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

For more information about iland Internet Solutions, please visit www.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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Today, Houston-based iland Internet Solutions announced they have joined the VMware service provider program to delivery cloud computing services. By joining the program, iland’s customers will benefit from VMware’s virtualization solutions leveraging the cost effective and reliability of the products platform. Please see the announcement below in full. Thank you.

ILAND INTERNET SOLUTIONS JOINS VMWARE SERVICE PROVIDER PROGRAM

TO DELIVER CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES ACROSS ONE COMMON PLATFORM

Key Highlights:

- iland will now have access to VMware’s proven and reliable virtualization solutions enabling users to deploy a broad set of applications to the cloud without rewriting.

- iland’s customers benefit from VMware virtualization solutions by doing more with less during tight, economic times

- VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP)enables iland to deliver scalable virtualization solutions and service offerings that are affordable and reliable

Houston, TX (February 24, 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 announced today its participation in the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP). This relationship will provide iland’s customers access to new virtualization-enabled solutions, applications and services with proven reliability, broad application coverage and unique mobility features.

This additional flexibility will allow iland customers to more effectively utilize their hardware resources through VMware virtualization solutions, enabling customers to do more with less during tight, economic times. Instead of paying for a dedicated set of servers to run an application, the new cloud-computing model allows customers to dynamically scale their hardware requirements to match the needs of the application. If capacity demand rises, additional server and storage resources can be provisioned automatically.

Unlike other compute clouds that require applications to be built specifically to a single cloud computing platform and require complete rewrites of existing applications, iland’s VMware solutions enable millions of existing applications to run simultaneously in a VMware-based infrastructure cloud without modification. For any size organization, this application compatibility can provide the flexibility to run applications where it makes the most sense, whether on premise or in the cloud.

“We’re working with VMware to help ensure our clients have access to the latest technology in cloud hosting,” states Brian Ussher, President of iland Internet Solutions. “iland can now leverage the large range of applications that run on the VMware platform as well as the 1,000+ appliances in the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Now, deploying new applications to the cloud or on premise is fast, easy and affordable.”

“VMware welcomes iland to the VMware Service Provider Program,” said Geoff Waters, director of emerging channels, VMware. “iland’s expertise in virtualization and managed IT services is a valuable addition to our program, which includes more than 100 services partners worldwide. We look forward to accelerating the ability of iland to deliver our latest technology to customers, and to help ensure more affordable and reliable application hosting and infrastructure services.”

The Ripple Effect of Colocation and IP Transit Rate Increases

A Customer and Vendor’s Response to Managing Rate Increases in the Market

December 16, 2008

Contributed by Brian Ussher, President and Co-Founder of iland Internet Solutions

Iland relies on a multitude of vendors for colocation and IP transit in order to maintain a variety of solutions for our customers including Hosted VMware solutions, colocation, dedicated servers and redundant IP transit solutions. We found that in this highly competitive marketplace, our vendors are constantly trying to manage their business more effectively and unfortunately this inadvertently affects our customers through rate increases, facility consolidation and network changes which often impacts end-users. Over the past year though to off-set these types of changes, we have finalized our own long-term data center footprints across the U.S. to establish more control over the components in our solution sets.  

Our business is always focused on working with the best suppliers of services in the most sought after markets.  With this in mind, we have the ability to leverage multiple relationships to ensure we remain competitively priced, even as markets continue to be constrained.  We have instituted a variety of ‘best-business’ practices to ensure our customers have options within our portfolio of locations and services to help them manage their business more effectively.  Here is how we do it:

-          Because of the trends in the data center market and space/power constraints Iland has built a highly redundant VMware Hosted Cloud Services architecture to bring our client base new options to traditional colocation.  We know that colocation is an important component in IT infrastructure, but based on customer demand we can now provide alternatives to either replace traditional colocation or offer a combination of virtualized cloud services along with colocation.  In this way we always bring new technologies into our solutions—leveraging the best options within each.  Virtualization solves many of the data center issues we hear from the marketplace – decreases traditional colocation space and power costs; provides predictable IT costs; and allows clients to enjoy the many other benefits of virtualization.  Our team of experts can guide you to a cost-effective solution leveraging our VMware platform.

