Web Host News – FORT WORTH, TX – In a phased, three-year approach to reduce the environmental impact of its 20,000-square-foot data center, Enterhost is replacing its cooling system with the most energy-efficient, advanced data center air conditioning system available by Data Aire, Inc.

As the backbone of information technology, data centers contain the servers and storage systems needed to provide infrastructure technology solutions to businesses and other organizations.  But the downside is this equipment consumes a great deal of power. The EPA estimates that national energy consumption by servers and data centers could reach more than 100 billion kWh this year, representing a $7.4 billion annual electricity cost.
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Web Host News – Fulshear, TX - Further improving an already outstanding range of Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting solutions, market leader JaguarPC today announced the addition of Solus Virtual Manager (SolusVM) virtualization software to the hosting company’s managed VPS hosting services. While Parallels Virtuozzo Containers will still be available, customers can benefit from the unrivalled level of control that SolusVM provides.

“At JaguarPC, we have always had a clear focus on becoming the best VPS host,” says Greg Landis, CEO at JaguarPC. “We have designed a range of affordable VPS hosting solutions that make deployment and management of virtualized servers as hassle-free as possible. Now, with the addition of SolusVM as an alternative application for operating system virtualization, we are proud to give our customers even more control over their own systems and the software they use for running them.”
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Web Host News – New York, NY – Telx®, a leading interconnection and data center provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that Bat Blue, a provider of end-to-end cloud, network and security technologies and services, has joined the Telx cloudXchange. Bat Blue joined Telx’s secure, carrier-neutral Cloud Connection Centers in New York City, New Jersey and Atlanta to bring their next-generation cloud solutions to the Telx community. By joining the Telx cloudXchange, Bat Blue can offer Telx’s customers at these Cloud Connection Centers direct access to its industry-leading cloud solutions, including its extreme-performance, low-latency BlueNET IP network, backed by Telx’s Private Interconnect service activation capabilities of less than 24 hours and an availability of 99.999 percent.

“Bat Blue is pleased to be part of the Telx cloudXchange, as it enables us to deliver our cloud services faster and more efficiently,” said Babak Pasdar, President and CEO of Bat Blue. “By integrating into the Telx Cloud Connection Centers, our customers gain access to our unique cloud services while reducing expense and burden.”
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Web Host News – TOKYO, JAPAN - NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced today that the company’s cloud-based virtual hosting service, Biz Hosting Basic, has received the Red Hat Cloud Leadership Award from Red Hat Inc. NTT Com is the first company in the Asia-Pacific region to receive the award.

Biz Hosting Basic received high marks as a unique cloud computing service that combines robust, decentralized data centers and high-quality network services. The judging panel lauded Biz Hosting Basic’s capability to address Japan’s electricity shortage with its cloud-based unified solutions, such as Biz Desktop Pro, a high-performance virtual desktop service for teleworking, and quick recovery for business continuity. They noted that immediately after the March 11 earthquake, NTT Com quickly offered the service on a free basis to support the relief efforts of various organizations.
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Web Host News – Los Angeles, CA – Ensim Corporation, the leading provider of solutions to manage, orchestrate, and automate private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, today announced the release of Ensim Unify Cloud Manager, which enables service providers to leverage all of the functionality of the leading carrier-grade Ensim Unify platform to empower resellers and organizations to efficiently and securely offer a wide variety of cloud services including desktop, server, and application.

Ensim Unify Cloud Manager is a complete, centralized platform that manages the creation, activation, configuration, and administration of cloud services. Unify Cloud Manager features multi-tenant enablement, automated provisioning, fine-grain privilege management, and delegated administration, along with robust resource and pool management for service providers, resellers, organizations and end-users in a single solution. The advanced virtualization management technology pioneered by Ensim enables system administrators to increase service levels and operational efficiencies by automating repetitive provisioning and management tasks and empowering users with policy-based self-service capabilities that are compliant and secure.
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Web Host News – WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE:ABVT), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced that it will connect to the Cervalis data centers located in Stamford, Connecticut and Totowa, New Jersey. Customers located in the facilities will have access to AboveNet’s private, optical network and extensive fiber footprint for connectivity in and between top metro markets in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

AboveNet will provide Cervalis customers with diverse, low-latency routes to other top business centers. For example, a company operating in the Cervalis center in Stamford or Totowa can establish an Ethernet connection to its office location, remote data center and to business partners within top metro locations.
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Web Host News – Zürich – CloudSigma AG, the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider based in Switzerland, today announced its membership of the Open Virtualisation Alliance (OVA). The OVA aims to further support for open source virtualisation around KVM and foster interoperability between various cloud market participants.

Patrick Baillie, CEO commented ‘We’ve always been committed from inception to both the open source software movement and interoperability and easy data portability within the cloud. We are proud to join the Open Virtualisation Alliance and contribute to open virtualisation platforms and computing.’ Continue reading “CloudSigma joins the Open Virtualisation Alliance (OVA)” »

Web Host News – TOKYO - IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a broad expansion of its cloud computing services for customers in Japan and in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of a new IBM Cloud Data Center in Japan and a dedicated data center for LotusLive, IBM’s cloud collaboration service.

The new facilities will extend IBM’s globally-integrated cloud delivery network of cloud computing centers that serve in over 50 countries around the world with centers based in Singapore, Germany, Canada, and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific – China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. Continue reading “IBM Expands Business in Japan with New Cloud Data Centers” »

Web Host News – MONROE, La. – CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) and Savvis, Inc. today completed their previously announced merger. The combination creates a premier managed hosting and colocation provider with global scale positioned for leadership in meeting customer demand for outsourced IT and cloud services.

“The combination of CenturyLink’s hosting and network assets with Savvis’ proven solutions in colocation, managed hosting and cloud services substantially enhances CenturyLink’s capabilities and immediately provides the company with a solid platform for future growth,” said Glen F. Post, III, chief executive officer and president of CenturyLink. “The transaction helps us meet the accelerating demand for cloud-based services through a robust hosting presence, including 48 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. CenturyLink is now positioned to address complex customer needs with our colocation, hosting and cloud products.” Continue reading “CenturyLink and Savvis Complete Merger” »

Web Host News – LOS ANGELES — Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 (WPC), senior leaders from Microsoft Corp. discussed how partners can benefit from the transition to cloud computing by helping customers improve agility, focus on business goals and reduce costs.

“Cloud computing is as big a transformation as we have ever seen and, together with our partners, Microsoft will help customers through the shift,” said Satya Nadella, president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. “By betting on Microsoft’s comprehensive approach to cloud computing, partners can embrace this transformation and build strong and vibrant practices that will advance how business gets done.” Continue reading “Microsoft Introduces Solutions to Help Partners Build New Business With Cloud Computing” »