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FireHost Evangelist December 19, 2011

Over the past year FireHost’s secure hosting environment has experienced tremendous growth as customers increasingly demand the scalability and control of the cloud in a secure hostingenvironment. In our effort to continually strive for industry-leading performance, we are excited to announce the official launch of our new enterprise Dell Compellent SAN + Brocade Fibre Channel storage platform. This new platform provides the highest level of stability and performance required by both our customers and ourselves.

Here are a few highlights regarding our latest high performance storage environment:

• 4X Increase in Speed and Performance
• 300% increase in IOPS
• 400% increase in throughput
• 1250% increase in storage bandwidth
• Initial writes sent directly to Solid State Drives (SSD)

What does this mean for you?

• Peace of mind – an even more stable and high performance secure hosting environment
• No additional costs associated with this upgrade
• No downtime during migration to the new storage environment
• New features including more options for file level restores and storage based Disaster Recovery are coming soon

Migrations are currently underway and all secure cloud customers will automatically be upgraded before the end of the year. It’s our passion to provide the most secure, scalable, and high performance cloud hosting solution available. If you have any questions about the storage platform upgrade, please call 877.262.3473 or open a ticket in our secure customer portal.

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