Last Friday (on February 17, 2012), Internap Network Services Corporation, one of the leading providers of intelligent IT infrastructure services, announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) had named it as one of the recipient of its 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence award, which was presented by the Cloud Computing Magazine.
TMC mentioned that it had selected Internap based on the latter’s deployment at Digital Technology International (DTI), where the Company helped in creating a scalable and reliable cloud solution to support DTI’s business models. Internap not only provided capabilities to easily balance the computing and storage, but its cloud also allows expanding the cloud if new resources are added. Apart from this, the Company’s high performance and stringent SLA to meet 100% uptime, and support for various cloud solutions including VMWare and OpenStack ensured that DTI could get the most out of the cloud.
Internap mentioned that it was honored to be named as one of the recipients for this award, which was only given to 30 entries from more than 200, which were nominated for their cloud-based innovations.
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Created at February 20th, 2012 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This Monday (on January 23, 2012), Aryaka, one of the most innovative and foremost providers of cloud-based WAN optimization solutions, announced that it had made it to the CRN’s 2012 Data Center 100 list. The list considers various aspects of data centers like carbon footprint, power utilization, services and efficiency and productivity levels to select the best providers.
The UBM Channel, which makes this list for its CRN magazine, mentioned that the 2012 Data Center 100 list looked at the innovation and data center services advancements made by the Companies in 2011. With its unique ability of optimizing the content by almost 3000 percent, and data center replication and disaster recovery with Oracle Data Guard, Aryaka provides one of the best and fastest cloud-based data storage systems, and that is why UBM Channel selected it as one among the 100 vendors.
At its end, Aryaka mentioned that it was extremely honored to make it to the list and thanked CRN magazine for the same.
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Created at January 28th, 2012 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Last Wednesday (on January 18, 2012), Level 3 Communications, one of the leading providers of networking solutions and Content Delivery Network services, announced that the ATLANTIC -ACM had selected it as one among the two winners of the Carrier Excellence Data Value Award based on its 2012 Global Wholesale Report Card.
The Global Wholesale Report Card covers more than 10 thousand global customers and customer feedback and user surveys were done during the October-December timeframe. Various aspects that were considered for computing the scores included International Ethernet and Legacy Dedicated Internet Access, IP WAN solutions and various transport services of both high and low capacity along with network connectivity and reach. It is based on averages of all these scores that Level 3 delivered well and hence was awarded with the excellence award.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that it was honored to be awarded the prestigious title from ATLANTIC-ACM and that the award proved that its efforts in providing high quality and differentiated services to the global wholesale market was bearing good fruits.
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Created at January 25th, 2012 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Last Thursday (on January 19, 2012), NTT Communications, one of the leading providers of network solutions and Content Delivery Network services, announced that Gartner Inc. had positioned it as one of the leaders in the “Magic Quadrant” in its latest revision of the Asia Pacific region in its Network Service Providers list.
NTT Communications mentioned that it would be launching a low latency network cable in the Asia region with its Submarine-cable Express network. Apart from this, the Company had worked closely with Companies like Emerio; and it has created lot of connections between the various cities of Asia, with additional data centers in Singapore and Malaysia. The Magic Quadrant report considers aspects like “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute”, and it is here with its large customer base, broad network and connections that NTT excelled in the Asia Pacific region.
At its end, NTT Communications mentioned that it was honored to make it as one of the leaders on the report, and stated that it would continue to help businesses with their expansion in Asia-Pacific region.
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Created at January 23rd, 2012 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Yesterday (on January 17, 2011), Level 3 Communications, the leading fiber-based communications and CDN services provider, announced that Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) honored it with the “Service Provider of the Year” and “Best Business Ethernet Service” awards for its excellent Ethernet-based services in the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) region.
The MEF mentioned that Level 3 won the “Service Provider of the Year” based on the overall cumulative scores of various categories like business, marketing, network coverage, partnerships and technological prowess. As for the “Best Business Ethernet Service”, it was based on the various innovative services that the network provider provided to its customers in the CALA region. A panel of five global and regional analysts considered the various nominations and then selected Level 3 as the winner for these categories.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that it was extremely happy to win the accolades, and mentioned that these awards were a reflection of Level 3’s efforts in meeting with the growing Ethernet demands of the CALA region.
