Los Angeles, CA - (January 24, 2012) -As of 2012, online companies accepting credit card payments must meet the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). PCI DSS requires all companies that process, store, or transmit credit card information to have a secure environment.  It is with this in mind that Colocation America, a provider of colocation, dedicated server, and managed server hosting services, has announced its data centers continue to be PCI compliant. According to Business Development Director, Albert  Ahdoot, the highest standard for data security will be met across all of its data centers.

PCI DSS standards were created in 2004 in order to curb high-profile security breaches. The PCI DSS serves the purpose of protecting consumer security for all businesses that process transactions using credit cards. To be considered PCI DSS compliant, businesses must sufficiently meet all of the required standards. Through years of experience and understanding that compliance is a joint effort, Colocation America and the ecommerce engineers at Total Apps, Inc. have created YesPCI. Through YesPCI, small to mid-size businesses have the advantage of dealing with only one vendor for PCI Compliant dedicated hosting and merchant solution packages.
PCI compliance ensures that client data is encoded and transferred in a secure manner. With data integrity being an important undertaking for most businesses, especially those with sensitive business information, a PCI compliant data center  guarantees that data remains secure and can only be accessed by company personnel.  Understanding this importance, Colocation America has made it easy for online businesses to stay PCI compliant themselves.

About Colocation America:

Established in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable data center providers in the United States and is the premier Los Angeles data center provider. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company was built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of being  a fully integrated, trusted colocation provider. With numerous data center locations in major U.S. cities, including 60 Hudson in New York and One Wilshire in Los Angeles, Colocation America has direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers around the world and can scale internet connectivity to meet client needs.  For more information, please visit http://www.colocationamerica.com

Los Angeles, CA - (January 10, 2012) - Colocation America, a premier U.S. data center provider, reported today that it has achieved 100% uptime for the year of 2011. Despite frequent occurrences of turbulence and connectivity outages from other telecom providers and data centers, Colocation America managed to maintain perfect uptime for its third year in a row.


"Reliability is an obsession for us at Colocation America. The margin between 99.9% and 100% uptime is often overlooked and underestimated. Over the span of an entire year, that small amount of downtime can result in unredeemable revenue and a tarnished reputation," said Albert Ahdoot, Business Development of Colocation America. "We don't settle for anything less than 100% uptime, and our clients appreciate that."

In addition to their official announcement of 100% uptime in 2011, Colocation America is introducing a new uptime guarantee: every hour of downtime is compensated with a 5% refund on the monthly bill, up to 100%. The promotion features an individual server uptime guarantee, which most competing uptime guarantees do not currently uphold.

Colocation America's multi-homed network provides the foundational backbone for 22 data centers operating nationwide, powered by Tier 1 carriers including Global Crossing, Level 3, and Saavis. The Colocation America team of seasoned engineers with over 40 years of combined hosting and networking experience operate and maintain the network, and are constantly adapting to the latest technologies and advancements in the industry. The combination of optimum quality bandwidth handled by these experienced technicians results in a fully redundant network infrastructure based out of its main data center in Los Angeles.

Through the experience gained from three previous years of full uptime, Colocation America was able to focus on other endeavors while preserving its distinction of reliability. Heightened investments in infrastructure resulted in a collection of newly acquired credentials including PCI Compliance, SAS 70 Type II, and HIPAA compliant certifications. Colocation America closed off the year with notable industry awards including "Most Popular Dedicated Server Provider".

About Colocation America:
 
Established in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable data center providers in the United States and is the premier Los Angeles data center provider. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company was built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, trusted colocation server hosting service. With numerous data center locations in major U.S. cities, including 60 Hudson in New York and One Wilshire in Los Angeles, Colocation America has direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers around the world and can scale internet connectivity to meet client needs. 

For more information, visit http://www.colocationamerica.com

Los Angeles, California, July 26, 2011- Colocation America, a leading West Coast data center operator, has recently donated a dedicated server to Mepis.org for their SimplyMEPIS ftp site.  The decision to offer the dedicated server to Mepis was based upon Colocation America's commitment to promoting Linux operating systems and open source platforms.

