April 3rd, 2012

Webair Cloud Storage Services Reach New Heights with EMC Isilon

Webair Cloud Storage Services Reach New Heights with EMC Isilon

SEATTLE, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that Webair, a global leader in web hosting and managed services for companies of all sizes, has deployed EMC(®) Isilon(®) scale-out NAS to provide its clients with reliable, fast, easily scaled cloud storage. The EMC Isilon X-Series was deployed to replace its legacy storage systems, which were costly to acquire and cumbersome to maintain. As Webair’s customer base and Big Data storage needs grew, the company needed an easier, more flexible and cost-effective storage infrastructure. By implementing EMC Isilon, Webair is saving money and offering more flexible, automated storage services to clients.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

Prior to the deployment of the EMC Isilon-based Webair Cloud Storage Service, each Webair client was provided a dedicated storage system. To accomplish full redundancy, standby appliances and more complex configurations were often required. This legacy configuration created additional management overhead and resource requirements, given the large number of storage systems Webair had deployed. Once Webair converted clients to its new Cloud Storage Service, built on an Isilon infrastructure, the company was able to remove all the capacity and speed limitations associated with standalone systems, reduce data center power and cooling draw, and provide clients with a more scalable and redundant solution, thus reducing customers’ costs and its own operating expenses.

In September 2008, Webair rolled out its first Isilon deployment. Webair was among the first to take advantage of Isilon support for Virtual LANs (VLANs). VLANs enabled Webair to easily segment Isilon storage for each client for security and privacy purposes. With Isilon’s ease of scaling and unique “pay-as-you-grow” model, Webair’s clients only pay for the capacity they use, which can be easily increased as needed.

Isilon X-Series, along with Isilon SmartQuotas and SmartConnect, has significantly simplified storage management for both Webair and its clients. Webair developed its own custom API to run on top of the Isilon system and management tools. Webair’s customized configuration enables the company to automatically add and delete clients, and lets clients increase cloud storage capacities or restore from a snapshot without requiring support from Webair. Webair is also able to automatically invoice clients based on their cloud storage usage.

Customer Benefits:

– Reduced costs – By deploying Isilon, Webair was able to eliminate 100 legacy storage systems in its data center, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital expenditures as well as in electricity and other costs.

– Flexible storage services for clients – Webair clients pay only for the storage they use and can easily increase capacity as needed, which saves them money and makes Webair’s client offerings more competitive.

– Improved performance – Isilon outperformed the legacy storage systems, especially when processing large client files such as streaming video.

– Easy scalability – Isilon scale-out architecture and software enables Webair to seamlessly manage an increase of hundreds of terabytes every year with no additional staff required.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

Prior to the deployment of the EMC Isilon-based Webair Cloud Storage Service, each Webair client was provided a dedicated storage system. To accomplish full redundancy, standby appliances and more complex configurations were often required. This legacy configuration created additional management overhead and resource requirements, given the large number of storage systems Webair had deployed. Once Webair converted clients to its new Cloud Storage Service, built on an Isilon infrastructure, the company was able to remove all the capacity and speed limitations associated with standalone systems, reduce data center power and cooling draw, and provide clients with a more scalable and redundant solution, thus reducing customers’ costs and its own operating expenses.

In September 2008, Webair rolled out its first Isilon deployment. Webair was among the first to take advantage of Isilon support for Virtual LANs (VLANs). VLANs enabled Webair to easily segment Isilon storage for each client for security and privacy purposes. With Isilon’s ease of scaling and unique “pay-as-you-grow” model, Webair’s clients only pay for the capacity they use, which can be easily increased as needed.

Isilon X-Series, along with Isilon SmartQuotas and SmartConnect, has significantly simplified storage management for both Webair and its clients. Webair developed its own custom API to run on top of the Isilon system and management tools. Webair’s customized configuration enables the company to automatically add and delete clients, and lets clients increase cloud storage capacities or restore from a snapshot without requiring support from Webair. Webair is also able to automatically invoice clients based on their cloud storage usage.

Customer Quote:

Sagi Brody, chief technical officer, Webair
“EMC Isilon provides us with increased functionality so that we can match the right storage solution to the specific client use case. Clients no longer need to invest in dedicated storage systems based on growth projections. Instead, they can order a cloud server from Webair with the CPU, memory, and storage resources they need, pay only for what they use today, and scale easily. Clients get the performance and capacity that a dedicated storage system would give them, along with the benefits of having that system securely in the cloud. They experience the best of both worlds.”

