VegasNAP, WORLDLINK Now Offering West Coast Co-Location and Disaster-Recovery Services in Joint-Operating Agreement

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) February 16, 2011

VegasNAP LLC (http://www.vegasnap.com), a premier provider of colocation, disaster-recovery and managed IT services based in Las Vegas, Nevada, today announced a joint-operating agreement with WORLDLINK, Inc. (http://www.w-link.com) , one of Washington’s finest independent data center operators. Enterprise clients of the two companies can now enjoy protection and peace of mind by having the option of redundant data and business continuity centers in two major U.S. metropolitan locations in the western United States.

Under the agreement, VegasNAP and WORLDLINK will jointly support clients of both companies that want to protect and secure their mission-critical equipment in more than one data center. Together, the two companies have state-of-the-art co-location centers in Las Vegas, NV and Seattle, WA.

WORLDLINK clients now can access VegasNAP’s end-user disaster recovery solutions, which include co-location hot and warm sites, voice and data connectivity, and professional services to aid with disaster recovery. VegasNAP’s customers can receive the same services and support in WORLDLINKs state-of-the-art Washingtons data centers.

“Whether it’s natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, blackouts or even manmade events, clients of both our companies can now take advantage of our co-location, recovery and business continuity solutions,” Rob Tyree, VegasNAP’s Chief Technical Officer, said. “Both companies’ clients now have co-location centers available in diverse locations. Our customers and prospects can develop localized and regional disaster recovery strategies that make sense.”

According to WORLDLINK CEO Darwin Hill, “This partnership gives our valued clients iron-clad protection against virtually any disaster scenario. It’s exciting for us because it allows us to expand our service offerings and provide even greater levels of redundancy and support to our customers.”

The VegasNAP and WORLDLINK data centers are designed to meet the highest industry standards. Both facilities are 2N+1 or N+1 redundant, high-security network facilities with 24/7 access to equipment. They feature ultra-reliable uninterruptible power supplies for continuous availability with generator backup to ensure the highest standards of power stability, along with state-of-the-art Fire Suppression Systems and high-end security systems consisting of biometric verification entry and digital remote monitoring and recording systems.

About VegasNAP, LLC

VegasNAP, LLC operates the premier carrier-neutral colocation datacenter in Nevada. The VegasNAP colocation facility is a fully redundant, SAS 70 Type II audited datacenter that provides services for financial institutions, small and medium business, hosting companies, and Software as a Service providers, and also serves as a Point of Presence (POP) for several world-class regional, national, and international backbone networks. VegasNAP is also home to the Las Vegas Internet Exchange (LVIX.net), the only open Internet exchange point in Southern Nevada. VegasNAP was founded in 2009 by a core group of industry veterans with over 50 years of combined experience in the technology and engineering fields.

About WORLDLINK, Inc.

Founded in 1996, WORLDLINK, Inc. is a premier provider of Co-Location, Disaster Recovery, and Managed IT solutions for businesses of any size. WORLDLINK owns and operates three datacenters in the Seattle region of the Pacific Northwest which services local, national, and international clients. WORLDLINK specializes in customizing IT solutions to meet their customers specific needs, from the simple to the complex.

The staff at WORLDLINK has a combined 60+ years experience in networking, hosting, technology, marketing, and telecommunications. With this practical experience, WORLDLINK has the knowledge and experience necessary to remain a market-leading provider in datacenter, co-location, and IT services.

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VegasNAP, WORLDLINK Now Offering West Coast Co-Location and Disaster-Recovery Services in Joint-Operating Agreement

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Houston, TX (Vocus/PRWEB) February 17, 2011

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Hosting.com Launches Business Continuity Solution to Guarantee an Always On Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Applications

Denver, CO (PRWEB) February 17, 2011

Hosting.com, the leading provider of cloud hosting and recovery services, today announced the release of its Critical Availability Service (CAS). CAS introduces the hosting industrys most comprehensive application-centric SLA (Service Level Agreement) to ensure the mission-critical applications and infrastructure of Hosting.com clients are secure, cloud-enabled and Always On.

The Critical Availability Service (CAS) has three main components: a high availability infrastructure, Entourage support and the Critical Availability Service SLA. The high availability infrastructure is delivered from one of Hosting.coms geographically-dispersed datacenters and leverages the Hosting.com CAS reference architecture consisting of five managed services: dedicated firewalls, load balancing, backups, advanced monitoring and patching. The combination of the five managed services provides every customer the infrastructure necessary to ensure their applications are always available and Hosting.com guarantees it.

