NewsHosting news - 19 Apr 2001 - Listing Page: 3658

Global Knowledge Employs Ebone Network for European Internet Training Service - 📅 Apr 19, 2001 - Ebone (ebone.com), a European broadband IP and optical networking company, and a division of Global TeleSystems Inc., announced on Thursday that it has put into operation an IP and hosting service for Global Knowledge, an independent IT training company, designed to help improve the delivery of the company's Web-based training.

Ebone's tailored solution allows Global Knowledge to provide its European customers with one of the fastest e-learning services available in Europe. The ...

OptiGlobe?s Latin American Data Center Receives SunTone Certification - 📅 Apr 19, 2001 - On Tuesday, OptiGlobe Communications (optiglobe.com), a Web hosting and managed services provider, announced that it had become the first carrier-neutral Internet data center in Latin America to earn the SunTone Program Certification. Optiglobe's colocation, hosting and managed services were all certified under the program.

The SunTone certification, an initiative started by hardware manufacturer Sun Microsystems Inc., performs a detailed review of services, infrastructure and ...

Exodus To Employ DataChannel Server For myExodus Customer Portal - 📅 Apr 18, 2001 - DataChannel (datachannel.com), a leading provider of enterprise portal solutions, announced on Wednesday that Exodus Communications Inc. (exodus.net), a leader in the complex Internet hosting and managed services field, has chosen the DataChannel Server to power myExodus, its secure Web portal. myExodus is designed to allow Exodus customers easy access to management tools and applications from anywhere in the world via the Internet.

According to Exodus, the hosting market is ...

Cogent connects to LayerOne?s optical transport exchanges - 📅 Apr 18, 2001 - LayerOne Inc. (layerone.com -> equinix.com), a provider of optical transport exchanges and connectivity services, earlier this week announced a national service agreement with Cogent Communications, a provider of high-speed Internet access and transport services.

As a result of the agreement, LayerOne will provide Cogent with network interconnection with multiple local and long-haul carriers through its Optical Distribution Exchanges, as well as a means to expand its IP services into new ...

Sphera to Participate in LayerOne Optical Interconnect Platform trial - 📅 Apr 18, 2001 - LayerOne Inc. (layerone.com -> equinix.com), a provider of optical transport exchange technology, announced on Tuesday that Sphera Optical Networks Inc. (sphera.com), a high-capacity metropolitan network provider, will be among the first network providers to participate in trials of LayerOne's new optical interconnection platform.

Layerone is currently deploying intelligent optical switches in its NEXUS Optical Distribution Exchanges to aggregate optical networks and groom circuts from 10 ...

Interliant Secures $20 Million In Future Funding - 📅 Apr 18, 2001 - Interliant Inc. (interliant.com), a leading global application service provider, announced on Wednesday that it has entered an agreement with affiliates of Charterhouse Group International Inc., and SOFTBANK Technology Ventures VI, LP, and its related funds. The deal has secured a total of $19 million in future funding for Interliant. In a separate agreement, the company also agreed to sell back its investment in EYT Inc. for $1 million dollars.

According to the deal with ...

NEXL Managed Services Receives SunTone Certification - 📅 Apr 17, 2001 - Managed services provider NEXL Inc. (nexl.com) announced on Tuesday at the Sun Microsystems SunTone and Service Provider Summit, that NEXL's managed services have been given the SunTone certification, having met the strict quality requirements demanded by the SunTone service delivery specification.

The SunTone Program certification for service providers, an initiative headed by Sun Microsystems (sun.com), reviews processes, methodology and infrastructure to ensure the delivery ...

Oracle and Sun Announce World?s Largest TPC-H Data Warehouse Benchmark - 📅 Apr 17, 2001 - Oracle Corp. (oracle.com), a leading provider of software for e-business, and Sun Microsystems Inc. (sun.com), a leader in network computing products and services, announced on Tuesday their success in achieving the world's first three-terabyte TPC-H result.

Established by the Transaction Processing Council, the TPC-H benchmark is the standard decision support test, designed to measure a system's capability to examine large volumes of data and execute highly complex queries. ...

Cisco to Miss Estimates, Plans Layoff of 8,500 - 📅 Apr 17, 2001 - Networking hardware manufacturer Cisco Systems Inc. said on Monday that its third-quarter pro forma earnings will miss analysts? expectations by a wide margin, and that the company will lay off a total of 8,500 workers, a confirmation of earlier estimates of work force reductions.

The company said that the current business environment has never been more challenging, and added that it expects sales to fall 30 per cent from the second to the third quarter. Cisco says that it sees third ...

Bird On A Wire selects StorageASP for advanced data protection - 📅 Apr 17, 2001 - StorageASP Inc. (storageasp.com), an outsourced data protection service
provider, and Bird On A Wire Networks Inc. (boaw.net), a leading
Canadian provider of managed hosting services for mission critical Internet
applications, announced a partnership agreement that will make StorageASP's
advanced data protection services available to Bird On A Wire customers.

StorageASP will locate its Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure and
TERA-Back service at Bird On A Wire ...