The notion that cloud computing is the most energy-efficient approach to IT infrastructure isn’t exactly a revelation. But new data quantifies just how much greener the cloud could be. What’s more, researchers are providing a new benchmarking model to help companies calculate the cloud’s potential impact on their own organization. Here’s the headline-worthy finding of [...]

Internap Network Services Corp. announced that mobile payments and analytics company Bango is using Internap’s colocation and IP connectivity services to to deliver billions of mobile-subscriber events each month. Bango powers mobile payments for leading app stores, brands, publishers and developers across all devices, networks and connections worldwide. Its customers include Facebook, BlackBerry World, Windows [...]

You’re a startup. You’ve got a great idea for an app. You’ve got some friends interested in helping out and you think you can make this work. So how do you figure out where you’ll host it? How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you [...]

Organizations are increasingly choosing to outsource business-critical applications and content to third-party providers. But, with it comes a long list of questions in order to determine the right mix of IT infrastructure services to meet specific scalability, control, performance and cost requirements. Although a shared public cloud can offer the convenience of easily scaling infrastructure [...]

Flip to page 16 and you’ll find the article: Seeking Better IT Mileage. Take Hybrid Out For a Spin. As IT pros aim to make the most efficient use of their budgets, the increasing range of infrastructure options doesn’t make this an easy task. Gartner’s prediction that public cloud spending in North America will increase [...]

There’s a continued movement toward using a single dashboard to see and control all IT assets, concurrent with the movement to use hybrid infrastructures. Internap, positioned squarely in the center of this thanks to a diverse portfolio of colocation, cloud and managed services, has moved closer to this one dashboard vision. The company has formally [...]

Using CDNs and cloud together ensures a best-of-both-worlds combination for an optimal online user experience In our Internet-driven world, both organizations and consumers have come to expect fast, always-on data access from any device. As a result, content providers are tasked with delivering massive files and streaming media to tablets and smartphones while simultaneously ensuring [...]

As more organisations opt to outsource business-critical applications and content to third-party providers, they are faced with the challenge of determining the right mix of IT infrastructure services to meet specific cost, scalability, control and performance requirements. Jumpy over shared tenancy? While a shared public cloud offers the convenience of easily scaling infrastructure up and [...]

Today, you can have all the SEO, inbound marketing, and dynamic web design necessary to turn your website into an ROI powerhouse – but it all means relatively little without website performance optimization. For many businesses, speed = money, and having a poorly optimized website will always lead to lower conversion rates and unhappy customers. [...]

Internap Network Services Corporation, a provider of intelligent IT infrastructure services, recently released the results of a survey that shows IT organizations are seeking to transform their traditional colocation environments with “cloudy colo” capabilities that deliver hybridization with cloud services as well as cloud-like visibility and control. The finding was revealed as part of a [...]

If you’ve been following TechZulu for any determinate amount of time, you know that the LA Tech scene/community has been growing at a fantastically ridiculous pace. Let’s face facts, LA’s Tech Scene is not only growing, it’s established. With new Startups popping up almost daily and the vast amount of Co-Working Spaces becoming ever so [...]

This Monday (on March 18, 2013), Internap Network Services Corporation, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Network and scalable IT infrastructure services, was named as one of the Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies in Georgia by one of the state’s leading technology industry’s recognizer group, The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). Read article.

The reason there’s so much hype around cloud computing is the promise that it will reduce infrastructure costs while providing compute and storage capacity on demand. But, of course, moving to cloud computing doesn’t necessarily guarantee cost savings. In the latest reminder of that dichotomy, a survey of 1,300 businesses in the United States and [...]

After Strong Quarter, Internap Preps Cloudy Colo By: Jason Verge February 26th, 2013 Shares of Internap have surged after the company recorded a strong quarter, indicating it is striking the right chords with its diverse portfolio of colocation, managed services and cloud. The company has also been touting what it calls “Cloudy Colo,” a true [...]

Cloud computing, often depicted as the vast treasure trove of seemingly limitless resources, is not a “one-size-fits-all” proposition. While there are certainly a wide array of needs that cloud computing can meet, some businesses are finding that they need a more customized set of infrastructure components to really maximize their business. OwnerIQ, a digital advertising [...]

