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NEF Partner, AboveNet, Receives Metro Ethernet Forum Certifications
Written on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by Joy Milkowski
NEF is proud to announce that its partner, AboveNet, Inc., a leading provider of fiber optic connectivity solutions, has recently attained Metro Ethernet Forum’s MEF 9 and 14 certifications for 10Gigabit Ethernet Price Line, Metro Area Network and Wide Area Network services.
AboveNet’s commitment to high bandwidth services makes for an ideal partnership with NEF, a premier telecommunications broker. Through this partnership, NEF will now be able to offers its customers certified services from AboveNet. The Metro Ethernet Forum certifications mean that AboveNet has met the rigorous standards for high bandwidth services, services that will be passed onto NEF customers. Additionally, AboveNet has become the world’s first to be certified for its 10Gigabut Ethernet services under the MEF endorsed process.
The thorough testing and review for MEF certification has established a solid foundation for Carrier Ethernet ubiquity & interoperability, with the goal of helping Enterprises and Carriers benefit from the increased bandwidth of 10GbE services. AboveNet’s certification proves that Carrier Ethernet can provide fully compliant services and high speeds, not reaching 10Gbps.
About AboveNet, Inc.
AboveNet provides fiber optic connectivity solutions for business and carriers. Its private optical network delivers key network and IP services in and among 14 top U.S. metro markets and London, UK. Its network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government.
Keep your applications running fast and keep your costs low. Contact NEF to learn how we can help you find a robust and reliable network that fits your needs. Whether it is a dark fiber network or lit service solutions, we’ll help you find the best price on the right connectivity options for your business.
AboveNet’s commitment to high bandwidth services makes for an ideal partnership with NEF, a premier telecommunications broker. Through this partnership, NEF will now be able to offers its customers certified services from AboveNet. The Metro Ethernet Forum certifications mean that AboveNet has met the rigorous standards for high bandwidth services, services that will be passed onto NEF customers. Additionally, AboveNet has become the world’s first to be certified for its 10Gigabut Ethernet services under the MEF endorsed process.
The thorough testing and review for MEF certification has established a solid foundation for Carrier Ethernet ubiquity & interoperability, with the goal of helping Enterprises and Carriers benefit from the increased bandwidth of 10GbE services. AboveNet’s certification proves that Carrier Ethernet can provide fully compliant services and high speeds, not reaching 10Gbps.
About AboveNet, Inc.
AboveNet provides fiber optic connectivity solutions for business and carriers. Its private optical network delivers key network and IP services in and among 14 top U.S. metro markets and London, UK. Its network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government.
Keep your applications running fast and keep your costs low. Contact NEF to learn how we can help you find a robust and reliable network that fits your needs. Whether it is a dark fiber network or lit service solutions, we’ll help you find the best price on the right connectivity options for your business.
Hosted Solution Receives Fast 50 Award for Fifth Consecutive Year
Written on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by Joy Milkowski
Hosted Solutions, a premier data center and managed services provider, recently announced that it received the Triangle Business Journal’s Fast 50 Award for the fifth consecutive year after ranking among the region’s fastest growing businesses.
As one of NEF’s partners, Hosted Solutions ranked 15th on the Fast 50 Award List, which recognizes the fastest growing companies of 2007 in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle in North Carolina. Companies are ranked based on their revenues and percentage of growth over a three-year period. Hosted Solutions has five SAS 70 Type II Certified data centers along the East Coast and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.
Hosted Solutions growth can be attributed to their hard work, commitment and ability to attract and retain customers with their personalized attention and reliability. Additionally, Hosted Solutions full suite of services helped to bring in revenue to put the company in the 15th position. Services include collocation, fully-managed servers, dedicated servers, business continuity services, managed storage, enterprise backup, managed firewall, intrusion and vulnerability detection, load balancing, high availability clustering, and comprehensive 24/7 monitoring and management of critical network infrastructures.
About Hosted Solutions
Hosted Solutions’ high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting services maintain and protect customers’ mission-critical IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. The company operates SAS 70 Type II Certified facilities in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio. For more information please visit hostedsolutions.com.
