sponsorship of BSD events

Intuix LLC sponsors two events this year - KyivBSD 2010 in Ukraine and
MeetBSD 2010 in California, USA.

The main reason for choosing these is because of technology they cover -
BSD, a Unix variant we utilize in our infrastructure.

As KyivBSD has passed, here is a short report on it.  THe event was
held in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine (where company founders
grew up, and many FreeBSD users exist.)  Apart from us, sponsors
include FreeBSD Foundation, iXsystems (both are also sponsoring
MeetBSD) and two other companies, V-Time (Ukrainian systems
integrator) and D-Link (well-known hardware manufacturer.)

The event took a full day, with eleven presentations, archived at
http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/arhiv/2010 ; of particular interest were:

"FreeBSD on amd64" by Konstantin Belousov with detailed discussion of
platform's benefits, Andrey Gapon's talk on kernel debugging,
Alexey Cheusov's story about mk-configure - a new approach of
multi-platform build tool, inspired by BSD make,
and Nikolay Dzham's presentation of clusters on FreeBSD utilitizing
Sun (I mean, Oracle) grid computing engine.

My apologies for possible misspelling names, and big thanks to
Alexander Yerenkov who did great work of organizing this mini-conference.

We are now on dot tel

Since yesterday, we publish our contact information via http://intuix.tel/ - this allows to quickly dial our customer service number or reach our web site (or even find our office... please give us little advaned notice if you plan it).

If you want to registerer your own .tel domain (or any other) - please contact us at domains at kolo.net.

IPv6 connectivity now offered

We are now fully ready for IPv6 revolution (just one location for now, more coming soon.)
When ordering, please specify in comments that you need IPv6 connectivity as well.

Existing customers, please contact your sales representative, or send direct twitter message
to @intuix (yes, this is our official channel there.)

And to test reachability of our IPv6 router, please run traceroute6 iloveipv6.kolo.net :-)

BGP connections turned on in two of our locations

We have started to utilize our new autonomous system (AS18865) and are now announcing our new address space by BGP in two of our three major locations, with third underway.

What does it mean to us?   More reliability (in case of one connection is down, another can be used), and more provider-independence (if one of our locations is closed, or full, customers do not necessarily have to renumber to new IP address space.)

What does it mean to our customers?  Savings in time, and increased network availability.

Stay tuned for IP version 6 connectivity announcement.

Update May 19th 2010: our third location added as well.

New bandwidth offers

I am happy to announce that we have just added two bandwidth options in all of our locations:

sustained megabit for $180 flat rate and two megabit for $350.  Both may require renumbering to our new IP address space -- a requirement we have to comply with ARIN policy of address conservaton.
They are listed together with our all other product and service offers.   As usual, 95% metering applies.

There is certain flexibility for customers with long-time history with us -- please email sales at intuix.com.

take care, and keep bytes rolling,
Dmitry