This Tuesday (on February 14, 2012), GoGrid, one of the leading providers of cloud-based infrastructure services, announced that Microgroove, one of the leading providers of software to many of the most popular music websites, is leveraging its cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service solution to provide unparalleled scalability to its customers.
Earlier, the Companies that used Microgroove’s platform had to host the Company’s platform themselves, and while many of these Companies setup their own data centers and networks, it only allowed them to use traditional colocation. However, by making use of GoGrid, not only would Microgroove’s customers not have to worry about the logistics of infrastructure management, but also they would get better reliability and performance owing to GoGrid’s Content Delivery Network, which will relay the data to the viewers from its closest PoP rather than a central data center.
Both Microgroove and GoGrid were happy with the deal, and Microgroove mentioned that earlier it had found managing its customers’ data expensive and difficult, but now with GoGrid, it could focus on its innovations better. The Company moved more than 100 of its music websites to GoGrid’s infrastructure.
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Created at February 18th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Last Thursday (on February 9, 2012), NTT Communications, one of the leading providers of global network connectivity services and Content Delivery Network solutions, announced that it had agreed to collaborate with the Lao National Internet Center (LANIC) for providing the ISPs in Laos with better global connectivity by allowing them to leverage NTT Com’s Tier-1 network.
As part of this partnership, NTT Communications will work with LANIC and establish direct connections to its Tier-1 network from the latter’s infrastructure. Since LANIC manages all the exchange points and works as the global gateway in Laos, its working with NTT will allow it to make an International Internet Gateway (IIG) through NTT’s network, and all the local ISPs will connect through it. Apart from providing low latency and reliable connection, NTT will also help the local ISPs to move to IPv6 and improve their network security.
Both LANIC and NTT mentioned that they were happy with the development, and NTT mentioned that it would continue to help government agencies of emerging economies with their IT-related endeavors.
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Tags: internet, low latency, ntt
Created at February 16th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Last Wednesday (on February 8, 2012), Limelight Networks, the leading provider of Content Delivery Network services and web optimization solutions, announced that the Punjab Kesari Group, one of the leading publishing houses in India, had selected its global computing platform and cloud-based optimization services for managing its online content.
With more than a million viewers around the globe, the Punjab Kesari Group needed a solution that could not only scale up to its growing needs, but also provide high quality-of-service to its viewers. Apart from this, the Company has also started building its own online video library and needed a platform to store its existing 5000 videos and play the ones published on the website extremely fast, and that is where Limelight Networks pitched in. The publisher would leverage the Limelight Deliver and Limelight Video platform for better streaming and management of the content, while also getting various monetization options and analytics for the content.
Both Limelight Networks and Punjab Kesari Group mentioned that they were happy with the deal, and Limelight mentioned that since India has seen more than 25% growth in number of online visitors in last year, it was looking forward to expand and collaborate more with the growing Indian Companies.
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Created at February 16th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Last Tuesday (on February 7, 2012), CDNetworks, the only multinational Content Delivery Network provider that has local infrastructure in six continents including mainland China, announced that it has entered in a strategic alliance with Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN) to improve the web experience for Hong Kong’s growing online audience.
As part of the deal, CDNetworks will optimize the international transit links of HKBN by leveraging its global network, and improve the application performance and web content delivery by fetching the content and bringing it near the visitor. With its advanced caching solutions, CDNetworks will also reduce the CDN traffic for the service providers by as much as 95 percent. Apart from this, since CDNetworks already has a strong presence in the APAC region, it was the logical choice for HKBN, Hong Kong’s fastest growing broadband service provider.
Both CDNetworks and HKBN were happy with the deal, which will allow better Internet services and faster content delivery to Hong Kong-based traffic.
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Tags: cdn, cdnetworks, content delivery network, internet news, web acceleration
Created at February 15th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Last Tuesday (on January 31, 2012), GoGrid, one of the leading providers of cloud infrastructure services and solutions, announced that web design and hosting provider Izoox is leveraging its cloud services to reduce its operational costs and get scalability to expand without getting in the complexity of maintaining complex infrastructure.
With the help of GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure, Izoox has been able to grow its customer base rapidly, and the latter already hosts more than 500 customers on this platform. Use of GoGrid’s cloud has enabled the web design Company to lower the total cost of ownership by almost 50 percent for both itself and its customers. Apart from this, using GoGrid has not only enabled Izoox to get faster time-to-market, but also the extremely stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and high performance guarantee of GoGrid has also improved its competitiveness and profitability.
At its end, GoGrid mentioned that it was extremely happy with the deal, and also mentioned that it strived to enable customers like Izoox in providing better services to their end-customers by providing them with extremely configurable and flexible infrastructure that could scale up to meet their requirements perfectly.
