Company names Karl Pichler as the Chief Financial Officer.
Rackspace Hosting, a web hosting company, yesterday announced the appointment of Karl Pichler, 39, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Principal Financial Officer, effective November 10, 2011. Pichler has been serving as interim CFO since April 15, 2011.
The company states that Pichler joined it in 2005 as Vice President of Finance. In April 2009, Pichler was appointed to its Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) team and served as the company's International Finance Director. As of April 15, 2011, Pichler served as acting CFO, Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer. Over his tenure, he has had several roles at the company including the further development of the finance function and the design and implementation of the company's global financing activities.
"Karl has added tremendous value to Rackspace over the last six years and brings a depth of experience to the role," said Lanham Napier, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Karl is a veteran Racker who knows our business well and shares our values. We are excited to have Karl take this next step with us as we move the company forward."
Friday, November 11, 2011
Equinix Opens Second Data Center in Hong Kong
Company continues expansion in Asia-Pacific with opening of second IBX data center in Hong Kong.
Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, recently announced the opening of the first phase of its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Hong Kong. The new IBX data center, called HK2, was built to meet the increasing demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services, particularly from financial services organizations and cloud service providers operating in the city. HK2 represents an investment of USD 63 million and extends Platform Equinix to a total of 99 data centers, across 38 strategic markets around the world.
The company avers that located near the existing HK1 IBX data center in the western part of the New Territories region, the first phase of HK2, an investment of USD 20 million (HKD 156M), will provide 450 cabinet equivalents, expanding to 1,450 at full build-out. With direct fiber connection to HK1, the HK2 IBX data center builds on the company's existing rich network density, providing customers with a wide range of connectivity options. Major networks operating within HK2 include PCCW and Wharf T&T.
It mentions that the HK2 facility will also meet an increase in demand for data center capacity driven by the appetite for cloud computing in the market. With its world leading broadband penetration and excellent international connectivity, coupled with good policy governance, Hong Kong is rapidly becoming a desired location for cloud service providers. HK2 will offer cloud service providers access to multiple networks, which is critical to enhance application performance and ensure redundancy. BrightHost, a leading supplier of high-capacity cloud infrastructure and web hosting solutions, deployed its cloud offering within the company's HK1 data center earlier this year to meet its blue-chip customers' requirement for a presence in Asia.
The company says that in addition to having access to a carrier neutral, dense network environment, businesses deployed in HK2 will be able to enjoy close proximity and access to a vast ecosystem of partners and potential customers, enabling them to maximize business opportunities within the data center. The HK2 IBX data center offers a variety of premium data center services including colocation, interconnection and peering and direct cross connect between networks. Customers will also have access to the Equinix Marketplace, giving them the ability to discover new partners and locate services where they are required. It adds that HK2 is the third new IBX data center to be opened by the company in the Asia-Pacific region this year as part of its plans to expand Platform Equinix in the region. Earlier this year the company opened IBX data centers in Sydney (SY3) and Tokyo (TY3) - the third in both cities.
"Commercial growth and the continuation of Hong Kong's dominance as a financial hub in Asia are key drivers of demand for data center services in the local market," said Alex Tam, Managing Director, Equinix Greater China. "Data centers are an essential part of the city's infrastructure and the opening of HK2 ensures the supply of data center availability needed to support the sustainable growth of traditional pillar industries such as financial services and trading."
"Hong Kong is a key location for regional and global businesses that are keen to expand operations and build business ecosystems in this important financial market. Our global reach also means that customers looking to enter new markets can do so confidently, knowing they will receive the same level of service. Growing our global platform allows us to meet customers' ongoing needs for premium, well-connected, data center services," added Tam.
Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, recently announced the opening of the first phase of its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Hong Kong. The new IBX data center, called HK2, was built to meet the increasing demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services, particularly from financial services organizations and cloud service providers operating in the city. HK2 represents an investment of USD 63 million and extends Platform Equinix to a total of 99 data centers, across 38 strategic markets around the world.
The company avers that located near the existing HK1 IBX data center in the western part of the New Territories region, the first phase of HK2, an investment of USD 20 million (HKD 156M), will provide 450 cabinet equivalents, expanding to 1,450 at full build-out. With direct fiber connection to HK1, the HK2 IBX data center builds on the company's existing rich network density, providing customers with a wide range of connectivity options. Major networks operating within HK2 include PCCW and Wharf T&T.
It mentions that the HK2 facility will also meet an increase in demand for data center capacity driven by the appetite for cloud computing in the market. With its world leading broadband penetration and excellent international connectivity, coupled with good policy governance, Hong Kong is rapidly becoming a desired location for cloud service providers. HK2 will offer cloud service providers access to multiple networks, which is critical to enhance application performance and ensure redundancy. BrightHost, a leading supplier of high-capacity cloud infrastructure and web hosting solutions, deployed its cloud offering within the company's HK1 data center earlier this year to meet its blue-chip customers' requirement for a presence in Asia.
The company says that in addition to having access to a carrier neutral, dense network environment, businesses deployed in HK2 will be able to enjoy close proximity and access to a vast ecosystem of partners and potential customers, enabling them to maximize business opportunities within the data center. The HK2 IBX data center offers a variety of premium data center services including colocation, interconnection and peering and direct cross connect between networks. Customers will also have access to the Equinix Marketplace, giving them the ability to discover new partners and locate services where they are required. It adds that HK2 is the third new IBX data center to be opened by the company in the Asia-Pacific region this year as part of its plans to expand Platform Equinix in the region. Earlier this year the company opened IBX data centers in Sydney (SY3) and Tokyo (TY3) - the third in both cities.
"Commercial growth and the continuation of Hong Kong's dominance as a financial hub in Asia are key drivers of demand for data center services in the local market," said Alex Tam, Managing Director, Equinix Greater China. "Data centers are an essential part of the city's infrastructure and the opening of HK2 ensures the supply of data center availability needed to support the sustainable growth of traditional pillar industries such as financial services and trading."
"Hong Kong is a key location for regional and global businesses that are keen to expand operations and build business ecosystems in this important financial market. Our global reach also means that customers looking to enter new markets can do so confidently, knowing they will receive the same level of service. Growing our global platform allows us to meet customers' ongoing needs for premium, well-connected, data center services," added Tam.
CloudSigma Launches First SSD Storage Product in Public Cloud IaaS
Company's SSD storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and allows for higher performance in multi-tenant, public cloud environments.
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, recently launched a solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo.
According to the company, the new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions' inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. With its SSD storage product, companies can achieve higher performance than dedicated or private cloud arrangements, even in a public cloud, multi-tenant environment. Being able to handle the explosion of Input/Output (I/O) operations caused by the increasing adoption of server virtualization was identified by the company at an early stage as a key success factor for its cloud.
It explains that the growth in large-scale virtual deployments has caused a surge in the amount of random I/Os between virtual machines (VMs) and magnetic storage systems. As I/O operations become even more random in multi-tenant, public cloud environments, magnetic storage solutions that rely on physical, spinning disks simply cannot keep up. Additionally, pathways to storage systems are only so big and this rise in errant I/Os causes a massive performance bottleneck for storage systems and networks. This is especially the case since magnetic storage products can only process thousands of I/O operations per second, meaning they force today's powerful CPUs to wait until the I/O transactions have completed, thereby holding up data access, resources and performance. With server virtualization sales for public clouds predicted to grow to USD 718 million by 2014, according to research from IDC, the storage I/O bottleneck will increasingly challenge companies investing in the cloud, creating poor price-performance, as well as cloud migration issues for infrastructure that requires stable, high-capacity storage performance.
The company further explains that with a solution like its SSD storage, however, companies have the ability to create a tiered storage system by staging critical application data and files on SSD, which effectively gets rid of the CPU wait time. This multi drive-to-server model significantly improves system performance, as eliminating CPU wait time results in better resource utilization and cost performance. Additionally, since SSD storage doesn't have physical moving parts like magnetic storage solutions, it can handle the more random nature of I/O loads in public cloud environments, while sustaining a higher level of performance and without slowing down. This allows for significantly higher I/O bandwidth with lower, more stable data access latencies. To support today's higher bandwidth and lower latency requirements, the company has already upgraded its cloud to 10GigE networking.
"Many companies try to tackle storage problems in the cloud by adding more servers with magnetic storage; however, this only creates a disparity in computing resources with under-utilized servers, over-provisioned storage drives, excessive costs and storage sprawl," said Patrick Baillie, CloudSigma CEO. "With our new SSD storage product, companies can, for the first time, easily handle the random nature of I/O loads in public clouds while minimizing necessary servers and realizing significant cost savings. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively."
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, recently launched a solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo.
According to the company, the new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions' inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. With its SSD storage product, companies can achieve higher performance than dedicated or private cloud arrangements, even in a public cloud, multi-tenant environment. Being able to handle the explosion of Input/Output (I/O) operations caused by the increasing adoption of server virtualization was identified by the company at an early stage as a key success factor for its cloud.
