As part of GoGrid‘s on-going educational webinar series, we have another important and informative webinar titled “Accelerate Your Website & Deliver Your Content with Lightning-Fast Speed” running tomorrow (Thursday, December 2nd, 2010) at 11:00-12:00 PM (Pacific Time). As many of you may already know, GoGrid has a CDN offering (see our CDN page for more details) that can help you instantly scale your web presence around the globe.

Here are the details of webinar:

Description: Do you depend on your web presence as a critical component of your business? Have you experienced occasional slow load times or video buffering of your content from certain geographic locations? Will increased website speed help you sell your services, products, or advertising on your website?

Topics:

• What is a content delivery network and how it can benefit your business
• Example of businesses and content that should be using CDNs
• Introduction to the GoGrid CDN

Presenters:

• Kevin Lewis, Director of Global Alliances EdgeCast Networks
• Rob Larson, GoGrid Product Manager

Date: December 2, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

Registration: http://go.gogrid.com/webinars/20101202

Be sure to bring your questions to the webinar as there will be time during the presentation to ask the experts. Just to get your ideas flowing, here’s some more information about the GoGrid CDN:

Features:

• Website Acceleration—faster page load times for your website
• Large Object Download Service—for software, videos, games, music, podcasts and movies—the best way to provide delivery of downloads
• On-Demand Video Streaming—Flash and Windows
• Live Video Streaming—Flash and Windows
• Security*—all of the important security features needed for online business including SSL delivery and Token-based Authentication
• Cname Support—disguise the GoGrid CDN URL with a customized URL
• Reporting—the most comprehensive reporting and analytics suite in the industry—view bandwidth consumption, breakdowns of downloads by media type, geography, file type and popularity
• Advanced Reporting*—over 60 reports to help improve and optimize website performance

The GoGrid CDN currently has 18 Points of Presence (PoPs) around the globe including 9 in North America, 5 in Europe, 3 in Asia and 1 in Australia.

We hope to see you at the webinar.

If you are reading this blog post, you probably have heard the term “Cloud Computing“. But in the off chance that you haven’t, or perhaps you know of a colleague or co-worker that needs to get brought up to speed on the power of the cloud or what it can do for your company, I wanted to be sure that you knew about an upcoming webinar that we at GoGrid will be hosting called “Cloud Hosting 101“.

To be clear, this is NOT a webinar for those people who are well versed in the technical benefits of the cloud, nor how you can build N-tiered complex infrastructure with just a few mouse clicks. It is more about:

• getting a primer on the benefits of cloud computing for your business,
• how customers are using the GoGrid cloud to achieve success and,
• to learn how to get started with a cloud presence on GoGrid.

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Registration: http://go.gogrid.com/webinars/20101014
Presenters: Michael Sheehan (GoGrid Technology Evangelist) & Maria Gallegos (GoGrid Product Marketing Manager)

If you have questions that you would like us to answer on the webinar, be sure to submit them as a comment on this blog post. We hope that you or your co-workers can attend. Do note, we do have other webinars coming up over the next few months so be sure to check back.

On Wednesday, we held a webinar titled: “Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes & Uptime“. As with previous webinars, we wanted to make this GoGrid webinar public to other users in case you were not able to attend.

The agenda of the webinar was as follows:

• Overview of GoGrid and F5 Networks
• Load balancing with GoGrid and F5 BIG IP
  • Benefits of load balancing overview
  • Use cases
  • Best practices
• Question and Answer Session

As mentioned previously, if you aren’t using a load balanced solution in your Cloud infrastructure, you may be putting your site or services at risk. Here are some reasons why you should seriously consider using GoGrid’s FREE F5 load balancing service within the GoGrid cloud:

• You can prevent application downtime – when you have more than one server in a load balanced environment, you can rest assured that if one of those servers happens to become unavailable, traffic to your site is automatically redirected to the other available server(s).
• Scaling infrastructure – without a load balancer in place, it can be difficult to scale up (or down) your infrastructure.
• 1-2-3 Process – deploying a load balancer on GoGrid is just a matter of filling out a form and once you configure it, your new load balancer is available in minutes.
• Moving beyond the “Free” offering – we have solutions that go beyond the standard load balancing offering within GoGrid. If your routing needs are more complex, we are here to help!

If you were unable to attend this webinar, the complete recording is available below as well as on our Vimeo channel:

Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime – Webinar (August 2010) from GoGrid on Vimeo.

The presentation that was used in the webinar is also available on our Slideshare channel:

If you are looking for a Load Balancing solution in the cloud, definitely consider GoGrid’s free F5 load balancing service. If your needs go beyond what is offered for free, you can contact a GoGrid Sales Representative or if you are a current GoGrid customer, you can talk with your Dedicated Service Team and work on some more advanced solutions.

If there are any other topics you would like covered in a future webinar from GoGrid, please let me know.

