Tuesday, August 12, 2008

INTERNAP FORM 10-Q HIGHLIGHTS

Available at this link.

INTERNAP FORM 10-Q HIGHLIGHTS

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2008

1. Nature Of Operations And Basis Of Presentation

We deliver services through our 53 service points across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Our Private Network Access Points, or P-NAPs, feature multiple direct high-speed connections to major Internet networks including AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corporation, Verizon Communications Inc., Savvis, Inc., Global Crossing Limited, and Level 3 Communications, Inc. We operate and manage the Company in three business segments: IP services, data center services and CDN services.

3.
Segments

The following tables show operating results for our reportable segments, along with reconciliations from segment profit to loss before income taxes and equity in earnings of equity-method investment:

IP
Services
Data
Center
Services
CDN
Services
Other
Total
Three Months Ended June 30, 2008:
Revenues
$ 30,395 $ 26,511 $ 5,419 $ $ 62,325
Direct costs of network, sales and services, exclusive of depreciation and amortization, included below
11,401 20,028 2,055 33,484
Segment profit
$ 18,994 $ 6,483 $ 3,364 $ 28,841
Other operating expenses
32,414
Loss from operations
(3,573 )
Non-operating income
305
Loss before income taxes and equity in
earnings of equity-method investment
$ (3,268 )

6.
Income Taxes

At the end of each interim reporting period, we estimate the effective income tax rate expected to be applicable for the full year as required by Accounting Principals Board Opinion No. 28, “Interim Financial Reporting.” The effective income tax rate determined is used to provide for income taxes on a year-to-date basis. The tax effect of any tax law changes and certain other discrete events are reflected in the period in which they occur.

Our effective income tax rate, as a percentage of pre-tax net income, for the six months ended June 30, 2008 and 2007 was (13%) and (1%), respectively. The fluctuation in the effective income tax rate is attributable to discrete events including the creation of a deferred tax liability related to the tax amortization of goodwill from the acquisition of VitalStream in February 2007. Movement in the deferred tax asset caused a corresponding movement in the provision for income taxes during the six months ended June 30, 2008. The effective income tax rate for the year ending December 31, 2008 could further change due to number of factors including, but not limited to, our geographic profit mix between the U.K. and the United States, enactments of new tax laws, new interpretations of existing tax laws and rulings by taxing authorities.

We continue to maintain a full valuation allowance against our non-U.K. unrealized deferred tax assets of approximately $185.0 million, consisting primarily of net operating loss carryforwards. We may recognize deferred tax assets in future periods when they are estimated to be realizable, such as establishing expected continuing profitability on a consolidated basis or by certain of our foreign subsidiaries. To the extent we may owe income taxes in future periods, we intend to use our net operating loss carryforwards to the extent available to offset taxable income and reduce cash outflows for income taxes. Based on an analysis of our projected 2008 and 2009 domestic income, we may have sufficient positive evidence within the next twelve months to begin releasing the valuation allowance against our domestic deferred tax assets.

Tax years 2005 through 2007 remain open to examination by United States Department of Treasury. Currently in the U.K., the tax years which remain open to examination include 2004 through 2007. Additionally, other state and foreign jurisdictions remain open to examination. Net operating losses carryforwards remain subject to examination for the corresponding jurisdiction's statutory period following the period which the net operating loss is fully utilized.

8. Investments

etc. etc.

The Second Annual Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards

The Second Annual Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards

Internap products have been nominated for the Second Annual Streeming Media Readers' Choice Award.

A few slides with the nominations, which is also an intersting way to check competition on each individual product (as usual, click on the slides for a better vision):










NBCOlympics.com Early Results

from Limelight Network:

>>NBCOlympics.com Early Results

NBC has reported (and also told The Wall Street Journal) that NBCOlympics.com is off to a great start. Here’s the text from their official press release:

NBCOlympics.com followed up its record day on 8/8/08 with another enormous day of traffic. On Saturday (traditionally the lowest trafficked day of the week), the site garnered 62.7 million page views an increase of 475 percent from the opening day of competition of the Athens Games in 2006 (10.9 million).

