Hosting News – MIAMI, FL – Seeing increasingly strong enterprise demand for secure cloud computing solutions across North America, Terremark, a Verizon Company, increased its cloud infrastructure capacity by deploying a node of its Enterprise Cloud at its data center in Denver. With the introduction of a cloud node, the Denver data center joins the company’s global footprint of cloud-enabled data centers that seamlessly combine secure and agile cloud computing resources with an extended solution portfolio all within a multi-carrier, highly resilient, and secure facility.

Terremark’s cloud-enabled data center in Denver features more than 70,000 square feet of premier floor space with redundant subsystems to support the leading IT infrastructure services delivered by Terremark. These data center services are backed by service level agreements for 100 percent availability of power and cooling. As with its cloud deployments in the Network Access Points (NAPs) in the United States, Terremark provides complete transparency to customers regarding the exact location of their application workloads and delivers leading security services to support the public cloud infrastructure. Additionally, the company provides customers a compelling hybrid model for enterprise IT by enabling a seamless integration of existing IT infrastructure with Terremark’s cloud computing services through its CloudSwitch software.

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Hosting News – Los Angeles, CA – Colocation provider and dedicated server hosting company, Colocation America, announced today that it is increasing its available Los Angeles data center space by fifty percent. With a rise in foreign and domestic companies seeking to have West Coast server redundancy, Colocation America is expanding in order to meet the demand. In addition, recently formed partnerships with some of the best VOIP software providers has resulted in an upswing in requests for calling card software at the Colocation America data centers in Los Angeles and in other U.S. cities.

“If we are not prepared to immediately meet client demands for server space, then we are not staying committed to our mission of providing the highest level of customer service,” stated Albert Ahdoot, Colocation America’s Business Development Director. “By making it incredibly easy for businesses to colocate or get a dedicated server with us, we can put our effort into staying on top of the latest data center technological developments.”

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Hosting News – London, UK – Recent benchmark tests revealed that Zunicore’s cloud hosting services outperform Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), offering customers better system performance and value for their money.

UnixBench, the industry-standard benchmark, tests various aspects of a system to calculate its performance. The UnixBench tests were intended to compare cloud providers on factors such as network latency, speed, system performance and cost. The benchmark was carried out as part of a potential customer’s plans to build out its server infrastructure to support expanding traffic to its website by implementing cloud hosting options.

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Hosting News – Denver, CO – ViaWest, one of the largest privately-held data center, cloud computing and managed services providers in North America, announces its participation in the Data Center and Information Technology Forum, to be hosted by the Oregon Economic Development Association on May 17th at 10am MDT.

This invitation-only event is tailored to educate Oregon business professionals, investor-owned utilities, coops and Public Utility Districts on the state’s data center and IT infrastructure options in order to further promote growth throughout the state. Participants will learn about the logistics of identifying a data center site including details on site selection, construction, and system testing.

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Hosting News – Chicago, IL – Global Capacity, the world’s leading telecommunications information and logistics company, has partnered with Telx to provide its One Marketplace Access Exchange’s functionality of automated pricing, ordering and provisioning of access network solutions within the Telx Connect Marketplace. Telx is a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud computing enablement services and data center solutions. Telx’s Connect Marketplace is a unique online service that facilitates commerce across its client ecosystem. Telx clients have the ability to access Global Capacity’s One Marketplace Access Portal online where they can receive real-time pricing, place orders and track provisioning for access network services.

“The Telx Connect Marketplace now offers clients a real-time pricing tool that provides them competitive multivendor options for layer 1 and layer 2 access connectivity. These clients are now able to quote and order access solutions on-line in real-time, saving time and simplifying the process of designing and deploying end-to-end network solutions,” adds Chris Eldredge, senior vice president of product for Telx. “Global Capacity’s platform was selected as it offers our clients a choice of multiple access providers that are all able to compete in a neutral, objective bidding environment.”

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Hosting News – New York – Sidera Networks, the premier provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, announces the availability of low latency connectivity from the New York Metro market to Toronto, Canada and London, England. By extending its Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network internationally, Sidera provides a strategic advantage to financial services firms, exchanges, and other high bandwidth customers who value low latency for applications such as electronic trading and real-time content distribution. The new low latency routes also provide diversity from Sidera’s existing routes to Toronto and London.

