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cPanel Announces Partnership with CloudLinux

2011-05-03T15:37:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) - cPanel, a leading provider in Linux and Windows automation, formally announced its official partnership with CloudLinux and will offer direct distribution of the software to cPanel Partner NOCs and customers.

The partnership will be structured to provide on-demand licenses that are synchronized with the current cPanel license model, allowing Partner NOCs and direct customers to have pay-per-usage software delivery. Owners will also be able to provide higher availability and increased density through controlling resources and CloudLinux technology.

What makes CloudLinux so attractive to hosting providers is its core technology, Lightweight Virtual Environment™(LVE), which is a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, memory) available to a group of processes. With LVE, administrators have the tools to control the CPU demands of individual tenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down an entire server.

While similar in approach to container virtualization, LVE is lightweight and transparent. The LVE level fair-share CPU scheduler makes sure that each account gets enough CPU resources to run efficiently. This innovative CloudLinux technology offers service providers increased control as never realized before with traditional OS.

CloudLinux is one of the first official partnerships that cPanel has entered into.

cPanel Vice President of Operations Aaron Phillips said that CloudLinux is a natural fit for cPanel’s long-term goals because they share a matching vision of providing great support, useful technology, and respect for the hosting industry.

“After careful consideration, testing, and a review of features and benefits, we feel CloudLinux offers a unique opportunity for web hosting companies to increase uptime, stability, and performance on their servers,” Phillips said.

CloudLinux provides many benefits to cPanel & WHM users including:
• Innovative, lightweight, and transparent LVE technology that increases server stability and performance
• Decreased downtime
• The ability to allocate resources to individual server tenants efficiently
• Increased control over traditional OS
• Complete, 24/7 support
• Easy deployment and management

For more information, please visit: http://www.cpanel.net/cloudlinux.html.

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TELEHOUSE America to Exhibit at ITW 2011

2011-05-02T01:52:00-04:00

(Gawkwire.com) - TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States' leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges, and managed IT services, announces its participation as an exhibitor at International Telecoms Week 2011 (ITW) May 23-25 in Washington, D.C.

With thousands of delegates from telecom companies across the globe, ITW hosts all areas of the wholesale community including Tier 1-3 carriers, mobile and wireless operators, Internet Service Providers, along with voice, data and satellite providers.

“Our team is looking forward to ITW and meeting with key carriers and global service providers,” states Noriyuki Kita, Executive Vice President of TELEHOUSE America. “In light of the recent opening of TELEHOUSE’s Chelsea data center in New York, we are continually focused on expanding IP and carrier options so clients have a wide range of network connectivity to fully support their network architectures.”

TELEHOUSE Chelsea is a state-of-the-art, carrier neutral facility offering clients robust options including direct connections to the New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX), one of the largest neutral Internet exchange peering points on the U.S. East coast.

TELEHOUSE teams from the U.S. and Europe will be located at booth #740 at ITW. To schedule a meeting with a TELEHOUSE representative during the event, please email marketing@telehouse.com.
To learn more about TELEHOUSE’s 41 carrier neutral data centers and world-class offerings, please contact sales@TELEHOUSE.com or call 718-355-2559.

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MicahTek Partners with ClickStreamTV

2011-02-24T23:27:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - MicahTek has partnered with ClickStreamTV to provide customers with an online video solution. ClickStreamTV’s DIY (do-it-yourself) interface walks customers through the process of adding video to their website in minutes, from enrollment and set up to uploading, encoding, publishing and archiving video: www.micahtek.clickstreamtv.com.

MicahTek is excited to work with ClickStreamTV to provide a simple way for any company to design and provision its own account and stream videos the same day. “The addition of ClickStreamTV to our current state-of-the-art product suite provides an affordable, easy-to-use video system,” says Keith Conners, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at MicahTek. “Our new partnership offers customers the keys to future success: live video streaming to any smart phone, the ability to monetize content, and a robust video email tool.”

"In the past, online video was available only to large enterprises. Now ClickStreamTV provides a monetization solution to deliver high quality video online to any organization or industry," says Kevin Yahl, founder and president of ClickStreamTV. “With our Pay-2-Watch/Subscription system, our clients keep 100% of the revenue from fees with the option to adjust fees to market pricing. If needed, ClickStreamTV has relationships with major credit card processing providers.”

