NER Data Corporation Releases Data Center Quote Portal

The renowned Center Infrastructure service provider, NER, revealed they had successfully launched their Data Center Quote Portal. The new service is based on a Reseller Quote Application, allowing resellers to manage and simplify their quotes in a more efficient manner. Additionally, the new portal also allows users to take care of requests at a faster pace than before as well.

According to the company, resellers will still have access to past data and they will also be able to transfer features with it. Besides this, they will also be privy to email notifications regarding quote updates, whether they are online or offline. Some other features of the portal include customizable end-user quotes via modifiable amounts and discounts, personalization of company essentials (like contact information and image), allowable requests regarding new quotes, automatic alerts for expired quotes and faster turnover rates.

According to NER’s Vice President, Robert Huttemann, “NER is known in the industry as providing unmatched reseller support, and the quote portal is just one more example of that crucial value we provide. Every element of the portal is designed so our resellers can better manage, receive, and use essential information. The built-in processes ensure that partners can quickly respond and provide effective end-user proposals.”

Users can access the new portal via the company’s official website or contact NER’s Regional Sales Manager. Individuals, who wish to find out more regarding the data center’s products and offers, can visit the official website.

About NER Data Corporation

NER Data Corporation is a renowned company specializing in facilitating Data Center Infrastructure Management and Managed Print enterprises. The organization is miles ahead of its competition in providing state-of-the-art solutions and in enabling their users a leg up over their competition. Their dedication has enabled them to garner an impressive following with North America’s famous Resellers’, VAR’s and Fortune 2000’s clients.

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One of the biggest concerns for businesses online is guaranteed up-time.  If a business’ web site is not accessible, this converts into profit lost.  Leading web hosting companies constantly update and revamp their infrastructures to ensure redundancy and maximum up-time guarantees.  Occasionally, a downed server just cannot be avoided.  So, what can web hosting companies implement to minimize the potential of a loss of service for their customers?  Clustered hosting is one solution.

Standalone server hosting

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Single server hosting companies don’t normally have only one web site per server – they often times serve several hundred web sites all on a single server.  So, take the example above and multiply this by hundreds.  It is easy to see how a server can get bogged down quickly and cause web site errors.

What is clustered hosting?

Clustered hosting is achieved by spreading out the load of hosting across several servers.  When the hosting load is spread out across these multiple servers, there is a decreased chance of a service affecting another.  For example, if one web site runs a rather large and load-heavy database, the increased load work can be put across several servers thereby decreasing the chance that another customer’s web site is affected.

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Conclusion

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As Mobile Phones are becoming more and more ubiquitous by the day, it is becoming more important about how we can improve the levels of communication around us. The infrastructure to set up the whole communication system doesn’t come cheap and computer scientists as of now might have the answer for better communication media.

A team of boffins at Cambridge, have developed a language that would ease out the development of apps over the ad hoc network called pocket-switched network which is a form of delay-tolerant networks. The language named Data-driven Declarative Networking (D3N) Language, is much easy to use when compared to its counterpart, the Hagle.

The approach is defined to be an Infrastructure less approach, as one doesn’t need the base stations or the normal communication system, it is driven by the  low-cost but high-power consuming bluetooth or wireless systems.

If few of the issues like the ubiquity quotient and adaptability are addressed backing them with devices that consume less power, the pocket-switched network has a bright future. Especially in regions where setting up this kind of infrastructure is real hard.

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The Planet, one of the leading web hosting providers has put up a limited day offer. Now users can avail a whopping 10TB of bandwidth, at the same price of the hosting services. The offer though exhausts on Jul 31.

You can check out on the offer here.

Said Urvash Vashi, General manager, The Planet:

By extending this promotion to virtually every server in our product portfolio, customers with any size business or budget can benefit. We continue to invest in our hosting infrastructure, adding network points of presence on the East and West coasts; broadening the company footprint with an eighth data center in London; and increasing transit capacity to our seven Tier 1 network providers. By extending this promotion to virtually every server in our product portfolio, customers with any size business or budget can benefit.

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