Web Host News – BROOMFIELD, CO - Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that it has signed an agreement with RestorePoint, Inc., a provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions, to enhance that company’s data transmission rate with Level 3’s dedicated Internet access (DIA) service.

Based in Alpharetta, Ga., RestorePoint offers data back-up and recovery solutions for enterprises requiring operational resiliency. The company will use Level 3’s Internet access service to improve the transmission rate of large amounts of data, consequently lowering operational costs and increasing customer productivity. RestorePoint selected Level 3 due to its service support and network performance. Continue reading “Level 3 Improves Efficiency of Disaster Recovery Solutions for RestorePoint” »

Web Host News – San Carlos, CA - Aster Data, a market leader in big data management and advanced analytics, today announced a strategic partnership whereby Dell will resell Aster Data’s nCluster, a massively parallel (MPP) analytic DBMS, as a part of the Dell Cloud Solution for Data Analytics. The solution combines Dell cloud-optimized PowerEdge C servers with Aster Data’s nCluster to enable large-scale data management and high performance analytics so organizations can cost-effectively store and analyze terabytes to petabytes of relational and non-relational data.

The agreement includes joint design and certification, allowing Aster Data and Dell to provide integrated solutions to customers for faster time-to-market, superior analytics performance and greater economies of scale when scaling to large diverse data sets. The Aster Data on Dell combination has been repeatedly proven to be 90% more cost-effective than traditional data warehouse/database management system (DBMS) solutions. Further, the combination provides significantly higher analytics performance than traditional DBMSs and data warehouse appliances and uniquely provides on-demand, incremental linear scaling for large data volumes. Continue reading “Aster Data and Dell Partner to Provide Integrated Solutions” »

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Web Host News – San Francisco - OpenDNS, the world’s largest and fastest-growing provider of Internet navigation and security services that make networks safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced that it added a datacenter in Singapore to better serve OpenDNS users across Asia and beyond. The Singapore server marks the 12th datacenter for OpenDNS globally and the first of a number planned for Asia.

OpenDNS added the Singapore datacenter as part of its continuous effort to improve the navigation service around the globe. The company’s sophisticated anycast routing technology means wherever users are in the world, their DNS requests are automatically routed to the OpenDNS servers physically closest to them. The Singapore servers will speed page load times for users closer to Singapore than other, pre-existing OpenDNS locations. Continue reading “OpenDNS Supports Customers in Asia with Launch of Singapore Datacenter” »

Web Host News – FOSTER CITY, CA — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced the opening of its eighth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Silicon Valley, located in San Jose. The new data center extends Platform Equinix to a total of 91data centers across 35 strategic markets worldwide, and supports the growth of Equinix’s customers who are connecting to their digital supply chain partners in Silicon Valley.

“With the opening of this facility, Equinix helps Silicon Valley further solidify its position as the center of innovation in technology,” said Chuck Reed, Mayor of San Jose. “For the past 10 years, Equinix has been a valued member of our community and has been a driving force in the technological advancements that have come from the region.” Continue reading “Equinix Opens Eighth Data Center in Silicon Valley” »

If you take the time to notice the actual content being delivered to your browser when you load a page on any large site, you’ll find that many of the images – and even the text content itself in some cases – are not actually being retrieved from the site you thought you were hitting. For example, I just loaded the CNN.com home page at the time of this writing and I can see a photo of the Washington, D.C. subway. If I view the source on that photo, I can see it is actually being loaded from a content delivery network, or CDN:

<img src=”http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/CRIME/10/27/virginia.plot.arrest/t1main.dc.metro1.gi.jpg” width=”250″ height=”250″ alt=”Man charged in alleged D.C. subway bomb plot” border=”0″ hspace=”0″ vspace=”0″>

In most cases, the purpose of a CDN is really three-fold:

1. It offloads server processing for “static” resources such as images, Flash files, and JavaScript files to other servers, which reduces the loading on your own web/application servers.
2. CDNs are designed around a global infrastructure to ensure that the content being loaded comes from the most geographically optimal location. If you are located in the state of Texas and are hitting the CNN.com site in Atlanta (or wherever it sits), you won’t necessarily be sent a set of files from Atlanta – they may come from a CDN datacenter in Houston, Texas. This ensures fewer network hops which results in a faster page load and, the site owner’s hope, a good user experience which will keep you coming back for more.
3. The ability to manage specific content within a page such as advertising using a single management tool across a network of sites. This, in a way, blurs the lines of what a CDN is but for some the only offloaded content on a page may be the advertising, which in effect makes the ad delivery mechanism that site’s CDN.

Deployment of content onto a CDN can also help with search engine optimization (SEO) as the search engine algorithms now factor in speed as part of their scoring. Leading hosting providers today offer arrangements and direct integration into CDN providers through their toolsets so this is yet another item to be considered when selecting a hosting provider.

