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Hosting.com, Web Hosting Company, to Expand High-Density Data Center

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:21:20 GMT

Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - Managed hosting and colocation solutions provider, Hosting.com, is expanding by opening a 30,000 square foot datacenter and 13,000 square foot corporate complex in the Denver metro area in late August.

Joel Daly, COO of Hosting.com remarked, ''By operating five datacenters from coast to coast, we provide our clients with unparalleled solution and service options. Our business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) enhancements will provide clients with cost-effective means to achieve and test true disaster recovery and fault tolerance.''

Company owners Art Zeile and Joel Daly have operated three successful high-tech firms, all headquartered in Denver, including InFlow, Inc., sold to Sungard in 2005.

The demand for secure, reliable colocation space in Denver continues to outpace availability. Art Zeile, Hosting.com CEO, commented, ''We are excited to serve a very large need in Denver with this new datacenter. Colocation space with our high level of service and support is absent from downtown. We will grow aggressively over the next 24 months through a national platform of managed and secure services; we are excited that Denver is at the center of our growth.''

Hosting.com will occupy a historic Ford Model T factory retrofitted to their specifications for the expansion. The location takes advantage of a strong network topology, multiple power grids, and close proximity to fully redundant fiber feeds from Tier 1 providers. The datacenter will incorporate Hosting.com Smart Design Standards and provide up to 10 Gb/sec of redundant connectivity for bandwidth routing optimization as well as 200 watts/sq ft of power and cooling. It will be the only datacenter of its kind in downtown Denver.

In addition to hosting and colocation services, the new facility will support Hosting.com's new cloud hosting platforms, Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Private. Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; and San Francisco, CA. Hosting.com's cloud and virtualization solutions coupled with a geographically dispersed datacenter network allows their clients to take full advantage of their services for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery solutions for their web enabled businesses and technology infrastructure.

Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the Web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.

For more information on colocation space for custom-build or suite-arrangement options, please visit: https://secure.hosting.com/platform/data-centers/tour.aspx.

To learn more about Hosting.com, please visit: www.hosting.com.

Web Hosting Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Platform, Astro, at Layered Tech

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:58:22 GMT

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - Provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, Inc., has made Microsoft Windows Server 2008 available for rapid server deployments via Astro, the company's proprietary automated web hosting platform.

In addition to Windows Server 2008, Layered Tech offers the broadest range of high-performance, secure Linux and Unix operating systems in the industry, so customers leveraging the speed and flexibility of Astro can choose the OS that best meets their needs and provision the server almost instantaneously.

Terrance Bush, COO and CIO of Layered Tech remarked, ''By adding Windows Server 2008 to our rapid deployment server offerings, customers can stay current with the latest offerings from Microsoft, explore new features with the .NET product offering and leverage a rich web server environment that is more robust and feature-driven than previous versions of IIS. We continue to evaluate the latest and greatest server technologies to determine what will best meet our customers' needs and support their business goals. We're excited to make Windows Server 2008 available within our rapid deployment service offering, provide our customers a wide variety of robust operating system options, and deliver powerful servers in less than two hours after selection.''

With Windows Server 2008, customers can develop, deliver and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within their organizations. Astro displays server inventory in real-time and enables near instantaneous server provisioning so Layered Tech customers can easily configure their server, complete the purchase and have it available for use within 90 minutes.

The Windows Server 2008 editions currently available via Astro include:

Data Center Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications on medium and large servers;
Standard Edition: the most robust Windows Server operating system to date due to its increased reliability, flexibility and control;
Enterprise Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications.

Through Astro, customers can quickly customize their rapid deployment servers with a wide range of offerings, including the option to deploy IIS, Plesk Control Panel, Virtual Firewall Solutions and DEFCON bundled managed services. And with Encompass, Layered Tech's centralized client management portal, customers can manage their account, request support, reboot servers and access other critical information such as bandwidth graphs, alerts and notifications.

Layered Tech launched Astro in January 2009 in its DataBank data center located in Dallas and continues to broaden the autonomous platform so customers can take advantage of additional services within minutes, not hours or even days. It plans to expand Astro into its Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Chicago facilities in the near future. Customers can access Astro and buy servers directly through Layered Tech's web site and with an open API created by Layered Tech, partners can display inventory and coordinate sales in real-time from their own Web sites.