It explains that the growth in large-scale virtual deployments has caused a surge in the amount of random I/Os between virtual machines (VMs) and magnetic storage systems. As I/O operations become even more random in multi-tenant, public cloud environments, magnetic storage solutions that rely on physical, spinning disks simply cannot keep up. Additionally, pathways to storage systems are only so big and this rise in errant I/Os causes a massive performance bottleneck for storage systems and networks. This is especially the case since magnetic storage products can only process thousands of I/O operations per second, meaning they force today's powerful CPUs to wait until the I/O transactions have completed, thereby holding up data access, resources and performance. With server virtualization sales for public clouds predicted to grow to USD 718 million by 2014, according to research from IDC, the storage I/O bottleneck will increasingly challenge companies investing in the cloud, creating poor price-performance, as well as cloud migration issues for infrastructure that requires stable, high-capacity storage performance.
The company further explains that with a solution like its SSD storage, however, companies have the ability to create a tiered storage system by staging critical application data and files on SSD, which effectively gets rid of the CPU wait time. This multi drive-to-server model significantly improves system performance, as eliminating CPU wait time results in better resource utilization and cost performance. Additionally, since SSD storage doesn't have physical moving parts like magnetic storage solutions, it can handle the more random nature of I/O loads in public cloud environments, while sustaining a higher level of performance and without slowing down. This allows for significantly higher I/O bandwidth with lower, more stable data access latencies. To support today's higher bandwidth and lower latency requirements, the company has already upgraded its cloud to 10GigE networking.
"Many companies try to tackle storage problems in the cloud by adding more servers with magnetic storage; however, this only creates a disparity in computing resources with under-utilized servers, over-provisioned storage drives, excessive costs and storage sprawl," said Patrick Baillie, CloudSigma CEO. "With our new SSD storage product, companies can, for the first time, easily handle the random nature of I/O loads in public clouds while minimizing necessary servers and realizing significant cost savings. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively."
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Fujitsu Launches Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks)
DI Blocks enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers.
Fujitsu, a technology services and solutions provider, yesterday announced the global launch of Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks), which enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers. Enterprises gain a competitive edge from DI Blocks by ensuring that their IT operations are always available to meet changing business needs, and ready for on-premise private cloud infrastructures.
The company articulates that being a powerful but simple interface to fully-automated data center resources, DI Blocks are comprised of orchestrated server, storage, network, and virtualization technology, wrapped with integrated dynamic resource management software. Pools of infrastructure resources in data centers enable enterprises to quickly and easily provision IT services. As the needs of enterprise business change, DI Blocks provide an escape from the complexity and rigidity of last-generation silo technology. Data centers are transformed into highly-flexible and powerful automated pools of computing resources. Furthermore, integration and lifetime services including hardware and operating system maintenance can be provided by the company's consulting and operations support services.
It mentions that pre-integrated and factory-configured, customized DI Blocks enable enterprises to move towards scaled-out private cloud-based computing environments. Total cost of ownership is reduced by improving the overall use of server, storage, software, and networking components. IT resources are allocated on-demand, delivering improved productivity by provisioning logical infrastructure environments within minutes.
According to the company, enterprises can dynamically assign computing components as and when needed with management software such as its ServerView Resource Orchestrator which manages all physical and virtual elements, including leading virtualization technology from the company's partners, VMware and Microsoft. ServerView Resource Orchestrator supports the flexible and rapid utilization of IT resources in private clouds through dynamic resource management for physical and virtual computing resources and levers the company's public cloud expertise.
It says that DI Blocks are dedicated appliances for enterprise virtualization and private cloud infrastructures. The first set of DI Blocks will be commercially available in January 2012. Availability may vary by region. Pricing varies according to configuration. Starting at 48 cores, DI Blocks system configurations scale to more than 1700 Intel Xeon 5600 series cores, with memory of up to almost 21,000 GB and disk storage capacities of more than 900 TB, requiring 10 GB Ethernet or 8 GB Fiber Channel networks.
Yoichi Hori, President of Platform Software Unit at Fujitsu Limited said, "For enterprises, it is impossible to predict future resource requirements from IT systems, but with DI Blocks it is possible to create flexible, future-proof systems that are agile enough to meet ever-changing needs. This represents a major shift in how forward-looking companies are making the move to IT that supports their needs, rather than being restricted by rigid, outdated systems."
Fujitsu, a technology services and solutions provider, yesterday announced the global launch of Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks), which enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers. Enterprises gain a competitive edge from DI Blocks by ensuring that their IT operations are always available to meet changing business needs, and ready for on-premise private cloud infrastructures.
The company articulates that being a powerful but simple interface to fully-automated data center resources, DI Blocks are comprised of orchestrated server, storage, network, and virtualization technology, wrapped with integrated dynamic resource management software. Pools of infrastructure resources in data centers enable enterprises to quickly and easily provision IT services. As the needs of enterprise business change, DI Blocks provide an escape from the complexity and rigidity of last-generation silo technology. Data centers are transformed into highly-flexible and powerful automated pools of computing resources. Furthermore, integration and lifetime services including hardware and operating system maintenance can be provided by the company's consulting and operations support services.
It mentions that pre-integrated and factory-configured, customized DI Blocks enable enterprises to move towards scaled-out private cloud-based computing environments. Total cost of ownership is reduced by improving the overall use of server, storage, software, and networking components. IT resources are allocated on-demand, delivering improved productivity by provisioning logical infrastructure environments within minutes.
According to the company, enterprises can dynamically assign computing components as and when needed with management software such as its ServerView Resource Orchestrator which manages all physical and virtual elements, including leading virtualization technology from the company's partners, VMware and Microsoft. ServerView Resource Orchestrator supports the flexible and rapid utilization of IT resources in private clouds through dynamic resource management for physical and virtual computing resources and levers the company's public cloud expertise.
It says that DI Blocks are dedicated appliances for enterprise virtualization and private cloud infrastructures. The first set of DI Blocks will be commercially available in January 2012. Availability may vary by region. Pricing varies according to configuration. Starting at 48 cores, DI Blocks system configurations scale to more than 1700 Intel Xeon 5600 series cores, with memory of up to almost 21,000 GB and disk storage capacities of more than 900 TB, requiring 10 GB Ethernet or 8 GB Fiber Channel networks.
Yoichi Hori, President of Platform Software Unit at Fujitsu Limited said, "For enterprises, it is impossible to predict future resource requirements from IT systems, but with DI Blocks it is possible to create flexible, future-proof systems that are agile enough to meet ever-changing needs. This represents a major shift in how forward-looking companies are making the move to IT that supports their needs, rather than being restricted by rigid, outdated systems."
SunGard Availability Services Announces Managed Recovery Program
With this service, SunGard experts manage the entire recovery lifecycle for organizations, helping lower the cost, burden and risk in the recovery processes.
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of disaster recovery services, yesterday announced its Managed Recovery Program (MRP), a new offering that takes the pain out of application recovery for complex IT environments. With this service, SunGard experts manage the entire recovery lifecycle for organizations, helping lower the cost, burden and risk in the recovery processes. Organizations working with its Managed Recovery Program have been able to raise their confidence in recovery, while refocusing their efforts on primary production operations.
The company states that with the Managed Recovery Program, it goes beyond infrastructure and assumes complete responsibility from customer IT staffs for applications-focused recovery. The program includes planning, scoping, implementing, testing and operating recovery processes. Its programmatic approach helps customers identify and address root cause recovery pain points, such as change management for disaster recovery plans and procedures, and staff availability and skill levels needed to support testing and recovery activities. For each customer, the company assigns a service delivery manager who works as a seamless extension of the internal IT staff to coordinate testing activities and management of the recovery lifecycle.
It avers that the Managed Recovery Program includes all of the service components required to ensure successful application recovery throughout the entire recovery lifecycle including:
Definition and maintenance of recovery plans, procedures and recovery infrastructure configurations
Recovery procedure execution including startup of operating system, network and backup servers
Recovery management during disasters
Post-test reporting including detailed review of test activities, gap analysis, recommendations for improvements, remediation plans, program status reporting, contract maintenance and updates
"Managing applications recovery is a tough challenge in today's complex and changing applications environments, requiring specialized expertise, mature and repeatable best practices, and advanced recovery tools," said Larry Coble, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Recovery Services at SunGard Availability Services. "The Managed Recovery Program is unique in combining these elements to deliver confidence in applications recovery, using a lifecycle approach that enables recovery to stay current with production changes."
"SunGard's Managed Recovery Program alleviates the pain associated with application recovery and the related challenges of change management and updating recovery plans, by allowing organizations to outsource these critical but oftentimes neglected tasks," said Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, ESG. "SunGard's program is differentiated by addressing change management explicitly for each client organization, solving a root cause problem that too often undermines recovery planning. Organizations working with SunGard MRP can expect to avoid surprises in the recovery process which can lead to significant business impacts - and strengthen production operations as part of the package."
