The developing cloud world is sometimes like the oft-repeated phrase in a popular commercial: “I’m not only the president, but I’m also a client.” IT infrastructure provider Internap (INAP) has been an early adopter of OpenStack, releasing a public cloud product running on the OpenStack OS as early as October 2011. As well as being [...]

Removing the virtualization layer provides access to the power and performance that many cloud computing consumers seek By David Linthicum | InfoWorld I’ve been saying for some time that virtualization and cloud computing are not mandatory partners. Certainly, virtualization is a tool that makes creating and managing cloud computing services easy. However, more and more, [...]

Sometimes, for either performance or security reasons, customers don’t want to use a public or a private cloud with virtualized infrastructure. Service providers are increasingly responding to this, and one analyst says there is increasing demand for bare metal clouds. Internap, the cloud, managed hosting and co-location service provider, is the latest to jump into [...]

Almost every enterprise already has a sizable investment in their server and storage infrastructure. Some are large enough to operate their own data centers, while many others colocate their infrastructure with a third-party data center service provider. Infrastructure-as-a-Service offers the same infrastructure building blocks — servers and storage — but the capacity is provided to [...]

Guest Column Highlighting Thought Leadership in the Data Center Leading IT organizations are realizing that it can be easier to consume quality infrastructure from vendors than to build out more and more assets into their own data centers. This isn’t a slight to the work that enterprise IT organizations have done over the past few [...]

Ease of use and a further push toward a completely hybrid world are the hallmarks of a pair of releases put out today, from a couple of big players — Amazon and Internap. Amazon today announced what it is calling “CloudFormation,” a series of templates that will allow Amazon Web Services (AWS) users to build [...]

Favorite iOS and Android apps for IT pros The iPad, iPhone, and Android revolution is taking place within the data center, as these popular tools attest. See slideshow on InfoWorld.com

On a tour of a huge Internap data center in Dallas (above), SVP Mike Higgins let slip a little Atlanta news to our Dallas reporter. Seems Internap is under way with a rehab project at 250 Williams St that will create more data center space. Read more.

If Texas was playing data center poker, we’d have a royal flush. And we’re betting Big D will take home the jackpot, especially since JLL just named us the best place to build a data center. Read more.

Latency and cloud go hand-in-hand but it’s the end users who will decide if your cloud efforts are up to task. Thankfully, there are workarounds if there is a problem.The problem is latency, the delay as packets move over the various networks between the end user’s computer, the cloud provider’s application platform, and any storage [...]

Over the last few years, corporate scandals, bailouts, and bankruptcies have greatly damaged investors’ trust in some of the country’s largest public companies. However, even today, many corporations are models of openness and integrity. We set out to identify the most transparent and trustworthy businesses that trade on American exchanges. Read more.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and web hosting company and content delivery provider Internap Network Services announced on Thursday it is providing web hosting and content delivery network services to Sahara Force India, a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, UK. Read more. Sahara Force India Formula One Team Accelerates Globally With Internap [...]

Internap Network Services Corp. bought New York-based hosting and cloud services provider Voxel Holdings Inc. on Dec. 30 in a deal worth up to $35 million. Read more.

“We just launched our open public cloud, an open stack-based cloud offering with on-demand provisioning and enterprise compute capability, and it pairs nicely with our existing VMware offering,” notes Adam Weissmuller, Director of Product Management at Internap, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th International Cloud Expo, held [...]

Cloud Expo: Interview Evaluating Cloud Computing: Achieve Performance and Financial Goals An exclusive Q&A with Paul Carmody, SVP, Product Management & Business Development at Internap “There is no doubt that the federal government’s support of cloud computing is driving additional demand,” stated Paul Carmody, SVP, Product Management & Business Development at Internap, in this exclusive [...]