Through two days NBCOlympics.com has totaled 132.6 million page views compared to 17.9 million page views for the first two days of the Athens Games an increase of 641 percent.

NBCOlympics.com registered 3.1 million video streams yesterday. By comparison, in Athens, the first day of competition received 115,014 video streams.

4.83 million unique users logged onto NBCOlympics.com yesterday an increase from the 4.21 million for 8/8/08 and nearly six times the unique users from the first day of competition in Athens (816,609 million).

NBC Universal, broadcasting its record 11th Olympics and surpassing ABC for the most Olympics broadcast by any network, will present an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Beijing Olympic Games coverage, the most ambitious single media project in history featuring the most live coverage (nearly 2,900 live hours in total), across the most platforms, of any Summer Olympics in history.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Internap annual meeting of stockholders - results


(a)

The annual meeting of stockholders was held on June 19, 2008.
(b)

The names of all directors are set forth below. The proxies for the meeting were solicited pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. There were no solicitations in opposition to the nominees as listed in the proxy and all such nominees were elected.
(c)

A brief description of each matter voted on and the approximate number of votes cast are as follows (on an actual vote cast basis):


Number of Votes






Withheld/

Broker
Description of Proposals

For

Against

Abstain

Non-Votes
Election of Directors for a term expiring in 2011:








Eugene Eidenberg

31,017,589

N/A

7,359,929

N/A
William Harding

34,878,541

N/A

3,498,977

N/A
Daniel Stanzione

33,307,192

N/A

5,070,325

N/A









Election of one Director for a term expiring in 2010:








Gary Pfeiffer

35,010,879

N/A

3,366,639

N/A









The following directors, who did not stand for election at the 2008 Annual Meeting, also currently sit on our Board of Directors: Charles Coe and Patricia L. Higgins, whose terms expire in 2009; and James P. DeBlasio and Kevin Ober, whose terms expire in 2010

















To amend the Certificate of Incorporation

36,323,000

1,644,824

409,692

N/A









To increase the number of shares available for issuance pursuant to the Amended and Restated Internap Network Services Corporation 2005 Incentive Stock Plan by four million shares

16,163,701

5,445,994

374,346

N/A









Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008

37,066,068

1,127,649

183,800

N/A

SingleHop to Launch IP Cast, First Real Pay-As-You-Go CDN on Labor Day

via http://www.cdnevangelist.com/

>> SingleHop to Launch IP Cast, First Real Pay-As-You-Go CDN on Labor Day

will offer 250 GB free CDN bandwidth per month for 3 full years for 300 accounts

Last update: 8:18 a.m. EDT Aug. 11, 2008
CHICAGO, Aug 11, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SingleHop, a Chicago managed hosting provider, today announced that it plans to launch IP Cast, a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering on Labor Day. SingleHop is accepting RSVP reservations for 300 free accounts it intends to give away on the launch date for anyone who advance RSVP's for IP Cast CDN service. 200 of the accounts are for anyone who purchases a server from SingleHop before launch date, and the remaining 100 will be reserved for clients who RSVP. The RSVP's will be processed first-come, first-served based on orders. Initially the offer will be available only to SingleHop customers, who have one or more servers with SingleHop that are priced $150 per month or more.
"I'd like to make it clear that this means for the first 3 full years of CDN service SingleHop customers who RSVP'd early will receive 250 GB of free monthly CDN bandwidth and a low overage rate of $0.20 pr GB, which is billed on actual usage," says Zak Boca, founder and president of SingleHop, Inc.
The new CDN offering represents a further expansion of SingleHop's growing portfolio of services and will include over 23 server nodes throughout the world. A CDN optimizes the delivery of web content so that it is received more quickly by end users, thereby enhancing the online experience. Efficient content delivery is seen as critical to the success of any online endeavor.
"This is a direct response to customer demand and an anticipation of what the Internet is becoming: a direct channel for content delivery. Building on the recent launch and success of our LEAP webtop portal and our series of Paramount servers, we are developing the most comprehensive and robust suite of services for companies seeking a virtually trouble free online presence within the managed, and unmanaged dedicated server space," adds Boca.
The planned CDN comes on the heels of numerous upgrades, expansions and innovations announced by SingleHop over the past 12 months, including the recent pre-launch offer of Supercharged servers, which sold out in under 48 hours, the announcement of LEAP, the server manager webtop client portal, the company's free 2GB RAM upgrade for existing clients, the release of Advanced Automatic Server Provisioning (AASP,) a technology, exclusive to SingleHop and LEAP, which drastically increases server installation time as well as reduces human error. LEAP features SingleHop's exclusive IP ensure technology, which guarantees that clients will only receive clean IP addresses.
To view the SingleHop LEAP webtop 5 minute demo video, please visit this URL: http://www.singlehop.com/poindexters_lab/leap_demo.php
About SingleHop, Inc.
SingleHop, Inc., is a full service managed dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective dedicated services. The company was founded by Zak Boca in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites worldwide. SingleHop Competitors include: SoftLayer, ThePlanet, FastServers, and RackSpace. The cornerstone of SingleHop managed hosting is the a la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services that were designed, and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise. www.singlehop.com

