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Terremark Starts Construction of Third Datacenter

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Terremark started construction of the third datacenter at its Network Access Point (NAP) of the Capital Region campus. Terremark will initially invest approximately $45 million to build out the facility, which datacenter will house its Enterprise Cloud, colocation, managed hosting, disaster recovery/COOP and secure information services.

“The success of our NAP of the Capital Region campus has surpassed our initial expectations, and we believe the expansion of our datacenter footprint there will serve as a key catalyst for the continued growth of our company,” said Manuel D. Medina, Terremark’s Chairman and CEO. “Our position as the leading cloud computing provider for Federal government agencies, along with the heightened drive for greater efficiency for IT systems within the U.S. government and the increase in IT spending trends among enterprises, has helped fuel our success in Virginia. These key market drivers combined with our proven ability to reliably provide public and private-sector customers with world-class IT infrastructure solutions from an ultra-secure datacenter campus continue to drive positive results for Terremark, and we expect this new facility to help us build on that success.”

Read Full Terremark Enterprise Cloud Article

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Cloud Server Company Memset buys URL shortener Is.gd

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Cloud hosting company Memset this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire URL shortening service Is.gd.  I really have no clue what a cloud hosting/cloud server company would want to do with a URL shortner company, do you?  What are your thoughts?

Kate Craig-Wood, Managing Director of Memset, explained the rational behind the acquisition: “I love Is.gd and use it a lot, and have often worried about a service like that failing or being bought and monetised. As a cloud provider, we have huge amounts of compute resource and bandwidth, so it was a good match for us. The costs are relatively small, and it also makes a great showcase for our network and hardware performance.”

I still don’t understand why a hosting company would do this…  It sure sounds like an inside deal. What does everyone else think?  I love shortening services like bit.ly because of their stats, but this one doesn’t offer anything as far as I can tell.  Thoughts?

Full Cloud Hosting URL Shortener Article – Tech Crunch ( I love them)

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Welcome to the Personal Cloud of SugarSync

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

SugarSync is one of several companies competing these in the cloud server arena.  SugarSync reported in the past year, the amount of data added to the SugarSync data centers went from an average of 1 terabyte of data to 5 terabytes of information. In total, the company now hosts two petaybtes of information.  That’s a ton of info.

ReadWriteCloud channel said “Services like SugarSync serve in many ways as personal clouds that people use for their own work. They seem like plain vanilla services but that as well is the benefit the services provide. They are very simple to use. Data is automatically backed up to the cloud.”  Later stating  “Services like SugarSync show how the data we create will become part of a personal cloud network. These services lay the ground work for a new generation of personal and business offerings that work with users to create data as a service opportunities.”

The will certainly be a big player in the cloud server arena.  Check out full cloud server SugarSync article.

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