YouSendIt is a leading cloud file collaboration service that gives users anytime, anywhere access to content via web, mobile and desktop applications. In this customer spotlight, Sumeet Rohatgi, Sr. Director of Engineering at YouSendIt, shares his vision on current technology trends, cloud security, performance and building a successful team. To stay successful and meet the [...]
MassDiGi propels game development with AgileCLOUD
02.21.2013 By:
Have you ever had a great idea for a new online game, but lacked the right resources to turn it into reality? Without powerful servers and enough funding for a development environment, your idea could just be dust in the wind, dude. So what’s the best way to achieve success? Learn how one talented group [...]
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Can your ecommerce website handle Valentine’s day traffic?
02.14.2013 By:
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. [...]
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 [...]
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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The right IT foundation for successful SaaS
12.11.2012 By:
The right IT Infrastructure can make or break your business. This is especially true for companies that provide IT services, hosting and streaming for SaaS clients. Without the right foundation in place, it limits your ability to offer agile, cost-effective solutions that will grow and scale along with the needs of your clients. Let’s take [...]
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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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Hi-Rez Studios wins 2012 Excalibur Award
11.08.2012 By:
Congratulations Hi-Rez Studios for receiving a coveted 2012 Excalibur Award! The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) wrote this on its website about Hi-Rez Studios’ award: “Not long ago, slow networks and servers were restricting gamers’ ability to enjoy fast-paced multi-player games online. To meet their business and customer requirements, Hi-Rez implemented a “bare metal cloud” [...]
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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 [...]
Appterra faces a global interconnectivity challenge head-on
10.23.2012 By:
Appterra is a SaaS global B2B solutions company. We focus on enabling inter-company transactions between commercial trading partners. Our solutions are cloud based and enable mission-critical multi-company business processes for enterprises in the global supply chain for the manufacturing, distribution and energy industries. As a managed service SaaS solution, uptime is critical for our customers. Simply put, if we [...]
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Momentum defined
03.27.2012 By:
Momentum is defined as the force or speed of movement. Momentum means going forward, moving ahead and ultimately making progress. Momentum is something we are experiencing at Internap with the multitude of recent events and new clients announced in just the last few days. Momentum at Internap is apparent with the recent news that we [...]
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What do the downfall of Osama Bin Laden and the discovery of new pyramids have in common?
12.30.2011 By:
With 2011 almost over, many are taking time to reflect. We all remember when the world was held captive by the news after U.S. forces brought down Osama Bin Laden last May. Also this year, though perhaps not quite as publically known, but nonetheless still thrilling, 17 previously undetected pyramids and more than 1,000 tombs [...]
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Viddler Chooses Internap for Uptime and Reliability
06.20.2011 By:
Viddler, a platform for video publishers, wrote on their blog this past week about how they chose Internap to help them with their goal to deliver “greater uptime and service reliability” to their customers. This is a major goal for Viddler in 2011 and we are very proud that Viddler chose Internap to help them [...]
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Serving up Streaming Video with Sundance for the Sixth Consecutive Year
01.27.2011 By:
The Sundance Film Festival kicked off this week in Park City, Utah and the buzz is palpable. Long considered a critical launch pad for independent filmmakers, the Festival has gained massive mainstream exposure in recent years thanks to a host of new promotional vehicles at filmmakers’ disposal—from the growing popularity of television’s Sundance Channel to [...]
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