A Wells Fargo Fund Seeks Big Growth

>>Recent market volatility has offered new opportunities, Pence says. When the broader market sold off early this year, the fund found buys in cyclical stocks, banking on an uptick in the global industrial market.

In Q1, a dip in tech stocks offered an opportunity for the fund to add to Equinix (NasdaqGS:EQIX - News), a top holding as of the fund's latest disclosure.

Big companies, from investment banks to tech titans, tap firms like Equinix to provide space, power and cooling for their servers. Equinix's clients preserve capital by avoiding costly construction needed to build their own facilities.

For Equinix, it's a high-margin business that's produced improving earnings growth. Revenue growth has accelerated for seven quarters in a row. Equinix added 144 clients last quarter alone, Leach says.

A big pullback in Q1 and again after July 25 has left the stock down 22% so far this year. But the stock is up 38% off its March low.


Some Insight Into Apple's App Store Rejections - No Rumble For Force Feedback

Gizmodo is reporting that Apple rejected an application with force feed-back:

>>iPhone App de-listing may be mysterious process that takes place behind an opaque curtain of mystery,
but TUAW discovered that the approval process is just as undecipherable. Two developers contacted them recently to fill them in on why their apps were rejected, one of which—rejected because they used vibration in a game—seems pretty ludicrous to us.

No force feedback when your race car hits a wall or when your avatar takes a blow to the face. Seems quite arbitrary to us, seeing as most people should be able to figure out that a vibration in a game comes from the game itself, not from an SMS message that didn't also pop up a visual notification.

Update: Jonathan points out that the force feedback rule could be to avoid paying the patent on rumbling controllers that all the major console makers had to dish out on. Most recently (and notably) seen on Sony's PS3.

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Performance evaluation of a CyberKnife® G4 image-guided robotic stereotactic radiosurgery system

via a post by yyy60 on the Yahoo MB:

>>Performance evaluation of a CyberKnife® G4 image-guided robotic stereotactic radiosurgery system

Christos Antypas et al 2008 Phys. Med. Biol. 53 4697-4718 doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/016 Help


PDF (787 KB) | General scientific summary | References


Christos Antypas1,2 and Evaggelos Pantelis1
1 Medical Physics Department, Iatropolis, Magnitiki Tomografia, Clinic and Diagnostic Center, Ethnikis Antistaseos 54-56, 15231 Athens, Greece
2 Department of Radiology, Aretaieion Hospital, University of Athens, Vas Sophias 56, 11528 Athens, Greece
E-mail: cantypas@med.uoa.gr

