Obviously, by this, we do not refer to the cold weather we’ve endured for the past weeks, but we refer to the term, the hype, that everyone is talking about: cloud hosting and cloud computing.

Do you not know what we are talking about? Do not worry, because you are not alone! A survey conducted by research company Portio revealed that 56% of the European IT decision-makers do not know what cloud computing means. And yet, this new technology has many benefits for your company.

The technique: virtualisation, what is it?

Cloud Hosting is based on the concept of virtualisation. This technology eliminates the direct dependence between the software and the hardware that runs this software. The idea of cloud computing is indeed to focus not on hardware, but on what your application or website needs: memory, computing power, storage capacity and bandwidth. The word “cloud” refers to the Internet and the parts and the actions that are not exclusively carried out via one single machine or server anymore. More »

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This month, a bunch of our system managers visited TechEd 2009 in Berlin in order to expand their knowledge, which they succeeded in doing. The commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall took place at that same moment. TechEd is a progressive conference where new Microsoft technologies are presented. Here, every IT specialist gets the ideal picture of the future thanks to hundreds of sessions about Microsoft technology. Many topics were raised during these sessions: Windows operating systems, security, virtualization, cloud computing, green IT, IT management and many more. The trade show attracted over 7,000 interested people.

Via the Technical Adoption Program (TAP), our system managers had the opportunity to experience a foretaste of Windows 2008 R2. Windows 2008 R2 is a totally new release and is the server version of Windows 7. In August, Combell made the full transition for its internal systems and the company is very happy about this change. This way, we have been able to significantly reduce the costs of the management of our server systems. This is mainly due to the fact that in this release, the focus lies on remote management. Since our servers in our data centres are located at external locations, these new features are a great asset for Combell. The complete case study can be found on the website of Microsoft.

Our case study was also put under the spotlights at TechEd 2009. Spot the error on the pictures .