Ahhh, it’s Valentine’s day. Visions of roses and chocolates dancing in your head? For those who may still be struggling with an original gift idea for your sweetie, think Teddy Bears! For one company, the most popular items sold online for this romantic holiday are in fact, teddy bears. But not just any teddy bear. [...]
What does an online gamer look like?
01.30.2013 By:
It’s well-known that the online gaming industry is evolving quickly, and is poised for exponential growth within the next few years. For online game publishers, the key to success involves more than just brilliant new ideas for games, characters or superpowers. It’s also essential for online gaming companies to establish the IT Infrastructure required to [...]
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Pedal to the metal: F1 meets bare metal cloud
01.25.2013 By:
The first time I heard the term bare metal cloud, I visualized a race car. Sure, we all know I have F1 on the brain with our sponsorship of the Sahara Force India Formula One Team, but it’s actually a great comparison if you stop and think about it. A race car is designed for [...]
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Will Cloud SLAs keep pace with the demands of enterprise SaaS?
01.22.2013 By:
By Charlie Alsmiller, CEO, Appterra I recently spoke with an enterprise software company that had launched a “Cloud” initiative. Like so many others, ourselves included, they had flocked to the variety of services available from Amazon, Azure, Softlayer, Rackspace and others to “scale” their business using the latest cloud technology. I have examined all these [...]
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Sahara Force India and Internap – one year later
01.15.2013 By:
Sitting in my office on a dreary British January day (a Monday to add further insult to injury), I have just come off the telephone to our good friends at Internap HQ, based in Atlanta, Georgia. The weather may not be much better on the other side of the pond at this time of the [...]
YouSendIt controls their IT Infrastructure with ability to quickly scale
01.04.2013 By:
As a leading provider of services that span from simple file sharing to a comprehensive content collaboration suite of services, YouSendIt wanted to expand its European market providing integrated tools for sending, sharing and signing business content online. But challenges they faced were important to overcome as well. Specifically, YouSendIt wanted to: Save on overall [...]
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Sahara Force India Formula One Team creates fast online communication with fans
12.27.2012 By:
How do F1 teams stay connected with their international fan base? Some of the challenges Sahara Force India faced when creating a new website included integrating social media and providing real-time video, news and information. As a key competitor on the Formula One racing circuit that includes 20 races across four continents, they pride themselves [...]
Important Product Notification: Flow Control Platform EOL and EOS
12.17.2012 By:
In the interest of providing the best performance and support available, we’ve made the decision to decommission several legacy Flow Control Platform (FCP and FCR) network appliances, some of which have been deployed for more than seven years. Specifically, the following models are End-of-Life (EOL) and will reach End-of-Service (EOS) by December 31, 2013: FCP [...]
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Hi-Rez Studios achieves performance and platform flexibility
12.14.2012 By:
How do online game developers make sure their players get the best user experience possible? Challenges such as latency, scalability and increased competition within the gaming industry can have an adverse effect on player retention and the number of daily active users. Hi-Rez Studios, Inc., a recent winner of the TAG Excalibur Award, relies on [...]
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Wii U update points to importance of content delivery services
12.13.2012 By:
Many consumers who went home with a new Wii U on November 18 were dismayed by the need to download a firmware update that in some cases took more than an hour to complete. Nintendo recently announced another firmware update coming out for the console and warned that it also will take an hour or [...]
The never-ending online retail season
11.30.2012 By:
Our recent blog post discussed the readiness of websites for events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but hold your horses — there is more to come in this crazy holiday shopping season. The holidays already start well before Halloween and Black Friday is likely to extend to the end of November. In fact, [...]
Could your website handle Black Friday or Cyber Monday?
11.29.2012 By:
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have once again generated record-breaking profits for online retailers. With sales estimated at $1.5 billion, representing a 30% increase over last year, consumers show no signs of decreasing their online spending. But without the right IT Infrastructure, connectivity and Internet performance in place, you risk your business missing out on [...]
Formula One returns to the United States
11.21.2012 By:
Naturally, performance is key to the Sahara Force India Formula One Team, and also to the IT infrastructure that Internap provides. Well, let me assure you that performance was alive and well this weekend at the Circuit of the Americas. I had the privilege of attending the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas and spending [...]
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Gaming’s mega month
11.06.2012 By:
It’s going to be a mega month in the gaming world with today’s release of Halo 4 and other big title releases such as Assassin’s Creed III, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, F1 Race Stars, Madden NFL 13 and Lego Lord of the Rings. With all the scheduled releases, it’s obvious that gaming is [...]
Business planning, as we know it, is finished
10.26.2012 By:
The age of business planning is finished? What? That’s what Forbes’s contributing author Dov Seidman recently suggested, stating that “What business needs now is to journey, to embark on a curvilinear path that eschews quarterly reports and gives room to explore new initiatives… Companies need to compete against former partners, partner with former competitors and [...]
