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Cloud News

Thu, 11 Aug 2011
Data centres guzzling less power
The amount of power consumed by data centres in the US and around the world continues to grow, but not as fast as...
Tue, 26 Jul 2011
4 reasons why cloud computing is efficient
There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages....
Mon, 16 May 2011
Google Chromebooks OS raise data theft concerns
Experts warn of serious vulnerabilities.

Security experts are eyeing Google's...
Mon, 21 Mar 2011
Gartner report: Staffing demands to drop as fabric, cloud computing takes off.
Internal politics may hinder organisations’ uptake of more efficient IT like cloud computing, fabric computing...
Wed, 09 Mar 2011
Opinion: Time for Google to bring us a trustworthy cloud

Why is Google so bad at information security?

from:...

Our Infrastructure

Our infrastructure is backed by one of the world’s largest infrastructure and communications providers – and our infrastructure is based entirely within Australia.

No other Australian-based provider has the level of redundancy and replication available to their systems, nor do they have the feature-set.

That is why we are trusted by some of the nation’s leading investment firms, such as the Australian Foundation Investment Company, to deliver their entire infrastructure from our data centres.

Our data centre Footprint

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Our hosted services are available from 7 data centres across Australia.

Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud

You’ve no doubt seen advertising about the Cloud (Microsoft and Telstra are pushing hard) – and you’re using the Cloud when you access your Hotmail or gmail accounts. But there are different types of clouds – broadly speaking, there are private clouds and public clouds.

The distinction is primarily based on whether the IT resources are shared among many organizations (Public Cloud) or dedicated to a single organization (Private Cloud).

Public Cloud

Very simply, Public Cloud (or External Cloud) is where resources are shared over the Internet and used/provisioned as per need, dynamically. This typically comprises applications and services on the web, available on pay-per-use models.

Private Cloud

Private Cloud (or Internal/Corporate Cloud), on the other hand refers to offerings that emulate Cloud computing on dedicated networks.

The idea is to harness the benefits of Cloud computing with higher data security and reliability. In this model Rock IT can offer a proprietary computing network, which offers hosted services customised to individual organisations.