NEF designs solutions based on your needs and specifications using a variety of connectivity options. Creating custom dark fiber networks is one of the strategies NEF employs to bring you the best communications network at the most competitive price. Contact NEF today for more information.
As one of NEF’s partners, Hosted Solutions ranked 15th on the Fast 50 Award List, which recognizes the fastest growing companies of 2007 in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle in North Carolina. Companies are ranked based on their revenues and percentage of growth over a three-year period. Hosted Solutions has five SAS 70 Type II Certified data centers along the East Coast and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.
Hosted Solutions growth can be attributed to their hard work, commitment and ability to attract and retain customers with their personalized attention and reliability. Additionally, Hosted Solutions full suite of services helped to bring in revenue to put the company in the 15th position. Services include collocation, fully-managed servers, dedicated servers, business continuity services, managed storage, enterprise backup, managed firewall, intrusion and vulnerability detection, load balancing, high availability clustering, and comprehensive 24/7 monitoring and management of critical network infrastructures.
About Hosted Solutions
Hosted Solutions’ high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting services maintain and protect customers’ mission-critical IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. The company operates SAS 70 Type II Certified facilities in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio. For more information please visit hostedsolutions.com.
NEF designs solutions based on your needs and specifications using a variety of connectivity options. Creating custom dark fiber networks is one of the strategies NEF employs to bring you the best communications network at the most competitive price. Contact NEF today for more information.
American Fiber Systems Connects Groundbreaking Vanderbilt Medical Center
Written on Thursday, November 06, 2008 by Joy Milkowski
NEF Partner, American Fiber Systems, today announced its involvement with Vanderbilt Medical Center's new state-of-the-art medical mall. The leader in metropolitan fiber optical networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services will be connecting the university campus to the new medical locations and remote data center.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. and Nashville, Tenn. – November 6, 2008 – Optical fiber network provider American Fiber Systems (AFS) and Vanderbilt Medical Center today announced a new project to connect the university to One Hundred Oaks mall, the planned site of Vanderbilt’s new 440,000 square foot, state-of-the-art medical mall. Twenty-one Vanderbilt Medical Center clinics, including pediatrics, neurology and oncology, will rely on the AFS fiber optic network for the secure and safe transfer of high-definition X-rays, real-time records and other mission critical data.
The network solution is specifically designed to accommodate Vanderbilt’s consistent annual growth and connects the university campus to both the new medical center location and a remote data center location to be used for storage and back-up. This expansion ensures redundant coverage for traffic between the three locations and increases network survivability to further protect the $64 million medical center investment.
“What Vanderbilt is doing with One Hundred Oaks mall is groundbreaking,” said Jeff Williams, Vice President of Enterprise Sales for AFS . “Nashville has grown accustomed to relying on Vanderbilt’s expertise whenever they have a sick family member–and we are honored that Vanderbilt, in turn, depends on the reliability of the AFS team and our network to make sure the clinic’s data services run without disruption.”
For more than five years, the Vanderbilt University campus has connected to over 56 miles of the AFS fiber network in Nashville, supporting IT and data center functionality. The AFS network provides the institution with cutting-edge communications capabilities and connection speeds, keeping Vanderbilt at the forefront of technology in advanced learning.
“Vanderbilt is driven to set new standards for research, education and patient care and the network infrastructure is one of the underlying technologies enabling these possibilities. Our goal then is to partner and align ourselves with technologies and services that are highly available yet flexible to meet the growth and evolving demands of the institution.” said David Cochran, Network Services Manager, Vanderbilt University.
Recently named #21 in Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 telecommunications companies, American Fiber Systems provides metropolitan networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services to carriers and large and mid-sized enterprises in ten markets nationwide. For more information on partnering with AFS, visit www.americanfibersystems.com.