Presidential – and now Facebook – politics?
10.19.2012 By:
Last week I mentioned the vice-presidential debate in my mashup, so in fairness I feel it necessary to mention this past Tuesday night’s debate with our presidential candidates. But not for the reason you think. Rather than debate their answers to the questions or who won, I want to mention the social media surrounding it [...]
GDC in Austin and catching up on the latest trends in gaming
10.16.2012 By:
We were at Game Developers Conference Online in Austin last week to catch up on the latest trends in one of our key customer verticals. The time we spent deciphering T-shirts with arcane game references and investigating the ubiquitous affinity for 8-bit game art notwithstanding, this was a really informative and useful conference. We had the opportunity [...]
Technology that changes the world in an instant
10.12.2012 By:
Gangnam Style. You’ve probably seen the video, heard the song, watched the interviews and are aware of its extremely viral nature. (If you’ve been living in a cave — which apparently I was because I only learned of it late last week – check it out on YouTube. Nearly 440 million others have.) Another example [...]
Gaming: Not the usual suspects
10.05.2012 By:
From gaming execs and developers to casino owners and agency CEOs – all had gaming top of mind this week. Gaming industry professionals from around the world attended Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2012 and one of the hottest topics was Internet gaming – the next frontier for casinos. Ad agency CEOs are in New York [...]
Formula One – Singapore Style
09.21.2012 By:
All eyes in the Formula One world will be on Singapore this weekend for the 2012 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix. My F1 insiders tell me that this is truly the most anticipated race of the year. Monaco is always number one in the press, but Singapore is number one with the in-crowd. Night racing on [...]
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Online gaming continues to explode — and not because of a grenade
09.20.2012 By:
Not surprisingly, there continues to be a growing library of online games. What may be surprising, however, is the rate of its growth — how quickly and how much. According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, the global gaming market was worth $70.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach [...]
Internap’s commitment to PCI data security standard
09.11.2012 By:
For the second year in a row Internap volunteered to have its data centers audited for the PCI DSS compliance by a PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA). The result of this audit is a PCI ROC, a Report on Compliance that covers Internap’s managed hosting and the dedicated private cloud environment. Why does Internap care [...]
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What? No more bricks-and-mortar shopping?
08.22.2012 By:
It’s that time of year to stock up on school supplies and replace those often worn items that your child has outgrown or destroyed beyond recognition. So, where to go? According to USA TODAY, the convergence of smartphone technology, social-media data and futuristic technology such as 3-D printers is changing the face of retail in [...]
Getting crowded is a good thing
08.08.2012 By:
Crowdsourcing isn’t new, but increasingly it is being used by organizations big and small as a process to solve challenges in a more effective way – faster, more creatively and with better engagement. In fact, US lawmakers, scientists, educators, online gaming enterprises and Netflix, to name a few, are crowdsourcing. According to a BusinessWeek article, [...]
The brains behind intelligent route control
08.03.2012 By:
“In a picture, it should be possible to discover new things every time you see it.” – Joan Miró Internap’s Managed Internet Route Optimizer™ (MIRO), the brain behind our Performance IP™, is really astounding when you think about it. It makes millions of calibrations every day to measure the Internet and route around problems. Every [...]
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Creeper alert — Minecraft 1.3 arrives
08.01.2012 By:
In case you didn’t realize it — there is a revolution happening today. A revolution that affects just about every video game obsessed boy that I know and even some grown up boys too. Today is the launch of Minecraft 1.3 — the sandbox video game played on your PC in single or multiplayer modes. [...]
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The age of TV everywhere and cable espionage
07.19.2012 By:
I realized today it has been almost two years since I decided to ditch my cable bill in exchange for a Roku box — and I have to say I don’t miss my $80 a month bill at all. Sure sometimes I miss an occasional live event or television show that I can’t get on [...]
In corner one DirecTV. In Corner two Viacom. Winner: streaming media
07.18.2012 By:
I’m sure by know you have heard of the on-going and somewhat ugly dispute between satellite provider DirecTV and content owner Viacom, who operates many channels such as MTV, Comedy Central, BET and many more. With more than 20 million viewers there are a lot of unhappy people being deprived of live viewing of their [...]
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Secrets of finding the right IT partner for online retailers
07.03.2012 By:
Recently I got a chance to visit beautiful Vermont, the Green Mountain state to those familiar. I stayed in Vermont’s largest city, Burlington, a seemingly quiet town with lots of locally-owned restaurants (you must try Bove’s Italian if you ever visit — to die for!). The city is also a playground for University of Vermont [...]
We are not playing games when it comes to gamification
06.27.2012 By:
Let the games begin! Yes, the Olympic Games in London are just around the corner, and I’m eagerly looking forward to them. But that’s not what I was referring to. Rather, what I’m talking about are games of another kind. According to a recent CIO.com article, companies are starting to use the motivational techniques of [...]
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