Abstract. The aim of the current work was to present the performance evaluation procedures implemented at our department for the commissioning of a G4 CyberKnife system. This system consists of a robotic manipulator, a target-locating system and a lightweight 6-MV linac. Individual quality assurance procedures were performed for each of the CyberKnife subsystems. The system was checked for the mechanical accuracy of its robotic manipulator. The performance of the target-locating system was evaluated in terms of mechanical accuracy of both cameras' alignment and quality assurance tests of the x-ray generators and the flat-panel detectors. The traditional linac 6-MV beam characteristics and beam output parameters were also measured. Results revealed a manipulator mechanical mean accuracy of ~0.1 mm, with individual maximum position uncertainties less than 0.25 mm. The target-locating system mechanical accuracy was found within the acceptance limits. For the most clinically used parameters in the CyberKnife practice, e.g. 100–120 kV and 50–200 ms, kV and exposure time accuracy error were measured as less than 2%, while the precision error of the kV was determined as less than 1%. The acquired images of the ETR grid pattern revealed no geometrical distortion while the critical frequency f50 values for cameras A and B were calculated as 1.5 lp mm-1 and 1.4 lp mm-1, respectively. Dose placement measurements were performed in a head and neck phantom. Results revealed sub-millimeter beam delivery precision whereas the total clinical accuracy of the system was measured equal to 0.44 ± 0.12 mm, 0.29 ± 0.10 mm and 0.53 ± 0.16 mm for the skull, fiducial and Xsight spine tracking methods, respectively. The results of this work certify the G4 CyberKnife SRS system capable of delivering high dose distributions with sub-millimeter accuracy and precision to intracranial and extracranial lesions. Moreover, total clinical accuracy of the investigated G4 system was found to be improved for the skull and fiducial tracking methods and was comparable for Xsight spine tracking method compared with the earlier generation of the instrument.

Print publication: Issue 17 (7 September 2008)
Received 6 February 2008, in final form 3 June 2008
Published 11 August 2008

Equinix - back of the envelope calculation

Just playing a bit with numbers. This small forecast is based on today's footprint plus the already announced expansions (up to Secaucus and L.A. in 2Q 2009), which will give Equinix a total number of cabinets allowing the Company to reach revenue of about $ 1,100,000,000.

Assuming Equinix will hit the mid range of expectations for 2008 ($705 million), and continue to grow at a rate of 20% in 2009 and 15% in 2010 (which I believe can be a kind of conservative forecast, right now...), it is interesting to note that Equinix should reach $ 973.000.000 in revenue already in 2010.

It is even more interesting to forecast EBIDTA. Equinix should be able to improve EBIDTA and probably exceed 40% in 2008, to reach about 41% in 2009. It should be reminded that a long term target is about 48%, as stated in last year's Investor Conference in N.Y.

In 2010, Equinix will stop (wasting) paying $ 10,000,000 a year for S. Jose (old lease), and I assume that in 2009 the Company will acquire the new Secaucus location, saving about $ 4,000,000 a year in rent. Both events might increase EBIDTA to about 43%... bringing in, assuming revenue of $ 973 million, about $ 417 million in EBIDTA in 2010. Long term, exceeding $ 500,000,000...

A brief spreadsheet can be found here.

Note: I believe I've made a mistake assuming that the old S. Jose charge will improve EBIDTA, as there has been a restructuring charge for that - will update/change the post later on... August 15, 2008.

Kenneth G. Brill on servers' costs

Kenneth G. Brill is executive director of the Uptime Institute in Santa Fe, N.M.

In this Forbes.com article (via Data Center Knowledge), Kenneth Brill analyses the real cost of running a server and the impact of utility and data center costs. Among the most relevant info:

>>
The number of servers in the U.S. has grown from 5 million in 2000, to 10 million in 2005, to a projected 15 million in 2010. More servers eat up more electricity and energy costs go up. To avoid future energy shortages caused by increasing IT demands, 10 more power plants need to be built to the tune of $2 billion to $6 billion each and their cost is ultimately going to get passed on to IT through increased utility bills.

Facility costs are often overlooked in the IT investment process. The following table has been developed to present the facility costs for housing, powering and cooling a single $2,500 low-end server in a data center located in an optimal cost location in the U.S.

The figures in this table are remarkable primarily because most organizations have no idea what their facility cost for a single server is. The reason this table is so unique is that the costs shown are constructed from information not found in any single function or department.

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Data-center building depreciation is often carried separately from data-center mechanical and electrical equipment. Utility bills often go to a centralized energy function. Site operation costs for technicians, security staff, power and cooling equipment maintenance, property taxes and other costs are often split between facilities and IT budgets. Nowhere is the total picture consolidated.