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of disaster recovery services, yesterday announced its Managed Recovery Program (MRP), a new offering that takes the pain out of application recovery for complex IT environments. With this service, SunGard experts manage the entire recovery lifecycle for organizations, helping lower the cost, burden and risk in the recovery processes. Organizations working with its Managed Recovery Program have been able to raise their confidence in recovery, while refocusing their efforts on primary production operations.
The company states that with the Managed Recovery Program, it goes beyond infrastructure and assumes complete responsibility from customer IT staffs for applications-focused recovery. The program includes planning, scoping, implementing, testing and operating recovery processes. Its programmatic approach helps customers identify and address root cause recovery pain points, such as change management for disaster recovery plans and procedures, and staff availability and skill levels needed to support testing and recovery activities. For each customer, the company assigns a service delivery manager who works as a seamless extension of the internal IT staff to coordinate testing activities and management of the recovery lifecycle.
It avers that the Managed Recovery Program includes all of the service components required to ensure successful application recovery throughout the entire recovery lifecycle including:
Definition and maintenance of recovery plans, procedures and recovery infrastructure configurations
Recovery procedure execution including startup of operating system, network and backup servers
Recovery management during disasters
Post-test reporting including detailed review of test activities, gap analysis, recommendations for improvements, remediation plans, program status reporting, contract maintenance and updates
"Managing applications recovery is a tough challenge in today's complex and changing applications environments, requiring specialized expertise, mature and repeatable best practices, and advanced recovery tools," said Larry Coble, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Recovery Services at SunGard Availability Services. "The Managed Recovery Program is unique in combining these elements to deliver confidence in applications recovery, using a lifecycle approach that enables recovery to stay current with production changes."
"SunGard's Managed Recovery Program alleviates the pain associated with application recovery and the related challenges of change management and updating recovery plans, by allowing organizations to outsource these critical but oftentimes neglected tasks," said Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, ESG. "SunGard's program is differentiated by addressing change management explicitly for each client organization, solving a root cause problem that too often undermines recovery planning. Organizations working with SunGard MRP can expect to avoid surprises in the recovery process which can lead to significant business impacts - and strengthen production operations as part of the package."
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
DiscountASP.NET Launches Premium Managed TFS Hosting Solutions
Company expands its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with managed TFS hosting services.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced expanding its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with managed TFS hosting services.
According to the company, the managed TFS hosting is a premium service that gives customers their own instance of Team Foundation Server on a dedicated VM which is not shared with any other customer. While source control and work item tracking is part of the managed TFS hosting solution, the customer also has the option for SharePoint and reporting as well. Managed TFS hosting is available in USA-based and Europe-based data centers.
"We are expanding our TFS hosting service in part by listening to feedback from our customer surveys," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "We heard that customers wanted more options and we are delivering on this. We will continue to improve and evolve our TFS hosting service."
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced expanding its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with managed TFS hosting services.
According to the company, the managed TFS hosting is a premium service that gives customers their own instance of Team Foundation Server on a dedicated VM which is not shared with any other customer. While source control and work item tracking is part of the managed TFS hosting solution, the customer also has the option for SharePoint and reporting as well. Managed TFS hosting is available in USA-based and Europe-based data centers.
"We are expanding our TFS hosting service in part by listening to feedback from our customer surveys," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "We heard that customers wanted more options and we are delivering on this. We will continue to improve and evolve our TFS hosting service."
SingleHop Releases Third Generation of LEAP
Complete redesign of interface & platform provides clients with a new level of on-demand control.
SingleHop, Inc., a dedicated and managed web hosting provider, recently announced the release of the third generation of LEAP, its proprietary infrastructure management platform. In addition to an entirely revamped interface, LEAP v3 offers clients true on-demand access to their systems, and enables clients to design infrastructure solutions from any combination of dedicated server, public or private cloud components.
The company articulates that core and unique to LEAP v3 is the Crowdsourced Marketplace, with the tag-line 'Infrastructure by Democracy'. The program allows anyone to join the community and design solutions for any particular application. Once designed, solutions can be submitted for approval, and if accepted, will be made available to other clients of the company. True to its on-demand nature, all IaaS products offered by the company, including solutions from the Crowdsourced Marketplace, can be deployed with one click through the LEAP Solutions Center.
It avers that LEAP v3 offers the following:
Ability to design hybrid solutions using a wide range of components & deploy with one click
Crowdsourced Marketplace allows hybrid solutions to be designed by the community, providing a wider range of ideas and possibilities
Organize and group any infrastructure components into solutions, which can be quickly deployed with the push of a button
Increased productivity for IT departments with a better range of IaaS management tools
Modernized user interface, designed to support hybrid computing and to facilitate agility and speed
"In LEAP v3, we've completely rewritten the book on how solutions are designed, deployed, and managed in the data center. Our clients can either build their own hybrid solution and deploy it from our new and robust Solutions Center, or they can leverage our Crowdsourced Marketplace to choose a solution designed by the independent systems architects, software companies, or other SingleHop clients," said Zak Boca, Chief Executive Officer.
"Providing high levels of automation has been at the core of our business strategy. Now, by giving our clients the ability to design and deploy their own hybrid solution, or use a solution available through our Crowdsourced Marketplace, we're even finding more ways to leverage the platform that we've built," said Marc Bollinger, Senior Project Manager.
SingleHop, Inc., a dedicated and managed web hosting provider, recently announced the release of the third generation of LEAP, its proprietary infrastructure management platform. In addition to an entirely revamped interface, LEAP v3 offers clients true on-demand access to their systems, and enables clients to design infrastructure solutions from any combination of dedicated server, public or private cloud components.
The company articulates that core and unique to LEAP v3 is the Crowdsourced Marketplace, with the tag-line 'Infrastructure by Democracy'. The program allows anyone to join the community and design solutions for any particular application. Once designed, solutions can be submitted for approval, and if accepted, will be made available to other clients of the company. True to its on-demand nature, all IaaS products offered by the company, including solutions from the Crowdsourced Marketplace, can be deployed with one click through the LEAP Solutions Center.
It avers that LEAP v3 offers the following:
Ability to design hybrid solutions using a wide range of components & deploy with one click
Crowdsourced Marketplace allows hybrid solutions to be designed by the community, providing a wider range of ideas and possibilities
Organize and group any infrastructure components into solutions, which can be quickly deployed with the push of a button
Increased productivity for IT departments with a better range of IaaS management tools
Modernized user interface, designed to support hybrid computing and to facilitate agility and speed
"In LEAP v3, we've completely rewritten the book on how solutions are designed, deployed, and managed in the data center. Our clients can either build their own hybrid solution and deploy it from our new and robust Solutions Center, or they can leverage our Crowdsourced Marketplace to choose a solution designed by the independent systems architects, software companies, or other SingleHop clients," said Zak Boca, Chief Executive Officer.
"Providing high levels of automation has been at the core of our business strategy. Now, by giving our clients the ability to design and deploy their own hybrid solution, or use a solution available through our Crowdsourced Marketplace, we're even finding more ways to leverage the platform that we've built," said Marc Bollinger, Senior Project Manager.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
SoftLayer Partners with RightScale
Collaboration and integration gives customers the power to manage workloads on the company's global cloud infrastructure using the RightScale Cloud Management Platform.
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, alongwith RightScale, Inc., a provider of cloud computing management services, today announced that they are developing the ability to manage and deploy the company's cloud computing services through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Customers will be able to globally deploy, automate and manage their toughest computing workloads utilizing RightScale cloud management on the company's public and private cloud infrastructure.
It states that with this partnership, customers will be able to choose and deploy workloads on the company's global cloud infrastructure based in the US, Europe and Asia with RightScale Cloud Management. With a global footprint of 13 data centers, it will be the first to offer a mainland Europe public cloud through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The RightScale Cloud Management Platform provides pre-built Server Templates for faster cloud on-boarding and automation capabilities for increased efficiency. This partnership will also provide customers with access to the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace that includes pre-built cloud Server Templates, scripts, and architectures published by RightScale, ISV, and SI partners. All of these pre-built configurations are fully customizable and provide a variety of solutions to get started ranging from standard application stacks to database solutions.
The company further states that its cloud servers, part of its family of CloudLayer services, leverage its proprietary network architecture to allow seamless integration of virtual and dedicated computing resources. These hybrid environments can be managed through a single Customer Portal and API, providing the highest level of efficiency, control, and scalability. With RightScale, customers will have the ability to manage the company's public and private cloud workloads through a 'single pane of glass' with portability across private and public clouds.
"We are excited to partner with RightScale and empower customers to leverage our services' unique advantages with RightScale cloud computing management," said Duke Skarda, SoftLayer Chief Technology Officer. "The benefits that RightScale has brought to the marketplace align directly with our founding mission to provide customers total flexibility and control."
"SoftLayer has created an impressive cloud offering with a truly global service. We look forward to the partnership, supporting their growing cloud services and global rollout," said Michael Crandell, Co-founder and CEO of RightScale. "RightScale is committed to supporting major cloud infrastructure providers such as SoftLayer and offering the highest caliber of management solutions for their customers."
