February 19, 2011 - Hosting Publicity

Future Hosting Introduces Colocation Services in Washington, D.C.

Hosting News

Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, has introduced colocation services in its Washington, D.C. datacenter, marking the first time the company has offered colocation in its nearly decade-long history.

Colocation services from Future Hosting are affordable and can be customized widely. Scale ranges from individual servers to partial or full cabinets, and customers can select their desired power circuit, voltage, port speed, and bandwidth allotment. Future Hosting also offers an optional server management service for colocated servers.

“Colocation has been a component of our strategic growth plan for several years, especially as many of our customers continue to expand and seek to further integrate Web services into their business operations. We aim to provide affordable and phenomenally customizable colocation services in a world-class datacenter facility,” said Future Hosting CEO Vik Patel.

Built in 2009, the 71,000 sq. ft. Washington, D.C. facility features 36” raised flooring, redundant power and cooling, and 24/7 onsite security. The facility offers access to several gigabits of tier-1 connectivity and access to multiple carriers.

Last month, Future Hosting expanded its entire line of hosting services to Washington, D.C., adding dedicated servers, hybrid servers, and other ancillary services, including high-bandwidth ports, integrated management control panels, Ksplice Uptrack rebootless upgrades, and other specialized network services. Previously, Future Hosting had offered only Virtual Private Servers in the Washington, D.C. facility.

Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
For more information about colocation from Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com/colo.

About Future Hosting, LLC
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.

Future Hosting Announces Hardware Upgrades in London Data Center

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Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, has announced sweeping hardware upgrades to all Virtual Private Servers hosted in its London datacenter, without adding any additional costs to customers.
The upgraded VPS nodes, which in many cases offer more than twice the speed as previous configurations, have been gradually deployed over the past several weeks, and implementation will by complete by March 1, 2011. All physical servers now boast a new generation of Intel Xeon processors with 15,000 RPM SAS Drives in Raid-10 configuration, offering instant mirroring of data for added protection. RAM was also increased in all servers.
“Competing and growing in today’s marketplace requires Future Hosting to not just stay on-par with our competitors, but instead to continue our leadership role in the industry by offering cutting-edge hardware and world-class quality at prices growing businesses can afford. We’re raising the bar once again, and our customers are the primary beneficiaries,” said Future Hosting CSO Stephen Kowalski.
In January, Future Hosting introduced Colocation services in its 71,000 sq. ft. Washington, D.C. datacenter facility. Scale ranges from individual servers to partial or full cabinets, and customers can select their desired power circuit, voltage, port speed, and bandwidth allotment. Future Hosting also offers an optional server management service for colocated servers.
Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.

OnRelay Introduces Mobile Cloud Exchange (MCX)

Cloud

OnRelay has introduced its Mobile Cloud Exchange (MCX) product designed for telecom operators. OnRelay’s Mobile Cloud Exchange is already deployed at 10 leading operators across 4 continents, including at Swisscom as recently announced.

“Our software has continuously evolved and gradually centred on enabling the enormous Cloud Telephony opportunity for operators”, says OnRelay’s CEO, Ivar Plahte. “We no longer feel existing PBX or Centrex terminology accurately represent a cloud based mobile office phone system, and it is time to introduce a new term – Mobile Cloud Exchange – for this distinct and disruptive communications system architecture”.

Mobile operators now face the immediate threat from “Over the Top” Mobile VoIP services from the likes of Skype and Google taking foothold in the business communications market. To date, operators’ fixed-mobile convergence products have been little more than creative billing options, which will not suffice to meet this threat. Given the speed of market evolution, operators do not have time to wait for service delivery platforms, such as IMS, before they start introducing competitive solutions.

With its Mobile Cloud Exchange software, OnRelay enables the mobile operator to immediately fight back with a bundled Communications as a Service offering, which, unlike consumer oriented Mobile VoIP services, is far more feature rich and delivers the appropriate 3G / GSM quality of service required by business customers. Mobile operators can leverage their unique position by bundling OnRelay’s software with smartphones, mobile apps, cloud services and 3G / GSM / femto-cell connectivity.

Viable alternatives are scarce. Coming out of the financial recession, operators are faced with a new, harsher economic reality. CIOs and end-customers are no longer willing to fund expensive and high-risk ‘white elephant’ service platform projects such as IMS, WAP, ATM and IN. Plahte observes, “One such ‘white elephant’ based service, Centrex, has suffered from lack of flexibility, customisation, application integration and self-management.” He continues, “Business customers are also concerned about locking in to the monolithic Centrex model with very limited ownership, control, and system administration rights”.

“Further, our data is showing that CIOs are growing weary of IP PBX rollout projects with poor mobile telephony integration and substantial hardware, integration and support costs,” Plahte commented. “According to a report from Forrester Consulting out this year, a majority of business customers are looking to operators to provide a more cost efficient, hosted telephony model – something they have not found in Centrex.”

With its Mobile Cloud Exchange, OnRelay offers operators a pre-validated, commercially available and cost efficient solution. Benefiting from the efficiency of cloud computing, OnRelay is offering proof of concept trials based on Amazon EC2 to market leading mobile operators globally.

OnRelay is a privately held Unified Communications software company specialising in Cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). Founded in 2000 and headquartered in London, the company lists Tier 1 operators and Fortune 500 companies as customers and partners.

OnRelay’s Mobile PBX software (MBX) eliminates the need for businesses to purchase and support proprietary telephony hardware. MBX is the first Cellular Fixed Mobile Convergence solution able to completely replace desk phones with mobile phones. OnRelay’s patented Telephony Internetworking Protocol (TINP) works over any mobile network, worldwide. By integrating MBX with the leading open source PBX, sipXecs, OnRelay offers businesses a complete fixed and mobile telephony system.

Operators can host MBX as Software as a Service (SaaS), bringing significant cost savings to their customers. Multinational companies can deploy MBX within their legacy infrastructure, capitalising existing investments and bringing mobile under corporate control.