SingleHop is a leading cloud hosting company specialized in offering highly scalable, on-demand infrastructure services to both end users and resellers, announced on March 28, 2013 the availability of its VMware Enterprise Private Cloud, which provides a private cloud environment powered by the VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus platform. According to the press release, the new product is a secure single-tenant pool of computing resources, custom-built for every client and connected with a highly scalable SAN storage solution. The VMware Enterprise Private Cloud enables the users to deploy unlimited virtual machines within the private cloud and they can apply any Windows or Linux workload and also a number of enterprise applications.

“Our VMware Enterprise Private Cloud stands out in the market because it enables users to deploy any number of virtual machines with no fluctuation in costs, as there is no hourly billing or per-user fee,” says Andy Pace, Chief Operating Officer at SingleHop. “Organizations can use it to deploy resources much faster to individual departments, because they can create and destroy virtual machines on the fly. It’s ideal for companies that have concerns relating to privacy or need to meet certain compliance standards that cannot be fulfilled with public cloud options.” The VMware vCenter provides you the power to establish minimum, maximum and proportional resources shares for CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth.

“When it comes to Private Clouds, we’re setting the gold standard. With our new Enterprise Private Cloud offering, we’re combining the power of two of the industry’s best platforms; our own infrastructure automation platform and VMware’s vCloud Enterprise Plus cloud technology. The result is a powerful blend of best-in-breed technologies that offer our customers the best of both worlds; scalability of cloud computing in a private yet scalable environment,” said Andy.

ColoGuard and GalaxyVisions, the leading providers of colocation and dedicated server hosting solutions in New York metropolitan area’s has announced that they has been upgraded their shared data center to 10 Gigabit (Gb) in order to meet the customer requests for higher-bandwidth connectivity for video and other data-intensive applications. In the upgradation they also installed new Cisco networking equipment that provides increase routing capabilities to their infrastructure. While upgrades were performed during scheduled maintenance windows have not disrupt any client services and the upgrade is mainly beneficial to clients who stream or transfer video and other large amounts of data.

“Our customers asked for it, and we delivered,” said Raymond Sidler, chief executive and co-founder of GalaxyVisions and ColoGuard. “This investment in network connectivity will not only help customers who work video but also those whose servers process large amounts of data.” According to press release, contracts with ColoGuard’s and GalaxyVisions’ hand-picked network providers are being updated therefore all customers can take advantage of the increased capacity. Around New York City the line to ColoGuard’s dark fiber ring has been activated already in order to support 10 GB.

“This is a significant improvement for users of our fiber ring throughout the metropolitan New York City area,” Sidler said. “It both reduces complexity and cost, while at the same time provides the bandwidth needed for the most data-intensive applications.” Both ColoGuard and GalaxyVisions use a variety of different technologies for storage and other systems which require the highest-possible bandwidth in order to overcome the earlier limitations of Ethernet. “Our new 10 Gb architecture will meet the current needs of our customers while positioning us to incorporate new technologies for the future,” Sidler said.

Sabey Data Centers (SDC) is one of the oldest and largest privately owned multi-tenant data center developers and operators in the world. The company has announced that it has launched Intergate.Manhattan, the new, 1 million-square foot, high-rise data center at 375 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. “This has been an extremely exciting project,” said John Sasser, Vice President of Operations at Sabey Data Centers.  ”There aren’t many opportunities to go into a 32 story building and remake it as a purpose-built data center.” The building provided an opportunity to re-think data center operations in a vertical layout. “We can take that 40 megawatts and spread it across the building in whatever way makes sense,” said Ruff.

The facility has totally 1 million sq. ft. of space with 32 stories tall and it includes brand new infrastructure and climate control and updated electrical systems in order to making it the most efficiently run data center in the city. “Ensuring that institutions – whether they’re financial services firms or health care providers or life science pioneers like the New York Genome Center – can securely store, access and share data is key to our city’s tech future,” said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. “That’s why Intergate. Manhattan is such an important addition to New York City’s data infrastructure and to our economy.”

“Intergate.Manhattan is a game changer uniquely positioned to offer a world class computing environment for those users with on-island data center needs,” said John Sabey, president of Sabey Data Center Properties. “Our tenants will be provided with plenty of room to grow and critical infrastructure to future-proof them for the next 20 to 30 years. We are excited to bring our unique business model to Manhattan. We own and operate all of our data centers maintaining complete control over our tenants’ critical operating environments.”

Swisscom, one of the leading Swiss telecom and web hosting provider announced yesterday about their partnership with Akamai Technologies in order to increase the content delivery and web application acceleration market in Switzerland by investing in joint sales, customer support and marketing resources. In addition to its primary services such as mobile, TV and broadband, Swisscom also provides web hosting services, hosted exchange and Microsoft office 365. Akamai’s flagship product and Intelligent Platform is the best addition to Swisscom’s hosting services but still it is not clear the importance of the new deal between Swisscom and Akamai. Their platform has more than 100,000 servers in above 75 countries to block security threats, instant device optimization and reliability.

“This strategic partnership is very interesting for us. With this collaboration, we combine innovative Akamai services with our strong brand, deep customer understanding and local support,” Urs Schaeppi, CEO Swisscom said in a statement. “The new services will address the growing expectations of enterprise customers for high-performing delivery of digital content, video and cloud applications. It will support the explosive growth in devices, content and traffic, all while helping to defend customers against an increasing flood of security attacks. This not only enables an optimum online experience for Internet users but also supports our corporate promise to be a trustworthy partner in the digital world.”

“The partnership will ensure a first-class level of service quality delivered to Swisscom customers,” Mark Vargo, senior vice president and general manager EMEA, Akamai said in a statement. “The integration of Akamai solutions into broadcast, hosting or cloud services from Swisscom will create performance, cost and security benefits for business-to-business customers as well as for end users. Two premier brands have joined forces to create new solution sets and service offerings to help enterprises better face the challenges of a hyperconnected world.”

Solar VPS is one of the leading VPS hosting provider specialized in Windows VPS and Linux VPS, announced on March 5^th, 2013 about its expansion of cloud hosting software the SolarSystem to Dallas, Texas through a partnership with data center operator Digital Realty. The expansion of the SolarSystem to Dallas, TX marks the company’s first partnership with Digital Realty and it is their first node in a series at Dallas location that will see additional solar VPS SolarSystem nodes in Phoenix, AZ and Miami, FL. With the new Dallas Solar VPS node hypervisors includes next generation Hexacore Intel E5 Processors with 256GB of RAM that allows for additional burst and growth.

“Digital Realty is the right data center partner for the SolarSystem solution. The selection of Digital Realty as our partner was based on their proven track record as an industry leader in data center uptime and customer service as it mirrors the Solar VPS company philosophy,” Solar VPS director of data center operations, Salvatore Poliandro said in a statement. “The SolarSystem nodes are the fastest nodes available in the industry and are built on proven, reliable technology offered at affordable rates. We are proud to be pushing the industry forward with a solution designed for IT professionals and small businesses.”

“The demand for Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service is driving significant growth in companies like Solar VPS. We are pleased to be the data center provider for the SolarSystem offering as the Solar VPS business continues to expand,” Andrew Schaap, vice president of sales at Digital Realty said in a statement. The new Dallas SolarSystem location will enable the cloud hosting needs of IT professionals, web hosting ninjas and small to medium sized businesses.