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Colocation America Names Shawn Jacobs as New Marketing Director

2010-03-16T00:10:00-04:00

(The Hosting News) Colocation America, a leading colocation server hosting company, announced today its appointment of Shawn Jacobs as marketing director. Jacobs has shared his expertise with Colocation America since its founding in 2000, immersing himself in colocation hosting services and establishing Colocation America as a leading colocation server hosting company.

“Shawn’s high degree of experience and knowledge regarding the unique needs of the hosting market was instrumental in our expansion from one to five data centers in Los Angeles,” says Michael Trunkett, President at Colocation America. “And the pinnacle of course is our presence at One Wilshire, where we’ve been providing secure and fast data transfers since the IP revolution.”

Jacobs will oversee marketing and branding of Colocation America’s colocation hosting services, dedicated hosting services and security services. His duties also include fostering a greater global interest in Colocation America for international companies seeking a Los Angeles or other Point of Presence (POP) data center and colocation/dedicated server hosting provider.

“Moving Colocation America forward at this time when more and more companies locally, nationally and world-wide are shifting to colocation services is an exciting opportunity,” says Shawn Jacobs, Marketing Director at Colocation America. “Often businesses don’t realize how beneficial colocation or dedicated server hosting can be in terms of cost, efficiency, and security.”

Colocation America has extended its fiber optic network from Southern California to nationwide, and its managed IT solutions have extended as well. Colocation America’s access to more than 200 premier Tier-1 carriers ensures virtually unlimited network capacity, and its emergency and fire protection gives businesses 99.99% uptime.

“Colocation America leads the colocation market because of its commitment to serving clients with the best trained technicians using the most state-of-the-art technology,” says Shawn Jacobs. “I feel privileged to increase Colocation America’s visibility and alert businesses how the right IT solution can rejuvenate their company.”

Prior to his appointment as Marketing Director, Shawn Jacobs oversaw product marketing activities for Colocation America. Trunkett’s familiarity with the colocation hosting services marketplace and the unique requirements and challenges of businesses of all sizes enables him to present reliable IT solutions.

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Colocation America Announces Emergency Protection from Data Loss

2010-03-08T23:44:00-05:00

(The Hosting News) Colocation America, a leading colocation server hosting company, announced today its redundant emergency protection systems for businesses and organizations of all sizes that utilize colocation and dedicated server hosting services. Colocation America’s redundant systems have protected businesses through adverse weather conditions this winter, earthquakes and other natural disasters, and network threats that consume and destroy network resources.

“We are seeing businesses get harsh treatment from the elements recently, and in that situation you want to be 100% sure your business can survive the most devastating conditions,” says Michael Trunkett, President at Colocation America. “With protected colocation servers storing a company’s essential data, you can stay on your feet and serve customers as usual, without interruption from natural disasters or conditions that could cause catastrophic failure.”

Businesses of all sizes need redundant emergency protection to safeguard financial information, employee information, data on projects in progress, sales and distribution information, and customer databases. Losing this data can set a company back for months or years, or it may not recover. Colocation America provides redundant emergency protection systems at all times as part of their colocation hosting services and dedicated hosting services

“Without accurate customer information, the business-customer relationship erodes and companies can lose their competitive advantage,” says Trunkett. “In this economic environment that could be fatal, so our data centers secure our customers’ data with the highest level of both physical and virtual protection.”

Colocation America colocation facilities have a comprehensive suite of monitoring systems in place. Manned ground floor operation centers actively monitor security, fire protection, climate control and power systems. Monitoring of climate examines chillers, essential airflows, temperature, humidity and other environmental conditions. Individual customer power consumption is maintained with UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) systems and backup generators.

“Highly trained technicians and engineers monitor our data centers around the clock, 24-7-365,” says Trunkett. “If a malicious threat occurs, or any change in environmental conditions, our specialized pre-action mechanisms kick in to prevent damage before it can occur.”

