Cambridge, MA USA | February 15, 2022
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's most trusted solution to power and protect digital experiences, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Linode, one of the easiest-to-use and most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers.

Modern digital experiences, including virtual environments like the metaverse, are created through the convergence of media, entertainment, technology, ecommerce, financial services, and online games. Akamai has been a key partner to the world’s leaders in these industries for decades by powering and protecting applications in today’s multi-cloud, multi-platform world. Together with Linode, which has made it simple, affordable and accessible for developers to consume cloud computing, Akamai will become the world’s most distributed compute platform, from cloud to edge.

“The opportunity to combine Linode’s developer-friendly cloud computing capabilities with Akamai’s market-leading edge platform and security services is transformational for Akamai,” said Dr. Tom Leighton, chief executive officer and co-founder, Akamai Technologies. “Akamai has been a pioneer in the edge computing business for over 20 years, and today we are excited to begin a new chapter in our evolution by creating a unique cloud platform to build, run and secure applications from the cloud to the edge. This is a big win for developers who will now be able to build applications on a platform that delivers unprecedented scale, reach, performance, reliability and security.​”

Christopher Aker, founder and chief executive officer, Linode, added, “We started Linode 19 years ago to make the power of the cloud easier and more accessible. Along the way, we built a cloud computing platform trusted by developers and businesses around the world. Today, those customers face new challenges as cloud services become all-encompassing, including compute, storage, security and delivery from core to edge. Solving those challenges requires tremendous integration and scale which Akamai and Linode plan to bring together under one roof. This marks an exciting new chapter for Linode and a major step forward for our current and future customers.”

Under terms of the agreement, Akamai has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding equity of Linode Limited Liability Company for approximately $900 million, after customary purchase price adjustments. As a result of structuring the transaction as an asset purchase, Akamai expects to achieve cash income tax savings over the next 15 years that have an estimated net present value of approximately $120 million. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions.

For fiscal year 2022, the acquisition of Linode is anticipated to add approximately $100 million in revenue and be slightly accretive to non-GAAP EPS by approximately $0.05 to $0.06. Akamai will provide additional details on Linode, along with Q4 and year end 2021 financial results and full year guidance on its earnings call today, February 15, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Advisors on the Transaction
PJT Partners served as financial advisor and WilmerHale served as legal counsel to Akamai. DH Capital served as financial advisor and Latham & Watkins served as legal counsel to Linode.

Conference call scheduled today, Tuesday, February 15 at 4:30 p.m. ET
Akamai will discuss the acquisition of Linode during its Q4 and year end 2021 financial results conference call today, February 15, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. The call may include forward-looking financial guidance from management. The call can be accessed through (844) 578-9671 (or (508) 637-5655 for international calls) using conference ID number 7579719. A live webcast of the call and the accompanying slides may be accessed in the Investor Relations section of www.akamai.com. In addition, a replay of the call will be available for two weeks following the conference through the Akamai website or by calling (855) 859-2056 (or (404) 537-3406 for international calls) and using conference ID number 7579719.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to providing financial measurements based on generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (GAAP), Akamai provides additional financial metrics that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP (non-GAAP). Management uses non-GAAP financial measures, in addition to GAAP financial measures, to understand and compare operating results across accounting periods, for financial and operational decision making, for planning and forecasting purposes, to measure executive compensation and to evaluate Akamai's financial performance. The non-GAAP financial measure used in this release is non-GAAP net income per diluted share.

Management believes that this non-GAAP financial measure reflects Akamai's ongoing business in a manner that allows for meaningful comparisons and analysis of trends in the business, as it facilitates comparing financial results across accounting periods and to those of our peer companies. Management also believes that this non-GAAP financial measure enables investors to evaluate Akamai's operating results and future prospects in the same manner as management. The non-GAAP net income per diluted share metric excludes expenses and gains that may be unusual in nature, infrequent or not reflective of Akamai's ongoing operating results.

This non-GAAP financial measure does not replace the presentation of Akamai's GAAP financial results and should only be used as a supplement to, not as a substitute for, Akamai's financial results presented in accordance with GAAP. For historical non-GAAP measures, Akamai has provided a reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure used in its financial reporting and investor presentations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. These reconciliations can be found under the caption “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures” on the Investor Relations section of Akamai's website.

Akamai provides forward-looking statements in the form of guidance and other expressions of expectations about future performance. These forward-looking statements are provided on a non-GAAP basis and cannot be reconciled to the closest GAAP measure without unreasonable effort because of the unpredictability of the amounts and timing of events affecting the items we exclude from non-GAAP measures. For example, stock-based compensation is unpredictable for Akamai’s performance-based awards, which can fluctuate significantly based on current expectations of future achievement of performance-based targets. Amortization of intangible assets, acquisition-related costs and restructuring costs are all impacted by the timing and size of potential future actions, which are difficult to predict. In addition, from time to time, Akamai excludes certain items that occur infrequently, which are also inherently difficult to predict and estimate. It is also difficult to predict the tax effect of the items we exclude and to estimate certain discrete tax items, like the resolution of tax audits or changes to tax laws. As such, the costs that are being excluded from non-GAAP projections are difficult to predict and a reconciliation or a range of results could lead to disclosure that would be imprecise or potentially misleading. Material changes to any one of the exclusions could have a significant effect on our guidance and future GAAP results.

Akamai’s definition of the non-GAAP measure used in this press release is outlined below:

Non-GAAP net income per diluted share – Non-GAAP net income divided by weighted average diluted common shares outstanding. Diluted weighted average shares outstanding are adjusted in non-GAAP per share calculations for the shares that would be delivered to Akamai pursuant to the note hedge transactions entered into in connection with the issuances of $1,150 million of convertible senior notes due 2027 and 2025, respectively. Under GAAP, shares delivered under hedge transactions are not considered offsetting shares in the fully-diluted share calculation until they are delivered. However, the company would receive a benefit from the note hedge transactions and would not allow the dilution to occur, so management believes that adjusting for this benefit provides a meaningful view of operating performance. With respect to the convertible senior notes due in each of 2027 and 2025, unless Akamai's weighted average stock price is greater than $116.18 and $95.10, respectively, the initial conversion price, there will be no difference between GAAP and non-GAAP diluted weighted average common shares outstanding.

Non-GAAP net income – GAAP net income adjusted for the following tax-affected items: amortization of acquired intangible assets; stock-based compensation; amortization of capitalized stock-based compensation; acquisition-related costs; restructuring charges; gains and losses on legal settlements; costs incurred related to endowments to the Akamai Foundation; amortization of debt discount and issuance costs; amortization of capitalized interest expense; certain gains and losses on investments; income and losses from equity method investment; and other non-recurring or unusual items that may arise from time to time.

