Q9 News – TORONTO – Q9 Networks (Q9) is pleased to announce that it has been selected by NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), to host a Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI®) access centre. The agreement will extend the SFTI backbone into Q9′s Toronto data centre, enabling Canadian customers to directly access services over the global capital markets network.

Created for the financial services community in 2002, SFTI is built to facilitate large quantities of electronic quotes, trades and market data traffic while ensuring reliable, ultra-low latency access to NYSE Euronext’s markets and other global trading venues and firms, including more than 1,300 market participants.

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Nexcess News – Ann Arbor, MI – Nexcess, a Michigan-based managed hosting company with specialized solutions in Magento and WordPress hosting, has announced a new enterprise line of managed server clusters that are uniquely optimized for WordPress-based web sites.

This brand new set of hosting solutions for WordPress cluster hosting has been built from the ground up, and rooted in the same technologies that power the company’s more basic WordPress-Optimized Blog Platform (WP-OBP) hosting environment. The Nexcess WordPress cluster is expected to offer site owners the same level of performance optimization that Nexcess’ entry-level WordPress hosting clients enjoy, with added benefits in scalability, reliability through increased redundancy, and potential for higher system resource availability to combat unpredictable patterns in blog traffic.

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Equinix News – REDWOOD CITY, CA — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that it is the first company in the Americas to receive the new Management and Operations ‘Stamp of Approval’ Award from the Uptime Institute. This designation recognizes data center companies that are especially proficient at addressing management risks and sustaining data center uptime. Equinix was a key member of the Uptime Institute’s M&O Coalition that developed the assessment criteria for its new Management and Operations (M&O) Program and Site Assessment Service, also announced today.

The Uptime Institute Management and Operations (M&O) Program provides an industry-driven set of criteria for operational and site management independent of Uptime’s Tier Certification, and creates an independent party for validation of management and operations best practices. The M&O Assessment validates the critical facilities management and operations practices of an existing data center and provides third-party assurance that the site management satisfies industry-recognized criteria for 24×7 uptime. Those sites meeting the criteria are awarded an Uptime Institute M&O Site Award.

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Host Virtual News – San Jose, CA – Host Virtual is pleased to announce that it is expanding its Cloud Service in London. “London has become a pivotal location for us since we launched there,” said Sandy Bhargavi, Sr. Vice President of Operations. “We are pleased to continue our investment in the UK market.”

Situated in the heart of London Docklands, the expansion into Telecity Sovereign House provides a premier, Tier 3 carrier class hotel as the basis for the Host Virtual Service.

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Softlayer News – DALLAS — The lines between physical and virtual IT resources are being erased with the introduction of SoftLayer Flex Images. Flex Images allow users to capture, replicate, and store an image of a cloud or dedicated server, and then deploy the image on either type of computing environment. Capabilities traditionally in the domain of virtual infrastructure, including the ability to quickly clone and reload servers, are extended to dedicated servers, along with cross-platform compatibility and simple migration between physical and virtual environments.

“Flex Images provide our customers with unprecedented flexibility and scalability,” said Simon West, Chief Marketing Officer for SoftLayer. “The ability to provision and automate server images seamlessly between cloud and dedicated computing environments empowers users to easily build out their IT environments while being able to quickly meet changing requirements. Our customers can focus on the purpose of their application and then on the right technology solution—with the freedom to move between or integrate technologies as needed.”

Flex Images is a key differentiator for SoftLayer—like the company’s network, portal and automated platform—available to all customers. These new capabilities help showcase SoftLayer’s ongoing innovation efforts, which help blur the distinctions between cloud and dedicated computing environments while offering customers the highest possible levels of control and scalability.

“Flex Images have been a massive time saver,” said Aaron McKee, VP of engineering for Struq, an early beta customer. “We love being able to effortlessly scale and manage our infrastructure. This really sets SoftLayer apart from the competition because traditional cloud systems just don’t have this type of flexibility and performance. The feature has cut down new server deployment by several hours per server, which has made recent expansion bursts at Struq much easier. This is definitely a better way to deploy and manage IT resources in the cloud.”

