Web Hosting News – Veghel, Netherlands – Data center supplier Minkels, a European supplier of data centre solutions for monitoring, cooling, power distribution and housing, has issued a whitepaper containing highly specific implementation and user advice for the use of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as a management tool for server rooms and data centres. PUE data reflects the energy efficiency and, at the same time, the level of professionalism of a server room or data centre. The whitepaper provides server room managers, IT managers, data centre managers, as well as general managers, with useful guidelines towards realising – in a step-by-step approach – the professional use of PUE in their organisation.

The whitepaper ‘Tips & Tricks for a professional use of PUE as a management tool’ was written by Niek van der Pas, PUE specialist at the R&D Department of data centre supplier Minkels. The document, which counts 20 pages and is available in English, can be downloaded via: www.minkels.com/whitepaper.

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Web Hosting News – HOUSTON – CyrusOne, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell (NYSE: CBB) and preeminent enterprise data center colocation solutions provider, announced it will be speaking at and attending the 2011 Datacenter Dynamics Conference in London, Nov. 30 through Dec 1.

Peter Patsalides, CyrusOne’s London managing director, will present from 12:50 to 13:30 on the first day of the conference, Nov. 30. Patsalides plans to focus his formal remarks on “Achieving Greater Control in Data Center Consolidation Strategies.” The CyrusOne booth is located at booth number 2.

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Web Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer^® Technologies, the innovation leader in cloud, dedicated, and managed hosting solutions, received top honors from the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship taking away a 2011 Dallas 100^TM Entrepreneur Award. SoftLayer was recognized as the fastest growing company in the Dallas area. The institute is part of the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. Last year, SoftLayer was named the fifth fastest growing company in Dallas, and has since moved into the first place spot for 2011.

The Dallas 100 Entrepreneur Awards celebrate and promote businesses currently driving economic growth and innovation. The award winners are chosen on various criteria including increased revenue growth, percentage of growth and absolute dollar growth over three years preceding the event.

“We’re honored to be named first on a list that incorporates not only technology companies, but enterprises from every area of business,” said Lance Crosby, CEO for SoftLayer. “This has been a banner year for SoftLayer, both in terms of customer adoption and revenue growth. We’ve expanded internationally, and we continue to innovate our industry by making technology more accessible and easier to manage while improving the bottom line.”

Each year the awards program identifies and analyzes the 100 fastest growing privately held companies in the Dallas Metroplex. Companies are evaluated along a number of criteria and must meet requirements including:

• Be an independent, privately held corporation, proprietorships or partnerships (not subsidiaries or divisions of a parent company) as of May 1, 2010.
• 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.

SoftLayer is the largest, privately held hosting provider in the world and recently expanded internationally, opening two new data centers in Asia-Pacific (via Singapore) and Europe (via Amsterdam). The company currently has 100,000 servers under management and more than 23,000 customers in more than 140 countries. Continue reading “SoftLayer Named Fastest Growing Company in Dallas” »

Web Hosting News – JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has chosen Datapipe as one of ten organizations nationwide to receive a Green Power Leadership Award for its green power purchase. The annual awards recognize the country’s leading green power users for their commitment and contribution to advance the development of the nation’s voluntary green power market. The EPA presented the award to Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, at an event held in conjunction with the 2011 Renewable Energy Markets Conference in San Francisco, Calif., on November 16, 2011.

Datapipe is currently purchasing nearly 56 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually to meet 100 percent of the organization’s electricity use. According to the U.S. EPA, this is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of nearly 7,000 passenger vehicles per year, or the CO2 emissions from the electricity use of nearly 6,000 average American homes annually.

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Web Hosting News – Fremont, CA – TELADATA, a leading IT consulting firm specializing in IT infrastructure design, planning and project management, today announced that Pascal Finette of Mozilla will deliver the keynote for its 2012 Technology Convergence Conference (TCC), which will take place on February 2, 2012 in Santa Clara, California.

The conference keynote, titled Innovate in the Open!, will discuss how a transparent, participatory and collaborative approach to developing Internet-related technologies can accelerate innovation, increase quality, reduce development costs and foster early adoption. The keynote will also facilitate discussion of the public-policy framework surrounding open-source development and how it might be improved.

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Web Hosting News – Fremont, CA – Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, announced that it has upgraded global peering bandwidth to five locations worldwide in response to increased global traffic. Hurricane Electric’s upgrades in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles and Minneapolis will provide Hurricane Electric’s customers with increased throughput, reduced latency and improved reliability.

Hurricane Electric has upgraded to 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (10 Gbps) at the following exchanges: LONAP (London), NLIX (Amsterdam), LAIIX (Los Angeles) and MICE (Minneapolis). In addition, Hurricane Electric has added another port at the HKIX (Hong Kong) Internet Exchange Point.

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Web Hosting News – ST. LOUIS, MO – Connectria Hosting, a global managed hosting company, today announced the availability of Connectria Cloud Storage, a secure, highly reliable, and inexpensive storage service that’s accessible over the Internet.

Connectria Cloud Storage is an on-demand service which provides the ability to scale up or down according to storage needs. Able to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web, Connectria Cloud Storage is designed for companies of all sizes; whether you’re a software developer looking for storage of bulk, unstructured data, an enterprise in need of external storage and backup, or a department searching for centralized, secure data store for file sharing.

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Web Hosting News – MAKATI CITY — NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced the details of a cloud event in the Philippines on November 22, 2011, featuring cloud computing leaders NetSuite, Google and Accenture. The event will begin at 3:00 p.m. PHT at the Makati Shangri-La in Makati City.

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, along with executives from Accenture and Google, will deliver keynotes sharing their industry knowledge and insights about how cloud computing can transform businesses. They will address how businesses can tap into the power of cloud computing and maximize their investment for business success.

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Web Hosting News – SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE – RAX), the service leader in cloud computing, today unveiled several enhancements to its RackConnect™ service, which offers unified integration of the Rackspace Cloud and dedicated hosting in a hybrid environment.

RackConnect is designed for customers who require the flexibility and quick scalability of the cloud, as well as the security and performance of dedicated hardware – the best of both worlds. Customers who have had to settle for one form of technology or the other can now take advantage of an integrated solution to unlock the power of Hybrid Hosting. With hybrid, customers can integrate Rackspace Cloud and Dedicated Hosting in one solution, as well as burst workloads from their own data center into Rackspace. Hybrid strikes the elusive balance of performance, cost and security, eliminating or reducing trade-offs that a single platform would require.

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Web Hosting News – Seattle, Washington — Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems as experts in HPC workload management and cloud management, and SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, jointly announced today at Supercomputing ’11 in booth # 927 that Adaptive Computing and SGI have signed an agreement for SGI to distribute the full line of Moab HPC Suite and Moab Cloud Suite. This business agreement was formalized in response to SGI’s technical computing customers who require intelligent HPC workload management and cloud management to improve and better manage data center work flows. The patented Moab intelligence engine will support the SGI ICE family designed for today’s data intensive problems. This platform from SGI raises the efficiency bar, easily scaling to meet virtually any processing requirements without compromising ease of use, manageability or price/performance.

“Companies today are dealing with ever-growing amounts of data to manage and process, and are under constant pressure to deliver results in record time,” said Christian Tanasescu, vice president of software engineering at SGI. “With the addition of Adaptive’s HPC and Cloud workload management software, SGI delivers self-optimized, automated and cost-effective environments.”

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