Layered Technologies is a leading global provider of managed dedicated hosting, on-demand virtualization/cloud computing and web services. By providing high-quality technology, infrastructure and support, Layered Tech enables customers to eliminate capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Tech's scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce, software as a service (SaaS), content distribution and more. Our clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world's largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.LayeredTech.com.

Sun Microsystems, Web Hosting Provider, Upgrades Developer Community, NetBeans

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:47:13 GMT

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.7 has been released by web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the NetBeans developer community.

The new version of NetBeans features tight integration with Project Kenai, Sun's collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects. Developers can download the free, full-featured NetBeans IDE 6.7 at www.netbeans.org.

Jim Parkinson, vice president of Developer Products and Programs at Sun remarked, ''The advances in the latest version of NetBeans will have a huge impact in the productivity of developers. The integration between NetBeans and Kenai allows developers to stay in their IDE and quickly navigate between Kenai.com, local code, bug reports, IM chats and project wikis. Instead of interruptions, interactions with code, or looking for project information, team members become a natural part of the developers' workflow.''

The tight integration of the new NetBeans IDE will enable millions of developers to discuss, edit, debug and commit code through one easy-to-use interface. Other key features of NetBeans IDE 6.7 include:

Support for Maven, a community software project management and comprehension tool;
New Team menu provides access to projects on Kenai.com;
Automated continuous integration system with Hudson, an extensible Java-based solution to which makes it easier for developers to integrate changes to their project, and makes it easier for users to obtain a fresh build;
Improved PHP support allowing developers to connect with each other and the latest technologies;
Support for Zembly, a single registry and repository of popular Web APIs. The Zembly Client Library NetBeans plug-in enables developers to discover popular APIs and with a simple Drag and Drop functionality, create the necessary code to consume the APIs from Java and JavaFX applications.

The integration with Kenai.com will allow developers to stay in the IDE to create projects in the cloud, get sources from Kenai projects, query, open and edit issues for them using Bugzilla. NetBeans IDE users can also quickly navigate between Kenai.com hosted projects and local sources while developers can easily stay connected with other team members with an integrated chat, Kenai's user profiles, wikis, and mailing lists. Learn more about Project Kenai at www.kenai.com.

Other highlights of the NetBeans IDE 6.7 release includes improved PHP and GlassFish software support. The NetBeans IDE provides a rich set of features for Ruby, Groovy, and JavaScript and other technologies. Support for JavaFX 1.2 technology is currently available for NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 and will soon be available for NetBeans IDE 6.7. Learn more at www.netbeans.org/features.

Sun also offers a tiered set of developer support services for its software offerings, ranging from single incident to comprehensive developer plans. In addition, with a broad portfolio of training and certification offerings, developers can enhance their skill sets to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies.

Sun's Start-Up Program is designed for members to work with Sun partners, Joyent and NaviSite, to rent discounted web hosting infrastructure based on Sun technologies. In addition to offering products and services to eligible PRC- and India-based startup companies, Sun is also offering free technical advice via email and access to free software, such as Apache, MySQL and Perl (AMP), optimized to run on the Solaris 10 OS. More information on the program, is available at www.sun.com/startupessentials.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- The Network is the Computer -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

To learn more about Netbeans, please visit: www.netbeans.org/kb/support.html.

For more about Sun's Startup Essentials program, visit: www.sun.com/startups.

Hosted Cloud Services with Multi-Tenancy, Released by Gear6

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:35:04 GMT

Mountain View, California - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - The next version of Gear6 Web Cache, specifically targeting the needs of cloud providers, has been released by provider of scalable Memcached solutions, Gear6.

Joaquin Ruiz, Executive Vice President of Products noted, ''As more applications move to the cloud, hosting providers are challenged to simultaneously augment their infrastructure, differentiate their services, provide data security and scale economically. Today, Memcached is already a fundamental pillar in horizontally scaling web applications within all top origin sites. Gear6 Web Cache 2.3 delivers the integration, security, performance and scalability that cloud providers require in order to easily and effectively deliver advanced Memcached functionality to all their hosted customers, enabling those customers to virtually scale like the big guys.''

