FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
FreeBSD Foundation Turns to NYI for East Coast US Mirror
Deployment Adds Enterprise-Grade Redundancy for Improved Reliability,
Reduced Latency, High-Speed Backups and Other Efficiencies
BOULDER, CO, August 10, 2010—The FreeBSD Foundation, a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project and
community, today announced that NYI (www.nyi.net), a New York City-based,
mission-critical data services provider, will be mirroring key West coast
infrastructure at NYI’s 999 Frontier Road data center in Bridgewater, New
Jersey, a recently opened 40,000 square foot facility.
In addition to providing enterprise-grade redundancy and reliability for
the Project’s
infrastructure, the East coast mirror will reduce latency during heavy
download times, distribute load between the two coasts, and allow for
up-to-date backups of all Project data that can be synchronized via
high-speed Internet connections.
“Having a well-connected, secondary site with NYI’s amenities to host
FreeBSD project infrastructure means that we can move services between
sites when doing scheduled maintenance to improve reliability for FreeBSD
developers and users,” said Simon L. Nielsen, FreeBSD.org administrative
team. He added, “The new site also enables us to expand significantly the
available hardware for FreeBSD package building, allowing the FreeBSD ports
team to perform QA test builds and quickly produce binary FreeBSD packages
for end-users.”
“We are long-time open-source advocates,” said Phillip Koblence, VP
Operations, NYI. “The FreeBSD Foundation in particular represents
everything that got us into technology in the first place. With this
deployment, we take our commitment to a new level in the hope that what we
are doing lays the foundation for next-generation data centers built around
FreeBSD. As many people in the community know, NYI’s 999 Frontier Road
facility features many of the Project’s efforts, as everything from PDUs to
the servers run FreeBSD.”
The East coast mirror at 999 Frontier is also notable because it replaces
aging and inadequate hardware; provides dual-configuration so that
experimental vs. production runs can be separated out, allowing changes to
the ports system to be evaluated continuously rather the interrupting
production flow; deploys to multiple sites, providing resiliency in the
event of a failure; provides build capacity required to support the ports
ABI changes required to improve the foundations for binary package support
while maintaining ports-stable regression testing.
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to have been able to fund the purchase of
the hardware. Brad Davis, Mark Linimon, and Simon Nielsen from the FreeBSD
Project worked on the configuration, along with key members of the NYI
team.
About The FreeBSD Foundation
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to
supporting the FreeBSD Project and community. The Foundation gratefully
accepts donations from individuals and businesses, using them to fund and
manage projects,
sponsor FreeBSD events, Developer Summits and provide travel grants to
FreeBSD developers. In addition, the Foundation represents the FreeBSD
Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal
arrangements that require a
recognized legal entity. The FreeBSD Foundation is entirely supported by
donations. More information about The FreeBSD Foundation is available on
the web at http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org.
About NYI
Established in 1996, NYI is headquartered in the heart of the Wall Street
area and owns and maintains its own data centers, including 999 Frontier, a
newly opened 40,000 square foot facility in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The
company’s core services include colocation, dedicated servers, web and
email hosting, and managed services, as well as turnkey disaster recovery
and business continuity solutions from its Bridgewater location. With
high-bandwidth connectivity partners AboveNet, Verizon Business, Optimum
Lightpath, and AT&T, NYI specializes in mission-critical data services for
the financial services industry, in addition to customers from a broad
range of industries, including media, law, fashion, architecture, life
sciences and real estate. NYI is SAS 70 Type II-compliant, in addition to
being both PCI and HIPAA compliant. For more information, visit
www.nyi.net.
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Media Contact:
Bill Lessard
Publicist
NYI