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, alongwith RightScale, Inc., a provider of cloud computing management services, today announced that they are developing the ability to manage and deploy the company's cloud computing services through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Customers will be able to globally deploy, automate and manage their toughest computing workloads utilizing RightScale cloud management on the company's public and private cloud infrastructure.
It states that with this partnership, customers will be able to choose and deploy workloads on the company's global cloud infrastructure based in the US, Europe and Asia with RightScale Cloud Management. With a global footprint of 13 data centers, it will be the first to offer a mainland Europe public cloud through the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The RightScale Cloud Management Platform provides pre-built Server Templates for faster cloud on-boarding and automation capabilities for increased efficiency. This partnership will also provide customers with access to the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace that includes pre-built cloud Server Templates, scripts, and architectures published by RightScale, ISV, and SI partners. All of these pre-built configurations are fully customizable and provide a variety of solutions to get started ranging from standard application stacks to database solutions.
The company further states that its cloud servers, part of its family of CloudLayer services, leverage its proprietary network architecture to allow seamless integration of virtual and dedicated computing resources. These hybrid environments can be managed through a single Customer Portal and API, providing the highest level of efficiency, control, and scalability. With RightScale, customers will have the ability to manage the company's public and private cloud workloads through a 'single pane of glass' with portability across private and public clouds.
"We are excited to partner with RightScale and empower customers to leverage our services' unique advantages with RightScale cloud computing management," said Duke Skarda, SoftLayer Chief Technology Officer. "The benefits that RightScale has brought to the marketplace align directly with our founding mission to provide customers total flexibility and control."
"SoftLayer has created an impressive cloud offering with a truly global service. We look forward to the partnership, supporting their growing cloud services and global rollout," said Michael Crandell, Co-founder and CEO of RightScale. "RightScale is committed to supporting major cloud infrastructure providers such as SoftLayer and offering the highest caliber of management solutions for their customers."
Neutral Tandem to Offer Cloud-Based Unified Communications
New service will utilize Cisco's hosted collaboration solution platform to offer VARs and Integrators Turn-Key, Hosted UC solutions.
Neutral Tandem, Inc., a provider of interconnection services, yesterday announced its plans to introduce the first cloud-based collaboration service in the United States specifically developed to be resold by Cisco's Value-Added Reseller (VAR) community and System Integrators (SIs). The new cloud-based service is based on Cisco's next-generation Unified Communications infrastructure and will leverage the company's expertise in operating and managing IP networks. It has entered into HCS Trial agreements with select Cisco authorized VARs and is trialing the service with them.
The company articulates that the service, based on Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS), will enable VARs/SIs to deliver a full suite of unified communication and collaboration applications, including Single Number Reach, Integrated Messaging and Presence, Video Calling and WebEx integration. HCS provides support for single site, multi-site and hybrid premise-based implementations that allow significant flexibility to business customers. This solution will enable VARs/SIs to sell a monthly subscription based solution under their own brand. Additionally, VARs/SIs can provide customized solutions to their client base by overlaying HCS with their own managed services. This will offer VARs/SIs the unique opportunity to differentiate themselves while growing their revenue predictably and without heavy front-end CAPEX costs for themselves or their customers.
It mentions that the service will provide a robust set of tools necessary for Cisco VARs/SIs to sell and manage the full suite of HCS services. This new service is designed to integrate with a VAR's/SI's existing unified communications and collaboration services provisioning and management processes. Furthermore, its focus on providing solutions to the wholesale market will preserve the end-user customer relationships with the VAR/SI.
According to the company, Cisco's research shows that the market for hosted unified communications and collaboration solutions is growing significantly. By 2013, hosted collaboration is projected to grow to $8 billion, comprising 31 percent of the Unified Communications market. Reselling the company's wholesale HCS offering will allow VARs/SIs to meet the growing demand for cloud solutions.
"We are excited to develop this new hosted offer together with Cisco and expand our product portfolio to include cloud-based services that will help companies cost effectively meet the unified communication needs of the market," added Surendra Saboo, President and COO of Neutral Tandem. "This will be an ideal way for VARs and system integrators to be able to offer a Hosted Collaboration Solution to their enterprise customers while benefiting from a new stream of recurring revenue."
"Cisco has a range of go-to-market strategies to meet the growing demand for cloud collaboration services and Neutral Tandem's white label offering of HCS is one model that presents a significant business opportunity for channel partners," said Richard McLeod, Senior Director for Cisco's Worldwide Partner Collaboration Sales and Practice Management. "As the first US-based partner to bring a white-label HCS offering to market, Neutral Tandem will help VARs and integrators drive growth and profitability while providing end customers with a proven collaboration solution."
Nexus IS, Inc., a Cisco Gold Certified Partner focused on offering collaboration, data center, borderless networks, business video and managed services, is the first Cisco channel partner to trial the company's new HCS offer. "We are pleased to be involved in the proof-of-concept phase for Cisco Systems and Neutral Tandem's new collaborative HCS solution. We are particularly impressed by Neutral Tandem's detailed understanding of the market and network neutrality. Our customers have been asking for a solution like this and Neutral Tandem's network neutrality is what drew us to their offer," said Mike Heiman, VP of Engineering of Nexus IS, Inc. "This is a great program that will provide us the ability to differentiate ourselves while competing more effectively."
Neutral Tandem, Inc., a provider of interconnection services, yesterday announced its plans to introduce the first cloud-based collaboration service in the United States specifically developed to be resold by Cisco's Value-Added Reseller (VAR) community and System Integrators (SIs). The new cloud-based service is based on Cisco's next-generation Unified Communications infrastructure and will leverage the company's expertise in operating and managing IP networks. It has entered into HCS Trial agreements with select Cisco authorized VARs and is trialing the service with them.
The company articulates that the service, based on Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS), will enable VARs/SIs to deliver a full suite of unified communication and collaboration applications, including Single Number Reach, Integrated Messaging and Presence, Video Calling and WebEx integration. HCS provides support for single site, multi-site and hybrid premise-based implementations that allow significant flexibility to business customers. This solution will enable VARs/SIs to sell a monthly subscription based solution under their own brand. Additionally, VARs/SIs can provide customized solutions to their client base by overlaying HCS with their own managed services. This will offer VARs/SIs the unique opportunity to differentiate themselves while growing their revenue predictably and without heavy front-end CAPEX costs for themselves or their customers.
It mentions that the service will provide a robust set of tools necessary for Cisco VARs/SIs to sell and manage the full suite of HCS services. This new service is designed to integrate with a VAR's/SI's existing unified communications and collaboration services provisioning and management processes. Furthermore, its focus on providing solutions to the wholesale market will preserve the end-user customer relationships with the VAR/SI.
According to the company, Cisco's research shows that the market for hosted unified communications and collaboration solutions is growing significantly. By 2013, hosted collaboration is projected to grow to $8 billion, comprising 31 percent of the Unified Communications market. Reselling the company's wholesale HCS offering will allow VARs/SIs to meet the growing demand for cloud solutions.
"We are excited to develop this new hosted offer together with Cisco and expand our product portfolio to include cloud-based services that will help companies cost effectively meet the unified communication needs of the market," added Surendra Saboo, President and COO of Neutral Tandem. "This will be an ideal way for VARs and system integrators to be able to offer a Hosted Collaboration Solution to their enterprise customers while benefiting from a new stream of recurring revenue."
"Cisco has a range of go-to-market strategies to meet the growing demand for cloud collaboration services and Neutral Tandem's white label offering of HCS is one model that presents a significant business opportunity for channel partners," said Richard McLeod, Senior Director for Cisco's Worldwide Partner Collaboration Sales and Practice Management. "As the first US-based partner to bring a white-label HCS offering to market, Neutral Tandem will help VARs and integrators drive growth and profitability while providing end customers with a proven collaboration solution."
Nexus IS, Inc., a Cisco Gold Certified Partner focused on offering collaboration, data center, borderless networks, business video and managed services, is the first Cisco channel partner to trial the company's new HCS offer. "We are pleased to be involved in the proof-of-concept phase for Cisco Systems and Neutral Tandem's new collaborative HCS solution. We are particularly impressed by Neutral Tandem's detailed understanding of the market and network neutrality. Our customers have been asking for a solution like this and Neutral Tandem's network neutrality is what drew us to their offer," said Mike Heiman, VP of Engineering of Nexus IS, Inc. "This is a great program that will provide us the ability to differentiate ourselves while competing more effectively."
OpSource Announces Availability of Cloud Software
Solution enables organizations to consume enterprise products such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and database and middleware platforms on a pay-for-use basis.
OpSource, Inc., a provider of outsourced IT infrastructure services, yesterday announced the launch of OpSource Cloud Software, a commercial software solution that enables organizations to consume enterprise products such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and leading database and middleware platforms on a pay-for-use basis. The company claims that available on demand and priced hourly and monthly, OpSource Cloud Software has been tested by it and is enterprise-ready, making it ideal for testing and development as well as production environments. Because this new offering enables organizations to more efficiently consume software, companies are able to realize a level of cost savings previously only attained with cloud-based infrastructure services.
