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Monthly Archive for November, 2011

Gratitude

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011  |  by Audrey Plaskacz  |   No Comments

Guest author Monica Cardenas is a Sales Operations Assistant, salsa dancer and aspiring author based in our Miami office. 

What is gratitude?

Gratitude is a feeling of thankfulness for blessings or benefits we have received. Grateful people are quick to acknowledge the kindness and help they receive from others around them.

Roughly one year ago, I started working for PEER 1 Hosting.  I remember how hard it was starting a new job. I was feeling clueless and frustrated when learning the systems and procedures of my new company. I wasn’t going to give up though, and nor were my PEERS. They guided and encouraged me along the way and it all started to sink in. It didn’t take long for me to really feel like I was part of a team. And by team, I don’t just mean a group of people. It’s so much more than that.

I read once that a team is a group of people coming together to collaborate. Their reason for coming together might be simple: to reach a shared goal or task for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. But what keeps a team together is when its members become deeply committed to each other’s personal growth and success. That commitment usually transcends the team. This has certainly been my experience at PEER 1 Hosting. The team that I have joined here would no doubt outperform any group or multitude of individual contributors. Teams here have a synergistic effect—one plus one equals a lot more than two.

When I reached my one-year milestone, I sent a thank you note to my team of PEERS to make sure they understood how significant this date was for me. I’ve never felt more like a team and I couldn’t have made it without the help of my colleagues, who have offered me support day after day, not just during working hours but at all hours.  

To say that I am grateful for this may even be an understatement!


Infographic Looks at Green Datacenters and Technology

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011  |  by Serra Boten  |   No Comments

Power Usage Effectiveness or PUE is a metric used by the hosting industry to measure how effective a datacenter is in terms of its power usage. Ideally, the majority of the power will be consumed by the computing equipment housed inside the datacenter, as opposed to cooling systems or other operational overhead. PUE is one metric where the lower your score is, the better.

In our latest infographic, find out how Greenpeace grades global IT brands like IBM, Facebook, and Apple in their Clean Cloud Power Report Card. Also, who has the greenest datacenter, how one can “greenify” a datacenter and more. Feel free to embed and share the infographic. Enjoy!

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Super Computing in Seattle

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011  |  by Serra Boten  |   No Comments

This week our team of GPU experts is on site in Seattle, Washington to share the power of the PEER 1 Hosting GPU Cloud with attendees of SC11 – this year’s SuperComputing Conference.

SuperComputing is one of the longest running technology conferences in America, getting it’s start back in 1988 in Orlando. Every year the conference brings together mathematicians, computer scientists, quantz and data nerds of all types for a week of technical talks and sessions focussing on the latest trends and ideas in super computing.

Attending the show? Don’t forget to stop by booth #6102 for a demo of our affordable, high performance GPU cloud.

Not sure what the heck a GPU cloud is? Check out our datasheet to learn more!


PEER 1 Launches Zunicore Cloud Hosting, Welcome to Cloud 2.0

Monday, November 7th, 2011  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

Zunicore LogoToday, marks a major milestone at PEER 1 Hosting. We have officially unveiled our new public cloud hosting service, Zunicore.

Zunicore is a professional-grade cloud service that allows users to benefit from customizable resource pools versus preset virtual machines, hands-free autoscaling, and transparent pricing. FairPlay Pricing™ guarantees that customers pay only for what they use and are never locked into a long-term contract.  The complexities of managing the cloud have driven many businesses away from the public cloud. Now, with Zunicore’s simple dashboard that show the user the resources being used, the amount of resource remaining, and options to increase or decrease resources, it is easier for companies to migrate to the cloud. The core features of our new public cloud include:

  • User-controlled Environment: Customizable resource pools that allow users to increase or decrease the size of their pool, or add virtual machines based on their business needs. This type of control also provides Overdraft Protection against the users hosting cost.
  • Data Reliability: Unlike other cloud environments that utilize local hard drives for storage at an additional cost, Zunicore offers persistent storage area network (SAN) storage, which is more reliable, less susceptible to data loss and offers higher performance – all at no extra cost.
  • Scalability: Hands-free autoscaling allows users to specify by how little or much they want to scale their resources, based on user-defined thresholds such as technical resources, cost, or both.
  • Minimized Downtime Risk: Several features help limit Zunicore’s risk of downtime: availability in PEER 1 Hosting’s three geographically dispersed datacenters on two continents, AnyCast DNS across PEER 1 Hosting’s FastFiber Network™, persistent SAN and a Zero Downtime Network service level agreement (SLA).

