New Case Study Reveals the Benefits Behind CloudLinux

Princeton, NJ, June 3, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announces that Cartika, an industry innovator in cloud hosting services has increased density on its shared hosting servers by 5X using CloudLinux. During a recent server upgrade project, Cartika deployed CloudLinux to help improve the density of its shared hosting infrastructure. After deployment, not only did Cartika increase density and consolidate servers on a ratio of 5 to 1, but were also able to improve uptime and performance. Cloud Linux has released a case study, which chronicles the project and progress achieved during Cartika’s project.

The results of Cartika’s upgrade project further prove the value of the stability and control CloudLinux can give hosting service providers over the server environment for more efficient and profitable operations. CloudLinux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a specific process or customer. LVE isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight container and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant.

“CloudLinux has not only helped us improve the density out of our existing infrastructure, but also helped us realize significantcost savings in other ways,” states Andrew Rouchotas, CEO of Cartika.. “There were significant benefits that helped us save real costs in electricity and cooling but also savings in staff time that allowed us to focus our efforts on revenue generating activities and growing our business.”

By deploying CloudLinux, Cartika maximized its hardware consolidation efforts and improved server density and stability. CloudLinux increased the number of accounts hosted on one server and improved the consolidation efforts – so that now no one account can take down the entire server. Server stability also improved by allowing Cartika to set resource limits on their shared hosting customers without sacrificing uptime or performance. In addition, the Cartika hardware upgrade gave their customers more processing power.

“We are proud to see the real value that CloudLinux is able to deliver to hosting providers, as it shows the benefits of having full control over the hosting environment,” said Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Inc. Founder and CEO.

The results of Cartika’s deployment of CloudLinux were:

• Increased density by 5X while improving uptime and processing power

• Reduced overall hardware footprint

• Improved ROI so they could leverage new hardware available for shared hosting

• Reduced risks of unpredictable events taking down an entire server

• Empowered front line technicians to diagnose and solve problems

To read the full case study and for more information go to www.cloudlinux.com.

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About Cartika

Founded in Toronto in May 2002, Cartika Inc. has established itself as a leader in Application Hosting and advanced technologies. Advanced web hosting facilities and technologies, combined with intricate knowledge in several best of breed Open Source and Commercial Applications, Cartika can web enable your core business processes.

For more information on new CartikaCloud offering by Cartika, please visit www.cartikacloud.com and www.cartikahosting.com

About Cloud Linux, Inc.

Founded in Princeton, NJ, Cloud Linux Inc. is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.

Cloud Linux Inc. provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.

For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com

Providing Increased Shared Server Density and Stability to Its Robust Enterprise-Class Hosting Suite

Princeton, NJ, May 26, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that Top Hosting Center, a cloud-hosting provider based in Montreal, Canada, will offer CloudLinux as one of its standard Linux Operating Systems (OS) on its cloud solutions, including its Cloud Sites and Cloud Servers offerings.  CloudLinux was selected by Top Hosting Center because of the increased density and stability that CloudLinux can provide to its cloud hosting offering. As a new CloudLinux partner, Top Hosting marks the ninth service provider partnership within the first 90 days of the CloudLinux launch.

Top Hosting Center’s Cloud Sites package fills the gap between traditional shared hosting and full dedicated server offerings. The Cloud Sites package provides all the benefits of high availability and robust enterprise-class hosting at an affordable price.  By leveraging CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (LVE) technology, Top Hosting Center can further deliver increased performance and stability across all of its hosting options.

“Top Hosting Center believes that hosting customers should expect more from their providers – more flexibility, higher performance, and increased stability. By adding CloudLinux to our stack of services, we are demonstrating that strong commitment to our customers,” said Top Hosting Center CEO Eric Vanier.  “We also believe those services should be delivered at an affordable cost which is why CloudLinux is an excellent solution.”

The core technology behind CloudLinux OS is its Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. This ensures that each account on a shared server is allocated enough CPU resources to run efficiently without jeopardizing the other tenants on that server.

With LVE, administrators now have the tools to control the CPU and IO demands of individual tenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server.  Compatible with major control panels for easy management and deployment, CloudLinux offers cloud and dedicated server hosting providers with increased server control and stability.

