Daily Archives: May 28, 2011

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Interxion Upgrades and Expands Dusseldorf Data Center

INTERXION HOLDING NV, announced that it has completed the upgrade and expansion of its DUS1 data centre . The expansion and upgrade of the facility is in response to consistently rising demand from customers in the digital media, carrier and enterprise sectors.

A number of current and new customers have already taken advantage of this new capacity by successfully completing deployments that are now live. These customers include freenet Datenkommunikations GmbH, GasLINE, Interoute Germany GmbH, KPN International, Telefónica Germany, Unitymedia and Vodafone Group Services GmbH.

Interxion’s Düsseldorf data centre is the only site in the Düsseldorf metropolitan area that houses the two most important regional Internet Exchanges, DE-CIX Düsseldorf and ECIX. In addition the data centre gives direct access to more than 50 networks of carriers, ISPs and CDNs, providing ideal conditions for all companies relying on seamless connectivity and optimum network latency.

The new phase of Interxion’s data centre will provide an additional 500 sqm of equipped space as well as a significant upgrade of the existing power and air conditioning infrastructure of both the current and new build-out phase of the data centre. The total grid power available at DUS1 is above 20 MVA, enabling the site to support high-density power deployment configurations, a key requirement for the latest virtualised servers.

Interxion’s Düsseledorf site offers the highest levels of redundancy, reliability and standards-based operation, with up to 2N UPS power and N+1 cooling, as well as advanced alarm and monitoring systems. The new space has been designed using Interxion’s energy-efficient modular architecture, with free cooling and maximum-efficiency components as standard.

“Our Düsseldorf data centre combines state-of-the-art infrastructure with outstanding connectivity and provides the ideal environment for existing and prospective customers demanding robust infrastructure and optimum connectivity.” commented Peter Knapp, Managing Director of Interxion Germany.

Interxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving over 1,200 customers through 28 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With connectivity provided by 350 carriers and ISPs and 20 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created content and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest. For more information, please visit www.interxion.com

Future Hosting Launches International Cloud Delivery Network (CDN)

Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today announced the launch and deployment of its international Cloud Delivery Network (CDN), enabling clients to rapidly distribute content to website visitors in nearly any place in the world.
Through partnerships with upstream providers, Future Hosting’s CDN offers a physical presence in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Australia, and additional locations are planned. This unrivaled connectivity allows for low-latency, high throughput file transfers worldwide, and delivers failover protection and instant scalability.

“Our CDN opens a wide door of opportunity for our clients who need affordable, massively scalable, instant-on hosting infrastructure. Instead of paying for unused capacity, our CDN can be used as-needed, enabling our clients to capitalize on increases in Web traffic and be more efficient in the way they distribute data to website visitors. It especially translates into greater reliability and increased agility when transferring large media content,” said Future Hosting Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Kowalski.

All Future Hosting clients can add CDN-capability to their account. Clients can contact Future Hosting’s sales department to learn more about the service. Additional details are available at http://www.futurehosting.com/web-hosting/cloud-delivery-network-cdn.

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

UK Web Host ICUK Acquires CIX Online

CIX Online Limited, has been acquired by ICUK.

CIX includes the world famous CIX Conferencing system, which was founded in 1987 and remains at the forefront of discussion and is indeed one of the original forms of social networking. With a broad customer base of 7000 users, CIX provides a range of web hosting, conferencing and virtual office facilities. As part of this acquisition, we plan to integrate these products within the ICUK Control Panel for existing ICUK customers to expand the product portfolio available to them.

The acquisition strengthens our portfolio and presents some very exciting opportunities. We are committed to supplying our current range of high quality broadband, hosting and telecom solutions, and aim to apply our philosophies to CIX’s development road map.

If you have any questions relating to CIX and the products offered by the platform, please visit www.cix.co.uk

Zeus Wins CODiE Award for Best Cloud Infrastructure Application

Zeus Technology, a pure software-based application traffic management (Application Delivery Controller – ADC) company, announced today that its Zeus Elastic Application Delivery (ZEAD) platform has been named the Best Cloud Infrastructure Application in the Software and Information Industry Association’s 26th Annual CODiE Awards. Of the nearly 400 nominations, Zeus was the only ADC provider awarded for industry excellence in the cloud.

Recognized for its ability to provide businesses with one application delivery fabric across multiple Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments, the ZEAD platform is the industry’s only complete application delivery platform operating within a virtualized infrastructure. As the only pure software ADC solution, ZEAD transforms the application delivery industry by bringing an unprecedented level of flexibility and scalability to applications in and across cloud environments.

“To be named the Best Cloud Infrastructure Application winner for the CODiE Awards is truly an achievement,” said Kosten Metreweli, Chief Strategy Officer, Zeus Technology. “Receiving an award of this caliber recognizes the work we’ve done to bring application delivery to the next stage of innovation alongside advancements in IT environments, like cloud computing. Having the ability to ensure the performance of web services and applications in increasingly complex environments is a true testament to the dedication and technological progress of the team here at Zeus. We’d also like to extend our congratulations to all the other winners and finalists.”

“Now in its 26th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries,” said SIIA President Ken Wasch. “In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to businesses and consumers. SIIA warmly congratulates all of the winners and nominees of the CODiE Awards, whose innovation is essential for continuing America’s leadership in the global knowledge economy.”

Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform combines Zeus Traffic Manager 7.0 and Zeus Multi-Site Manager, for seamlessly delivering fast, secure and available web applications across any IT platform or environment. Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform is centrally managed from a single dashboard, significantly decreasing the time needed to manage web applications. With the built-in Zeus TrafficScript , businesses can set and apply specific traffic management rules globally to easily accommodate changing business needs, such as prioritizing incoming traffic from key users.

The CODiE Awards recognize excellence in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries. Through a rigorous product review process, subject matter experts in these industries score products based on industry-accepted criteria. Finalists are selected and then considered by the members of SIIA through a voting process. CODiE winners receive a significant level of industry validation that reflects excellence, conveys importance, and calls attention to their innovation and industry leadership. For more information about the CODiE Awards visit http://www.siia.net/codies/2011/.

About Zeus Technology
Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to their web-enabled applications, thus ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure. Coupled with the ability to deploy new online services very quickly, Zeus helps provide the competitive advantage businesses need, by making their online services faster, more reliable, more secure and easier to manage. Zeus software can be deployed on industry standard hardware, virtual machines and any Cloud platform, making it the right strategic choice for today and tomorrow. Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as ACS, Amazon Web Services, Dell, GoGrid, HP, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Logicworks, Oracle, Rackspace, RightScale, Sun, SunGard, Qualcomm and VMware. Zeus powers over one million website infrastructures across the world including, the BBC, BT, Comic Relief, Domino’s Pizza, Gilt Groupe, ITV, Play.com, See Tickets, STA Travel and Virgin Media. Zeus is in a unique position to assist any business looking to enhance their mission-critical Internet service infrastructure. For more information, visit http://www.zeus.com