Web Hosting – DALLAS, TX — SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovation leader in on-demand Cloud and Dedicated hosting, today announced the availability of MICRON RealSSD™ P300 solid state drives (SSDs) in 50GB, 100GB, and 200GB capacities. The new SSDs provide reliable and secure enterprise-class storage ideal for high-performance and data-intensive applications, such as databases requiring fast read/write performance.

“From the day we added the first SSDs to our portfolio of hardware solutions, customer response has been exceptional. And once they got a taste for the performance advantages the technology provides, they couldn’t wait to get higher capacity drives to take that performance even farther,” said Sam Fleitman, Chief Operations Officer for SoftLayer. “We chose the MICRON SSDs because they not only answer the call for higher capacity, they also bring with them incredible new performance features.”

The selected SSDs are the first in the market to leverage the SATA III 6Gbps interface and feature single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash to provide exceptional performance and low latency, with sequential read speeds of up to 360Mbps and up to 45,000 random write IOPs.

“We continuously research and test new hardware in order to find and deploy the most innovative, leading-edge technologies,” Mr. Fleitman said. “We’re proud to offer the new Micron SSDs, and the competitive edge it will give our customers for their business operations.” Continue reading “SoftLayer Expands Selection of Solid State Drives” »

Web Hosting – Jersey City, N.J. – Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, announced today a service agreement with Serverside Group, the global card customization specialist. Utilizing Datapipe’s turnkey PCI DSS compliance solution, Serverside can now deliver a trusted PCI environment ensuring the security of their clients’ card data.

PCI DSS, or the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, is an evolving set of security requirements designed to ensure that all organizations and merchants that process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure data environment. Continue reading “Serverside Group Selects Datapipe for PCI DSS Compliance Solution” »

Web Hosting – Austin, TX – Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center outsourcing and colocation services, announces participation at two upcoming energy events in April 2011, SPE Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition and Alliance Expo. Data Foundry will be showcasing its premium data center and disaster recovery solutions for the energy industry.

As a leading international event, SPE Digital Energy Conference addresses the key aspects of digital oilfield developments, focusing on the leading innovations moving the oil industry forward. The event is being held in The Woodlands, Texas on April 19-21, 2011. The Data Foundry team will be exhibiting in booth #207. Continue reading “Data Foundry To Exhibit at the SPE Digital Energy Conference and Alliance Expo in 2011” »

Web Hosting – New measurements for data centre efficiency defined by industry alliance The Green Grid, will feature in a plenary debate at the 7th annual DataCentres 2011

The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centres, has launched new metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage. Carbon usage efficiency – CUE – is intended to help managers determine the amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated in delivering work from the IT gear in a data centre facility. Continue reading “Data Center Carbon and Water Efficiency featured at European Conference” »

Web Hosting – San Jose, CA - “We’re excited to announce our second IPv4 + IPv6 cloud location in Europe,” said Sandy Bhargavi, Host Virtual’s Vice President of Operations. “We’ve had great success with our existing cloud in Amsterdam, and a new cloud in London not only provides better connectivity for UK customers but also an additional diverse location for all European customers.”

The Host Virtual, Inc cloud allows customers to easily deploy over 70 Linux, FreeBSD, and VOIP images in just a few minutes, with native dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support to any of its 8 worldwide locations. Continue reading “Host Virtual Adds Native IPv4 + IPv6 UK Cloud” »

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Web Hosting – DENVER – FORTRUST, Colorado’s leading high-availability data center services provider and colocation facility, announced that it has approved the design for an approximate 33,000 square foot expansion project which will bring its raised-floor colocation capacity to more than 80,000 square feet within its 224,000 sq. ft. facility. Over the past six months, FORTRUST has employed a design competition with the best design engineers in the rocky mountain region. The competition was to finalize a full deployment plan for approximately 60,000 sq feet of raised floor in the FORTRUST data center. The goals/ parameters were to get maximum power (W/Sq ft), reduction in PUE for the entire facility and enhance FORTRUST’s current Green initiatives.

FORTRUST has selected Haselden Construction, The RMH Group, Ivins Design, Sturgeon Electric and RK Mechanical as the winning team. The FORTRUST team is now in the process of finalizing construction documents, planning, and permitting for the upcoming expansion. Continue reading “FORTRUST Data Center selects design and plans modular expansion of Denver Data Center” »

Web Hosting – Atlanta, GA - Colocation facility provider, Colo@ is proud to announce that bandwidth provider Cogent has opened a POP in one of Colo@’s Atlanta facilities. The colocation facility at 34 Peachtree St. in Atlanta, Georgia, will house Cogent’s latest POP. This will open up yet more bandwidth in an already extremely connected facility.

Colo@ will be able to offer even more options for point to point connectivity between their other facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Clifton, Dallas, and Phoenix. Cogent’s new POP adds another diverse fiber path to the 34 Peachtree facility to aid with redundancy and connection security. Continue reading “Cogent POP Opens in Colo@ Facility” »

Web Hosting – SAN JOSE, CA - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new green data center in Allen, Texas, with an architecture deploying Cisco’s entire data center technology portfolio spanning computing, switching, and data storage access to support Cisco’s internal private cloud and deliver Information Technology (IT) as a service. The new data center demonstrates the value of a network-based approach through improved resilience, performance and use of resources, while delivering IT services such as video, mobility, security, and collaboration to Cisco employees, customers, partners, and other constituents.

In 2007 Cisco created a vision to deliver IT as a service and developed a long-range plan to deliver that vision through data center consolidation, virtualization, and cloud computing. Cisco’s newest data center combines the best in environment-friendly facility design, green approaches to power and cooling, and an architectural approach optimized for virtualization and cloud computing, with the aim of delivering “everything as a service.” Continue reading “Cisco’s New Green Data Center in Texas Showcases Private Cloud Deployment” »

Web Hosting – WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE:ABVT), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced it has provided fiber connectivity into DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc (DFT) wholesale data center NJ1 located in Piscataway, New Jersey. AboveNet is already connected to DFT’s data centers located in Northern Virginia and suburban Chicago and is in the process of building out to DFT’s newest data center development, SC1, located in Santa Clara, California.

Utilizing DFT’s underground and secure 3-lateral conduit bank system, AboveNet will deploy equipment at DFT’s NJ1 data center, making the facility an IP and Metro Ethernet POP. By utilizing AboveNet’s private, fiber optic network and extensive metro footprint for high bandwidth connectivity, customers within NJ1 will be able to take advantage of connectivity to two major carrier hotels located in the New York City Metro area, enabling them access to key business hubs throughout the world. Continue reading “AboveNet Completes Fiber Build-Out To DuPont Fabros Technology’s New Jersey Data Center” »