“As Top Hosting is committed to providing unmatched hosting solutions, by deploying CloudLinux across their service suite, they can further deliver high quality services and ensure maximum uptime for their clients,” states Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux Founder and CEO.  CloudLinux is a cost-effective way to ensure server stability and optimize service providers’ offerings.

For more information, please visit www.cloudlinux.com

About Top Hosting Center

Top Hosting Center is a Montreal, CA company dedicated to changing the web hosting industry. A division of Proweb Consultant, THC offers enterprise class web hosting solutions at the absolute lowest cost to customers. Affordability no longer means “cheap” or undercut services. Top Hosting Center has boldly challenged the web to find a more affordable service with comparable features and quality. THC is privately held and adheres to the Web 2.0 principles of collaboration while providing Web 3.0 support, speed, stability and quality. For more information go to www.tophostingcenter.com

About CloudLinux, Inc.

Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.

CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.

To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.

TELEHOUSE America held its Q’1 2010 Breakfast on Broadway (BoB) event on February 25^th.  Though there was a snow storm in New York City that day, attendance was terrific.   Three companies presented at the event, including TELEHOUSE America, AboveNet and Digital Edge – each company had strong messages and interesting data to ponder.

TELEHOUSE’s Fred Cannone, the company’s Director of Sales and Marketing, discussed how data center demand is outpacing supply.  There continues to be a limited number of multi-tenant data centers that can accommodate companies looking for cost-effective access to an eco-system of service providers that can offer high bandwidth solutions. 

In 2009, the company announced its interconnection solution through its Ethernet Private Line service, Global InterLink, a service that has the capability of connecting TELEHOUSE’s 37 global data centers while also providing access to other major data center hubs.  This solution provides companies a tremendous amount of benefits, including cloud computing.  TELEHOUSE calls this solution Data Center as a Cloud^TM.(DCaaC).  Their DCaaC solution provides companies with Total Managed Network Services through its data center and colocation footprint through their Internet exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX) as well as global Ethernet private line connectivity and a full suite of Manage-E solutions including on-site support, data back-up solutions, business continuity planning and more.

Key customer examples of the types of companies leveraging the DCaaC solution include Global Financial firms, Post Production houses and Law firms.  Each company requires a unique footprint, but all grounded on similar solutions; Dedicated Data Center Suites, Global Interlink – private line connectivity, Managed Services, IP Transit all in multiple locations across multiple continents.  This is TELEHOUSE’s specialty – a complete Total Solution Provider.

AboveNet’s Doug Turz presented next on high-bandwidth Ethernet trends and solutions.  AboveNet considers anything above 100 Mbps to be high-bandwidth (I say that’s certainly fair).  The company provides solutions to enterprise buildings and data centers serving companies that require bandwidth flexibility, convergence and low latency. 

The company is seeing a push toward more video, which of course uses more bandwidth.  Another trend that AboveNet sees, being a data center neutral provider, is there are more companies than just financial firms concerned with latency.  The healthcare industry is building out their network infrastructures with low latency bandwidth solutions.   Unlike the Financial industry that associates each millisecond with the loss of tens of thousands of dollars, it’s harder to put an actual figure associated with network latency when considering the healthcare industry, but it could certainly lead to a life or death situation.

The final presenting company was Digital Edge.  Digital Edge provided us with a special presentation, given by its client the March of Dimes.  Digital Edge provides consulting and virtualization implementation solutions.  For the March of Dimes, a company that relies on donations and fundraising programs that primarily uses the Internet it was important to be assured 100% uptime, since downtime equals lost donations – lost income and of course the company’s inability to aid the children they support. 

At any given moment the March of Dimes’ network could have up to 13,000 concurrent sessions – per second.   Digital Edge designed its network to ensure uptime – at the same time the company’s design did not fall prey to complete virtualization.  Scalability was a key driver for the design as the number of simultaneous virtual instances could be high – and had high processing requirements. 

As Digital Edge put it ‘you need a strategy.’  Companies need to know what to virtualize versus not and to understand the security associated with any network architecture.  When working with high performance solutions that require precise tuning, virtualization is not the answer.   In addition – if you require high security for your applications and services, virtualization will not suffice.

