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Press Release: December 13, 2006
Schools can receive top of the line document storage at Discounted Rates
High Resolution Photos Available at: http://spoxel.com/press_images/Spoxel (http://spoxel.com), an online, Document Storage and Management service for individuals and businesses, announced today a program to give educational users discounted pricing. Under terms of the new program, qualified educational institutions will receive Spoxel's top-of-the-line "Corporate Server" with 2 GB of storage space at $49 per month. This doubles the storage complement provided in the normal server and represents a 34% discount to its normal pricing.
A Spoxel Server offers the tree-like arrangement of folders and files familiar to Windows Explorer users but with a greatly enhanced ability to annotate, share, tag, preview and search documents online compared with any such desktop-based utility. Typically used by professional organizations which collaborate with both internal and external individuals, Spoxel's Corporate Server can clearly meet the needs of schools, universities and research organizations for collaboration among its administrative, research and teaching constituencies.
"Spoxel's use of open source technologies, such as Ruby on Rails and Subversion, give it a next-generation Web 2.0 interface along with the performance, stability, and features needed for an industry-leading document management service. It is the perfect solution for educational sites and the document sharing needs of students within a single school or across schools worldwide," said Matt White, Spoxel's Chief Technologist.
"Researchers, teachers and students all create documents they want to post online, making the sharing, discussion and storage requirements of an educational institution surprisingly like those of a typical business," said John Davidson, Spoxel CEO. "Our academic customers let us know they were looking for the feature set of the Corporate Server but with an extended storage capacity suited for their large body of contributors. We are pleased to meet their needs by offering the product they requested at a very healthy discount."
To receive the educational discount, a representative of a sponsoring organization can simply indicate during server setup they are part of a qualifying institution. "We are proud to help educational users obtain our industry-leading document management offering in support of the contributions they make to the betterment of our next generation," added CEO Davidson.
About Spoxel
Spoxel offers to individuals, groups and businesses a web-accessible
"server" on which to place their online documents. Each server presents a
Windows Explorer-like paradigm enhanced with Web 2.0 extensions for
annotation, discussion, tagging, full-text searching, online creation,
online previewing and controlled sharing of folders and individual files. A
user with access to the servers of multiple different organizations sees a
network of servers all made simultaneously visible and searchable with a
single login. Spoxel is a product of the Kahala Code Factory, headquartered
in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Press Release: November 7, 2006
Spoxel Service Unshaken by Hawaiian Earthquake
Document storage company successfully maintained all company services during Hawaii's recent earthquakeHigh Resolution Photos Available at: http://spoxel.com/press_images/
Honolulu-based Spoxel (www.spoxel.com), a provider of online document storage for individuals and businesses, reports it successfully maintained all company services during Hawaii's recent earthquake. The company credits the use of 'best practices' in data center management for sustaining customer data and a host of recent Internet technology advances for sustaining customer support - despite an Islands-wide 24-hour blackout.
The Hawaiian Islands experienced a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in October 2006. The shock knocked out power state-wide for nearly 24-hours, shutting down businesses, tourist attractions, hotels, traffic lights, restaurants and even air travel. The quake temporarily stopped all phone communications to the U.S. mainland and crippled local service providers who did not have backup generators. Spoxel's online service was undisturbed and customer documents were successfully preserved because the company follows industry best practices for distributing and replicating data centers across hosting sites in multiple mainland locales. But the company's development and support activities are clustered in the Kahala district of Honolulu, just East of Diamond Head, where the disaster hit home.
CEO John Davidson explained "Spoxel's online server farms are designed to provide security for customer data with special provisions for disaster recovery. But what happens during the disaster? For 24-hours a lot of Hawaiians were in the dark, but our engineering team provided development and maintenance support with what I'd call 21st century candles such as mobile broadband connections and battery operated electronics!"
It took two things to re-establish control over the distant servers: Notebook PCs, used one-at-a-time for battery conservation, and high bandwidth wireless access cards to access a broadband carrier's still-operational on-island Internet trunk. "This combination had been tested by company engineers several times in case of such disasters," said Davidson. "Our staff attributes our success to the fact that our execution environment for the Spoxel service is all Open-Source Ruby on Rails, one of the most popular new tools for implementing today's Web 2.0 sites," added Matt White, Chief Technologist for the Company. "Ruby is an interpretive programming language, so the source code for all the Spoxel functionality is right there on the servers, where it can be easily modified from a distance. It's not the same as accessing the check-in/check-out facilities of our Source Control system here at our development center, but every aspect of our trouble shooting and bug fixing came back under our control".
"Our number one goal is to make Spoxel reliable and trouble-free access document storage for personal and business documents," said CEO Davidson. "Our job is to provide our customers stability and easy access remotely to their documents. I'm pleased we were able to do this in the midst of such abnormal conditions as hit our home island state. I suspect, had anyone known of our heroics, we would have earned a lot of Aloha from our customers around the world."
For more information or to try out Spoxel please visit http://www.spoxel.com.
Media Contact Information
Joanna Laznicka
Phaze-9 Corporation (Public Relations Firm)
joanna@phaze-9.com
phone 408-448-3113
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