About American Fiber Systems
American Fiber Systems (AFS) provides metropolitan fiber optical networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services to carriers and large enterprises. AFS enables its customers to easily and reliably connect to a city's most important points of communications presence; Internet Service Provider (ISP) and data center locations; Inter-exchange "carrier-hotels;" wireless providers and Fortune 1000 companies. AFS has deployed more than 1.2 million miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber optic cable since 2000 in several cities, including Atlanta, Ga.; Boise, Idaho; Cleveland, Ohio; Kansas City, Kan./Mo.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Reno and Carson City, Nev.; and Salt Lake City, Utah. AFS has more than 500 capacity enabled on-net buildings and supports an addressable market teledensity of more than $9 billion in annualized telecommunications services. AFS is a privately held venture-backed company led by Dave Rusin , who shares insights on telecommunications trends and news on his blog at www.TelecomStraightShooter.com.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. and Nashville, Tenn. – November 6, 2008 – Optical fiber network provider American Fiber Systems (AFS) and Vanderbilt Medical Center today announced a new project to connect the university to One Hundred Oaks mall, the planned site of Vanderbilt’s new 440,000 square foot, state-of-the-art medical mall. Twenty-one Vanderbilt Medical Center clinics, including pediatrics, neurology and oncology, will rely on the AFS fiber optic network for the secure and safe transfer of high-definition X-rays, real-time records and other mission critical data.
The network solution is specifically designed to accommodate Vanderbilt’s consistent annual growth and connects the university campus to both the new medical center location and a remote data center location to be used for storage and back-up. This expansion ensures redundant coverage for traffic between the three locations and increases network survivability to further protect the $64 million medical center investment.
“What Vanderbilt is doing with One Hundred Oaks mall is groundbreaking,” said Jeff Williams, Vice President of Enterprise Sales for AFS . “Nashville has grown accustomed to relying on Vanderbilt’s expertise whenever they have a sick family member–and we are honored that Vanderbilt, in turn, depends on the reliability of the AFS team and our network to make sure the clinic’s data services run without disruption.”
For more than five years, the Vanderbilt University campus has connected to over 56 miles of the AFS fiber network in Nashville, supporting IT and data center functionality. The AFS network provides the institution with cutting-edge communications capabilities and connection speeds, keeping Vanderbilt at the forefront of technology in advanced learning.
“Vanderbilt is driven to set new standards for research, education and patient care and the network infrastructure is one of the underlying technologies enabling these possibilities. Our goal then is to partner and align ourselves with technologies and services that are highly available yet flexible to meet the growth and evolving demands of the institution.” said David Cochran, Network Services Manager, Vanderbilt University.
Recently named #21 in Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 telecommunications companies, American Fiber Systems provides metropolitan networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services to carriers and large and mid-sized enterprises in ten markets nationwide. For more information on partnering with AFS, visit www.americanfibersystems.com.
About American Fiber Systems
American Fiber Systems (AFS) provides metropolitan fiber optical networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services to carriers and large enterprises. AFS enables its customers to easily and reliably connect to a city's most important points of communications presence; Internet Service Provider (ISP) and data center locations; Inter-exchange "carrier-hotels;" wireless providers and Fortune 1000 companies. AFS has deployed more than 1.2 million miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber optic cable since 2000 in several cities, including Atlanta, Ga.; Boise, Idaho; Cleveland, Ohio; Kansas City, Kan./Mo.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Reno and Carson City, Nev.; and Salt Lake City, Utah. AFS has more than 500 capacity enabled on-net buildings and supports an addressable market teledensity of more than $9 billion in annualized telecommunications services. AFS is a privately held venture-backed company led by Dave Rusin , who shares insights on telecommunications trends and news on his blog at www.TelecomStraightShooter.com.
XO Communications to Help with T-Systems U.S. Network Expansion
Written on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 by Joy Milkowski
XO Communications, a provider of communications for business and communications service providers has been chosen by T-Systems to deliver market-based aggregation to their six new U.S. markets. With the assistance of XO Communications, T-Systems, the business customer segment of Deutsche Telekom, will expand its worldwide telecommunications networks in Denver, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle and Columbus, OH.
T-Systems hopes that by working with XO Communications, they will be able to expand their reach as a global business-to-business provider of telecommunications and information technology services. XO Communications expertise will further facilitate an expansion in coveraged network-centric information and communications technology.
