Hosting News – CHANHASSEN, Minn. - Datalink (Nasdaq: DTLK), a leading provider of data center infrastructure and services, today announced that it has completed the purchase of the Incentra, LLC reseller business. Based in Broomfield, Colo., Incentra offers data center infrastructure solutions and services to enterprise companies. With a purchase price of $8.8 million in cash, the acquired Incentra technology, consulting and first call support services business represents an estimated $90 million – $100 million in annualized revenue and approximately 2,000 enterprise customers throughout the U.S.

“With the addition of Incentra, Datalink is positioned to enter 2010 with an anticipated annual revenue run rate of more than $275 million driven by over 300 employees. Our expanded footprint and portfolio enables us to provide customers with the most complete data center solutions while at the same time fueling accelerated revenue growth,” said Paul Lidsky, Datalink’s President and CEO. “We are excited to have Incentra’s seasoned professionals and customers join Datalink. This acquisition will enable us to double our presence in Chicago and the Northeast, as well as create a significant presence with the well established Incentra west region with coverage in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado. Our customers jointly depend on our ability to provide proven IT solutions with superior customer service. This transaction further strengthens our ability to provide our customers with solutions that span the data center stack. Our new combined team now has the experience to deliver solutions that solve the complexities of a virtualized data center which will deliver increased productivity and efficiency for our customers’ IT operations,” he continued.
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Hosting News – Palo Alto, Calif. — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced the results of a comprehensive survey on the operational efficiency, disaster preparedness, and use of virtualization among small-and-medium sized business (SMB) IT centers. Among many conclusions of the survey is that one-third (33%) of SMBs have had an IT systems outage within the past two years and more than one in five (21%) has lost critical business data as a result of an accident or disaster. Of those, more than three in five (62%) have lost sales or customers as a result.

At the same time, fewer than half (47%) have a business continuity plan that has been updated in the past two years, or have a detailed data backup and retention policy – even though retaining current customers was ranked as a highly important business goal by 77%.
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Hosting News – Englewood, COLORADO – Latisys, a provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions, today announced it has been selected by leading Web Hosting provider Lunarpages to provide data center colocation and managed IT services.

For more than a decade, Lunarpages has focused on providing affordable and reliable hosting for over 150,000 satisfied customers – ranging from individuals and small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. Customer growth, as well as broader use of high-density applications, drove Lunarpages’ need for a provider that could deliver outsourced, scalable IT infrastructure management services.

“We consider our data center partner to be a critical part of the Lunarpages team, which is why we invest in only the best,” said George Natzic, Chief Operating Officer at Lunarpages. “By turning to Latisys, our customers will benefit from a SAS70 compliant infrastructure and continuous uptime. At the same time, we have assurance and peace of mind that our IT environment is secure.” Continue reading “Lunarpages Selects Latisys Colocation Facility” »

Hosting News – MINNEAPOLIS - VISI, a leading data center services and managed hosting provider, today announced its entry into the public cloud computing services business with the launch of the public beta of its ReliaCloud™ service.

“After many months of preparation, we’re proud to take the covers off a cloud computing service we specifically designed to be more reliable than the commodity providers in the market,” said Jason Baker, CTO of VISI. “We didn’t want customers to have to re-architect their solutions just to work reliably in the cloud. We knew they wanted enterprise-grade security and peace of mind.”
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Hosting News – Denver, CO – Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and a strategic VMware vCloud partner, today announced multiple enhancements to the Cloud Enterprise environment driven by significant market demand. Access to high performance SAN (EMC) storage, increased computer resources ( 8GB of RAM now 32 and 4vCPU now 8 ) and support for seven additional operating systems (including RedHat and Windows Datacenter 2008 R2) highlight the enhancements.

Cloud Enterprise customers can now increase their virtual machine resources to 32 GB of RAM and 8 virtual CPUs via the Hosting.com portal. Companies deploying demanding applications can use Hosting.comís secure cloud solutions for their test, development and production needs.
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Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO – The Rackspace® Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), today announced the latest addition to Rackspace’s popular Cloud Tools ecosystem.  FathomDB, a leader in Database-as-a-Service (DaaS), enables businesses and developers to easily manage their MySQL databases in the cloud.  Now built on The Rackspace Cloud’s open, standards-based API, FathomDB provides a seamless database management experience that leverages Cloud Servers and frees users from time-consuming system administration tasks.

FathomDB helped launch the DaaS industry by offering an interactive user interface and analytics engine to support relational databases in the Cloud – initially just using Amazon EC2 and S3, but now by also leveraging The Rackspace Cloud portfolio.  Handling many arduous but necessary steps required to run databases, FathomDB offers a range of time-saving features, including automated backups and routine maintenance tasks, powerful analytic tools, real-time monitoring and performance graphs for optimizing code, and easy point-and-click configuration.
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Hosting News – United Kingdom - RTW Hosting, who have been providing businesses with a range of hosted services since 1994, first came to Node4 looking for a SIP trunking provider to dovetail into their hosted voice platform. Node4’s SIPlink service fitted the bill perfectly. The ability to provide geographic numbers and competitive call rates fitted the customer’s requirements perfectly.

Around six months after their initial SIPlink order, RTW Hosting were looking for a colocation facility which could accommodate the business’s next planned phase of growth. It was at this time that Node4 were just completing the final developments on their latest data centre, DC3, in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
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Hosting News – DALLAS - CoreXchange, the fastest growing provider of IT and network infrastructure services, announced the expansion of data center capacity with the launch of its new Dallas data center. Located at 8600 Harry Hines Boulevard, the CoreXchange Connection significantly increases the company’s data center footprint to meet a growing demand for managed colocation infrastructure from existing and new customers.

Customers at the new CoreXchange Connection facility can colocate their servers and applications with the same level of Tier-1 Internet backbone and carrier access, performance, and customer support as those customers in the CoreXchange Dallas Infomart facility. Using CoreXchange’s proprietary bandwidth Pricing Configurator tool, customers can create a network access profile that best meets their requirements from the CoreXchange multi-homed mesh of BGP-routed Tier-1 backbone carriers and cross-connects to all major carriers, including direct connect to the Dallas Equinix facility.
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Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO - Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing, today announced its cloud based applications division, Rackspace Email & Apps, now hosts more than 1.6 million paid mailboxes across its hosted email offerings, Rackspace Email and Microsoft Exchange. New and existing customers cite best-in-class migration, Fanatical Support® and a robust email platform at an affordable price as the common reasons for choosing Rackspace.

“Businesses shouldn’t have to manage in-house email servers anymore,” said Pat Matthews, general manager, Rackspace Email & Apps. “But email is more mission critical than ever and IT managers need to partner with a company they can trust. Rackspace bridges the gap for companies that don’t want to invest in expensive on-premise systems but still need business-class email and a company that will service them when they need it. The traction we have achieved in a tough economy shows that we have been successful in bridging that gap.”
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Hosting News – Montreal, Canada – Gogax, a Canadian dedicated server provider is proud to reveal its brand new customer portal offering “total control” to its dedicated server customers using a web based customer management portal.

This new portal offers improvements in the account management functions, support features and extensive server management including detailed bandwidth monitoring, reboots, os reloads and much more. Gogax is proud and excited to offer this long-awaited new customer portal as the old one was lacking in features and was not as scalable. The new portal has been operational for the past two weeks and the positive feedbacks keep pouring in. Customers greatly appreciate this new and powerful tool we are providing them with their servers.
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