The Critical SLA is unparalleled in the hosting industry because it is based on application availability not component type. Typically, service provider SLAs only reimburse clients for downtime associated with a single component of their solution. The CAS SLA takes it one step further by paying double the normal payout for the entire solution when the application is unavailable. CAS is supported by the Hosting.com Entourage team which is a small group of highly trained and dedicated server engineers assigned to specific customer groups.

Craig McLellan, Hosting.com Chief Technology Officer, added, From years of experience, we know when most companies think of Disaster Recovery they plan for catastrophic disasters (i.e., tornado, earthquake, hurricane) and focus on validating that they could recover. However, companies are more likely to encounter a clinical disaster (i.e., viruses, human error, malicious attack) which can be avoided through availability centric offerings. He continued, Hosting.com tested, validated and has now certified that our CAS configurations will provide a cost-effective business continuity solution to help companies avoid clinical disasters and ensure their mission-critical applications are available 24x7x365.

Hosting.coms CAS configurations are also available in cloud environments. Hosting.coms recently released 2011 Cloud Trends and Best Practices Report revealed that 43% of companies will turn to cloud infrastructure to gain access to more robust high availability and recovery services. In addition, the report revealed that the number of companies implementing cloud to complement their BCDR strategy will grow by 5x over the next 18 months.

John Morency, Research Vice President of Systems, Security & Risk for Gartner Research, commented, Having a continuously available IT infrastructure is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable business resiliency. Recovery-in-the-Cloud services have the potential for making the delivery of highly available IT services achievable for a large number of businesses, many of whom could not afford to do so using more traditional infrastructure- and service-based approaches.

Join Hosting.com on March 3, 2010 for the 2011 Cloud Trends and Best Practices Webinar to learn how SaaS organizations and those pursuing SaaS solutions have implemented high availability for their mission-critical business applications.

About Hosting.com

Hosting.com is a global provider of enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions, services and facilities that ensure clients mission-critical applications are cloud-enabled and Always On. Hosting.coms geographically-dispersed datacenters and Cloud Supersites, coupled with the industrys top networking and connectivity technologies, provide the highest levels of availability, security, and responsiveness. The most recognized names in SaaS, Healthcare, Retail, Financial Services, and Government rely on Hosting.coms business continuity, managed cloud hosting, and colocation solutions.

Hosting.com currently operates PCI Level 1 cloud and dedicated infrastructures and SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and Denver, CO.

All Hosting.com products and services are supported by 24x7x365 live expert technical support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat.

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Hosting.com Launches Business Continuity Solution to Guarantee an Always On Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Applications

R1Soft Advances Backup Software Performance, Releases CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition

Houston, TX (PRWEB) February 18, 2011

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R1Soft Advances Backup Software Performance, Releases CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition

Halcyon Announces Document Management System v3.0 for IBM i

PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012

Systems management software provider, Halcyon Software Inc., today announced a new product Document Management System v 3.0 for the IBM i platform.

Document Management System v 3.0 is a comprehensive software package which ensures reliable archiving, rapid retrieval, packaging and distribution of business information, documents and reports held in spooled files on the IBM i system.

Businesses can benefit by significantly reducing costs for what is traditionally a labor intensive activity for managing, finding, re-packaging and distributing the relevant information to users within the organization to allow them to do their jobs effectively. Cost efficiencies are also gained in the rapid retrieval and delivery of information in the right format to external contacts including customers and suppliers.

Key features include indexing of all archived files for rapid retrieval, an easy to use web user interface requiring no specialist IBM i skills, a sticky note that marks important information about a particular file that can be instantly viewed by assigned users, and an overlay designer for reports, print overlays to create invoices, orders, dispatch notes, etc. Document Management System v3.0 also has a segmenting and bundling feature that enables subsets of large reports to be created and distributed to pre-defined recipient lists.

The software performs actions on spooled files without the need for program changes such as automatically emailing the summary page of a report or converting them into PDFs or HTML web pages.

John Dominic, Vice President of Sales, Halcyon Software Inc. said, Halcyon has made a significant investment in the Document Management System software. Our development team has engaged with IBM i sites to create a business solution which offers automatic archiving, indexing and superfast retrieval of important information. The new web-based interface modernizes and simplifies a traditionally labor intensive activity and saves significant cost.