Digital Edge’s years of experience has indentified holes in a variety of software solutions developed by MicroSoft, Zen, VMware and more.  To have a company like Digital Edge consulting, designing and implementing your network solutions will certainly guarantee efficiency for the data you are transmitting.

For more information about these companies or to view their presentations, please click on these links.

TELEHOUSE America:  Data Center Market & TELEHOUSE Advantage

AboveNet: Low Latency Data Center Connectivity Bandwidth Flexibility

Digital Edge: The Intelligence Behind The Technology

Today, iland Internet Solutions announced a partnership with Vizioncore to offer complete virtualization solutions for the small and medium-sized enterprise markets.  In doing so, iland has chosen a valuable company to partner with.   As a subsidiary of Quest Software, and with operations throughout the world, Vizioncore is a leader in virtualization data protection and management solutions.  It’s vReplicator solution was designed specifically for virtualization and this is the product that will be deployed in iland’s virtual data centers throughout the U.S.

Iland’s Cloud Hosting Services featuring Hosted VMware VI Enterprise solutions and Managed Storage and Colocation, has further positioned itself as a leading global provider of virtualization solutions.  In deploying Vizioncore’s vReplicator, iland will be providing its customers a ‘best in class’ replication solution. 

The partnership is also a great win for Vizioncore.  The company will be leveraging the iland Hosted VMware platform to enable new technology adopters to achieve high availability services more cost-effectively.

iland will be deploying the service in its Virtual Data Centers located in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Boston, and the Washington DC area.  The company’s President, Brian Ussher stated that ‘with Vizioncore’s vReplicator product, iland’s customers can now access the latest technologies available to view necessary applications. We also enable companies to cost-effectively implement these solutions on-site or within their own facilities.  With this partnership, we can manage the Vizioncore licenses and provide consulting services for implementing more reliable virtualization solutions.”

Vizioncore and iland’s solutions are scalable, both globally and regionally, providing an emphasis on achieving greater ROI on virtualization.  For more information, please visit www.iland.com.

A copy of the complete Press Release is below.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

ILAND INTERNET SOLUTIONS AND VIZIONCORE PARTNER TO OFFER COMPLETE VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS FOR THE SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE MARKETS

 Houston, TX and Buffalo Grove, IL (May 11, 2009) - iland Internet Solutions, a leading global provider of Cloud Hosting Services featuring Hosted VMware VI Enterprise solutions and Managed Storage and Colocation, and Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in virtualization data protection and management solutions, today announce they have entered into a partnership to leverage each company’s products and services to provide complete virtualization solutions for the small and medium-sized enterprise markets.  Vizioncore’s vReplicator, a solution designed specifically for virtualization, will be deployed in iland’s virtual data centers, providing ‘best in class’ replication solutions for iland, iland’s customers and for external clients’ on-premise use. Vizioncore leverages iland’s Hosted VMware platform to enable new technology adopters to achieve high-availability services more cost-effectively.

Iland’s Virtual Data Centers, located in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Boston and the Washington DC area, provide access to iland’s enterprise Hosted VMware Cloud Services, where businesses can host multiple operating systems and applications locally and in remote locations.  This allows for maximum performance, high availability, data protection and improved disaster recovery processes while reducing organizations’ costs for space, power and equipment.  By implementing Vizioncore’s vReplicator product, developed specifically for the VMware platform, iland’s customers can easily replicate virtual servers and applications to iland’s hosted environment without the use of any agents and will no longer be concerned about system hardware and storage dependencies that drive up costs of such services.  System fail-over and recovery is automated and fast.  This first-to-market, high-level of detail access to information, fulfills a critical gap in the marketplace.

“iland believes in partnering with the right companies to offer our clients best-of-breed, quality solutions at competitive rates,” stated Brian Ussher, President of iland.  “With Vizioncore’s vReplicator product, iland’s customers can now access the latest technologies available to view necessary applications. We also enable companies to cost-effectively implement these solutions on-site or within their own facilities.  With this partnership, we can manage the Vizioncore licenses and provide consulting services for implementing more reliable virtualization solutions.”

