Daily Archives: March 15, 2011

Equinix, Inc. today announced that its two International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in Tokyo (TY1 and TY2) are operating as normal.

“We express our sincere sympathy to the victims of the earthquake in northeastern Japan. We can confirm that there is no damage or operational impact to our two data centers in Tokyo,” said Steve Smith, President and CEO of Equinix.

“We have concerns about the power supply from Tokyo Electric Power Company. We have fueled the generators at our Tokyo data centers to their full capacity, which will provide emergency backup power in the event of any power disruption. We can keep our Tokyo data centers up and running as normal,” said Kei Furuta, managing director, Equinix Japan. “Our local operations team in Japan and our Asia Pacific Network Operations Center (APNOC) have been closely monitoring the situation and will continue to provide services to our customers. They are available 24×7 to our customers to provide the latest information and assistance.”

About Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. More than 3,275 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies connect to more than 625 network service providers and rely on Platform Equinix to grow their business, improve application performance and protect their vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 35 strategic markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in expanding its platform to power customer growth. http://www.equinix.com

Equinix, Inc. announced that it is constructing a fourth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in the Paris metropolitan area. The new data center (PA4), scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2012, will further extend Platform Equinix in Europe to meet strong demand for premium interconnection and colocation services in Paris and across the region.

The location of PA4, near the center of Paris, will be highly attractive to customers, particularly as future data center developments are expected to face long lead-times to secure power in and around the city. Equinix has experienced sustained growth for its data center services in Paris, with the first phase of its PA3 IBX center, which opened in April 2010, now effectively full, and the second phase, due to open in the second quarter of 2011, expected to be full by the time the new PA4 center opens. Equinix customers are already recognizing PA4’s strategic importance in their long-term data center plans, with 20 percent of the space available in the first phase already sold.

“Paris is a growing market for Equinix due to its strategic location in the world economy and the superior performance of our data center design and operations. We continue to invest in Paris, and across Europe, to keep pace with the strong demand we’ve seen in this market,” said Eric Schwartz, President, Europe, at Equinix. “The new Paris IBX is an important addition that will support our growing base of network, financial, content, enterprise, and cloud and IT services customers and will further extend our leadership position in the European market.”

As with the other IBXs in Paris, PA4 will benefit from a high level of carrier connectivity combined with the Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange and Equinix Internet Exchange™, making PA4 an ideal place to procure competitive bandwidth costs and optimize network performance. It will be built out in phases, eventually adding a total of more than 11,000 square meters of space and more than 4,500 cabinet equivalents, positioning Equinix to be the leading data center provider in the French market. The first phase of the project, which will provide more than 1,500 cabinet equivalents when complete, is expected to cost approximately $145 million (the majority of which will be used to purchase the site and support the development of all three phases), with much of the investment occurring in 2012. The facility will be built using the latest energy efficient technologies and meet ISO9001 certification.

About Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners and customers around the world through a global platform of high performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems and the broadest choice of networks. More than 3,275 enterprises, cloud, digital content and financial companies connect to more than 625 network service providers and rely on Platform Equinix to grow their business, improve application performance and protect their vital digital assets. Equinix operates in 35 strategic markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in expanding its platform to power customer growth. http://www.equinix.com

Amazon have announced a set of features that expand the power and value of the Virtual Private Cloud, describing this new collection of features as “virtual networking for Amazon EC2. You can now create a network topology in the AWS cloud that closely resembles the one in your physical data center including public, private, and DMZ subnets. Instead of dealing with cables, routers, and switches you can design and instantiate your network programmatically. You can use the AWS Management Console (including a slick new wizard), the command line tools, or the APIs. This means that you could store your entire network layout in abstract form, and then realize it on demand.”

New features include:
A new VPC Wizard to streamline the setup process for a new VPC.

Full control of network topology including subnets and routing.

Access controls at the subnet and instance level, including rules for outbound traffic.

Internet access via an Internet Gateway.

Elastic IP Addresses for EC2 instances within a VPC.

Support for Network Address Translation (NAT).

Option to create a VPC that does not have a VPN connection.

More info: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/new-approach-amazon-ec2-networking.html

Virtual Internet (VI) announced they have achieved VMware Enterprise Partner status. Virtual Internet has been a partner with the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure VMware for years by now.

