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News: Dedicated Server Provider, 3FN, Finalizes Backbone Enhancements
San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - January 5, 2009 - Dedicated server, colocation and shared web hosting company, 3FN.Net, Triple Fiber Network, has completed the enhancement of its European backbone, upgrading major web hosting network equipment within all European key cities.
The company has achieved considerable improvement of IP network connectivity performance, by installing highly reliable network equipment. 3FN has provided its web hosting customers with fully resilient network, for faster and more reliable web hosting services for all our European customers. The company maintains that its development strategy also embraces further backbone upgrades all over the world.
The priorities of further backbone upgrades will be determined by the demand of its web hosting customers. The company's main aspiration is to make web hosting services available with a top level of quality from every spot on a globe. Thus, in the near future, all of its web hosting services will be upgraded and enhanced, even if there is no obvious need present.
Dean McToner, 3FN official representative remarked, ''We are happy to announce such an upgrade as it means faster and more reliable web hosting services for all our European customers. Our development strategy also embraces further backbone upgrades all over the world. The priorities of further backbone upgrades will be determined by the demand of our web hosting customers. Being a world leading web hosting provider, our company's main aspiration is to make our web hosting services available with a top level of quality from every spot on a globe. Thus, in near future all our web hosting services will be upgraded and enhanced even if there is no need in it; all upgrades are implemented in order to power our customers with unprecedented quality of web hosting.''
As new better network equipment appears on a web hosting market 3FN immediately implements it in its entire web hosting network. Although, the web hosting company utilizes only best and proven equipment as this is a guarantee of high performable and reliable web hosting. This upgrade combining with recent improvements allow 3FN's web hosting customers to benefit from the outstanding backbone providing premium web hosting.
As the requirements for better IP connectivity grow in order to provide web hosting with outmost quality the company has made this upgrade. Such an upgrade of European web hosting backbone is a long term investment that will bring much more advantages with web hosting services by 3FN. All European customers will now experience the best and fast IP connectivity performance of the whole network.
In December, 3FN enhanced services, with hardware monitoring and replacement service upgrades. Triple Fiber Network announced the major improvement of hardware monitoring and replacement services, to significantly enhance web hosting services. The web hosting company constantly improves hardware monitoring and replacement services in order to achieve maximum reliability and efficiency of its web hosting.
The improvement of web hosting hardware monitoring and replacement services allows to perform any replacements or upgrades immediately providing web hosting with the flawless functioning and maximum possible uptime of all web hosting services. Due to recent improvement web hosting by 3FN remains stable and persistent. In case of malfunctioning within any web hosting service broken server part: central processor, power unit, RAM, or HDD, is replaced by a new one immediately. In addition, the servers can be upgraded instantly if that is required by web hosting customers. As the result such web hosting powered with 24/7/365 monitoring and replacement services becomes a perfect web hosting solution suiting any web hosting requirements. 3FN utilizes the best and most proven hardware as well as hardware monitoring and replacement approaches in all its datacenters, therefore, achieving maximum reliability and stability of its web hosting services.
The US based provider of dedicated servers, shared hosting and collocation hosting services, Triple Fiber Network, 3FN, Inc. is best known for the quality excellence and high reliability of all hosting services provided on a global basis. Triple Fiber Network has a flawless reputation of reliable hosting provider, providing the high-quality and efficiency of all dedicated hosting services within last 10 years. Since that time the company has created one of the most biggest and powerful network of dedicated servers with main datacenter located in Silicon Valley. The Headquarters are located in San Jose, California, the company has also established offices in UK, India, Ukraine and EU. Triple Fiber Network has founded the subdivision called 3FN Marketing - an online pay per click advertising network and webmaster affiliate program. 3FN Marketing offers optimized targeted pay per click advertising for those who want to promote their websites or products and generous revenue shares up to 95% for webmasters. The company provides customers with 24/7/365 support via the toll-free telephone, online chat and ticket system.
To learn more, please visit: www.3fn.net.
Posted by editor on Monday, January 05 @ 10:35:40 EST (119 reads)
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News: Data Center Debuts, at Fulcrum Database Marketing Solutions
New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - January 5, 2009 - The opening of an additional data center, to provide increased processing capacity, as well as further redundancy and failover capabilities, has been debuted by Fulcrum database marketing solutions.
David King, CEO of Fulcrum noted, ''Fulcrum's solutions deliver gains in both revenue and profits, which has led to rapid growth in the number of client databases we manage, particularly in the current economy. This additional center will give us more flexibility and processing power, plus enhance our disaster recovery and redundancy capabilities.''
In addition to managing enterprise data warehouses and large-scale marketing databases, Fulcrum provides advanced analytics and customer management technology that enable companies to market to their customers more effectively. The databases and applications require high-availability, high-capacity technology platforms. The new center, which has been in the planning stages for several months, was originally conceived as a disaster recovery site. However, due to the company's growth, the new facility will be a hot site and provide both redundant processing and failover capabilities. The facility is expected to be operational in early 2009.
