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February 5, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications provider Verizon Business (verizonbusiness.com) announced on Monday that it has begun offering a virtualization service to its enterprise customers. Verizon Business says with its new managed virtualization service, businesses can seamlessly provide applications to users with the same reliability as the traditional one-application-to-a-server model.
Verizon says the launch of this new service follows three years of supporting VMware ESX Server in a staging and development environment. Verizon Business has now deployed a shared VMware Virtual Center management infrastructure to configure and operate a virtualized environment. Customers can also tap into the complete VMware Infrastructure product suite, which includes VMware VMotion, VMware High Availability and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler.
"Verizon Business is all about empowering our customers," says Michael Marcellin, VP of product marketing for Verizon Business. "With our newest virtualization option, customers can run leaner and meaner, while out-tasking the management of these complex environments. What's more, this offering can even help companies to be 'greener,' which is a big plus in today's eco-friendly business environment."
Verizon Business virtualization service, backed by service level agreements of up to 99.9 percent for availability and uptime, is immediately available in the US.
Last week, Verizon began supporting the California Broadband Task Force's measure for 'next-generation' networks, as it anticipates future fiber, wireless and broadband business challenges.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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