SimplyMepis is a user-friendly operating system and software application based on Debian Linux Dedicated server that is assembled with great attention to design details in order to provide users with an enjoyable, safe, and secure desktop computing experience.  Mepis.org expects that the ftp service will enable them to better support the users of MEPIS Linux.

Warren Woodford, the lead developer of SimplyMEPIS, said: "We are using the server donated by Colocation America as the master ftp server for distributing the SimplyMEPIS and AntiX-MEPIS release ISO files and the SimplyMEPIS software package pool. We appreciate Colocation America generously offering us the use of one of their dedicated servers."

About MEPIS Linux

The MEPIS Linux project was begun in 2002. SimplyMEPIS is a mature and ready to use desktop operating system for computers that have Intel or AMD 32 or 64 bit processors. It is easy to try, easy to install, and easy to use. The primary MEPIS Linux development site is at www.mepis.org.  The MEPIS user community provides support for MEPIS Linux at www.mepiscommunity.org.

About Colocation America

Established in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable data center providers in the United States and is the premier Los Angeles data center provider. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company was built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, trusted colocation server hosting service. With numerous data center locations in major U.S. cities, including 60 Hudson in New York and One Wilshire in Los Angeles, Colocation America has direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers around the world and can scale Internet connectivity to meet client needs. 

Los Angeles, CA, April 12, 2011, Colocation America, a leading colocation and dedicated server provider, today announced it will contribute $100 for every new colocation sign-up in its Los Angeles data centers during the week of Earth Day, April 18th 2011 through April 22, 2011. The contributions will be made to TreePeople, an organization which educates and supports communities in Los Angeles to plant and care for trees and demonstrates sustainable solutions to urban ecosystem problems. Colocation services offered by Colocation America span across the US in 22 locations. By using a colocation hosting company, rather than having an in-house data center, a business’ energy emissions are greatly reduced.

“We are excited to offer our new and existing clients a great energy and money-saving initiative in celebration of Earth Day,” says Michael Trunkett, President of Colocation America. “Being able to contribute to a great organization such as TreePeople is very important to us because they take care of the city where we have the biggest presence [Los Angeles]. With our colocation services, companies will make their IT growth a simple process and get the most out of their budget.”

Colocation America’s data centers provide the ideal environmental situations and quality engineering support to help your servers yield the best results. Their engineers are experts in properly setting-up, configuring and managing every piece of equipment for maximum efficiency while using less energy.

“Every piece of hardware in our centers is monitored to ensure that they are working at superior levels, while still ensuring that energy is not being wasted,” says Trunkett. “By keeping things measured in all of our centers across the country, we are able to reduce the amount of excess carbon emitted while giving businesses the foundation to handle their existing needs and anticipated growth.”

Established in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable colocation hosting providers nationally. Based in Los Angeles, California, Colocation America was built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, trusted colocation server hosting service. They have earned a reputation of excellence through its attention to detail, highly qualified technicians and commitment to the latest data center technology.

Colocation America’s primary data centers are located in the world famous One Wilshire building (Los Angeles) and 60 Hudson (New York Data Center), these locations provide maximum scalability to major fiber carriers and can connect to virtually any backbone provider. Colocation America has direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers around the world and can scale Internet connectivity to meet client needs. Colocation America leverages its extensive portfolio of colocation services with a powerful IT team to deliver affordable solutions to businesses.

For more information contact Colocation America at 1-800-296-8915, email Sales@ColocationAmerica.com, Twitter @ColocationUSA, or visit www.ColocationAmerica.com

TreePeople is a nonprofit that unites the power of trees, people and technology to grow a sustainable future for the Los Angeles region. TreePeople’s mission is to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the process as a model for the world. More information at www.treepeople.org.

Los Angeles, California, January 22, 2011- Colocation America, a leading colocation and dedicated server provider, announced that their power status and unique core network uptime for the entire year of 2010 was 100%.

Colocation America maintains 22 premier data centers across the US, all with simple access to major connectivity hubs. “We are very happy that we were about to reach this goal two years in a row,” said Michael Trunkett, President of Colocation America. “Our success is a credit to our fantastic engineers and staff, not to mention the investment in upgrades we put into our data center infrastructure.”

