Solving Packet Loss

August 24, 2010

Quality of Service. Those three words form an integral part of the DNA that constitutes Cloud Leverage.  As voice over IP, online gaming, videoconferencing and streaming technologies become increasingly prevalent, many businesses are finding themselves struggling to smoothly deliver the services that their users demand.  While there are a number of variables that can confound [...]

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Cloud Acceleration – TCP Multiplexing

August 5, 2010

Over the past two posts, we have touched upon the high level views of how Cloud Acceleration works its magic.  This post begins a series designed for the IT managers out there who want to actually know how it is that we can consistently shave milliseconds and increase performance.
Once the content is pulled onto the [...]

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Cloud Acceleration – Direct Peering

July 29, 2010

Welcome to the second installment in our “case for Cloud Acceleration,” explaining the specific benefits of using Acceleration to drive your website and applications to a new level!  You may want to read back and check out The Importance of the Network.
As far as content delivery goes, the fundamental flaw hindering perfect delivery is distance.  [...]

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Efficient Content Delivery – The Importance of the Network

July 26, 2010

Website and application performance is a higher priority for businesses today than ever before.  We have been receiving many questions about our Cloud Acceleration service, and just how it differs from utilizing a traditional CDN.
We touched on some of the differences in a previous blog post, but it’s clear that we need to dive into [...]

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Cloud Storage in Education… Death of the Thumb Drive?

July 19, 2010

Education is a public and private sector that is starting to reap great benefits from the cloud.  Many institutions that use electronic resources to deliver parts of their curriculum struggle with website and application performance.  This is especially true for schools that have distance learning programs, and is occurring more and more frequently today.  These [...]

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Cloud Storage Industry Series: Advantages of a Private Cloud

July 14, 2010

Welcome to the first of a series of posts keeping you up to date on the rapid developments of the cloud technologies industry.
Both Hitachi Data Systems and Nirvanix announced recently that they would begin offering private storage clouds inside the customer’s datacenter.  Both of these companies are leaders in the space, and it is great [...]

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Making Cloud Computing BETTER…

July 1, 2010

I recently read an interesting article by InformationWeek detailing the Top 10 complaints about Cloud Computing by IT professionals.  Reading this article brought to mind a phrase that has come to define what we do here at Cloud Leverage:  “We are not Cloud Computing; we make Cloud Computing better!”
It is an important statement that many [...]

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Priority in the Cloud… Performance or Security?

June 29, 2010

Cloud Technologies, although certainly not yet a commonplace business asset, are showing up on more and more companies’ radars.  The scalable capacity and pay-as-you-go pricing is attractive to virtually any size organization.  Unfortunately the term “cloud” is almost always followed by a question about security.  Third party ownership of (even encrypted) corporate data is something [...]

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Why a Cloud Firewall?

June 21, 2010

IT managers are faced with many difficult decisions today.  The demands of performance, security, and economics are difficult to reconcile, and are only getting more challenging with the increasing number and complexity of internet attacks.
Another challenge that we are dealing with is the explosive growth of Web 2.0 applications, such as social media, blogs, wikis, [...]

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File Sharing… Be Smart About It

June 14, 2010

A colleague recently forwarded an article to me regarding the risks of using a Peer-to-Peer network to share business-related files both internally and externally.  The article provides the analogy that sharing documents in this way is very similar to the uneducated early days of scribbling a PIN number on the back of your debit card [...]

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