Join the Technology Association of Georgia on May 22, 2013 to hear Hi-Rez Studios discuss their bare metal cloud solution and how it has helped them achieve higher economic efficiencies and superior online gaming performance. Have you ever wondered how online gaming companies meet end user demands for high performance and low latency? Fast-paced MMOGs [...]
What Scandal gladiators have taught me about IT
05.09.2013 By:
If your office is like any other these days, then Scandal mania has taken over conversations around the proverbial water cooler. Shonda Rhimes’ latest hit drama is all the rage, and it can best be described as Washington intrigue meets spy thriller meets epic romance with tragedy written all over it. I, too, am engrossed [...]
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Upcoming webcast: learn the advantages of cloud & colocation hybridization
05.09.2013 By:
Please join us on June 5th, 2013 at 1 p.m. EST for our next webcast, Hybridization: Shattering Silos Between Cloud and Colocation. We’ll discuss how hybridization of cloud and colocation can result in improved visibility and flexibility for your infrastructure, and present use cases in which colocation and cloud efficiently work together. Traditional colocation typically [...]
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F1 returns to China, fans rejoice
04.11.2013 By:
It has been three agonizingly long weeks for Formula One fans as we anxiously await this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix. Long breaks between race weekends are never any fun for fans, but this break has been particularly maddening. Why? Because we are only two races into the season and both races so far have been [...]
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Back to GDC: Trends in the online gaming industry
04.04.2013 By:
We were back at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week! It was an interesting and educative journey; GDC is a great opportunity to experience the many facets of the gaming world, from developers and publishers with big household names to indie developers and the different tools that enable them to enter the [...]
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Internap to present at Cloud Connect event
04.03.2013 By:
This week, the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley becomes the hub for all things cloud. The annual Cloud Connect event brings together technology experts and cloud computing leaders to discuss the evolution of the cloud. The conference will cover mobile application deployment, big data and the variety of public, private and hybrid cloud [...]
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FGCU sets records for March madness, website traffic
03.29.2013 By:
If you follow March Madness basketball, you’re aware of this year’s Cinderella run – Florida Gulf Coast University has exploded onto the NCAA tournament scene. As the first 15-seed ever to reach the Sweet 16, FGCU is breaking all the rules and setting new records for sports fans and media to talk about. Their magical [...]
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Top Trends from the 2013 TAG Top 40 Technology Companies
03.21.2013 By:
At the 2013 Georgia Technology Summit yesterday, Internap was honored as one of the Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies in Georgia. The awards, presented by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), recognize “an elite group of innovators who represent the very best of Georgia’s Technology community.” The hundreds of technology leaders in attendance at the [...]
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Atlanta Business Radio featuring Internap
03.13.2013 By:
Each week, Atlanta Business RadioX features interviews with Atlanta, Georgia’s top business professionals. As a successful member of the growing Atlanta business community, Internap was recently invited to participate on the show. Hear Mike Higgins, our SVP of Data Center Services, discuss the business of Internap, our recent award-winning Atlanta data center expansion and the [...]
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F1 2013: Sahara Force India & Paul Di Resta Suit Up for Performance
03.12.2013 By:
Formula One kicks off the 2013 season this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. As Sahara Force India’s Official Supplier for Online Performance, we are geared up for an exhilarating season! To get you in the mood, turn up the volume and immerse yourself in the imagery and sound of F1. Share
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Trends for content owners in 2013: online privacy concerns (Video)
02.01.2013 By:
Trend 1: Online privacy concerns threaten content consumption and preference sharing Businesses today are collecting massive amounts of data on their consumers. But what do customers really think of these tactics? This presents a new challenge for content owners to find the balance between online privacy and gathering data on their market. Watch Internap’s Drew [...]
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Community Notes
01.31.2013 By:
In 2012, Internap embraced social media as a way to engage with the community of customers and buyers of IT Infrastructure. As part of the next step in our evolution, Internap is working to be more engaged with the local user groups and development communities. As part of my new role as Internap’s Hosting Evangelist, [...]
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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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Atlanta data center achieves Green Globes certification
01.09.2013 By:
What comes to mind when you think of Atlanta, Georgia? Maybe it’s the 1996 Olympic Games, the home of Coca-Cola or the captivating Georgia Aquarium. Or maybe it brings to mind one of the best music and art scenes in the South, or the fact that more than 70 street names contain the word “Peachtree.” [...]
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Toys for Tots: giving back to the community
12.24.2012 By:
Recently, the Finance team from Internap had the opportunity to spend time volunteering with the Atlanta Toys for Tots organization. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is: “To deliver, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in becoming responsible, productive, patriotic citizens.” Volunteering with [...]