It avers that Cloud Software is ideal for SaaS ISVs and mid-sized businesses that want to reduce software licensing costs for temporary application testing and development as well as launching new application initiatives. Available in two different pricing models, Cloud Software is enterprise-ready, offering organizations the security, flexibility and proven support typically associated with its cloud-based offerings.
The company says that Cloud Software is available for popular commercial software including, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and leading enterprise database and middleware platforms. The company is able to support monthly and hourly pricing models to accommodate software that is priced per server or per CPU:
Per Server priced Cloud Software incurs a specific rate per hour when a server is running and a specific rate per hour when a server is stopped. This hourly rate is the same regardless of the number of CPUs configured on the server.
Per CPU priced Cloud Software incurs a specific rate per hour per CPU when a server is running and a specific rate per hour per CPU when a server is stopped. In this case, the overall rate varies based on the number of CPU associated with the server.
It adds that the company will continue to add Cloud Software from other vendors based on client demand and successful integration testing.
"To date, organizations that want to take advantage of the productivity gains and cost reductions associated with cloud-based services have only benefited from half of the equation," said Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource. "Cloud computing infrastructure as a service has made a big impact on reducing IT expense, but the full savings cannot be realized as long as companies are still paying full licensing fees for temporary workloads. With Cloud Software, businesses can consume software the same way they consumer infrastructure - conveniently while paying for only what is needed."
"OpSource continuing to innovate in cloud offerings," said Charlie Burns, Vice President, Saugatuck, an IT research and advisory firm specializing in SaaS and cloud infrastructure. "The reality is that not all commercial software is available with 'on-demand' licensing and pricing. Conventional software licensing fees can easily exceed the cost of cloud computing resources. OpSource has recognized this and is striving to better align the economics of software licensing and cloud infrastructure."
OpSource, Inc., a provider of outsourced IT infrastructure services, yesterday announced the launch of OpSource Cloud Software, a commercial software solution that enables organizations to consume enterprise products such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and leading database and middleware platforms on a pay-for-use basis. The company claims that available on demand and priced hourly and monthly, OpSource Cloud Software has been tested by it and is enterprise-ready, making it ideal for testing and development as well as production environments. Because this new offering enables organizations to more efficiently consume software, companies are able to realize a level of cost savings previously only attained with cloud-based infrastructure services.
It avers that Cloud Software is ideal for SaaS ISVs and mid-sized businesses that want to reduce software licensing costs for temporary application testing and development as well as launching new application initiatives. Available in two different pricing models, Cloud Software is enterprise-ready, offering organizations the security, flexibility and proven support typically associated with its cloud-based offerings.
The company says that Cloud Software is available for popular commercial software including, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and leading enterprise database and middleware platforms. The company is able to support monthly and hourly pricing models to accommodate software that is priced per server or per CPU:
Per Server priced Cloud Software incurs a specific rate per hour when a server is running and a specific rate per hour when a server is stopped. This hourly rate is the same regardless of the number of CPUs configured on the server.
Per CPU priced Cloud Software incurs a specific rate per hour per CPU when a server is running and a specific rate per hour per CPU when a server is stopped. In this case, the overall rate varies based on the number of CPU associated with the server.
It adds that the company will continue to add Cloud Software from other vendors based on client demand and successful integration testing.
"To date, organizations that want to take advantage of the productivity gains and cost reductions associated with cloud-based services have only benefited from half of the equation," said Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource. "Cloud computing infrastructure as a service has made a big impact on reducing IT expense, but the full savings cannot be realized as long as companies are still paying full licensing fees for temporary workloads. With Cloud Software, businesses can consume software the same way they consumer infrastructure - conveniently while paying for only what is needed."
"OpSource continuing to innovate in cloud offerings," said Charlie Burns, Vice President, Saugatuck, an IT research and advisory firm specializing in SaaS and cloud infrastructure. "The reality is that not all commercial software is available with 'on-demand' licensing and pricing. Conventional software licensing fees can easily exceed the cost of cloud computing resources. OpSource has recognized this and is striving to better align the economics of software licensing and cloud infrastructure."
Saturday, November 5, 2011
ZNet Wins The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2011 Award
Company is ranked number 19th fastest growing technology company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2011.
ZNet Technologies, a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced that it ranked number 19th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2011, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in India. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over three years.
The company says that it grew 193% percent during this period. The company previously won Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2010 & Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010.
ZNet Technologies Pvt Ltd's CEO, Munesh Jadoun, credits best customer services, right pricing & updated products/services for the company's 193% revenue growth over the past three years. He said, "We are happy to be awarded with the Fast 50 India 2011 Award for the second time. The growth of ZNet is phenomenal not only in terms of revenue but also in terms of customer service too. We thank Deloitte for conducting this award in order to felicitate the best growing companies of India."
"Making the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is commendable in today's highly competitive technology industry," said P N Sudarshan, Senior Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Private Limited (partner in charge of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 India program). "We congratulate ZNet Technologies Pvt Ltd on being one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in India."
ZNet Technologies, a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced that it ranked number 19th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2011, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in India. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over three years.
The company says that it grew 193% percent during this period. The company previously won Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2010 & Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010.
ZNet Technologies Pvt Ltd's CEO, Munesh Jadoun, credits best customer services, right pricing & updated products/services for the company's 193% revenue growth over the past three years. He said, "We are happy to be awarded with the Fast 50 India 2011 Award for the second time. The growth of ZNet is phenomenal not only in terms of revenue but also in terms of customer service too. We thank Deloitte for conducting this award in order to felicitate the best growing companies of India."
"Making the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is commendable in today's highly competitive technology industry," said P N Sudarshan, Senior Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Private Limited (partner in charge of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 India program). "We congratulate ZNet Technologies Pvt Ltd on being one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in India."
Friday, November 4, 2011
Lumison Names Non-Executive Chairman
Pieter Knook joins the company to develop future growth strategies to support its aggressive expansion plans.
Lumison, a web hosting provider, yesterday announced the appointment of Pieter Knook as Non-executive Chairman. Knook joins the company to develop future growth strategies to support its aggressive expansion plans. It recently announced the acquisition of Dedipower Managed Hosting Ltd. This acquisition was part of the company's business growth strategy, which has seen its revenues increase from GBP 6.4m to GBP 27.5m over the last three years.
The company avers that Knook brings a deep knowledge of internet, mobile and cloud-based services, which he will utilize within the company as it aims to become the largest UK managed services company to specifically serve the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. At Vodafone, Knook was responsible for Internet Services, building a suite of cloud based services to reinvent Vodafone Live.
It mentions that the company will focus on providing practical, cost-effective solutions to customers' business IT issues, by providing reliable IT infrastructure-as-a-service, as the need for a scalable and flexible way of working grows. It offers colocation, managed hosting and cloud services to UK 'mid market' companies hosting their online operations, business applications and development environments. It employs 130 staff across the UK and provides managed IT services to 2500 British businesses.
Lumison, a web hosting provider, yesterday announced the appointment of Pieter Knook as Non-executive Chairman. Knook joins the company to develop future growth strategies to support its aggressive expansion plans. It recently announced the acquisition of Dedipower Managed Hosting Ltd. This acquisition was part of the company's business growth strategy, which has seen its revenues increase from GBP 6.4m to GBP 27.5m over the last three years.
The company avers that Knook brings a deep knowledge of internet, mobile and cloud-based services, which he will utilize within the company as it aims to become the largest UK managed services company to specifically serve the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. At Vodafone, Knook was responsible for Internet Services, building a suite of cloud based services to reinvent Vodafone Live.
It mentions that the company will focus on providing practical, cost-effective solutions to customers' business IT issues, by providing reliable IT infrastructure-as-a-service, as the need for a scalable and flexible way of working grows. It offers colocation, managed hosting and cloud services to UK 'mid market' companies hosting their online operations, business applications and development environments. It employs 130 staff across the UK and provides managed IT services to 2500 British businesses.
CoreXchange Offers Online Ordering Through Enhanced Website
In addition to new low pricing, the company is waiving the set up fee on all orders placed online by November 30th.
CoreXchange, a colocation and internet services provider, recently announced the release of its new online ordering of enterprise-level colocation and bandwidth solutions. In addition to new low pricing, the company is waiving the set up fee on all orders placed online by November 30th.
