As I’ve been working out of our Singapore offices for the past 3 months, one of the most common questions I’ve received from local businesses is how cloud servers are different from shared hosting and VPS offerings.

While it’s true that cloud-based hosting is gaining significant ground in the U.S., adoption is relatively slow in most of Asia. According to William Fellows, from The 451 Group, 93% of spending on infrastructure as a service is done by the U.S., 6% by Europe and just 1% by Asia.

As such, we’ve decided to organize #cloudchat, an event at Hackerspace, to shed some light on the subject. Our VP of development, Michael Venzke, will be discussing basic cloud fundamentals and benefits over VPS; then delving deeper into more technical discussion points, such as cloud interoperability and automatic development/QA environments.

To complement, Dr. Kris Beevers, Voxel’s Principle Software Architect, will be discussing proper CDN implementation and performance optimization in cloud deployments.

If you happen to be in Singapore, please drop by. Our experts will be taking your questions. Students, entrepreneurs, local business, developers and start-ups are all welcome. Of course, food and drinks are on us!

Event Details:
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 @ 7:30pm
Hackerspace - 70A Bussorah Street, Singapore 199483
RSVP: twtvite.com/voxel-cloudchat
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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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Voxel client dailykos.com was recently featured in an article at techworld.com.au highlighting how they have grown their infrastructure in line with the site’s rise in popularity and page views.  Read the full article here.

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TechTarget.com posted some thoughts on Moore’s Law and its correlation to commercial “cloud computing” offerings available today.  Raj Dutt, Voxel’s CEO, was featured in the article, available here.

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A month ago we announced hAPI, a HTTP REST API with XML or JSON responses, and the exposure of some VoxCAST CDN functionality through this programmable interface. Since then, VoxCAST customers have eagerly adopted it, requested more and more features, and submitted their own PHP, Perl, and Python client code as examples for everyone else.

We’ve been really excited about the response hAPI has received, and how it simplifies tasks not only for our customers, but even within our own systems at Voxel. As we mentioned last month, the CDN API calls were just the beginning.

Now we’re ready to announce some hosting API methods for the rest of our customers.

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Voxel’s new open source Apache web server module allows customers to seamlessly offload rich media content from hosted infrastructure onto the VoxCAST CDN

For Immediate Release

NEW YORK/EWORLDWIRE/Sep 16, 2008 — Voxel dot Net Inc. today announced that it will offer fully-integrated, premium on-demand content delivery network (CDN) services as part of its standard hosting offering – at no extra charge. Branding this new innovation as Universal Transfer, Voxel becomes the first hosting company to allow its clients to mix and match their high bandwidth needs between dedicated servers and a CDN. For new and existing hosting clients, Voxel believes this will dramatically simplify the decision-making process regarding current and future capacity needs.

Starting today, companies who know they need hosting – but still may not know when or if they may need a CDN – can benefit from flexible customized contracts, transparent pricing, and the ease of working with the experienced and professional team of engineers at Voxel.

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Now, we’re not one to promote a competitor without reason, but props are in order to Rackspace.

It’s been 7 years since they pulled the plug on their first attempt at going public. In that time, they’ve gone from doing $7 million a year to $350 million a year. They have built a solid business by having a good product and world class support.

Last week, they went public, for real this time.

Today, they are a billion dollar company.

That’s nothing to sneeze at.

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Lan Nguyen of TheStreet.com looked for Voxel’s insight on hosting, as it pertains to eCommerce businesses.  Read the full article here.

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Re-published from ISP-Planet.com

A Managed Hosting Contrarian – Let’s start telling it like it is! (Unlikely.)

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Managed hosting is loosely defined as a service where a customer’s Internet infrastructure is maintained and cared for by a Web hosting company. It can also be the ultimate smokescreen. Who knows what really goes on in the world of dark fiber and datacenters? The confusion surrounding the inner workings of this industry gives hosting companies the opportunity to dupe customers with fake promises. Unfortunately, this is common within the industry.

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