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Second most reliable this month was Qube, a London-based hosting company which also has datacentres in New York and Zurich. Qube provide managed hosting, managed colocation and cloud hosting for a wide variety of customers, particularly in the areas of finance and new media. Although Qube has previously appeared in the top ten, this is the first time the hosting company has made it to the top three.

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Qube Managed Hosting Inc, the US arm of Qube Managed Services has achieved U.S Safe Harbour compliance.

The company complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland.

The company has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view the company’s certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/

This is an important consideration for any company that has concerns over, or is required by law to follow certain guidelines with regards to the data it holds about companies and individuals. Since Qube provides managed services and cloud servers in the USA, UK and Switzerland, we felt it vital that we protect our customers’ interests by certifying with the Safe Harbour Framework.

Qube is delighted to welcome a new member to our Engineering team.

His name is Pavel Fedosejev and we trust you will get to know him over the coming months.

Pavel, who joined Qube last week, comes from Latvia and will be filling the position of Microsoft Systems Administrator. This role came about due to client growth in Qube’s managed services division as we strive to maintain our great customer service levels.

Welcome Pavel!

Qube recently completed a full upgrade to our VMware cloud platform hosted in our Zurich data center.

The upgrade provides us with significantly increased compute, storage & RAM capacity in Europe on our VMware Cloud Server platform to deal with increasing demand. There has been a lot of interest in hosting at this site, especially from our customers in the Financial industry.

Switzerland offers several advantages as a location for hosting, particularly for those companies serving customers in Central & Eastern Europe. Central European location, strong privacy & data protection laws, political and financial stability and the highest per-capita IT expenditure in the world are all factors that make the country an attractive place to do business and invest.

As well as the upgrades to Qube’s VMware Cloud platform, we completed our connection to the Level(3) Communications IP Transit point-of-presence in Zurich. We are now using Level(3) as a primary transit provider across all of our data center locations. This also means that Qube can now offer high quality, low-latency Level(3) IP transit to our customers in Zurich.

Qube launched a new version of our website today:

Click here to see the new www.qubenet.net website.

The new site is lighter and brighter and really focuses attention on our VMware Cloud Server based hosting products and services portfolio.

As well as showcasing our VMware Cloud products, we have tailored the site into 3 versions which are aimed at the different regions we operate in. Each country now has it’s own micro-site and will allow us to tailor offers and content to each region. Using anycast, visitors should be directed to the server and into country site closest to them.

We have added several new sections to the site, including an updated “Contact Us” section with updated locations.

Additionally there is a new “Careers” section to aid in our search for several new positions that have opened at Qube recently. Qube is a growing business and we are on the look out for smart, energetic people to help us achieve this growth. Please click here for to see a list of the open positions.

Facebook, Google and Yahoo – have agreed to participate in the first global-scale trial of IPv6.

Qube Network Engineering will be undertaking upgrades to our core and border networks over the coming weeks to enable IPv6. We are hoping to complete the scheduled rollout and testing in Q2, with a view to offering full IPv6 services to customers in Q3.

Have you considered how IPv6 will impact your business and the applications it relies on?

Visit: http://tinyurl.com/48sz6xx

Qube is happy to announce that we have joined the R1Soft Hosted Partner Program. R1Soft is the leading provider of advanced online backup software, specifically designed for managed hosting providers like Qube.

R1Soft have a range of excellent backup software that is geared towards data centre environments, virtualization and high availability. The Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software line allows for online imaging, bare-metal restore and disaster recover solutions.

Over the coming weeks we will be migrating all of our managed backup customers over to the new R1Soft platform. The management software provides advanced features and even makes provides customers with self-service access to backups via a secure web interface.

Tier 1 = A network that can reach every other network on the Internet without purchasing IP transit or paying settlements. (e.g. Level 3, there are only a few tier 1 networks in the world)

Tier 2 = A network that peers with some networks, but still purchases IP transit or pays settlements to reach at least some portion of the Internet (e.g Qube)

Tier 3 = A network that solely purchases IP transit from other networks to reach the Internet (e.g. Qube’s customers)