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(The Hosting News) — Consonus recently announced the completion of a new, energy-efficient evaporative cooling tower at the company’s West Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The project, prompted by growth in power demand at the facility, was a strategic choice — a conscious decision to invest in new, environmental-friendly technology that supports Consonus’ green initiatives.

“It came down to this — upgrade with more of the same technology or research and invest in new, energy-efficient technology that not only benefits our customer, but the environment as well,” explains Consonus Chief Information Officer Brent Wall.

The elimination of inefficient dry coolers and the humidification process greatly reduces the carbon footprint of the data center. Consonus has seen an immediate and significant reduction in electrical usage. Additionally, the implementation of this new technology furthers plans to achieve an energy performance rating that puts the Consonus West Data Center in the top 25% among data center peers.

“The cooling tower is part of an overall energy efficiency initiative underway at all of our data centers,” said Regional Data Center Manager Jason Sampson. “We’re excited to have this project completed and are already seeing the benefits of it.”

Completed in only five months and with an investment of over half a million dollars, the addition of the cooling tower illustrates Consonus’ commitment to maintain world-class data centers by reinvesting in the business.  “This investment strengthens our operational resiliency, reduces cost and is good for the environment.”  says Wall. “There is a clear and compelling business case for going green.”

The cooling tower works by recycling water in the data center air handling units used to absorb the heat created by IT equipment. When the warmed water returns to the top of the tower, the evaporation process naturally draws the heat out of the water, returning the temperature to an appropriate, cooler level.

Source: Consonus Adds Cooling Tower to West Data Center

(The Hosting News) — Consonus recently announced the completion of a new, energy-efficient evaporative cooling tower at the company’s West Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The project, prompted by growth in power demand at the facility, was a strategic choice — a conscious decision to invest in new, environmental-friendly technology that supports Consonus’ green initiatives.

“It came down to this — upgrade with more of the same technology or research and invest in new, energy-efficient technology that not only benefits our customer, but the environment as well,” explains Consonus Chief Information Officer Brent Wall.

The elimination of inefficient dry coolers and the humidification process greatly reduces the carbon footprint of the data center. Consonus has seen an immediate and significant reduction in electrical usage. Additionally, the implementation of this new technology furthers plans to achieve an energy performance rating that puts the Consonus West Data Center in the top 25% among data center peers.

“The cooling tower is part of an overall energy efficiency initiative underway at all of our data centers,” said Regional Data Center Manager Jason Sampson. “We’re excited to have this project completed and are already seeing the benefits of it.”

Completed in only five months and with an investment of over half a million dollars, the addition of the cooling tower illustrates Consonus’ commitment to maintain world-class data centers by reinvesting in the business.  “This investment strengthens our operational resiliency, reduces cost and is good for the environment.”  says Wall. “There is a clear and compelling business case for going green.”

The cooling tower works by recycling water in the data center air handling units used to absorb the heat created by IT equipment. When the warmed water returns to the top of the tower, the evaporation process naturally draws the heat out of the water, returning the temperature to an appropriate, cooler level.

Consonus Adds Cooling Tower to West Data Center

(The Hosting News) - ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced its Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson will be a featured speaker at HostingCon 2010 in Austin, Texas July 19th at 10 a.m. Dawson’s session will examine how virtualization and superior customer service will shape the future of the global hosting industry.

“Savvy technology integration and a commitment to long-term customer relationships will be the keys to prosperity in our industry,” Dawson said. “As one of the world’s most prominent web hosts since 1995, we are the first to notice the extent to which customer demands are changing. Mega-hosts too often try to meet bandwidth demands through technology and price alone, without adequately focusing on two-way, long-term customer relationships.”

Dawson’s presentation will outline how progressive web hosts can use virtualization and personal, customer-oriented hosting services to gain market share and ensure long-term growth.

“As the market evolves, small-scale innovation will be rewarded. The most innovative hosts will combine the latest VPS solutions with a willingness to tackle harder problems on a more personal basis. At the same time, effective VPS solutions will provide critical power to large-scale sites, while maximizing scalability, boosting energy efficiency and minimizing environmental impact.”

To read Dawson’s daily blog postings from HostingCon 2010, visit The ServInt Source at http://blog.servint.net.

About HostingCon

HostingCon is the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry. HostingCon is celebrating its sixth anniversary, with a projected attendance of more than 1,500 Internet professionals from over 30 countries. For more information, visit www.hostingcon.com.

About ServInt

ServInt is a pioneering provider of high-reliability, managed web hosting for businesses worldwide. ServInt’s commitment to Green IT services is demonstrated by its award-winning Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions. ServInt was founded in Northern Virginia in 1995 as one of the first web-hosting companies to offer a Managed Dedicated Server solution. From multiple world-class data centers, ServInt now provides its scalable suite of VPS and Managed Enterprise Server packages to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. To learn more about ServInt hosting solutions, please call 1-800-573-7846 or visit www.servint.net.

