Web Host News – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business products and services, today announced the planned opening of a new data center in Santa Clara, California and the expansion of its data center in Houston. These facilities will allow enterprise customers in key markets to utilize Internap’s growing footprint of colocation services as they continue to move more data, applications and operations online.

The new Santa Clara facility adds 27,000 square feet of net sellable footprint and offers a power density that scales with increasing customer IT demands. The higher power density is well suited to meet the demands of the high-technology industries across Northern California, including Silicon Valley. The Houston facility will add 5,000 square feet of net sellable space to Internap’s existing facility, with the ability to expand further to meet future customer needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Host News – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, today announced it has successfully completed the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit for its company-controlled data centers. This activity is part of a continued commitment by Internap to provide advanced services to IT professionals interested in facilities that have demonstrated capabilities against the highest standards for service delivery. The audit included the more than 491,500 gross square-foot of data center space at 50 Inner Belt Road in Somerville, Massachusetts, and 111 8th Avenue in New York City, as well as six additional facilities in Atlanta, Houston, and Seattle.

The SAS 70 Type II audit confirms that Internap’s data center security and operational procedures have been reviewed and tested by an independent certified public accounting firm to validate that controls and processes have been suitably designed and are operating effectively to protect and safeguard customers’ equipment and data. Internap chose to undertake the more stringent Type II audit and it confirms that only authorized Internap employees and customers are granted access to the data center, redundant HVAC and UPS systems reduce the likelihood that mechanical and electrical failures will result in an outage, and all critical facility systems – smoke detection, cooling and power – are inspected and serviced regularly and monitored continuously to ensure effective operation.
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Web Hosting Wire – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, today announced enhancements to its Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering, including new ease-of-use functions and automation of key CDN capabilities. Exclusively delivered with Internap’s Performance IP™ service – which ensures optimal video delivery across the Internet – these enhancements deliver an intelligent video streaming solution that simplifies and automates content creation, management and reporting with the highest quality end user experience.

According to comScore’s Video Metrix service, during the month of September 2009, more than 84.8% of the total U.S. Internet audience watched online video, and the average online viewer watched 9.8 hours of video. As more organizations look to adopt video CDNs as part of their marketing strategy and business operations, they also face cost and complexity challenges associated with delivering high-quality content across an increasingly diverse device landscape of PCs, netbooks and mobile phones. Additionally, as video usage broadens beyond the user-generated content and over-the-top media and entertainment markets and becomes a core enterprise tool for communicating with business-critical audiences – such as employees, customers, investors and partners – ensuring the highest quality experience to those consumers by overcoming issues of network latency, congestion and downtime are also becoming key CDN requirements. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News – ATLANTA - Global Net Access, LLC (GNAX), today announced a new partnership with Internap. After successful testing, GNAX will utilize Internap for a 10GB IP connection to increase performance and redundancy within its Gold Network. The company is a leading provider of co-location in the Southeast U.S. and one of the leading providers of outsourced managed and unmanaged servers in the world.

GNAX will use an existing dark fiber route purchased from AGL Networks of Atlanta and will work with the engineering team to engineer a solution that traverses a different path than GNAX’s current fiber to its providers . “This path completely avoids Telx at 56 Marietta Street, which is the current termination point of the GNAX metro Ethernet networks,” Hinkle said. “The new fiber terminates at Internap’s 250 Williams Street facility and provides both increased redundancy and capacity. This is unique to most of the data centers in the region- especially in the city of Atlanta. Many have a ring or multiple paths – but like we were constructed in the past – they all come back to one single-point-of-failure facility.”

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Web Hosting News – ATLANTA — Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today several green initiatives undertaken as part of the expansion of the company’s data center located in the premier carrier hotel in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. The N+1 rated facility, which now offers an additional 8500 square feet of data center space, was outfitted with the industry’s newest energy-efficient systems. The overall size of the raised floor space in this facility now measures 33,500 square feet.

“The implementation of green initiatives in this high-demand NYC locale has provided our Manhattan customers with a data center that is 15 – 20 percent more energy efficient than one using conventional technologies,” said Internap General Manager and VP of Data Center Operations Mike Higgins. “By improving operating efficiencies within the data center infrastructure, Internap has increased the amount of power available for customer IT loads. In today’s environment, providing customers a higher density power solution is a key differentiator in the marketplace.”

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Web Hosting News – ATLANTA - Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today that it is providing managed server hosting services for Mashery, a cloud-based API (Application Programming Interface) infrastructure management company.

Mashery helps customers to embrace a new distribution channel – one that lets them create thousands of new content partnerships and create an ecosystem out of which new user experiences and revenue opportunities can grow. Thousands of software-driven companies are releasing APIs in order to become Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, either as a primary or secondary line of business. Although every API is different, the infrastructure to manage them includes the same set of challenges for most providers. Adopting Mashery’s developer management and support services allows customers to focus on their core businesses rather than trying to manage the APIs themselves.

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Web Host News – ATLANTA - Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of fast, reliable, end-to-end Internet business solutions, today announced that the company will implement a restructuring program designed to reduce operating costs.

As part of this effort, Internap will reduce its workforce by approximately 10 percent (approximately 45 employees). These reductions are primarily in back-office staff functions and include the elimination of certain senior management positions. When completed, this program will generate approximately $5 million in annualized operating expense savings. Internap expects to incur costs associated with this restructuring of approximately $1.2 million, the majority of which will be recorded in the first quarter of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – ATLANTA — Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today its IP network and data center colocation services are being used by UK-based Sharedband to expand its operations and offer its innovative network solution in the US, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sharedband Technologies. As the name suggests, Sharedband bonds broadband lines including DSL, cable, T1, wireless and fiber connections from major Internet providers to offer both residential and business customers faster speeds with added resilience.

Until now, high-speed broadband Internet service was not available for millions of homes and businesses due to geographic limitations of carrier infrastructure. Sharedband solves this ‘last mile’ problem by aggregating local bandwidth connections. Applications such as VoIP, video conferencing and software as a service (SaaS) place greater demands on the local loops used to connect to the Internet. Enhanced broadband services such as ADSL2+ and SDSL also suffer from the ‘distance-to-central office’ problem, and are available from a limited number of central offices. Sharedband solves this problem. Sharedband also resolves the issue of upstream-delivery speed. Most Internet services are engineered to provide significantly lower bandwidth for sending files than for downloading files — consequently resulting in the slower upstream time. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News - DALLAS - Colo4Dallas, a leading colocation service provider, announces that it has been ranked by Inc. as #590 on the magazine’s annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. The company realized a 551% three-year growth rate from 2004 to 2007. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.

In addition to its overall standing, Colo4Dallas ranked #27 in the “Top Businesses in Dallas-Fort-Worth-Arlington” category and #65 in the “Top Business Services” category. Paul VanMeter, Colo4Dallas president and chief technology officer, noted, “We are honored to be ranked among the most dynamic companies in the country. We owe our tremendous growth to the loyalty of our customers and the tireless efforts of our great team of technicians who support them.” With customers’ mission-critical data and computing applications housed at Colo4Dallas’ data centers, the company provides around the clock on-site staffing.
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