Website Hosting News – Amsterdam – Equinix, a provider of global data center services, today announced that Cyso, a Dutch provider of cloud services, has moved its operations into Equinix’s fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in the Netherlands (AM2).  The IBX data center officially opened today at the company’s grand opening event.

Cyso, one of the first ISPs in the Netherlands, recently decided to move its data center operations into Equinix’s state of the art AM2 IBX data center to expand its offering to encompass cloud services.  Cyso selected Platform Equinix to offer its services on a global scale, allowing it to meet the needs of customers, no matter where they reside. Continue reading “Cloud Service Provider Cyso Consolidates Data Center Operations at New Equinix Data Center in Amsterdam” »

Website Hosting News – SUNNYVALE, CA — Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that SkyVision Global Networks LLC., a leading IP telecommunication service provider, has upgraded & expanded its backbone, edge, and peering infrastructure using Juniper Networks® M10i Multiservice Edge Routers and EX4200 Ethernet Switches. SkyVision operates a satellite and terrestrial fiber-optic network providing connectivity in more than 50 countries, which required a high-performance, carrier-class networking solution to meet continued demand and help support the rapid growth achieved over the last five years.

“Via our gateways in Europe, North America and the Middle East, we provide IP connectivity with access to the global Internet, as well as a worldwide extensive suite of customized end-to-end solutions and services such as Layer 2 VPLS and layer 3 VPN with complementary security services,” said Adi Katz, vice president, engineering, SkyVision. “We selected Juniper Networks because we required a proven, feature-rich and scalable platform to stand as the backbone of our network, together with carrier-class availability and automated network operations. The Juniper solution also gives us the flexibility and agility to respond to rapid growth and change while protecting our investment.” Continue reading “SkyVision Selects Juniper Networks to Support Global Connectivity Expansion” »

Website Hosting News – LAS VEGAS, Nev., & FREMONT, CA — SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the introduction and immediate availability of SGI® ICE Cube® Air, a significant addition to its line of ICE Cube modular data centers (MDCs). ICE Cube Air is SGI’s third generation product, representing four years of MDC design and deployment experience, and setting a new MDC industry standard with the following breakthrough benefits:

Capable of housing up to four compute racks, the new ICE Cube Air MDC expands in standard increments out to 80 racks/97,920 cores/143.36 PB. With highly efficient fans, along with an innovative three-stage evaporative cooling system, ICE Cube Air runs globally with air and evaporative cooling, achieving a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of less than 1.06. Supplemental direct expansion (DX), or chilled water cooling coils, provides an optional cooling system for customers deploying in extreme environments. Using one percent of the water needed by standard water-chilled containers and requiring a water flow of only two gallons per minute, ICE Cube Air can get its water from almost any clean source, including a garden hose. Continue reading “SGI Announces New ICE Cube Air Modular Data Center” »

Website Hosting News – New York, NY - Telx®, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has expanded the data center footprints of two key locations: Dallas, Texas and Clifton, New Jersey. The addition of a total of 12,500 square feet of conditioned/raised floor capacity for financial institutions, media and content companies,  service providers, cloud providers and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers allows Telx to meet high demand for colocation and interconnection services at these two strategically-located data centers.

Telx’s Global Marketplace of customers is in need of connection-rich, strategically located data center suites to support their high-availability networks and on-demand applications, while meeting their own customers’ service level agreements (SLAs). The expansions in both Dallas and Clifton open up new opportunities for Telx customers, with immediate access to additional fully built, SAS 70-compliant, raised-floor data center space with up to 300 Watts of power per square foot. Continue reading “Telx Adds Data Center Space In Dallas And New Jersey” »

Website Hosting News – SUNNYVALE, CA - Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) announced it has acquired Altor Networks, a leading provider of virtualization security technology that enables organizations to secure the virtualized world. This acquisition will allow Juniper to extend its market-leading security position by delivering an integrated, highly-scalable security architecture that protects physical and virtual systems. Under the terms of the agreement, Juniper acquired Altor for a cash purchase price of approximately $95 million, net of Altor shares already owned by Juniper.

The acquisition builds on Juniper’s existing technology partnership with Altor and will extend Juniper’s leadership in security for both the enterprise and service provider virtualization markets. As organizations rely more on virtual servers for critical applications, concern around server security in the cloud has increased. Altor has developed some of the industry’s most advanced capabilities to address this challenge, including a high-performance hypervisor-based firewall, on-board intrusion detection, complete network visibility and monitoring and comprehensive reporting for compliance. Altor’s solution enables security visibility, compliance and control over the entire virtual machine infrastructure, giving security teams’ visibility to understand the applications, services and traffic being sent between virtual machines. Continue reading “Juniper Networks Announces Acquisition of Altor Networks” »

Website Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange has been selected by five additional system integrators from all over the world that will offer collaboration online to their customers as software-as-a-service (SaaS), as well as traditional on-premises software.