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ServInt COO to Speak at HostingCon 2010

(The Hosting News) - ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced its Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson will be a featured speaker at HostingCon 2010 in Austin, Texas July 19th at 10 a.m. Dawson’s session will examine how virtualization and superior customer service will shape the future of the global hosting industry.

“Savvy technology integration and a commitment to long-term customer relationships will be the keys to prosperity in our industry,” Dawson said. “As one of the world’s most prominent web hosts since 1995, we are the first to notice the extent to which customer demands are changing. Mega-hosts too often try to meet bandwidth demands through technology and price alone, without adequately focusing on two-way, long-term customer relationships.”

Dawson’s presentation will outline how progressive web hosts can use virtualization and personal, customer-oriented hosting services to gain market share and ensure long-term growth.

“As the market evolves, small-scale innovation will be rewarded. The most innovative hosts will combine the latest VPS solutions with a willingness to tackle harder problems on a more personal basis. At the same time, effective VPS solutions will provide critical power to large-scale sites, while maximizing scalability, boosting energy efficiency and minimizing environmental impact.”

To read Dawson’s daily blog postings from HostingCon 2010, visit The ServInt Source at http://blog.servint.net.

About HostingCon

HostingCon is the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry. HostingCon is celebrating its sixth anniversary, with a projected attendance of more than 1,500 Internet professionals from over 30 countries. For more information, visit www.hostingcon.com.

About ServInt

ServInt is a pioneering provider of high-reliability, managed web hosting for businesses worldwide. ServInt’s commitment to Green IT services is demonstrated by its award-winning Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions. ServInt was founded in Northern Virginia in 1995 as one of the first web-hosting companies to offer a Managed Dedicated Server solution. From multiple world-class data centers, ServInt now provides its scalable suite of VPS and Managed Enterprise Server packages to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. To learn more about ServInt hosting solutions, please call 1-800-573-7846 or visit www.servint.net.

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ServInt COO to Speak at HostingCon 2010

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(The Hosting News) - Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that it acquired two shell buildings totaling approximately 82,000 square feet located at 3105 & 3115 Alfred Street in Santa Clara, California. Combined, the buildings can support the development of six 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter® PODs totaling approximately 48,000 square feet of raised floor datacenter space.

“Combined with the acquisition of 1725 Comstock announced earlier this month, we can continue to incrementally build out and deliver Turn-Key space in Santa Clara to meet the strong demand in Silicon Valley for our datacenter product,” commented Scott Peterson, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Digital Realty Trust. “The buildings are strategically located on a single 4.2 acre parcel across the street from our Space Park campus, allowing us to achieve meaningful economies of scale as we expand our footprint in this important, supply-constrained market.

The Company plans to build out the six Turn-Key Datacenter PODs in two phases. Phase I is underway and includes Powered Base Building upgrades to the core and shell plus the construction of four 1125kW PODs at 3105 Alfred Street, a 50,000 square foot single story facility. The first POD is expected to come on line in the first quarter of 2011. Phase II consists of Powered Base Building upgrades and building out two 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter PODs at 3115 Alfred Street, a two-story building totaling 32,000 square feet.

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimizing energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacenters are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacenter facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacenter is built using the Company’s proprietary POD Architecture® and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

Digital Realty Trust Acquires Datacenter Property in Silicon Valley

(The Hosting News) - Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that it acquired two shell buildings totaling approximately 82,000 square feet located at 3105 & 3115 Alfred Street in Santa Clara, California. Combined, the buildings can support the development of six 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter® PODs totaling approximately 48,000 square feet of raised floor datacenter space.

“Combined with the acquisition of 1725 Comstock announced earlier this month, we can continue to incrementally build out and deliver Turn-Key space in Santa Clara to meet the strong demand in Silicon Valley for our datacenter product,” commented Scott Peterson, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Digital Realty Trust. “The buildings are strategically located on a single 4.2 acre parcel across the street from our Space Park campus, allowing us to achieve meaningful economies of scale as we expand our footprint in this important, supply-constrained market.

The Company plans to build out the six Turn-Key Datacenter PODs in two phases. Phase I is underway and includes Powered Base Building upgrades to the core and shell plus the construction of four 1125kW PODs at 3105 Alfred Street, a 50,000 square foot single story facility. The first POD is expected to come on line in the first quarter of 2011. Phase II consists of Powered Base Building upgrades and building out two 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter PODs at 3115 Alfred Street, a two-story building totaling 32,000 square feet.

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimizing energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacenters are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacenter facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacenter is built using the Company’s proprietary POD Architecture® and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

Digital Realty Trust Acquires Datacenter Property in Silicon Valley

(The Hosting News) - Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider, announced today that it acquired two shell buildings totaling approximately 82,000 square feet located at 3105 & 3115 Alfred Street in Santa Clara, California. Combined, the buildings can support the development of six 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter® PODs totaling approximately 48,000 square feet of raised floor datacenter space.

“Combined with the acquisition of 1725 Comstock announced earlier this month, we can continue to incrementally build out and deliver Turn-Key space in Santa Clara to meet the strong demand in Silicon Valley for our datacenter product,” commented Scott Peterson, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Digital Realty Trust. “The buildings are strategically located on a single 4.2 acre parcel across the street from our Space Park campus, allowing us to achieve meaningful economies of scale as we expand our footprint in this important, supply-constrained market.