Gear6 Web Cache version 2.3 includes multi-tenancy capabilities with secured Memcached zones that enable managed hosting (MHP) and cloud service providers to deliver Memcached as a service to their customers. With Gear6 Web Cache, hosted web sites can scale out more effectively for improved performance and continuous data availability.

Released in April and already deployed in a number of top 500 websites, Gear6 Web Cache helps fast growing media, social networking, content aggregation, and other dynamic websites to cost effectively scale their Memcached infrastructure. The results are improved site performance, increased visibility into application and infrastructure tiers, and more than a 60% reduction in typical capital and operational expenses.

The new multi-tenancy support in Gear6 Web Cache 2.3 includes IP address sharing, higher levels of security with IP-based access control list and filtering, and rich programmatic access of Gear6 Web Cache. Managed hosting and cloud providers can easily offload Memcached workloads onto Gear6 Web Cache and federate the service to many customers.

Other key new features in Gear6 Web Cache 2.3 include: -- A web services interface for programmatic management of the Gear6 platform. This makes it easier to integrate with interfaces used by managed hosting and cloud providers. -- Reporting of Memcached statistics via SNMP, which lets customers plug into their existing alerting and reporting infrastructure. -- New advanced reporter providing in-depth detail on cache usage, cache health, items, storage, clients and keys; and a new mobile version of the advanced reporter that enables users to view cache statistics on mobile devices. -- Support for up to 384GB of Memcached memory space per rack unit of data center space.

Gear6 Web Cache 2.3: Availability and Early Access for Cloud Providers

This new version of Gear6 Web Cache will be available as part of an early access program for MHP and cloud providers by 30 July 2009. Gear6 is currently accepting applications from MHP and cloud providers interested in evaluating Gear6 Web Cache 2.3.

Gear6 is the first and leading provider of scalable Memcached solutions, enabling high-growth media, social networking and content aggregation web sites to deliver and scale dynamic applications and content. By focusing on the emerging need for a dedicated web caching tier, Gear6 solutions dramatically improve the scalability of web applications and databases, improving quality of service and reducing infrastructure cost. Gear6's flagship offering is Gear6 Web Cache, a Memcached protocol-compliant solution that enables web site developers and operators to scale web services and applications, to save money, rack space, power and time, to protect users and sites from failures and traffic spikes, and to manage all aspects of caching operations. Gear6 corporate headquarters are in Mountain View, California.

To learn more, please visit: www.gear6.com.

Web Hosting Firm, Lunarpages, Selects CoreLink Data Centers

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:20:12 GMT

Las Vegas, Nevada - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2009 - Tier 3 provider of colocation and disaster recovery solutions, CoreLink Data Centers, has been chosen by provider of web hosting services, Lunarpages, as its datacenter provider in Las Vegas.

CoreLink is providing Lunarpages with high density power and cooling facilities to support the mission-critical web hosting applications that are requiring more processing power to meet the demand of their end-users.

George Natzic, Chief Operating Officer of Lunarpages remarked, ''We selected CoreLink Datacenters because of their high level of expertise in the area of high density datacenter and disaster recovery solutions. Our ability to create and deliver secure, reliable and available solutions is the cornerstone of our offering. We sought a partner that has extensive experience and understands the importance of the volume and depth of services we provide for our clients.''

Geoff Hampson, CEO of CoreLink added, ''Lunarpages provides a high level of service to their end-users, requiring power densities at a minimum of 200 wsf. Working with Lunarpages we developed a strategy to provide a solution that met Lunarpages' needs, including modular scalability and flexibility to maximize efficiency. Their position as a premier provider of web hosting services is fully supported by CoreLink Datacenters with absolute security and guaranteed availability. We are excited to be working with Lunarpages. This contract demonstrates our commitment to building relationships with our customers based on their needs today and into the future.''

Founded in 1998, Lunarpages is a leading provider of affordable, shared and dedicated Web hosting services worldwide. The privately held company is recognized for its unparalleled customer service, reliability, and quality that helps meet the diverse needs of its more than 150,000 sites. Lunarpages also gives back to the community by offering free web hosting for qualified schools.

