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IBM acquired the managed hosting unit of AT & T services IBM and AT & T said it means , they are expanding their long-term strategic relationship to provide companies a full range of advanced networks, application and hosting services. IBM align these services capabilities managed with the IBM Cloud portfolio.

IBM will also acquire the equipment and access to the floor space in the AT & T data centers currently supporting applications and managed hosting operations . Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

After nearly, IBM will deliver the managed applications and managed the AT & T provides hosting services today. AT & T will continue to provide network services including security, networking cloud and mobility it offers today. And the two companies will work closely to innovate and offer a full range of integrated solutions to customers.

"Today's announcement represents an expansion of our strategic relationship with AT & T and collaboration continues to provide new and innovative solutions," said Philip Guido, IBM General manager of global Technology services for North America . "Working with aT & T, we will deliver a robust set of IBM Cloud and managed services that can continually evolve to meet customer business objectives . "

aT & T and IBM announced that they will ensure a smooth transition and continue to provide the same high level of customer service await the two companies. as the new operator of these managed the implementation and management of hosting services , IBM will bring extensive experience of the company and a rich portfolio of cloud, data and application solutions.

Liquid Web, a global provider of managed hosting services, has partnered with CloudLinux to deploy their service, KernelCare, about 20,000 of liquid servers managed by the Web. KernelCare enables application restart without security patches, which can interrupt critical server functions.

Liquid Web currently represents the largest deployment of CloudLinux KernelCare in the hosting space managed in terms of licenses. Launched 2 years ago, KernelCare maintains secure Linux servers with all the latest kernel patches, automatically applied to the running kernel without downtime.

"We are committed to providing the best solutions for our customers and, with this, we have come to consider KernelCare as an essential service," said Joe Oesterling, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Liquid Web . "As the industry adopts KernelCare, it should finally eliminate the problem of server reboot to apply security patches in most cases. The downtime that restarts the cause is a disruption for customers and nuisance for administrators, who can be easily avoided with KernelCare. We spend close to a time when this type of disturbance is more excusable. "

CloudLinux KernelCare deliver virtually no impact on performance during updates. It supports Linux distributions popular, including CentOS / RHEL / CloudLinux 5, 6 and 7, Xen4CentOS, OpenVZ & Virtuozzo, Debian 6, 7 and 8, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS and Proxmox VE and 3.x 4.x.

"Liquid Web has a reputation for maintaining the highest performance Linux servers, and deployment of KernelCare certify that their commitment to provide the highest availability of servers," said Igor Seletskiy, founder and CEO of CloudLinux . "KernelCare offers an ultra-fast version of security patches for new vulnerabilities and we are very pleased to be able to serve not only our role in maintaining kernels updated to Liquid Web but do so in a transparent manner, without disrupting the websites and customer applications. "

T5 data Centers, owner of colocation data center US and the operator, entered into a strategic partnership with the protection of company data, virtualization and recovery provider, RestorePoint to offer T5 customer data storage solutions.

As part of the partnership, will RestorePoint move their hosted infrastructure for T5 @ Atlanta colocation facility and data protection offers the company, including management data, virtualization, backup and disaster recovery services to clients T5 data centers across the United States.

the platform RestorePoint virtualization data, which operates one copy 'Golden' physical production data , can be used for the use cases of mul§tiple business. Examples include data protection (backups), Insights & Analytics Affairs Disaster Recovery Business Continuity including, application development / test.

RestorePoint of The data archive and storage objects platform release the production storage by moving older data to a storage platform at a lower cost for long-term conservation and reduces the need to buy more storage. RestorePoint offers scalable solutions that accommodate the storage and data management increasingly need to use highly available and reliable data centers T5.