The non-GAAP adjustments, and Akamai's basis for excluding them from non-GAAP financial measures, are outlined below:

• Amortization of acquired intangible assets – Akamai has incurred amortization of intangible assets, included in its GAAP financial statements, related to various acquisitions Akamai has made. The amount of an acquisition's purchase price allocated to intangible assets and term of its related amortization can vary significantly and is unique to each acquisition; therefore, Akamai excludes amortization of acquired intangible assets from its non-GAAP financial measures to provide investors with a consistent basis for comparing pre- and post-acquisition operating results.

• Stock-based compensation and amortization of capitalized stock-based compensation – Although stock-based compensation is an important aspect of the compensation paid to Akamai's employees, the grant date fair value varies based on the stock price at the time of grant, varying valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types. This makes the comparison of Akamai's current financial results to previous and future periods difficult to interpret; therefore, Akamai believes it is useful to exclude stock-based compensation and amortization of capitalized stock-based compensation from its non-GAAP financial measures in order to highlight the performance of Akamai's core business and to be consistent with the way many investors evaluate its performance and compare its operating results to peer companies.

• Acquisition-related costs – Acquisition-related costs include transaction fees, advisory fees, due diligence costs and other direct costs associated with strategic activities. In addition, subsequent adjustments to Akamai's initial estimated amounts of contingent consideration and indemnification associated with specific acquisitions are included within acquisition related costs. These amounts are impacted by the timing and size of the acquisitions. Akamai excludes acquisition-related costs from its non-GAAP financial measures to provide a useful comparison of Akamai's operating results to prior periods and to its peer companies because such amounts vary significantly based on the magnitude of the acquisition transactions and do not reflect Akamai's core operations.

• Restructuring charges – Akamai has incurred restructuring charges from programs that have significantly changed either the scope of the business undertaken by the Company or the manner in which that business is conducted. These charges include severance and related expenses for workforce reductions, impairments of long-lived assets that will no longer be used in operations (including right-of-use assets, other facility-related property and equipment and internal-use software) and termination fees for any contracts canceled as part of these programs. Akamai excludes these items from its non-GAAP financial measures when evaluating its continuing business performance as such items vary significantly based on the magnitude of the restructuring action and do not reflect expected future operating expenses. In addition, these charges do not necessarily provide meaningful insight into the fundamentals of current or past operations of its business.

• Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs and amortization of capitalized interest expense – In August 2019, Akamai issued $1,150 million of convertible senior notes due 2027 with a coupon interest rate of 0.375%. In May 2018, Akamai issued $1,150 million of convertible senior notes due 2025 with a coupon interest rate of 0.125%. The imputed interest rates of these convertible senior notes were 3.10% and 4.26%, respectively. This is a result of the debt discounts recorded for the conversion features that are required to be separately accounted for as equity under GAAP, thereby reducing the carrying value of the convertible debt instruments. The debt discounts are amortized as interest expense together with the issuance costs of the debt. The interest expense excluded from Akamai's non-GAAP results is comprised of these non-cash components and is excluded from management's assessment of the company's operating performance because management believes the non-cash expense is not representative of ongoing operating performance.

• Gains and losses on investments – Akamai has recorded gains and losses from the disposition, changes to fair value and impairment of certain investments. Akamai believes excluding these amounts from its non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors as the types of events giving rise to these gains and losses are not representative of Akamai's core business operations and ongoing operating performance

• Legal settlements – Akamai has incurred losses related to the settlement of legal matters. Akamai believes excluding these amounts from its non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors as the types of events giving rise to them are not representative of Akamai's core business operations.

• Endowment of Akamai Foundation – Akamai has incurred expenses to endow the Akamai Foundation, a private corporate foundation dedicated to encouraging the next generation of technology innovators by supporting math and science education. Akamai's first endowment was in 2018 to enable a permanent endowment for the Akamai Foundation to allow it to expand its reach. In the fourth quarter of 2020 Akamai supplemented the endowment to enable specific initiatives to increase diversity in the technology industry. Akamai believes excluding these amounts from non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors as these infrequent and nearly one-time expenses are not representative of its core business operations.

• Income and losses from equity method investment – Akamai records income or losses on its share of earnings and losses from its equity method investment. Akamai excludes such income and losses because it does not direct control over the operations of the investment and the related income and losses are not representative of its core business operations.

• Income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments and certain discrete tax items – The non-GAAP adjustments described above are reported on a pre-tax basis. The income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments is the difference between GAAP and nonGAAP income tax expense. Non-GAAP income tax expense is computed on non-GAAP pre-tax income (GAAP pre-tax income adjusted for non-GAAP adjustments) and excludes certain discrete tax items (such as recording or releasing of valuation allowances), if any. Akamai believes that applying the non-GAAP adjustments and their related income tax effect allows Akamai to highlight income attributable to its core operations.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
This release and/or our earnings conference call scheduled for later today contain information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about expected future financial performance and the benefits of the planned acquisition of Linode. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the inability to continue to generate cash at the same level as prior years; the ability to complete the Linode transaction in a timely manner or at all; uncertainties as to whether the anticipated benefits from the Linode transaction will be realized; uncertainties as to whether Linode’s business will be successfully integrated with Akamai’s business, including whether Linode’s technology will interoperate as expected with existing Akamai technology; the effect of the announcement of the proposed transaction on Linode’s ability to maintain relationships with its key customers, vendors and employees; the failure of our investments in innovation to generate solutions that are accepted in the market; the inability to increase our revenue at the same rate as in the past and keep our expenses from increasing at a greater rate than our revenues; the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; defects or disruptions in our products or IT systems; the failure of the integration of any of our acquisitions; the delay in developing or failure to develop new service offerings or functionalities, and if developed, the lack of market acceptance of such service offerings and functionalities or failure of such solutions to operate as expected, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.

In addition, the statements in this press release and on such investor call represent Akamai's expectations and beliefs as of the date of this press release. Akamai anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause these expectations and beliefs to change. However, while Akamai may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Akamai's expectations or beliefs as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.

About Akamai
Akamai powers and protects life online. The most innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to secure and deliver their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's largest and most trusted edge platform, Akamai keeps apps, code, and experiences closer to users — and threats farther away. Learn more about Akamai's security, content delivery, and edge compute products and services at www.akamai.com, www.akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Fraction Servers, a leading low cost dedicated server provider in the UK for SMEs, cloud, cyber security and digital media organisations has announced plans to bring online a new 3 megawatt datacentre in Coventry, UK.

The new facility, Continuity House will be located to the west of Coventry a short distance from the company’s existing datacentre facility. Construction of the new facility is underway and is expected to reach completion in Q2 2022 with an initial build out of 300 racks in the first data hall.

“Our new facility has been designed to deliver the highest level of uptime and redundancy to our customers.” said David Howes, Technical Director at Fraction Servers. “The global pandemic has pushed businesses to re-evaluate their use of technology and cloud services outside of the workplace and it has become vital to ensure they use a service provider that operates from a secure, resilient managed datacentre. Continuity House will be connected with diverse dark fibre to our exsisting Coventry datacentre and also connecting to Telehouse and Equinix sites in both London and Manchester allowing us to offer customers upto 100Gb/s connectivity onsite”

Further details available on our website: https://www.fractionservers.com/new-...-announcement/

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Atlanta, GA., January 31st, 2022 – Liquid Web, the market leader in cloud hosting solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) doing business online, today announced it has achieved VMware Cloud Verified status.