Colocation America provides clients with a secure data center environment that ensures their critical systems and the data they contain are protected under a range of conditions. Colocation and dedicated hosting customers interested in protecting their business data are encouraged to visit the Colocation America website at www.ColocationAmerica.com for more information on Colocation America’s emergency systems.

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Twitter Passes 10 Billion Tweets

2010-03-08T06:24:00-05:00

(The Hosting News) We all know that Twitter has grown quickly and become extremely popular. In fact the service has become so popular that it even has it’s own awards. However, I came across some interesting and enlightening growth information on Twitter recently while conducting research for reseller hosting provider 34SP.com. Twitter has just sent out its 10 billionth tweet.

That’s a ten with nine zeros after it: 10,000,000,000.

When you think about it – it’s not surprising. After all, this was the site that grew 1,382 percent in one year from February 2008 to February 2009. The site attracted 475,000 visitors in February of 2008 and surged up to 7,038,000 users just one year later. According to published data,Twitter currently pushes out a daily average of 50 million tweets. Those 140 character or less messages are racing out onto the Internet, phones and various other devices at the rate of over 2 million every single hour of every single day. The Official Twitter blog noted a few weeks ago these growth trends, ”Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second. (Yes, we have TPS reports.)”.

The Twitter service was developed in 2006. On March 21, 2006 Jack Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST). That message was: ”just setting up my twttr”. Since then Twitter has become a huge social media phenomenon – although the company has struggled over the past few years to develop a truly compelling revenue model to benefit financially from the service’s popularity. According to Wikipedia the company has raised over $57 million from venture capitalists.

The ten billionth tweet was estimated to have been sent sometime in the past 24 hours. The uncertainty comes from the methodology used to determine exactly how many tweets have been sent. The method used relies on historical data and rates of tweeting to arrive at a number. Most major news sources were turning to a fun application entitled GigaTweet which simply has a counter that continuously counts up tweets.

GigaTweet estimates that the next billion tweets will have been sent out within the next 20 days. That’s quite a few tweets

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Colocation America Improves Business Performance While Lowering IT Costs

2010-03-01T22:05:00-05:00

(The Hosting News) Colocation America, a leading colocation server hosting company, announced today its success in reducing IT expenses for clients by providing data center colocation hosting services, security protection, and continuous up time.

“Small and mid-size businesses often settle for a data center that doesn’t meet their needs because of the related costs of energy and cooling, and adequate security,” said Shawn Jacobs, Director of Marketing at Colocation America. “Bandwidth is another huge expense, and most companies only need all their bandwidth a fraction of the time.”

To alleviate an IT department’s prohibitive costs, Colocation America’s hosting services include multiple power and cooling paths, 24/7 biometric security, and virtually unlimited bandwidth transmission through upstream providers. Unexpected costs associated with in-house data centers such as losing data and experiencing downtime due to bad weather or transitioning to a new system are alleviated with Colocation America’s security, management and data storage services.

“Losing customer data is a tragedy no company should experience so we take every precaution necessary to ensure our customers’ servers are online and available,” said Jacobs. “Colocation America prides itself on delivering peace of mind for every business we host, especially during natural disasters, expansion, or network threats. Our emergency generators and firewall protection enable us to guarantee 99.99% up time, so our customers can rest easy and focus on their business.”

Colocation America’s expert team and employee training programs reduce costs for colocation hosting customers by eliminating the need for a company to hire its own specialized engineers. In-house data centers experience downtime when upgrading to allow for business growth. In addition, investing in technology for anticipated future growth significantly raises IT costs. Colocation America keeps those costs down with expansive data center space and custom server options.

“At Colocation America, creating a state of the art, secure and fast data transmission system is only part of the equation,” says Jacobs. “By understanding the needs of your business, we keep costs manageable for every company regardless of size.”

Colocation America continues its quest as one of the fastest growing colocation server hosting providers in the nation. Customers looking for a reliable colocation hosting provider are encouraged to visit colocationamerica.com for move-in specials, data center locations, POPs, security, reliability, and pricing information.

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