"Our clients look to T5 solutions for highly reliable enterprise data center, and through this partnership with RestorePoint we will now be able to offer turnkey virtualization, storage management , and disaster recovery services, "said Craig McKesson, Executive Vice President Enterprise services for Data Centers T5 . "In fact, to demonstrate the power and versatility of this partnership, RestorePoint hold its overall virtualization and data protection platform to T5, starting with our T5 @ Atlanta data center. We see this strategic relationship as the ideal way to provide strategic data center services to our customers that meet the changing needs of their business. "

Both T5 Data Centers and RestorePoint provides data support services that are tailored to the health care, insurance, financial services, education, engineering, government agencies or organization with a need for critical data.

data Centers T5 currently colocation data center facilities in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland and Charlotte with new projects announced in new York and in Colorado.

Zayo Group, fiber services provider and the bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud computing introduced a new distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation solution. The service provides managed rerouting of the affected traffic to a global treatment centers of society, protection against attacks to 0G.

The new product provides an important layer of defense and monitoring of Zayo Group International Tier 1 IP network. Through software and hardware deployments updated Zayo now has the ability to identify malicious traffic and re-route through a system that identifies and removes traffic, while enabling the flow of real data on the sites.

Zayo solution uses advanced technology of analytical behavior , which can look deep into each packet to decide whether it should be abandoned. behavior analysis would be less prone to false positives that the analysis of the single rate base.

"DDoS mitigation Zayo uses advanced detection and mitigation technologies to fight against this security threat growing," said Max Clauson, Executive Vice President of network Connectivity services, Zayo . "We are leveraging our network visibility, intelligence and the threat of advanced mitigation technology to provide a solution based on the use that is flexible and responsive."

Zayo offers clean traffic model so customers only pay for the bandwidth needed not for the size of the attack. The new service is part of the development of Zayo Group on improving and expanding its security offerings over IP infrastructure. "As attacks become more sophisticated and unpredictable, we are committed to staying one step ahead," added M Clauson .. .

DiscountASP.NET, a Windows hosting solution provider, announced the launch of their improved Windows 2012 platform form of accommodation with the support of "next generation" base ASP.NET 1.0 hosting.

ASP.NET core is an open source modular framework that is distributed as NuGet packages is a multi-platform that runs on Windows ASP.NET, Linux and Mac, and supports side-by-side versioning app. Being a complete rewrite, Microsoft decided to rename the latest version of ASP.NET 5 based ASP.NET to avoid implying a continuation of ASP.NET 4.x.

"We launched our hosting solution in 03 with early support for ASP.NET 1.0 . Thirteen years later, we are proud to introduce support for the latest evolution of a multi-platform .NET business, "said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET .

ASP .NET-based hosting is available on the platform DiscountASP.NET hosting Windows 2012.

After the appointment of a veteran IBM as general manager for its EMEA operations earlier this month, global cloud and managed hosting provider Savvis announced the appointment of Gery Messer as CEO for its operations in Asia Pacific.

"rapidly growing activity in Asia Pacific continues to fuel demand for cloud hosting, colocation and managed IT hosting services," said Gery Messer.

Messer joined Savvis NGA, where he was responsible for all aspects of the Asia Pacific society, Middle East and African operations, including sales , marketing, research and development, and customer service. Previously, Messer was president for Asia Pacific Red Hat Inc. . and he was also responsible of operations SAP launch in Korea . His nearly 30 years of international experience in the technology and consulting organizations includes leadership roles with EMC, IBM and Deloitte.

"the rapid growth of activity in Asia Pacific continues to fuel demand for cloud hosting, colocation and managed IT hosting services that help organizations reduce time to market, enabling a distributed workforce and gain a competitive advantage, " Gery Messer said . "I look forward to driving innovation and positive business outcomes through the adoption of technology solutions Savvis."

"With a variety of global data footprint center, Savvis serves as a technology partner for many global companies operating in Asia Pacific," said James Parker, vice president, Global Sales and Marketing , Savvis . "Gery brings solid experience, well recognized in building teams and growing customer relationship that fits well with our strategic goals in the region."

Savvis, a company CenturyLink group provides cloud hosting, colocation and managed hosting services on advanced networks. CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States.

CloudBerry Lab, a provider of backup and management solutions for cloud storage services public, announced that its backup cloud hosting and managed service providers, CloudBerry backup managed now to configure remote FTP or SFTP location as backup storage backend.