“With iland, Vizioncore can address new market opportunities more affordably and be part of a greater solution for companies as they implement cloud computing solutions,” added Joe Castro, VP of North and South American Sales for Vizioncore. “We are proud to say iland is not only a partner they are also a client, and can provide a direct testimonial of vReplicator’s advantages.”

Together, iland and Vizioncore enable a complete set of solutions from SMBs to large-scale enterprises, providing products and services that have been proven in the marketplace.  The solutions are scalable, both globally and regionally, with an emphasis on achieving greater ROI on virtualization.  For more information, please visit www.iland.com.

Today Mzima Networks and iland Internet Solutions announced their business relationship.  iland selected Mzima’s Ethernet Transit network to connect its virtual data centers in Los Angeles and New York – anchor locations on each coast of the United States.  This is also great news for Mzima Networks, as they will be transmitting up to 10 Gbps of capacity on behalf of iland.  

Just recently, iland Internet announced a similar deal with AboveNet – together Mzima and AboveNet will provide iland and its customers a solid, redundant and efficient transport network that will provide quality upstream connectivity to transport ‘cloud-based’ solutions supporting iland’s hosted Cloud services and its virtual data center service offerings.

Key  Highlights of the Release include:

• - iland Internet Solutions Selects Mzima Networks High-Availability IP Transit Backbone in 2 markets: Los Angeles & New York
• - Mzima’s network will provide optimized Internet backbone services to transmit up to 10Gbps of capacity between iland’s facilities
• - Iland’s virtual data centers and cloud hosting services rely on premium high-performance networks, propelling them to choose Mzima as its provider

For the complete press release, please read below                                                        

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ILAND INTERNET SOLUTIONS SELECTS MZIMA NETWORKS’ RELIABLE ETHERNET TRANSIT TO FURTHER CONNECT ITS VIRTUAL DATA CENTERS IN LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK 

THIS ADDITIONAL CAPACITY BY MZIMA FURTHER SUPPORTS ILAND’S FULLY REDUNDANT CLOUD HOSTING, REPLICATION AND DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES             

Houston, TX and Los Angeles, CA (April 29, 2009) - iland Internet Solutions, a leading global provider of Cloud Hosting Services featuring Hosted VMware VI Enterprise solutions, Managed Colocation, and High Speed IP Bandwidth together with Mzima Networks, the world’s premier high-performance Network Service Provider, today announce iland has selected Mzima Network’s optimized Internet backbone to transmit up to 10 Gbps capacity to and from the iland virtual data centers located in Telx’s 60 Hudson colocation site in New York and  CRG West’s Wilshire Annex in Los Angeles.  This capacity provides further redundancy to iland’s cloud hosting, replication and disaster recovery services. 

These iland virtual data centers offer virtualization-enabled solutions, applications for Software-as-a-Service providers, and managed services for iland’s customers, providing proven reliability, broad application coverage and unique mobility features within these markets.  With the addition of these world-class facilities on opposite coasts, iland is able to replicate data across the country instantaneously. Additionally, the Virtual Data Centers offer traditional Colocation, Managed Storage, iland’s high-speed, blended Tier1 IP connectivity, and cost-effective Disaster Recovery, with instant failover and replication capabilities to all other iland hubs across the U.S., including Houston, Dallas, Boston and Washington, D.C.

“We are proud to announce additional connectivity within our iland Virtual Data Centers in Los Angeles and New York,” states Scott Sparvero, CEO of iland Internet Solutions. “We strategically select Internet providers like Mzima Networks that offer comprehensive, fault-tolerant backbones, ensuring our bandwidth-intensive services and applications are reliable and efficient.  By selecting Mzima Networks as our transit provider of choice, iland customers are further guaranteed the most secure and robust network, with cost-saving opportunities.”

iland selected Mzima as its provider of choice to further ensure high quality of service and support.  Mzima’s all-optical, meshed backbone network is engineered to provide premium performance, reliability and value. Coupled with its extensive private peering with numerous broadband ISPs and content providers, Mzima Networks offers iland and its customers the fastest, most reliable connectivity currently available.

