1&1 Wants Small Businesses to Have Enterprise-Level Efficiency

Michael Garrity — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:09:00 GMT

1&1 has increased the flexibility of its already industry-leading Dynamic Cloud Server (DCS), as configurations for “essential features” (like CPU or RAM) can now be scaled hourly as needed.

According to the company, this lets small and medium-sized businesses manage their IT needs in the same efficient manner as major corporations with far more resources dedicated to maintaining their infrastructures. Ultimately, this will lower IT costs for smaller businesses.

By giving its users a virtual server environment will full root access, DCS is able to increase the adaptability of its solution for when users’ needs change over time. It also allows them to switch between Windows- or Linux-based operating systems. All of this makes it a strong option for larger companies with constantly fluctuating resource requirements or small businesses who have difficulty judging how much power they may need.

Upgrading or downgrading the scale of a businesses IT needs while using DCS is an intentionally simple process that can be completed in under five minutes, which makes it even more useful for small businesses with little to no dedicated IT department. 1&1 even offers iOS and Android mobile apps that let businesses manage their IT needs on-the-go.

DCS is available for a base price of $49 a month, which includes a processor core, 1 GB of RAM and 100 GB of hard disk space, with each additional core, GB of RAM and 100 MB of disk space costing an extra 2 cents an hour. Currently, 1&1 is also running a deal that allows anyone who orders a package in March to receive three months free per cloud server.

New Amazon NoSQL Service Improves Scalability

Michael Garrity — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:23:00 GMT

More big news from Amazon Web Services (AWS) today. The company has just launched a new managed NoSQL database service called Amazon DynamoDB to improve database scalability.

Apparently, the company was inspired to create DynamoDB because it felt that traditional databases just weren't adequately prepared to scale to the needs of modern applications.

AWS says that customers using DynamoDB will be able to launch a database table quickly and manage the scale of the system's capacity up or down with no downtime or performance degradation. DynamoDB will automatically partition and re-partition data anytime it's needed to meet the latency and throughput requirements put forth by different applications.

All data in the new database will be stored on SSDs and replicated across multiple AWS Availability Zones in an AWS region to help provide the highest availability and performance possible.

"Amazon has spent more than 15 years tackling the challenges of database scalability, performance and cost-effectiveness using distributed systems and NoSQL technology," says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. "Amazon DynamoDB is the result of everything we’ve learned from building large-scale, non-relational databases for Amazon.com and building highly scalable and reliable cloud computing services at AWS."

DynamoDB will be offered with pay-as-you-go pricing.

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1&1 Wants Small Businesses to Have Enterprise-Level Efficiency

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