This new partnership will provide businesses with:

• Business Continuity. As technology grows more complex, there are more risks to mitigate, a wider range of exposures, and the risk of higher losses in shorter periods of time. Many organizations are seeking reliable and cost-effective business continuity solutions especially in light of recent high-profile disasters. Atlantic Metro’s Disaster Recovery and Backup service offer customers a strategic solution that protects their critical data.
• Storage as a Service (SaaS). Enterprise SaaS is an efficient way to manage backups and production data storage for organizations looking to scale without large capital expenditures. With this partnership, businesses can benefit from cost savings — in personnel, software and physical storage space.

RTP, a Star partner and one of the largest resellers of NetApp, is a leader in responsive systems integration. With their consulting professionals, RTP provides the know-how to design, implement, and manage solutions with the highest efficiency. RTP is responsible for the day-to-day management of many storage installations ranging in size from terabytes to more than a petabyte.

“We are excited to partner with RTP to provide businesses with a cost-effective, scalable and simple way to leverage network storage and disaster recovery solutions without capital expenditures,” according to Matthew Lombardi, CEO of Atlantic Metro. “With this partnership we will also be able to help businesses mitigate risks in disaster recovery and enhance business continuity at a very affordable price.”

According to Ron Robbins, President of RTP Technology Corporation, “RTP is often approached by customers looking for storage and business continuity solutions. With this partnership we can now offer a best-of-breed, yet cost-effective alternative to traditional hardware investments.”

About RTP
RTP Technology Corporation brings a unique perspective to corporate information technology customers. Decades of experience and a broad range of capabilities allows us to match an appropriate technological solution to a specific need. RTP’s consulting professionals provide the know-how to design, implement, and manage solutions with the highest efficiency. We offer expertise built on a track record of outstanding service to a broad range of Fortune 500 companies in industries including pharmaceuticals to financial services to retail, distribution and insurance. We have designed and implemented countless solutions supporting mission-critical applications while our technical storage teams have been responsible for day-to-day management of many storage installations ranging in size from terabytes to more than a petabyte. For more information, visit www.rtptech.com.

About Atlantic Metro Communications
Atlantic Metro Communications is an award winning, full-service IaaS provider offering customized fully managed networks and services. With a proven track record, Atlantic Metro is committed to helping customers minimize risk, lower costs, and reduce time to market. Headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, Atlantic Metro provides easy-to-understand networking solutions with the highest level of customer care. The company’s visionary network management team strives to exceed customers’ expectations and foster long-standing relationships to help businesses succeed. For more information, visit atlanticmetro.net or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/atlanticmetro. Visit our blog at http://blog.atlanticmetro.net or contact us via email at sales@atlanticmetro.net.

Our client Paperless Post (http://www.paperlesspost.com) offers a unique online alternative to the traditional experience of sending and receiving holiday cards, as well as a variety of other digital announcements, invitations, and thank you notes. Unlike most e-cards or email invitation systems, Paperless Post offers a more refined, high-end, and beautiful product. They have successfully created digital stationary that translates the tactile experience of receiving a card to the screen.

Since founding the company several years ago, Paperless Post has taken the online
greeting card industry by storm and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, InStyle, and the Huffington Post, just to name a few. With over 1.5 million unique visitors per month, Paperless Post cannot afford any hiccups with their online business…this is where Atlantic Metro fits into the equation.

Atlantic Metro supports Paperless Post’s online application with its Infrastructure as a Service solutions, providing the company with cost-effective Cloud Hosting and reliable high-speed Metro Ethernet Transport. These types of services are essential for all online businesses. Our years of industry-experience and knowledge enabled us to design a custom solution that met Paperless Post’s unique needs.

“It is always very gratifying to see our customer succeed. Atlantic Metro is proud to help Paperless Post and many other web 2.0 companies with their mission critical hosting infrastructure,” states Stephen Klenert, co-founder and CSO of Atlantic Metro.

We encourage you to visit the Atlantic Metro blog in the future as we share more examples of our clients’ success and the ways they have leveraged Atlantic Metro services. And, as always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments section below.

