Recent content by Rickie

Thanks for the responses everyone, I know if it may be easier to just sign up with an already established cloud service provider; however, we rather the information stay in house. Tipstir yes would like to have this as a business for ourselves as well. As I mentioned, I know how the cloud works...

Thanks for your response, thiggins. The reason for this is, we want to offer this as a service to our clients and also want to have control over the data that is being stored in the cloud. We work for financial institutions, and the information that will be stored is very sensitive.

I am trying to find some information needed to build and host my own cloud servers. This information includes the equipment (hardware) needed, the amount of servers, best specs, routers, firewalls, switches, etc. I am looking to have it virtualized, maybe VMware, so I may not need that much host...