Which hosting strategy best suits your clients and your team’s capabilities? Here’s your guide to choosing between co-location, managed hosting, a hybrid approach, or IaaS. Read more…

ATLANTA, September 19, 2011 – The Wall Street Transcript interviews Internap SVP, Paul Carmody about the company, data center expansion strategy and the scheduled launch of a comprehensive enterprise cloud service. Read more…

All those bits and bites flying around the Internet get processed in hundreds of data centers around the country, with ever increasing power consumption and costs. By some estimates, we use more power getting and staying online than Detroit does making cars. But the big energy drain isn’t laptops and desktops at all. It’s the [...]

Internap Explains Application Acceleration A renewed demand for optimal Internet performance is driven by the expansion of various applications, including cloud, video streaming, and e-commerce. Application acceleration technologies greatly enhance content and business-critical applications. Internap explains application acceleration and emerging delivery models through its slide show. Read and view the full IT Business Edge article [...]

Viddler Talks About Its Recent Transition to Internap Services Viddler, an online video platform provider, recently wrote a blog post about their transition to Internap services. Todd Troxell, Viddler’s Systems Architect, answers a few questions and states, We chose Internap for their superior network architecture and network engineering staff. We were burned in the past [...]

Internap’s VP Amar Kahn Comments on IPv6 After World IPv6 Day, the world-wide 24 hour trial of IPv6, Internap’s Amar Kahn was quoted in several news outlets including UK’s THINQ news service. An excerpt from THINQ UK news service reads: We saw a dramatic jump in IPv6 traffic beginning in the afternoon on June 8, [...]

Content Delivery Summit Panel Talks About the Convergence of CDN and Cloud Computing The “CDN and Cloud Convergence” panel at the Content Delivery Summit discussed the integration of content delivery networks and cloud computing. Among the speakers, Internap’s Director of CDN Engineering Pete Mastin addressed some possibilities and challenges when converging the two models. Read [...]

Internap’s Paul Carmody Discusses Internap’s New Cloud Platform In a recent interview with Web Host Industry Review, Paul Carmody, Internap’s SVP of product management and business development, answers a few questions about the development and upcoming release of the company’s OpenStack-based Iaas cloud platform. Read the full Web Host Industry Review interview.

Internap’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) Featured on Data Center Journal’s Website Our comprehensive SLA was featured on Data Center Journal’s site. The article titled, “Where Are All the Service-Oriented Colocation Providers?” describes qualities to look for in a colocation provider including an end-to-end SLA. Read more…

Houston Open House – You’re Invited! Come tour 1301 Fannin Street, Internap’s secure, world-class data center located in downtown Houston. Tours of the data center facilities start at 4 p.m. and we will host a panel discussion at 5:30 p.m. with featured presenters from AlertLogic and TechKnowledge. Please join us. Register here.

Internap is offering a new public cloud storage service that it built using software from OpenStack, the open-source cloud software project kicked off last year by Rackspace and NASA… …Users will be able to log into an online portal to buy storage capacity and network bandwidth, scaling the services up and down as needed. They’ll [...]

The information below is a summary. Click here to view the entire release which includes our unaudited GAAP financial statements and supplemental non-GAAP financial measures. Revenue of $60.5 million compared with $64.4 million in the second quarter of 2009; Segment profit1 of $29.3 million; segment margin1 of 48.3 percent, up 510 basis points year-over-year; Adjusted [...]

Nearly 3,000 students at Ottawa’s Carleton University are paying a surcharge of $50 per half credit to view lectures using video on demand. The school uses an Adobe Flash environment and Internap’s content delivery network. Read more of the IT World – Canada article. To learn more about Internap’s CDN solutions, click here.

I Buzz Up Blog Touts Internap’s PlayStream.com Solutions PlayStream is a useful tool that can be widely spread for small businesses. It can bring a wide range of benefits for business operators to deliver media on web. Many customers can benefit from the service of PlayStream to gain more achievements on businesses. PlayStream can allow [...]

Read the Atlanta Journal and Constitution article ATLANTA, May 9, 2010 — Internap Network Services Corp., the Atlanta-based Internet hosting and data services company, has posted losses for years. The publicly traded company reported a loss of $105 million in 2008, following by another loss of $70 million last year. And yet the company is [...]