With Asian web users representing an even larger portion of today’s Internet, Voxel is seeing more of its customers target the Asian market and require Asian web hosting for their applications, social networking tools, ad delivery solutions or media content.  Users are demanding top performance and service providers and startups need to deliver that in a cost-effective manner.  So how does Voxel address the vast market challenges and differences of Asian hosting?   The answer is simpler than one might think.

When we decided to tackle this problem, Voxel first took a look at the differences in hosting between more mature markets (US/Europe) and the Asian web hosting market.  We found that:

• Network quality varied dramatically from country-to-country or within certain regions, often making a SaaS application hosted in Hong Kong unusable to business customers in Singapore.
• Pricing was hidden behind walled gardens of custom quote forms or long term commitments.  This was in contrast to the wide array of transparent pricing options available in the US and Europe.
• Asian cloud computing offerings were limited and no major public cloud vendors were offering solutions in Asia.
• Bandwidth pricing and server bandwidth was much more expensive for end users, or was limited in small quantities like 1Mbps “capped” services.

Voxel recognized that startups in Asia, as well as US and European Internet companies moving into the Asian market, needed these issues addressed in order to fully capitalize on the opportunities in this emerging Internet market.  To that end, Voxel decided to open an Asian datacenter and hosting location and extend the Voxel IP network to Singapore and Hong Kong.

We opened our first datacenter presence in Singapore in 2009, enabling our clients to quickly deliver media files, HTTP assets and videos via our Asian CDN nodes.  We then worked to build out our network, establish peering relationship and expand regional interconnection options so that we could lower the price of bandwidth for Asian customers and increase the quality and control of the delivery.  Finally, late last year, Voxel started offering our popular hosting services in Singapore, including dedicated servers and our cutting-edge VoxCLOUD cloud computing and cloud server product.

Customers can now take advantage of:

• Transparent and cost competitive bandwidth pricing with fully burstable, 2 x 1Gbps per server network ports.
• Global CDN delivery via VoxCAST with each and every account.
• Local cloud servers and dedicated servers, available through our online control panel, desktop Adobe AIR application or REST-based hosting API.
• BaseManaged raw infrastructure or fully ProManaged services, including custom load-balanced clusters, multi-site hosting options and high-scalability deployments.
• Global hosting options via one invoice: the U.S. from our New York hosting facility, Europe from our Amsterdam hosting facility and Asia from our Singapore hosting facility.
• 24 x 7 x 365 export support on the entire infrastructure stack (hardware, Linux OS, CDN delivery, and application services support).
• Local sales offices in both New York and Singapore

We encourage customers who need to target the Asian Internet market to contact us.  We have sales engineers available 24 hours per day out of both our New York and Singapore offices and we’d love to help you reach your Asian customer base.

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CloudHarmony.com has released the results of their latest cloud performance tests.  In a blog post last week, Voxel’s VoxCLOUD compute platform ranked as the fastest for U.S.-based cloud providers.    Check out the full article to see how Voxel ranks:  http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/02/cloud-speed-test-results.html

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Here at Voxel, we continue to push forward our vision of Cloud Computing (API-based, incrementally billed infrastructure) with our VoxCLOUD and VoxSERVER product lines.  Recently, we’ve spent some time outlining where we think the industry is going in 2010 and how IaaS providers like Voxel fit in.  Two recent press mentions include:

• TheStreet.com, “Cloud Computing Gets Costs Down to Earth“
• TMCNet, “2010 Tipping Point for SMB Use of Cloud Computing“

As always, if you’re a client of Voxel’s using our cloud products or have questions, feedback or comments, please feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts and opinions.

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We’ve been super lucky to have visits from some of our clients here at our Lower Manhattan offices — but over the past year, Voxel headcount has been going up and our offices haven’t kept pace with our need for sys-admin space, sales offices and developer desks. As such, we’ve recently started work on the floor below us here at 29 Broadway (just south of Wall Street, across from that big Wall Street Bull). It’s going to be noisy and dusty for the next month or two, so please excuse any jack hammering you hear when calling our support or sale teams in New York.

We hope to have a house warming party in December sometime so make sure to look us up if you’ll be in the NYC area. The space boasts a cool outdoor patio, great views of the WTC rebuilding site and a connecting staircase to our current floor. Some pictures attached so you can all see the progress.

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Inc.com recently announced its annual 500|5000 list and Voxel placed in the top 15% of companies in the list.  We hit no. 82 for IT companies and 623 on the complete list.  You can read more about Voxel’s growth numbers and overall placing in our self-touting press release, online here.

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Ryan Lawler over at Contentinople.com has posted an article about Voxel’s new VoxCLOUD Beta Launch — our coming out party of sorts for our cloud computing service.  Read the full article here: http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=180528

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We’re proud to announce some new clients and partners in Asia, where Voxel has recently opened its first datacenter and network POP in Singapore.  We’ve added Shinetech Software (www.shinetechchina.com), a software outsourcing company based in Beijing, and CANDIS Group (www.candisgroup.com), a full service IT provider that brings ‘gateway to China’ services to global Fortune 5000 companies.

Both clients took an interest in leveraging Voxel’s Asian hosting options (our virtual and dedicated solutions are available already out of Singapore) as well as our European and US hosting and content delivery options.  Read the full release here.

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Several Voxel-lites have ventured down to Florida to present at Gartner’s 2009 IT Infrastructure Summit.   The event is pretty intense, filled with seminars and speaking events by Gartner’s top ranked analysts in cloud computing, content delivery and outsourced IT management.  As a Gartner 2009 “Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing”, Voxel is super excited to be in attendance.  If you happen to be at the event, come by and see our booth.  We’re giving out free footballs (see gratuitous camera phone shot attached!).

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Not to toot our own horn, but we’re pretty happy that the research firm, Gartner, has recently named Voxel in its list of “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing System and Application Infrastructure, 2009.” This is all related to the hAPI-ness we’re creating with our infrastructure API’s and the recent announcement of the Silverlining Technology Preview.

If you’re a hosting customer of ours (or not!) we’d love to hear from you about how you’re mixing and matching traditional and cloud computing infrastructure in your deployments and what you’d love to have from a provider. We’re actively seeking feedback and word on successful implementations and if you’ve got a hAPI call you’d like to see in order to get programmatic access to your infrastructure, please let us know.

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It’s not often Voxel gets picked up on finance blogs…but our CEO’s comments on the future of the CDN and cloud computing businesses got featured in a recent article over at Fool.com. Read the full article here.

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