We are very excited to announce the expanding of our newest data center in Milano. At more than 600 square meters, this new data center marks the first time we’re offering all four hosting solutions (colocation, dedicated hosting, managed hosting and VMware Cloud Hosting in Italy).

“The Internet is a vital platform for our customers, and it continues to grow,” said Luca Simonetti,CTO for Engine Networks. “Our new state-of-the-art DC ensures we stay current and provide the fastest and most reliable network to serve our customers, now and in the future, while providing Engine Networks with enhanced flexible capacity to support its own growth.”

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Our Milan datacenter provides the ideal solution for multiple colocation racks with maximum power and network reliability.

This data center is located in the Milano Caldera campus. It features fire protection systems, specialised heat and smoke sensors, raised flooring, scalable power for future expansion, 24×7 technical support 365 days a year and multi level security. This facility is part of the Engine Networks multiple 10 Gigabit network and is connected to most major data centres across the EU.

All customers are provided with direct access to our Network Operations Centre and all customers’ connections will be proactively monitored 24×7 by our team.

* Setup fees apply. Terms & Conditions apply. 24/7 Support offered on all racks as standard.

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Engine Networks vCloud Hosting based on VMware vSphere is a reliable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure solution that ensures compatibility with internal VMware environments and with VMware Virtualized™ services worldwide.

On Demand
o   Create virtual machines as needed
o   Add capacity with the click of a button
o   vApp

Pay as you go
o   Pay only for what you use
o   Metered billing for network, CPU, RAM, storage & licensing

Compatible
o   Seamlessly upgrade your environment
o   Upload your own VMs

Engine Networks vCloud Hosting is specifically designed as an easy and affordable way to try a virtual cloud or host application.  This solution is perfectly suited for test and development or a startup environment. Developers are able to use the Engine Networks vCloud service to rapidly deploy application environments and get started quickly.  The Engine Networks vCloud service retains the robustness, interoperability and reliability that Engine Networks and VMware is known for while delivering the easy access and cost effectiveness of the pay as you go model.

If you’re interested to be a Beta tester please contact us…

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Engine Network has deployed the new 1 Gbps Fiber Ring to the Equinix Zurich 1 in Switzerland. With this new link Engine Networks will be capable to connect the Equinix ZH1 datacenter to its European Backbone and interconnect all its datacenters with L2 transport, IP-Transit and Colocation services.

Another big step ahead that help us to increase network reliabilty and add new possibility to our customers.

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ENGINE Networks will be present at CEBIT in Hannover from 2nd of March 2010 to 6th of March 2010. You can find us in our stand B19.

New services, a clear display concept and a concerted campaign of visitor recruitment are designed to build on CeBIT’s strong position as the most important event of the year in the ICT business calendar.

CeBIT 2010 is going to be a highlight, so make sure you’re in on the action, presenting your products and solutions at the world’s No.1 digital marketplace!

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“The cloud” is still in its youth, maybe adolescence, so its easy to point fingers and scream when an outage occurs.  Just recently, Amazon Web Services had an outage in its Northern Virginia data center due to the failure of a power supply in an “availability zone” as well as a second failure of a component in the redundant system.  Outages happen, so it shouldn’t have been as big of a shock as it was made out to be.

However, when companies are beginning to outsource data center operations, they have high expectations, which is why zero failure is a good standard for providers to aim at in the clouds.  The fact is, all internal systems fail too, but there is no one to point the finger at.  When real people and real technology is involved, outages will occur.  I strongly feel that the cloud, outages or not, will have higher up-time and availability than most, if not all, internal systems.  High-profile clients, sensitive data and the fear of hundreds of clients yelling and screaming is enough motivation for any infrastructure as a service provider to architect a bullet-proof cloud.

At Engine Networks, we like happy clients, that’s why we promise 99.99% up-time and push every day to make our cloud bigger, better and stronger.

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Engine Networks NOC is working on a brand new fiber Gibabit upstream link. This link will add 1 Gbps of IP-Transit bandhwidth to the Engine Network Backbone.

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As a result of software-upgrades in our European backbone infrastructure,
services at the according locations could be temporarely unavailable. The
upgrades will start on the 30.11.2009 at 00:01 and willbe completed at 06:00.