“As the global high-performance network service provider, Mzima offers route-optimized transit and private peering built upon an international backbone network using a multi-layer design,” states Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima. “The result is that customer traffic reaches end-users quickly and efficiently, even in the event of outage or catastrophic facility failure. Mzima is pleased to join forces with iland, and to provide a performance level and measure of resiliency that will exceed the expectations of iland’s bandwidth-intensive customers.”

iland’s Virtual Data Centers in Los Angeles and New York are now available.  For more information, please visit www.iland.com.   For more information on Mzima’s high performance network services, please visit www.mzima.net.

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About iland Internet Solutions Corporation

iland Internet Solutions Corporation is a global provider of iland’s VMware Cloud Services with High Availability, Virtualization and Replication solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Network and Data services. iland provides fully redundant, geographically distributed solutions, including cost-effective disaster recovery options, to bandwidth-intensive companies. Our clients include companies in the SaaS, Hosting, VAR and IT Consulting and VOIP verticals, as well as a wide array of enterprise business customers in the energy, manufacturing, biotech, media, software, education, web 2.0, communications, healthcare, and civil engineering industries. Since founded in1995, iland has been helping organizations transform their expensive, traditional IT environments into cost-effective, fully optimized, IT solutions. iland is headquartered in Houston, Texas. For more information about iland, please visit www.iland.com.

About Mzima Networks

Founded in 2002, Mzima Networks is the world’s premier high-performance network service provider delivering Internet bandwidth to enterprise, content providers and carriers globally. Mzima’s all-optical, meshed backbone network is engineered to provide the highest levels of performance, reliability and value. By leveraging its partnership with Force10, Mzima is the leader in native 10 Gigabit Ethernet technologies. Coupled with its extensive private peering with numerous broadband ISPs and content providers, Mzima Networks offers its customers the fastest, most reliable connectivity currently available.  For more information please visit: www.mzima.net. 

 For Media Inquires for both iland and Mzima, please contact:

Kudos to iland Internet Solutions which is taking its Virtual Data Center offerings to two new cities; Boston and Washington DC, by leveraging the CRG West Data Center facilities in those markets.

The company strongly believes that in order to provide the best services with the highest availability, it needs to be in a variety of quality, high-density datacenters facilities in a variety markets.  With this expansion, the company now has the ability to offer Virtual Data Center Solutions, including high availability bandwidth, Disaster Recovery, Replication and a myriad of Cloud hosting services in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Boston and Washington DC.

For more information about the company’s announcement, please read the Press Release below:

ILAND INTERNET SOLUTIONS EXPANDS ITS VIRTUAL DATA CENTER OFFERING TO THE EAST COAST VIA TWO CRG WEST DATA CENTERS

WITH THE ADDITION OF THESE TWO HIGH AVAILABILITY HUBS, ILAND CAN NOW OFFER CLOUD HOSTING SERVICES, REPLICATION, DISASTER RECOVERY AND COLOCATION SOLUTIONS IN FIVE CRITICAL LOCATIONS ACROSS AMERICA                 

Houston, TX (April 21, 2009) - iland Internet Solutions, a leading global provider of Cloud Hosting Services featuring Hosted VMware VI Enterprise solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Bandwidth today announces its expansion to the East Coast of the United States, with two new iland Virtual Data Centers at CRG West in Boston and Northern Virginia.  These new high-availability hubs offer virtualization-enabled solutions, applications and services for iland’s customers, providing proven reliability, broad application coverage and unique mobility features within these markets.  With the addition of these new data centers, iland is able to replicate data across the country instantaneously. Additionally, the Virtual Data Centers offer traditional Colocation, Managed Storage, iland’s high speed, blended Tier1 IP and cost-effective Disaster Recovery with instant failover and replication capabilities to all of the other iland hubs across the country. 

Each of iland’s Virtual Data Centers, now located in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Boston and the DC area, includes access to iland’s hosted vmware VI Enterprise Solutions, where businesses can host multiple operating systems and applications locally and in remote locations, allowing maximum performance, high availability, data protection and improved disaster recovery processes; while reducing organizations’ costs for space, power and equipment.  For example, if a natural disaster affects a company’s corporate data center location anywhere in the country, that customer can failover to one of iland’s Virtual Data Centers across America. So even if that hurricane or tornado hit, the company could still have “all systems go” including fax, Internet, email and blackberries, all while saving money month after month on traditional colocation costs.
Additionally, the Virtual Data Centers offer iland customers mission critical dedicated servers, managed SAN storage, managed network and security services, with access to iland’s cost-effective, Tier-1, high-speed IP network and carrier-neutral connectivity across a variety of global networks. Whether the iland customer is local or global, iland’s certified technicians are available for infrastructure and network consultation, disaster recovery planning, and network monitoring.  This is in addition to the qualified CRG West technicians that are on-site in the highly secure Boston and Reston data centers.

