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March 2007 - NEW VI DATA CENTRE
March 3rd 2007 -
VI opened a new data centre in Manchester this month to cope with growth and future demands, which was implemented with great success and ahead of schedule. The New Centre in Manchester is equipped with the same level of connectivity & resilience as the London Centre's and is manned by VI engineers. Its main aim is to offer customers a greater choice of location as well as service & continuity options. The Manchester Data centre will primarily be holding Dedicated server hosting, leaving the London data centre to concentrate on Managed & application hosting services.
21st February 2007 - Contract & Project based hosting
Due to the recent increase in customer requirement, especially media agencies, for contarct and Project based hosting terms VI has developed a hosted environment to cater for this exact need.
In today's rapidly expanding media arena the need for rapid solution's to the changing web environment is paramount. Companies need rapidly deployed server solutions that can be customised, scaleable and above all reliable, at the drop of a hat.
With these added needs, comes the added complexity of time! How long will the project last? Top media agency's now run projects for weeks instead of months but need the peace of mind that they have solutions to cope with the most extreme levels of usage. READ MORE
20th January 2007 - VI Partner with Ensim & Microsoft
To Celebrate this, VI will be offering Ensim's new version of their Windows based control panel FREE throughout 2007.
This offer is available to existing and new customers of VI & gives the unlimited use of the Ensim Windows control panel throughout 2007.
For more information on how to apply for your copy of Ensim Windows, please call our Sales Dept. on 0800 11 77 44
15th December 2006 - Data Centre Analysts predictions.
In 2005 many analysts were predicting a reduction in available Data Centre space in the United Kingdom and specifically in London where available space was close to being sold out.
This prediction has come true and inevitably led to large price increases in the Hosting Market affecting all companies operating in this space.
Additional impact has been caused by the significant increases in Electricity prices that have been introduced in the last quarter of 2006.
Whilst Virtual Internet has worked closely with it's suppliers throughout this period in an attempt to minimise the impact on its' customers it regrettably had to increase prices for the first time in its History. Some of our customers have already been notified of the impact to them and we will be contacting the remainder of customers over the coming weeks to explain the situation.
Should you be interested, some older articles can be found at the following links:-
Article 1
Article 2
Current thinking by Industry Analysts indicates a further doubling in costs by 2011! .
We urge all our customers to give this appropriate consideration for the future and ensure that current and likely future Hosting costs are covered in your contracts/dealings with your customers.
For our part we are continuing to work closely with suppliers to ensure best pricing for our customers in London and we are investigating opening additional Data centre(s) in alternative locations.
We'll update you on progress early in the New Year.
7th November 2006 - Bleep.com, hosted by Vi.Net, wins BT Internet music awards
On Tuesday night Bleep won the UK Digital Music Award for 'Best Music Store', beating players such as iTunes, Napster and ThreeMusic.
http://www.btyahoo.com/dma06/winners
Bleep's partnership with legendary music stores Rough Trade will also soon come to fruition, with the new service (built and supplied by Bleep) set to launch in mid November, in Rough Trade's 30th anniversary year.
This summer Bleep passed the million downloads threshold, and is now home to over 300 labels and counting. All new music to the site is now encoded at the maximum bitrate of 320kbps, with everything still as standard drm-free MP3s of course.
For more information about Bleep, please contact: info@bleep.com
Labels and Artists : labels@bleep.com
October 2006 - Re-Launch of VI in the UK
VIRTUAL INTERNET (UK) Ltd was purchased from Active24 by the UK Management team and staff in October 2006 and now trades independently providing quality ADS, Dedicated, Managed servers and value added services to its' customers
25th Oct 2006 - Data centre energy crisis looms in UK
By Colin Barker ZDNet UK
Data centres: The rising cost of data centre cooling creates clash between IT and facilities management
by Cliff Saran Tuesday 21 March 2006