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Handyman Service in Fort Worth Hires Local SEO Group to Aid More Texas Customers – PR.com (press release)
Feb 2nd
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Handyman Service in Fort Worth Hires Local SEO Group to Aid More Texas Customers
PR.com (press release) Richland Hills, TX, February 02, 2012 –(PR.com)– Andy OnCall, a comprehensive home remodeling and handyman service in Fort Worth, Texas, is pleased to announce its new SEO marketing campaign developed by Prospect Genius, an Internet advertising firm. |
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SEOPartner Goes To Texas – SEO Dallas Now Open For Business – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jan 3rd
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SEOPartner Goes To Texas – SEO Dallas Now Open For Business
DigitalJournal.com (press release) SEO Partner chief James Schramko further extends his company's area of operation, targeting major US cities with geo-specific search engine optimization. The latest expansion takes the Sydney-based SEO provider to Dallas, Texas. The SEO Dallas service … |
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Slingshot SEO Expands Again: Sales Offices Now Open to Serve Clients in Texas … – MarketWatch (press release)
Nov 10th
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Slingshot SEO Expands Again: Sales Offices Now Open to Serve Clients in Texas …
MarketWatch (press release) INDIANAPOLIS, IN, Nov 10, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Slingshot SEO, the company dedicated to providing digital relevance to deserving brands, has opened new sales offices to better serve its growing client base of market-leading brands. … |
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Vayu Media Expanding Its Retail Marketing Footprint In Texas – TMC Net
Oct 16th
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Vayu Media Expanding Its Retail Marketing Footprint In Texas
TMC Net The company is a recognized SEO services leader in the Metro Atlanta market and has developed strategies for retailers and e-retailers nationwide. Vayu Media's vertical strategy in the retail market has proven very successful and the company decided to … |
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Google Hotpot Helps Texas Students “Rate for a Cause”
Mar 4th
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Google Hotpot is the most heavily promoted Google product since Chrome, and that’s nothing to ignore. When you consider how heavily the search engine giant has invested in this service, you get a much clearer sense of where the company’s priorities lie; you should expect Google to be promoting their existing local features while developing new ones in the upcoming months.
As part of promoting Hotpot, the company’s biggest existing local feature, Google is partnering with “Students for Clean Water” at the University of Texas. Google will help students raise money for their cause while contributing to the Hotpot service by donating one dollar for every review that UT students create on Hotpot. The campaign started on March 1st and will end on the 10th. Those wanting updates on the progress of the event can check in with the Austin Hotpot Twitter profile.
Following an innovative yet fitting route, Google has used local events to promote this local business service, so “rate for a cause” fits with the campaign perfectly. Previous promotions have included coffee giveaways, a concert series, free t-shirts for attendees of a Portland sporting event, a rating competition, and much more. The work with the University of Texas is just one of several regional promotions; Google is now or has concluded running campaigns in Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, California; and Austin, Texas.
[via the Hotpot Blog]
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Google Hotpot Helps Texas Students “Rate for a Cause”
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Texas AG Wants Google’s Formula for AdWords Rates, Ranking Sites
Feb 16th
The Texas attorney general leading an antitrust investigation of Google wants to know how Google determines the prices for its AdWords paid search advertising program and how sites are ranked in Google’s search results.
According to various reports, a civil investigative demand from Texas AG Gregg Abbott from July 29 asked Google provide his office with:
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Texas Officials, Public Interest Lawyers Push For More Disclosures From Google
Feb 16th
The effort to get Google to disclose more information about how it ranks sites and the details of its algorithm is nothing new. However that information, among other things, is now being sought by the Texas Attorney General’s office in conjunction with a broad antitrust investigation against…
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Rolling Blackouts in Texas May Cause Trouble for the Cloud
Feb 3rd
A cold snap in Texas may cause problems for the cloud. Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operator of about 75% of the state’s power grid, is ordering rolling blackouts to reduce power demand. This could cause disruptions for data centers based within ERCOT’s region. According to The Associated Press this includes cities such as Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, and Abilene.
Several notable hosting companies, including Rackspace and Host Gator, are based in Texas. We haven’t seen reports of outages from these or any other hosts, but WordPress warned users of its WordPress.com service that service may be interrupted.
Update: ERCOT has ended the rolling blackouts for today.
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From WordPress’s warning:
As some of you may have heard, starting this morning (CST), ERCOT, the operator of the power grid in Texas, has ordered utility companies to implement rolling blackouts across the state due to extreme weather conditions.