Approved Host provider who can assist with the tool-sets is DedicatedNOW.com.  For more information on DedicatedNOW and the FindMyHost consumer guarantee included with your purchase: www.findmyhost.com/dedicatednow.

Web Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovation leader in on-demand web hosting and data center services, received a 2010 Dallas 100™ Entrepreneur Award from the Caruth Institute for Enterpreneurship on November 17, and was further honored as the fifth fastest growing company in the Dallas area. The institute is part of the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.

The Dallas 100 Entrepreneur Awards were created to celebrate entrepreneurship and promote the enterprises currently driving economic growth and innovation. Each year the awards program identifies and analyzes the 100 fastest growing privately held companies in the Dallas Metroplex. The companies are evaluated along a number of criteria, and final awardees must meet requirements including:

- Be independent, privately held corporations, proprietorships, or partnerships (not subsidiaries or divisions of a parent company) as of May 1, 2010. Must have at least three years history and not be a non-profit organization
- Be headquartered in the Dallas Metroplex area
- Have sales of more than $500,000, but less than $75 million in fiscal year 2007
- Have a three-year sales history which reflects growth during the three-year sales period
- Have a credit report and character satisfactory to the Dallas 100

“We are honored to be recognized for leadership among businesses from all sectors of the economy, not just technology,” said George Karidis, SoftLayer Chief Strategy Officer. “Our growth has continued throughout the economic downturn, despite many thinking that the Internet and hosting sectors have cooled. While our competitors maintained the status quo in what has been considered a close to mature market, SoftLayer innovated new approaches and reinvented what hosting should be. Those innovations have given practical advantages to our customers—enterprises of all sizes.”

SoftLayer recently completed a merger with Houston-based The Planet®, creating the largest hosting provider in the world. The newly combined company has more than 76,000 servers under management, with more than 26,000 customers in over 110 countries. Continue reading “SoftLayer Named Fifth Fastest Growing Company in Dallas” »

Web Hosting News – PLANO, TX – Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today announced the acquisition of GSI Hosting (GSI) as part of Layered Tech’s accelerating growth within the enterprise managed services sector.  GSI’s compliance-oriented products complement Layered Tech’s on-demand and cloud computing infrastructure, creating a powerful technology platform and portfolio of services that’s uncommon in the market today.  The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

GSI, which was the first hosting provider in the world to achieve PCI DSS certification, has established itself as the leading provider of compliance-focused hosting services, particularly for the financial services industry.  Founded in 1996 by president and CEO Robin Greenhagen, GSI’s world-class customer base includes many leading consumer and financial services brands.  In connection with the acquisition, Greenhagen joins Layered Tech as chief technology officer. Continue reading “Layered Technologies Acquires GSI Hosting” »

Web Hosting News – Reading, UK – DediPower is helping to drive the NoSQL debate among the UK’s technical community by holding a dedicated event on 7 December 2010, at Lord’s Cricket Club, Media Centre.

The “Demystifying NoSQL” event will highlight the potential applications and benefits for this controversial new data storage and retrieval techniques and outline the challenge to current relational database applications. Continue reading “Demystify NoSQL with DediPower” »

Web Hosting News – Boston, MA - GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certificate Authorities (CA) and specialist in Digital Certificate security today announced the global adoption of recommendations made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in advisories 800-57 and 800-131 and the mandatory requirements of Microsoft’s Root Certificate Program (Technical Requirement Point 11).  By the end of December 2010 all RSA based certificates issued from GlobalSign’s extensive portfolio of digital certificate lifecycle management systems will be a minimum of 2048 bits.  GlobalSign has been proactively supporting 2048 bit certificates as best practice since early 1998 and welcomes the recommended advice and mandatory root program requirements.

Certificate Authorities are prohibited from issuing 1024 bit Certificates from January 1st 2011 under Microsoft root program requirements. This also follows the NIST advice to transition away from 1024 bit roots. Over the next few years 1024 bit roots and certificates could feasibly be with advances in factoring 1024 bit RSA primes allowing a successful MITM (Man in the Middle) attack to be orchestrated. Guidelines state that Certificate Authorities must stop issuing 1024 bit RSA intermediates and end-entity certificates by the end of 2010, as well as prevent issuance from 1024 bit roots and intermediates. Continue reading “GlobalSign 2048 Bit Root Fully Compliant With NIST Recommendations for 2011” »

Web Hosting News – Andover, MA – NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today announced new management and control features for the NaviCloud platform. The new features – Role Based Access Control, Airlock, and Dynamic Resource Instrumentation – provide increased flexibility, security, and control for cloud-based enterprise applications.

* Role Based Access Control (RBAC): RBAC enables organizations to assign and match user access privileges to individual roles and responsibilities – improving security and compliance, while simplifying IT administration and reducing costs. RBAC provides the flexibility to customize administrative access for any management or governance structure. Continue reading “NaviSite Enhances NaviCloud for Enterprise Cloud Computing” »