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One of the major concerns IT professionals often express regarding cloud computing is that their data is left in the hands the cloud service provider, often without any manageable offsite backup solution.

Tweet Hosting News – London, UK – Recent benchmark tests revealed that Zunicore’s cloud hosting services outperform Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), offering customers better system performance and value for their money. UnixBench, the industry-standard benchmark, tests various aspects of a system to calculate its performance. The UnixBench tests were intended to compare cloud providers on factors such as network latency, speed, system performance and cost.

May 11, 2012 — Cloud hosting company Cloud City Hosting announced on Friday it has launched a new package that bundles online server backup with cloud servers for increased data security and disaster recovery for small businesses.

( The Hosting News ) – A new solution called CloudPlatform was recently unveiled by technology innovator Citrix.

( The Hosting News ) – Standing Cloud ( http://www.standingcloud.com ), a leading provider of cloud application management solutions, today announced support for the newly launched HP Cloud Services ( http://hpcloud.com ), providing HP Cloud Services customers with a vastly simplified way to deploy, manage and distribute applications in the cloud. The new offering, Standing Cloud powered by HP Cloud Services, leverages HP Cloud Services’ infrastructure capabilities and elements of the Standing Cloud Marketplace to provide developers, enterprise users and ISVs with one-stop application hosting, installation and management via scalable virtual servers on demand.

May 10, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider and data center operator Terremark announced on Thursday it will further build on its presence in the Latin American market by expanding its Sao Paulo data center, the Network Access Point do Brazil.

Tweet Hosting News – LONDON, UK – Application hosting specialist, eApps, is one of the new breed of cloud providers offering scalable, fully-supported cloud services powered by OnApp software. eApps was founded in 1986 by three ex-‘Big 4’ consultants.

( The Hosting News ) - Application hosting specialist,  eApps , is one of the new breed of cloud providers offering scalable, fully-supported cloud services powered by  OnApp software. eApps was founded in 1986 by three ex-‘Big 4’ consultants. It has been active in hosting services since the mid-1990s, with particular strengths in Java application hosting and enterprise collaboration, email and security services.

Tweet Hosting News – San Francisco, CA – Cloudscaling has joined the more than 300 member companies of the Open Data Center Alliance. The Alliance works to speed the migration to cloud computing by enabling the solution and service systems to address IT requirements with the highest level of interoperability and standards. Cloudscaling joined the Alliance as a Contributor member and will participate with the Alliance’s Infrastructure Technical Workgroup to further the development of usage models developed by the Alliance.