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Created at February 6th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Saturday (on February 4, 2012), HostColor.com, one of the leading providers of web hosting and IT infrastructure services, announced that it would be leveraging the services of the fast growing and popular Content Delivery Network service from NetDNA for improving the performance, scalability and reliability of its webhosting offerings.
As part of the current deal, all the customers of HostColor will be provided with a one-month free trial of NetDNA’s services and then the interested customers could also use the coupon CDN2HC for getting a 25% discount on NetDNA’s services. HostColor had mentioned in December that it would be adding CDN services to its offerings, and at that time, it had provided support for CloudFlare, and mentioned that it would add one more service by Q1, 2012. This is where the NetDNA’s addition falls into place, and the customers will be provided the free trial till the end of February 2012.
Both NetDNA and HostColor were happy about the partnership, and the NetDNA offering will be made available to all customers of its hosting plans, including dedicated, shared and VPS hosting customers.
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Created at February 6th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Thursday (on February 2, 2012), PEER1 Hosting, one of the leading providers of web hosting and content delivery network services, announced that it will be collaborating with e2x, one of the leading Oracle ATG partners in Europe, for expanding their joint offerings and reach by creating a cost-effective all-in-one e-commerce solution.
For improving their services, e2x had already created an ATG Accelerator solution for supporting multiple platforms and technologies and allowing customers to create eCommerce websites quickly. it however needed a good hosting provider, and that is where, with its extremely high SLA, 24×7 support and Hampshire-based data center, PEER1 became a perfect fit. Apart from this, the collaboration will also leverage the 10Gb FastFiber network of PEER1 for reducing the hops and bounces and improving the performance for their end-users significantly.
Both the Companies mentioned that they were happy with the collaboration, and PEER1 Hosting also mentioned that with its innovative services like ATG Accelerator and culture of striving for customer satisfaction made e2x a perfect match for PEER1.
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Created at February 5th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Tuesday (on January 31, 2012), Aryaka, the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization Company, announced that global manufacturers like Amstrong Internation and Raritan have started leveraging its cloud-based WAN optimization solutions for improving and optimizing their network usage and drastically reducing their network infrastructure costs and time-to-market their solutions.
Armstrong International did have a partially deployed MPLS network to store its huge CAD repository over four different DBs across their network. However, the replication time was huge, and deploying Aryaka solution enabled them to reduce their SolidWorks PDM response times by 20%, improve the CAD file rates by almost 8 times and impriving their slash change requests by almost 23 times. On the other hand, Raritan had issues with nearly saturated MPLS links and high amount of Oracle Data Guard Replication time. Leveraging Aryaka solution enabled the company to reduce its Oracle data guard traffic by 70% and increase bandwidth capacity by 400%.
Both the Companies mentioned that using Aryaka had not only helped them get much more from their existing networks and made their services faster and scalable, but also enabled them to save significant amount of network investments.
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Created at February 5th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Wednesday (on February 1, 2012), Level 3 Communications, the leading provider of fiber-optic networks and various voice and data services, announced that NBC had selected its Vyvx VenueNet+ technology for streaming the Super Bowl XLVI. Apart from this, NFL also selected the same for delivering its pre and post match feeds for global content distribution.
The Super Bowl is one of the major sporting events for the country, and based on last year’s viewing it is expected to be viewed by more than 110 million people worldwide. To ensure good delivery performance and reliability, NBC relies on the T1 line of Level 3, which is directly connected to the Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis and under the current deal, Level 3 will be acquiring, encoding and transcoding more than 3000 hours worth of video content and then delivering it using the Vyvx VenueNet+.
At its end, Level 3 was happy with the deal, and mentioned that every year the number of people viewing the Super Bowl is increasing and the current year marks more than 2 decades of its providing delivery for the prestigious event.
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Created at February 3rd, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Today (on January 30, 2012), GoGrid, one of the leading providers of managed and cloud-based hosting solutions and content optimization services, announced that Condé Nast Digital Germany, one of the leading German magazines publishers, is leveraging the GoGrid hybrid architecture for providing high-speed and reliable browsing experience to its website audience.
Actually, first Condé Nast Digital Germany, just moved one of its publications, Glamour, to the hybrid architecture of GoGrid, and then impressed by the performance and the amount of data security provided by GoGrid, the publisher moved its other top titles including GQ and Vogue to GoGrid as well. Condé Nast Digital Germany mentioned that it was extremely sensitive about the data security issue, and with its dedicated machines that natively run MySQL and extremely stringent data security practices, GoGrid’s hybrid model became the best choice for it.
Condé Nast Digital Germany also mentioned that moving to GoGrid gave it huge amount of scalability and also reduced their infrastructure costs drastically. The Compay mentioned that it was planning on moving a fourth publication, Myself to GoGrid’s infrastructure in the near future.
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Created at January 30th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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