only a small portion of the company's revenue. Cloud revenue was $1.47 billion during the latest quarter, or about 16% of the total. Most of Oracle's revenue still comes from selling software licenses and providing product support, and it will likely take many years for that to no longer be the case.
Oracle's cloud business is growing fast, though, and the introduction of the aggressively priced autonomous database cloud could turbocharge that growth next year. Software-as-a-service revenue soared 62% year over year during the latest quarter to $1.07 billion, while platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service revenues jumped 27% to $400 million. In the latter category, Oracle remains a small fish in a pond dominated by AWS.
With the autonomous database cloud, Oracle is intensifying its battle with AWS. This time around, the company is promising to dramatically beat Amazon on price, with that commitment written into customer contracts. Oracle was late to the cloud computing party, but it's making up for lost time in a big way.
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Hosting CHAN 2018 not a good idea รข€“ GFA
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Hosting CHAN 2018 not a good idea – GFA
Communications Director of GFA Ibrahim Sannie Daara
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has cast doubt over the country's readiness to host the 2018 CHAN tournament.
The FA believes the country lacks the requisite finances to properly host two competitions in one year, with Ghana already committing to host the 2018 Women's Afcon.
Contrary to the FA's position, the Sports Ministry believe that based on the country's success in hosting the recently ended Fox WAFU competition and the availability of multiple venues, hosting the CHAN tournament should not be complicated.
Original hosts of the competition, Kenya were stripped of hosting rights after it was revealed that they were behind schedule with regards to stadia readiness and other adjoining facilities.
This position was made clear by the GFA's Director of Communications Ibrahim Saani Daara when he spoke on Citi Fm's Sports Panorama.
"It is true that hosting the tournament will yield a lot of benefits for the country.
"But it becomes a little troubling when you factor in the fact that the host nation will have to shoulder for instance the travelling expenses for all participating countries.
"We can also talk about accommodation and feeding as well as everything associated with the tournament.
"We are not sure if the country is in the financial state to shoulder the burden of hosting two tournaments in one year," he revealed.
Source: Hosting CHAN 2018 not a good idea – GFA
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Should You Be Considering Web-Scale Networking?
Web-scale networking, also known as hyperscale, is a concept that has been popularized by companies like Google, Netflix and Facebook, who adopted this model for its proven cost economics, resiliency, scalability, and in some cases, better performance for large companies.
In recent months, the web-scale strategy has begun to gain the attention of enterprises in response to the changing data center landscape and growth of compute-heavy, complex technologies like AI, machine learning, and big data analytics initiatives. What should IT pros know about web-scale?
Web-Scale Explained At its core, a web-scale strategy is a set of enabling technologies and practices that provide enterprises the same capabilities, cost structure and flexibility that the very largest Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) can deliver. The more realistic definition of web-scale is AWS or Azure done inexpensively, but often with considerable compromise. Although you're receiving some of the same capabilities of CSPs for less money, your organization may not have the same rich or mature feature set.
Ultimately, a web-scale strategy, when successfully implemented and maintained, can provide the cost structure, capability and flexibility CSPs themselves enjoy. However, it also requires significant IT discipline, skill and up-front cost investment that are off-putting for many businesses.
So, why try it?
Wholesale Cloud Computing For organizations that have the wherewithal (read: budget, skills, staff) to implement web-scale, there are quite a few benefits that make the investment worth the effort. Cost, certainly, is a key incentive for an organization's transition to web-scale architecture. Companies like Walmart might foot an AWS bill upwards of $100M a year.
If you have the IT skill resources, especially if the CSP is a direct competitor, why not implement a CSP-modeled environment yourself to reap "wholesale" pricing based on the same OEM infrastructure providers? This is an especially important benefit for companies that have applications with large data footprints: industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, for example, can include millions of sensors that generate massive amounts of data to be processed and require infrastructure that can appropriately scale to that size operation.
In other cases, data security concerns play a role in determining whether an on-premises web-scale implementation makes sense. Healthcare organizations or government agencies remain wary of hosting patient or personal data outside the firewall, despite CSP compliance certifications. Similarly, some organizations may find that they're able to manage corporate espionage by keeping sensitive, proprietary data onsite via a web-scale architecture rather than a remote cloud platform.
Another driver might be a need to provide commodity services primitives to harmonize distributed complexity. If you're a business with a large online presence, you have already implemented complex methods to ensure data availability, but you also can expect that basic infrastructure will also increase in complexity - such as spinning out into multiple regions or availability zones. Web-scale is known for delivering against the need for open-ended, scale-out of internet connected users.
Finally, there are a few fringe advantages, such as improved performance in the absence of the need to ship data 10, 20, or even just 60 milliseconds away, and significantly reduced licensing costs thanks to web-scale's open-source roots. This only further sweetens the pot for big companies that want to control their IT operation soup to nuts.
Implementation Challenges Big benefits, however, don't come without big challenges and considerations.
First and foremost, the skill required to implement a web-scale architecture is relatively enormous. CSPs like AWS and Azure have spent years developing their technology, hosting platforms and add-on services - and they have the luxury of being able to focus only on developing and innovating these things. AWS's "primitives" offerings, a collection of over 100 tools that each focus on one competency (like container management, or queuing services, etc.), are just one example of how specialized the provider has become.
Meanwhile, at the enterprise level, IT professionals are still tasked with handling help desk requests, and just generally "keeping the lights on," all of which detract from the always-on dedication to maintaining a web-scale implementation. On top of that, investing in web-scale is a massive monetary undertaking and most businesses today are rightfully focused on cost efficiency. That means your existing IT infrastructure is more than likely extremely interconnected and chock-full of single points of failure - when a storage SAN system goes down and simultaneously knocks the network offline because of a DNS outage - which is ultimately the opposite of web-scale architecture ideology.
The bottom line is, it's impossible to have the IT team responsible for running applications that are critical to the business also taking care of the platform. You need a dedicated set of developers and admins taking care of your platform, which requires additional time, skill and monetary resources that most businesses just don't have.
Should You Be Considering Web-Scale? Of course, these challenges aren't to say your business won't eventually implement at least some web-scale architectures. There are three questions that both you, the IT professional, and your business should consider, whether you're ready to transition to web-scale now or are contemplating for the future:
Closing Thoughts At the end of the day, web-scale computing is fundamentally transformative, but requires such a significant IT personnel and monetary investment from enterprises that it's unrealistic to expect the majority of companies will make a transition to this strategy in the near future.
However, CSPs like Microsoft Azure are working to deliver at least some Platform as a Service (PaaS) functionality to traditional enterprises with solutions like Azure Stack®, which offers a reduced feature set of that you can run on-premises. Of course, AWS® will likely follow in its footsteps.
While web-scale computing may not be in most organizations' near-future, its benefits are beginning to trickle down to more realistic deployment options. By staying in tune with these developments, you may find opportunities to realize key benefits of web-scale architecture where the fit is good, without debilitating teething pains.
Patrick Hubbard is a head geek and senior technical product marketing manager at SolarWinds, with 20 years of technical expertise and IT customer perspective. His networking management experience includes work with campus, data center, high availability and disaster recovery, and storage networks, and with VoIP, telepresence and VDI in both Fortune 500 companies and startups in the high tech, transportation, financial services and telecom industries.
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