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(Gawkwire.com) – GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, and F5 Networks, Inc will host a webinar titled "Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime" on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. GoGrid currently offers customers free F5 load balancing services as part of every account, providing users access to enterprise grade hardware and infrastructure, as well as GoGrid and F5 cloud implementation expertise.
"Although load-balancing is just one of the many benefits F5 solutions provide, it is a key function in any high-availability, on-demand application delivery architecture," said Kirby Wadsworth, VP of Marketing at F5. "We are pleased to work with GoGrid to offer improved availability and scalability of customer applications, helping GoGrid to truly distinguish itself as a provider of enterprise-quality cloud services."
GoGrid’s free load balancing services from F5 have been a premier and popular feature since the launch of the GoGrid public infrastructure cloud in March 2008.
In this informative webinar, users will learn:
- How to prevent application downtime
- The process for effectively scaling infrastructure
- The 1-2-3 process for deploying F5 load balancing services for free within the – Other advanced configurations available to GoGrid users
Registration: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
Webinar details:
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Speakers: Doug Lohf (Senior Systems Engineer – F5), David Michael (Sales Engineer – GoGrid), Rob Larson (Product Manager – GoGrid)
Bonus: All webinar attendees will receive a $50 GoGrid Service Credit
Register Now by visiting: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
GoGrid includes fully integrated and redundant F5 application delivery controllers which can be provisioned using the customer portal or API. The f5 load balancing services are part of the standard GoGrid offering and setup takes just a few minutes.
"GoGrid pioneered making load balancing part of the cloud experience when we first introduced services from F5 over three years ago," said Jeffrey Samuels, CMO for GoGrid. "Today, our customers increasingly rely on GoGrid to make their complex infrastructure easy to manage by providing multifaceted load balancer services as an important part of our offering. We are proud of our partnership with F5 and look forward to continued collaboration."
(Gawkwire.com) – GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, and F5 Networks, Inc will host a webinar titled "Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime" on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. GoGrid currently offers customers free F5 load balancing services as part of every account, providing users access to enterprise grade hardware and infrastructure, as well as GoGrid and F5 cloud implementation expertise.
"Although load-balancing is just one of the many benefits F5 solutions provide, it is a key function in any high-availability, on-demand application delivery architecture," said Kirby Wadsworth, VP of Marketing at F5. "We are pleased to work with GoGrid to offer improved availability and scalability of customer applications, helping GoGrid to truly distinguish itself as a provider of enterprise-quality cloud services."
GoGrid’s free load balancing services from F5 have been a premier and popular feature since the launch of the GoGrid public infrastructure cloud in March 2008.
In this informative webinar, users will learn:
- How to prevent application downtime
- The process for effectively scaling infrastructure
- The 1-2-3 process for deploying F5 load balancing services for free within the – Other advanced configurations available to GoGrid users
Registration: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
Webinar details:
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Speakers: Doug Lohf (Senior Systems Engineer – F5), David Michael (Sales Engineer – GoGrid), Rob Larson (Product Manager – GoGrid)
Bonus: All webinar attendees will receive a $50 GoGrid Service Credit
Register Now by visiting: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
GoGrid includes fully integrated and redundant F5 application delivery controllers which can be provisioned using the customer portal or API. The f5 load balancing services are part of the standard GoGrid offering and setup takes just a few minutes.
"GoGrid pioneered making load balancing part of the cloud experience when we first introduced services from F5 over three years ago," said Jeffrey Samuels, CMO for GoGrid. "Today, our customers increasingly rely on GoGrid to make their complex infrastructure easy to manage by providing multifaceted load balancer services as an important part of our offering. We are proud of our partnership with F5 and look forward to continued collaboration."
(Gawkwire.com) – GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, and F5 Networks, Inc will host a webinar titled "Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime" on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. GoGrid currently offers customers free F5 load balancing services as part of every account, providing users access to enterprise grade hardware and infrastructure, as well as GoGrid and F5 cloud implementation expertise.