The look and feel of the ClickStreamTV video player is completely customizable. Users can choose from existing templates or create a fresh one while adding text, PDF’s, links, images and logos. ClickStreamTV’s exclusive “platform-neutral” management system automatically delivers the correct video file format and interface to any internet browser, computer, or smart phone.

About ClickStreamTV
The ClickStreamTV system streams On Demand, Live, Pay-2-Watch and Mobile from the same platform. ClickStreamTV, an automated DIY (do-it-yourself) video delivery solution, is a product of Digital One Internet Services Inc., Orland Park, IL. Find out more at www.clickstreamtv.com.

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BuyHTTP Announces Availability of Beta Cloud Hosting Service

2011-02-24T09:51:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - BuyHTTP, a leading provider of web hosting services, has announced the immediate availability of their new cloud hosting platform. During the initial launch the service is deemed as beta while the system is tested with many users. During the beta period users get free access to the system.

Doyle Lewis, owner said â€œThis release is the end result of many months of planning and testing and we are excited to be able to bring our clients such a high quality hosting option. Â We are excited to be able to offer users access to this system for free during the beta period for helping us with the testing.

The cloud system BuyHTTP uses is a true cloud setup that moves storage to a cental location, meaning the availability of your site isnâ€™t tied to any one server being available. It is also 100% powered by Dell PowerEdge servers like all servers that BuyHTTP uses.

The free system that beta users get access to would normally cost $60/month. When signing up they have a choice of many different Linux distributions to power their cloud server.

The cloud system is expected to leave beta on March 1st at which point the pricing will start at $20/month, giving a low entry point for a high availability hosting solution.

Along with offering users their own cloud setup, BuyHTTP is also able to offer users access to shared cloud hosting as an upgrade for their normal shared hosting customers. The service takes standard shared hosting and adds high availability toÂ it by hosting it in the cloud.

Additional benefits for resellers and additional OS templates are coming soon.

For more information about the cloud hosting please visit http://www.buyhttp.com/cloud_hosting.html

About BuyHTTP:
BuyHTTP, LLC has been offering premium web hosting services since 2003. They mostly focus on the open source market including providing specialized support for scripts such as Joomla and WordPress. Cloud hosting joins their full line of service offerings including shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated server hosting.

For more information about BuyHTTP please visit http://www.buyhttp.com

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myhosting.com offers Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 for Hosted Exchange Email users

2011-02-24T09:50:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - With myhosting.com and Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011, users can deploy the latest Microsoft email software for the Mac. The new Outlook for Mac email client is the first version of Outlook compatible with Apple computers since Outlook for Mac 2001. Outlook 2011 replaces existing versions of Entourage and is fully compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

"We are proud to offer our customers using Apple computers access to Microsoft Outlook 2011," said Celal Ulgen, Chief Marketing Officer at SoftCom. "By deploying Outlook for Mac, Apple users can take advantage of improved user interface, PST support and an email platform that is similar to Microsoft Outlook 2010."

Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 offers a number of upgrades to Entourage 2008, including a completely new user interface based on the ribbon design. Ribbon is a tab-based navigational tool that allows users to quickly move from one section of the toolbar to another by selecting the appropriate tab.

Outlook for Mac 2011 also includes a number of features designed for collaboration. By allowing users to share calendars, documents and other files, employees can stay connected to one another and easily work together on projects. A new conversation view feature allows users to organize messages in a cohesive thread, making it easier to follow an extended conversation and minimize inbox bloating.

PST support is another important feature in Outlook for Mac 2011. Using PST tools, users can consolidate their various email addresses under one account, making them all accessible through Outlook. It also encourages the archiving of emails for data security and retention purposes, allowing users to freely transfer emails between Windows and Mac versions of Outlook.
For PC users that are facing a switch to the Mac, Outlook for Mac 2011 should seem familiar. The program is quite similar to Outlook 2010, making it easy to use with little need for training or instruction.

"Customers are increasingly using email services for more complex functions," said Tim Attwood, Product Manager at SoftCom. "Using Outlook developer tools, users can even create macros, customize forms and view VB code. Outlook for Mac 2011 allows users to get the most out of their email, making it an important part of our Hosted Exchange Email service."

Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 retains one primary function from Entourage - its compatibility with Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange Web Services. The two programs are able to maintain communication with each other, fostering efficiency and reliability in web hosting environments.

With the upgrades included in Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011, myhosting.com can provide Apple users with a fully featured hosted email service, allowing them to maximize their messaging productivity.

For more information, please visit http://myhosting.com/exchange/.

About myhosting.com
myhosting.com is owned and managed by SoftCom Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1997, SoftCom provides reliable and cost effective email and Web Hosting services to more than 10 million customers with support of 26 languages in 140 countries worldwide. The myhosting.com name and the logo are registered trademarks of SoftCom Inc.

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2010 Annual SEO & PPC Competition Awards

2011-02-22T23:50:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - topseos.com, an independent authority on search vendors has recently announced the winners of 2010 in SEO & PPC categories as part of their Annual SEO & PPC Competition Awards. The Annual SEO & PPC Competition is the first and only category-based internet award competition dedicated exclusively to online providers over 30 countries worldwide. Companies or agencies wishing to register for competition may do so before the extended deadline on 31st of March 2011.

Companies joining this competition will reap numerous benefits as companies are able to leverage against competitors, get their name in front of Fortune 500 CIOs, attract better quality customers and employees, be recognized as a leading firm and show off their achievements. This competition is geared to help represent the excellence, achievement, and passion towards satisfied clients and aid online companies to further leverage their unique position and breakthrough competitive clutter.

The 2010 Annual SEO & PPC Competition Awards have accepted entries from 30 countries in the field of Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click Management categories. Entries judged to be outstanding will be receiving an SEO & PPC Award. Each company that enters the SEO & PPC competition is evaluated over a period of one year. The methodology in selecting the winners is centered on customer satisfaction, the depth of knowledge in the field, reporting methods, practicing what is preached, and additional discrete competitive advantages.

Jeev Trika, Managing Partner of topseos.com shares, "Customer satisfaction is measured in every phase by ensuring that we communicate to the customers of each entrant on a quarterly basis during the one year long evaluation. Queries on the status of the project, the quality of services being performed, the status on the return of their investment are asked on four separate occasions during the year to ensure that no fluke winners are announced at the end of the evaluation.”

topseos.com congratulates the winners of the 2010 SEO and PPC competition. These firms have exemplified their commitment to excellence for the services they provide. All these winners have been reviewed over an entire year, undergone a 4 phase analysis and have come out strong each quarter. Furthermore, these firms understand and excel at customer satisfaction, possess a great depth of knowledge, provide useful information to their clients during projects, manifest great unique advantages and practice what they preach during project management.

2010 SEO Competition Winners
1.)    Customer Magnetism
2.)    Webimax
3.)    Slingshot SEO, Inc.
4.)    SEOP
5.)    Weblinx Limited
6.)    Arteworks SEO
7.)    eVisibility, Inc.
8.)    SEO Moves
9.)    Evoba
10.)    SEO Valley

2010 PPC Competition Winners
1.)    JumpFly, Inc.
2.)    Webimax
3.)    SEOP
4.)    Wpromote, Inc.
5.)    SEO Moves
6.)    eVisibility, Inc.
7.)    Bruce Clay Inc.
8.)    iSearch Media, LLC
9.)    Web.com Search Agency
10.)    SEO Inc.

This is the perfect time for strong vendors to shine in the spotlight they deserve and add quality clients to their portfolio who are desperately seeking to align with competent internet marketing service providers. This year, online providers can start registering for the 2011 Annual SEO & PPC competition. The scale is big. The competition is big and the stakes, even bigger.

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Arbor Networks Peakflow SP Platform Delivers DDoS Protection to Harbour MSP

2011-02-23T09:45:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of security and network management solutions for converged carrier networks and next-generation data centers, announced today that Harbour MSP, a subsidiary of Frontline Systems and one of Australia’s leading providers of managed IT services, has deployed the Peakflow SP platform in order to deliver differentiated security and traffic reporting services to their government and large enterprise customers. The announcement coincides with Government Technology Review’s Cloud Computing Forum 2011 at the Hotel Realm in Canberra, Australia.