VMware has quite literally knocked down all contenders in the enterprise space since it come online offering the most compact, scalable, secure, and portable virtual machines in the cloud marketplace. As opposed to a traditional hosting environment, where your website is hosted on a single server, often alongside multiple other websites, cloud hosting is basically a complicated arrangement of multiple servers in clusters.

ana Kryuchkova, Marketing Manager, at Virtual Internet: “At VI we do our best to deliver exactly the right hosting solution for any business.”
“So years of experience and newly gained Enterprise Partner level proves that VI demonstrates extensive expertise in working with VMware technologies and could guarantee extensive support in building virtualization solutions to meet any customer needs.”
Having been in the web-hosting sector for many years, Virtual Internet has gained the reputation of a reliable and supportive hosting provider with flexible, agile service delivery. VI Enterprise Cloud solutions built on VMware’s industry-leading virtualisation technology guarantees 100% hardware and network uptime and the flexibility of a virtual private server (VPS) at lower costs compared to dedicated hardware.
“We use virtualisation to match resources to any customer workloads in real time, with the flexibility to add or remove resources if any changes needed. With VI’s VMware-based Enterprise Cloud platform, our expert team look after all the technical details, so all it takes is a phone call to add a server, change your storage resources or add extra features like redundancy.” – said Przemyslaw Ceglowski, Operations Manager, Virtual Internet.
Virtual Internet strengthened its lead in the cloud-hosting arena by recently gaining Enterprise Partner status. This is an addition to offering free, trademarked 24/7 VI-tal support, which underpins every single custom SLA they sell to an enterprise customer.
The customer support team is also comprised of other VCP qualified engineers and VSP qualified staff to handle all requests relating to the cloud servers build on reward winning VMware platform.

www.vi.net

Infinitely Virtual, a rapidly expanding provider of virtual server and cloud computing technology, announce the new fully-customizable Reseller Web Hosting Plan.

Infinitely Virtual’s Reseller Web Hosting plan makes it easy to become a web hosting company. Websites are managed by customers with InfinitePanel, Infinitely Virtual’s innovative web hosting control panel, which allows for the management of multiple web hosting plans and Virtual Dedicated Servers from one hosting control panel.

Web Hosting Features include CGI, PHP 5, Server Side Include, and Curl. GD Support is offered, as well as support for MySQL Databases, Perl, Python, phpMyAdmin, FrontPage, and Fast CGI. Applications like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla can be installed instantly.

Reseller Web Hosting is executed on Infinitely Virtual’s revolutionary Enterprise Virtualization Environment (E.V.E.). Reseller Web Hosting servers have between 1 and 8 2.53 GHz virtual CPUs, shared on hosts operating on average, below 30% CPU utilization. Virtual Dedicated Servers also provide SAS 70 Type II Data Center, Enterprise LAN & WAN, High Performance HP BladeSystems, Application-Consistent Backups, Redundant Power & Cooling, Clustered NetApp SAN, VMware vSphere and Hardware Availability Clustering, around-the-clock U.S.-based support, and a 30 day satisfaction guarantee.

Becoming an Infinitely Virtual reseller provides many additional benefits. Reselling draws in new customers and accounts, and the ability to up-sell existing accounts greatly increases the average revenue per user.

“Our IV Reseller program is the simplest way to build your company’s revenue. You can manage multiple servers from our exclusive InfinitePanel, so establishing new customers and accounts is quick and easy,” says Adam Stern, President and CEO of Infinitely Virtual.

The new Infinitely Virtual Reseller Web Hosting plan takes the company further in its commitment to deliver the highest quality virtual products and services to clients at the industry’s lowest prices. Visit the new website, and learn more about reselling options at http://www.infinitelyvirtual.com

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. announced that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit regional award for United States Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year. Cisco unveiled the winners March 1 at its annual channel partner conference in New Orleans.

“Cisco works diligently with all of its channel partners, and it is an honor to announce Terremark as a Cisco Partner Summit award recipient,” said Jim Sherriff, senior vice president, U.S. and Canada Partner Organization at Cisco. “The Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year Award presented to Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud recognizes its performance and expertise as a Cisco channel partner in 2010.”

“We are proud to have our Enterprise Cloud recognized as the Cisco Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year Award winner,” said Jim Livingston, Terremark’s Senior Vice President of Channels and Alliances. “Our relationship and close collaboration with Cisco over the years has helped us deliver the industry’s leading enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering for large corporations and federal government agencies.”

Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global. Cisco Partner Summit U.S. and Canada regional awards reflect a partner’s performance in a given geographic region of the United States or Canada.

About Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry’s most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security, data storage and cloud computing services. Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud computing architecture delivers the agility, scale and economic benefits of cloud computing to mission-critical enterprise and Web 2.0 applications and its DigitalOps(R) service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at http://www.terremark.com.

DreamHost, a global full-service web hosting company, will add a Dedicated Server product line to their portfolio of services on March 21, 2011. DreamHost already offers Shared Server, and Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting, along with Domain Name Registration.

A Dedicated Server is a physical server that is only accessed by one customer. The customer is able to utilize the full CPU and RAM resources of the hardware system. Unlike a Virtual Private Server (VPS), Dedicated does not divide the CPU among multiple customers. Therefore, the customer may utilize all of the CPU cores simultaneously for maximum performance. Dedicated is ideal for businesses or advanced users who run heavily-trafficked websites, CPU-intensive applications, or complex databases.

The Dedicated Server product line includes five bundled options to help businesses choose the appropriate hardware configuration that best fits their needs. Prices will range from USD $69 per month to $299 per month. The entry-level bundle includes a server with a Linux operating system, a dual-core processor, two gigabytes of RAM, a 250 gigabyte hard drive, and one dedicated static IP address.

Unlike the other dedicated hosting companies, all of DreamHost’s Dedicated Server bundles include an unmetered data transfer bandwidth and an automatic managed backup of the entire website. DreamHost is able to backup the whole site because there is no limit on the backup’s storage capacity. Subscribers never have to worry about paying surprise bandwidth overage charges or losing all of their data due to a hard drive failure.

The Dedicated Servers are housed in a secure datacenter that is owned and operated by DreamHost. All of the bundles include around-the-clock (24×7) live support, a guaranteed 4-hour hardware replacement policy, and up to three callbacks per month from an expert technical support representative. DreamHost is committed to excellent customer service and backs their reliable network with a 100% uptime guarantee policy.

About DreamHost
DreamHost is a global full-service web hosting company that offers Shared Server, Virtual Private Server (VPS), and Dedicated Server Hosting, along with Domain Name Registration. DreamHost is a carbon-neutral hosting company and a proud member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership program. Please visit http://www.dreamhost.com for more information.

Voxel, a leading provider of hybrid cloud hosting and managed services, announced today that it has appointed Stephen Callahan, a respected industry sales executive, as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Steve brings more than 18 years of high tech sales experience to Voxel, having significantly accelerated the revenue growth of several startup, pre-IPO and public companies. As part of the growth plan put in place with the Company’s recent capital raise, Steve is tasked to build a global sales team to meet the demand for Voxel’s services in the fast-growing cloud and managed application hosting marketplace.
“We’re very excited to have such a proven sales executive as Steve join the Voxel team,” said Raul K. Martynek, CEO and President, Voxel. “Having worked with Steve in the past and seeing his abilities first hand, I am very confident his experience and leadership in building sales teams will help Voxel grow.”
Steve has been a highly successful executive and sales leader in technology and service companies for more than 18 years. In prior positions he was the Vice President, Direct Sales, for Broadview Networks, where he managed a direct sales force of 50 contributors selling technology solutions to the SME marketplace. Prior to his role at Broadview and its related companies, Steve was responsible for major and global accounts at MCI Worldcom. Most recently, as SVP of Sales at Intergis, a SaaS-based provider of mobile fleet solutions to large businesses, Steve successfully led the company to its best sales year ever and saw through its acquisition by Telogis.
“I’m enormously excited to be joining the opportunity at Voxel – with its momentum in the marketplace, powerful technology platform and strong financial backing, I’m confident in our ability to bring our unique infrastructure services to this exploding market,” said Steve Callahan. “Voxel is positioned where every hosting, telecommunications and managed services business wants to be – in the middle of the industry transformation to cloud-based application and infrastructure delivery.”
Effective immediately, Steve will assume leadership of Voxel’s sales organization and channel programs. Sam Machiz, Voxel’s lead technologist and a hosting industry veteran, will focus on implementation engineering as VP of Sales Engineering. In this new role, formed to ensure that Voxel’s sophisticated sales approach can scale with an expanded sales force, Sam will help customers and partners maximize on the opportunity of adopting Voxel Infrastructure services within their organizations while breaking through the hype around cloud.