The Cloud Verified designation indicates that a provider offers the complete VMware-based software defined data center infrastructure delivered as a service. VMware Cloud Verified partner services enable customers to achieve unmatched levels of consistency, performance and interoperability for both traditional or containerized enterprise applications and the confidence that the service is based on the most advanced VMware cloud technologies.

“Liquid Web is a leading provider of VMware cloud hosting for small and mid-sized businesses”, said Carrie Wheeler, Liquid Web COO. “We’re focused on providing growing businesses with a cost-effective way to rapidly deploy cloud-hosted websites and applications while delivering the power of an enterprise solution at a price point that SMB’s can afford and with the help they need. Earning VMware Cloud Verified status signals to our prospects and customers that we have the infrastructure and expertise they can rely on.”

“Partners that are VMware Cloud Verified provide organizations with complete and advanced VMware Cloud technologies, along with interoperability across clouds for greater advantage for their customers’ businesses,” said Jim Aluotto, senior director, Cloud Provider Business, Americas Region, VMware. “Cloud Verified services delivered by VMware Cloud Providers can provide the efficiency, agility, and reliability inherent in cloud computing. We look forward to supporting Liquid Web as it empowers organizations with a simple and flexible path to the cloud.”

VMware’s global network of more than 4,500 cloud providers leverage VMware’s consistent cloud infrastructure to offer a wide array of services in over 120 countries, provide geographic and industry specialization, and help customers meet complex regulatory requirements.

For information on how to become a Cloud Verified partner, please visit: https://www.vmware.com/partners/serv...fied-logo.html.
About Liquid Web

Building on 25 years of success, our Liquid Web Family of Brands delivers software, solutions, and managed services for mission-critical sites, stores, and applications to SMBs and the designers, developers, and agencies who create for them. Liquid Web (Managed Hosting), Nexcess (Digital Commerce Cloud), and StellarWP (WordPress Software and Tools) have more than 500,000+ sites under management, have over 100,000 software subscribers, and 2 million+ free version software users. Collectively, the companies have assembled a world-class team of industry experts, provide unparalleled service from solution engineers available 24/7/365, and own and manage ten global data centers. As an industry leader in customer service, the rapidly expanding brand family has been recognized among INC. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies for twelve years. Learn more about the Liquid Web Family of Brands.

VMware, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud Verified, and VMware Cloud Provider are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.

Media contact:
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media@liquidweb.com

Capital Raise Planned for Q2, 2022.

February 7, 2022 — Epik Holdings Inc. (EPIK.com) announced the completion of its acquisition of Norwegian-based, Terrahost AS (Terrahost) as part of the company’s strategic objective to provide resilient, affordable, data hosting and storage solutions to the world.

Terrahost is building upon its 15-year legacy of world-class data solutions through targeted investments and optimization of its infrastructure and portfolio of storage, software and networking products—resulting in significant market penetration and over 300% revenue growth.

“We are excited to be able to bring Terrahost to the world,” says Epik CEO, Rob Monster, “For the last 15 years, Terrahost has been building a robust network of mostly below-ground, fortified data centers connected with the proprietary Enigma automation suite. The combination is what has delivered customers a winning combination of extreme resiliency with an economic model that scales from VPS to Enterprise.”

The journey for Terrahost to become part of Epik began in April 2021. “Our success in 2021 has been a result of team commitment to providing secure, efficient, affordable data products and services to its customers,” says Sten Huseby, CEO of Terrahost AS.“

**Warning to all dedicated hosts!

Huge amounts of our sales leads are now for Chia miners.

They use massive cpu (and therefore power) to plot very large hard drives.

They always want an SSD (this improves plotting speed). They will burn out your SSDs. Every 1gb of HDD space "plotted" will require 15gb of writes to your SSDs.

When Chia crashes, this "demand" will disappear, leaving you with burnt out SSDs, large hard drives you don't need, and large power commitments without a customer to pay for them.

If you entertain these sales at all, make sure to use SSD with high endurance (3 drive writes per day rated or higher). Make sure to charge a setup fee.

Right now, a storage server that might be worth $1000/mo can bring in $1000/day in Chia. This is making people go bonkers.

Be careful out there!
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By Nishit Raghuwanshi - May 17, 2021

Oracle has announced the opening of their Vinhedo Cloud region in Brazil to extend support to growing customer demand. This comes after the launch of the Sao Paulo Cloud region in 2020 that made Brazil Oracle’s latest country to provide dual cloud regions.

The Vinhedo Cloud Region’s opening registers the 30th cloud region of Oracle globally. It is a part of Oracle’s strategy to operate 38 Cloud regions by 2021 end. Global pandemic COVID-19 has contributed to the acceleration of digital transformation efforts in Brazil. Oracle is also working in collaboration with an organization in Brazil to help them in moving the cloud securely and without hampering any data sovereignty regulations.

Oracle will continue making some important investments in Brazil to support the rapidly increasing number of partners and customers. This news came as a follow up of the recent announcement by Microsoft and Oracle regarding the expansion of their cloud interoperability partnership so that both of them can help customers globally. The strategically chosen interconnect location in Brazil states that enterprises can build workloads that smoothly interoperate between Microsoft and Oracle cloud region on Brazil.

Vinhedo Cloud Region

Scott Twaddle
“Part of our strategy has been to build a true disaster recovery solution with two regions to help our customers bring their most critical workloads to Oracle Cloud. With the Vinhedo Cloud region, customers across South and Latin America are able to move to the cloud faster and build resilient workloads,” said Scott Twaddle, vice president, product, industries and partnerships, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
The new cloud region will provide Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services consisting of Oracle Cloud Application services, Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware solution. It will also offer various advantages to customers, specifically to those who are related to highly regulated industries with restrictions on servers outside the national territory.

Oracle has a unique dual-region strategy that allows customers to deploy resilient applications in multiple geographically separated locations for the purpose of disaster recovery and compliance requirements without the need to transfer sensitive data from the country. Oracle can be addressed as one of the few cloud providers with dual cloud regions in Brazil, allowing the organizations to run their mission-critical workloads in Oracle Cloud.

Vice President’s Take

Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for product, industries, and partnerships, Scott Twaddle, said that the company is thrilled to start the journey of the Vinhedo Cloud region as the second region in Brazil as it a part of the strategy that has been built as a true disaster recovery solution with two regions to help the customers in moving their highly critical workloads to Oracle Cloud. He concluded by saying that with the Vinhedo Cloud Region, customers in Latin and South America can move to the cloud at a faster pace and build resilient workloads that fulfill the data sovereignty requirements and keep the data and metadata of the organizations within the borders.