Key features and benefits of Flex Images include:

• Universal images that can be used interchangeably on dedicated or cloud systems
• Unified image library for archiving, managing, sharing, and publishing images
• Greater flexibility and higher scalability
• Rapid and easy migration
• Available via SoftLayer’s management portal and API

Flex Images is available immediately to SoftLayer customers as a public beta. General availability is expected in the second quarter. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com/FlexImageBeta. Continue reading “SoftLayer Blurs the Lines Between Physical and Virtual Servers with Flex Images” »

CoreLink News – MT. PROSPECT, IL – National data center service provider, CoreLink Data Centers, LLC, today announced the availability of a comprehensive collection of real-time data backup services that provide offsite protection across multiple locations, replacing labor-intensive functions with accurate and efficient technologies that save time and virtually eliminate physical storage requirements.

In addition to leveraging advanced capabilities to affordly protect valuable business information without the need for expensive and bulky tape backups, CoreLink’s secure data backup services leverage sophisticated encryption technology to deliver full security and data integrity. The services also integrate real-time replication and fast data restore capabilities.

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NTT Communications News – SINGAPORE – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced today that the construction of the Singapore Serangoon Data Center has been successfully completed. The data center is designed to serve the needs of financial services industry and enterprises that require high power, low latency networks and a stable and secured infrastructure to build on their private cloud. NTT Com marked the occasion with a cornerstone laying ceremony where articles were placed in a time capsule.

The construction has been carried out by NTT Worldwide Telecommunications Corporation (NTT WT) and the services will be offered through NTT Singapore Pte. Ltd. (NTT Singapore), both of which are wholly-owned subsidiaries of NTT Com.

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Datapipe News – Jersey City, N.J. – Despite a challenging global economy, Datapipe headed into 2011 with high expectations based on a very successful 2010 in which the company doubled the net growth they experienced in 2009. Those expectations were rewarded as net growth in 2011 exceeded that of 2009 and 2010 combined.

“Datapipe has built a team that includes some of the best talent in the industry. Their commitment to delivering value for our clients every day drives our success,” said Robb Allen, Datapipe CEO. “2012 will be another exciting year as we launch new products and enter new markets.”

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myhosting news – Toronto, ON – In partnership with Parallels and OpenSRS, myhosting.com has launched support for the industry leading Mobile Website Builder platform, goMobi. Combined with myhosting.com Website Hosting services and a .MOBI domain name registration, Business Owners and Webmasters can build a professional mobile website both quickly and easily.

The goMobi Mobile Website Builder platform includes a number of features through a WYSIWYG interface that allows customers to create a mobile version of their website easily, by adding options like Products, Contact Forms, Find Us, Reviews, Image Gallery, as well as a link to their Full Website and many more features. The goMobi Setup assistant can also automatically generate a mobile website based on an existing website, to help users and webmasters get started quickly.

With mobile web browsing becoming a more common way for users to access the internet, be it on mobile phones, iPhones, Androids and other smartphones, as well as tablets like the Apple iPad, the time to create a mobile-specific website has never been better. The goMobi Mobile Website Builder and Setup Assistant allows you to create a site with smaller screens, smartphones and tablets in mind, enabling you to more easily engage mobile website visitors with a customized browsing experience.

“With search engines like Google indicating that Mobile is an upcoming trend webmasters should be aware of, the time to jump on the bandwagon is now,” proclaimed Tim Attwood, Product Manager at myhosting.com. “Mobile users interact with search results and websites differently than desktop users, and with the mobile segment growing every day, every SMB or Website Owner should be thinking about grabbing their slice of that pie.”

By 2013 it is expected that more internet users will go online using smartphones and mobile devices than on traditional computers and laptops. And already more than half of all local searches are performed from mobile devices, with mobile searchers taking action as a result of the search results. With myhosting.com and a newly created goMobi Mobile Website, the time to take advantage of the trend is now!

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Data Centre World News – London – A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. Data Centre World is the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners.

Now in its fifth year, the event is set to surpass last year’s record attendance of 2,541 visitors. The free to attend conference will be visited by leading technology providers and buyers from across the data centre sector. A survey undertaken at the show last year found that that 38% of visitors planned to spend over £1m annually on data centre products and services – representing almost £1billion of potential business for exhibitors and attendees.

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