CloudBerry Managed Backup offers managed hosting and service providers a variety of storage options to keep the customer's backups, including Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Windows Azure OpenStack and cloud platforms . Now, with the latest update, backup service providers can store any amount of data on a self-hosted server with FTP / SFTP connection, the only limit is the size of storage on a server.

Any IT company with FTP / SFTP configured on a connection Linux server or Windows can start a cloud backup company in simple steps, avoiding the high initial cost and lock to a specific provider storage.

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"many smaller accounts own storage service providers already with their hosting companies that allow FTP access / SFTP, "said Alexey Serkov, CTO at CloudBerry Lab . "It is also easy to configure FTP / SFTP access on a Windows or Linux server to leverage the existing hardware and storage and start offering managed backup service."

CloudBerry Lab was created in 08 by a group of experienced IT professionals with the mission to help organizations adopt cloud computing technologies by bridging the gap between the clouds proposals supplier and consumer needs through the development of innovative solutions at low cost. CloudBerry Lab is an advanced technology partner Amazon Web Services.

OneNeck iT solutions, an American provider of iT solutions, including the management of ERP applications, servers and cloud other hosting solutions, has chosen to integrate Lumension Endpoint management and Security Suite (LEMSS) in its managed hosting service offers.

OneNeck patch management has now authorized, anti-virus, application control, device control and other features built on LEMSS through their Managed Hosting services offers , including its cloud and colocation facilities infrastructure in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Arizona.

L.E.M.S.S. unify the functions of IT operations and security through a single console architecture, server and seamlessly agent and more efficient meet IT risk and system management requirements across the enterprise . L.E.M.S.S. offers its capabilities in the patch management, anti-virus, configuration management, power management, control of the application, device control and asset management.

OEM partnership

The partnership OneNeck Lumension will also include the expansion of cloud powered LEMSS through the customer base of OneNeck. This OEM relationship would allow customers to cost-effectively improve security based on L.E.M.S.S. while leveraging the expertise of hosting infrastructure OneNeck the key security personnel, and security best practices.

"Security and compliance is an integral part of everything we do for our clients, management of hosting services in cloud ERP outsourcing," said Clint Harder, CTO and vice president of product strategy, OneNeck . "the comprehensive security capabilities and architecture of Lumension consolidated product allows OneNeck to provide efficient and effective security solutions to the end user device all the way through the server and applications. "

OneNeck IT Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems Inc., employs about 650 people across the US The company offers a full range of IT solutions, including cloud hosting and other hosting solutions; ReliaCloud cloud business services; managed hosting services; and management of ERP applications. OneNeck owns and operates four Tier 3 data centers in Iowa, Minnesota, andWisconsin and manages two level 2 data centers in Arizona.

cloud services Spanlink Spanlink Communications, a provider of managed hosting solutions for collaboration and centers contact Cisco announced a full range of computing Cisco cloud hosting services powered covering the entire Cisco Collaboration portfolio.

Spanlink cloud services provides customers access to the latest speech technologies Business / Collaboration, HD video and a contact center.

The solution Spanlink cloud services includes:

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

• Voice over IP
• voicemail
• instant messaging / chat
• Cisco Jabber
• audio and web conferencing services
• desktop video and mobility solutions

Center contact as a Service (CCAA)

• Cisco Contact Center Enterprise functionality, including Finesse or CTIOS office advanced control capabilities of call and company reports.
• ACD functionality built on a fully redundant platform call handling.
• Secured and flexible customer service.
• multi-channel capabilities, enabling customers to interact through the communication channel of their choice.
• contact center soft skills, including speech analysis, intelligent call routing and optimization of labor tools.
• ability to scale capacity to the seasonal agent required.

TelePresence as a Service (TPaaS)

• SIP HD video business access capacity and compliant H.323 video.
• Secured, multipoint feature allows 3+ parties to participate in the video conference.

also Spanlink ensures quality service to its clients through its platform of managed hosting services, OnGuard. OnGuard has been built specifically for Cisco collaboration solutions, and customers rely on it to ensure their business communications solutions are available and works as expected.