EMC Quote: Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, EMC Isilon
“Web hosting and cloud services are extremely competitive industries. By deploying EMC Isilon for its storage infrastructure, Webair is staying one step ahead of competitors. They’ve significantly reduced their CapEx and other costs while giving clients secure, reliable, scale-out cloud storage. It’s a win for both Webair and its clients.”

About Isilon

Isilon, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out NAS. We deliver powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon’s products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future. We’re challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when they do, they’ll recognize there’s a better, simpler way. Learn what we mean at http://www.isilon.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

About Webair

Founded in 1996, Webair is a leader in managed hosting solutions, including Managed & Secure Cloud Infrastructure for companies of all sizes and is recognized as a global leader in the industry. Webair offers a variety of Web Hosting services including Cloud Servers, Hybrid & Private Clouds, Dedicated Servers, CDN and Video Streaming Solutions. Webair, headquartered in New York, provides managed and secure cloud services and guarantees uptime through its international network of data centers located in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam.

EMC and Isilon are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other products and/or services are trademarks of their respective owners.

This release contains “forward-looking statements” as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) component and product quality and availability; (vi) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.’s operating results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (viii) risks associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (ix) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xii) threats and other disruptions to our secure data centers or networks; (xiii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (xiv) war or acts of terrorism; and (xv) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

SOURCE EMC Corporation

February 28th, 2012

Webair Carrier Neutral Cloud: Open Network Access in the Cloud

Webair Carrier Neutral Cloud: Open Network Access in the Cloud

New York, NY (February 28, 2012) – Webair, the leader in hosting solutions, today unveiled their Carrier Neutral Cloud Service, offering clients the flexibility and freedom of a cloud hosting environment while providing total control over all network infrastructure and carrier choices. This groundbreaking new service allows transparent access from cloud environments to thousands of transit and transport providers. Clients can now choose any carrier, multiple carriers, or build custom network configurations and tie it all into their own cloud topology.

In the late 1990s physical data center infrastructure became disassociated from particular carriers. The result was increased competition among carriers, greater consumer choice among business owners, lower bandwidth costs and more reliable services. Then cloud computing came along and businesses were choosing between the computing scalability of the cloud or the network freedom of physical infrastructure. Now, by offering scalable cloud computing services with complete carrier neutrality, Webair gives clients the best of both worlds.

Webair Carrier Neutral Cloud services are currently available on Webair’s NY Cloud nodes and will be rolled out in all other markets during the coming months. Webair clients can procure direct transit and transport services from hundreds of carriers. Similar to collocation clients, public and private cloud customers will be able to order connectivity directly from carriers via Webair’s cloud cross connect platform leveraging meet-me rooms in 111 8th Ave., 60 Hudson St., 25 Broadway, and Telx’s Ethernet Exchange.

Customers utilizing Webair’s Carrier Neutral Cloud can configure any combination of transit or transport providers to directly connect to their computing infrastructure. This allows businesses with already established carrier relationships to utilize them in a truly open access cloud environment. Clients can choose to work with providers based on metrics that mater to them such as latency, route preferences, proven stability, or cost. Clients can further save money by aggregating commitments and consolidating contracts.

“Webair’s revolutionary Carrier Neutral Cloud removes barriers and provide clients with the unique ability to custom build a truly multi-homed cloud environment using any carriers they prefer” said Michael C. Orza, President of Webair. “Put simply, our clients can finally take full advantage of all of the benefits of dynamic cloud hosting infrastructure without giving up any of the freedom to control their own network configurations.”

Now is the time to take advantage of modern cloud computing services without the limitations of being tied to any one bandwidth provider. For more information about the Webair Carrier Neutral Cloud please visit http://www.webair.com/solutions-carrier-neutral-cloud.html or follow Webair on twitter @WebairInc.

February 21st, 2012

Webair FusionCloud Provides Unprecedented Cloud Speed and Performance

Webair FusionCloud Provides Unprecedented Cloud Speed and Performance

New York, NY (February 21, 2012) – Webair (www.webair.com) continues to evolve its industry leading cloud hosting technology by providing the fastest disk speeds possible in the Cloud through a new partnership with Fusion-io. Backed by state of the art Fusion ioMemory, Webair has deployed Cloud hosting infrastructure that provides 100 times the IOP/s performance of other solutions by guaranteeing 10,000 IOP/s per instance. This breakthrough technology puts Webair at the forefront of cloud computing by successfully supporting even the most intensive and demanding applications, such as database servers, video encoders, data analytics and industrial content delivery products.