Happy Valentine’s Day, and don’t forget to send your loved one a card via our client Paperless Post!

Backbone Capacity Upgrades
Several markets will be receiving capacity upgrades this year. Atlantic Metro will be deploying additional fiber-optic capacity to all of these sites over the course of 2012

• LGA1 – 325 Hudson St, New York, NY
• LGA2 – 60 Hudson St, New York, NY
• LGA3 – 111 8th Ave, New York, NY
• LGA4 – 121 Varick St, New York, NY
• LGA6 – 32 6th Ave, New York, NY
• SI1 – 7 Teleport, Staten Island, NY
• NJ3 – 5851 Westside Ave, North Bergen, NJ
• ORD0/1 – 350 E Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL
• LAX0 – One Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA

Business Internet and Metro Ethernet Transport—Network Reach Expands
Several additional markets have been added to our Business Internet and Metro Ethernet Transport Network, in addition to our existing footprint (Metro Ethernet Transport and Business Internet Access)

• Boston, MA area
• Washington DC area
• Baltimore, MD area
• Los Angeles, CA area
• San Franscisco, CA area
• Philadelphia, PA area
• Miami, FL area

Cloud Expansion
Several markets will have expanded Cloud service upgrades this year.

• LGA1 – 325 Hudson St, New York, NY  – Additional compute and storage nodes
• NJ3 – 5851 Westside Ave, North Bergen, NJ — Add Cloud services to the NJ market for disaster recovery and real-time failover
• ORD0/1 – 350 E Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL — Add Cloud services to the Chicago market
• LAX0 – One Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA — Expand our offerings in LA Market for Cloud services

Team Building
In order to accomodate for this tremendous growth, the remaining 11 months of 2012 will create many job opportunities, not limited to:

• Account Manager
• Customer Service Agents
• Operations Engineer – Tier 1
• Operations Engineer – Tier 2
• Network Engineer
• Storage Engineer

This year is looking very promising. Stick with us to see it all unfold!

-James

When choosing a cloud service for your enterprise, there are several things consider.

Public Cloud Offerings
Pro: Particularly useful for “informal” buyers, small to medium size business users or Enterprise users outside of the core IT Operations department.
Con: Public Clouds traditionally do not meet Enterprise security requirements.

Private & Hybrid Cloud Offerings:
Pro: Private Cloud Hosting or Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) as Service provides full control and is useful in the delivery of applications that have security and scalability requirements.
Con: Most of the perceived hourly cost savings marketed by “Public” Cloud providers can not be achieved in the Enterprise environment because the core components of their IT infrastructures are “Always-on”.

Atlantic Metro’s Thoughts
Public, Private, Hybrid, and Virtual Private Data Center as Service all play unique roles in the growing “CLOUD” marketplace. However, when it comes down to way Enterprise IT professionals utilize Cloud services, they need an Always-on and reliable delivery platform for their users. There are no costs savings to be achieved with mail servers, share point servers, or file servers. The true cost savings for Enterprise IT groups is the ability to deploy application resources quickly in a secure environment that meets all standards mandated by their companies.

Learn more about Atlantic Metro’s Virtual Private Data Center as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service offerings.

Contact us today for a FREE Cloud readiness evaluation and discuss opportunities that will allow you to curb your shrinking IT budget.

Besides the obvious changes such as logins, hostname, network information, and hosts file entry, one key item that is commonly overlooked is recreating the SSH keys. Recreating these keys will aid in the prevention of a possible MITM attack on your “secure” connection. If someone were to obtain your private key, they could quite possibly be able to hijack your network traffic.

Here is a real quick way to recreate the keys on a CentOS/Fedora based system:

# delete your existing private keys
rm -i /etc/ssh/*key*

# re-generate the rsa1 key
ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N '' -t rsa1

# re-generate the dsa key
ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N '' -t dsa

Feel free to place this in any “post install” script swapping out the “-i” switch with the “-f” switch for the “rm” command used in the example above. The “-i” switch stands for for “interactive”, meaning it will prompt you prior to the removal of said data. The “-f” stands for “force”. “Force” will ignore nonexistent files and will never prompt you. I choose the “-i” option for my own sanity.