As a leading data center services provider there are many factors that go into managing a successful enterprise class colocation and hosting facility. Each one is equally important and benefits not only our customers from a technology standpoint, but a business one as well. While building our new SAS70 Type II data center in Rochester, NY, redundancy was engineered into every component of the facility to provide the most reliable and cost effective data center services in the industry.      
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SPECIAL PROMOTION  
Free VPS for a Month
For the month of July sign up for a free month of hosting services for your Virtual Private Server. Click the one of the links below to signup online and use the promo code FREEWINVPS for Windows or FREELNXVPS for Linux.
Windows VPS
Linux VPS

Free Virtualization Cost Assessment
Sign up today for a Free Virtualization Cost Assessment! One of our trained engineers will evaluate each of your current application servers and give you a cost and best practice recommendation on moving your servers to a virtualized environment. Dramatically decrease the number of servers you have using by server consolidation and reduce your support and overall operating costs.
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New Windows VPS Remote Control Panel
We have recently launched a new feature with our Windows Virtual Private Server that includes an OS Level Control Panel that allows a user to self service their Dedicated Virtual Server remotely. Current features in the Control Panel allows you to reboot the server, hard reboot the server, start the server, monitor processor load and more!
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DID YOU KNOW

Premium Disaster Recovery with Boston Data Center
Did you know EarthLink has a partner Data Center in Boston? We know the distance of your DR facility is important. So whether you’re looking for offsite backup, or full failover replication of your primary facility, EarthLink has you covered.
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VPS Online Ordering
We now offer easy signup and configuration with online ordering for our Windows Hyper-V and Linux Virtual Private Server offerings. Simply click the link below to Build a VPS, follow the short few steps and you’ll be up and running within a couple hours! Click the links below to take a look.
Windows VPS Cloud Ordering
Linux VPS Cloud Ordering

BLOG-TIME
FEATURED BLOG POST
“Advantages of a VPS?”
by Anthony Giordano

Traditionally there have been two options when it comes to website hosting. You are either setup in a shared hosting environment or a dedicated server. Moving to a dedicated server can be costly preventing most from ever considering it. This is no longer the case. Now there’s something in between that provides most of the benefits of a dedicated server, but at a fraction of the cost. But how do I know if a VPS, or Virtual Private Server, is right for me?  
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SPECIAL PROMOTION
Double Your Hard Drive Space Free
Sign up today for a Virtual Private Server and we’ll double your hard drive space for free! Click the link below and mention the promo code “DOUBLE”.
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1 – 1 MegaWatt Caterpillar Diesel
1 – 500 KiloWatt SDMO Diesel
1 – 100 KiloWatt Natural Gas
2600 – Gallons of Diesel fuel onsite at all times
2 – Diesel fuel suppliers on contract for when needed

Now Offering Colocation Cages and Suites
EarthLink Enterprise Class Data Center now offers colocation cages from 1,000 to 3,000 square feet. Also 3,000+ square foot cages and colocation suites are also available built to suit.
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Virtualization Platforms
Which is the most suitable platform for you? Did you know there are only three major competitors: VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V and Parellels Virtuozzo. Each one of these platforms offers competitive advantages as well as different pricing models. For example, running Microsoft Hyper-V allows you to run unlimited Windows Operating Systems under a single license which would lower the license cost for your organization. But if you are a Linux based organization, this may not be the best candidate for you.
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Featured Blog Post:

“Virtualization – 5 Important Factors To Think About”
by Mike Salviski

“When it comes time to start thinking about Virtualization, there are 5 primary factors to think about: Platform, Number of Containers, Domain Controller, Migration Strategy and Failover/Backup.”
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Welcome Our Newest Enterprise Customers:
Vana Technologies:
Our core business purpose is to provide comprehensive business automation solutions.
 
CEO Chris Fusillo
“Logical Solutions was chosen over several other CNY datacenters because of their exceptional facilities and cost effectiveness. We needed a safe, secure, and reliable colo to house our development and production servers.”
 
PIVCON:
As a leader in providing comprehensive Information Technology solutions and consulting, PIVCON will design, develop and support custom IT solutions to address any companies exact business needs. PIVCON also provides comprehensive IT system and network management services, with a strong focus on technology planning.
www.pivcon.com
 
Brett Thomspon
“We chose Logical Solutions as our new co-location facility because not only do they have all the checklist items you look for when selecting a co-location facility, but they are a true business partner, and offer exceptional services at a very competitive price. The accessibility to their senior leadership and their obvious commitment to making sure our needs were met, was a critical factor in our decision to move our services to their facility.”

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Did You Know?
Microsoft Exchange 2010
2010 proves to show us many improvements to look forward to especially with Microsoft Exchange. We’re recently rolled out our own upgrade to Exchange 2010 at EarthLink and have already enjoyed the new benefits it brings with it.

The most noticeable improvement is with Outlook Web App (OWA). Here are a few new features:
•Conversation view that allows group messaging of a single conversation.
•Multiple browser support. OWA now supports IE, Firefox, Safari and even Chrome.
•A personal favorite of our staff is improved calendar sharing. Now you can view multiple calendars side by side in OWA.
A new service to look out for from us later this year is shared Exchange hosting. In the upcoming months you will be able to receive all the benefits of Exchange in a cost effective, shared environment.

Looking to access Exchange with Outlook outside your corporate network or VPN? It’s now possible with Outlook Anywhere. Ask us how.
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SOURCE: Microsoft.com

Featured Blog Post
“IT Expense Management – Consider your options carefully”

“CFO’s, Financial Managers and generally anyone with P&L experience are always looking to understand their true costs to operate a business unit. IT expenses by design and can be very difficult to understand, plan and budget for when you consider the volatility of technology and the complex group of service requirements that make this department successful to your company operations.”
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Special Promotion:
1/4 Rack SAS70 Colocation

1/4 Cabinet Promo starts at $200/mo for a Secure Lockable 1/4 Cabinet, 10U of Server Space, FREE 1mbps of Premium Bandwidth and Metered Power. You also get our Web Based Power Portal Access. We offer Carrier Neutral Bandwidth with 6 underground fiber paths, and multiple fiber carriers. What does this mean to you? To a business owner it means Redundancy, Optimized Routing, and Low Cost HA Bandwidth. Feel free to kick the tires, contract free! Get More Details Here
 
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