Dear Valued Customer,

Today's businesses can sell products or services to customers in different time zones, utilize viral advertisements to reach a global audience, and, by optimizing Internet connections and communication hubs, achieve incredibly fast data transfer speeds. Stock brokers depend on low latency networks along mission critical corridors in order to buy and sell stocks in real time; a whole trading strategy has evolved out of having a few seconds advantage on the virtual trading floor. Content distribution networks (CDN) like Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites focus on increasing their connection speeds so they can deliver their services to users whose patience is becoming shorter with every minute. As businesses have become increasingly dependent on fast and reliable Internet connections, one hundred percent uptime has become the norm for data centers. A moment lost to server failure, a security breach of a cloud service, or a painfully slow download speed can now cripple a company's reputation and business as the world becomes accustomed to having the internet at their fingertips at anytime and anywhere.

Colocation America believes that the data center industry is at a connectivity crossroad--one path leads to upwards to the cloud while the other requires a more advanced hosting environment for servers hosted in the data center. The former path, or cloud hosting, entails that the cloud provider owns the physical server, which creates the cloud, which then is rented out to companies interested in cloud hosting. Setting up servers on the cloud is easy, flexible, and best of all, incredibly cheap. Of the many variations of cloud hosting, each offers its own unique take on the process and has either added security features to suit customers' needs.

However, there are many security issues and fears of uncertainty that need to be addressed before cloud hosting can be considered the true successor of the data center industry. The other path involves the complicated automation of server scripts running for maximum server performance, thus ensuring that information travels as efficiently as possible with few stopping points along the way.

- Power outages in Dublin result in server downtime

- Running out of time for IPV6

- Linux update from 2.6 to 3.0 proceeds as normal

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