Oracle Cloud Region Global Expansion
In 2020, Oracle launched 12 Cloud Regions and as per the current stats, the company is running 30 regions on a global level, out of which, 23 are commercial, 7 are government focused, and various regions are dedicated to US intelligence services. It can be quoted as one of the fastest expansions by any popular cloud provider.

Oracle is also planning to build a minimum of two regions in every country where the company is operations so that it can help the customers in building true business continuity and disaster protection while meeting in-country data residence requirements. Countries like the US, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, India, Australia, the UK, and Europe already have two cloud regions. Upcoming Oracle Cloud Regions comprise the second region in Saudi Arabia and UAE, additional regions in France, Sweden, and Italy along with new regions in Israel, Singapore, and South Africa.

By Jos Jaspers - May 18, 2021

Virtuozzo, a global provider of virtualization and hyperconverged software solutions, has announced the availability of its latest product, Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud. Virtuozzo claims that its solution will enable Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Cloud Service Providers (CSP) to design, build and sell modern cloud services to their clients “quickly and more cost-effectively” than traditional hyperscalers.

As a hybrid cloud solution exclusively designed for MSPs and CSPs, Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Load-Balancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS), Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS), and other cloud services in multiple locations worldwide.

MSPs and CSPs can buy cloud resources directly from Virtuozzo by connecting any Open Stack compatible cloud management platform such as CloudBlue Connect, HostBill, WHMCS, Fleio, or from Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud distributors.

“As the breadth of organizations seeking cloud solutions continues to grow, a gap in the skills necessary to navigate the complexities of the most advanced cloud platforms is a common limitation,” said Liam Eagle, Research Director, 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. “This presents an opportunity for the alternative vendors to solidify the role of their services as delivering the core value proposition of cloud in a simpler, more digestible and often lower-cost configuration.”

Pay-as-You-Go Model

“We are thrilled to bring this turnkey cloud infrastructure solution to the market that helps MSPs and CSPs open new opportunities and drive customer growth for years to come,” said Ahmed Amni, Director of Sales, EMEA, Virtuozzo.
Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud is built on Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure, a “best-in-class” hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution. Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure would provide managed service providers and cloud service providers with “cost-effective, easy-to-manage” hyperconverged infrastructure that optimizes hardware utilization, lowers total cost of ownership, and delivers high server performance and availability.

Secured by design, Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure combines compute, storage, and networking services with advanced analytics and monitoring in a single, hardware-agnostic solution.

“Over the past year and a half, we have seen a lot of demand from our existing service provider partners for a solution that enables them to offer infrastructure solutions,” said Ahmed Amni, Director of Sales, EMEA, Virtuozzo. “We designed Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud to address this need while offering more than 30% savings over comparable solutions. We are thrilled to bring a turnkey solution to the market that helps MSPs and CSPs open new opportunities and drive customer growth for years to come. We are excited to innovate and grow together with our partners.”

Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud is available to MSPs and CSPs throughout Europe now, with global availability rolling out quickly. Pricing is based on either a Pay-as-You-Go model or on a reservation-based model, which extends additional cost savings to partners.

LATHAM, NEW YORK (May 18th, 2021) – Leading Data Center and Cloud Hosting Solutions provider TurnKey Internet has announced it is expanding its data center and cloud-based infrastructure into Colorado. The expansion builds on TurnKey Internet’s existing New York data center and California data center by offering additional geographically specific and redundant, high-speed dedicated servers and cloud servers from their East Coast, West Coast and Colorado facilities.

The Colorado data center, located in Colorado Springs, offers multiple transit backbone providers with fiber network redundancy as well all UPS Systems offering A+B redundant power. The data center also features a dedicated backup power generator and fuel, an advanced fire suppression system, facility wide environmental monitoring, N+1 cooling, and a low power usage effectiveness (PUE).

TurnKey Internet’s next generation Cloud platform, featuring cloud based servers with speeds up to 10Gbps, and enterprise-grade bare metal dedicated servers are now available to be provisioned in their existing data centers as well as their all new Colorado data center. Fully managed hosting solutions will also be offered from the new Colorado facility.

“Extending our Data Center and Cloud-Hosted services to Colorado matches our vision of giving customers access to a ‘turnkey’ platform that delivers unmatched value and performance,” said Adam Wills, CEO of TurnKey Internet, Inc. He continued “This expansion is an exciting step in the development of our Cloud-Hosted platform. Our clients can easily deploy and manage their Cloud infrastructure across multiple geographic locations. This provides a better experience by providing redundancy and performance increases through delivery of applications closer to the end-user.”

For more information about TurnKey Internet’s latest expansion or to speak with a Cloud Hosting Solutions expert, visit www.TurnKeyInternet.net

About TurnKey Internet

Founded in 1999, TurnKey Internet is a full-service Cloud Hosting Solutions provider with data centers in New York, Colorado, and California specializing in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to clients in more than 150 countries. Services offered include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Dedicated & Bare Metal Servers, Backup & Disaster Recovery, Online Storage, Web Hosting, Managed Hosting, Hybrid Solutions and Enterprise Colocation. Headquartered in New York’s Tech Valley Region, TurnKey Internet’s flagship company owned data center is SSAE-18 SOC 1 and SOC 2 certified, as well as HIPAA compliant. The facility is powered exclusively by on-site solar and hydroelectric sources to provide a 100% renewable energy footprint and in 2013 was designated as the 39th ENERGY STAR® Certified Data Center in the United States. For more information, please call (518) 618-0999 or visit www.turnkeyinternet.net

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. (PRWEB) MAY 12, 2021
Rocket.net, the complete Managed WordPress Hosting Platform, announced today that it has accepted an invitation to be part of HostPapa’s exclusive accelerator program. As part of the program, Rocket.net has also secured $1.1 million in financing from the Canadian-based cloud services provider. These funds will assist in accelerating the implementation of Rocket.net’s strategic plan. In addition to the capital, Rocket.net will take advantage of HostPapa’s extended support services, which includes access to customer support, marketing, and product development resources.

“We’re beyond excited to be working with Jamie and his talented team at HostPapa, as we continue to accelerate, protect, and deploy WordPress at the edge of the Cloud,” said Ben Gabler, Chief Executive Officer of Rocket.net. “Since launching Rocket.net, we’ve focused on driving value to the WordPress community with our edge-first approach. With HostPapa’s help, we’re now able to really scale support, development, and marketing, to help drive our core mission of providing the ultimate managed WordPress hosting experience for our customers.”

“We launched our accelerator program with companies like Rocket.net specifically in mind,” said Jamie Opalchuk, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HostPapa. “Not only do Ben and Aaron bring extensive industry knowledge and experience, but they are passionate about making a difference in the WordPress community. The managed WordPress platform they’ve created is already steps ahead of the competition, and over the next year the others will be chasing them. We are thrilled to be a part of it.”