Indexing

The indexing functionality eliminates the need for staff to search for spooled files or wade through large reports to find specific information important to their business or job function. Indexing can be applied to archived files for fast retrieval of detailed information and IT administrators can search for archived files using combinations of 15 definable indexes such as invoice numbers. The technology also has a powerful search function through linking indexes across different archived files. For example, indexes for Invoice Number could be cross linked to indexes for Customers, Orders and Depots.

Web Based Interface

A web-based graphical user interface (GUI) provides an easy way for staff to access or handle indexed spooled files, assign notes, apply print overlays and export data without the need for specialist skills or training. All documents can be viewed securely and remotely through a web browser. Using the appropriate security settings organizations have the option to allow their customers to carry out their own searches.

Sticky Notes

Users can create a sticky note or a line item which appears on the GUI and at the same time on the IBM i green screen, which can highlight key information to all members of their team. Any changes to notes or items are also simultaneously updated on the GUI and the green screen. For example, a note could be created against a customer account containing information which is vital for other team members to know. Security features within the software prevent non-authorized staff or teams being able to view or change information.

Overlay Designer

The new overlay designer enables businesses to easily customize their reports or create print overlays for typical documents such as invoices, dispatch notes, orders, pick lists and customer statements.

Segmenting and Bundling

Organizations can create subsets of large reports, and distribute bundles of information as hard copies or email documents in PDF, HTML and TXT format to a pre-defined recipient list. For example, staff in a distribution company could extract information from reports which identifies depots that only stock certain products, or depots that have residual supplies of an individual item, or customers which reside in particular territories or those that receive regular deliveries of a specific product, etc. Considerable resources can be saved by eliminating the need to manually extract this information from reports often hundreds of pages in length. Another benefit of segmenting and bundling is that the software does not need to use specialist scripts to slice and dice the data from spooled files and deliver it efficiently and quickly to the people that require it.

Pricing and availability

Document Management System v3.0 is available immediately. Product pricing is tiered and based on IBM processor groups. In addition, Halcyon have published a fair pricing policy so that if customers increase the Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) rating of their IBM hardware they will not incur software upgrade fees giving long term reassurance on costs.

For more information about Document Management System v3.0 visit:

http://www.halcyonsoftware.com/dms

About Halcyon Software

Halcyon Software is a global leader in multi-platform systems management software. With more than 20 years of delivering proven solutions and first class customer support, Halcyons products proactively monitor, manage and automate IT operations to significantly reduce costs. Large IT outsourcing companies as well as small to medium sized corporate and public sector data centers rely on Halcyon Software to ensure their mission-critical systems, core applications and services are available 24/7.

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Halcyon Announces Document Management System v3.0 for IBM i

Halcyon Software Partners With Metropolitan Community College, Donates Softare to Educate Next-Generation of IBM i IT Professionals

PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012

Halcyon Software Inc., a global provider of systems management software, today announced an education initiative to help IT college students learn how to manage IBM Power Systems technology. Halcyon has donated $ 30,000 in software licences for managing IBM i (iSeries), AIX, Linux and Windows servers to the Information Technology department of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska.

Halcyons systems management software enables businesses to achieve fail safe control of their core applications, processes and systems and reduce the costs of IT through automation. The software will enable students to obtain real-world, hands-on experience in all aspects of multi-platform systems management including monitoring, scheduling, automation, SLA reporting and performance monitoring. The donation includes two of Halcyons flagship software packages, Operations Center Suite for monitoring IBM i systems and Network Server Suite for managing AIX, Linux and Windows servers.

Our monitoring software is used by companies throughout the world that have IBM technology at the very heart of their business, said Lorraine Cousins, CEO of Halcyon. We are very pleased to be working with Metropolitan Community College to help students in the Information Technology department gain valuable industry skills. It is vitally important that future generations of students are educated with the specialized IT knowledge they need to support IBM technology-based businesses and organizations.

Metropolitan Community College has a long history with IBM Power Systems technology and IBM COMMON. The university offers IBM i course work and through Halcyons software donation its students can now use real-world technology on their IBM hardware. As the first generation of IBM i professionals are coming close to retirement, we believe its critical to educate the next-generation of professionals to learn this critical technology — ensuring continued growth and vitality of our industry niche, said John Dominic, Vice President of Sales, Halcyon Software.

