Managed IT services providers recommend virtualization not because it is an IT business trend that everyone simply must ride, but because it is, quite, a smart way of managing your IT resources. Every day, more and more organizations migrate to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. However, despite the cloud's benefits in scalability, agility and efficiency, they discover a new set of challenges that need to be overcome.

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Gartner estimates that more than 50 percent of…

VPSDeploy is a new web platform designed to provide users with the ability to "deploy" web based applications to a number of different "cloud" VPS servers.

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The system was originally designed to support "Ruby on Rails" application deployments, with an underlying application designed to provide users with a "one click" solution to getting their applications deployed.

Since the popularity of the system has grown, it's branched out into the provision of a number of other…

Some basic differences

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While people in the IT industry may enjoy debating about whether SaaS and cloud are different, most corporate decision-makers view them as sharing similar attributes and offering similar business benefits. According to Gartner, cloud is not just a buzzword; it does have a distinct meaning separate from SaaS.

Whereas C.C. has more potential for mass customization than SaaS, cloud does not particularly compete directly with SaaS. Amazon AWS and…