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Webair NY1 Data Center Fully Operational with 100% Uptime in Wake of Hurricane Sandy

November 01, 2012
Gerard Hiner

New York, NY – November 1, 2012 — Webair.com (http://www.webair.com) announced today that it’s flagship datacenter known as NY1, located in Garden City, NY received no major damage and performed without service interruption during and after Hurricane Sandy. Knowing the storm was approaching, Webair activated it’s Emergency Response Procedure which included Generator Technicians testing and servicing all generators over the weekend prior to the storm, in addition to standard testing and maintenance. This included confirming all diesel fuel levels were optimal and ensuring the datacenter is staffed by multiple System Administrators, Network Administrators and Datacenter Engineers, 24/7 throughout the storm. […]

April 03, 2012
Gerard Hiner

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 […]

February 28, 2012
Gerard Hiner

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 […]