This maintenance concerns all Colocation, IP-transit, VMware Cloud Hosting,
Dedicated Hosting, MPLS, SDH links and VLAN-customers at the specific
locations.

Below you can find a detailed timetable for the outages at the specific
locations:

00:01 – 00:30 GV1: Equinix, Geneva Confederation Center
00:30 – 01:00 ZH1: ICT Center ZH, Zürich Josefstrasse
01:00 – 01:30 MI1: Interoute, Caldera
03:00 – 06:00 Tests / Delays
All times are CET time zone.
Of course we’ll try to keep the outages as short as possible.

Should we encounter any problems during the maintenance, we will
postpone the remaining upgrades to a later date, which of course will be
announced before. Please be also aware, that the timetable may vary a
bit in case of unpredictable delays.

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Managed Hosting
Managed Hosting is a form of web hosting where a client chooses to lease an entire server housed in an off-site data center that is dedicated to their uses only, and not sharing it with anyone else as in a shared hosting environment. Managed Hosting gives the client complete control over the server and provides them with maximum usage of the hardware, processor speed and bandwidth capacity. Choices range from a basic server to a high performance, premium server depending on the client’s online needs. A client can also choose their preferred operating system, Windows or Linux, as well as optional managed services like security patches, upgrades, backups, and firewalls. Basic system administration is included with Managed Hosting. For more information, click here.

Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated Hosting is a form of web hosting where a client chooses to lease an entire server housed in an off-site data center that is dedicated to their uses only, and not sharing it with anyone else as in a shared hosting environment. In contrast to Managed Hosting, the client must have technical know-how, and perform all system administration and management activities on the server from their remote desktop. This lets the client choose a server with more powerful hardware for much less cost. As with Managed Hosting, the client has complete control over the server and can choose their preferred operating system, Windows or Linux. For more information, click here.

Co-location
Co-location is a form of web hosting where a client leases a cabinet in an off-site, highly secured data center to house their own server hardware. The shared data center infrastructure, along with its redundant power, large bandwidth capacity, and direct connection to the Internet allows the client to get cost-savings on greater safety, scalability, business continuity, and minimal network latency. In Co-location, the server hardware is entirely owned and operated by the client and does not receive any system administration from the provider. For more information, click here.

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So your provider calls and tells you “You’re receiving a 10 Gbps DDoS attack, we’re going to have to null route your IP until it passes.” Really?! Maybe they told you that you could upgrade to a protection plan to stop this attack. It might cost you €20.00, €1000.00, or maybe even €20,000.

Stop and ask your self: “Is this legitimate?” Every day Engine Networks receives e-mails from customers stating that they’re under a 10 Gbps or 20 Gbps DDoS attack. Once we even had someone swear they had 50 – 100 Gbps attacks. Where are our customers getting this information? If we were gambling men (and women) I would say they’re either making it up or someone else put it into their heads. Perhaps a competitor told them this to beat the heat of having to explain that they’re not a protected provider or that the protection they offer is inadequate.

So what is the true size of a DDoS attack and the cost of protecting against it? Here at Engine Networks only a few hundred euros will be enough to stop a 1 Gbps or 500,000 packet per second attack (compare to €1500 to €11,000 elsewhere). This is where a typical sales conversation may spin into, “Only 1 Gbps? I need more, my provider says i’m receiving 10 Gbps.” In the real world attacks of this size cost five to six figures to mitigate and generally cause severe disruptions across the internet that would have the global network engineering communities up in arms and at the ready. People on NANOG would be talking about it.

“Respectfully sir, I don’t believe you are,” we may reply. Why? It has been our experience in the past six years of focusing on DDoS protection that relatively few attacks burst past 1 Gbps. A typical attack against 99% of web sites might top out at 200 – 300 Mbps. Once in a blue moon a customer will make enemies with some seriously dangerous persons resulting in a 1 – 3 Gbps attack. We even had a potential customer just the other day claim one of our competitors was stopping these phantom 10 – 20 Gbps attacks on a routine basis at €250.00 per month. I wish they were, I really do that way I could just buy service from them and resell it instead of investing thousands into our own infrastructure and human capital.

At the end of the day if a provider tries to tell you that you need more than a couple Gbps of protection or that they’re going to sell you 10 – 20 Gbps of protection at something less than four to six figures then we will leave you with this: You’re probably the victim of a scam.

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