Colocation America’s redundant power systems, which include inline power backups, onsite Caterpillar generators with standby fuel and UPS systems, are the backbone which keeps them up and running at 100% year round.  If a power outage were to occur, Colocation America’s power system would trigger the UPS systems, which would right away have the generators working and providing power to the facility. All of the equipment is monitored using the UPS system, ensuring that only clean power passes through the center and keeps everything running.

Trunkett also gives credit to their cooling systems, citing that “redundant CRAC units keep our centers at the optimal temperatures, preventing overheating and allows our hardware to run smoothly.”

All of Colocation America’s locations consist of more than just the data center. Spacious offices, friendly reception areas and space for onsite staff to work comfortably are a part of every location. Collectively, the engineers at Colocation America have over 40 years of experience and keep themselves up to date on new technologies. The engineers played a large role in the major upgrades which were made to the Telecom Center location.

Colocation America encourages prospective and current clients to stop by and take a tour of the data center closest to them. Customers looking for quality colocation hosting and 100% uptime based on state-of-the-art software and hardware, certified and experienced engineers, and leading service partners are encouraged to visit www.colocationamerica.com to learn more about Colocation America’s services.

Los Angeles, California, December 14, 2010- Colocation America, a leading colocation provider, has recently donated one of their premier dedicated servers to CentOS, a Linux distribution which is derived from freely provided pubic sources.

The CentOS development team took possession of a premier dedicated server which will aid their efforts and boost their development. This donated dedicated server will allow CentOS to distribute updates to their clients directly and quickly via yum, facilitate distribution of the CentOS tree to external public mirrors. 

“We are pleased to be able to be part of CentOS in any way we can,” says Michael Trunkett, President and CEO of Colocation America. “Their operating system is very reliable and trusworthy and the fact that many schools such as Austin Community College and University of Maiduguri rely on it, should give people even more of an incentive to trust their platform.”

For those who may not be familiar with CentOS, they are bringing technology to the masses, for free. Founded by a small group of developers, CentOS offers an active and prosperous user community, system and network administrators, core Linux contributors and contributors from around the world. Being that CentOS is available, and wants to remain; free of charge it is essential that larger companies, such as Colocation America do what they can to help keep them going strong.

About Colocation America Established in 2000, Colocation America has grown to become one of the most reliable colocation providers nationally. Based in Los Angeles, California, Colocation America was built from the ground up by professional engineers with a vision of delivering a fully integrated, trusted colocation server hosting service. Colocation America has earned a reputation of excellence through its attention to detail, highly qualified technicians and commitment to the latest data center technology.

Colocation America’s primary data centers are located in the world famous One Wilshire building (Los Angeles) and 60 Hudson (New York). Colocation America’s data center locations provide maximum scalability to major fiber carriers and can connect to virtually any backbone provider. Colocation America has direct access to over 240 bandwidth providers around the world and can scale Internet connectivity to meet client needs. Colocation America offers scalable complex managed hosting solutions including cloud computing, virtualization, and managed dedicated server environments. Colocation America leverages its extensive portfolio ofcolocation services with a powerful IT team to deliver affordable solutions to businesses.

Los Angeles, California, November 9, 2010- Colocation America, a leading colocation provider, has recently completed a large scale upgrade to their Telecom Center data center, one of 5 in Los Angeles, in response to the increase in consumer demand.

Their updated space boasts an impressive infrastructure which includes redundant power generators, UPS, superior cooling systems, multiple layers of firewall and physical security and power backups to ensure one of the best uptimes in the industry. However it’s not only the technology that’s gotten upgraded, Colocation America’s team has also grown! Because of the high demand for services, Colocation America has brought on 10 employees to join their engineering and sales teams. Other improvements have been made to interconnectivity and capacity, as Colocation America now offers industry leading network speeds and performance.

“The data center, as it was 3 months ago, was certainly top notch! However with the increased demand for our services, we’ve expanded not only our facility, but our team as well, so that we may best capitalize on this opportunity,” says Michael Trunkett, President of Colocation America. “We’re very excited about getting the chance to introduce ourselves and develop business relationships with the amazing companies in the Los Angeles area and the valley.”

This Colocation America los angeles data center is the premier west coast hub, located at the renowned Telecom Center.