Cloud Computing Is Changing The Way That We Use Servers

There are not too many people out there who are familiar with virtual servers. To many people that even know what a server is, they view it as a large tower of green lights that holds all your Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Many companies will use their own personal servers so that everyone who is connected to those servers can access company data and files. It's one of the sure fire ways to help keep company and personal data safe. Think of the servers that a company uses as massive storage decks. They're able to back up all of their files on these servers, store data, and access whatever file or project they might need to access all from the servers. The only thing is that we are becoming more digital. We are starting to digitize many of our services. Sending mail and letters turned into Email and texting. Now, our servers are becoming more digital because of cloud computing.

What Is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is a very hard term to define. It all comes down to what you feel the "Cloud" is. There are many who find it to be anything you can get on a virtual server over the internet. There are others who think that it's another fancy term for whatever consumable content you can find on the internet. Neither of these answers are wrong, necessarily. Cloud computing is also referred to in a more commercial view point. It is thought that it can be defined as "encompassing any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the internet, extends IT's existing capabilities." Essentially, anything that has a separate virtual server for it's services or applications that you have to access via the service's provider can be considered cloud computing.

What's The Difference Between Them?
It may not seem like there is too much of a difference between the two different servers (virtual and real), and in a way there isn't. They are both there to hold specific data programmed by the IT specialists that work for that specific service or company. One is physical and the other is accessed over the internet. Take utility computing for example. This concept might not be "new", but its slowly becoming more cloud integrated. Many larger companies, like Amazon, are seeing to it that that happens. While it may not be used for anything pertaining to how the service or application operates, it can help add more capacity for the site to run smoothly and even allow for more storage space. The fact is that instead of IT needing to go down to the server room to get to the server and fix or alter something, cloud computing makes it easier because they can just access the networks virtual server to alter what they need to alter.

It's On The Rise
Cloud computing is slowly beginning to take off as time goes by. Software is being offered as a service through virtual servers. It's gotten to the point now that even development environments are being offered as services through servers. There are restrictions though. The application that's being developed is based off of the infrastructure of the provider. Your app's service is then delivered to the users via the provider's internet as well. All of these services are being offered through virtual servers as it's easier for IT to make changes and help. Some even view it as more cost effective. If companies can offer services to develop, deliver, and access services and applications via a cloud server, that only means that it's becoming more popular than people think.

Now just because we are getting more virtual with our servers doesn't mean that it's still the safest route to go. Having our services and apps become more easily accessible is a plus, but that also means that it can be more easily hacked if certain precautions aren't taken.

One thing is for sure though, there is a lot more to cloud computing and cloud technology that backing up your music on iCloud.

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The New VMware Log Insight Update Allows For More Visibility On Servers

When you're dealing with businesses and corporations, it's best to have servers that have really good server administrators. You have to think that all of that data needs to be taken care some how right? Data at times can seem like a very fickle thing, but at the end of the day, all of the data that gets collected from a particular business for the purpose of analysis has to be stored on something secure, i.e. the company's servers. As with most large corporations however, the servers are like their virtual safes, and the people accessing those safes are constantly monitored for the safety of the company. Every log on the company's server is collected for safety and analytical purposes. Since, again, most companies tend to use virtual servers, it can be hard for the server administrators to just pop in and poke around. Thankfully there's been a bit of a remedy to this situation.

VMware released something that helped with virtual visualization in June of 2013. Many a server administrator was thankful for the help in seeing all of the logs for a company. Now, the software will be updated to a much faster version of itself.

The VMware's Log Insight 2.0 will be upwards of 30 percent faster than the 1.0 version. Of course, that doesn't really mean anything if you aren't sure what I'm talking about. This new version of the Log Insight will be able to take in and analyze log data at a much, much faster rate than before. When you have a large company with a plethora of logs to sort through, the added 30 percent speed increase is going to help immensely. The speed boost isn't all that comes with this update either. The new update also comes with some new technologies that are being used to help making grouping specific issues together less difficult and at a faster pace.

When we receive data, its not always the easiest to take in. It can be confusing, and should the date be corrupt, then you have a whole other monster on your hands to deal with. The Log Insight 2.0 is going to help by putting all of that data in an easy to understand format with the use of updated tables and charts.

Now not only will the Log Insight 2.0 come with all of that, but Windows servers won't be left out anymore either. There is a Windows agent included with the new update that will make it less difficult to gather up log and file info from Windows servers. The agent itself is but a mere .msi file, so that should be comforting to hear for all of you server workers out there. Adding Windows to the new update will definitely help the company in the long run as well. Before, customers would have to go through a third party program in order to view their Windows logs. Now, the update cuts out the middleman entirely and allows for full log visibility support that both VMware and Microsoft can be happy about and push.

Data is just as valuable to company's as it is to company's customers. All of that data can be hard to sift through, and administrators can only do so much with virtual servers. This update is definitely a welcome help, and hopefully there will be more to come.

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