Yesterday (on February 21, 2012), Akamai Technologies, one of the most leading providers of cloud-based web optimization and security offerings, announced the launch of the Akamai Kona Site Defender, which is a service designed to protecting enterprise websites from various threats and protect their applications and transactions from an array of attacks.
The Kona Site Defender makes use of the Akamai global network to provide immense scalability and protection against attacks like DDoS, TCP SYN floods, UDP floods and other network layer attacks. Apart from this, the solution provides various configuration rules to protect against HTTP protocol violations, limit HTTP request and policy limits and protection against SQL injections, cross site scripting and other application layer attacks. The system also comes with a web application firewall and analytic information to allow organizations in gauging and protecting their content better.
Akamai mentioned that it has seen a huge burst in online attacks, and the Kona Site Defender is aimed to protect its customers against these attacks. The solution is currently in limited availability and will be made available to general public from April 11, 2012.
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Created at February 22nd, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Friday (on February 17, 2012), PEER1 Hosting, one of the leading providers of hosting and colocation services, announced that it had successfully completed consolidating all its servers from the Fleet data center to the Company’s new green Portmouth’s data center, while ensuring zero loss of critical information or customer outage.
To ensure that the servers were sent securely and smoothly, the Company worked at packing about 60 servers per day, powering them by 11PM and then moving them to the new facility by 5AM and powering them up-again. More than 1600 servers and disks storing more than 120TB of SAN data were transferred to the 5300 sq meter facility of Portsmouth. Owing to the professional mode of work and the sensibility with which the operation was managed, the devices were powered up at the new location in less than 6 hours, and no hardware damage was reported.
At its end, PEER1 mentioned that it was happy with the way in which the move happened, and this was the Company’s second migration after its consolidating its Atlanta Data Center in 2010.
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Created at February 22nd, 2012 in Uncategorized |
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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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Last Tuesday (on February 14, 2012), SoftLayer Technologies, the leading provider of dedicated and cloud-based hosting services, announced the availability of the production version of its redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service for faster search and retrieval of data from SoftLayer’s CDN or global private network, the SoftLayer Object Storage solution.
This offering is built on top of OpenStack Object Storage and it provides additional features like fast and integrated indexing and search, native integration with SoftLayer’s CDN and a rich metadata support. These additional aspects allow it to support faster search, storage on SoftLayer’s redundant hardware around the globe and a very powerful toolkit to manage user content using SoftLayer’s Customer portal and mobile applications as well as an API to allow scripts to leverage the architecture.
SoftLayer mentioned that the Object Storage is priced at about 12 cents/GB and bandwidth utilization. The service is already made available for its US customers, and will be available for its global customers by end of February 2012.
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Created at February 20th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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This Tuesday (on February 14, 2012), Mirror Image Internet, one of the leading providers of edge computing, content delivery networks and content streaming solutions, announced that launch of its new service named “ Targeting and Authorization Suite for Live and On-Demand Video”. This solution is expected to allow users to serve all-devices and supports all-protocols for live and on-demand video.
Among the major streaming features include the support for adaptive bit-rate and support for all major protocols including RTSP, RTMP, Apple HLS, IIS Smooth Streaming, Adobe HS and even the RTP/UDP protocols, thus allowing content to be streamed to all devices including desktops, laptops, tablet devices and smart phones. The solution also features various security features like referrer domain verification, time-limited access and allows licensing restrictions based on authentication and geographical locations. Apart from this, the solution also provides extremely detailed analytics information to allow customers to make targeting decisions.
Mirror Image Internet mentioned that this is the industry’s first and only solution to support all the protocols and devices, and the Company would continue to create such innovative solutions for its customers.
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Tags: live video streaming, mirror image, streaming media, streaming video, video streaming, vod
Created at February 18th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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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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This Wednesday (on February 15, 2012), OnApp, one of the leading providers of cloud optimization and Content Delivery Network software solutions, announced that it is planning to expand its operations in the United States in 2012 by adding a new office at Utah and also opening various hiring openings for strategic positions in the organization.
Among the recent hiring includes the appointment of Behshad Behnam as the North American Director of Sales and Chris Younger as a Pre Sales Specialist. Apart from this, OnApp is also planning to hire two more strategic sales positions in the next couple of months to expand its North American operations further. The Company’s new Utah office will be used as a key center for its Level-1 Support operations. This center officially open by the end of February, and its operations will be lead by Ryan Weight, who is the First Line Support Manager.
OnApp mentioned that it was seeing huge growth in the North American market, and this expansion will be done to support the growing customer base. The Company will increase its staff in the US region by almost 50% in 2012.
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Created at February 17th, 2012 in Funding and Expansion |
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This Monday (on February 13, 2012), Yottaa Inc., one of the providers of web performance solutions and cloud routing and network technologies, announced the launch of Yottaa CDN – the Company’s new Content Delivery Network offering, which supports both static and dynamic caching and also features various content optimization options.
The Yottaa CDN offering also offers dynamic site acceleration (DSA), thus allowing the customers to improve their end-user experience by speeding up even the dynamic content. Apart from this, since the solution directly integrates with the Yottaa Site Speed Optimizer, not only is the configuration and implementation much easier, but also it provides extremely fast performance. The Yottaa CDN also encompasses the Company’s patented cloud-routing technology and front-end optimization into a single offering, and also supports various analytics information for the customers as well.
Yottaa mentioned that the Company currently has 20 PoP locations around the globe for the CDN offering. Yottaa also got a positive testimonial from Net Effect Corporation, UK, which mentioned that the CDN speeded up their slowest portals and made them among the fastest websites.
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Created at February 17th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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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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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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Yesterday (on February 21, 2012), Akamai Technologies, one of the most leading providers of cloud-based web optimization and security offerings, announced the launch of the Akamai Kona Site Defender, which is a service designed to protecting enterprise websites from various threats and protect their applications and transactions from an array of attacks.
The Kona Site Defender makes use of the Akamai global network to provide immense scalability and protection against attacks like DDoS, TCP SYN floods, UDP floods and other network layer attacks. Apart from this, the solution provides various configuration rules to protect against HTTP protocol violations, limit HTTP request and policy limits and protection against SQL injections, cross site scripting and other application layer attacks. The system also comes with a web application firewall and analytic information to allow organizations in gauging and protecting their content better.
Akamai mentioned that it has seen a huge burst in online attacks, and the Kona Site Defender is aimed to protect its customers against these attacks. The solution is currently in limited availability and will be made available to general public from April 11, 2012.
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