“We are proud to announce the openings of our iland Virtual Data Centers near Boston and DC as we continue to expand iland’s virtualization and cloud computing technology across America,” states Scott Sparvero, CEO of iland Internet Solutions. “We strategically select the cities that have a growing demand for bandwidth-intensive services and applications, and we select key, state-of-the-art buildings within these cities, such as CRG West’s facilities, to house our hubs according to the highest industry standards. This guarantees iland customers the most secure and robust network and cost-saving opportunities.”

“We are pleased to welcome iland’s innovative, virtualized hosting and replication services to our Boston and Northern Virginia data centers,” commented David Dunn, CRG West Senior Vice President. “Our company is committed to delivering reliable data center space and providing exceptional access to other networks under one roof. We look forward to serving iland and their customers as they continue on their path of strong corporate growth.”

Both of iland’s new Virtual Data Centers in Boston and Reston are now available.  For more information, please visit www.iland.com.

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About CRG West:

CRG West is a leading developer, manager and operator of world-class data centers. Established in 2001, CRG West provides wholesale data center space and colocation, connectivity services, remote hands support and a public Internet exchange, called Any2. A wholly-owned portfolio company and operating partner of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm with over $91 billion of equity under management, CRG West manages carrier-neutral data centers in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Northern Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington D.C. CRG West provides data center and peering opportunities to more than 500 of the world’s leading networks, enterprises, government institutions and universities.  Visit www.crgwest.com for additional information.

About iland Internet Solutions Corporation

iland Internet Solutions Corporation is a global provider of iland’s VMware Cloud Services with High Availability, Virtualization and Replication solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Network and Data services. iland provides fully redundant, geographically distributed solutions, including cost-effective disaster recovery options, to bandwidth-intensive companies. Our clients include companies in the SaaS, Hosting, VAR and IT Consulting and VOIP verticals, as well as a wide array of enterprise business customers in the energy, manufacturing, biotech, media, software, education, web 2.0, communications, healthcare, and civil engineering industries. Since founded in1995, iland has been helping organizations transform their expensive, traditional IT environments into cost-effective, fully optimized, IT solutions. iland is headquartered in Houston, Texas. For more information about iland, please visit  www.iland.com.

For iland media inquiries, please contact:  

Ilissa Miller   

Jaymie Scotto & Associates 

+1.866.695.3629

pr@jaymiescotto.com

For CRG West media inquiries, please contact:     

Mark Jobson 

+1.303.405.1004

mjobson@crgwest.com

How does a company, offering virtualization solutions based on a ‘cloud’ environment, actually provide the service?   iland Internet Solutions’ announcement today provides some insight to how companies design their underlying network infrastructure in order to meet the high-demands of global businesses who require no-fault, 100% uptime SLA’s for their virtualized services and/or on-demand software applications.

For companies who leverage the cost-savings and flexible infrastructure design solutions inherent in iland Internet’s Virtualization and VMware Cloud Services, it is important to realize that the company takes its role in providing high-availability solutions seriously – it’s not just a term used to ’sell’ services, it’s a term they use to design their underlying network.

That is one of the important realizations of the company’s announcement today.  By choosing to leverage AboveNet Communications’ Tier 1 IP backbone to interconnect the company’s high-availability virtual data centers located in Los Angeles, Boston, Reston, Virginia and Dallas; iland is announcing its commitment to providing top quality, redundant network solutions in and between its facilities.  As familiar as I am with the company, I know there is more to come.

