Archive for 2010
Monday, November 8th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
A few months ago we submitted a nomination for the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Awards, and a few weeks ago GoGrid was selected as a finalist for the “Efficiency in Technology” Award!
The UP 2010 conference is a hybrid conference with a combination of virtual and physical elements that cover the latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. There are panels and workshops as well as virtual sessions and the Awards recognition event is being held on November 15, 2010. Other nominees for the “Efficiency in Technology” Award include: Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Salesforce, SAS and VMware. More information about the conference can be found at: http://up-con.com/.
Below is the Press Release that GoGrid issued about the nomination:
GoGrid Named Finalist in UP 2010 Cloud Computing Awards
(more…) «Press Release: GoGrid Named Finalist in UP 2010 Cloud Computing Awards»
Tags: Award, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Finalist, GoGrid, Industry, nomination, UP con 2010
Posted in Awards, Cloud Computing, Cloud News, Events, General, GoGrid, Industry, Press Release | No Comments »
Monday, November 1st, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
Having a secure Cloud Computing environment is paramount to GoGrid cloud customers. In fact, many critics of cloud computing in general point to “security” as one of the primary barriers to entry for their company or clients jumping into the cloud as a critical component of a company’s core IT strategy. We whole-heartedly agree that Security in the Cloud should be on any checklist when evaluating cloud providers. To that end, we have enhanced our Hardware Firewall service to ensure that your servers and critical data remain secure from malicious threats that ANY server or website is vulnerable to, cloud or not.
Set up, managed and maintained by experienced GoGrid System Administrators, the new GoGrid Fortinet is designed to insulate your infrastructure on GoGrid from a variety of new and sophisticated threats. Also, if you are working down the path of achieving PCI compliance for your environment running on GoGrid, this hardware firewall solution provides another “check in the box” towards compliance. While host-based firewall solutions do work in many cases, to achieve true protection against attacks, a hardware-based firewall is definitely the direction to go.
Key Features and Pricing
Briefly, the new GoGrid Fortinet Firewall’s key features are:
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, firewall, Fortinet, GoGrid, Hardware, IPsec, network, solution, SSL, Update, VPN
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Cloudcenter, Datacenter, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, Hosting, How To, News, Release, Security | No Comments »
Friday, October 15th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
I think that we may have broken a record in having one of the most news-filled newsletters in GoGrid history. And, I don’t think we were able to put everything in there. One feature of particular note is that of RAM Scaling. Now, within GoGrid, you can scale your cloud servers up or down as you need. This month’s newsletter has information about this important feature and a whole lot more, so for those of you who are not currently receiving the GoGrid newsletter, the full content is below.
Below is a copy of the October 2010 Customer Update newsletter that went out to all GoGrid customers:
Hello,
All of us at GoGrid have been working on providing more and more value to you not only in our feature and system enhancements, but also with educational webinars and trainings. In this issue of the GoGrid newsletter, you’ll discover ways in which we can form a partnership to help you leverage more from your GoGrid cloud.
This edition includes:
(more…) «Newsletter: GoGrid Customer Update – October 2010 – RAM Scaling, Partner News, Webinars, Events & More»
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, Cloud infrastructure, Customer Update, Events, expo, GoGrid, Images, Newsletter, partner, Webinar
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud News, Cloud Server, Cloudcenter, Events, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, GoGrid Exchange, Images, Industry, News, Newsletter, Partners, Release, Webinar | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
We are excited to announce the availability of the GoGrid iPhone application, a new way to quickly and easily control your GoGrid Cloud infrastructure on the go. Current GoGrid customers can now enjoy robust and complete control of their GoGrid environment using this new iOS application, designed to work on the iPhone and network-connected iPod Touches. The application can be downloaded from iTunes now.
The GoGrid iPhone application leverages GoGrid’s OpenSource API for full control of the essential GoGrid functionality and mirrors the capabilities currently available within GoGrid’s award-winning web portal. Management abilities include:
- View/Add/Delete/Restart GoGrid Cloud Servers
- View/Add/Edit/Delete F5 Load Balancers
- View Status of Objects and IP Addresses
- View Server User and Passwords
- View and Filter GoGrid Job History
- View Current Billing Information
- Multiple Datacenter Support
- Multiple Account Support
- Access additional information about GoGrid
First, some things to know about the GoGrid iPhone application: (more…) «Now You Can Manage your GoGrid Cloud from your iPhone!»
Tags: API, App, Apple, Application, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Management, GoGrid, iPhone, iPod Touch, Release
Posted in API, Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Cloudcenter, Datacenter, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, How To, iPhone, News, Release | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
One of the most powerful aspects of Cloud Computing is the ability to scale your infrastructure. But did you know that there are two components to scalability, horizontal and vertical. GoGrid has been offering easy horizontal scaling since we launched.
So what is scaling and how are you able to do this with GoGrid. Let’s break it down with a quick, high-level definition and then show you how you can do it on GoGrid
What is Scaling?
Horizontal scaling simply means the ability to expand your infrastructure out, for example, adding additional servers to your infrastructure. You can currently do this using the GoGrid web portal or API or even using one of the solutions offered by our partners in the GoGrid Exchange. Similarly, if you use our MyGSI feature to create a Golden Master of your server, you can quickly scale out vertically with cloned instances of that MyGSI. Conversely, you can also scale your infrastructure back by removing servers from the mix.
Vertical scaling means that you can add additional resources to your individual infrastructure components, for example, adding addition RAM or cores to a server.
How To Scale Your RAM on GoGrid
So, how do you scale your infrastructure on GoGrid? As I mentioned, you’ve always been able to horizontally scale your infrastructure and now we are pleased to announce the availability that you can vertically scale using our new RAM Scaling feature. GoGrid customers can now scale the RAM up or down on GoGrid Cloud Servers within their existing and new infrastructure in the GoGrid cloud.
(more…) «RAM Scaling and More Now Available on GoGrid!»
Tags: API, Disk Size, Downgrade, feature, Hard drive, New, News, RAM, Release, scalability, Scale, Scaling, Update, Upgrade
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