We recently added Web Application Firewall (WAF) to our portfolio of security technologies for our Custom and Agile Hosting platforms. A WAF is deployed to protect web-based applications or services from external malicious attacks. Unlike a network firewall which monitors general network activity, a WAF focuses on application-specific protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, XML and [...]
Improve application security, compliance with Web Application Firewall (WAF)
04.30.2013 By:
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Jolokia’s live streaming event success story
03.26.2013 By:
What does it take to deliver a successful live streaming event? As an Internap partner, Jolokia provides support for delivery of live and on-demand rich media. In today’s blog, Mark Pace, CTO of Jolokia, shares details about a client’s recent live streaming event and also discusses the challenges that providers must address to successfully deliver [...]
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What’s in a name? And, why are they called AgileSERVERS?
01.11.2013 By:
It’s always interesting to be asked why a product is called what it is called, but I’ve come to expect it when travelling and meeting new people. However, I didn’t expect to hear it in the office the other day, and that has led me to write this post. “What’s in a name? that which [...]
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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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Day 2 Sandy update: Internap NYC data centers
10.31.2012 By:
The last 24 hours have been challenging for everyone affected by Hurricane Sandy. Our thoughts and support go to those impacted in life changing ways. We have been working around the clock since the storm hit to restore connectivity for our customers. Currently, power and connectivity have been restored at our 75 Broad facility. All [...]
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Sandy update: Internap NYC data centers
10.30.2012 By:
As many of you are aware, over the past 18 hours there has been an unprecedented amount of flooding and damage to the NYC and surrounding areas. The flooding has had a major impact on the city’s infrastructure including the electrical grid, public transportation and accessibility to portions of Manhattan. At approximately 7 PM ET [...]
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Four ways to become more green
09.13.2012 By:
One of my childhood favorites said it best, “It’s not that easy being green.” Kermit the frog had it right, but we aren’t just referring to color. In this case it means green sustainability; it means energy efficiency, and it means cutting-edge practices to deliver major operational benefits. Achieving these is no small task, especially [...]
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What does modular mean to you? Evaluating modular data center options
09.04.2012 By:
The need for scalability in the data center has driven demand for some interesting engineering ideas over the years. For example, I remember when I got my first tour of an actual self-contained, portable data center. Sun’s Project Blackbox had just been released — a data center built into a standard 20-foot shipping container. The [...]
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Optimizing online gaming performance with multiple-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies — Part two
08.28.2012 By:
If you are just joining us, this is the second half of a two-part series from our guest blogger Robert Malnati. Robert is Vice President of Marketing at Cedexis, an Internet performance and monitoring solution provider. Cloud Strategies for Optimum Gaming Game performance is affected by many factors, further complicating infrastructure decisions. Building on the [...]
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Optimizing online gaming performance with multiple-cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies
08.27.2012 By:
As I listened to the Internap online gaming webinar last week it was encouraging to hear how vibrant and growing all three principle online gaming market segments are: Social, Mobile and Multi-player Online. Clearly, monetization challenges are intensifying due to the “big gaming companies getting bigger” and app stores drowning in apps. That said, the [...]
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Video blog: What is a CDN?
08.24.2012 By:
The Internet changes everything. It changes the nature of the content you create and how you distribute that content. Your distribution model becomes a global one as users from around the world demand your content. While there are new opportunities, there are also new challenges. And if you aren’t an IT aficionado, getting that content [...]
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The truth about usage-based power: Cost savings and energy efficiency
08.14.2012 By:
I recently had the chance to sit down with our vice president of data center services, Mike Frank, to ask him all about our new usage-based power feature in our data centers. Mike gave me the scoop on why being able to monitor your power consumption is a step-up in terms of controlling costs and [...]
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AgileFILES now integrated with the AgileCLOUD platform
08.07.2012 By:
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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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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Cloudonomics: achieving cost-efficiency and agility through hybridization — Part 3
07.31.2012 By:
In my last two posts, I covered the public IaaS cloud and suggested that a hybrid solution that takes the best from cloud and other IT Infrastructure platforms like managed hosting and colocation is the way to go. I explained there are two key benefits for hybrid — improved economics and improved agility, and then [...]
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Cloudonomics: achieving cost-efficiency and agility through hybridization – Part 2
07.27.2012 By:
In my previous post, I explained the public IaaS cloud and the conundrum faced by IT professionals who are eager to realize the benefits of the public cloud but also require flexibility, control and security. A tall order, but possible with the right mix of IT Infrastructure platforms. Let’s pick up where we left off [...]