So the information shown does not typically exist in a single place or function.

--Spending $2,500 on a server really means spending between $8,300 and $15,400 in facility capital to provide the necessary space for housing the server and powering it.

A classic story: One company's IT department decided to invest $22 million in blade servers but forgot to inform facilities. The facility investment required to merely plug-in the blades was an unplanned $54 million. An additional unplanned $30 million was required to run the blades over three years. So what appeared to be a $22 million decision was really an enterprise decision of over $106 million. This is an illustration of why IT and data center facilities need to be merged so the true total cost of computing ownership is better understood.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

WebHostingTalk - Equinix opinions

>>My understanding is that the Equinix facility in Chicago (the south loop location) is essentially full again, after expanding to an additional floor of 100,000 sq ft a few years ago, and rates for both power and space are definitely going up.

>>We're with Internap in Chicago Equinix. Equinix runs an awesome facility. Their Chicago facility is tight on space and power while the Elk Grove facility is fairly new with lots of available cooling, power, and space. I know Server Central has some space open and Internap has a few racks. All three wanted to push us to Elk Grove when we were looking for a new colo late in 2007.

>>Then my overview of Equinix is that they run some very nice facilities.
They certainly get most things right, the only real downside is the price and the fact you're dealing with a relatively inflexible behemoth in the industry. If they're offering what you want and you can afford the price, go for it, you can't do much better and it can be a big help on the marketing side.

They have space again in their Chicago facility? We've been trying to get another couple cabs up there for well over a year now and keep getting told they're sold out.

>>We have been using Equinix datacenter since 2004. I think they are quite all right. Many thinks Equinix is too expensive, but then we find them to be one of the cheapest for NY/East coast market. Our problem with them is with expandability. They are trying to sell their space and power to their most profitable clients. Depending on which type of client you are, they may deny (or delay/reserve) your requst for additional space/power.

>>In Chicago, the market I'm familiar with and the market the OP was looking at, things are significantly different, as their 350 E Cermak facility is full, they're charging a ton for it, while their Elk Grove facility is brand new, they're trying to get $1800+ a cab with 2x 20A circuits last I checked and then $350 a month for cross connects, etc. while at Gigenet, also in the CHicago suburbs, you can get it for less than $1200 a cab...

As a note, I got started in Equinix and Equinix builds some amazing facilities. The facilities are perfect for financial firms, etc. who are looking for the best and don't care that much about the budget. If you have the money, spend it there, you won't be disappointed, unless you need "smart" hands. :-)

>>It's been said that Equinix at 350 Cermak is pretty much full (and I keep hearing that as well). I was on the 5th floor yesterday, and I hadn't been there in about a year, and was surprised by the number of empty cages/suites I saw that had previously been occupied. I wasn't really expecting that.

Equinix is definitely expensive; whether it's worth it to you is a matter only you can decide. The remote hands at the Chicago facility have not been great in my experience, but my experience has typically been with inbound shipments of equipment and not anything really technical. Others I know have said the remote hands has been pretty good for them. But aside from the 25 minute power outage in June 2005, as far as I know they haven't had any facility outages in the last 5 years. That's still a pretty solid uptime record, and based on just anecdotal accounts as good or better than any other datacenter in the area. For many people, infrastructure quality and uptime is the #1 criteria in choosing a datacenter, before price, security, proximity, quality of remote hands, etc. Equinix has a solid reputation in that regard across the U.S., hence their facilities typically go for a higher rate and tend to get full.

Equinix "older" data centers

from WebHostingTalk:

>>And if you are going to go to Chicago,
stay out of Equinix's Datacenter in 350 Cermak. Equinix is basically full there and if they have anything left it is going to cost you a fortune. They have a facility in the suburbs that would be fine for you.

Equinix - deadlines

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Equinix - deadlines

Equinix FORM 10-Q - 2Q 2008 - highlights

100 + pages, resumed in 3. There's a good chance something got lost in the effort, but there's also a good opportunity to go through the most important staff in just a few minutes...

Here's the link to Google Docs.