-          We are constantly sourcing alternative and varied providers whom we can enter into long-term contracts with; within the key markets we provide services.  This will ensure that we can remain competitive while providing our customers with robust and diverse hosting environments that they are confident about

-          Our IP transit solutions are as diverse as our locations.  We source multiple providers in each location to ensure redundancy and diversity is offered coupled with the most competitive rates available.  By doing this, we provide our customers with options that very few providers offer in this marketplace.

-          We are highly flexible, agile and provide a variety of solutions that can help solve difficult problems and provide cost-saving measures for a multitude of companies deploying next-generation technology.

Where we can control our ability to offer competitive solutions in a market, we will.  However, there are always factors that constrain all businesses in this space, such as power.  Power pricing is mandated by the power municipalities and unfortunately as demand increases, so do our rates – and this applies to all businesses requiring colocation and data center facility services. 

We do what we can to manage costs, not only for our own business but to ensure our customers get the best value for the services they require.  To find out more about how we can help your business respond to market changes in pricing and positioning more effectively, please contact us – that’s why we’re here.

ILAND INTERNET SOLUTIONS ACQUIRES COLOCATION SPACE AT

THE CRG WEST WILSHIRE ANNEX DATA CENTER IN LOS ANGELES

THIS WEST COAST EXPANSION SPACE WILL BECOME ILAND’S LATEST HIGH AVAILABILITY HUB, OFFERING CLOUD HOSTING SERVICES, DISASTER RECOVERY AND COLOCATION SOLUTIONS

Houston, TX – December 16, 2008  - iland Internet Solutions, a leading global provider of Hosted Cloud Services, High Availability VMware VI Enterprise Solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Bandwidth, announced today they have signed a license for space in CRG West’s Wilshire Annex data center in Los Angeles. iland’s Phase 1 CRG West expansion encompasses approximately 1,500 sq ft with future plans to expand within the facility. 

This new agreement augments iland’s colocation footprint in the California market, complimenting existing data center space in nearby Tustin, California, as well as San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland. CRG West’s Wilshire Annex data center is ideal for bandwidth-intensive and latency-sensitive networks such as iland and its clients. CRG West also offers redundant dark fiber and DWDM access directly to the company’s internationally-renowned One Wilshire location, one of the most connected data centers in the world with over 300 international carriers and enterprise networks. iland customers can also easily access iland’s 10 Gb Ethernet IP network for cost-effective connections to Tier 1 backbones. 

iland is transforming its 1,500 square feet of space to become the company’s latest High Availability Hub. The Hub will include access to iland’s hosted VMware VI Enterprise Solutions, where businesses can host multiple operating systems and multiple applications locally and in remote locations, allowing maximum performance, high availability, data protection and improved disaster recovery processes.  This hosted VMware solution also allows organizations to reduce space, power and equipment costs.  Additionally, the iland High Availability Hub will offer mission critical dedicated servers, managed SAN storage, managed network and security services, access to iland’s cost-effective, Tier-1, high-speed IP network and carrier-neutral connectivity across a variety of networks. iland’s new data center space is now available.

“We are proud to announce our latest High Availability Hub in the L.A. area,” states Scott Sparvero, CEO of iland Internet Solutions. “The Wilshire Annex location joins a growing list of other iland Hubs located in Boston, New York, Washington DC, Dallas, Houston, and London.  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 Wilshire Annex, 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 proud to welcome iland’s innovative cloud computing and virtualized hosting services to our Los Angeles data centers,” commented David Dunn, CRG West Senior Vice President.  “CRG West looks forward to providing world-class data center space for iland’s continued expansion across the United States, and to building a meaningful relationship over the years to come.”

