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GRONINGEN, Netherlands–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Consumer demand for service providers to deliver content to any device, at any time and in any location is growing more prevalent each year. Consumers are gaining additional control over how they access content, whether it’s through personal computers, mobile devices or set-top boxes, challenging service providers’ traditional walled garden offerings and threatening their position in the content delivery value chain.

“All service providers need to do is follow the eyeballs”

Jet Stream BV, the leading provider of content delivery network (CDN) solutions, has outlined key strategies for service providers to launch their own three screens CDNs to support this rapidly-growing need. By deploying their own CDNs, service providers have a platform to upsell premium services to subscribers, helping them differentiate their offerings from competitors, as well as monetize the distribution of online media and over-the-top content. On-net CDNs also permit service providers to offload traffic, allowing them to manage large amounts of content, and supply advanced wholesale hosting and delivery services to content owners.

“All service providers need to do is follow the eyeballs,” said Stef van der Ziel, Jet Stream CEO. “Thanks to the Internet, consumers are revolutionizing the way they access content, and content owners and advertisers are following their lead. Service providers don’t want to be left behind; they want a portion of the content distribution opportunity. To do this, service providers must evolve from triple play services to ‘open play’ platforms that deliver content to all three screens."

Jet Stream provides five key points service providers must consider to stay relevant in the CDN value chain, monetize the delivery of content and avoid becoming obsolete in today’s content distribution business.

• Embrace OTT – Instead of viewing over-the-top (OTT) video as a threat to traditional, walled garden services, service providers must leverage the OTT opportunity, offering premium OTT services through their networks. By supporting OTT offerings, service providers can guarantee to content owners a high level of service quality and lower distribution costs, while at the same time monetize the delivery of OTT content.
• Support mobile content – Service providers must support the growing amount of content delivered to mobile devices. “Micro-edge” CDNs deployed at the outer edges of a network ensure delivery of content to mobile devices. Micro-edge CDNs don’t rely on the large amount of appliances and other hardware needed to support traditional CDNs, requiring only a small amount of space at a cell tower site or other “edge” locations for delivery of content to mobile devices.
• Go local – Most content accessed by consumers is produced locally. An on-net CDN enables service providers to deploy regional and local distribution hubs to deliver local and global content.
• Control network logistics – Instead of relying on a centralized hub for delivering content, service providers can deploy on-net CDNs at regional or local hub sites. Through this approach, service providers can guarantee a high level of quality for content sent through their networks.
• Stay flexible – When they launch their own CDNs, service providers must avoid using rigid, appliance-based CDN infrastructure. An open, software-based CDN platform can start small, be scaled to meet future growth needs and rapidly meet future requirements.

VideoExchange, Jet Stream’s solution for supporting the three screens CDN, is a software-based platform for rapidly and cost-effectively launching a CDN. VideoExchange allows service providers to avoid lock-in to a single, appliance-based CDN architecture, which requires a time-consuming, expensive and vendor controlled approach for launching a CDN. VideoExchange eliminates the need for caching or DNS servers, instead providing an optimized platform that replicates content for delivery across a CDN. VideoExchange also supports on-net or micro-edge CDNs deployed closer to the network edge. More on VideoExchange is available at http://www.vdo-x.net.

Jet Stream has developed a white paper, titled “Telco CDN strategy 2010,” outlining how service providers can launch their own three screens CDN strategy and participate in the content delivery value chain. The white paper is set for release in conjunction with the IBC Show, Sept. 9-14 in Amsterdam. Requests for the white paper can be made to whitepaper@jet-stream.nl.

About Jet Stream

Jet Stream is the expert in the CDN industry. In business since 2002, the company helps its telco customers save money by offloading traffic, monetize CDN services and accelerate premium Web, mobile, IPTV and OTT content.

Jet Stream develops next generation CDN technologies. The company’s cutting-edge software is cost-effective and quick to deploy when compared to more expensive and inflexible hardware, DNS and caching-based CDN solutions.

Jet Stream is a privately owned and fast-growing vision leader. The company has been profitable since the start and has deployed more than 25 CDNs, with a record of 12 CDN deployments in the past year.

More on Jet Stream is available at http://www.jet-stream.nl.

Contacts

VisiTech PR for Jet Stream
Michael Hopkins, 303-752-3552 ext. 230
JS@visitechpr.com

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Five years removed from Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in New Orleans, the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an “active” to “extremely active” hurricane season this year with an unusually high number of hurricanes developing in the Atlantic Ocean – with more predicted this year than any previous year since NOAA began issuing its seasonal forecasts in 1998. Warmer surface water temperatures threaten to make for more powerful hurricanes impacting coastal states. By using Nasuni’s gateway to the cloud, companies can take advantage of offsite data protection to ensure that files are safe and available for restore in case they are impacted by disaster.