The company claims that its bundled colocation packages include all the space, power, bandwidth and security for the most demanding data center and networking requirements. All solutions include options for the following features:
Simplified colocation and connectivity solutions
All colocation packages include space, power, bandwidth, and IP addresses
100% power and network SLA's available
Bandwidth from 1 Mbps to 1000 Mbps (up to 10 Gig available)
Burstable or unmetered bandwidth options
Selections for redundant power drops, network handoffs and cross connects
Basic or advanced monitoring and off-site data storage options available
Economical and flexible pricing options:
Half Cabinet - from USD 299 month with USD 299 setup fee
Full Cabinet - from USD 399 with USD 399 setup fee
Private Cages - from USD 1899 with USD 1996 setup fee
According to it, the company offers all the same enterprise-level features and benefits online with a professional and knowledgeable sales staff available to assist with orders. Advantages include:
Scalable Data Center Space
SAS70 Type II audited data center facilities (currently under SSAE16 audit)
Facilities designed and managed by the company
Redundant power and HVAC cooling systems
High Performance Network
Premium bandwidth mesh of multiple, Tier-1 internet carriers with BGP routing
Latest generation routing and switching equipment
Carrier neutral options available
Owned and managed transport to Equinix with access to all Equinix carriers
Onsite Support and Secure Access
24-hour onsite NOC support
FREE Remote hands and eyes services including reboots
24/7/365 physical access for customers
Pre-approved control access list with ID check-in plus secure badge system
CoreXchange, a colocation and internet services provider, recently announced the release of its new online ordering of enterprise-level colocation and bandwidth solutions. In addition to new low pricing, the company is waiving the set up fee on all orders placed online by November 30th.
The company claims that its bundled colocation packages include all the space, power, bandwidth and security for the most demanding data center and networking requirements. All solutions include options for the following features:
Simplified colocation and connectivity solutions
All colocation packages include space, power, bandwidth, and IP addresses
100% power and network SLA's available
Bandwidth from 1 Mbps to 1000 Mbps (up to 10 Gig available)
Burstable or unmetered bandwidth options
Selections for redundant power drops, network handoffs and cross connects
Basic or advanced monitoring and off-site data storage options available
Economical and flexible pricing options:
Half Cabinet - from USD 299 month with USD 299 setup fee
Full Cabinet - from USD 399 with USD 399 setup fee
Private Cages - from USD 1899 with USD 1996 setup fee
According to it, the company offers all the same enterprise-level features and benefits online with a professional and knowledgeable sales staff available to assist with orders. Advantages include:
Scalable Data Center Space
SAS70 Type II audited data center facilities (currently under SSAE16 audit)
Facilities designed and managed by the company
Redundant power and HVAC cooling systems
High Performance Network
Premium bandwidth mesh of multiple, Tier-1 internet carriers with BGP routing
Latest generation routing and switching equipment
Carrier neutral options available
Owned and managed transport to Equinix with access to all Equinix carriers
Onsite Support and Secure Access
24-hour onsite NOC support
FREE Remote hands and eyes services including reboots
24/7/365 physical access for customers
Pre-approved control access list with ID check-in plus secure badge system
Rackspace Joins EMC Velocity Service Provider Partner Program
Relationship to broaden IT buyers' access to cloud-based services.
Rackspace Hosting, a web hosting company, yesterday announced that it will expand its relationship with EMC by joining the EMC Velocity Service Provider Program to develop new cloud-based service offerings. The two companies have collaborated since 2001 to bring a full range of innovative solutions leveraging EMC's portfolio of information infrastructure products including virtual storage and a range of cloud-based data management services.
The company avers that with the expanded relationship, the two companies will work together on new, joint solutions that will enable enterprises to optimize efficiencies and reduce costs. Through the Velocity Service Provider Partner Program, EMC will work with the company to enable it to deliver a wide variety of cloud-based IT services to the global IT market.
It mentions that current service offerings include Rackspace managed Enterprise Private Clouds that are based on EMC Symmetrix VMAX and EMC VNX unified storage to deliver enterprise storage area networks. Additionally, the company provides data replication services based on EMC RecoverPoint, EMC Data Domain, and EMC Isilon products. Rackspace also offers EMC solutions with Fanatical Support, giving end-users a wider choice of cloud-based IT strategies and tactical advantages such as cost savings, flexibility and scalability coupled with world-class support to boost its efficiency.
"Our end-users will benefit from the relationship between EMC and Rackspace as it provides the IT solutions from both companies on one seamless offering while lowering costs," said Jim Lewandowski, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Rackspace. "In the past, meeting computing needs meant you had to buy servers, hire technical talent and then continually reinvest to keep up with technology. Now the end-users can shift their focus to their mission-critical apps, core competencies and innovation while being supported by our hallmark Fanatical Support."
"As long time partners, the expansion of our relationship to develop new cloud-based solutions is a natural evolution. Rackspace's rock solid foundation and world class Fanatical Support combined with EMC's portfolio of products that are optimized for virtual environments will enable Rackspace to deliver innovative cloud computing offerings," said EMC's Dennis Hoffman, Senior Vice President, Service Providers. "EMC is committed to working with service providers like Rackspace to deliver trusted, enterprise-class cloud services that allow our mutual customers to choose the right source for every IT workload."
Rackspace Hosting, a web hosting company, yesterday announced that it will expand its relationship with EMC by joining the EMC Velocity Service Provider Program to develop new cloud-based service offerings. The two companies have collaborated since 2001 to bring a full range of innovative solutions leveraging EMC's portfolio of information infrastructure products including virtual storage and a range of cloud-based data management services.
The company avers that with the expanded relationship, the two companies will work together on new, joint solutions that will enable enterprises to optimize efficiencies and reduce costs. Through the Velocity Service Provider Partner Program, EMC will work with the company to enable it to deliver a wide variety of cloud-based IT services to the global IT market.
It mentions that current service offerings include Rackspace managed Enterprise Private Clouds that are based on EMC Symmetrix VMAX and EMC VNX unified storage to deliver enterprise storage area networks. Additionally, the company provides data replication services based on EMC RecoverPoint, EMC Data Domain, and EMC Isilon products. Rackspace also offers EMC solutions with Fanatical Support, giving end-users a wider choice of cloud-based IT strategies and tactical advantages such as cost savings, flexibility and scalability coupled with world-class support to boost its efficiency.
"Our end-users will benefit from the relationship between EMC and Rackspace as it provides the IT solutions from both companies on one seamless offering while lowering costs," said Jim Lewandowski, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Rackspace. "In the past, meeting computing needs meant you had to buy servers, hire technical talent and then continually reinvest to keep up with technology. Now the end-users can shift their focus to their mission-critical apps, core competencies and innovation while being supported by our hallmark Fanatical Support."
"As long time partners, the expansion of our relationship to develop new cloud-based solutions is a natural evolution. Rackspace's rock solid foundation and world class Fanatical Support combined with EMC's portfolio of products that are optimized for virtual environments will enable Rackspace to deliver innovative cloud computing offerings," said EMC's Dennis Hoffman, Senior Vice President, Service Providers. "EMC is committed to working with service providers like Rackspace to deliver trusted, enterprise-class cloud services that allow our mutual customers to choose the right source for every IT workload."
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Nicline Extends .EU Promotion
Company will be offering discount on .EU domains till 30th November.
Nicline, an ICANN accredited Registrar for domain name resellers, today announced that it has extended its .EU promotion till 30th November, 2011.
The company articulates that .EU domains can be registered under promotion for EUR 3 only (regular price: from EUR 6.19). .EU domain celebrated its fifth birthday last April 2011 with 3.4 million domains registered. Since it was first launched in 2006, European users trust in .EU extension, number of registered domain names has doubled. In the last months, .EU domain names registrations have increased in 16 European Union countries, which show a growing interest among European Union businesses, organizations and residents.
Nicline, an ICANN accredited Registrar for domain name resellers, today announced that it has extended its .EU promotion till 30th November, 2011.
The company articulates that .EU domains can be registered under promotion for EUR 3 only (regular price: from EUR 6.19). .EU domain celebrated its fifth birthday last April 2011 with 3.4 million domains registered. Since it was first launched in 2006, European users trust in .EU extension, number of registered domain names has doubled. In the last months, .EU domain names registrations have increased in 16 European Union countries, which show a growing interest among European Union businesses, organizations and residents.
1&1 Launches Domain Registration Mobile App
Company makes domain registration possible from anywhere with mobile apps.
1&1 Internet Ltd, a web hosting company, yesterday announced that it has developed a Smartphone app which makes it possible to order a domain anywhere and at any time.
The company says that the new Domain Order App runs on iPhone, iPod Touch and Android-based Smartphones. Downloads are available for free under the following links:
iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-1-domains/id468630810
Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=de.oneandone.de.domainordering&hl=en
According to it, the free app is easy to use. After downloading it from Apple iTunes or Google Android Market, a customer only needs to register with their 1&1 customer ID and password. Then he or she can just order a domain when on the go - for instance, while one is traveling to a meeting. The availability of the domain will be checked through an automatic 'Who is' query integrated into the app. The company adds that within its many special offers, many domains are greatly reduced in price. For example, a Top Level Domain such as .COM, is available for USD 0.99 a year.
1&1 Internet Ltd, a web hosting company, yesterday announced that it has developed a Smartphone app which makes it possible to order a domain anywhere and at any time.