To further grow iland’s West Coast expansion, iland recently hired Anthony Palmeri as the Western Regional Sales Director. With over ten years industry experience throughout the California area, Mr. Palmeri will be responsible for growing iland’s West Coast operations and developing and fostering new and existing client relationships.

“I am excited to be part of the iland team and to be offering value-added, infrastructure solutions to companies who require cost-effective, secure hosting, managed colocation and access to IP bandwidth,” states Mr. Palmeri. “Our iland Hub in CRG West’s Wilshire Annex data center provides a variety of options including shared or full cabinets, cages, custom or pre-built configurations, high density computing, and a range of iland hosted cloud services, managed IT, networking services, and consulting. Our Hubs are also redundant across all levels, with N+1 power and environmental systems. In short, iland’s Internet solutions are an answer to today’s network, budget and environmental needs.”

For more information, please goto: www.iland.com

 ILAND’S CLOUD HOSTING SERVICES REDUCES COSTS IN EQUIPMENT, SPACE AND POWER, STABILIZING CORPORATE IT BUDGETS

 Houston, TX (November 10, 2008) –iland Internet Solutions (www.iland.com), a leading global provider of Hosted VMware VI Enterprise solutions, Managed Colocation and High Speed IP Bandwidth, introduces their iland Cloud Services (iCS) for companies looking to defray infrastructure costs and to stabilize monthly IT budgets. 

Through iCS, iland can create a snapshot of a customer’s physical environment and then encapsulate these systems and applications into virtual machines to enable consolidation of workloads from underutilized servers and replicate them on to high availability VMware Server Clusters, to achieve higher utilization.  This allows customers to decrease equipment costs by using fewer devices, easing power and space requirements within their network data center(s). 

Customers can also quickly add capacity on-demand and distribute multiple and diverse applications across iland’s High Availability Data Center Hubs. iland is uniquely positioned in the market by offering hybrid hosting solutions including virtual servers, colocation, managed storage, and high speed IP using its existing geographically dispersed data center footprint.

Additionally, iCS clients who host applications on iland’s fault tolerant platform save on IT expenditures.  The fault tolerant platform is redundant at every level; from redundant 10GigE IP connections, dual power supplies and generators to redundant SANs providing SAN to SAN replication across multiple data centers. iland customers no longer have to pay to build out their own high end/high quality platform, iland’s offering allows their clients to utilize the latest in new technology with brand new equipment and resources.

With this fault tolerant platform, iland technicians can provision new servers within hours, versus weeks or months as in traditional IT environments. 

Unlike other cloud hosting providers, iland supports a variety of enterprise applications running on Linux,,Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Oracle and SAP, and offers the ability to lease operating systems, further reducing capital expenditures to free up cash flow for company’s to invest money elsewhere.  Additionally, iland Engineers are available to help determine the best architecture for the client’s organization, thereby reducing the downtime risk and the need for additional, on-site IT staff thus providing quick returns on IT investments.

“As the cost of data center space, support and power continue to rise relative to the total cost of ownership, the ability to migrate underutilized physical server capacity to virtual server clouds translates into significant savings,” states Scott Sparvero, CEO of iland Internet Solutions.  “And with less physical servers and storage, our customers save on fewer data center racks, less heating and cooling costs, and enjoy ease of overall management.  In these competitive times, these reduced costs can translate into more available CAPEX for our customers’ businesses. We have seen our customers reduce their physical data center requirements over ten fold.”

These savings can become significant dollars. According to IDC, the premier global market intelligence firm, IT spends fifty cents on power and cooling for every dollar spent on servers. This amounts to $29 billion in power and cooling, industry-wide.  Companies trying to grow typically spend $8 in maintenance for every $1 spent on new infrastructure.  By utilizing iland’s virtualization services, companies can free their networks’ physical and geographical limitations and spend the available dollars growing their business. For more information, please visit www.iland.com.