Founded in 2007 CoreLink Data Centers offer state-of-the-art facilities, colocation services and the management of mission-critical business applications for high bandwidth networks. The company brings together the best in colocation and reliable network solutions to provide a high quality service for day-to-day network requirements, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. CoreLink's datacenters are located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Phoenix, Arizona, and Seattle, Washington.

For additional information regarding CoreLink locations, please visit: www.corelink.com.

To learn more about Lunarpages, please visit: www.lunarpages.com.

Network Solutions Web Hosting Firm, Debuts July 4th Promotion

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:03:45 GMT

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2009 - Web hosting provider, domain name registration and services firm, Network Solutions, recently announced, in celebration of Independence Day, that it will offer .US names at a discounted price.

Sean Kaine of Network Solutions remarked, ''The World Wide Web is moving beyond .com. As new top level domains are being added, the .US domain name extension remains a popular alternative for domain name registrations.''

After the original .com, .net and .org domain name extensions, .US is one of the most popular among United States individuals. The .US domain name is useful in signifying that a business is American owned and operated, as well as for companies for whom the business name .com domain name extension is taken by another organization.

Surrounding the July 4th celebration of Independence Day in the US, Network Solutions will have a banner on their Web site storefront offering access to the $9.99 .US domain name promotion.

Mr. Kaine added, ''Registering a .US domain is just as easy as before. But this discount offers added incentive.''

Network Solutions is a provider of web solutions and domain name registration services, offers a full range of web-related services, including web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions is privately owned by General Atlantic a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great management and build exceptional businesses worldwide.

For more information, please visit: www.networksolutions.com.

Hosting SIP Plans Power E-Business, from Nexcess Magento

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:55:57 GMT

Ann Arbor, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2009 - Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ''We've been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we'd put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we'd hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand - but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.''

Mr. Wells added, ''Magento is a complex piece of software, and we've put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.''

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ''We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We'll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.''

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Hosted Data Center Provider, Digital Realty Trust, Welcomes Capgemini

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:39:25 GMT

Dublin, Ireland - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2009 - Wholesale datacentre provider, Digital Realty Trust, Inc., has completed a Turn-Key Datacentre lease agreement with consulting, technology and outsourcing services firm, Capgemini.

The agreement specifies that Capgemini will establish a new datacentre in a Digital Realty Trust property in France during the summer to support the growth of its datacentre infrastructure.

Bernard Geoghegan, Senior Vice President, International Operations of Digital Realty Trust remarked, ''We are delighted to be working with Capgemini on this important datacentre project for its global IT strategy. Our Turn-Key Datacentre is an ideal solution for corporate customers such as Capgemini, allowing them to focus on deploying their IT systems in a timely, cost effective manner with a datacentre infrastructure partner they can rely on for the long term.''

Over the past two years Capgemini has put much effort into upgrading its hosting offering in order to provide its clients with maximum resilience and security levels, optimisation of energy costs, together with a high level quality of services. Capgemini chose Digital Realty Trust because it specialises in datacentre facilities, has international operations, and is financially sound.

Olivier Herrmann, Deputy Chief Operations Officer, Outsourcing Services at Capgemini explained, ''By leasing space in its facility, we are able to move forward immediately with our datacentre plans without the significant capital investment ordinarily associated with large hosting projects. We also chose Digital Realty Trust because of the company's proven track record of supplying reliable solutions to the world's leading companies.''

Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) facilities provide state-of-the-art environments for supporting mission critical infrastructure, with advanced cooling, power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that critical applications are available while optimising energy efficiency. Digital Realty Trust's Turn-Key Datacentres(SM) are scalable from hundreds of kilowatts of IT Load to megawatts of IT load and are located in markets throughout North America and Europe. Each Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimised for green operation. Every Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) is built using the company's proprietary POD Architecture(SM) and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use.

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Digital Realty Trust owns, acquires, redevelops, develops and manages technology-related real estate. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacentre(SM) and Powered Base Building(SM) datacentre solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty Trust's 75 properties, excluding one property held as an investment in an unconsolidated joint venture, contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacentre tenants. Comprising approximately 1.2 million square metres (13.0 million square feet) as of April 30, 2009, including approximately 111,000 square metres (1.2 million square feet) of space held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust's portfolio is located in 27 markets throughout Europe and North America.