The company says that the new Domain Order App runs on iPhone, iPod Touch and Android-based Smartphones. Downloads are available for free under the following links:
iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-1-domains/id468630810
Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=de.oneandone.de.domainordering&hl=en
According to it, the free app is easy to use. After downloading it from Apple iTunes or Google Android Market, a customer only needs to register with their 1&1 customer ID and password. Then he or she can just order a domain when on the go - for instance, while one is traveling to a meeting. The availability of the domain will be checked through an automatic 'Who is' query integrated into the app. The company adds that within its many special offers, many domains are greatly reduced in price. For example, a Top Level Domain such as .COM, is available for USD 0.99 a year.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
LogicBoxes Crosses 6 Million Domains
Company now powers 6 Million Domain Names on its proprietary platform - OrderBox.
LogicBoxes, a Registrar software and consulting company, today announced that it has crossed the 6 Million mark for Domains registered through its platform - OrderBox.
It took the company a little under a year to grow from 4 Million to 5 Million Domains, a milestone it crossed at the start of this year. Comparatively, the latest Million was achieved in just over 9 months!
The company owes this achievement to its extensive channel partner network that includes 90+ ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars and over 60,000+ Resellers. Every partner has access to a basket of 50+ Domain Name extensions and Web Service products like Web Hosting, Email Hosting, Website Builders and Digital Certificates. This has allowed each partner to quickly setup successful online businesses and play a first-hand role in increasing the online penetration of their local region.
"We've been consistently introducing newer TLDs and products into the system to ensure that our Registrars have all the tools they need to capture their target markets," said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, LogicBoxes. "We've also been working closely with various Domain Registries to garner the best domain rates for our Registrars and plan on further boosting these activities in the coming months."
About LogicBoxes:
LogicBoxes is a Web Products and Consulting Company that specializes in providing private labeled, web presence and communication applications to ICANN Registrars, Large Web Hosts, Domain Resellers, ISPs and Telcos via a turnkey SaaS platform which provides end-to-end business automation to our clients. LogicBoxes is also the world's premiere ICANN Accreditation Consultancy provider. Through Accreditation.com, we enable clients to obtain an ICANN Accreditation with minimal time or cost commitments from their side.
Over 20% of the world's ICANN Accredited Registrars have been accredited through its consultancy service. LogicBoxes' product portfolio includes a comprehensive provisioning & management platform for various web products and services such as Domain Registration, Windows/Linux Web Hosting, Email Hosting, SSL, Website Builder etc. LogicBoxes recently launched their FREE DNS Service and other products such as Domain and Mail Forwarding and Chat (IM) are expected to go free shortly. For more details, visit http://www.logicboxes.com.
LogicBoxes, a Registrar software and consulting company, today announced that it has crossed the 6 Million mark for Domains registered through its platform - OrderBox.
It took the company a little under a year to grow from 4 Million to 5 Million Domains, a milestone it crossed at the start of this year. Comparatively, the latest Million was achieved in just over 9 months!
The company owes this achievement to its extensive channel partner network that includes 90+ ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars and over 60,000+ Resellers. Every partner has access to a basket of 50+ Domain Name extensions and Web Service products like Web Hosting, Email Hosting, Website Builders and Digital Certificates. This has allowed each partner to quickly setup successful online businesses and play a first-hand role in increasing the online penetration of their local region.
"We've been consistently introducing newer TLDs and products into the system to ensure that our Registrars have all the tools they need to capture their target markets," said Sandeep Ramchandani, Director, LogicBoxes. "We've also been working closely with various Domain Registries to garner the best domain rates for our Registrars and plan on further boosting these activities in the coming months."
About LogicBoxes:
LogicBoxes is a Web Products and Consulting Company that specializes in providing private labeled, web presence and communication applications to ICANN Registrars, Large Web Hosts, Domain Resellers, ISPs and Telcos via a turnkey SaaS platform which provides end-to-end business automation to our clients. LogicBoxes is also the world's premiere ICANN Accreditation Consultancy provider. Through Accreditation.com, we enable clients to obtain an ICANN Accreditation with minimal time or cost commitments from their side.
Over 20% of the world's ICANN Accredited Registrars have been accredited through its consultancy service. LogicBoxes' product portfolio includes a comprehensive provisioning & management platform for various web products and services such as Domain Registration, Windows/Linux Web Hosting, Email Hosting, SSL, Website Builder etc. LogicBoxes recently launched their FREE DNS Service and other products such as Domain and Mail Forwarding and Chat (IM) are expected to go free shortly. For more details, visit http://www.logicboxes.com.
Peak 10 Opens Third Data Center in Louisville
New facility continues company's expansion and growth strategy for 2011.
Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company, yesterday announced the opening of its third enterprise-class facility contiguous with current operations in Louisville. Ky. The 11,500 square-foot addition brings its total footprint to nearly 25,000 square feet and is the company's 20th data center facility within its 10 US markets.
The company mentions that the third Louisville data center is engineered with multiple levels of security, uninterruptible power, HVAC systems, fire suppression and around-the-clock monitoring and management. It is interconnected with the company's private network, providing customers with the advantage of highly available internet access and the ability to leverage 17 data centers in nine other markets when implementing disaster recovery solutions.
The company states that to ensure an unparalleled level of stability and facility integrity, the new Louisville site underwent a formal commissioning process prior to customer installations. Leveraging an industry-leading facilities engineering and IT consulting firm, its data center commissioning is a structured process which establishes the capability and reliability of mission-critical infrastructure. The process includes multiple and repeated test cycles using equipment that simulates how the data center operates at various load levels and failover conditions.
It further states that the company's cloud, managed IT and data center services improve performance and reliability, lower costs and maximize internal resources for customers while keeping their valuable information technology assets close to the business. The company combines its secure, private network and enterprise-class data centers with world-class engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide. As a managed services leader, it offers a wide range of technology solutions including cloud, virtualization and managed hosting services in a cost-efficient and reliable platform for its customers. The company owns and operates data centers in 10 key markets.
"We are excited about the opening of our third state-of-the-art facility," said Matt Phillips, Vice President and General Manager of Peak 10 Louisville. "As the go-to trusted IT advisor in the greater Louisville region, we continue to experience strong demand for our expertise and rock solid solutions. Louisville 3 will give us the added capacity to further serve the growing technology needs of our business community."
"As a new customer in the Louisville 3 facility, we were impressed by its technical features, HIPAA/HITECH compliance and support, and the overall expertise of the local engineering team," said Chuck Fitch, Chief Information Officer at University of Louisville Physicians. "We are in the process of expanding our group and implementing new technologies, and the need for a sound IT partner is imperative. Peak 10 is definitely a trusted advisor that we can grow with in the years to come."
Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company, yesterday announced the opening of its third enterprise-class facility contiguous with current operations in Louisville. Ky. The 11,500 square-foot addition brings its total footprint to nearly 25,000 square feet and is the company's 20th data center facility within its 10 US markets.
The company mentions that the third Louisville data center is engineered with multiple levels of security, uninterruptible power, HVAC systems, fire suppression and around-the-clock monitoring and management. It is interconnected with the company's private network, providing customers with the advantage of highly available internet access and the ability to leverage 17 data centers in nine other markets when implementing disaster recovery solutions.
The company states that to ensure an unparalleled level of stability and facility integrity, the new Louisville site underwent a formal commissioning process prior to customer installations. Leveraging an industry-leading facilities engineering and IT consulting firm, its data center commissioning is a structured process which establishes the capability and reliability of mission-critical infrastructure. The process includes multiple and repeated test cycles using equipment that simulates how the data center operates at various load levels and failover conditions.
It further states that the company's cloud, managed IT and data center services improve performance and reliability, lower costs and maximize internal resources for customers while keeping their valuable information technology assets close to the business. The company combines its secure, private network and enterprise-class data centers with world-class engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide. As a managed services leader, it offers a wide range of technology solutions including cloud, virtualization and managed hosting services in a cost-efficient and reliable platform for its customers. The company owns and operates data centers in 10 key markets.
"We are excited about the opening of our third state-of-the-art facility," said Matt Phillips, Vice President and General Manager of Peak 10 Louisville. "As the go-to trusted IT advisor in the greater Louisville region, we continue to experience strong demand for our expertise and rock solid solutions. Louisville 3 will give us the added capacity to further serve the growing technology needs of our business community."
"As a new customer in the Louisville 3 facility, we were impressed by its technical features, HIPAA/HITECH compliance and support, and the overall expertise of the local engineering team," said Chuck Fitch, Chief Information Officer at University of Louisville Physicians. "We are in the process of expanding our group and implementing new technologies, and the need for a sound IT partner is imperative. Peak 10 is definitely a trusted advisor that we can grow with in the years to come."
ViaWest Launches KINECTed Cloud
New service offers customers a choice in between two different hypervisors.
ViaWest, a provider of managed hosting solutions, yesterday announced the launch of its KINECTed Cloud service, which, unlike other cloud computing offerings, provides users a choice between two different hypervisors: a VMware-based vCloud Powered hypervisor and an open source Xen-based hypervisor. With KINECTed Cloud, users can choose the cloud type that best meets their needs and avoid the pitfalls of a 'one-size-fits-all' solution.