Two of the three WordPress.com data centers are located in Texas – 1 in San Antonio and 1 in Dallas.
The Dallas facility has been operating on generator power since yesterday evening without issue. This morning, the generator in the San Antonio facility suffered a failure that has left us without a long-term backup power supply in that facility.
So far all the data centers are still up and running, but WordPress is preparing for the possibility that the servers in San Antonio will power off.
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Touring Texas with the Bloggers Part 2: Smart Power Distribution, a Little Cloud History and More
Jan 13th
This week I attended HP ISS Tech Day at Hewlett-Packard‘s Houston facility along with several other bloggers. In part one we talked a bit about the definition of cloud computing and toured the POD-Works facility for manufacturing private clouds. In part two we’ll look at HP’s technologies for building private clouds, including Intelligent Power Discovery and Virtual Connect. We’ll also take a brief look at HP’s original private cloud offering.
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Intelligent Power Discovery
HP cites its expertise in power management as a key advantage to its manufactured data centers that it ships in containers to customers. But even if you don’t want to have HP ship you a pre-built data center, you can take advantage of its Intelligent Power Discovery technology.
Intelligent Power Discovery is the name for the combination of HP’s highly efficient server power supplies, its power distribution units and its power management software. The system is designed to make it easy to add new servers to a data center and automatically adjust power allotment. Using HP’s software you can manage power allocation and find overheating servers and use HP’s remote server management console iLO to manage practically all of your power requirements.
Notably, all of this happens automatically. Sensors are built into all the necessary cables to make monitoring and reporting as simple as possible.
BladeSystem Matrix
BladeSystem Matrix is the core of HP’s “converged infrastructure” strategy. It’s a framework that integrates servers, storage, networking and software and can be used as the foundation for building private clouds. Its primary software offering is the Matrix Operating Environment, which includes templates for deploying virtualized servers. HP gives customers the option to choose between Citrix, Microsoft and VMWare for virtualization and includes templates for fully configured servers for common products from companies like Oracle, Microsoft and SAP. For example, as part of the demo a Microsoft Exchange server was deployed from a template in just a few clicks.
BladeSystem Matrix was preceded by the HP Utility Data Center (UDC) in 2001, back when cloud computing was still referred to as utility computing. UDC was discontinued in 2004. CNET’s Gordon Haff wrote in 2009 that UDC was ahead of its time, expensive and tied to proprietary HP software. Haff wrote that BladeSystem Matrix is much more rooted open standards and components than UDC was.
Matrix competes with other converged systems such as Cisco‘s Unified Computing System.
Virtual Connect
Virtualizing servers can put an excessive I/O load on the host server since those servers will be handling many more concurrent connections. HP Virtual Connect attempts to solve this problem while simultaneously reducing network infrastructure complexity. This IDC white paper offers the best explanation of Virtual Connect I could find.
Virtual machine environments typically require six to eight physical network cards per server. Virtual Connect creates virtual network cards that look just the same as physical network cards to hypervisors. One physical network card can support four virtual network cards. This doesn’t just reduce the need for additional physical network cards, it also reduces the number of switches and cables required to support all those cards.
Virtual Connect can also provide bandwidth throttling on the fly. Let’s say you have a server that needs more bandwidth than one gigabit. Traditionally, that server would need a 10 gigabit network card, even if it doesn’t actually need 10 gigabits of capacity. With Virtual Connect, you could create multiple virtual network cards using the same physical 10 gigabit network cards and split the bandwidth between them any way you want. For example, you could create four virtual network cards: one network card with five gigabits of bandwidth, two network cards with two gigabits of bandwidth each and one network card with one gigabit of bandwidth.
Virtual Connect competes with other I/O virtualization appliances such as Dell’s FlexAdress.
Conclusion
HP is serious about helping customers build private clouds as simply as possible with the lowest possible total cost of ownership HP. Whether you want them to build something for you or build it yourself, HP has all the products and services required – from building and shipping entire data centers, to cutting power bills to virtualizing both servers and network infrastructure. HP seems to be the leader in each of the technologies we looked at, but there is plenty of competition. It will be exciting to see how the industrialization of physical infrastructure and virtualization of everything else transforms data centers in the next few years.
Disclosure: HP is a ReadWriteWeb sponsor, and paid for Klint Finley’s travel and accommodations to attend HP ISS Tech day.
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