Launched in June 2020, Rocket.net’s Managed WordPress Hosting platform has seen impressive growth due to their unique, all-in-one approach. Every WordPress install on its platform routes through Cloudflare’s enterprise offering, providing customers with a huge advantage when it comes to speed and security for their WordPress sites. Feedback from customers and industry experts notes that Rocket.net continues to provide the fastest WordPress experience available, with Time to First Byte (TTFB) averaging 70ms around the world. Rocket.net end user and agency customers also benefit from enhanced WordPress security that’s typically only available to Fortune 1000 customers, at no additional cost.

Rocket.net was founded on providing the ultimate WordPress experience for its customers. This includes:

1) Providing superior page load acceleration and delivery
2) Offering the ability to auto-scale content globally for performance peaks and spikes
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By Author: Koen Stegeman -April 21, 2021

A Russian investment consortium has purchased a 100% stake in Svyaz VSD LLC, the Russian subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Linx Telecommunications Holding B.V. The purchase includes Linxdatacenter’s LinxCloud platform and two large data centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg with a total area of 13,400 square meters.

Linxdatacenter has been acquired by Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) alongside JSC ER-Telecom Holding (Dom.ru and Dom.ru business trademarks) as well as Talos Fund I LP – a leading fund from the Middle East specializing in investment in advanced technologies including AI.

Linxdatacenter provides cloud and colocation solutions at its TIER III-compliant data centers in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, as well as at partner data centers in Warsaw and Frankfurt. It also offers fast connectivity to global cloud services, such as AWS and GCP. The company is certified to provide infrastructure and legal solutions in compliance with personal data legislation (FZ-152). The company’s data centers are certified under ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 22301, and PCI DSS standards.

As a business entity located in the Netherlands, Linx Telecommunications Holding B.V. was established in 2001 by multinational enterprise Koop Holding Europe B.V. and a number of private investors. Linx has invested in telecommunication infrastructure, data centers and cloud services in the Baltic region, the Russian Federation and Poland.

“With Linxdatacenter being one of the leaders in the Russian data center and cloud market for many years, the interest of such high-profile investors and their anticipation of the future evolution of the business is highly justified,” said Olga Sokolova, General Director of Linxdatacenter Russia. At the same time, the consortium has announced a joint investment in the creation of a “leading autonomous” cloud service in Russia based on Linxdatacenter assets.

The joint cloud platform would provide the necessary virtual infrastructure to the largest Russian and international enterprises for performing their key tasks, ensuring operational continuity and minimizing business risks. The cloud strategy will concentrate on expansion of the virtual services’ portfolio, particularly solutions using AI technologies, in cooperation with RDIF’s international partners.

“The investment opens up a new development opportunity for Linxdatacenter in the field of colocation and cloud services, while enabling us to preserve the company’s achievements over the last 20 years,” said Olga Sokolova, General Director of Linxdatacenter Russia. “This includes a strong customer base at enterprise level, presence in two Russian capitals, a multi-vector model of service portfolio development, a cloud strategy focus on connectivity with global providers, and an emphasis on continued improvement of management and operational processes at data centers.”

“With Linxdatacenter being one of the leaders in the Russian data center and cloud market for many years, the interest of such high-profile investors and their anticipation of the future evolution of the business is highly justified,” added Olga Sokolova. “By the end of 2020, Linxdatacenter’s cloud platform had recorded 30% business growth. New business partners will help the company to strengthen its position in the market and accelerate its growth, owing to consolidation of technical and financial resources for the Company’s long-term outlook.”

“Linxdatacenter began in 2003 as one of the first commercial data centers in Russia. Linxdatacenter has grown exponentially and the owners believe this is the right time to divest,” said Heiko H. Koop, CEO of Linx Telecommunications Holding.
“The acquisition of Linxdatacenter assets together with a strong Russian strategic player and our partner from the Middle East with access to unique technological solutions is aimed at accomplishing an ambitious goal of accelerating the development of Russia’s digital infrastructure,” said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. “The priority for our platform is to develop Russia’s leading cloud service based on advanced AI technologies. Successful implementation of the project will be possible by using RDIF’s experience in implementing high-tech projects, ER-Telecom’s technological support as well as the expertise of the Fund’s international partners.”

“Linxdatacenter is a pioneer in the commercial data center industry and has extensive Western managerial experience in the development, maintenance and sale of its services,” said Andrey Kuzyaev, CEO of JSC ER-Telecom Holding. “We see the joint purchase alongside RDIF of Svyaz VSD LLC as an excellent opportunity to enter the commercial cloud data center market and enhancing the service portfolio we provide for our B2B customers. Over the next two years, we plan to significantly expand the capacity of our existing data centers, and build and increase additional capacity.”

“Linxdatacenter began in 2003 as one of the first commercial data centers in Russia. For two decades, Linx has been the first-choice data center provider for international and Russian enterprises with a need for premium communication, colocation and cloud services,” said Heiko H. Koop, CEO of Linx Telecommunications Holding. “As a result of the global pandemic, Linxdatacenter has grown exponentially and the owners believe this is the right time to divest. The excellent management team and resources of the buyer’s consortium are a clear ticket to continued success.”

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When you respect your consumer's time, they will return the favor with even better involvement on your platform. The benefit of SSO for enterprises runs on a similar concept. We in CloudMate Softwares believed that Offering a SSO Service is the Key Necessity for upcoming Technological Based Industries.

Many of you may wonder what is SSO though.... Single Sign-On or SSO is an authentication process that allows consumers to log in to multiple independent applications with a single set of credentials. With SSO, users can access a suite of applications via one single login, irrespective of the platform, technology, or domain used.

Its just like what Google Accounts offer in their Services. One Google Account for accessing all Google Services with an additional benefit of OAuth Services for Connecting Google to the Rest of the World Wide Web.

On a similar note, it is also a challenge for both users and IT administrators to secure thousands of accounts and related user data.
For both users and IT administrators, securely handling thousands of accounts and related user data is challenging. Enterprises use single sign-on as a single strategy to improve IT security, improve user experience, and cut IT cost in one go.

Benefits of Central Authentication Portal:
* Reduce support calls: Users with just one password to access all their apps won't require assistance as often.
* Improve user experience: Since there’s no need to hop between multiple login URLs, or reset passwords, users save between 5 to 15 seconds per login.
* Mitigate security risks: Employees can use their SSO login credentials on any device, in any web browser, without risking security. It also Improves Security

CloudMate Softwares has now decided to make its first own Single Sign ON System to Authenticate through all of its Services under the motto "One Digital Identity for all CloudMate Applications". The First release of SSO BetaV1 is Underway and currently under testing. Through the Central Authentication Portal, Users can access to our Following CloudMate Services:
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April 18, 2021 - Sunshine Tech and Media LLC has decided to launch its new budget web hosting brand, PeaHost.com.