Founded in 1974, Metropolitan Community College is a comprehensive, full-service community college. The College serves more than 49,000 students annually and offers 175+ degrees. Professor, Ted Tucker, Metropolitan Community College said, We are honored that Halcyon is supporting us with this generous donation of software licenses of their systems management technology. Our students — who are working toward Information Technology degrees will now have the opportunity to gain practical experience on our IBM i hardware. I am confident that this technology will help inspire our students as they develop their studies and begin to work in the technology industry.

Halcyon has future plans to work with Metropolitan Community College to create a scholarship program.

For additional information about Halcyon Software, visit: http://www.halcyonsoftware.com

About Halcyon Software

Halcyon Software is a global leader in multi-platform systems management software. With more than 20 years of delivering proven solutions and first class customer support, Halcyons products proactively monitor, manage and automate IT operations to significantly reduce costs. Large IT outsourcing companies as well as small to medium sized corporate and public sector data centers rely on Halcyon Software to ensure their mission-critical systems, core applications and services are available 24/7.

Halcyons solutions support IBM

Halcyon Software Partners With Metropolitan Community College, Donates Softare to Educate Next-Generation of IBM i IT Professionals

Halcyon Announces Advanced Job Scheduler v9.0 for IBM i

PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) May 07, 2012

Systems management software provider, Halcyon Software Inc., today announced a major release of one of its flagship products Advanced Job Scheduler v9.0 for the IBM i platform.

Halcyon Advanced Job Scheduler v9.0 enables organizations to schedule highly complex job streams and track these across different IBM i systems or across other servers to ensure that business processes are running smoothly, at the optimum time and at maximum efficiency.

Key enhancements to this new release include a migration utility for rapid importation of jobs from other standard or third party job schedulers, a command list to check appropriate conditions before jobs are processed, improved reporting and an FTP error trapping feature to detect any issues with file transfers.

Importing jobs

A new feature allows jobs from other third party job schedulers to be imported into Halcyons Advanced Job Scheduler using a migration utility specifically designed for this task.

John Dominic, Vice President of Sales , said, In talking to companies, we recognized the need to make it very easy for businesses to change their scheduling software as in many cases there is clearly a resource challenge in moving thousands of existing jobs over to an alternative solution.

Halcyons technical team discovered that there were two main reasons why companies want to change from their existing job scheduling software.

Dominic continued, The first reason was purely based on cost. Some companies have been faced with additional fees from their software vendors when they have increased the Commercial Processing Workload (CPW); that is the CPW rating of their IBM hardware. The objective of this new release was to automate the capture and import of jobs from other schedulers, saving companies significant labor and cost, provide a reliable methodology for migration and, as our software isnt charged on a CPW basis, protect their business from software or maintenance hikes in the future whenever their IBM i systems CPW rating is increased. The second reason is that the business may have outgrown their existing job scheduler or the standard one shipped with the IBM i system. Todays businesses have a need to handle more complex job streams which requires a solution capable of dealing with multiple job dependencies and running processes across different platforms.

Command List

The software is shipped with a command list function which allows system administrators to easily set a sequence of commands which can be run within or outside of the Halcyon Advanced Job Scheduler. For example, users may want to run appropriate checks to ensure that their usual conditions have been met (such as their high availability process has been shut down, users have all successfully signed off, all printers are off-line etc.) before running the first job of the end of day processing.

Improved reports

Reporting has been enhanced so that system administrators can easily demonstrate to the business that the IT department is meeting service level agreements.

Users can run reports on historic jobs and can also view a schedule of future jobs to see what is about to be run across a defined time period. For example, reports on specific jobs show how many jobs have run successfully and provide information on average run times. This allows IT staff to detect jobs which have over run the expected time slot so that this can be investigated and appropriate action can be taken to rectify the situation.

FTP error trapping

An intelligent FTP Scripting Language has been developed by Halcyon so that, in the event of a problem occurring with any File Transfers, IT administrators can set up a pre-programmed sequence of actions, mimicking what a computer operator would do in any given situation.

Pricing and availability

Advanced Job Scheduler v9.0 is available immediately, either as a single utility or as part of Halcyons Level 4 monitoring software suite. Current customers using Advanced Job Scheduler can upgrade to Advanced Job Scheduler v9.0 free of charge.

Product pricing is tiered and based on IBM processor groups. In addition, Halcyon has published a fair pricing policy so that if customers increase the CPW rating of their IBM hardware they will not incur software upgrade fees giving long term reassurance on costs. To view the policy visit: http://www.halcyonsoftware.com/nocpw

Halcyon Announces Advanced Job Scheduler v9.0 for IBM i