T-Systems owns and operates MPLS-based telecommunications networks with capabilities in over 50 countries. In addition to its proprietary network, T-Systems partners with service providers such as XO to extend its global reach. In addition to its global telecommunications presence, T-Systems also owns and operates over 70 global data centers for its B-to-B customers.
By allowing T-Systems to access services into their points of presence, XO Communications will help T-Systems to reach their customers’ locations more cost effectively and efficiently. Ultimately, T-Systems will be able to reach new markets and expand their U.S. presence.
Get the speed you need with the reliability you want. NEF can connect you with the fastest, more robust networks around. Contact us to learn more about low latency networks.
T-Systems hopes that by working with XO Communications, they will be able to expand their reach as a global business-to-business provider of telecommunications and information technology services. XO Communications expertise will further facilitate an expansion in coveraged network-centric information and communications technology.
T-Systems owns and operates MPLS-based telecommunications networks with capabilities in over 50 countries. In addition to its proprietary network, T-Systems partners with service providers such as XO to extend its global reach. In addition to its global telecommunications presence, T-Systems also owns and operates over 70 global data centers for its B-to-B customers.
By allowing T-Systems to access services into their points of presence, XO Communications will help T-Systems to reach their customers’ locations more cost effectively and efficiently. Ultimately, T-Systems will be able to reach new markets and expand their U.S. presence.
Get the speed you need with the reliability you want. NEF can connect you with the fastest, more robust networks around. Contact us to learn more about low latency networks.
The Quest for Low Latency Above and Beyond the Financial Markets
Written today at 02:18PM by Joy Milkowski
It has come to pass that high latency can be a business’s kiss of death. Seriously, if your business relies on getting data faster than your competitors, the extra milliseconds it takes to deliver content can constitute an unacceptable degradation in service quality. For example, consumers expect telephone conversations to have pin drop signal clarity without echoes, delays and other types of distortion. If you are a phone company suffering from such occurrences, you are bound to be swept away by the competition.
This being said, there is plenty of reason to get excited over the advances in low latency. To date, it is estimated that $100 million per year has been spent on improving latency performance. And while it is traditionally assumed that advances in low latency will help the banking industry specifically, a number of new factors are combining to make improved latency important to a wider world of corporate IT and mainstream technology vendors.
Financially-based message acceleration, multicore processors, solid-state disk storage, real-time business intelligence and analytics have always been part of the quest for low-latency. But with low latency growing, there becomes room for new participants outside of the financial industry. New advances are affecting any vendor with real-time aspirations, those who deal with high workloads and those who are involved in Web-scale computing. Such vendors include post-relational database companies, middleware and messaging vendors, storage and network equipment suppliers, infrastructure management companies, and even software tool and development companies.
Through compliance, deregulation and automated trading of market data, multicore processors and a host of other elements, the financial industry has inadvertently created an emergence of low latency in a host of new industries. It has become clear that the continued quest for low latency will not only shape the banking landscape, but will have significant implications for other markets and the vendors that supply them.
Keep your applications running fast and keep your costs low. Contact NEF to learn how we can help you find a robust and reliable network that fits your needs. Whether it is a dark fiber network or lit service solutions, we’ll help you find the best price on the right connectivity options for your business.
This being said, there is plenty of reason to get excited over the advances in low latency. To date, it is estimated that $100 million per year has been spent on improving latency performance. And while it is traditionally assumed that advances in low latency will help the banking industry specifically, a number of new factors are combining to make improved latency important to a wider world of corporate IT and mainstream technology vendors.
Financially-based message acceleration, multicore processors, solid-state disk storage, real-time business intelligence and analytics have always been part of the quest for low-latency. But with low latency growing, there becomes room for new participants outside of the financial industry. New advances are affecting any vendor with real-time aspirations, those who deal with high workloads and those who are involved in Web-scale computing. Such vendors include post-relational database companies, middleware and messaging vendors, storage and network equipment suppliers, infrastructure management companies, and even software tool and development companies.