As the tagline suggests, the purpose of PeaHost.com is to offer affordable web hosting without sacrificing quality, as is often the tradeoff for budget web hosts. It offers NVMe SSD storage, servers based on modern DDR4 RAM and AMD Ryzen processors, Softaculous, among other excellent features and attributes.

Sunshine Tech and Media hopes to continuously improve the quality of this new brand, in order that it may offer an always improving service for affordable prices.

Sunshine Tech and Media LLC is a privately owned company founded in 2019 which provides web hosting, web design, and other web-related services.

By Jos Jaspers -April 16, 2021

Cyber security and application delivery solutions provider, Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), has upgraded its Cloud DDoS Protection Service capacity to absorb DDoS attacks of up to 8Tbps. The cyber security company has also announced the opening of an additional new cloud scrubbing center in Amsterdam, expanding the number of scrubbing centers to 14 deployed globally.

“The recent ransom DDoS campaign that raged globally from September to December 2020 involved massive IoT botnet DDoS attacks, as well as other sophisticated, targeted attacks on organizations’ DNS infrastructure,” said Haim Zelikovsky, Vice President of Cloud Services at Radware. “Radware’s leading DDoS algorithms and mitigation technology, in conjunction with our ability to offer one of the largest mitigation capacities in the world, enables us to consistently stay ahead of threats, even the largest and most sophisticated DDoS attacks, while ensuring service availability.”

“The recent ransom DDoS campaign that raged globally from September to December 2020 involved massive IoT botnet DDoS attacks, as well as other sophisticated, targeted attacks on organizations’ DNS infrastructure,” said Haim Zelikovsky, Vice President of Cloud Services at Radware.

The new scrubbing facility in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, complements Radware’s existing scrubbing centers worldwide. Radware’s 14 scrubbing centers are globally connected in full mesh mode using Anycast-based routing to allow mitigating DDoS attacks closest to their points of origin, and helping companies keep data within their borders.

Radware recently completed a major upgrade to all its existing scrubbing centers with the deployment of clusters of its DefensePro attack mitigation devices, equipped with Radware’s latest cyber security algorithms with unique attack mitigation capabilities. Radware’s latest DefensePro technology analyzes traffic patterns, such as sudden and massive spikes, to provide automated, behavior-based protection from fast moving, high volume, encrypted or very short duration DDoS attacks. This includes burst DDoS attacks, attacks on DNS infrastructure, and encrypted DDoS attacks.

Radware backs up these technological advancements with service excellence and dedication, including its Emergency Response Team, which has been successfully mitigating thousands of large-scale DDoS attacks annually.

Crate.io’s CrateDB Edge database is a new solution to analyze and capture data at the source, no matter the location or the internet accessibility. CrateDB Edge provides the ability to manage database-as-a-service at edge locations for the first time with CrateDB Cloud.

A purpose-built option with unique characteristics and the ability to handle high-volume, high-scalability machine data cases, CrateDB can now be deployed and managed through the same database management as the cloud service.

What Does CrateDB Edge Provide?
CrateDB Edge has been created to provide several things including complete data privacy and ownership. It can be seamlessly integrated with existing infrastructure and provides real-time analytics on the edge. It doesn’t matter if you’re running CrateDB with AWS or Azure, it can be integrated and doesn’t require a continuous internet connection for cluster operation.

CrateDB Edge also allows for cross-cluster asynchronous sync. It has the ability to provide customers with several benefits as the next generation of database technology for Crate.io. CrateDB Edge can even enable digitalization initiatives at scale giving enterprises even more benefits.

It’s possible for a large company with huge amounts of machine data in different locations to create a local cluster for each of their location. This provides more freedom when utilizing the CrateDB database on the edge and within the cloud.

All of these features are provided along with the data ownership flexibility and with the expertise when it comes to optimizing and managing CrateDB for machine data. It’s possible the new cloud-managed CrateDB Edge will be a solution many organizations will be interested in using.

Currently, Crate.io is already allowing new CrateDB users and existing users to join the program for early adoption of CrateDB Edge. This pilot program can be implemented with Azure Lighthouse cloud and edge.

About Crate.io
The developer behind CrateDB, Crate.io offers a scalable distributed open-source database solution coupling the power of standard SQL with the performance of NoSQL. It’’s designed for machine data applications and IIoT. CrateDB runs in the cloud on AWS and Azure. It also runs on the edge and on-premise.

Crate.io was originally founded in 2013 and provides operations from several locations across the cloud including Austria, the United States, Switzerland, and Germany. They also operate remotely all across the world.

By Koen Stegeman -April 16, 2021

Global technology distributor Arrow Electronics has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with global cyber security company Secureworks. This would add a comprehensive portfolio of “scalable and complementary” cyber security software and services to Arrow’s European offering.

“Arrow is Secureworks’ preferred distributor in North America and is well positioned globally to help the channel partner community deliver Secureworks products and services to the European cyber security market,” said Maureen Perrelli, chief channel officer at Secureworks.
Secureworks provides software-driven cyber security solutions. Products and services available within the new distribution agreement include Secureworks Taegis XDR (Extended Detection and Response), Secureworks Taegis ManagedXDR, Secureworks Taegis VDR and the Secureworks Incident Management Retainer, which can be proactively deployed during emergency situations.

“We are very excited about the expansion of our relationship with Arrow,” said Maureen Perrelli, chief channel officer at Secureworks. “We are now able to offer Secureworks software products and incident response services to their excellent and extensive reseller network in Europe. Arrow is Secureworks’ preferred distributor in North America and is well positioned globally to help the channel partner community deliver Secureworks products and services to the European cyber security market.”

Secureworks partners with Arrow in the areas of channel partner recruitment, channel activation and sales support. IT channel partners who participate in the Secureworks Global Partner Program can receive special benefits such as deal registration, lead allocation, clear rules of engagement and financial benefits. In addition, channel partners can apply for marketing development funds.

“The threat of cyber-attacks has never been greater, so Arrow is very excited about partnering with Secureworks so that we can support customers in coping with these attacks,” said Alexis Brabant, vice president of EMEA sales for Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business.
“With a large network of leading manufacturers and service providers, Arrow can deliver a wide range of solutions to support the entire technology ecosystem,” said Alexis Brabant, vice president of EMEA sales for Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business.

With revenues of $29 billion by 2020, Arrow Electronics represents more than 180,000 suppliers and service providers. Secureworks (NASDAQ: SCWX) is a global cybersecurity leader with a unique combination of cloud-native, SaaS security platform and intelligence-driven cyber security solutions. In 2011, it became part of Dell Technologies.

By Benjamin Ehinger -April 13, 2021

Microsoft has acquired Nuance for almost $20 billion. It provides Microsoft with the ability to deliver new AI and cloud capabilities to the healthcare industry and other industries.

Microsoft has announced it will acquire Nuance for $56 per share in an all-cash transaction. The total amount is just shy of $20 billion for the acquisition, which offers new abilities to Microsoft to better serve the healthcare industry.

