To many, the cloud server is the "next big thing" in networking. The concept is simple, and now that there are hosting companies dedicated to cloud server hosting, the possibilities for the use of cloud servers for business and individuals alike, begins to really shine through.

Spectranet, India’s fastest growing integrated communication services provider and Netmagic Solutions, India’s largest pure-play managed IT Hosting Services Provider, today announced a strategic partnership to collaborate across multiple business avenues.

One should opt for VPS if there is a clear requirement for an efficient and a cost competitive hosting solution. Such a Virtual Private Server delivers the benefits of both shared hosting as well as dedicated hosting.
Following are key reasons why one should consider VPS hosting.

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The Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze contest is open to anyone and has a US$15,000 prize fund. Its goal is to find the best open-source method for compressing genetic DNA sequence data as produced and used in medical research facilities around the world in order to develop better medicines. The data volumes are unwieldy and current compression techniques are struggling to cope. Full details on how to develop and submit an entry are on the contest website, and with a substantial prize fund available the potential reward is very attractive.

Myriad Group, the global leader in mobile technology, which has shipped over 3.8 billion applications on over 2.2 billion phones, believes that very soon the world may see Android application running on an iPad.

According to CNET, Myriad Group will unveil Android apps running happily on an iPad for the first time at the CTIA 2011 conference in San Diego. Myriad Group will use Alien Dalvik 2.0 to make this happen. The software was, however, originally used for Nokia's MeeGo operating system.

Well! Paula Rooney believes so. To support her statement, Rooney describes that apple had made Darwin available in 2000 that that incorporated code from NextStep, BSD and other free software projects, she quote Wikipedia.

Rooney further explains that Apple’s 10-year-old Mac OS X is a closed source operating system with open source components as it based on Darwin.

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Hewlett-Packard Company, which is commonly referred as HP, at last week's OpenStack Conference in Boston, has been reported to have announced that it will select the Ubuntu Linux distribution as the operating system to power its Public Cloud.

The announcement was made by Canonical CEO Jane Silber, who made it a point that Ubuntu is a good choice for OpenStack clouds as it is both flexible and scalable as a guest OS, while also being a secure host system.

Unified Threat Management (UTM) is a comprehensive solution which embeds all the security applications in one device. It has emerged as a primary network gateway defense solution to protect the data intensive environment of organizations. An UTM may comprises security functions such as network firewall, intrusion prevention, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-spam, VPN, content filtering, load balancing and on-appliance reporting in a single appliance.

 Intel along with Samsung and the Linux Foundation is all set to rebrand its open source platform – MeeGo as Tizen.

The first release of Tizen and its SDK is expected in the first quarter of 2012.

Intel has been reported to have commented, "Tizen builds upon the strengths of both LiMo and MeeGo, and Intel will be working with our MeeGo partners to help them transition to Tizen.”

HTC seems to be working hard to solve all the issues affecting the image of its brand. In a recent release, HTC has now promised to fix the privacy hole in Android devices, which has harmed company’s reputation to some extent. The recent major security vulnerability in its Android Smartphones could let apps access a user's personal information including email account names, last known network and GPS locations, SMS data including phone numbers, phone log details and system logs.

Since the Advanced Colocation Services have come in the picture, most of the enterprises and key decision makers perceive it as a redeemer of their data center needs and costs. For those who came late- colocation is a facility that allows multiple customers or businesses to place the server rack at the site of a service provider while utilizing the storage services of the provider.

 It has been reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that the majority of SMEs never recover from catastrophic data loss.

In a recent research International Data Center reported that 58 percent of the companies are doing just a local back-up.

A Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan should address four key components of any business:

1. 1) People

2) Process

3) Resources

4) Technology

Both, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are proactive methodical processes to be deployed enterprise-wide to identify, manage and mitigate the risks or threats to an organization and get business on track after a disaster.

Buxtehude (Germany). The existing development of Databases for use in web-Applications requires large server-Databases like Mysql and MS sql.
PublicSQL allows users to run SQL services without using a SQL database server. To achieve this, we use a special internal table format – “Portable Table Format” – to allow for SQL Queries directly in JavaScript.

From the ICT for All-Symposium 2011 on “Success Factors of Migration to OpenOffice.org in Organizations” April 22, 2011, at Meeting Room, The Walailak University, Bangkok campus, 979/42-46 , SM Tower, Floor 19, Phahonyothin road, Phayathai district, Bangkok Metro, Kingdom of Thailand, organized by the Information and Communication Technology for All Club (ICT for All Club—www.ictforall.org).

 Linux Mint, the operating system has already earned accolades for its amazing features. The OS is easy to install and always focus on usability. The new release Linux Mint 10 “Julia” is off course, the updated version of Linux Mint 9, but has many new features that are simply amazing. It would definitely lend a help to those, who are in no mood to switch to Windows 7 or Mac OS; and to those, who are new to Linux and don’t want to use command line intensely.

 After Froyo’s 2.2, Android Team has launched a new Operating System called - Gingerbread. The most crucial feature of the new software is the facility to use VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) via a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) library. Using SIP, one can make and receive calls with the help of a new package android.net.sip. What all you need to do is to just create a SIP account to get the accessibility to the new service.

 SME Server was formerly known as E-smith and it is open source based on Linux (CentOS). It is an easy, powerful, and safe Linux server for networking and communicating purpose and is very effective for both small and medium industries. It is enabled with UI that makes all the management-related tasks very easy using templates. Preconfigured with the most advanced features, the Server is a great alternative to expensive proprietary software.