A new report from Internap reveals that the cloud is influencing what IT managers expect from their colocation services providers. The cloud is doing more than redefining the concept of computing services and reshaping IT infrastructures. It’s putting pressure on colocation services to deliver more cloud-like capabilities. In a survey of 100 IT professionals, Internap, [...]

Business RadioX® interview with Mike Higgins, SVP – Data Center Services discusses the business, cloud, what goes on in the data center today, our hybrid environment and outsourcing options available to our customers. He also explains how we help with applications latency for e-commerce, finance and other industries, the growth of the gaming vertical and [...]

Cloud agility and hybridization will transform traditional Colo service. A new survey released by cloud, hosting and colocation provider Internap on Wednesday finds that IT organizations are looking for cloud-like visbility and control in their colocation environments. Internap says that the agility associated with cloud services will likely impact the way colocation services are managed [...]

Using Internap’s “performance package” of Managed Hosting, IP and Content Delivery Network services, emerging Formula One racing team Sahara Force India will present its new car to the world this Friday. Fans around the world can tune in to the live feed from the best seat in the house – their own! To watch, make [...]

Informed CIO: Cloud Standards The good news about cloud standards: They’re not as necessary as Internet standards were at this same point in the development of the Internet. The bad news? The cloud standard situation is a bit of a mess. We have standards-developing organizations creating cloud standards that aren’t being used, we have vendors [...]

Announcement: Green building assessment marks Internap’s fourth Green Globes certification across data center footprint Internap said its recently expanded data center in Atlanta has received Green Globes certification, following a detailed review process by the Green Building Initiative (GBI). The achievement marks the first Green Globes certification of a public data center in the state [...]

Announcement: New Los Angeles data center achieves Green Globes certification for its environmentally-friendly design, operation and management; Santa Clara receives ENERGY STAR certification The company’s newly-opened Los Angeles data center has received Green Globes® certification following a detailed review process by the Green Building Initiative (GBI). In addition, the company’s Santa Clara data center has [...]

Internap’s most recent build in Los Angeles pushes the boundaries for data center operator Internap when it comes to green building The data center design process for US IT infrastructure services company Internap puts it on a path of constant evolution. Every new project presents a new challenge – to bring in criteria to help [...]

Lesson learned from 10 days on generator power: more weather-proofing needed. Hurricane Sandy reminded us that Manhattan hosts a surprising number of data centers. The expense of real estate in Manhattan and the potential for flooding would, you might think, drive data center operators to less expensive and safer climes. But the data centers face [...]

Internap reduced HVAC power consumption by 40 percent by using outside air to cool IT equipment inside its Seattle-area data center. Seattle may occasionally be associated with dreary weather, but it’s also known for its thriving tech industry and its forward-thinking efforts to cut carbon emissions, including a recent pledge to become North America’s first [...]

Agile Hosting Service wins gold for ability to massively scale diverse applications worldwide Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ:INAP, news, filings), a provider of intelligent IT Infrastructure services, has won top honors in the Golden Bridge Awards for its Agile Hosting Service, selected among 16 finalists as Best Cloud Computing Service in the New Products and [...]

Internap (INAP) this week opened its latest data center in the Redondo Beach area of Los Angeles. Located convenient to the I-405 and 15 minutes from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the company-controlled facility has been designed from the ground up to meet rapidly-growing enterprise application and power consumption demands, providing the highest levels of [...]

The OpenStack community has announced the formal launch of the new OpenStack Foundation to continue to promote the development and adoption of the open-source OpenStack cloud software. As the independent home for OpenStack, the foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill [...]

Energy costs, environmental concerns and the cloud computing transformation are inspiring more businesses — including Microsoft — to overhaul their hosting infrastructures. Read more.

Colocation provider Internap Network Services announced on Wednesday that its Dallas data center has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the US Green Building Council. The certification news comes a few weeks after The Green Building Initiative published a case study which documented Internap Network Services’ Santa Clara data center receiving two Green Globes certifications [...]