Capgemini, a consulting, technology and outsourcing services firm, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience(TM). The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore(R), which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2008 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and employs over 90,000 people worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.capgemini.com.

For additional information about Digital Realty Trust, please visit: www.digitalrealtytrust.com.

Web Host Boot Camp Participants, Offered Discounts, by Kayako

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:18:24 GMT

Portage, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2009 - Kayako, along with Web Host Boot Camp, is offering a special sales promotion for hundreds of its conference attendees on Kayako's customer service software solutions.

Jamie Edwards, operations manager at Kayako stated, ''Kayako has a long established presence in the web hosting and internet service provider community, supplying customer service and live engagement software solutions to providers of all kinds and sizes. We are very excited to be sponsoring the Web Host Boot Camp 2009 virtual conference, a first of its kind for this industry.''

Kayako is a Platinum Sponsor of this summer's Web Host Boot Camp virtual conference, offering three turn-key, online support desk software solutions: SupportSuite, eSupport, and LiveResponse. The solutions offer an array of help desk management and live chat functionality.

Conference attendees are able to receive 10 percent off Kayako Support Suite, eSupport, and Live Response hosted, leased, or owned licenses. To receive the promotion, customers simply enter the ''WHBC09'' coupon code during purchase.

Zachary McClung, president of Web Host Boot Camp added, ''Web Host Boot Camp is a key gathering place for industry professionals, and our attendees derive real value from the opportunity to learn more about new products and services and interact with the industry's leading vendors. Kayako's involvement in this summer's virtual conference is exciting and substantive.''

Unlike traditional conferences, Web Host Boot Camp is exclusively web-based, offering attendees access to high-profile speakers and exciting vendors - all without leaving their desk. Speakers at the inaugural Web Host Boot Camp have included marketing strategist Hartland Ross, hosting industry veteran Kayla Fleming, marketing consultant Douglas Hanna, and many more.

Web Host Boot Camp is the first-ever virtual conference exclusively for web hosting companies, hosting resellers, web designers, and anyone who wants to build a successful web hosting firm. Established by business consultant Zachary McClung, Web Host Boot Camp has everything a physical conference would have except the high expense of traveling, room, and board. Web Host Boot Camp is free to attend. Sponsorships and exhibit booths are available and are limited in number.

To learn more about sponsorship opportunities for future Web Host Boot Camp events, please visit: www.webhostbootcamp.net/sponsors.php.

Dedicated Server Hosting Company, ServerPronto, Joins Twitter

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:01:10 GMT

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2009 - Dedicated server provider, ServerPronto, has joined the popular social networking platform, Twitter, a free microblogging site incorporated in 2007, which has fast become one of the most popular ways for companies to interact with customers and learn more about their clientele's needs.

Octavio Diaz, COO of ServerPront remarked, ''We started this company by listening to customers and that commitment is as strong as ever today. That's why we're excited about being on Twitter, because it gives us an unprecedented opportunity to interact with and learn from our customers.''

Twitter has nearly 14 million users in the United States alone, according to a recent survey done by Nielsen Online. Members of Twitter can follow friends, family members, and businesses to keep track of what they are doing, to ask them questions or send them direct messages, and to keep their followers updated on what they are doing.

To further provide service to their customers and Twitter followers, ServerPronto will be regularly tweeting special offers which will save customers money on various ServerPronto hosting packages and mail server packages.

ServerPronto also has added an email the CEO form allowing website visitors to quickly communicate with the CEO with any questions or concerns. Just visit www.serverpronto.com/asktheceo.php to get started.

Mr. Diaz explained, ''It's all part of ServerPronto's continuing mission to be as open and accessible to clients as possible.'' Every email written to the CEO will be read by him personally.

ServerPronto is part of the 'Pronto family' of companies with MailPronto and ColoPronto which have been leading a low-cost revolution in the hosting industry since 2003. Following in those footsteps, ServerPronto is breaking the price barrier for dedicated hosting in secured and reinforced Data Centers with redundant power, lightning fast fiber connections, and 24X7X365 support from a staff with more than 10 years experience building and maintaining servers and computer networks.

Anyone interested in following ServerPronto on Twitter can find them at: www.twitter.com/serverpronto.