“With just over a third of the country’s total population situated along the East Coast and prone to the severe winds, torrential rains and potential flooding that hurricanes bring, it is imperative that companies take proactive steps to ensure their business-critical data remains above the fray,” said Andres Rodriguez, CEO of Nasuni. “We want to help lessen the financial impact of companies during this particularly dangerous time of year, and are convinced that once they use the Nasuni Filer they will continue to take advantage of the benefits of automatic offsite backup that we provide.”

“The truth is increasingly understood that a company denied access to mission-critical data assets for longer than a week will likely be out of business within a year," said Jon Toigo, veteran disaster recovery planner and author of several books on continuity planning. "Without your data, your chances of making a successful recovery from any kind of disaster – whether a severe weather event or a simple software glitch or user error – are nil. Every company needs to have a procedure in place for protecting and replicating their data assets and for placing a secure copy of their data off site and out of harm’s way. The trick is to make the process as simple and transparent as possible. Nasuni provides an interesting option for a knotty problem.”

Nasuni brings the benefits of the cloud by simplifying file access, storage and protection while eliminating the expense of storage hardware and infrastructure expansion. Installation and setup in a virtual environment is easy and no additional hardware is required. The Nasuni Filer encrypts files and sends them to the cloud or clouds of the customer’s choice. A copy of the working set is cached in the local infrastructure so Nasuni can be used as primary storage instead of or in combination with traditional file servers because users get the fast access they are used to. Deduped snapshots are sent to the cloud, so files and recent changes are safe and protected with multiple copies.

Companies looking to store their files in the cloud during the hurricane season should sign-up for the month-to-month service by calling Nasuni at 508-651-0580,x3. A billing address from a hurricane-prone state – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas – is required for free use of the Nasuni Filer. The offer does not include storage costs incurred from cloud storage providers. At the end of the free promotional period, users will have the chance to continue service at the regular month-to-month rate or 1- or 2-year pre-purchase rates. Full promotional details are available at the Nasuni website.

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For cloud storage news and commentary, subscribe to the Nasuni blog at http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/

About Nasuni

Nasuni delivers the leading cloud storage gateway that makes storage as a service into a practical business solution. The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection. Targeting the mid-market, Nasuni’s solution eliminates the need for incremental storage hardware and the resulting capital expense to manage unstructured file growth. The company is backed by North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. To download the Nasuni Filer, or for more information, visit www.nasuni.com.

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ATLANTA – August 18, 2010 ─ Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of end-to-end Internet business products and services, announced the opening of a 7,500-square foot expansion of its Seattle-area colocation facility located at 3355 S. 120^th Place in Tukwila, Washington in the Sabey Intergate campus. Internap executives will celebrate the opening of the expanded space with an open house event at the data center on August 26 from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. PDT.

The expansion of Internap’s colocation facility builds on the company’s strong history in Seattle, which began in 1996. This facility is Internap’s third data center in the market, and it is also the third expansion in this location since its initial opening. The addition of net sellable space reflects the growing demand by enterprise customers across a range of industries – including e-commerce, financial services and online retailers – to shift the storage, maintenance and support of IT infrastructure to outsourced colocation facilities.

To achieve power and cooling efficiencies and reduce environmental impact, the Seattle-area colocation facility incorporates green data center best practices. These include roof-top cooling units, which eliminate an extra source of internal heat, high-efficiency lighting and “drop ceilings” to rapidly remove hot air. Internap also implemented ultrasonic humidification technology, which promotes ideal humidity levels, conserves energy and requires little to no maintenance.

As with the rest of Internap’s company-controlled data centers, the expansion offers a highly-secure, scalable facility staffed with Internap personnel and 24/7 technical support, as well as the implementation of SAS 70 Type II controls and processes. The facility also provides enhanced IP connectivity via Internap’s Performance IP™ network, which uses patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer™ (MIRO) technology to analyze network performance characteristics – such as available bandwidth, delays and packet loss – and deliver traffic over the fastest, most reliable route.

“Organizations are increasingly choosing colocation solutions that offer more than just proximity to company headquarters or standard facility needs. They are seeking the addition of value-added services that elevate the performance of their IT infrastructure and ultimately their business,” said Mike Higgins, senior vice president of data center services at Internap. “The expansion of the Seattle-area facility allows more customers in the region and beyond to leverage our unique, services-driven value proposition, which combines high-performance IP connectivity, industry-leading SLAs and hands-on customer support.”

In addition to the Seattle-area facility expansion, Internap’s data center located at Fisher Plaza on 140 4^th Avenue North in Seattle now incorporates similar industry-leading capabilities and services as a result of recent upgrades. These include upgrades to the cooling towers, adding 600 tons of capacity, and additional UPS (uninterruptible power supply) capacity to enable 3kW of power draw per cabinet.

Internap’s data center offering provides colocation and managed hosting services, including advanced monitoring and 24/7 live customer support. Customers can also easily access Internap’s Performance IP network and Content Delivery Network (CDN) from its worldwide locations.

For more information about the open house event at Internap’s Tukwila, Washington data center, please contact: emiller@internap.com.

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