Through compliance, deregulation and automated trading of market data, multicore processors and a host of other elements, the financial industry has inadvertently created an emergence of low latency in a host of new industries. It has become clear that the continued quest for low latency will not only shape the banking landscape, but will have significant implications for other markets and the vendors that supply them.
Keep your applications running fast and keep your costs low. Contact NEF to learn how we can help you find a robust and reliable network that fits your needs. Whether it is a dark fiber network or lit service solutions, we’ll help you find the best price on the right connectivity options for your business.
NEF Partner, FiberLight, Expands Mid-Atlantic Fiber Route
Written today at 02:20PM by Joy Milkowski
NEF, one of the nation’s top telecommunications brokerage firms, confirmed that its partner, FiberLight, LLC, has begun construction on 130 miles of state-of-the-art diversely routed fiber from Chantilly to Culpepper, Virginia. NEF will be able to leverage the new fiber and offer newer connection options to its customers looking for reliable and robust bandwidth throughout Baltimore, Southern Maryland, Washington DC and Northern Virginia.
NEF’s unique relationship with FiberLight enables innovative use of FiberLight’s assets to create custom network solutions for NEF customers. Combined with NEF’s network building expertise, Mid-Atlantic customers will get competitive pricing, a higher level of reliability and low latency. Thanks to FiberLight’s key infrastructure investments, NEF can now offer dependable network access to over 80 percent of the greater Washington D.C. area.
Northern Virginia has experienced a 25 percent growth rate in the last ten years. In addition, its reputation as being one of the top centers for technology in the country makes Northern Virginia an ideal choice for added high speed fiber optics technology. By utilizing FiberLight’s newest fiber route, NEF can better enable its customers to augment the infrastructures necessary for companies to compete in the global marketplace.
FiberLight's capital investment plan includes extending services into additional Virginia locations including PowerLoft and the NAP of the Capital Region, a Terremark Worldwide facility. FiberLight has successfully contracted with several companies who have become anchor tenants for the additional network service from Northern Virginia. Once complete, the new FiberLight Network will help to bring more carriers to the NAP of the Capital Region, making it one of the most diversely connected facilities in the region.
About NEF
NEF, Inc., is one of the nation’s top telecommunications brokerage firms, offering 25 years of industry experience and a proven methodology for providing its customers with the best networks, information and pricing available. NEF provides a broad spectrum of products from dark fiber solutions to high bandwidth, fully managed optical services. Through their many partners, NEF designs custom connectivity solutions and provides access to over 70 fiber providers in 48 states, 4 million miles of metro and national fiber and over 85,000 lit buildings. Visit www.nefiber.com to learn more.
NEF’s unique relationship with FiberLight enables innovative use of FiberLight’s assets to create custom network solutions for NEF customers. Combined with NEF’s network building expertise, Mid-Atlantic customers will get competitive pricing, a higher level of reliability and low latency. Thanks to FiberLight’s key infrastructure investments, NEF can now offer dependable network access to over 80 percent of the greater Washington D.C. area.
Northern Virginia has experienced a 25 percent growth rate in the last ten years. In addition, its reputation as being one of the top centers for technology in the country makes Northern Virginia an ideal choice for added high speed fiber optics technology. By utilizing FiberLight’s newest fiber route, NEF can better enable its customers to augment the infrastructures necessary for companies to compete in the global marketplace.
FiberLight's capital investment plan includes extending services into additional Virginia locations including PowerLoft and the NAP of the Capital Region, a Terremark Worldwide facility. FiberLight has successfully contracted with several companies who have become anchor tenants for the additional network service from Northern Virginia. Once complete, the new FiberLight Network will help to bring more carriers to the NAP of the Capital Region, making it one of the most diversely connected facilities in the region.
About NEF
NEF, Inc., is one of the nation’s top telecommunications brokerage firms, offering 25 years of industry experience and a proven methodology for providing its customers with the best networks, information and pricing available. NEF provides a broad spectrum of products from dark fiber solutions to high bandwidth, fully managed optical services. Through their many partners, NEF designs custom connectivity solutions and provides access to over 70 fiber providers in 48 states, 4 million miles of metro and national fiber and over 85,000 lit buildings. Visit www.nefiber.com to learn more.
