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Green House Data Offers Top Cloud-hosting Speed in Denver

By Kerry Doyle
Contributing Writer

There is a wide spectrum of deliverables when it comes to cloud hosting. As cloud services mature, high performance infrastructure as a service can be crucial to making or breaking a company that has invested resources in the cloud. For users, demand for access to cloud-based content and apps via dedicated and mobile devices is happening all the time and most end users don’t quite realize it. For example, most computer and mobile users make a daily experience of accessing sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn, which are essentially cloud computing services. If a service is too slow, an end user can just switch off and log back on at another time.

For companies, the choices are not as simple. Many companies who use the cloud have found that accessing computing resource on an as-need basis is more cost efficient. Ultimately, they accept any downtimes as a facet of the service. However, for other companies, lag times in accessing resources are not an option. In that regard, Green House Data, a cloud hosting and colocation provider, has announced recent results on its network efficacy and speed in the Denver, Colorado area.

Obviously, some the most reputable and efficient cloud hosting services are well known. These include Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and GoGrid among many others. In comparison to these other companies, Green House Data has reported that the company’s general response time of 0.42 seconds to Denver, ranks as the fastest cloud for the area, a speed that is more than three times faster than the second closest provider. One can often wonder if the cloud is the cure-all for computing’s ills on a global scale. That’s because cloud computing can make a variety of computing services available to companies of all sizes on an “as-needed” basis.

Colocators such as Green House Data offer a range of physical resources, such as processors, data storage, applications, and platform access for developers. Providers accomplish this by having extensive server farms strategically located around the world. The result is that companies of all sizes can eliminate the need for physical hardware as well as the expenditures it entails. In turn, they receive access to massive computing and storage resources, then pay only for pro-rated computing services and usage.

In the case of Green House Data, test transactions are deployed and monitored for response time and availability from various points around the globe. Using measurement tools from Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, the speed analytical data is automatically reported on the CloudSleuth.net website and can be seen in time frames from six hours to thirty day performance histories.

Based on these reportings and measurements, Green House Data, with its managed servers, storage, dedicated infrastructure, disaster recovery and offsite backup services has announced its position as the fastest cloud hosting provider to the Denver area with its eye on other regions. According to Green House Data president, Shawn Mills, “Cloud performance and availability is crucial to our clients’ success. Having a benchmark is a great opportunity to keep our strong momentum going and see other markets that we can work to improve.”