Webair FusionCloud servers provide clients with the fastest disk speeds available in the Cloud, along with the benefits of Webair’s cloud server infrastructure hardware, network and disk redundancy – each FusionCloud server includes Fusion-io volumes guaranteed to deliver 10,000 IOP/s. Webair Cloud Servers are capable of the most intensive data transfer projects, with multiple slices that can be provisioned between physical Fusion-io cards to achieve even faster speeds or to allow for RAID-1 configurations for card redundancy. Providing the fastest, smoothest and most reliable user experience for clients, Webair FusionCloud is a technological breakthrough that can bring all digital endeavors to the next level.

“Even when compared to traditional physical servers running on solid state disks, the new Webair FusionCloud Servers outperform them by a margin of two to one,” said Michael C. Orza, President of Webair. “Traditional approaches to dealing with I/O intensive applications in the cloud have been to create multiple server instances and scale horizontally. While this solution works, it often discourages clients from moving off physical hardware because of the immense technical complexity required to manage such an environment. One Webair FusionCloud server provides the same disk performance as 100 traditional cloud instances. This allows clients the ability to convert even the most powerful physical servers to a cloud environment.”

Webair FusionCloud is true high availability cloud computing infrastructure that harnesses the fault tolerance of enterprise grade hypervisors to keep cloud servers up and running without downtime, as well as redundancy between physical nodes, SAN disks, network switches & routers. Every FusionCloud account includes a free industry standard software stack pre-installed, guaranteed memory capacity and instantly upgradeable service plans.

For more information, visit http://www.webair.com/webhosting-cloud-fusion.html or email sales@webair.com. Follow Webair on Twitter: @WebairInc and Facebook: facebook.com/WebairHosting.

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December 23rd, 2011

SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) – Is Your Internet Freedom at Risk?

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), is a hotly contested bill that threatens free speech and would provide the US government with overreaching ability to censor the Internet. While it is easy to side with the spirit of the bill, as currently written SOPA can have a devastating impact on users, technology companies, and the Internet as a whole.

Under SOPA internet service providers, would be under greater pressure to not just monitor, but police their users’ activities. Think about it. Websites you visit regularly, including your favorite websites, or even your own websites, whether it is operated inside or outside of the United States could be blocked based simply on an infringement claim! Simply put, this is a battle for the future of the Internet as we know it. The opposition to SOPA from online businesses and community at large is just heating up and the fight appropriately being carried out across the Internet. With the second round of congressional hearings set for early January, you can expect SOPA to be a lively debate in the days ahead.

If you’re against SOPA the time is now to contact your Congressional members and speak up. You can CLICK HERE for a full list of House of Representatives and CLICK HERE for a list of Senators.

December 2nd, 2011

Webair’s Joe Horowitz- Wins Gosling’s Invitational Crown at Belmont Hills

Webair Brand Ambassador and Professional Golfer Joe Horowitz took to the course this past weekend and won his second First Place Finish in the past 3 years at Gosling’s Invitational Crown at Belmont Hills in Bermuda.

Joe Horowitz Won the 2011 Gosling’s Invitational and the first place $12,000 check. North Carolina resident Gray Yancey won the Open Amateur Title and Eric “Hav” Trott turned back the clock to capture the Senior’s title.

Three years ago Horowitz shared the trophy with Mike Donald in a battle that ended up finishing in the dark. As a result both players agreed to share the Trophy. Horowitz will have none of that this time around and came to Bermuda with one thing on mind, to win the title outright. After blistering the course on the first day with a 6 under 64 it was clear that this was going to be a special week.

Congratulations Joe on your well deserved victory!!!

October 10th, 2011

Advantages of High Availability Cloud Servers

The Cloud has been a buzz word in the technology world for sometime now. But what exactly does hosting on a Cloud Server mean for you and your business?  What are some of the advantages that Cloud Servers offer?

