What's new at Kualo?

LONDON and TAMPA, FL -- Kualo, a leader in managed business hosting, announces the launch of its new hosting service, theCloud, available immediately though Kualo's newly re-branded Web site. theCloud provides flexible virtual servers on-demand enabling customers to build a hosted cloud server of any size using intuitive sliding scale controls (http://www.kualo.com/cloud/discount-cloud-hosting) and have it provisioned after submitting payment details.

Unlike any of the cloud solutions available on the market today, Kualo is combining the flexibility of cloud computing with their proven expertise in managed hosting solutions. Customers can choose from several levels of managed hosting solutions for their new cloud environment and have confidence and peace of mind that their infrastructure is well configured and maintained.

In order to provide leading edge capabilities and reliability, Kualo partnered with 3Tera, the leading innovator of cloud computing technology. 3Tera's AppLogic(TM) cloud computing platform allows businesses to construct complete user-defined infrastructure configurations with the exact amount of resources needed.

"We are extremely excited to introduce theCloud," said Jo Stonehouse, Managing Director, Kualo. "We believe that IT resources should be easy to use, scale and manage, so that businesses can focus on their main expertise. Having the support of 3Tera in rolling out new services and capabilities makes us confident in the benefits of cloud computing for our hosting business. We are already seeing growing demand for theCloud and soon will make the service available in our London, UK facility."

"Our partnership with Kualo exemplifies why we work closely with leading hosting providers," commented Bert Armijo, SVP marketing and product management, 3Tera, Inc. "Combining their managed hosting expertise and data center presence on each side of the Atlantic with 3Tera's cloud computing solution will result in an enterprise-quality service that ensures flexibility and disaster recovery capability for any application, all at a much lower entry cost."

Availability

Kualo's theCloud is available immediately with pricing starting at just $35 per month for 0.4GHz of CPU, 256MB RAM and 20 GB disk space, scaling all the way up to a little over $1200 per month for 7.6GHz of CPU, 15 GB RAM and 800GB disk space. Initially, the service is available at Kualo's data center facility in Tampa, Florida, with plans to extend the service to their London, United Kingdom facility before the end of the year.

Additional Resources:

-- A quick, fun video animation of theCloud: http://www.kualo.com/cloud/
-- Kualo Management Plans: http://www.kualo.com/cloud/managed-cloud-hosting
-- Tour Kualo's data center: http://www.kualo.com/home/tampa-datacenter

Kualo, a leader in managed business hosting, today unveiled a new logo, brand identity and web site.

The brand transformation has been the culmination of many months of work in conjunction with Kualo's sister company, The Marketing Guys. "The new brand removes a lot of the stuffiness of the our old image. We're a vibrant company, and we wanted our brand to reflect that", said Jo Stonehouse, Kualo's Managing Director.

"Going forward we intend to have a lot of fun with our marketing campaigns - starting with a new humorous animation created to promote our new Cloud Hosting service, which we've even packed with an exploding data center!"

The new web site is now live, and can be viewed at www.kualo.com. Be sure to check out the new animation!

Kualo today announced that it has increased the disk space quotas and bandwidth allocations for its network of resellers.
The increase applies to both resellers in the UK and the USA. Due to reductions in the cost of bandwidth on its UK network, the company has pegged the bandwidth allocation to that of its US network. This has resulted in bandwidth increases of over 100% for some plans.

The new allocations will be allocated to its network of resellers over the next few weeks, and all upgrades should be complete by the end of September.

Kualo today announced plans to expand to a second data center in Tampa. The second facility affords the company increased power to run equipment due to the presence of an on-site substation, as well as access to new bandwidth carriers.

The new facility is just two blocks away from the current facility, and is located within Park Tower, downtown Tampa. The facility was formally owned by Genuity who invested many millions in the 9,060 sq foot data center before they were purchased by Level(3). The facility is a Tier 3 carrier grade facility, and as such has been built to physically withstand most natural or man-made disasters. It features Kevlar-reinforced walls, redundant generators, dual glycol cooling loops, its own 1 megawatt power substation and parallel UPS systems. The result is a facility within which single points of failure have been minimized as far as possible.

Other notable features include:

- Ionic "sniffers" to detect overheating
- An Inergen gas fire suppression system
- A dual pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
- Concrete reinforced bunker type walls surrounding the exterior
- Redundant backup generators and fuel, with priority fuel supply contracts in the event of an extended outage of power
- 11 20-ton Liebert Air Conditioning units
- Overhead carrier-grade cable trays
- Raised flooring
- Elevated racks

"We're incredibly excited about the new opportunities this new facility will bring to our customers. It is a considerable improvement on our existing data center, and we will be working to migrate all customers to the new location as soon as possible", said Craig Luke, Kualo's Operations Director.

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