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Cloudonomics: achieving cost-efficiency and agility through hybridization – Part 1
07.26.2012 By:
Recently, just about every technology company on the planet has been busy repainting their offerings with a cloud brush. They’re layering it on thick, rebranding themselves with a reckless abandon that we haven’t seen since the “dot com” era, more than a decade ago. Even though the cloud hype meter is revving uncontrollably, there’s actually [...]
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Data center disaster preparedness: Six assurances you should look for in a data center provider
07.24.2012 By:
The Keys to Disaster Preparedness Whether seeking a new data center services provider or merely reevaluating your existing one, there are several questions you should ask to determine their ability to prevent a disruption to your critical business operations in the event of a disaster — whether natural or man-made. Unexpected events are inevitable, but [...]
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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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Winning innovations in engineering and energy
06.19.2012 By:
You might not know it unless you have worked in a data center on a daily basis, but a lot goes in to the day-to-day maintenance of these places. I recently got a chance to visit our Santa Clara and Dallas data center facilities and let me tell you… there are checklists for checklists, 24/7 [...]
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Hybrid hosting: Your on-ramp to the cloud and more
06.14.2012 By:
Where are you in your cloud evolution? With a multitude of disparate applications, use cases and business lifecycles, organizations may be at vastly different points in their cloud adoption and may find it difficult to decide on the right cloud model. But who says you have to choose? As explained in our recent webinar, “Is [...]
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Summer… summer…summertime
06.13.2012 By:
One only needs to type in “summer” in the search window of your favorite online music store for a mountain of tunes to pop up: Will Smith’s Summertime and the same named song, although not the same, by New Kids on the Block. Who can forget (especially those of you who watched the movie at [...]
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Six questions for your next data center provider
06.12.2012 By:
Did you know the utilization of the cooling and power infrastructure in some data centers or network rooms is typically around 50 – 60% and that it may stay that way for the entire life of the data center? Since the relationship you have with your colocation or data center provider is one that will [...]
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Build, buy, colocation or cloud?
06.07.2012 By:
Trying to decide among the many IT Infrastructure options out there can be dizzying. Should you build your own data center, buy space from a wholesale provider, utilize colocation space or venture into the cloud? So many choices — I know my head is spinning! Lucky for you our own Randy Ortiz, vice president of [...]
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Deploying cloud and dedicated servers in Internap’s Santa Clara, California data center- Part two
05.18.2012 By:
In my previous post I gave a shout out to the crew at our Silicon Valley data center. As a new member of the Internap team, I was certainly glad for the extra hand the on-site team provided when deploying our cloud and dedicated servers. In this post, I’ll explain how geography comes into play [...]
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Deploying cloud and dedicated servers in Internap’s Santa Clara, California data center – Part one
05.17.2012 By:
Here at Voxel, (by the way, now an Internap company) we’ve always wanted a California data center — something close to the Silicon Valley tech hub where so many of our startup and web 2.0 customers live, work and sell. But as a previously New York-based infrastructure company, with only 50 employees and a lot [...]
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Why TCP acceleration matters to the CDN – Part 3
05.08.2012 By:
If you’ve already read part one and part two of this series, you should now be an expert on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acceleration. All right, maybe not an expert, but close. So, let’s tie it all together. As a follow-up to parts one and two, we’ll take a look [...]
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Why TCP acceleration matters to the CDN – Part 2
05.04.2012 By:
In my last post, I got you up to speed on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acceleration. Now, I’ll take you through how TCP acceleration can be applied to three areas of a CDN network. Ingest into the CDN Getting content into the CDN can be a painful process if you [...]
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Why TCP acceleration matters to the CDN – Part 1
05.03.2012 By:
I often get asked about how a Content Delivery Network (CDN) works and how companies can get the most use out of this service. In my three-part post, I will be answering those questions and explaining several ways to optimize the performance of a CDN. To begin, I’ll discuss what CDN and Transmission Control Protocol [...]
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Mom’s meatloaf and a little secret sauce called MIRO
05.01.2012 By:
Growing up my mom made a point to make a home-cooked meal every night. You could say we were a real meat and potatoes, traditional American family. In fact, one of Mom’s specialties was her made-from-scratch meatloaf, an all-American favorite, although it was anything but traditional. You see, it included a secret sauce that made [...]
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