If you are serious about your business you must be serious about your web hosting.   High Availability Cloud Servers provide a distinct advantage over traditional shared or dedicated server hosting by eliminating single points of failure which in turn increases your overall uptime.  Your Cloud Server can take full advantage of the high speed and reliability previously gained only with expensive dedicated enterprise storage solutions as data is stored across multiple physical SAN nodes providing maximum redundancy.

Advantages of High Availability Cloud Servers:

• You receive guaranteed Cloud Hosting resources such as CPU, memory, network bandwidth, and IOps. These resource allocations can far exceed what traditional single server solutions can provide.
• Truly dedicated and protected resources while eliminating all single points of failure.
• Cloud Servers are EASY to upgrade when needed and are scalable to meet your needs as your business grows.
• Harnesses the redundancy to keep your Cloud Servers up and running without downtime!
• Improve overall speed and load times of your websites which is increasingly important for good ranking with Google and other search engines.

Cloud computing has catapulted to a top priority as organizations push for a faster, better and more cost-effective technology delivery model.  Today, many forward-thinking businesses are using Cloud Servers to take advantage of the increased scalability, agility, automation, and efficiency that this technology can deliver.

It’s time to consider how your business would benefit from the advantages of hosting on High Availability Cloud Servers.  Can you afford not to?

September 1st, 2011

Webair Is Official Hosting Company of the Quiksilver Pro Tour Event

NEW YORK, NY — (August 31, 2011) Leader in web hosting and development, Webair.com, is the official networking & connectivity provider of the Quiksilver Pro tour event taking place in Long Beach, NY September 1-15, 2011. Webair will be connecting Quiksilver Pro Event with the world by facilitating dark fiber, networking, connectivity, Wi-Fi solutions, & live streaming video of the entire event. Additionally, they will be providing audio visual and satellite connectivity, as well as internet kiosks for event attendees to stay connected. More information can be found at http://www.quiksilverpro.com

Quiksilver Pro brings the best in extreme sports and surfing, and this year the competitive field includes top name international athletes, who have been preparing in hurricane-force waves, vying for the million dollar prize. Fans can watch the action via Webair/NYSEA.COM surf cam and online streaming media. Big surf from hurricane season, Quiksilver Pro competition and Webair connectivity make this the biggest event of the season.

The Surf Cam at http://www.nysea.com, provided by Webair & NYSEA.COM, will show 24/7 live video of wave conditions and event performances. In addition to being a main sponsor of the event, Webair is also proud to sponsor fan favorite & big wave surfer Will Skudin, a local of Long Beach, NY.

“Working on the Quiksilver event has been incredible!” said Michael C. Orza, President of Webair. “Sponsoring Will Skudins’ efforts to achieve greatness was a no-brainer for Webair. In the time I have known him, his energy, generosity and charitable efforts have amazed me. We are thrilled to be sponsoring him and be a part of this epic event.”

The increased visibility and impact of working with Webair is an obviously positive step for Quiksilver Pro and Will Skudin. “I’m stoked and honored to have the opportunity to surf professionally for Webair, one of the biggest hosting companies out there,” said Skudin. “With my first year competing on the Big Wave World Tour, it helps tremendously to have their backing in this new chapter of my career. Now I can focus 100% on training and developing my big wave game. Someone once told me, ‘You get what you put in.’ Now thanks to Webair – I’m ALL in!”

Don’t miss the excitement and determination that inspires the biggest surfers around the world competing to be Quiksilver Pro Champion. Check out www.webair.com for details.

June 2nd, 2011

Webair participates in World IPv6 day on June 8th!

Webair is pleased to announced that after a 3 month deployment project it has successfully integrated IPv6 support throughout its global networks. Webair has already allocated a large number of IPv6 addresses to existing and new clients who wish to utilize the new Internet protocol. We are now encouraging our customers to test and and integrate IPv6 into their applications and services by providing free IPv6 allocations.

Users can view our website (www.webair.com) via IPv6 by visiting  http://ipv6.webair.com. Additionally, our secure control panel is also available via IPv6 at https://ipv6.cp.webair.com. Do those IPv6 links work for you? If so, you’re already IPv6 enabled and should thank your ISP for being cutting edge and thinking ahead! If the links don’t work then we’re sorry, but your ISP does not yet support IPv6.

