Just another year of practically perfect network uptime.  How many 9’s was it exactly?  I dunno.  However, this is really getting redundant as its happening every year – Our 2014 uptime was once again somewhere around 99.9999%.

Speaking of uptime, in case you aren’t aware, our network is “fiber-cut proof.”  What does that mean?  Two of our upstream connections are via large capacity fiber optic cables, while our third is via high capacity, high speed microwave radios (the exact same technology that high speed financial traders use).  So if our two fiber cables get cut we can push all of our traffic through our backup microwave connection, and your site and email don’t miss a beat.

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Oban Lambie, owner of Brownrice Internet of Taos, accepts the Northern New Mexico 20/20 Award from Jack Jekowski, secretary of the board of directors of the Regional Development Corporation

TWO TAOS COMPANIES AMONG NINE IDENTIFIED AS HIGH-GROWTH COMPANIES, JOB CREATORS

Brownrice Internet and Private Label Select Honored at Northern New Mexico 20/20 Campaign Award Reception

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, NOVEMBER 17, 2014 – The Northern New Mexico 20/20 Campaign just exceeded its goal of identifying 20 high-growth companies in the region before the year 2020 with the nine inductees awarded last Thursday. To date, 25 businesses in Northern New Mexico have been honored for creating jobs and bringing revenue to the region.

To qualify as a nominee, companies must have a proven and developed product or service, two or more customers with fifty percent or more of their revenues coming from outside New Mexico, financial profitability and a solid plan for growth. A range of local elected officials, city and county governments and entrepreneurial support organizations provided the nominations, and each candidate went through a competitive screening process.

“Small businesses are the job creators in our economy. Specifically, these businesses honored by the 20/20 Campaign are effecting positive change here in New Mexico, and it’s vital that we all know who they are so we can support them,” said Kathy Keith, executive director of the Regional Development Corporation. “In one year, the 16 companies we named in 2012 and 2013 as winners have created more than 82 new positions and increased their revenues by more than $12.5 million.”

This year, nine area businesses were recognized at the awards reception held on Thursday, November 13 at Hotel Santa Fe:

Attack Research (Los Alamos) – The malware research company was founded in 2008 to meet today’s business security needs. Rapidly expanding, the Attack Research team is made up of professionals with years of experience in testing, incident response, training, malware analysis and reverse engineering.
Brownrice Internet (Taos) – The web hosting and streaming company offers award-winning spam and virus protection and serves clients worldwide. The company just launched a state-of-the-art customer control panel. Their new PCI-compliant data center is energy efficient and climate-controlled, and future plans include a 30kw solar parking structure on their lot to further their commitment to best environmental practices.
Flow Science (Santa Fe) – Flow Science’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solutions allow commercial, academic, and government researchers all over the world to accurately model physical processes across a broad range of applications including water and environmental, coastal and maritime, metal casting, manufacturing, microfluidics, biotech, consumer products and energy.
FLUTe (Alcalde) – Founded by scientist Carl Keller in 1996, FLUTe stands for “Flexible Liner Underground Technologies” and manufactures flexible borehole liners used for mapping ground water contamination and municipal water supply resources. The company’s product is gaining ground in the oil and gas and mining industries, and has been installed worldwide.
Jackrabbit Systems (Santa Fe) – JackRabbit Systems is an international software development company that facilitates direct online booking solutions for the travel and tourism industries. Working closely with hundreds of city and state tourism organizations, their Book › Direct Search Engine currently serves more than one million consumers each month and allows them to search websites for real-time rates and availability.
Old Wood (Las Vegas) – A family-owned company with milling operations based in Las Vegas and a showroom in Santa Fe, Old Wood harvests sustainably and reclaims wood from fire-afflicted areas in New Mexico. The company sends material from New Mexico across the world. Currently, the business is focused on getting their new patentable products out into the international market.
Private Label Select (Taos) – The family-managed company is currently moving into a 17,000-square-foot building and expanding their workforce. Private Label Select makes many of the natural and organic personal care and beauty products sold in large box retailers across the country. Their growth continues to skyrocket in the organic baby care and cosmetics industry.
Purple Adobe Lavender Farm (Abiquiu) – Purple Adobe Lavender is expanding two lines of products into the national market – the first is their lavender-based body care line. The second is a culinary line that includes lavender-infused salts. They have recently added a tearoom on their property in Abiquiu.
Vista Photonics (Santa Fe) – Formed in 2003, the company has developed world-class gas laser sensing techniques and has incorporated them into commercial instrumentation. The Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program has provided numerous opportunities for Vista Photonics to partner with government agencies to grow its research and manufacturing business. In addition to NASA, customers include the Department of Energy, USDA and the Department of Defense (Navy).

