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What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a set of pooled computing resources delivered over the Internet. The cloud uses software to manage the cloud's computing resources so that it can dynamically scale to meet traffic and computing demands. 

With a set of pooled computing resources managing the infrastructure - applications/solutions scaling up to thousands of servers to make resources available is easy and as needed. Our clients never need to worry about hardware infrastructure investments to meet increasing traffic demands or huge traffic spikes. Our products meets the needs of cloud hosting customers through efficient cloud servers/file management and scalable computing power where server instances are quickly and easily turned on and off as needed.

“Cloud” computing is in its infancy, there are no universally accepted definitions for what it is.  Different analyst sources, including Gartner and William Blair & Company, have started to define what they are seeing within the market.  They are breaking approaches to “Cloud” into three categories:

Category 1:    IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
Category 2:    PaaS – Platform as a Service
Category 3:    SaaS – Software as a Service

These terms, all a little less vague then “Cloud”, have been consistently defined in various circles as follows:

• IaaS:  Infrastructure as a Service is the delivery of computer infrastructure as a service – typically billed in a utility model, like electricity.
• PaaS:  The Platform as a Service model makes all of the facilities required to support the complete life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available from the Internet—with no software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users. It's also known as cloudware.
• SaaS: Software as a Service  is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet.

PlexiCloud in the long run would deliver following benefits

• Capital expenditures minimized.
• Physical device and location independence.  (Access from anywhere, on wide range of devices)
• Multi-tenant - Enabling sharing of resources (and costs) among a larger pool of users.
• Reliability by way of multiple redundant sites, which makes it suitable for business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Scalability which meets changing user demands quickly, without having to engineer for peak loads.
• Security which typically improves due to centralization of data, increased security-focused resources, such as high-end firewall infrastructure.
• Issues to address:   Security in shared cloud infrastructure vs dedicated cloud infrastructure
• Sustainability through improved resource utilization, more efficient systems and carbon neutrality.  (Green)

1. Why should I go with your cloud solution? What makes your system so special?
Simple, no-hassle setup and management of your Open Source solution. Period. When you need a hand, we have a team of experts ready to help. 

PlexiCloud offers the best of Open Source Software with secure, enterprise-class Cloud Hosting solutions. Set up your site, select a template, insert your content, and build your online business. We take care of the rest: monitoring, patching, configuration, security, scaling. There's nothing else out there like it. 

No vendor lock-in with your software, stay in control of your business, and scale it!

Our cloud infrastructure is driven by following 5 principle

• P->Performance
• L->Load balanced
• E->Expandible
• X->Xtensible
• I->Infrastructure

2. Do you alter our Open Source solution or any other CMS like Joomla?
Currently, we do not alter the core of any open source software. However, to meet enterprise requirements, some of Joomla core may be modified to fit our infrastructure and the needs of our customers.

3. Do you upgrade my Joomla site?
We upgrade Joomla with standard support. Or, you can put your site on autopilot, and use our upgrade service. The good news is you can easily reverse the upgrade if something on your site is not compatible. This gives you peace of mind knowing you can reverse a mistake.

4. I messed up my Joomla site, can you fix it?
We can restore your site to the Last Known Good Configuration.

5. Can I export my data if I don’t want to use PlexiCloud anymore?
We make backups very easy. We built server-level tools that export your CMS-based site in raw format.

6. Can I move my site to your servers?
We can help you move your site to our servers, and we will provide you hands-on support while we move your site. We do not charge a fee for moving your site. Contact sales today to arrange the move.

7.Do you provide phone support?
You must have a contract that includes phone support, or pay for a call-back phone support ticket.

8.Can I cancel my account at any time?

Yes. If you're not bound by a specific contract with us, our service works on a month-to-month, or year-to-year basis depending on the package you have purchased. You can cancel your account at any time, thus, you won't be charged for the next month. Please notice that we don't handle refunds for time not used before the end of the last billing cycle.

9. What are the other types of applications/CMS, CRM that you host out of the box?

Joomla 1.5.X, SugarCRM (Community Edition, Professional Editions, Express Editions), Drupal, Custom applications based on open source platform such as Java based and/or Ruby & Rails.

10. Why PlexiSuite?

Request for a demo to reason how PlexiSuite can really help the cause in your organization. We just do it the best and frankly we suspect if any one else have done. Our customers can truely realize the best of CMS and CRM in one - PlexiSuite. Every functionality a company needs such as startups, SMB or enterprises can quickly implmenent a solution to suit their needs. All within the realm of open source and standards based. Icing on the cake - no vendor lockin.

11. Pricing, Costs, Implementation, Deployment plans etc.,

Navigate this site and you should find the answer. If you dont - Contact Us.

Four Big Concerns

Security
Where is the data located?
Who has access to the data?
What are the security policies applied at the firewall layer?
What patch level is the entire software stack at?
…….the list goes on
Key point:  Giving up security control, at the level required to adopt cloud, is a barrier to entry that will take time to breach for some decision makers.

Platform Performance

• Network view:  Increase network latency resulting from transition inside the enterprise to the cloud could negatively impact the end use experience.
• Multi- tenant view: Shared resource consumption could negatively impact application performance

Availability, with SLA’s

• Much attention focused on the general lack of SLA’s within the cloud space
• Gartner group:  85% of SaaS applications do not offer SLA’s.
• Fact:  12 noteworthy outages have been documented in the “Cloud Computing Incident Database” through Ocotber, 2008 alone!
• Enterprise users accustomed to SLA’s from service providers have reservations on further adopting the outsourced cloud model without solid SLA agreements
• A perceived lack of reliability with cloud environments seems to exist within the market, mostly due to a series of high-profile outages that have impacted large cloud players, such as Amazon, Apple and Google.

Lock-in:  Limited Software Portability Amongst Providers

• While not on the IDC list, Lock-in is a concern for businesses when discussing cloud adoption – specifically in the PaaS category.
• Currently, moving an application from one cloud platform to another is akin to porting the application from one programming language to another – very hard/high risk
• This task is time-consuming and expensive.  This seems to be less of an issue with IaaS plays.