On World IPv6 Day, we’ll be taking the next big step! Together with major web companies such as Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!, we will enable IPv6 on our main websites for 24 hours. During that time http://www.webair.com and http://cp.webair.com will also be reachable via IPv6. This is a crucial phase in the transition, because while IPv6 is widely deployed in many networks, it’s never been used at such a large scale before. We hope that by working together with a common focus, we can help the industry prepare for the new protocol, find and resolve any unexpected issues, and pave the way for global deployment. Check out http://www.worldipv6day.org/ for more details on World IPv6 Day.

Webair will also be participating in an NYC IPv6 meetup on June 8th to discuss it’s IPv6 integration process and deployments.

How big is IPv4 compared to IPv6? IPv4 supports 4.5 billion usable IPs, while IPv6 supports 340 undecillion addresses. To put that into perspective, there are more IPv6 address than molecules in the solar system!! Webair is happy to provide our clients with a standard allocation of a few billion addresses for clients to play around with (is that enough for you?)

Contact us today if you’d like to learn more about IPv6 or enable it on your hosting account!.

-Sagi Brody. CTO Webair Internet Development Inc.

May 11th, 2011

Webair Raises the Bar in Cloud Service with New Managed Dedicated Cloud Servers

New York, NY (May 11, 2011) – Webair (www.Webair.com) continues to lead the way in managed web hosting solutions with the announcement of their new Managed Dedicated Cloud Server Platform. The flexible cloud server infrastructure combines new elastic computing technologies with Webair’s existing award-winning managed hosting platform to provide a transparent and unified product.

The Webair Dedicated Cloud Server Platform is designed for better performance and a more cost-effective alternative to traditional dedicated servers. CPU, Memory, and Disk IOps are guaranteed and upgradable, thus removing the rigidity typically found with physical servers while maintaining dedication of resources. By eliminating all single points of failure, it is the most reliable single server solution. The system is completely transparent, no changes are needed for clients who traditionally manage and interact with their servers. Webair’s proprietary hosting platforms make it easy for clients to modify their accounts between shared hosting, physical servers, VPS, Cloud and globally diverse load balanced clusters while maintaining the same software configuration and IP addresses.

“Cloud server technology is an area of tremendous growth because of the flexibility and reliability it provides,” said Michael C. Orza, CEO of Webair.com. “We offer several cloud plans and clients can easily upgrade servers with zero downtime as their businesses grow and need increases. Our goal is to provide the best service, latest technologies and most comprehensive packages for our clients. This newly structured Dedicated Cloud Server Platform allows us the opportunity to offer simple and effective scalability for our clients’ growth.”

The state-of-the-art Webair Managed Dedicated Cloud Server Platform utilizes Webair’s existing cloud storage network which provides disk speeds not achievable by single- or multi-disk raid configurations. It eliminates the traditional hosting headaches such as hardware failure, RAID issues and capacity planning. Since its launch, Webair’s cloud storage network has enabled clients to scale their backend with a simple “pay as you go” pricing structure. By utilizing this proven technology, Webair’s dedicated cloud servers contain all the same benefits.

Each Dedicated Cloud Server Hosting plan includes fully featured control panels, e-commerce software, one-click installs of common software, unlimited e-mail and the award-winning 24/7/365 support via live chat or phone that is the foundation of the solid reputation Webair has earned for over 15 years of bringing new technologies to clients first.

For more information about Webair’s Dedicated Cloud Server Platform services, visit Webair Cloud Servers or email sales@webair.com.

April 28th, 2011

Catch BIG AIR with WEBAIR!

Webair is powering the ASP 1-Star Unsound Pro J.R. Surfing Contest LIVE Webcast @ NYSea.com!

Webair with NYSea will be providing complete coverage of the Unsound Pro J.R. Surfing Contest for the 2011 Men’s ASP North America Pro Junior Series. The contest will welcome North America’s top junior professionals to Long Beach, New York, April 28th – 30th 2011.

Big Waves and Big Air are expected throughout the event with a promising south swell hitting Long Beach’s shoreline with potential to score classic New York beach break conditions.

Webair will be utilizing its newly released Cloud Servers and live global CDN network to ensure the 100,000+ expected viewers will be able to stream the event without a hitch. Webair will also be on location throughout the event to provide its live video encoding and transcoding services, as well as secure VPN connectivity for event participants.

Contact Webair today to find out how we can help you stream your upcoming events from anywhere in the world!

Be sure to tune into the NYSea.com LIVE Webcast powered by Webair.com to catch all the surfing action LIVE from Long Beach, NY April 28-30th.