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 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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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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Last Thursday (on January 26, 2012), GigaSpaces Technologies, one of the leading pioneers of next-generation application platforms, announced the launch of its new Multi-Site Data Replication offering, which allow customers to leverage GigaSpaces market-leading in-memory data grid (IMDG) and scaling technology to replicate their data over WAN.
The solution supports mirroring of data to GigaSpaces data grid using various API calls, configuration of replication gateways, and then the deployment of these gateways across the sites for maintaining data consistency. The solution is aimed at data recovery in case of disasters and also will fuel the next generation management of multi-site data, especially in case of Content Delivery Network solutions by ensuring that data is always in sync. Apart from this, the solution will also allow GigaSpaces customers to leverage true cloud-bursting by ensuring secure private data cloud between the primary data center and the remote site.
GigaSpaces mentioned that its multi-site data replication technology supports all advanced features including data filtering and management, along with high availability and self-healing to ensure that the customers’ data is robustly secured.
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Created at January 30th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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This Friday (on January 13, 2012), ChinaCache, the largest Content Delivery Network provider based in China, announced that it was selected to help support the online rush during the third round of pre-sales for the Xiaomi smart phones, which have been launched by Xiaomi Technology Company, one of the leading providers of smart phones in China.
Xiaomi mentioned that it was expecting a huge surge in traffic on the day it would open the pre-sales and needed a good and reliable CDN to manage that spike and also support security of the online payments and that is where with its advanced global CDN services, managed IDC resources and cloud computing solutions, ChinaCache helped them. The Company mentioned that using the global network of ChinaCache, Xiaomi was able to support the order of more than 500 thousand smart phones that came in on the pre-launch day.
At its end, ChinaCache mentioned that it was extremely happy to support Xiaomi manage its traffic spikes better and it would continue to support the smart phone provider with its services in the future.
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Tags: cdn, chinacache, cloud computing, content delivery, content delivery network
Created at January 15th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Thursday (on January 12, 2012), Technicolor, one of the leading providers of various technology and animation solutions, announced the launch of M-GO, a free application that allows the users to leverage cloud for storage and share media from participating content partners, by allowing them to access the content from various devices.
While the M-GO was initially announced by MediaNavi at the CES 2011, the M-GO application from Technicolor is expected to have all the similar features along with a better and more user-friendly GUI. The solution is expected to be bundled with all the latest Intel Ultrabooks through the Intel AppUp Center and also all the new Smart TVs and Blu-Ray disc players that will be launched by Samsung and Vizio in 2012. Technicolor is looking at a transactional business model for this offering and will also provide support for Ultraviolet.
Technicolor mentioned that it is currently working with films and videos for M-GO and it would also add support for music in the near future, and while the participating studios are still not announced, the names and new additions are expected to be announced shortly.
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Tags: cloud computing, streaming media, tech news, technology news, video streaming
Created at January 14th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Wednesday (on December 28, 2011), Steadfast Networks, one of the leading providers of dedicated server hosting, cloud solutions and colocation services, announced that it had worked closely with hosting solutions provider OnApp to create its Cloud Controller offering that allows users to manage their clouds from Apple devices including iPhone, iPAD and iPod Touch.
With more and more customers wanting to manage their cloud solutions on-the-go, Steadfast Networks decided to provide them with the flexibility to manage their clouds and provision new servers in their cloud environment by offering them the Cloud Controller application. Steadfast Networks mentioned that there was an HD version for the iPAD as compared to the iPOD Touch and the iPhone smart devices, and the Cloud Controller has been added as a free download at the Apple iTunes store for the customers to download and use.
Steadfast Networks mentioned that this application would help their customers get more flexibility and it would continue to embark on such projects with Companies like OnApp to provide better management capabilities to their customers.
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Created at January 4th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on December 22, 2011), ChinaCache, the leading provider of Content Delivery Network services in mainland China, announced that Shanxi Unicom, the Shanxi Branch of China Unicom and Wentian Technology, the first online game Company in Shanxi province of China, have made an agreement with the former to help them in making Shanxi’s largest cloud computing data center.
This data center will include various facilities like disaster recovery and high security to ensure that customers can be provided with advanced features of 3G, cloud computing and tri-networks integration among other things. The Companies mentioned that their strong complementary skills like Shanxi Unicom’s integrated communications network, Wentian Technology’s advanced software development skills and Chinacache’s CDN market and cloud technology expertise will help them build a strong synergy for creating and deploying the data center.
At its end, Chinacache mentioned that it was happy to be a part of the collaboration and stated that the Data Center will help in improving the network reach and emergence of new Internet-based Companies in the Shanxi region.
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Created at December 23rd, 2011 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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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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Tags: certification, cloud computing, content delivery network, technology news, windows azure
Created at December 21st, 2011 in Awards and Recognitions |
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Yesterday (on December 19, 2011), Aryaka, the world’s first provider of cloud-based WAN optimizations and application acceleration services, announced that 2011 had been a great year for the Company and it had not only built a stable and scalable solution, but also got a growing customer base for its secure global network solutions.
What Aryaka does is that it combines multiple access methods, data and applications and also supports content delivery through various data centers using the cloud, thus allowing huge performance gains, while reducing the overall complexity that normal MPLS or Content Delivery Networks would have to face. The Company also mentioned that various CDN providers are planning to partner with it, and the enterprises that have adopted Aryaka’s solutions are seeing performance improvements as high as 70 times, whereas their WAN traffic has also reduced to almost 98% by localizing and intelligent routing and network connectivity.
The startup also mentioned that its customer base is growing steadily; it now has 25 PoP locations around the globe and it is getting more industry recognition and acceptance. Ajit Gupta, the Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka, also mentioned that they are looking forward for a great 2012, where they want to reinforce its reputation as an industry leader and reach out further through expansion and partnership programs.
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Created at December 20th, 2011 in Funding and Expansion |
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