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Created at January 18th, 2012 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Today (on January 17, 2012), Internap Network Services Corporation, one of the leading provider of intelligent and scalable infrastructure solutions, announced that it had completed the transition from being certified to a Service Organization Controls (SOC) up from the initial SAS 70 that it had got for its Data Center facilities.
This change was done by Internap, owing to the introduction of the SOC reports by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the SOC adds new standards and guidance for the certification. To ensure the new SOC2 Type II Certificate, Internap got its data center security and operational procedures reviewed by an independent certified auditor, and the report confirms that it meets extremely stringent standards for meeting the service and performance needs of its customers.
Internap also mentioned that it has become the first data center provider that has received a report under the new SOC2 Type II, and it would continue its efforts to strive and deliver the best services available to its customers.
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Created at January 17th, 2012 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This Monday (on December 19, 2011), Microsoft, which provides Operating System and other software solutions including various cloud-based platform and services, announced that the British Standards Institute had provided it with the prestigious ISO 27001 certification for its cloud-based offering the Microsoft Windows Azure.
Microsoft mentioned that the ISO Certification covers all the major features of Windows Azure, including the Compute, Storage, Virtual Machines and Virtual Storage modules of the solution. Apart from this, Microsoft also got the Certification for the Management Portal and the information management systems that power Windows Azure. The BSI provided this certification last month (on November 29, 2011) and now Microsoft is also pursuing to get a similar certification for the remaining features of Windows Azure like its Service Bus, Access Control, Caching and Content Delivery Network.
The Certification highlights Microsoft’s high drive towards quality and the stability of its Windows Azure offering. In addition, the Company’s Global Foundation Services also managed to get a separate ISO 27001 Certification for the Data Centers, which host the Windows Azure platform.
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Created at December 21st, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Yesterday (on November 30, 2011), Level 3 Communications, one of the leading providers of international fiber-based solutions, announced that it has won the “Best Latin American Wholesale Offering” award from the Capacity magazine for its development and implementation of wholesale strategy of network connectivity and colocation in the Latin America region.
With its range of IP-based services and solutions including VoIP, IP Ethernet, CDN, colocation and other offerings, Level 3 Communications has always been one of the premiere benchmarking Companies for these services in the region. Apart from this, Global Crossing, which was acquired by Level 3 Communications, had won this award in 2008 and 2009, which also gave Level 3 a head start in the competition, thus making the joint entity a true winner. Level 3 also mentioned that it was planning to keep expanding its services in the region to reach out to more and more customers.
Capacity magazine bestowed Level 3 with this award during the Capacity Europe 2011 event that was held in Amsterdam last week.
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Created at December 1st, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Yesterday (on November 23, 2011), TeliaSonera, the leading Sweden-based Content Delivery Network and technology solutions provider, announced that it had been awarded the Best Investor Relations award by the Research firm Regi. The Company also won the Best Company in Large Cap category along with the Best IRO award for 2011.
TeliaSonera mentioned that it was honored to win the accolades. The Company also mentioned that the award signifies the efforts put in by Andreas Ekstrom, the Head of Investor Relations of the Company. TeliaSonera also said that winning this award shows that the Company is working very closely with its analysts and delivering well, while ensuring that the investors understand and are reacting positively to the various business decisions made by the Company. The award also re-affirms that the Company is well set on its strategic growth path.
Apart from this, TeliaSonera management also mentioned that Regi had considered about 47 large lap Companies of Sweden and hence winning the award amidst the high competition was extremely heartening to the Company.
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Created at November 24th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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This Thursday (on November 17, 2011), SoftLayer Technologies, the leading provider of cloud, dedicated and managed hosting services and solutions, announced that the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship had named it as the winner for the 2011 Dallas 100 Entrepreneur award. This award identifies SoftLayer as the fastest growing Company in the Dallas Region.
The awards program considers and shortlists the Companies based on various parameters including HQ in Dallas area, sales and growth history of last 3 years, the Company’s credit report and balance sheet along with other requirements. Based on these parameters the Companies are rated, and with its exceptional growth, global reach and more than 23 thousand customers around the globe, SoftLayer ranked first not only in the Technology domain, but also was rated the fastest growing Company among all the competitors.
At its end, SoftLayer mentioned that it was honored for winning this award, and mentioned that while it was named fifth last year, it moving to first position this year shows that the Company’s efforts of expansion and better quality delivery are paying off.
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Created at November 19th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Latency is a term
that is used to
define the amount
of time it takes to
send a data
packet from one
source to
another destination.