Hosted Solutions to Host CNS website
Written today at 11:44AM by Joy Milkowski
NEF Partner, Hosted Solutions, a data center and managed services provider, will be hosting the website of Comprehensive NeuroScience (CNS), a disease management and behavioral health care research firm.
CNS specializes in research, care management, and education related to central nervous system disorders. The firm invites collaboration and contact across multiple spheres, including academia, government agencies, and with members of the biopharmaceutical and commercial healthcare industries, as well as financial and investment communities.
Picking a strong managed services provider with a great reputation was important to CNS as their products and programs help state policymakers and practicing physicians improve the quality of care delivered to patients with mental illness.
Hosted Solutions will provide CNS with a fully managed infrastructure which includes redundant Internet and private network connectivity, managed firewall, intrusion detection, dedicated servers, storage, and backups. Additionally, because all of CNS’s research and information are confidential, it was imperative to find a company like Hosted Solutions, which could maintain around-the-clock safety and security of its servers.
Hosted Solutions' offers a range of data center and managed hosting services including colocation, fully-managed servers, dedicated servers, business continuity services, managed storage, enterprise backup, managed firewall, intrusion and vulnerability detection, load balancing, high availability clustering, and 24-hour monitoring and management of critical network infrastructures.
Keep your applications running fast and keep your costs low. Contact NEF to learn how we can help you find a robust and reliable network that fits your needs. Whether it is a dark fiber network or lit service solutions, we’ll help you find the best price on the right connectivity options for your business.
CNS specializes in research, care management, and education related to central nervous system disorders. The firm invites collaboration and contact across multiple spheres, including academia, government agencies, and with members of the biopharmaceutical and commercial healthcare industries, as well as financial and investment communities.
Picking a strong managed services provider with a great reputation was important to CNS as their products and programs help state policymakers and practicing physicians improve the quality of care delivered to patients with mental illness.
Hosted Solutions will provide CNS with a fully managed infrastructure which includes redundant Internet and private network connectivity, managed firewall, intrusion detection, dedicated servers, storage, and backups. Additionally, because all of CNS’s research and information are confidential, it was imperative to find a company like Hosted Solutions, which could maintain around-the-clock safety and security of its servers.
Hosted Solutions' offers a range of data center and managed hosting services including colocation, fully-managed servers, dedicated servers, business continuity services, managed storage, enterprise backup, managed firewall, intrusion and vulnerability detection, load balancing, high availability clustering, and 24-hour monitoring and management of critical network infrastructures.
Keep your applications running fast and keep your costs low. Contact NEF to learn how we can help you find a robust and reliable network that fits your needs. Whether it is a dark fiber network or lit service solutions, we’ll help you find the best price on the right connectivity options for your business.
Why Virtualize? NEF Explains the Advantages of Virtualization
Written today at 11:40AM by Joy Milkowski
In our current energy crunch and poor economy, our data centers are taking a major hit. According to the Alliance to Save Energy, data centers consume 15 times more energy per square foot than a typical office or as much energy as the state of Utah alone! While IT managers are strapped to find ways to save energy and increase their ROI, there is some good news. Thanks to innovative software technology and the fundamentally changing ways people are computing, the IT landscape is rapidly transforming. Virtualized software, which got its start on mainframes decades ago, allowing administrators to avoid wasting expensive processing power, is making it easier than ever for IT manager to accomplish their energy and cost saving goals.
Virtualization is a hot topic right now, as it should be. Its concept is simple. Rather than relying on individual servers and operating systems, virtualized systems use software to allow a piece of hardware to run multiple operating system images at the same time – saving time, energy and money. The basic theory is that virtualization lets one computer do the job of multiple computers by sharing the resources of a single computer across multiple environments. Key elements to making this work are virtual servers and virtual desktops.