"Although load-balancing is just one of the many benefits F5 solutions provide, it is a key function in any high-availability, on-demand application delivery architecture," said Kirby Wadsworth, VP of Marketing at F5. "We are pleased to work with GoGrid to offer improved availability and scalability of customer applications, helping GoGrid to truly distinguish itself as a provider of enterprise-quality cloud services."
GoGrid’s free load balancing services from F5 have been a premier and popular feature since the launch of the GoGrid public infrastructure cloud in March 2008.
In this informative webinar, users will learn:
- How to prevent application downtime
- The process for effectively scaling infrastructure
- The 1-2-3 process for deploying F5 load balancing services for free within the – Other advanced configurations available to GoGrid users
Registration: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
Webinar details:
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Speakers: Doug Lohf (Senior Systems Engineer – F5), David Michael (Sales Engineer – GoGrid), Rob Larson (Product Manager – GoGrid)
Bonus: All webinar attendees will receive a $50 GoGrid Service Credit
Register Now by visiting: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
GoGrid includes fully integrated and redundant F5 application delivery controllers which can be provisioned using the customer portal or API. The f5 load balancing services are part of the standard GoGrid offering and setup takes just a few minutes.
"GoGrid pioneered making load balancing part of the cloud experience when we first introduced services from F5 over three years ago," said Jeffrey Samuels, CMO for GoGrid. "Today, our customers increasingly rely on GoGrid to make their complex infrastructure easy to manage by providing multifaceted load balancer services as an important part of our offering. We are proud of our partnership with F5 and look forward to continued collaboration."
(Gawkwire.com) – GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, and F5 Networks, Inc will host a webinar titled "Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime" on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. GoGrid currently offers customers free F5 load balancing services as part of every account, providing users access to enterprise grade hardware and infrastructure, as well as GoGrid and F5 cloud implementation expertise.
"Although load-balancing is just one of the many benefits F5 solutions provide, it is a key function in any high-availability, on-demand application delivery architecture," said Kirby Wadsworth, VP of Marketing at F5. "We are pleased to work with GoGrid to offer improved availability and scalability of customer applications, helping GoGrid to truly distinguish itself as a provider of enterprise-quality cloud services."
GoGrid’s free load balancing services from F5 have been a premier and popular feature since the launch of the GoGrid public infrastructure cloud in March 2008.
In this informative webinar, users will learn:
- How to prevent application downtime
- The process for effectively scaling infrastructure
- The 1-2-3 process for deploying F5 load balancing services for free within the – Other advanced configurations available to GoGrid users
Registration: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
Webinar details:
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Speakers: Doug Lohf (Senior Systems Engineer – F5), David Michael (Sales Engineer – GoGrid), Rob Larson (Product Manager – GoGrid)
Bonus: All webinar attendees will receive a $50 GoGrid Service Credit
Register Now by visiting: go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825
GoGrid includes fully integrated and redundant F5 application delivery controllers which can be provisioned using the customer portal or API. The f5 load balancing services are part of the standard GoGrid offering and setup takes just a few minutes.
"GoGrid pioneered making load balancing part of the cloud experience when we first introduced services from F5 over three years ago," said Jeffrey Samuels, CMO for GoGrid. "Today, our customers increasingly rely on GoGrid to make their complex infrastructure easy to manage by providing multifaceted load balancer services as an important part of our offering. We are proud of our partnership with F5 and look forward to continued collaboration."
(Gawkwire.com) – SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced the release of its Mobile Client application for the iPhone® OS. The new app brings SoftLayer customers robust server and account management tools for iPhone, iPod touch®, and iPad™.
SoftLayer was early to market with a mobile version of its leading Customer Portal suited for various cellular phone web browsers. The new Mobile Client application goes even farther, leveraging recent advances in smart phone hardware and software paradigms to deliver a native application with capabilities including:
Tickets: Allows the creation and viewing of tickets for support questions or requests.
Servers: Provides details about Dedicated Servers, Virtual Servers, and CloudLayer™ Computing Instances, as well as the ability to manage system startup, shutdown, pinging, and reboot.