Open-Xchange has been selected by five additional system integrators from all over the world that will offer collaboration online to their customers as software-as-a-service (SaaS), as well as traditional on-premises software. Continue reading “Open-Xchange Turns System Integrators Into SaaS Providers” »

Website Hosting News – LONDON - Telecity Group plc (‘TelecityGroup’ or the ‘Group’), Europe’s industry leading provider of premium network-independent data center, announces a new 9MW, 6,000 sq.m, data center in its core Amsterdam market.

The new, centrally located, facility will be linked into TelecityGroup’s existing four data center in Amsterdam. As such, it will become part of the city’s main internet hub, offering ultra high levels of connectivity from opening. Continue reading “Telecity Group Launches New Amsterdam Data Center” »

Website Hosting News – WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it is on the verge of going live with a commercial cloud service offering for its Enterprise Messaging Service (EMS), which includes e-mail, webconferencing, document collaboration and instant messaging. USDA will become the first Cabinet-level agency to move its e-mail and collaboration applications to the cloud, a rapidly growing form of computing involving flexible, scalable services delivered over the Internet.

“Migrating an enterprise of USDA’s size and complexity from multiple environments, across multiple agencies, requires not only a trusted enterprise-ready solution, but also a partner that is able to work with us and navigate everything from archiving to authentication to mobile phone support,” said Chris Smith, chief information officer at USDA. “USDA’s IT modernization will allow us to streamline our operations and help us use taxpayer dollars more efficiently. With a focused cloud road map, we saw a clear opportunity to help achieve our cost savings and consolidation goals and tap into the promise of the cloud.” Continue reading “USDA Moves to the Microsoft Cloud” »

Superb Servers Offers Enterprise Solutions at Great Value

Today we speak with Dale Bunten, Dir. Sales & Marketing at Superb.net.

Dale, thank you for taking time with us to speak about your dedicated server offerings.

It’s no secret Superb has always been innovating dedicated hosting. My personal favorite is Lease-to-own. FindMyHost currently co-locates servers and it can get very pricey finding colo space and buying hardware. Not to mention hiring technicians who will setup the hardware. That’s why I find this option extremely attractive.

Can you give our readers a bit more information on how lease-to-own works at Superb?
Sure, as you mention paying a static monthly rate for servers can get very expensive. Our lease to own program allows customers to pay an extra $25 per month, so at the end of one year they actually own the servers (we will even ship them to the customer if requested). In year two they essentially pay a $99 /month colocation, power and bandwidth fee since the cost of the hardware is taken out of the equation.

This works really well for higher end servers, for example if a customer purchased a $500/m server, that would cost (500×24) $12000 over two years, but with our program it would cost only (525 x 12) + (99 x12) = $7488, as savings of $4512. In addition you also have to add the value of the server itself since the customer now owns an asset that can be sold.

What types of Enterprise hosting solutions do you have for dedicated server customers? I noticed load balancing and backup as two that stand out. Anything else Superb offers that might entice Enterprise IT managers?

Yes, we offer enterprise class colocation services, where a client would essentially outsource their entire datacenter to us, saving them many 1000’s of dollars rather than running and staffing their own in-house datacenters.

We also offer high availability hosting, application hosting, and geographic load balancing, and optimized magento servers.

VOIP is hot in the market right now. Can customers host their own VOIP solutions on your dedicated servers? If so, what solutions does Superb offer for customers?
We do a high volume of VOIP servers, and we have partnered with several soft switch providers, and have gained expertise in setting up and managing soft switch solutions.

How much bandwidth comes with your dedicated offerings? While most customers never use the bandwidth allocated many customers want to be prepared in case their blog or site gets picked up by a popular blogger or by DIGG.
We just launched 10TB, for all servers! In fact we have a crazy 15 year anniversary promo going on right now where you can get 70% off select dedicated servers here www.superb.net.

With IPv6 on the very near horizon, is Superb prepared for IPv6 networking for its customers?
Of course we are very aware of the situation and are working to provide this in the near future.

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Website Hosting News – NEW YORK, NY – Zedge, a leading mobile content discovery platform with 30 million monthly unique visitors, invites Android app developers to promote their apps on Zedge. Android developers will now be able to participate in an app promotional network that does not prioritize based on pay per click or pay per download. Rather, it utilizes fair and open rankings available to all developers and not just those with deep pockets to pay for promotion. Space is limited, but initial entry during the beta period is free to all developers who are accepted.

“Independent app developers are creating the most astounding, brilliant and innovative apps for Android, only to get buried by less impressive output from commercial production shops with big marketing budgets,” said Zedge’s Co-Founder and President, Tom Arnoy. “The Zedge Discovery Network offers developers a better world….a true meritocracy where the best apps will flourish. In other words, apps that the Zedge users want but have not yet been able to discover will rise to the top of our platform.” Continue reading “Zedge Unleashes Android App Platform Calls it Zedge Discovery Network” »