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Load Balancer Provider Reality Check Network Renews Partnership with Equinix

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

Global data center services provider Equinix (News - Alert) announced that Reality Check Network has renewed a partnership with Equinix to enable the continued delivery of 100 percent uptime by leveraging its presence within the Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers.

Reality Check Network, a managed hosting services provider, has been a customer of Platform Equinix since 2008, leveraging Equinix’s high-end managed hosting services including virtualization, storage, load balancing, VPN and CDN. The consistency and network connectivity within the Equinix IBX data centers in New York and Silicon Valley have enabled the company to deliver 100 percent uptime for its hosting customers.

“At Reality Check Network, our number one goal is to ensure 100 percent uptime for our customers. In order to achieve that, it is crucial that our data center service provider offers the stability, security and compliance necessary for us to follow through on that promise,” said Ben Uretsky, CEO of Reality Check Network, in a statement.

Uretsky acknowledged the superior stability and scalability of Equinix, saying that in the many years they have been with Equinix, they have never experienced any outage. Further the company’s network connectivity allows them to reach any network provider within the Equinix ecosystem. Equinix’s global reach also helps the company expand its business both nationally and worldwide.

As part of its plan to promote and sell its products and services to the more than 4,000 potential customers that are on Platform Equinix, Reality Check Network has opened a storefront in the Equinix Marketplace.

As a member of Equinix’s ecosystem of more than 800 cloud and IT service providers, Reality Check Network offers managed hosting solutions and powerful dedicated servers  for some of the most demanding hosting applications such as highly available Web sites, PCI-compliant e-commerce sites, SaaS (News - Alert) platforms, and virtualization.

The company also offers services like load balancing and firewall security, in addition to network storage and CDN services, in highly available configurations.

“As more and more companies look to partners such as Reality Check Network to provide a vast array of hosting solutions in a secure and high-performance manner, it’s imperative that hosting providers can adapt to customers’ needs in a dynamic and secure environment,” said Vince DiMemmo, general manager of global cloud and IT services at Equinix.  

In other industry news, Coyote Point Systems (News - Alert) – a provider of load balancer technology – sat down with TMCnet to discuss where the industry is headed in 2012. Aside from an increased desire for more flexible, powerful management tools, Coyote Point predicts that this year the load balancer market will be greatly affected by virtualization.

“Virtualization has radically transformed how data centers are built, managed, and networked,” Jim Puchbauer (News - Alert), director of marketing for Coyote Point, told TMCnet. “We are predicting increased demand for application delivery tools to help in these virtual environments. Rapid server deployment and new levels of deployment flexibility are becoming common. What we see needed are answers to new questions on how to manage application performance and availability in the rapidly evolving virtualized environments.”

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