Fulcrum services leading businesses to increase and accelerate the profitability of marketing programs. Fulcrum offers a fully integrated database marketing solution, from building and managing rich, multi-channel databases, to predictive and segmentation modeling, using its advanced analytical tools, and executing customer-centric marketing. Fulcrum is headquartered in New York City with its major operational center in Fairfield, CT.
To learn more, please visit: www.fulcrum.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, January 05 @ 10:20:53 EST (92 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Widget Delivery Platform, Launched by MIVA Direct
New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - January 5, 2009 - Toolbar, homepage and content division of digital media and advertising company, MIVA, Inc., has released the beta version of its free ALOT Desktop software application.
Designed to enable widget display directly on desktops, without open browser windows, users can choose from a range of different widgets which may be customized and added to desktops. The widgets include an online radio player, news headlines, weather and celebrity gossip. It is intended that with future releases of the product, users will be able to access any widget from MIVA Direct's rapidly expanding online widget portfolio, ALOT Buttons.
Peter Corrao, President and CEO of MIVA explained, ''Our objective with ALOT is to create an integrated widget platform that users can interact with across a variety of different touch points. We believe that adding increased integration through the launch of products like ALOT Desktop not only enhances user experience, but also provides a valuable platform for brand and direct response advertisers to reach potential customers.''
The ALOT brand was launched by MIVA Direct in Q4 2007 and is designed to 'Make the Internet Easy' by aggregating ‘best of the web’ content within widgets that can be displayed across toolbars, homepages and now desktops. ALOT's toolbar and homepage products come pre-configured across 40 different categories, enabling MIVA Direct to build up niche vertical audiences. The ALOT music and recipe toolbars, for example, currently have over 900,000 and 500,000 users respectively.
The beta release of ALOT Desktop follows the October launch of MIVA Direct's new, fully customizable toolbar and homepage products, ALOT Toolbar and ALOT Home. Together, ALOT's toolbar and homepage products generate over 110 million searches each month1. According to an October 2008 report from Razorfish, 55% of ''connected consumers'' - people with broadband who use social networks and digital media - use widgets on their desktops with some frequency, and 62% use them on personalized homepages and social networking sites.
MIVA Direct operates a portfolio of consumer websites, interest-specific toolbars and personalized homepages. MIVA Direct’s millions of active toolbars span a range of niche sectors including jokes, music, recipes and horoscopes and offer consumers search functionality in addition to one-click access to tailored content. MIVA Direct is owned by MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIVA - News).
MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIVA - News) is a global digital media company with a mission to deliver valuable digital audiences to advertisers. MIVA has two focuses to its business: owning and operating a growing portfolio of consumer destination sites and interest-specific toolbars, through its MIVA Direct division; and running a third-party contextual Pay-Per-Click ad network focused on key vertical sectors, through its MIVA Media division. MIVA, Inc. operates across North America and Europe.
To learn more, please visit: www.alot.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, January 05 @ 10:11:27 EST (92 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Bailout Program, Instituted at Liberty Center One
Royal Oak, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - January 5, 2009 -
Web hosting company, Liberty Center One, has introduced its new Hosting Bailout Program, in an effort to assist Michigan businesses, by providing qualified companies with free migration, set-up and server rack space.
Rex Smith, President of Liberty Center One explained, ''As times get tougher, older data centers are faced with financial pressures that sometimes result in a reduction in their maintenance spending, thus harming redundancy and impacting uptime. Many older data centers simply do not have the infrastructure to accommodate modern servers' power and cooling requirements.''
The program is available through the end of January, 2009 and is designed to address the urgent needs of companies facing tough economic choices, power outages, and network outages and who are seeking cost-cutting alternatives while maintaining top service levels and keeping their critical business systems up and running. Liberty Center One has maintained 100.0% uptime since opening, while other local businesses and data centers have suffered downtime for various power, network and other critical service interruptions.
Other customers who will benefit from the program are hosting customers who are presently located in data centers that have experienced service interruptions. Customers interested in the program can call 248-802-8844 and ask about the bailout.
Mr. Smith added, ''Liberty has had 100% uptime since going online early in 2008 and we continue to invest in our systems and practices to maintain this record of uninterrupted services to our customers. We're not shooting for five nines. We're providing continuous service with no downtime.''
Under the Hosting Bailout Program, Liberty is providing free emergency migration assistance to qualified customers needing to relocate their servers. Liberty has already migrated hundreds of web sites, servers, and colocation customers to its state-of-the-art 20,000 square foot data center in Royal Oak, MI.
Liberty's design makes it one of the highest power density data centers in the mid-west with multiple layers of redundancy throughout its power, networking and security architecture. Every system has N+1 or higher redundancy enabling Liberty to maintain its record of 100% uptime. Liberty offers all modern networking solutions through multiple regional and national carriers with diverse paths and diverse entries.
