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Carbonite Opens Online Backup Data Center In China

2008-09-29T09:25:00-04:00

Boston, MA (Gawkwire.com) Carbonite, Inc., a leading provider of online backup service to consumers and small businesses, announced today the launch of its new data center in Beijing, China. Carbonite is the first American online backup vendor to offer a local data center in China. The new data center is highly scalable and will eventually handle millions of users.

"China presents a very big opportunity in online backup. But it's also a market that requires a substantial commitment of resources to be successful. To succeed in this market, we felt it was essential to have a physical presence in China, so we picked Beijing as the site for our first China data center." said David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Carbonite. "Having a data center in China allows us to be closer to our Chinese partners, and it allows Carbonite to provide far superior backup performance for everyone in the country."

China and India have been cited for rapid expansion in the area of broadband connections.
"The fastest growth in broadband connections over the next few years will be in the China/India region, which are still adopting DSL at a rapid rate and we expect this trend to continue," said Claudio Castelli, Senior Analyst for Ovum, in a recent article in Computerworld Singapore.
Carbonite has made a significant commitment to international expansion and now has users in more than 120 countries.

"We recently released a Chinese version of Carbonite and the addition of our data center in Beijing is a strategic foothold in the largest and fastest growing broadband market in the world," said Keith Cooper, President and COO of Carbonite. "Carbonite is committed to the Chinese market since we are determined to become a global player in the backup industry."

About Carbonite

Carbonite launched its Online Backup service in May 2006. Carbonite's industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. So far, the company has backed up more than 4 billion files, has restored more than 300 million lost files for its customers and has a large data center where capacity is measured in petabytes. There are Carbonite users in more than 120 countries.

Founded in 2005, Carbonite believes that computer users should not have to think about online backup. The company's mission is to provide an affordable, reliable, secure and easy-to-use online backup solution for the mainstream computer user. Carbonite is available to consumers and small businesses through numerous channels, including its corporate Web site, major US retailers and international distributors. For more information, please visit www.carbonite.com.

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Hosting.com provides Quality of Experience (QoE) to its clients.

2008-09-20T07:00:00-04:00

(TheHostingNews.com) Hosting.com released a private CloudNine beta to select businesses and organizations earlier this year. Hosting.com's general release beta is available now through November 30, 2008. Organizations that sign up for the beta will receive a production-ready virtual machine in CloudNine that is scalable, flexible and efficient. The beta machines will be free for 90 days, and can seamlessly transition into larger, complex hosted solutions during or after the beta.

Many enterprise companies and those in the SMB space are searching for opportunities to partially move their hosted infrastructure into a cloud-platform and others are looking to completely move to a cloud computing infrastructure to capitalize on the advantages cloud computing provides. Through its involvement in the new VMware vCloud initiative, Hosting.com is working with VMware and other leading technology providers to create standard APIs and services to allow organizations of all sizes to seamlessly extend their traditional IT infrastructures into the cloud. Hosting.com also offers private cloud solutions for clients that require a dedicated, single-tenant environment.

Jonathan Erwin, EVP, CloudNine Sales and Marketing added, ''Over the past 12 months, Hosting.com has successfully designed and deployed custom Cloud environments that include ESX Clusters with tailored processing, memory and redundant storage for clients seeking greater compute efficiencies. Client satisfaction and performance on these highly available solutions prompted the acceleration of CloudNine's creation.''

CloudNine runs on a standards-based architecture utilizing world-class technologies from providers such as VMware, Radware, HP, Fortinet, Cisco and others. Hosting.com's internal developers and solution architects worked closely with these manufacturers and others to stretch the boundaries of virtualization and provide a client-centric, easy-to-use cloud computing platform.

Since 1996, Hosting.com has provided managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer with a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts.

For more information about Hosting.com, please visit: www.hosting.com.

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SanDisk Rejects $5.9 B Offer From Samsung

2008-09-18T12:00:00-04:00

U.S. flash memory maker SanDisk Corp rejected a $5.9 billion bid by top memory chip maker, Samsung Electronics, but would not rule out a deal at a better price.

Buying SanDisk would help Samsung cut the $350 million it pays each year to use SanDisk's patented flash technology, and widen the South Korean firm's lead in the flash memory market as the industry battles steep memory chip price falls due to a supply glut. ... Go to source

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