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AgileFILES now integrated with the AgileCLOUD platform

Internap has been offering cloud storage solutions since June of 2011, allowing users to leverage our scalable OpenStack-based cloud storage platform for their applications and deliver their content via Internap’s Performance IP™ and CDN service. As of this month, we’ve consolidated our object storage service, officially dubbed AgileFILES, with our virtual compute, bare-metal cloud server [...]

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Does the cloud measure up for high performance?

Throughout our 15+ years in the delivery and IT Infrastructure services business, Internap has relentlessly focused on providing the highest performing services to our customers. In fact, our accelerated IP solutions are known the world over for consistently delivering market-leading performance and uptime. Now, with the introduction of our public cloud and dedicated hosting service [...]

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Internap plus Voxel equals advanced routing, an expanded network and new hardware

During this Q&A Vice President of Hosting and Operations Support for Internap, Zachary Smith, talks about the technological impact of Internap’s recent acquisition of Voxel and why the marriage is a fortuitous one for both companies’ customers – and for the team at Voxel. (For one, the newlyweds got to experience the geek equivalent of [...]

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Apache Releases 2.4 — Stable NGINX competitor finally here?

Yesterday, the Apache Foundation let loose it’s first major release of the apache web server since 2.2 was put out in 2005. I think it’s pretty fair to say that the Internet has changed a bit since 2005 — and it was time for a major refresh of the world’s most popular http server. You [...]

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Month one at Internap + Voxel – a view from the Ops side

It’s been a few weeks since Voxel was acquired by Internap and now is a good time for some reflection. Much of the “post-deal” craziness has started to die down and we’re back to our day jobs. A few high level points for those of you who don’t want to wait for my take on [...]

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Where staging environments fit in the lifecycle of high availability web apps

One of the more common discussions Voxel sales engineers have with potential clients is around whether staging environments are a necessary part of a hosting deployment. Our answer is always a resounding YES, especially for critical web apps undergoing rapid development. Unfortunately, staging environments often have a bad rep — some developers see them as [...]

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VoxCLOUD is now available in the Android market

VoxCLOUD for Android will allow you to… Monitor the status of your devices Perform health-checks on all of your servers Provision VoxCLOUD / VoxSERVER devices Delete VoxCLOUD / VoxSERVER devices Check on access credentials Store settings for quick provisioning of common server types Get It Now! The project source code for VoxCLOUD for Android is [...]

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Why IPv6 matters for the cloud

As a hosting and cloud services provider, we’ve been tooling our systems, network and provisioning and management platforms for IPv6 support years.  Adam Rothschild, our VP of Network Architecture, has been at the forefront of the ISP and network operators communities sharing configurations, developing practical multi-tenant strategies and gathering real-world data. Voxel now proudly supports [...]

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Voxel SG presents at Drupal 7 release party in Indonesia

Saying that I had a great time presenting at the Drupal 7 Release Party is an understatement. This event was sponsored by skyshi.com and inkuiri.com, and it’s great to see so many Indonesian people, like myself, excited about the bright future of Drupal with it’s formidable release, “Version 7″.  There were more than 120 enthusiastic people there [...]

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Singapore Web Hosting – Why Host your Asia Cloud Server or Dedicated Server with Voxel?

With Asian web users representing an even larger portion of today’s Internet, Voxel is seeing more of its customers target the Asian market and require Asian web hosting for their applications, social networking tools, ad delivery solutions or media content.  Users are demanding top performance and service providers and startups need to deliver that in a [...]

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About Zachary Smith

As Internap’s head of Hosting Services, Zachary oversees the portfolio of cloud computing, dedicated and custom hosting services offered by Internap. Prior to his role in the Business Unit, Zachary led the operations team for dedicated and cloud hosting at Voxel (acquired by Internap in January 2012), where he was responsible for all aspects of customer boarding and service. While at Voxel, he built an industry-leading hosting support team and a reputation for highly technical, ultra-responsive customer service. Prior to joining Voxel, Zachary founded DelphianSG and MerchantPlus, successful ventures focused on eCommerce development and Internet credit card transaction processing. Mr. Smith was a bass player in his past life, graduating with performance degree from the Juilliard School in 2001.

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