Liberty Center One is a new breed of data center located in Royal Oak, MI. Liberty can host any customer solution regardless of space, power, networking, or bandwidth requirements. Liberty offers a full range of technology solutions, including fully managed, colocated, virtual, dedicated and shared hosting services. With its high power density architecture, Liberty can deliver more than 200 watts of fully redundant power per square foot to keep modern, high density computing equipment running without interruption. On-site IT hotel space is also available for short and long-term lease or for hot-spot disaster recovery services. Contact Liberty Center One by calling 248-802-8844.
To learn more, please visit: www.libertycenterone.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, January 05 @ 09:47:48 EST (80 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Green Data Center at EvoSwitch, Increases Energy Savings
Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - (The Hosting News) - December 23, 2008 - Data center provider, EvoSwitch, has reduced the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its facilities, from 1.8 to 1.6.
The above power reduction resulted in a 20 percent increase in energy saving - from 20 to 40 percent - compared to a traditional data center.
The ultimate goal of EvoSwitch is to achieve an energy saving of 70 to 80 percent. The extra 20 percent saving in energy consumption is largely the result of further investments in low-energy equipment and control systems. The expansion of the data center in 2008 also contributed to the improved PUE.
The first phase of EvoSwitch (2,000 m2) is already fully occupied by equipment from customers. This phase was completed in April 2007. Part of the second phase (2,000 m2 extra) is also almost fully used. The second phase was completed shortly before the summer of 2008 and required an additional investment of 9 million Euros. When the next phases are completed, EvoSwitch will have a potential floor area capacity of more than 9,000 m2.
Laurens Rosenthal, Innovation Director of EvoSwitch noted, ''The extra energy saving is in line with what we calculated beforehand. An average PUE of 1.6 is low, but the new design of the next phases enables us to achieve an even lower PUE. After completion of the next phases a PUE of 1.2 to 1.3 is a very realistic objective. According to our calculations, an energy saving will be realised in the new phase, in phase 3, of 70 to 80 percent compared to a traditional data center.''
A PUE of 1.2 to 1.3 is very low and proves that EvoSwitch is a leading data center innovator. Rosenthal: It means that you need only 20 to 30 percent extra power to manage the data centre infrastructure, whereas in traditional data centres 80 to 120 percent extra power is quite common nowadays. There are even excesses in the market of 3.0, which means that 200 percent extra energy is required.
Mr. Rosenthal added, ''The energy savings are used by EvoSwitch to finance the current and new investments in green technologies, but also to offer customers affordable energy prices. Building a green data center is more expensive than a traditional data center, but this does not affect our customers. We use the savings for further investments in green technology. Our customers also do not have to pay anything extra for our CO2 compensation, in which we invest together with the Climate Neutral Group. At EvoSwitch, companies are also better protected against high energy charges. Because of our investments in green technology and our long-term energy purchasing strategy, we can keep energy costs controllable and predictable for our customers. The environmentally friendly design of the EvoSwitch data center was the result of expert advice from TNO and the innovative work of our own dedicated design team. It enabled us to offer an energy-low concept at the opening of the data center in April 2007, among other things based on Free Cooling (using the outside temperature), Cold Corridors (separating warm and cold air flows) and UPS technology with Delta Conversion.''
EvoSwitch is now putting the final touches to a new design that will improve the PUE even further. Rosenthal: This will result in lower capital costs and operating costs and will benefit both the environment and the customers of EvoSwitch.
Mr. Rosenthal continued, ''There are many suppliers on the market who claim to operate 'green'. The only thing that counts in a data center, however, is the Power Usage Effectiveness. A data centre may buy green power, but that does not make it energy-low. A data centre may install Cold Corridors, but that does not necessarily result in the best possible energy saving. The PUE of a data centre is the key figure that shows how green a data center actually is. Recently, the Green Grid, of which we are a member, decided to use the term Data Center infrastructure Effectiveness (DCiE) as well. The lower the PUE or the higher the DCiE, the more successful the concept of a green data center. How this is achieved is a matter of making the right choices from the various available green technologies. We now aim to realise a PUE of 1.2 to 1.3 in the new data center designs.''
EvoSwitch is a carrier-neutral, green data Center (CO2-neutral). The data center is located in the Amsterdam region, has good connections and a spacious floor area of more than 9,000 m2. EvoSwitch is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. To customers this means that their IT infrastructure within EvoSwitch is protected according to the highest standards. The data center has a total capacity of 20 Megawatt. This power capacity enables EvoSwitch to guarantee customers that there is always enough energy available. EvoSwitch operates fully climate-neutral. In cooperation with the Climate Neutral Group the data center invests in worldwide projects to restore the CO2 balance in the atmosphere.
For more information about Climate Neutral Group, please visit: www.climateneutralgroup.com.
To learn more about The Green Fan Partner Programme, please visit: www.thegreenfan.com.
For more about EvoSwitch, please visit: www.evoswitch.com.
Posted by editor on Tuesday, December 23 @ 09:43:52 EST (461 reads)
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