To learn more, please visit: www.serverpronto.com.

Reseller Agreement for Integrated Data Systems SA, Ensim Web Hosting Software

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:50:39 GMT

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - Provider of user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Corporation, has entered into a reseller agreement with Integrated Data Systems SA (IDSA), a company specialized in the design, implementation and maintenance of IT networks.

Under the terms of the agreement, IDSA will sell and support Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to its multi-national customer base in Switzerland.

Dianne Little Goriup, managing director consulting services at IDSA noted, ''At Integrated Data, our primary focus is to provide our customers with expert advice and network assistance to ensure that their IT infrastructure projects go smoothly. Ensim is an ideal partner for us because, with Ensim Unify, we're able to offer a best-in-class solution that meets the high standards that our customers have come to expect from us.''

IDSA is focused on providing companies and organizations with IT solutions that prepare and protect them in a technology-based world. Backed by years of network integration experience and using products from MICROSOFT, NOVELL, and other best-of-breed products in the industry, IDSA can design, maintain, manage, and secure its clients' IT systems.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition installs quickly, requires no Active Directory (AD) schema changes, and delivers instant savings by reducing the number of help desk calls as much as forty percent, allowing enterprises to streamline AD management challenges that include user provisioning, password management, and role management in a secure framework. In addition, Ensim Unify eliminates repetitive administrative tasks, helping improve workforce effectiveness and enabling IT departments in medium and large-sized organizations to focus on more strategic tasks.

Scott Young, vice president of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation added, ''IDSA successfully helps customers build, manage and secure networks, and Ensim Unify is the perfect product to help them meet their clients' needs. By entering into this reseller agreement, we will be able to put Unify into the hands of even more organizations that will benefit from the increased security and improved efficiency of their IT organization.''

Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1990, ID Integrated Data SA has focused on providing companies and organizations with smart IT solutions that prepare and protect them in this fast paced, technology-based world. IDSA's team of network engineers have many years of experience in enterprise-wide IT system integration, IT consulting and project management, management of servers and network services, and training, knowledge transfer and certification.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access control software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft.

For more information on Ensim's Partner Program, please visit: www.ensim.com/partners/index.html.

To learn more Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition, please visit http://www.ensim.com/products/ensim_unify/unify_enterprise_edition/download.html.

For more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Hosted Green Data Center EvoSwitch, Chosen as Internet HUB for Wikimedia Europe

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:39:30 GMT

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2009 - Carrier-neutral data center in Amsterdam that operates fully CO2-neutral, EvoSwitch, has entered into a contract operator and owner of Wikipedia, with The Wikimedia Foundation.

As part of the contract, Evoswitch is providing over 300,000 euros of in-kind support in the form of bandwidth and hosting services. Wikimedia will use the Amsterdam site as its HUB for Europe.

Brion Vibber, Chief Technology Officer for the Foundation explained, ''We're very pleased with EvoSwitch's professional and well secured data center environment, which includes a highly cost-efficient infrastructure in a location that is of great strategic importance to us. We will be using the Amsterdam site for caching in particular, aiming to reduce the response time of our project websites in Europe. EvoSwitch will also be a good location for backing up content that is stored at our Florida data center. Finally, we will be relocating European publishing projects to EvoSwitch, such as Toolserver.org - a project of the German Wikimedia chapter.''

The Wikimedia Foundation manages eight distinct, open, wiki based publishing projects, including the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Wikipedia is consistently ranked one of the top five most visited websites in the world by comScore MediaMetrix, serving billions of page views every month. All Wikimedia's publishing projects are hosted on a central data infrastructure based in Florida, USA. The complementary part of the infrastructure will now be based in Amsterdam at the EvoSwitch data center.

Mr. Vibber considers the environmentally friendly nature of EvoSwitch another advantage. Mr. Vibber added, ''As operators of one of the most heavily accessed web property on the web, we are aware of the impact that the Internet and its energy consumption have on the environment. EvoSwitch's energy-saving measures, combined with their use of green energy and CO2 compensation are very attractive to us.''

The Wikimedia Foundation's hosting infrastructure in Florida encompasses over 300 servers. The Foundation will install about 50 servers at the EvoSwitch site in Amsterdam.