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Holiday sing along: The 12 Days of IT Infrastructure
12.21.2012 By:
Yes, it’s that time of year. The tree is up, the stockings are hung and holiday music fills my house. We have all the standards playing – Winter Wonderland, Jingle Bell Rock, Santa Claus is coming to Town – you get the idea, and I can’t get them out of my head. I suppose belting [...]
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Know your audience or “TAG” you’re it
11.16.2012 By:
I’ve spent a good part of the last few years traveling to speak at trade shows, conferences and customer sites. A good rule of thumb is to have a prep call ahead of time to discuss the important details, like who will be attending and what they care about. This week I didn’t have the [...]
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Help us help others – spread the word
11.09.2012 By:
I know many are still storm-stricken, dealing with the aftermath of superstorm Sandy and now Wednesday’s Nor’easter. Our heartfelt thoughts go out to those who haven’t, and probably won’t for a very long time, recovered. For those of us not in the area, one only need look at before and after photos to see the [...]
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F1 in Schools World Championships: Go Team Shift, Go USA!!
10.09.2012 By:
2012 has been delightful for speed lovers of every kind. With the U.S. once again hosting the United States Grand Prix, the first since 2007, many can’t stop the excitement and noise about the races, the teams, the speed and the skills behind each win. Internap is very much part of all the excitement through the [...]
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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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Status quo for Internap Dallas Data Center
08.24.2012 By:
Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT announced earlier this week that they had acquired two Texas data center properties. There’s been some confusion around the reporting of this news, leading many people to inquire whether Internap had sold our Plano, Texas, facility to Carter Validus. The short answer is that the only change for Internap is [...]
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Achieving the high score: Trends in online gaming webcast tomorrow
08.21.2012 By:
Do I have game? I’d like to think so. Now back in the day, I’d dabble a bit at the arcade with some Donkey Kong, Centipede and Q-Bert (that orange guy with the big nose sure was cute). Move to the 90s and add a little Nintendo action with the Super Mario Brothers and then [...]
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Atlanta technology crowd meets up TechCrunch style
07.13.2012 By:
Last Monday night’s TechCrunch event proved to be a big hit – we had a good time, that’s for sure. Technology professionals from around the local Atlanta metro area walked, drove and were shuttled in to network and talk tech while sampling a half dozen different brews at the SweetWater Brewery. Sheets of rain did [...]
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Formula One silly season, rumor roundup and superhero shenanigans
07.06.2012 By:
F1 is all about performance, speed and technology. But did you know that there is a lot of intrigue and speculation that is associated with F1 too? All of a sudden I find that the F1 ecosystem is abound with juicy driver and team gossip. Everyone’s focus seems to have shifted from race predictions and [...]
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Data drives demand — all the way to the west coast
06.29.2012 By:
It’s no secret demand for data center space is on the rise. The technological capacity to store information has roughly doubled about every three years since the 1980s, to the point that 90% of the data that exists on Earth has been created in the last two years alone, according to IBM. Pretty amazing to [...]
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London takes on IT of Olympic proportions
06.28.2012 By:
Yesterday, I watched a friend of mine compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials for swimming. I streamed the live webcast and sat through race after race waiting for those 4 minutes and 11 seconds of glory when she would swim the 400 IM. Through countless heats, eight swimmers at a time dove into the pool [...]
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Today’s youth steering Formula One cars into the future
06.26.2012 By:
There have been a few occasions in my life where I have been truly and unexpectedly inspired. The other night during the annual Women In Technology (WIT) Connect event held at the Georgia Aquarium was one of them. Hundreds of Georgia’s leading technology executives and up-and-coming professionals gathered in the ballroom to network and participate [...]
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Internap plus Voxel equals advanced routing, an expanded network and new hardware
06.21.2012 By:
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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Trends…shmends and then again, that depends
06.20.2012 By:
Trends are popping up everywhere. In fact there is even a crowd-sourcing website that tracks them whether tech, culture, design, lifestyle or pretty much anything else you can imagine. Just the nail, hair, color and fashion trends for Spring 2012 are overwhelming – one could go broke trying to keep up. One of 2011’s crazes [...]
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Speed junkies unite, will design for F1 swag
06.15.2012 By:
Here at Internap, we have been pretty excited about the launch of our Drive IT campaign leveraging our partnership with the Sahara Force India Formula One Team. Our halls are abuzz with talk of F1 drivers, cars and weekend races. There are a lot of pieces of this campaign that you would expect – advertising, [...]
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