The 1Velocity Blog

It has been a very difficult year for 1Velocity and our communities. Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada have been number one on many lists of which we are not proud, including the highest rate of foreclosures, unemployment, and bankruptcies in the nation. Many of our largest companies have been on the brink or have filed bankruptcy in the last year.

However, despite all the challenges, 1Velocity has made some very important progress.

As we begin our fourth year, 1Velocity continues to grow.

We just closed out the fiscal year, and despite the recession, 1Velocity had record revenues last year. This year is off to a good start as well. Revenues for the first quarter of this fiscal year are up from the previous year. Remarkably, we have also cut expenses over the last year.

As the economy continues to improve and more organizations learn about 1Velocity’s unique services, we hope to continue to help more organizations improve redundancy, save money, and get more done quickly with Internet and private Ethernet connections over wireless fiber.

Bob Warfield has a new post with some interesting survey results about the cloud.

Netflix and the U.S. Government are moving parts of their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services, and apparently they’re not alone.

The majority of SMB’s now have a “SaaS first” policy, they prefer it. Many of the respondents to Goldman’s survey indicated they were using SaaS in this economy for TCO reasons, to save money…

Amazon.com is used by 67 percent of the survey respondents. It is clearly the out-in-front leader, despite being a “newcomer” to enterprise IT. For internal clouds, VMware’s leadership remains pronounced, with 83 percent of respondents using its virtualization technology.

Read the Full Post: Amazon is Stealing the Cloud

1Velocity was founded by former IT professionals used to dealing with legacy carriers, so we do things the way an IT person would want them done.

The name 1Velocity comes from the fact that we do not oversubscribe our network, so our customers always get the same speeds no matter how busy the network is. The connection never slows down. You get one speed, or one velocity, always.

We do other things the way an IT professional would want them, too. We don’t block ports or do packet-shaping. We hand-off Layer 1 Ethernet, and there are zero hops between customer locations on our network.

We’re flexible and strive to be easy to work with. When you call support, you get a network engineer who can isolate and solve the problem with you. Every customer gets an escalation list including the CEO’s cell phone. And since we own our own network, we don’t pass you off to someone else.