For more information about iland, please visit www.iland.com.  The full text of the announcement released on March 31, 2009 is below:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 ILAND INTERNET SOLUTIONS SELECTS ABOVENET, A TOP TIER1, IP PROVIDER, TO CONNECT ITS VIRTUAL DATA CENTERS ACROSS AMERICA

Houston, TX (March 31, 2009) – iland Internet Solutions, a leading global provider of Virtualization and VMware Cloud Services featuring Hosted VMware VI Enterprise solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Bandwidth, and AboveNet Communications, Inc., a leading provider of fiber optic connectivity solutions, announced today that iland has selected AboveNet as one of its top two Tier1 IP providers to connect the iland Virtual Data Centers, located in Los Angeles, Boston, Reston, Virginia and Dallas.  The additional 4 Gbps IP network connectivity for each of iland’s Virtual Data Centers provide iland and its customers with further redundancy, flexibility and cost effectiveness.

“We selected AboveNet as our IP partner due to our mutual commitment to provide the highest level of customer service as well as network availability,” states Brian Ussher, President of iland Internet Solutions.  “Iland is committed to continuously investing in our network infrastructure to ensure high availability and the utmost scalability for our industry-leading VMware Cloud Services. As a result, our Cloud Services customers enjoy flexible and secure data replication, protection and improved disaster recovery processes.”

“AboveNet remains committed to meeting iland’s mission-critical data transport requirements,” said MaryBeth Nance, Executive Director of Business Development & Marketing at AboveNet.  “We continue to invest in our network construction to offer a broad array of high-bandwidth fiber optic connectivity solutions.  We provide reliability and scalability to meet iland’s highest requirements for Data Center connectivity, IT virtualization, and consolidation and optimization services.  By delivering a bundled, managed solution to iland within all four of its virtual Data Center markets, we also help control iland’s network operating costs while enabling fast and scalable deployments.”

iland offers premium colocation and a hybrid of virtual and physical data center services in each one of its geographically diverse and redundant iland Virtual Data Centers.  Each state-of-the-art SaS 70 facility is built according to the highest industry standards, providing options for traditional colocation, including cabinets and cages, and options for virtual hosting solutions, including our industry-leading VMware Cloud Services. These hybrid solutions allow clients to increase their disaster recovery processes, simplify their IT Operations and consolidate equipment costs, while providing them the ability to colocate additional servers and network equipment cost effectively. Additionally, iland technicians can be available on-site to deliver best-in-class managed IT services, virtualization, replication, storage and back-up solutions.   

For more information on iland and its iland Virtual Data Centers, please visit www.iland.com or email info@iland.com.

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About AboveNet, Inc.

AboveNet, Inc. provides fiber optic connectivity solutions for business and carriers. Its private, fiber optical network delivers key network and IP services in and among 15 top U.S. metro markets and London. AboveNet’s network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government. 

For AboveNet media inquiries, please contact:

MaryBeth Nance

Executive Director of Business Development & Marketing

mnance@above.net 

571-262-2865

About iland Internet Solutions Corporation

iland Internet Solutions Corporation is a global provider of iland Cloud Services (iCS) with High Availability VMware Solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Network and Data services. iland provides fully redundant, geographically distributed solutions, including cost-effective disaster recovery options, to bandwidth-intensive companies.  Our clients include companies in the SaaS, Hosting, VAR and IT Consulting and VOIP verticals, as well as a wide array of enterprise business customers in the energy, manufacturing, biotech, media, software, education, web 2.0, communications, healthcare, and civil engineering industries. Since founded in1995, iland has been helping organizations transform their expensive, traditional IT environments into cost-effective, fully optimized, IT solutions. iland is headquartered in Houston, Texas. For more information about iland, please visit www.iland.com.

For iland media inquiries, please contact:     

Jaymie Scotto & Associates 

+1.866.695.3629

pr@jaymiescotto.com

March 5, 2009:  Earlier this week, iland Internet Solutions announced the launch of their Partner Program which will enable Agents, VARs, resellers and Channel Partners to leverage the iland High Availability VMware platform to provide an effective, fully redundant and reliable virtualized solution leveraging a variety of infrastructure technologies that include colocation, Internet transit, diverse transport options and more.