Early users can sign up for a free 30-day trial. If you are at Cloud Expo all this week in Santa Clara, CA stop by the Zunicore booth (#622).

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PEER 1 Hosting UK Datacenter Featured on the BBC

Friday, November 4th, 2011  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

Our recently opened 58,000 sq. ft. green UK datacenter was featured today on the BBC, which included a visit from David Willetts, Minister of Universities and Sciences. You can watch the segment here.


BROGA MANIA Sweeps 15 People, Also the World

Friday, November 4th, 2011  |  by Audrey Plaskacz  |   No Comments


There’s a movement going on at PEER 1 Hosting and its name is BROGA. All your favorite yoga poses with a slight twist – NO GIRLS ALLOWED!

BROGA surfaced in Vancouver during this year’s edition of PEER 1 Hosting’s wellness challenge. Rob Station, Solutions Engineer, created it out of a desire for dudes to be totally awesome at not having body problems from sitting at a desk all day. According to Rob, to get a workout like this, you would usually have to look like a drunken person in front of dozens of women in stretchy pants. Not anymore boys, not anymore.

Their instructor, Alex Mazerolle , takes their wussy baby bodies and navigates them through the labyrinth of tight muscles and leads them to a galaxy of holy crap, I feel great! They enter as co-workers, they exit as bro-workers.

Notable BROWORKERS include PEER 1 Hosting’s Executive VP and CFO, President and CEO, Accounting Gurus, Network Operations Center (NOC) Jocks, Datacenter Operations Superstars, Marketing Whizzes and even Mr. Station, a Sales Bro.

BROGA’s not for everyone – especially girls. Luckily, Rob developed a fail-proof test to help you identify whether you have what it takes to survive the BROGA trenches. Thinking about exploring the ying to your muscles’ yang amongst your favorite work compadres? Take this test.

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PUNCH THE INTERNET WHEN IT BREAKS (FACE AREA PREFERRED)

[ ] wouldn’t that hurt your hand?
[ ] somewhat agree
[ ] STRONGLY BROGREE

I WANT A POWERFUL ENOUGH CORE TO FLING THESE EXCEL SHEETS INTO OUR HOT, YELLOW SUN

[ ] I feel like this is an overreaction and impossible
[ ] somewhat agree
[ ] STRONGLY BROGREE

I WANT TO GET RID OF MY NORMAL DESK AND GET A RACECAR DESK (ACTUAL 400hp RACECAR)

[ ] isn’t that dangerous?
[ ] somewhat agree
[ ] STRONGLY BROGREE

RAAAUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[ ] that isn’t even English
[ ] somewhat grrr
[ ] MURAHHHHHH BROGA RUUUGHHHHH

If you answered “STRONGLY BROGREE” to any of these questions, you are right for BROGA. And if you join the movement, I guarantee you will be happy with the outcome. Our monthly classes are full of BROWORKERS, and the formerly male-devoid “regular yoga” class at PEER 1 Vancouver now holds about 50% “brogis”.

But still, no stretchy pants – they keep it strictly professional.


Colocation Is Now Available in New UK Datacenter

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011  |  by Serra Boten  |   No Comments

Earlier today Mike Duncan, Manager of DC Operations in our new UK datacenter, took a moment out of his busy day to share some exciting news with us. After a year of careful planning and tireless work, today we welcomed our first Colocation client into the new datacenter located outside London in Portsmouth.

Mike said the move-in went smoothly, but he is now getting ready for the larger task at hand – migrating all our servers from the current facility to the new one beginning tonight. ”No rest for the wicked!,” he laughed.

This marks the first time that all four of our core lines of business – Colocation, Managed Hosting, Dedicated Hosting and Cloud Services – are available under one roof in the UK / EMEA region.