Virtual servers and virtual desktops allow for virtual hosting, a method that servers use to host more than one domain name on the same computer, sometimes on the same IP address, locally and in remote locations. The energy and cost saving advantages here are that you are freed from physical and geographical limitations. Not only do you save in energy and operating costs, you get a higher availability of resources, better desktop management, increased security and improved disaster recovery and business continuity.
It’s true that everyone is getting on the virtualization bandwagon – it’s silly not to. With the advantage of reducing IT costs and increasing efficiency, Virtualization is here to stay.
Still not convinced? Following are six reasons to virtualize.
About NEF
NEF, Inc., is one of the nation’s top telecommunications brokerage firms, offering 25 years of industry experience and a proven methodology for providing its customers with the best networks, information and pricing available. NEF can provide a broad spectrum of products from dark fiber solutions to high bandwidth, fully managed optical services. Through their many partners, NEF designs custom connectivity solutions and provides access to over 60 fiber providers in 48 states, 4 million miles of metro and national fiber and over 80,000 lit buildings. Contact us today to learn more.
Virtualization is a hot topic right now, as it should be. Its concept is simple. Rather than relying on individual servers and operating systems, virtualized systems use software to allow a piece of hardware to run multiple operating system images at the same time – saving time, energy and money. The basic theory is that virtualization lets one computer do the job of multiple computers by sharing the resources of a single computer across multiple environments. Key elements to making this work are virtual servers and virtual desktops.
Virtual servers and virtual desktops allow for virtual hosting, a method that servers use to host more than one domain name on the same computer, sometimes on the same IP address, locally and in remote locations. The energy and cost saving advantages here are that you are freed from physical and geographical limitations. Not only do you save in energy and operating costs, you get a higher availability of resources, better desktop management, increased security and improved disaster recovery and business continuity.
It’s true that everyone is getting on the virtualization bandwagon – it’s silly not to. With the advantage of reducing IT costs and increasing efficiency, Virtualization is here to stay.
Still not convinced? Following are six reasons to virtualize.
- Reduction in carbon emissions – This is a no brainer. Do your part to help the environment. Not only will it save money, it will also make you feel good.
- Hardware replacement savings – With physical servers, hardware will need to be replaced approximately every three years. Virtual servers never wear out saving you money and the need to rebuild.
- Increased flexibility – Server virtualization allows you to stand up a virtual server quickly so you can deploy new applications rapidly. Additionally, instead of needing one physical server for test and another for production, the same physical server can house multiple workload types and functions.
- Better availability – Previously, having backup servers was a very expensive but necessary solution. With virtual servers, images can all share several backup boxes. If hardware fails, virtual images can be automatically provisioned to another box.
- Less total cost of ownership – For a virtual server environment, your initial investment is less because you don't need as many servers.
- Redirecting unspent capital – Along with reduced capital investment comes the ability to more strategically allocate your saved dollars. You can use those dollars somewhere else that will have a larger impact on your business's bottom line such as building out an application that increases margins or improves productivity.
About NEF
NEF, Inc., is one of the nation’s top telecommunications brokerage firms, offering 25 years of industry experience and a proven methodology for providing its customers with the best networks, information and pricing available. NEF can provide a broad spectrum of products from dark fiber solutions to high bandwidth, fully managed optical services. Through their many partners, NEF designs custom connectivity solutions and provides access to over 60 fiber providers in 48 states, 4 million miles of metro and national fiber and over 80,000 lit buildings. Contact us today to learn more.
Event Announcement!
Written on Wednesday at 01:10PM by Joy Milkowski
NEF partner, Hosted Solutions, is hosting a virtualization event that will address how SaaS companies can utilize virtualization to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.
This event is aimed at IT professionals, network managers, risk assessment managers and anyone involved with business continuity and disaster recovery planning. The goal is to provide an overview of why virtualization is important for business continuity and disaster recovery, while also explaining how someone would create a highly effective disaster recovery plan using virtualization.
The event will also outline several companies and their contribution to virtualization. For example, Hosted Solutions provides space and managed services, ICI provides VMware and other components to virtualize and NEF and Ciena provide the network and gear to connect the key sites.