What is important to note, is that iland is the only company publicly discussing the virtues of a hybrid solution; one that leverages existing infrastructure and technology investments already in place while maximizing the investment by deploying ‘virtual’ back-ups, disaster recovery facilities, and additional expandable virtual footprints.  These solutions enable companies to migrate carefully and efficiently into the virtual realm.

P to V – The Tools Necessary to differentiate your business

Physical to Virtual is their motto and they can support companies looking to jump right into it or simply feel it out.  Their customized solutions are an ideal fit for partners since they remain vendor agnostic, network neutral and can manage and integrate a variety of different platforms to suit the end user’s specific requirements.  Partners have the opportunity to use their own infrastructure, service provider relationships and leverage their hardware vendors to work with iland to deploy and effectively manage a solution that in the end, only makes their Partners look good.

For more information about the program and how you too could become a Partner, please contact Dante Orsini at dante.orsini@iland.com

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ILAND INTERNET SOLUTIONS UNVEILS ITS NEW AND HIGHLY-COMPETITIVE PARTNER PROGRAM FEATURING THE COMPANY’S CUTTING-EDGE VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES

Houston, TX (MARCH 2, 2009) – iland Internet Solutions, a leading global provider of Virtualization and Cloud Hosting Services featuring Hosted VMware VI Enterprise solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Bandwidth announces today at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo the company’s first partner program, featuring its cutting-edge virtualization and cloud services over high-availability VMware.  Additional iland services that are included in the partner program are colocation across global markets; cost-effective, high-speed IP connectivity; managed network and security services; cost-effective disaster recovery solutions; mission-critical dedicated services and SAN storage.  

“Iland’s wide array of services allows new partners to leverage the latest in technology while maximizing business sales and real value in the marketplace. Our certified VMware team can assist in creating customized solutions to allow Agents and Resellers to target their specific target market including VOIP, SaaS, SMB and other segments,” says Dante Orsini, iland Channel Director.

Iland’s partner program allows Agents and Resellers to meet their client’s financial and technical needs.  Mindful of today’s economy, iland has crafted cost-effective IT solutions that allow end-users to capitalize on the latest technology without having to build extensive network infrastructure or lay out capital expenditures.  This new partner program enables iland to extend their reach to provide real and viable options that solve a wide-variety of IT issues faced by companies across many sectors. With iland’s Cloud Services (iCS), you can deliver private cloud solutions designed for businesses that demand secure, best-in-class technology. Offering a full range of virtualization solutions will help Agents and Resellers retain customers and keep their edge over the competition.  iland’s certified VMware team can show this segment how to leverage ‘the cloud’ – providing better technology that is finally affordable for any sized client.

Additionally, iland’s partner program allows agents and resellers to increase their own revenue with a partner reward/discount structure.  The flexible options and service bundling offers partners the opportunity to create customized and true value-add solutions, guaranteed to increase customer loyalty and satisfaction. Lastly, the new wave of virtualization and cloud computing, as well as additional iland products, will attract new clients and new target markets, further increasing partners’ competitive advantage.

“We are excited to open our doors to new partners and resellers,” states Brian Ussher, President of iland Internet Solutions. “After extensive research, our team has created a robust partner support system that includes a partner portal, a simple and competitive pricing structure, contract generation, marketing resources, customer event assistance and lead generation activities.  Iland is committed to the success of its flexible partner options, which includes an agent program, reseller program and a referral program, and we are available for constant training and pre and post sales and technical support, to insure a positive, cost-effective experience for partners and end users.”  For more information on the iland partner program, please visit www.iland.com or email info@iland.com.

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About iland Internet Solutions Corporation

iland Internet Solutions Corporation is a global provider of iland Cloud Services (iCS) with High Availability VMware Solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Network and Data services. iland provides fully redundant, geographically distributed solutions, including cost-effective disaster recovery options, to bandwidth-intensive companies.  Our clients include companies in the SaaS, Hosting, VAR and IT Consulting and VOIP verticals, as well as a wide array of enterprise business customers in the energy, manufacturing, biotech, media, software, education, web 2.0, communications, healthcare, and civil engineering industries. Since founded in1995, iland has been helping organizations transform their expensive, traditional IT environments into cost-effective, fully optimized, IT solutions. iland is headquartered in Houston, Texas. For more information about iland, please visit www.iland.com.

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