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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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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Last Thursday (on November 10, 2011), Wowza Media Systems, the “Any Screen Done Right” media server solutions provider, announced that its Wowza Media Server 3 had won the New Product Technology award at the 2011 Worship Facilities Conference and Expo (WFX) for its broadcasting and streaming reliability, scalability and feature support.
Wowza mentioned that the Wowza Media Server 3 solution has been an excellent addition for the Company with its high performance live and on-demand streaming capabilities in multiple formats and screens and support for adaptive bit rate streaming. Worship Facilities mentioned that its judging panel consisting of deemed editors from Worship Facilities Magazine, Church Productions magazine and Worship Facility designer, along with WFX advisory committee members selected Wowza Server 3 as the WFX winner. The announcement was done at WFX, Dallas on last Wednesday, i.e. November 9, 2011.
At its end, Wowza mentioned that it was extremely happy for the honor and this win for Wowza is yet another feather to the cap of Wowza Server 3, which has already received accolades from Streaming Media European Readers’ Choice competition.
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Created at November 16th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Yesterday (on October 24, 2011), Internap Network Services Corporation, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and other intelligent IT infrastructure services, announced that IDG’s Computerworld, which is among the leaders in providing peer perspective and IT leadership and business results, had selected as one of the top Green IT Organizations.
Since the last 4 years, IDG’s Computerworld has been doing various surveys and checking the practices and the strategies that the organizations are implementing to reduce their overall carbon footprint. Among the various things done by Internap include the initiatives like Reflective roofing, variable speed fans, ultrasonic humidification and use of recycled water for making its DataCenters have minimal environmental imbalance. These green practices make Internap’s DataCenters have extremely high certifications from LEED, Energy Star and Green Globes and reduce the Company’s overall carbon footprint.
Computerworld mentioned that Internap was among the Top-12 Green-IT vendors owing to its innovative infrastructure, and this information was published in the October 24 issue of Computerworld under the annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature.
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Created at October 25th, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Last Thursday (on October 20, 2011), Wowza Media Systems, the leading provider of “Any Screen Done Right” media server solutions, announced that its Wowza Media Server 3 had won two European Readers’ Choice Awards from Streaming Media magazine. The Wowza Server 3 was awarded with Best Server Hardware/Software and the Best Streaming Innovation of 2011 awards.
The winning of the awards in these categories means that not only do the European Streaming Media readers find Wowza Media Server 3 among the best solutions for delivering their rich media content online, but also the innovation award suggests that customers have found Wowza Media Server 3 better as compared to the previously popular Wowza Media Server 2. Wowza mentioned that it had been getting awards from Streaming Media for the fourth year in the row, and also got the innovation award the third time in a row, thus ensuring the brand of its solution.
Wowza said that since Streaming Media had more than 281 nominees in 13 different categories, winning in 2 of them was surely an honor.
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Created at October 24th, 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.