Nuance is known as a “trusted” cloud and AI software company and has years of experience serving the healthcare industry. The current CEO of Nuance, Mark Benjamin, will remain as the CEO and this acquisition is expected to be finalized by the end of 2021.

Responding to New Opportunities Faster
Microsoft is looking for new ways to accelerate its cloud offerings in the healthcare industry. They introduced Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare in 2020 and this new acquisition may help to strengthen their offering in the industry. Microsoft expects to be able to respond to new opportunities easier with this acquisition when it comes to industry-specific cloud strategies, specifically for the healthcare industry.

When it comes to cloud-based ambient clinical intelligence and conversational AI for healthcare provides, Nuance has positioned itself as a “leading” provider and a pioneer. They created popular products, such as the Powerscribe One, Dragon Ambient eXperience, and Dragon Medical One. These products have helped those in the healthcare industry provide better reporting and better speech recognition.

With the SaaS offerings already built on Microsoft Azure, the companies seem to fit well together. Many of the products created by Nuance work with core healthcare systems due to their longstanding relationships.

By acquiring Nuance, Microsoft will double the total addressable market or TAM within the healthcare space. The company will have a TAM in healthcare close to $500 billion after the acquisition. The two companies would also offer a higher standard when it comes to data security, compliance, and privacy.

The AI layer from Nuance offers a real-world enterprise AI and one of the top priorities for Microsoft and the healthcare industry. This acquisition may allow Microsoft to place advanced AI solutions into the hands of healthcare professionals across the world. It may also help to accelerate the growth of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare product as they add Nuance to the offering.

While the acquisition will likely have the most impact on how Microsoft offers products to the healthcare industry, it can go further than just healthcare. Nuance offers AI solutions that may help other industries and companies across the globe. Microsoft is expected to merge the technology into other offerings to help customers engaging with all types of solutions and products they currently offer.

Both Microsoft and the Nuance Boards of Directors provided unanimous approval of the transaction. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. It must still be approved by the Nuance shareholders and must go through regulatory approval, as well.

Once the deal closes, Nuance’s financials will likely be reported as a segment of the Microsoft Intelligent Cloud.

Source: https://hostingjournalist.com/by-acquiring-nuance-microsoft-speeds-up-its-healthcare-cloud-strategy/

By the Editor of Hosting Journalist -April 14, 2021

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare has partnered with NVIDIA to bring AI to the edge at scale through its global edge network. The combination of NVIDIA accelerated computing technology and Cloudflare’s edge network would create a massive platform on which developers can deploy applications that use pre-trained or custom machine learning models in seconds.

Today’s applications use AI for a variety of tasks, from translating text on webpages to object recognition in images, making machine learning models a critical part of application development. Users expect this functionality to be fast and reliable, while developers want to keep proprietary machine learning models reliable and secured.

“NVIDIA offers developers AI frameworks to support applications ranging from robotics and healthcare to smart cities and now cybersecurity with the recently launched Morpheus,” said Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of networking at NVIDIA.
NVIDIA provides developers with a broad range of AI-powered application frameworks including Jarvis for natural language processing, Clara for healthcare and life sciences, and Morpheus for cybersecurity.

The combination of NVIDIA’s technology and Cloudflare’s edge network would allow for deployment of applications that use pre-trained or custom machine learning models in seconds. By leveraging the TensorFlow platform, developers can use familiar tools to build and test machine learning models, and then deploy them globally onto Cloudflare’s edge CDN.

“Cloudflare Workers is one of the fastest and most widely adopted edge computing products with security built into its DNA,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Now, working with NVIDIA, we will be bringing developers powerful artificial intelligence tools to build the applications that will power the future.”

Centralized servers or Cloud Regions
Machine learning models are often deployed on expensive centralized servers or using cloud services that “limit” them to cloud regions around the world. Together, Cloudflare and NVIDIA, intend to put machine learning within milliseconds of the global online population -enabling high performance, low latency AI to be deployed by anyone. And, because the machine learning models themselves will remain in Cloudflare’s data centers, developers can deploy custom models without the risk of putting them on end user devices where they might risk being stolen.

“As companies are increasingly data-driven, the demand for AI technology grows,” said Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of networking at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA offers developers AI frameworks to support applications ranging from robotics and healthcare to smart cities and now cybersecurity with the recently launched Morpheus.”

Internally, Cloudflare uses machine learning for a variety of needs including business intelligence, bot detection, anomaly identification, and more. Cloudflare uses NVIDIA accelerated computing to speed up training and inference tasks and will bring the same technology to any developer that uses Cloudflare Workers.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CDN provider Cloudflare has its offices located in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. NVIDIA is also headquartered in Silicon Valley.

By Author: Nishit Raghuwanshi -April 15, 2021

Kemp has announced that it is going to create a combination application experience (ax) with network performance monitoring and diagnostic (NPMD) capabilities of its Flowmon product line with the LoadMaster load balancer. The Kemp load balancers consist of native flow-export capabilities, taking advantage of the common protocols such as NetFlow IPFIX. These protocols would lead to perfect transparency to the performance and status of the network.

Network knowledge has emerged as one of the most important aspects for a healthy, secure, and well-performing application environment with the growth in today’s application infrastructure that is shaped with the help of cloud, edge computing, and network knowledge.

Users can exactly mark the root cause of issues encountered by them and can easily determine whether they are caused due to the network or the application via Network Telemetry statistic and added visualization offered by Kemp Flowmon Collector. In this way, deep and actionable outages detect issues in their beginning stages so that they can be stopped before any major outage or escalation.

CTO at SEGA, Masahiro Sato, said that they have been provided with network visibility now which was missing previously. He further added that now they can easily identify the causes of network issues in an easier way as compared to the old process. He concluded by saying that the solution also allows them to design the proper capacity of the network.

Jason Dover, VP of product strategy at Kemp said that by integrating the two complementary technologies, the customers of Kemp have the best possible chance to deliver an always-on application experience for their users. After that, he said load balancing serves as an important piece of infrastructure to optimize the application experience. The extension of visibility in network traffic may provide a boost to IT professionals with proactive bandwidth monitoring and deep application performance analysis across the entire application delivery chain.

Jason Dover, VP of product strategy at Kemp said that by integrating the two complementary technologies, the customers of Kemp have the best possible chance to deliver an always-on application experience for their users.

The addition of the Flowman NetFlow/IPFIX Exporter to LoadMaster load balancers as a standard component is at the heart of enhanced network telemetry. This allows Kemp to keep telemetry data regarding all the network traffic that goes via the LoadMaster and then export it to Kemp Flowmon Collector for proper analysis and visualization. By the privileged position of the load balancer and advantage of the network, customers get access to a single definitive source of truth that helps them and makes sure that the business-critical applications are being delivered in an optimized war, irrespective of their residence, i.e., cloud or premises.

Along with the full set NPMD features, the Kemp Flowmon Collector ushers in network detection and response (NDR) for zero-day threat hunting, in-depth application performance monitoring, and packet analysis.