“As part of Sidera’s strategic plan to grow our network in ways that complement our existing customers and assets, this addition of low-latency routes to Toronto and London makes perfect sense,” said Clint Heiden, President, Sidera Networks. “We’re extending our already formidable financial services network cloud, so that customers who plug into Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra Low Latency Network have access to a world of exchanges and financial services players.” Heiden continues, “By rapidly responding to customer demand and delivering the lowest latency routes possible, Sidera is building on its leadership in a market where we already provide the network that clears roughly $7 trillion in trades daily.”

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Hosting News – San Jose, CA – Future Facilities North America, a leading provider of data center design and operations management software, today announced that its Product Manager, Akhil Docca, will speak at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 May 14-17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

On Monday, May 14th at 3:50 p.m., Mr. Docca will give a presentation titled “The Elephant in Room is Lost Capacity. How do Short Term Drivers Erode Long Term Goals?” The presentation will show attendees how data center owners and operators can create a virtual test facility that predicts and visualizes the outcome of power and cooling decisions before critical IT equipment is deployed.

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Hosting News – Amsterdam – SpamExperts, the leading provider of e-mail security products from Amsterdam, is pleased to announce its partnership with Steadfast Networks, an IT infrastructure provider in the USA. Out of its two state-of-the-art data centers in Chicago and New York, Steadfast offers highly flexible cloud environments, dedicated servers, Chicago colocation, New York colocation and managed colocation services. For Steadfast, handling incoming and outgoing spam issues through a second-rate anti spam appliance which they had been using for some time became increasingly time consuming and frustrating. Implementing a 100% reliable solution managed on their premises but with minimum intervention from its staff became a top priority for Steadfast.

Having a poor anti-spam solution in place did not spare Steadfast Networks infrastructure from spam, nor from significant time loss caused by the system’s unreliability, slowness and limited flexibility. The challenge was to find a premium product to be deployed on its own premises and create a filtering wall in front of its hosting environment. SpamExperts’ Local Cloud Incoming and Outgoing filtering solutions were a perfect match to complement Steadfast’s highest level IT infrastructure. SpamExperts installed, and currently manages and updates the system, while Steadfast has full control of it.

Steadfast Networks succeeded in finding its tailor made filtering solution, locally deployed, secured, redundant, cost effective and extremely efficient both for the company and for its customers.

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Hosting News – LONDON – Savvis, a CenturyLink company (NYSE: CTL) and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced the availability of a new data centre in London Docklands. The new facility offers the opportunity for long-term expansion and will complement Savvis’ existing European locations in the London area – Docklands, Slough and Reading – and Frankfurt, Germany.

Known as Savvis LO3, the new data centre is now available with 1.53 megawatts of IT load and 10,800 square feet of raised floor space. Savvis has made further investments in the data centre’s infrastructure, increasing resilience to ensure that it can support the company’s standard 100 percent service level agreement on power that is maintained across all of its global data centres.

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Hosting News – Interop Las Vegas 2012 – Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced results of benchmarking tests and measurements performed by The Tolly Group on Mellanox’s SwitchX® based Ethernet solutions. The benchmarking, utilizing industry-standard Ixia testing and validation solutions, demonstrated the industry-record performance and energy efficiency – over 2X better than the closest competitor – of Mellanox’s SwitchX Ethernet solutions.

Mellanox SwitchX 10/40GbE switch IC and systems achieved:
- 36-ports of 40GbE and/or 64-ports of 10GbE at full wire speed on a single chip
- “Zero Jitter” lowest L2/L3 latency
- 40GbE L2 latency between 206-223ns for any packet size
- 40GbE L3 latency between 321-337ns for any packet size
- 10GbE L2 latency between 258-269ns for any packet size
- 10GbE L3 latency between 420-426ns for any packet size
- 40GE L2 multicast latency between 198 and 214ns for any packet size
- Industry record < 0.6Watt per 10GbE throughput at 100 percent load and full wire speed

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