The Company plans to build out the six Turn-Key Datacenter PODs in two phases. Phase I is underway and includes Powered Base Building upgrades to the core and shell plus the construction of four 1125kW PODs at 3105 Alfred Street, a 50,000 square foot single story facility. The first POD is expected to come on line in the first quarter of 2011. Phase II consists of Powered Base Building upgrades and building out two 1125 kW Turn-Key Datacenter PODs at 3115 Alfred Street, a two-story building totaling 32,000 square feet.

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimizing energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacenters are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacenter facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacenter is built using the Company’s proprietary POD Architecture® and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

Digital Realty Trust Acquires Datacenter Property in Silicon Valley

Chicago, IL: March 22, 2010: SingleHop, a leading Chicago-based dedicated and managed web hosting provider, today announced a $100/month discount on Intel Xeon X3430 Quad-Core servers, available exclusively to Tandem reseller clients. Normally sold for $249/month, the X3430’s will be offered at $149/month while supplies last.

The Xeon X3430 features a Lynnfield processor, 2.4 GHz speed, and 8 MB L2 cache. Basic configuration includes 8 GB DDR2 RAM, 500 GB drive (SATA – RAID available), 10 TB monthly bandwidth (with free inbound traffic), 5 IP addresses, and a private and public network uplink speed of 100 Mbps.

Tandem clients can also customize the server’s configuration by hard drive and disk controller, bandwidth, uplink/port speed, and IP Space, as well as add any of SingleHop’s à la Carte Server Management Program services. Clients have a range of operating system choices, including Windows Server 2003 & 2008, Cent OS, Debian Lenny, Ubuntu, Open SUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Control panel choices include cPanel/WHM, PLESK, DotNetPanel, or none.

“The Lynnfield Xeon processors are among the industry’s best in terms of performance, stability, and energy efficiency,” says SingleHop VP of Sales and Marketing Dan Ushman. “These servers really give you the best performance for your dollar, and with this $100 monthly discount we’re offering to Tandem clients, we’re providing by far the industry’s best price on the X3430’s. This is a continuation of some of the other industry-leading offers we’ve made to Tandem resellers, such as free R1Soft backups and free unlimited SSL’s. And more are coming! SingleHop is committed to our Tandem resellers’ success, and these offers are one of the ways we give resellers better margins, better sales, and more control.”

For more information about SingleHop’s Tandem reseller program, please visit http://www.Tandem.SingleHop.com

About SingleHop, Inc.
SingleHop, Inc., is a full-service managed dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. SingleHop competitors include: SoftLayer, ThePlanet, FastServers, and RackSpace. The cornerstone of SingleHop’s managed hosting is the à la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise.

(The Hosting News) - ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. Since its founding in 1995 as one of the world’s original providers of enterprise managed hosting, ServInt has achieved 15 years of growth as a company. During that period, thousands of web-hosting providers have come and gone.

ServInt Founder and Chief Executive Officer Reed Caldwell said ServInt has built a loyal, global customer base by continually introducing innovative, scalable hosting solutions to solve the most complex technological challenges of web-based businesses. Those innovations include industry-leading Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Managed Dedicated Server solutions.

“We’ve been able to prosper for 15 years, which is much longer than most companies in our industry,” Caldwell said. “We have established our impressive track record by maintaining consistently high levels of customer satisfaction. We earn customer loyalty by addressing evolving client needs, and by providing personal support from a Managed Services Team of experienced professionals.”

ServInt’s Commitment to Climate-Positive Hosting

ServInt’s focus on innovation, longevity and sustainability is also reflected in its ongoing commitment to climate-positive hosting. Since 2008, ServInt’s Green Initiative has deployed multiple green methodologies to help customers operate with minimal environmental impact.

Through use of its efficient virtualization and cloud technologies – integrated with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers – ServInt’s hosting solutions feature optimally low per-capita energy consumption. ServInt solutions achieve this industry-leading energy efficiency while making exclusive use of Dell low-wattage server hardware, which provides high-performance while operating with a much smaller carbon footprint.

A recent Parallels study noted that ServInt’s virtualized servers require only 15 percent of the power footprint of a traditional server farm that is not optimized with virtualization and low-wattage technologies.

By implementing efficient technologies and participating in a large-scale reforestation campaign operated by American Forests, ServInt has offset the total carbon footprint of its entire line of VPS hosting solutions by at least 110 percent in each of the past two years. In 2010, ServInt is increasing its commitment to environmental sustainability by offsetting the carbon footprint of its standard product line, as well as its entire cloud infrastructure.

ServInt Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson said, “The successful ongoing implementation of our Green Initiative has resulted in greater company-wide energy efficiency. By expanding this commitment, and exploring new ways to decrease waste and increase efficiency, we will continue to help our customers operate with minimal environmental impact.”

ServInt Commemorates it’s 15 Anniversary