We are excited to announce a joint webinar with F5 and GoGrid that discusses the top Use Cases and Best Practices for load balancing in a public cloud. When GoGrid launched several years ago, we were pleased to have F5 as a technology partner in our initial offering. It remains a core feature of the GoGrid Cloud today. Recently, with the addition of our East Coast datacenter, we released load balancing for GoGrid infrastructures in that datacenter as well.

Many current GoGrid users are not taking advantage of our free F5 load balancing so if you are one of those customers, we encourage you to attend this webinar. Things to think about:

• You can prevent application downtime – when you have more than one server in a load balanced environment, you can rest assured that if one of those servers happens to become unavailable, traffic to your site is automatically redirected to the other available server(s).
• Scaling infrastructure – without a load balancer in place, it can be difficult to scale up (or down) your infrastructure.
• 1-2-3 Process – deploying a load balancer is just a matter of filling out a form and once you configure it, your new load balancer is available in minutes.
• Moving beyond the “Free” offering – if your routing needs are more complex, we are here to help with other solutions.

Webinar Details

Title: “Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud – Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime”
Date: Wednesday, 8/25/10
Time: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Registration: http://go.gogrid.com/webinars/20100825

Topics to be covered in this webinar include:

• Enterprise grade hardware load balancers
• Multi-data center resource provisioning
• Configuration options at different levels: load balancing types and persistence
• And more!

Presenters:

• F5 Networks: Doug Lohf, Senior Systems Engineer
• GoGrid: David Michael, Sales Engineer
• GoGrid: Rob Larson, Product Manager

As a thank you for attending, all attendees will be eligible for a $50 GoGrid Service Credit.

Be sure that you attend this important webinar as it can help you do more with your F5 load balancing solution that you already have available within your GoGrid cloud.

GoGrid Partner, Sentrigo, a database security software innovator, today announced that it will host a webinar with GoGrid focusing on Building Secure, Scalable and Stable databases in the Cloud. The Webinar details are as follows:

Date: Thursday August 12, 2010
Time: 10:00 am (Pacific Daylight time)
Duration: 1 hour
Registration: http://bit.ly/bNkfd1

Topics to be covered are:

• Intro to cloud web service and management tools
• Best practices in deploying databases in the cloud
• Available data storage options
• Technical challenges when protecting remote databases
• Securing databases in the cloud

Sentrigo currently has its Hedgehog Database Compliance and Security Suite images available on GoGrid as CentOS 5.3 and Windows Server 2008 server images:

The following Press Release was delivered today discussing the upcoming Webinar.

Sentrigo and GoGrid to Host Webinar on Building Stable, Scalable, Secure Databases in the Cloud

Industry Experts Share Best Practices for Organizations Looking to Safely Deploy Databases in Cloud Computing Environment

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) August 10, 2010

Sentrigo, Inc. innovator in database securitysoftware, today announced that it will host a live Webinar on Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 10am PT with GoGrid, a pioneer in customizable, on-demand cloud infrastructures. The event, entitled “Learn to Build a Stable, Scalable, and Secure Databases in the Cloud,” will feature representatives from GoGrid and Sentrigo sharing their expertise on database deployments and real-time security in this latest frontier of information technology.

The interactive session will feature Paul Lancaster, GoGrid’s head of business and channel development, Andy Feit, VP of marketing at Sentrigo, and Rob David, a consulting engineer for Sentrigo with experience implementing database security for several cloud architectures – and will address topics including:

• An introduction to cloud infrastructure and management tools
• Best practices in deploying applications and databases in the cloud
• Technical challenges when protecting remote databases
• Securing databases in a cloud computing environment

“As ever-increasing numbers of organizations are looking to implement cloud computing, they are often discouraged by the perceived lack of security,” said Feit. “Our key objective for this Webinar is to provide enterprises with actionable information to allow them to most effectively move applications to the cloud, while maintaining the high level of security necessary to meet compliance requirements and prevent a damaging data breach.”

For event details and registration, please visit: http://bit.ly/bNkfd1

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About Sentrigo

Sentrigo is a recognized innovator in database security solutions, offering a full suite of products for vulnerability assessment, virtual patching and database monitoring/auditing. The company’s flagship product, Hedgehog Enterprise, provides Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) and real-time Intrusion Prevention, protecting sensitive data from external threats and misuse by privileged insiders. Hedgehog can be quickly and easily deployed at small and midsize organizations, and scales to handle the largest enterprises, providing full visibility into all database activity and allowing enterprises to enforce security policy and comply with regulatory requirements, such as PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA. The company has won wide acclaim for its technology leadership from publications such as Network World and SC Magazine, and recently received the Cloud Computing World Series Award as the ‘Best Security Solution’ , the 2010 Global Product Excellence Award for Database Security from Info Security Products Guide and was a recipient of the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award. For additional information and to download Hedgehog, visit www.sentrigo.com.

Sentrigo, Sentrigo Hedgehog, Hedgehog IDentifier, Hedgehog vPatch and the Sentrigo logo are trademarks of Sentrigo, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

We hope that you can attend this informative webinar.