According to Mr. Vibber, ''The Amsterdam servers will both retrieve the content from the servers in Florida, as well as store it. Web pages can then be displayed to Internet users directly from Amsterdam, which will improve the speed and accessibility of the web pages in Europe significantly. I expect that we will further increase our capacity at EvoSwitch in the near future due to the required storage capacity and new European publishing projects.''

The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization with idealistic objectives that are in line with EvoSwitch's corporate objectives. &

Eric Boonstra, Commercial Director at EvoSwitch remarked, ''We are strong supporters of Wikimedia and their Wikipedia publishing project in particular, confirms The Foundation's operations coincide with the objectives of our own organization, to keep the Internet 'open' and stimulate freedom of expression and the transmission of knowledge via the Internet. This partnership is all the more special to us because of Wikimedia's faith in EvoSwitch.''

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization which operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 300 million unique visitors per month, making them the 4th most popular web property world-wide. Available in more than 265 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 12 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.

EvoSwitch is a carrier-neutral, green data Center (CO2-neutral). The data center is very energy efficient and has a PUE of 1.6 with a near-term goal of 1.2. EvoSwitch is located in the Amsterdam region, has good connections and a spacious floor area of more than 9,000 m2. EvoSwitch is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. To customers this means that their IT infrastructure within EvoSwitch is protected according to the highest standards. The data center has a total capacity of 20 Megawatt. This power capacity enables EvoSwitch to guarantee customers that there is always enough energy available. EvoSwitch operates fully climate-neutral. In cooperation with the Climate Neutral Group the data center invests in worldwide projects to restore the CO2 balance in the atmosphere. Companies that install their equipment in the EvoSwitch data center can use the logos of the The Green Fan Partner Programme on their web sites to show that they use a climate-neutral data center.

To learn more about The Wikimedia Foundation, please visit: www.wikimediafoundation.org.

For more information about EvoSwitch, please visit: www.evoswitch.com.

Rackspace Hosting Provider, Teams with Denim Group

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:32:17 GMT

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 25, 2009 - Hosting services provider, Rackspace, has entered into an agreement with IT consultancy that develops secure software and helps organizations assess and mitigate risks with their existing software, the Denim Group.

The Professional and Consulting Services Partner Agreement between the companies details that Denim Group will provide application security services for Rackspace and its clients.

John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Hosting remarked, ''For companies looking to migrate to Hosted and Cloud applications, Denim Group can help evaluate and recommend security strategies in this new business paradigmOur relationship with Denim Group, allows us to extend our consulting services to provide deeper offerings in the application security services market. Denim Group has a track record of proven delivery with Rackspace, and the fact that we're both located in San Antonio makes this relationship even more beneficial.''

As part of the relationship, Denim Group will conduct code reviews, deliver secure software development training, and evaluate software development strategies for Rackspace clients.

Dan Cornell, Prinicpal of Denim Group added, ''We are pleased to join forces with Rackspace in providing additional support in this area. Hosted and Cloud computing have certain risks, making security more important than ever. By teaming with Rackspace, customers can now have a more complete set of service options in order to secure their custom software.''

Denim Group develops secure software, helps organizations assess and mitigate risk with existing software, and provides training on best practices in software security. Denim Group has worked with a range of Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations, bringing a focused software development approach to the world of software security. The Company provides clients with secure .NET and Java development services remediates serious software flaws in existing application portfolios. Denim Group also identifies vulnerabilities and quantifies risks that vulnerable applications represent through assessments, code reviews, and application-focused penetration testing. Training complements Denim Group's development and testing services by helping organizations build an internal competency in secure software development and testing through a combined classroom instruction and e-Learning approach.

Denim Group is a strong contributor to the larger application security community, and has been involved with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) since shortly after its inception. Additionally, Denim Group was ranked 1101 in Inc. Magazine's 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America in 2008.

As a global leader and specialist in hosting, Rackspace Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company's mission to be one of the world's greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).

For more information about Denim Group, please visit: www.denimgroup.com.

To learn more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Web Hosting Provider, AptHost, Releases Web 2.0 Design Services

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:18:02 GMT

Seattle, Washington - (The Hosting News) - June 25, 2009 - Web hosting provider of of shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated hosting services, AptHost Communications USA Inc., has launched its new website.