Advantages that users can get while using Network Telemetry with Kemp Flowmon Collector include:

Get access in an entire application value delivery chain to spot misconfigurations, bottlenecks, and potential security issues
Identify the root cause of new network, application, or security issues with one definitive source of application truth
Keep a check on the network usage and monitor experience to speculate and accommodate link saturation, usage spikes, Enhance the ability to respond to customer needs and security issues along with visibility into network performance

By the Editor of Hosting Journalist -April 15, 2021

Data center company Cologix has acquired a five-acre data center campus from vXchnge. The acquired facility has an existing 9 MW of power, with room to expand by a further 10 MW. In Silicon Valley, one of the world’s largest interconnection hubs and home to quite some iconic technology companies.

The acquisition would bring Cologix dozens of leading cloud, software and carrier customers as well as land to expand in response to accelerated demand for cloud deployments “at the digital edge.”

“This acquisition fits into Cologix’s cloud-first growth strategy by expanding our national footprint into the heart of Silicon Valley,” said Bill Fathers, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cologix.
This data center acquisition will bring the Cologix Platform more space, power and connectivity in the region, while enhancing Cologix’s market position as an interconnection leader. Financial terms of this acquisition were not disclosed.

“Silicon Valley continues to have one of the fastest growing data center markets in the world with strong fiber connectivity to Internet backbones and a growing density of hyperscale on-ramps,” said Bill Fathers, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cologix. “This acquisition fits into Cologix’s cloud-first growth strategy by expanding our national footprint into the heart of Silicon Valley, starting with an established interconnection hub. Through this acquisition, we will fulfill our strategic goal of providing total coverage of the U.S. markets with cloud gateways in Ashburn, Silicon Valley, Dallas, Minneapolis, New Jersey, Jacksonville and Columbus, OH – complementing our national coverage of Canada in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.”

It’s not the first vXchnge data center acquired by Cologix. In August last year, Cologix purchased vXchnge’s 16,000 square foot data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Public Cloud Onramps
Customers on this data center campus will get access to Cologix Access Marketplace, which provides on-demand connectivity to onramps including Amazon Web Services Direct Connect, Google Cloud Platform Interconnect, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, IBM Cloud Direct Link and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect, as well as to many other cloud platforms and network services.

The transaction, which is only subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in early Q2 2021. It will be funded through a combination of equity from Cologix’s partner, Mubadala, and an increase to their debt facilities.

By the Editor of Hosting Journalist -April 15, 2021

Hostinger, a global web hosting provider headquartered in Lithuania boasting 40 localized services worldwide and over 30 million users, is now able to accept cross-border transactions in more than 120 currencies through a partnership with Acquiring Bank Credorax.

“The capabilities Credorax offers us to streamline the international payment process makes this company the best choice for us when looking for an acquiring partner,” said Daugirdas Jankus, CMO of Hostinger. “The capabilities Credorax offers us to streamline the international payment process makes this company the best choice for us when looking for an acquiring partner,” said Daugirdas Jankus, CMO of Hostinger. “We strive to provide our customers with the easiest possible experience when setting up their website. It was therefore important to find a payment provider that would allow us to accept payments seamlessly and in local currency, removing any barrier to using our services. We look forward to working with Credorax, a partner we can count on as we grow and develop our payment solutions.”

Credorax already works with web hosting service providers and SaaS partners, including SEMRush and NordVPN. This partnership with Hostinger would offer Credorax the opportunity to tap into the growing fintech market in Eastern Europe.

“We are excited about the partnership with the Lithuanian web hosting provider. With this, we are expanding our presence in a region where fintech continues to grow,” said Igal Rotem, CEO of Credorax. “By using our services, Hostinger can accept payments in both widespread and less common currencies, such as currencies in the Asian and African regions. Hostinger can expand its customer base by offering its customers payment solutions in local currencies. At the same time, we can further expand our innovative and secure payment services in a growing Eastern European market.

Source: https://hostingjournalist.com/web-hosting-provider-hostinger-unlocks-cross-border-payments-with-credorax/

The FBI has arrested a Texas man for allegedly planning to kill 70% of the internet in a bomb attack targeting an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center on Smith Switch Road in Ashburn, Virginia.

FBI agents found that he was planning to use C-4 plastic explosives to attack prominent tech company's data centers in an attempt to 'kill of about 70% of the internet'. He met with an undercover FBI employee on April 8 to get what he believed were explosive devices. If he is found guilty of planning to blow up Amazon's Virginia data center, Pendley faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

Ethos Capital has completed the purchase of a controlling interest of top-level domain organization Donuts from Abry Partners. Donuts claims to hold the world’s largest portfolio of top-level domains. Ethos Capital’s initial investment in Donuts in 2020 facilitated the acquisition of Afilias, a leading TLD registry operator and provider.

"With extensive operational expertise and significant experience in domain name and related industries, Ethos Capital is the perfect partner to support our mission of reliability, security, and stability, as well as position us for continued success. We look forward to working with the Ethos Capital team and leveraging their expertise as we enter this next phase of growth," said Akram Atallah, CEO of Donuts

By Author: Koen Stegeman - HostingJournalist.com - April 13, 2021

Canadian web hosting and cloud service provider, HostPapa, has acquired San Jose-based Silicon Valley Web Hosting from Denetron LLC. Founded in 1997, Silicon Valley Web Hosting has primarily focused on providing bare metal dedicated server hosting for high-performance websites. It should be noted that HostPapa has made numerous acquisitions of other hosting companies in recent years.

“We look forward to enhancing the overall user experience for our new customers coming from Silicon Valley Web Hosting,” said Jamie Opalchuk, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HostPapa.

“Silicon Valley Web Hosting has always focused on providing fast and reliable hosting solutions for its customers, whether they’re running personal blogs or large ecommerce websites, and prides itself on great personal support,” said Denetron’s Managing Member, Daniel Ballenger.

“We believe HostPapa’s extensive experience in helping businesses of all sizes makes them the perfect company to bring Silicon Valley Web Hosting customers to the next level.”

This transaction would now provide Silicon Valley Web Hosting bare metal dedicated server customers with enhanced customer support options from HostPapa. In addition, customers can expect overall performance improvements as part of the overall HostPapa capital investment plan in infrastructure.

Upgrading Hosting Infrastructure
“We look forward to enhancing the overall user experience for our new customers coming from Silicon Valley Web Hosting,” said Jamie Opalchuk, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HostPapa. “We are excited to have them on board as part of the HostPapa family.”

To ensure a seamless transition, HostPapa will prioritize upgrading all newly acquired customers’ infrastructure and expand their current support coverage and potential portfolio of services.

Based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, HostPapa is a web hosting and cloud services provider for small businesses across the globe that was founded in 2006.

SOURCE: https://hostingjournalist.com/hostpapa-buys-bare-metal-dedicated-server-hosting-company/