The company avers that KINECTed Cloud is a 'community' cloud where members reside within its data center facilities and abide by its acceptable use policies, while taking advantage of attractive entry-level pricing. The KINECTed Cloud is a flexible service designed to accommodate businesses at every stage of their lifecycle.
It articulates that KINECTed Cloud provides a dynamic pool of computing, storage, and networking resources and doesn't demand a capital outlay or ongoing personnel costs. Through resource pooling, KINECTed Cloud offers an elastic, yet measurable, service that is ideal for public-facing content, or for serving as a vital component in disaster recovery planning. The KINECTed Cloud can also be used as a staging, test, and development platform, because it gives developers the computing power to test multiple scenarios economically. And, as companies needs change, KINECTed Cloud scales to meet them on two vectors, not just one. Additionally, KINECTed Cloud boasts vCloud Powered status, a service badge for hybrid cloud services based on VMware's vSphere and vCloud Director, which support the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for image upload and download. This best-of-breed technology offers users a competitive advantage by allowing them to increase their speed-to-market and decrease infrastructure costs, without sacrificing control.
The company mentions that the introduction of KINECTed Cloud continues its growth of the last 12 months. During that time, the company opened its Synergy Park data center in Dallas, Texas and Hillboro II facility in Portland, Oregon. With these additions, the company now has 22 data centers offering more than 410,000 square feet of usable raised floor.
It says that KINECTed Cloud is an extension of its hybrid services philosophy. From colocation to managed hosting, and now KINECTed Cloud, the company allows customers to purchase any combination of services to best meet their needs. According to Roy Dimoff, Chairman and CEO of ViaWest, "Our strategy is to offer a flexible cloud service that businesses of all sizes and technology preferences can embrace. Customers have the ability to mix and match cloud and traditional infrastructure to form a single, optimized solution."
"We found ViaWest's cloud offering to be incredibly reliable and predictable. Coupled with ViaWest's hands-on customer service, we have determined that KINECTed Cloud is the ideal platform for our company's ever-changing needs," remarked Colin Hostert, CIO of Grooveshark, a ViaWest KINECTed Cloud customer.
ViaWest, a provider of managed hosting solutions, yesterday announced the launch of its KINECTed Cloud service, which, unlike other cloud computing offerings, provides users a choice between two different hypervisors: a VMware-based vCloud Powered hypervisor and an open source Xen-based hypervisor. With KINECTed Cloud, users can choose the cloud type that best meets their needs and avoid the pitfalls of a 'one-size-fits-all' solution.
The company avers that KINECTed Cloud is a 'community' cloud where members reside within its data center facilities and abide by its acceptable use policies, while taking advantage of attractive entry-level pricing. The KINECTed Cloud is a flexible service designed to accommodate businesses at every stage of their lifecycle.
It articulates that KINECTed Cloud provides a dynamic pool of computing, storage, and networking resources and doesn't demand a capital outlay or ongoing personnel costs. Through resource pooling, KINECTed Cloud offers an elastic, yet measurable, service that is ideal for public-facing content, or for serving as a vital component in disaster recovery planning. The KINECTed Cloud can also be used as a staging, test, and development platform, because it gives developers the computing power to test multiple scenarios economically. And, as companies needs change, KINECTed Cloud scales to meet them on two vectors, not just one. Additionally, KINECTed Cloud boasts vCloud Powered status, a service badge for hybrid cloud services based on VMware's vSphere and vCloud Director, which support the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for image upload and download. This best-of-breed technology offers users a competitive advantage by allowing them to increase their speed-to-market and decrease infrastructure costs, without sacrificing control.
The company mentions that the introduction of KINECTed Cloud continues its growth of the last 12 months. During that time, the company opened its Synergy Park data center in Dallas, Texas and Hillboro II facility in Portland, Oregon. With these additions, the company now has 22 data centers offering more than 410,000 square feet of usable raised floor.
It says that KINECTed Cloud is an extension of its hybrid services philosophy. From colocation to managed hosting, and now KINECTed Cloud, the company allows customers to purchase any combination of services to best meet their needs. According to Roy Dimoff, Chairman and CEO of ViaWest, "Our strategy is to offer a flexible cloud service that businesses of all sizes and technology preferences can embrace. Customers have the ability to mix and match cloud and traditional infrastructure to form a single, optimized solution."
"We found ViaWest's cloud offering to be incredibly reliable and predictable. Coupled with ViaWest's hands-on customer service, we have determined that KINECTed Cloud is the ideal platform for our company's ever-changing needs," remarked Colin Hostert, CIO of Grooveshark, a ViaWest KINECTed Cloud customer.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
DiscountASP.NET Partners with Telerik
Partnership to help improve developer productivity with TeamPulse.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced a partnership with Telerik, a vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, to help improve development team productivity. Under this partnership, the company's customers can receive a 15% discount on the Telerik TeamPulse, a project management solution based on Agile best practices meant to increase software team productivity. This offer is only available for a limited time and expires on November 30, 2011.
The company says that TeamPulse is an integrated suite of tools for managing requirements, scheduling releases, tracking progress, and managing customer feedback designed to enrich team dynamics, by bridging the boundaries between different stakeholders and providing greater insight into project context. TeamPulse also provides two-way synchronization of requirements and tasks with Microsoft TFS Server 2010. Its customers can get more information on how to redeem this offer through their TFS hosting control panel marketplace.
"We launched a hosted TFS service last year and we are always interested in partnering with leading companies like Telerik to help improve our customer's application development experience," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "TeamPulse is a sophisticated application that is sure to improve development team's productivity. We know because our in-house development team also uses TeamPulse."
"We are really excited to be partnering with DiscountASP.Net. We believe that their industry-leading Team Foundation Hosting Service coupled with the TeamPulse unique TFS synchronization and project management capabilities will give software teams the flexibility and scalability needed to take their business to the next level," said Joel Semeniuk, Vice President of Telerik Agile Project Management Division.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced a partnership with Telerik, a vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, to help improve development team productivity. Under this partnership, the company's customers can receive a 15% discount on the Telerik TeamPulse, a project management solution based on Agile best practices meant to increase software team productivity. This offer is only available for a limited time and expires on November 30, 2011.
The company says that TeamPulse is an integrated suite of tools for managing requirements, scheduling releases, tracking progress, and managing customer feedback designed to enrich team dynamics, by bridging the boundaries between different stakeholders and providing greater insight into project context. TeamPulse also provides two-way synchronization of requirements and tasks with Microsoft TFS Server 2010. Its customers can get more information on how to redeem this offer through their TFS hosting control panel marketplace.
"We launched a hosted TFS service last year and we are always interested in partnering with leading companies like Telerik to help improve our customer's application development experience," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "TeamPulse is a sophisticated application that is sure to improve development team's productivity. We know because our in-house development team also uses TeamPulse."
"We are really excited to be partnering with DiscountASP.Net. We believe that their industry-leading Team Foundation Hosting Service coupled with the TeamPulse unique TFS synchronization and project management capabilities will give software teams the flexibility and scalability needed to take their business to the next level," said Joel Semeniuk, Vice President of Telerik Agile Project Management Division.
F5 Networks Names New SVP
Manny Rivelo joins the company as Senior Vice President, Security and Strategic Solutions.
F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking, yesterday announced that Manny Rivelo has joined company as Senior Vice President, Security and Strategic Solutions. Rivelo will report to its President and Chief Executive Officer, John McAdam. He joins the company after a 19 year career at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he most recently served as Senior Vice President - Engineering Operations and Systems.
The company avers that Rivelo's managerial career spans over 25 years in product engineering, operations, field engineering sales and IT. He serves on the board of directors of Apollo Group, Inc., one of the world's largest private education providers. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
"We are very pleased to have Manny on our team here at F5," said McAdam. "He brings to F5 a strong track record of success, a keen business sense, deep engineering and operations experience, and a customer focused mindset. I'm confident that Manny will help accelerate F5's expansion in the security market and take advantage of the many new strategic opportunities we are encountering, leveraging the success of our core ADC market solutions."
F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking, yesterday announced that Manny Rivelo has joined company as Senior Vice President, Security and Strategic Solutions. Rivelo will report to its President and Chief Executive Officer, John McAdam. He joins the company after a 19 year career at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he most recently served as Senior Vice President - Engineering Operations and Systems.
The company avers that Rivelo's managerial career spans over 25 years in product engineering, operations, field engineering sales and IT. He serves on the board of directors of Apollo Group, Inc., one of the world's largest private education providers. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
"We are very pleased to have Manny on our team here at F5," said McAdam. "He brings to F5 a strong track record of success, a keen business sense, deep engineering and operations experience, and a customer focused mindset. I'm confident that Manny will help accelerate F5's expansion in the security market and take advantage of the many new strategic opportunities we are encountering, leveraging the success of our core ADC market solutions."