From its inception in 2001, AptHost has been providing the web hosting market with quality hosting services to meet the needs of individuals and small businesses. In early 2006, AptHost found its niche in the social media market by providing web hosting services to individuals with social media and video sharing related websites.

Cody McLain, President of AptHost explained, ''The launch of our new website is a landmark achievement for us as we continue to grow rapidly in the hosting community. Our new website is the first step as we begin to increase advertising and improve our internal infrastructure which will ultimately allow us to serve more clients and keep our existing clients happy.''

AptHost plans to focus on rapid development in the upcoming months with plans to open a new office in Bellevue, WA and a planned increase of US based employees to support an influx of new customers. Recently AptHost moved all of its shared, reseller and vps hosting servers to ThePlanet.com after forming an exclusive partnership. The move has increased AptHost's reliability and uptime with the cooperation of ThePlanet Internet Services.

Mr. McLain added, ''Since the company was recently acquired by RSDV, myself and our new management team has been focusing on providing the highest quality of hosting services and with the improvements we plan to implement before the end of the year, I believe we can become known as one of the highest quality Hosting providers on the market.''

With the addition of AptHost's new website, customers can enter in coupon code "SUMMER" which will give 25% off any initial order, no matter what billing cycle is selected.

Founded in 2001, AptHost.com started its enterprise on the web in early 2003. Since then, AptHost.com has been a provider of Linux-based web hosting services for Personal, Small, and Medium Sized businesses. AptHost is owned by RSDV.

Founded in 2004, Rancho is a US Public Company with ticker symbol RSDV. RSDV is a diversified development company based in Madera, CA.

For more information about RSDV, please visit: www.rsdv.net.

To learn more, please visit: www.apthost.com.

Web Hosting Tutorial Sale for New Joomla Products, Continued by DemoWolf

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:04:17 GMT

Nova Scotia, Canada - (The Hosting News) - June 25, 2009 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, is offering newly released series of 84 brand new tutorials for Joomla, a popular open-source CMS system, divided into 5 separate series.

DemoWolf had previously released 3 series of tutorials for Joomla (an Installation, Administration and Content Management series), but they were not as complete as they could have been. These NEW Joomla tutorials released today are much more descriptive, and cover many more aspects of Joomla... virtually anything a user would want to know about Joomla is covered.

The new tutorials are divided into 5 separate series as follows:
Joomla New Setup series (20 demos)
Joomla New Admin series (17 demos)
Joomla New CMS series (17 demos)
Joomla New Extensions series (18 demos)
Joomla New End-User series (12 demos)

DemoWolf's Winter Sale has also been extended until June 30, 2009, whereby all their tutorials are on at 50% off regular prices, and even greater savings when larger bundles are ordered. Orders received during regular business hours are usually filled within 1 hour, while off-hours orders are filled the following morning.

Joomla is a very popular, open source content management system for publishing content on the internet. It is widely offered by web hosting companies, and very easy to use. The five new Joomla series offered by DemoWolf allow web hosts to easily offer support to their customers who use Joomla. Now they can learn how to setup and use Joomla as an administator, as well as how to manage their content.

Rob Moore, president of DemoWolf explained, ''When web hosts purchase tutorials from DemoWolf, we customize them for the host by placing their company logo in the first and last frame of every tutorial. By making support tutorials available to customers, hosting companies are saving up to 80% on their support tickets or more, because instead of calling your support department, customers will watch the tutorials, and get the help they need themselves.''

Customers who have previously purchased Joomla tutorials from DemoWolf will receive a credit for the amount spent on the old Joomla tutorials, to be put towards these new Joomla tutorials. For more information, please contact DemoWolf directly.

DemoWolf is the largest Flash tutorial provider in the hosting industry, offering over 3,200 flash tutorials for hosting companies, including 1,200+ voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). DemoWolf is also the fastest growing tutorials provider, adding 200+ new tutorials every month. DemoWolf has tutorials available for Parallels Plesk, cPanel, Helm, H-Sphere, DotNetPanel, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, WordPress and many more. For more information, you may contact DemoWolf by visiting their website or by calling toll free 1-866-905-4678.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.