Bandwidth: Delivers bandwidth usage information for Dedicated Servers, CloudLayer Computing Instances, and Virtual Racks.
“We’re excited to take the ease of use and control that our Customer Portal has provided and pair it with the convenience of a native mobile application,” said Nathan Day, SoftLayer Chief Technology Officer. “At SoftLayer, we try to put our customers first; this new application allows customers to access the management portal from any location, any time at all.”
SoftLayer Mobile Client for iPhone OS is available for free download through the iTunes® Store. Native Mobile Client applications will be available for additional mobile devices soon.
About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer is a best-in-class, infrastructure-as-a-service provider with data centers in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC, and network Points of Presence across the US. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements, allowing customers to create cloud, dedicated, or seamless hybrid computing environments managed through a single interface. Enterprises of any size can have complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management in an on-demand IT solution. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638..
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(The Hosting News) – SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative infrastructure-as-a-service provider, today announced that it recently released Stratos, an open-source, brandable implementation of the SoftLayer Customer Portal built upon SoftLayer’s leading open API. SoftLayer resellers and customers can now create a customized user interface featuring their unique corporate identity, providing end users a singly branded user experience.
Stratos is currently supported when locally-installed on a PHP-enabled web server within a SoftLayer data center; support for external access will be available soon. When end users log in, they immediately see a brief summary of their hardware status according to SoftLayer’s monitoring systems, as well as an overview of servers that are approaching their bandwidth allocations. Additional features include:
User configuration with a username and SoftLayer API key
Language pack creation and configuration
Per-user customization of user interface, language, and access level
Hardware list retrieval with:
o Hardware, software, public network, private network, maintenance network, and service details
o Hardware temperature and fan sensor graphs
o Server reboot via IPMI card, powerstrip, or by IPMI with powerstrip failover
“We’re excited about giving our customers this opportunity to customize their own, feature-rich portal,” said Nathan Day, Chief Technology Officer for SoftLayer. “We developed Stratos to engage our developer and reseller community. Even for those who don’t want a customized portal, Stratos provides a tangible example of what can be done with the SoftLayer API by anyone. We hope it inspires even greater ideas.”
Stratos is available for free download at www.github.com/softlayer/stratos.
SoftLayer’s Reseller Program lets participants offer standard SoftLayer services as well as products not sold directly under the SoftLayer name brand. Resellers receive volume discounts on purchases, setup fees, exclusive services, and more. For more information, visit www.softlayer.com/reseller.
SoftLayer Introduces Stratos White Label Portal
(The Hosting News) – SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative infrastructure-as-a-service provider, today announced that it recently released Stratos, an open-source, brandable implementation of the SoftLayer Customer Portal built upon SoftLayer’s leading open API. SoftLayer resellers and customers can now create a customized user interface featuring their unique corporate identity, providing end users a singly branded user experience.
Stratos is currently supported when locally-installed on a PHP-enabled web server within a SoftLayer data center; support for external access will be available soon. When end users log in, they immediately see a brief summary of their hardware status according to SoftLayer’s monitoring systems, as well as an overview of servers that are approaching their bandwidth allocations. Additional features include:
User configuration with a username and SoftLayer API key
Language pack creation and configuration
Per-user customization of user interface, language, and access level
Hardware list retrieval with:
o Hardware, software, public network, private network, maintenance network, and service details
o Hardware temperature and fan sensor graphs
o Server reboot via IPMI card, powerstrip, or by IPMI with powerstrip failover
“We’re excited about giving our customers this opportunity to customize their own, feature-rich portal,” said Nathan Day, Chief Technology Officer for SoftLayer. “We developed Stratos to engage our developer and reseller community. Even for those who don’t want a customized portal, Stratos provides a tangible example of what can be done with the SoftLayer API by anyone. We hope it inspires even greater ideas.”
Stratos is available for free download at www.github.com/softlayer/stratos.
