Developed by researchers in China and the United Kingdom, a new type of microchip has the ability to send out laser beams. These beams have the unusual property of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM), or orbital angular momentum. The new chips have implications for the future of optical communications technology.
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Today we’re announcing our all new refer a friend special. Starting today share your coupon code with a friend, and you’ll receive $40 in free service credits, which can be used towards any of our services. Best of all, your friends will benefit too, as they’ll also receive $40! Together we’re giving away $80 in total service credits.
There is some fine print – first, we’ve capped the number of referrals at 5 for the month of May. Additionally, to prevent abuse, the credits will be applied 70 days after the signup date. Both accounts must remain active for the full 70-day period.
Not sure where to start? We’ve written a pre-written tweet for you, with your client ID in the control panel at http://control.vps.net/.
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Since the onset of the big data wave, data centers have become mission-critical infrastructure featuring in most organizations growth strategy. In order to provide a unique alternative to the traditional data center designing process,
Datapod has recently launched Datapod app to assist CIOs to design data centers and generate personalized reports within minutes.
According to Datapod founder and director, Mr. Scott Carr, "the App cuts down the time required to design a data center by helping customers identify their needs."
Our primary concern has always been customer satisfaction at VPS.NET; that's why, even though our corporate policy said we didn't give refunds, we typically did in most circumstances. The same goes for our SLA -- we'd rather be overly generous with reimbursements than to not give enough. It's why with the launch of the new site, we also worked hard to put in place a formal policy backed by our terms of service, promising a 30 day money guarantee and a 99.9% Uptime SLA for all our customers.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
If for any reason you're not satisfied with your account at VPS.NET after 30 days of service, our team will have a refund within 10 days of the request, minus the cost of any licensing fees. Unfortunately the cost of licensing certain products, like cPanel, and Windows have a direct cost on us -- in fact, on most licenses, we pass on the exact cost that we're charged. However, you will still, as guaranteed under our terms of services, be refunded for any costs like the purchase of any nodes, cloud site accounts or cloud applications.
99.9% Uptime SLA For Unmanaged Customers
In the past, only our managed customers were protected by an SLA. We've expanded our SLA now to include all of our customers, guaranteeing 99.9% uptime. If for a single month we fall below the guaranteed uptime of 99.9%, clients are eligible to receive up to 5% for each hour your service is down, up to 100% of the monthly credit. For downtime caused by user errors or problems with your site, our uptime guarantee does not cover that -- however, if you're unfamiliar performing a certain task, our cloud engineers can be hired to help for as little as $10.
Managed Customers are Now Guaranteed 100% Uptime
Also receiving a boost in value is our customers who have purchased our management package. We have upped the SLA from 99.9% to a perfect 100%! If you have a mission critical website, our management package can be purchased for just $99 a month. With it, our cloud engineers will handle the management of your entire server, and guarantee 100% monthly uptime.
For the full details of our the changes to our SLA, and implementation of a 30 day money back guarantee, can be found on our terms of service page.
The Wonders of Information Analysis
Being properly informed about the status of your business and that of others can make the difference between a successful plan for the future and making choices that bleed your company dry. Gartner's Magic Quadrant is a tool designed to identify how various vendors are fitting into a specific IT market, and it can help provide you with insights to improve your decision making process.
Google has taken a large step through the introduction of the Chromebook, a laptop seeking to integrate the many features of Google's extensive array of products into a single device. While at first glance it may appear to be just another product in an overly saturated market, the Chromebook offers several features that many users may find useful.
Having crossed the US $1 billion threshold in its 2012 financial year, a first among its open source company peers, Red Hat has set its sights on the $3 billion revenue mark by 2017.
In order to achieve this ambitious target, the company is betting big on China's cloud market growth. As pointed out by the Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, China offers the greatest market potential when compared to other developed countries like the US. This is because it doesn't shoulder the burden of having legacy systems. It is from this point of view that the company views China as its next growth frontier.
Thank you for attending our townhall. We will begin shortly. Please feel free to submit any questions you have and at the start of the townhall we will answer them.
Rus Foster (VPS.net Managing Director):
We will be starting the town hall in a couple of minutes
Rus Foster (VPS.net Managing Director):
We would like to welcome you this, our second annual town hall. First a bit of housekeeping. The format of this will be a quick review of the year, what we have upcoming for 2013, and followed by any Q&A. Feel free to put a comment at any time and we will answer them at the end of the session.
As 2012 is closing to an end its been a good year for VPS.net. We started off the year with the full introduction of our HP SANS's improving uptime and performance for all the upgraded clouds.
We also have expanded our reach across the globe with addition of new locations taking our global reach to 20 unique locations, making us the most geographically diverse cloud provider.
With this we have seen a double digit growth across VPS.net a whole, bucking the current economic trends putting us in a good place for 2013.
We are however not happy just sitting on our laurels and have a number of service enhancements coming up in 2013, which will be available for all users.
In the first few weeks of Jan we will be launching our new bandwidth nodes allowing you to scale up just the bandwidth on your VPS as required without having to purchase extra nodes.
We will be also rolling out full IPv6 support within Q1 across all of our core locations, with native support in our control panel
We also are planning on extending our clone and deploy technology which currently allows you to clone your VPS on the same cloud. The new version will allow you to clone the VPS on to a remote cloud as well as adding the ability to migrate your data, to another cloud/location, at your own convince. This is currently on final internal beta testing
Also we will be further extending this to allow you to download and upload your own VPS images to avoid vendor lockin. Its your data, your are free to do with it what you want!
This are our plans for just Q1 of 2013, and we have many other great add-ons and service enhancements for the remaining quarters of 2013.
As always we love to hear if you have any idea of what you think we should be doing, or enhancements we should be making to the service. Customers are the reason we get up in the morning, and we want to keep them at the center of our little cloud hosting world.
OK Thats covers what we have done over the last year, and what we are planning on doing on the first 3 months of 2013. Now on to viewers questions
The marketing team was hard at work playing on JibJab this week, and who better to have a bit of fun with than the operations guys? Check out the Disco Holiday Party, featuring Rus Foster, Kody Riker, Vitaliy Zhhuta, Svitlana Khoroshylova and Whitney White!
Some of my favorite moments in the video:
Vitaliy Zhhuta, our lead system admin, and his solo dance at 11 seconds.
Kody Riker, our Support Team Manager, twirling his way around the video at 26 seconds.
Rus Foster, the Managing Director of VPS.net, pulling off the splits at 28 seconds.
Whitney White, the Social Media Managing, doing her best hopstep at 31 seconds.
Svitlana Khorashylova, the Office Manager, getting her boogie on 35 seconds.
All of us at VPS.net wish you a happy holidays, and hope you have a prosperous 2013.