WHEN:
Thursday.
October 30th, 2008
6pm to 9pm
WHERE:
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
575 Memorial Drive Cambridge
MA 02139
ph. 617.492.1234
RSVP
This event is aimed at IT professionals, network managers, risk assessment managers and anyone involved with business continuity and disaster recovery planning. The goal is to provide an overview of why virtualization is important for business continuity and disaster recovery, while also explaining how someone would create a highly effective disaster recovery plan using virtualization.
The event will also outline several companies and their contribution to virtualization. For example, Hosted Solutions provides space and managed services, ICI provides VMware and other components to virtualize and NEF and Ciena provide the network and gear to connect the key sites.
WHEN:
Thursday.
October 30th, 2008
6pm to 9pm
WHERE:
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
575 Memorial Drive Cambridge
MA 02139
ph. 617.492.1234
RSVP
Optimum Lightpath Is on a Roll this Fall
Written on Monday, October 13, 2008 by Joy Milkowski
Optimum Lightpath, an industry leader in providing advanced Ethernet-based communications services over its Intelligent Enterprise Network, has received great recognition this fall for its innovation and leadership.
In September, PHONE+ magazine selected Optimum Lightpath as a Top 50 Channel Program, which illustrates the value Optimum Lightpath puts on their referral partners and agents, two communities they are committed to fostering relationships with.
Optimum Lightpath was selected among hundreds of companies who submitted its channel program in hopes of being recognized as a Top 50 Channel Program.
Earlier this month, Optimum Light path was awarded the highest honor in the sales Performance Management category at the Ventana Research’s 2008 Leadership Awards for its successful implementation of Xactly’s incentive compensation management application.
The Ventana Research 2008 Leadership Awards recognize those organizations that have most successfully used information and technology best practices to advance business and IT management and improve their performance.
By leveraging Xactly to boost sales productivity, visibility and compliance efforts, Optimum Lightpath was able to automate its incentive-compensation process across its entire direct sales force. Xactly has helped Optimum Lightpath to become more sophisticated and strategic without having to increase overhead by empowering the entire organization from top to bottom.
About Optimum Lightpath
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, is an industry leader in providing advanced Ethernet-based data, Internet, voice, video transport solutions and managed services to businesses across the New York tri-state area. Optimum Lightpath's Intelligent Enterprise Network is a highly reliable, resilient and scalable fiber-to-the-business-premises network extending more than 3,200 route miles and is connected to over 2,900 buildings. Exclusively focused on meeting customer needs in the world's largest business market for 20 years, Optimum Lightpath has been continually recognized for its high level of customer service.
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In September, PHONE+ magazine selected Optimum Lightpath as a Top 50 Channel Program, which illustrates the value Optimum Lightpath puts on their referral partners and agents, two communities they are committed to fostering relationships with.
Optimum Lightpath was selected among hundreds of companies who submitted its channel program in hopes of being recognized as a Top 50 Channel Program.
Earlier this month, Optimum Light path was awarded the highest honor in the sales Performance Management category at the Ventana Research’s 2008 Leadership Awards for its successful implementation of Xactly’s incentive compensation management application.
The Ventana Research 2008 Leadership Awards recognize those organizations that have most successfully used information and technology best practices to advance business and IT management and improve their performance.
By leveraging Xactly to boost sales productivity, visibility and compliance efforts, Optimum Lightpath was able to automate its incentive-compensation process across its entire direct sales force. Xactly has helped Optimum Lightpath to become more sophisticated and strategic without having to increase overhead by empowering the entire organization from top to bottom.
About Optimum Lightpath
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, is an industry leader in providing advanced Ethernet-based data, Internet, voice, video transport solutions and managed services to businesses across the New York tri-state area. Optimum Lightpath's Intelligent Enterprise Network is a highly reliable, resilient and scalable fiber-to-the-business-premises network extending more than 3,200 route miles and is connected to over 2,900 buildings. Exclusively focused on meeting customer needs in the world's largest business market for 20 years, Optimum Lightpath has been continually recognized for its high level of customer service.
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