The Regional Development Corporation of Española launched the campaign in 2012. Since then, 25 companies have been named 20/20 Campaign award winners. Key partners in the Campaign are Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Los Alamos National Bank, New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), Enchantment Lands Certified Development Company, the Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) and Technology Integration Group (TIG).
For more information on the Northern New Mexico 20/20 Campaign, the partners supporting the initiative and the award winners, please visit www.NNM2020.org.

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About the Northern New Mexico 20/20 Campaign

The Regional Development Corporation of Española launched the campaign in 2012, which aims to develop at least 20 companies who are on track to double their workforce and/or revenues before the year 2020. Key partners in the Campaign are Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Los Alamos National Bank, New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), Enchantment Lands Certified Development Company, the Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI) and Technology Integration Group (TIG). To qualify as a nominee, companies must have a proven and developed product or service, two or more customers with 50 percent or more of their revenues coming from outside New Mexico, financial profitability and a solid plan for growth. Visit www.NNM2020.org.
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All of our managed servers, managed VPS’s, and internal servers have been patched and protected against POODLE.

We’ve patched every server, virtual server, and managed server on our network to protect against the Shellshock bash exploit.  We’re protected.

No other hosting company offers programmers AND lentils!  NONE!

Our streaming services will be offline for approximately 1 hour on Monday, August 10th, beginning at 3pm MT (GMT -6) for upgrades to our streaming servers and video players.  Because our customers are global this maintenance time affects the least amount of our viewers.  If there is a large event that you are expecting during that time (like another Hawaii hurricane!) please let us know and we’ll reschedule.

In the coming weeks after this upgrade is complete you will have these options for your video and radio players:

• Stream recording:  This service will automatically archive your live stream on our servers for later viewing (or listening in the case of our Radio streamers) and downloading, like a DVR and/or Video Security system.  So you’ll be able to go back in time to see what happened yesterday, last week, or last month on your live stream. This  storage option will be available for web camera streaming, live video, and radio station customers alike.
• Pre-roll Video:  This will give you the ability to login to our control panel and upload a video or audio file that will run prior to your live stream.  This will allow you to display ads or informational videos prior to your live stream.  This service will be available for all video and radio streaming customers.
• Email a snapshot:  Users will be able to click a button on your live video player to take a snapshot of the current video and email it to whomever they like with a personalized email and your company’s tag line included.   Email addresses will be automatically collected and provided to you.  This service will be available to web camera customers with Axis cameras only.
• Automatic Time-lapse: Our servers will take a snap shot every 15 minutes from your camera and store these images on our servers, then we’ll provide you with simple javascript embed code so that you can place this time-lapse video on any page of any web site.  In beta testing these timeless have been spectacular, even with PTZ cameras.  This service will be available to web camera customers with Axis cameras only.

We haven’t finalized pricing on these services (some may be free, or some may use freemium approach, some may cost) but I can assure you that just like our existing streaming services these prices will be the best prices on the internet!

Feel free to ask questions.

Thank you for your business!

Oban, Vanessa, David, Geordie, Joel and Logan

Brownrice Internet

http://www.brownrice.com

support@brownrice.com

575-758-4175