SoftLayer’s Reseller Program lets participants offer standard SoftLayer services as well as products not sold directly under the SoftLayer name brand. Resellers receive volume discounts on purchases, setup fees, exclusive services, and more. For more information, visit www.softlayer.com/reseller.
(The Hosting News) – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced that Director of Software Development Stephen Johnson will participate in an executive panel at the Rally Software Agile Success Tour, scheduled for May 13, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. CST. During the panel, held at the NYLO Hotel in Irving, Texas, Johnson will discuss implementation of the Agile approach to deliver successful projects within The Planet’s IT and development organization.
“At The Planet, we focus on consistently enhancing our methodologies to improve customer experience and bring products to market faster,” said Johnson. “The Agile method is one of many approaches we employ, which focuses on trust, communication and empowering our employees. Ultimately, customers benefit from higher quality results.”
Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solution software gives development teams a framework for collaboration and project visibility. The software goes hand-in-hand with the Agile principles of software development, which value interactions, collaboration and responding to change.
The Planet’s Orbit for iPhone web application – an iPhone-optimized web view for the company’s customer portal – was the first project delivered using the Agile framework. More software projects, including Orbit apps for BlackBerry and Android, are planned.
For more information on The Planet at the Agile Success Tour, visit http://www.theplanet.com/events.
The Planet to Participate in Executive Panel at Agile Success Tour
(The Hosting News) – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today launched a new mobile iPhone application expressly designed to make it easy for customers to connect to the company’s Orbit customer portal. In its first iteration, the application enables customers to view and manage support tickets; monitor server ping status; reboot servers; power servers on and off; and initiate operating system (OS) reloads. Customers are also able to review bandwidth utilization graphs, and track recent invoice data.
Through its own surveys, The Planet learned that more than 55 percent of its customers use iPhone applications to conduct business. Another 30 percent indicated Blackberry and Android as a preference, and applications for both will be available later this year.
“Our customers operate mission-critical applications and data, and they must be able to monitor their server environments, wherever they may be,” said Kyle Smith, director of Customer Portal Experience with The Planet. “With this new iPhone app, we’re enabling them to manage their boxes from any location with broadband or Wi-Fi access, whether it’s at the airport, while they’re at dinner or on the golf course. We have a portfolio of new portal capabilities and access methods planned for the coming months that will provide value and make it even easier for our customers to stay in touch with their servers and with us.”
For more information or to learn about the new mobile application, visit the Web site at http://www.theplanet.com/orbit-for-iphone. Existing customers who use iPhones can link directly to the application through the Orbit customer portal at https://iphone.orbit.theplanet.com.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting™ and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.
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The Planet Introduces iPhone Application for Customer Portal
(The Hosting News) – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today launched a new mobile iPhone application expressly designed to make it easy for customers to connect to the company’s Orbit customer portal. In its first iteration, the application enables customers to view and manage support tickets; monitor server ping status; reboot servers; power servers on and off; and initiate operating system (OS) reloads. Customers are also able to review bandwidth utilization graphs, and track recent invoice data.
Through its own surveys, The Planet learned that more than 55 percent of its customers use iPhone applications to conduct business. Another 30 percent indicated Blackberry and Android as a preference, and applications for both will be available later this year.
“Our customers operate mission-critical applications and data, and they must be able to monitor their server environments, wherever they may be,” said Kyle Smith, director of Customer Portal Experience with The Planet. “With this new iPhone app, we’re enabling them to manage their boxes from any location with broadband or Wi-Fi access, whether it’s at the airport, while they’re at dinner or on the golf course. We have a portfolio of new portal capabilities and access methods planned for the coming months that will provide value and make it even easier for our customers to stay in touch with their servers and with us.”
For more information or to learn about the new mobile application, visit the Web site at http://www.theplanet.com/orbit-for-iphone. Existing customers who use iPhones can link directly to the application through the Orbit customer portal at https://iphone.orbit.theplanet.com.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting™ and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.
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The Planet Introduces iPhone Application for Customer Portal
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