Harbour MSP owns and operates Internet Data Centers (IDC) in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Shanghai. They deliver a comprehensive range of capabilities including everything from basic co-location to the design, build and operation of the most complex, high-availability hosted environments. Harbour MSP service offerings include managed infrastructure, monitoring, utility and cloud, Internet and data center services.

“Availability is everything for a hosting and managed services provider and DDoS represents one of the biggest threats there is,” said Andrew Hardy, commercial manager with Harbour MSP. “The combination of Arbor Networks’ Peakflow SP and Threat Management System enables us to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks that can impact availability of customer applications, data and services. Additionally, the Peakflow SP platform enables us to provide a portal to our customers enabling them to see real-time reports on their internal traffic and routing. This combination of detection, mitigation and reporting is a big competitive differentiator for Harbour MSP.”

“DDoS represents a major threat to today’s IDC because a DDoS attack directed at one consumer has the potential to disrupt services for other organizations making use of the same multitenant cloud infrastructure,” said Nick Race, Arbor Networks country manager for Australia and New Zealand. “Peakflow SP not only delivers protection from external attacks such as volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks, it also addresses internal threats like malicious insiders and compromised hosts.”

Arbor’s Peakflow SP platform delivers a fully integrated, carrier-class solution for the detection and surgical mitigation of both volumetric DDoS, application-layer attacks and also from internal threats like malicious insiders and compromised hosts. Arbor’s Peakflow SP platform delivers three pillars of protection for IDC operators:

Network Infrastructure Protection: Detect and stop DDoS attacks that impact network infrastructure and core IP services.
Application/Service Protection: Ensure the security, availability and performance of the data center’s applications and services.
Data Protection: Assure data is not being accessed or removed by unauthorized persons.

The Peakflow SP platform can also complement or protect existing IDC security products. For example, Peakflow SP TMS can be deployed in front of traditional firewalls or intrusion detection and protection systems (IDPS) and act as a “first line of defense” that helps reduce the load and further optimize the performance of these devices. Peakflow SP TMS has also been used to protect and maintain the availability of these traditional security systems, which are targets of DDoS attacks.

For more information on Arbor Networks DDoS Detection & Mitigation Solutions
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Top Ten Tips for Getting Tech Budgets Approved

2011-01-05T10:00:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - IT professionals often wonder what is on the mind of their corporate CFOs, especially when it comes to submitting and obtaining approval for IT project budgets. “It’s not that we’re against new technology,” says Greg Baker, Logicalis CFO. “It’s just that we’d often like a little more justification to accompany technology requests.” Logicalis (http://www.us.logicalis.com), an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, works with customers to help technology and business work together. To provide IT professionals with some insight into the thought process that CFOs use when assessing technology requests, Baker has developed the CFO Confidential: Top Ten Tips for Getting Tech Budgets Approved. More information about Logicalis can be found at http://www.us.logicalis.com.

CFO Confidential: Top Ten Tips for Getting Tech Budgets Approved

“Here’s a look at what’s going on inside your CFO’s head when you make a budget request,” says Baker. You can also find out how to get your CFO’s approval for IT expenditures by reading Logicalis’ feature article, “Making IT Matter: Getting to Yes,” at http://www.us.logicalis.com/pdf/CIO-CFO%20Feature%20Story.pdf

1.    I’m never going to approve a project without a measurement attached. It will just never happen.
2.    You’re not getting new software without a good P&L justification. Go find some business sponsors first.
3.    Learn to be a good IT storyteller. Tell me a story that links IT to enabling success in our business.
4.    Firefighting is not part of our strategic plan. Explain again why we can’t outsource more of our IT administration.
5.    I don’t understand IT jargon. Can you explain your proposal again without all the acronyms?
6.    Where was the courteous heads-up 2 months ago? We can only break the emergency glass so often.
7.    Technology doesn’t run an organization, relationships do. I wish we had lunch and talked more often.
8.    Don’t forget: It’s all about payback! Don’t focus on how technology works; focus on how it improves sales, customer service or loyalty.
9.    Give me more details. When you want my signoff, don’t forget to mention the vendors you’re using, the project timing, and the amount you’re requesting.
10.    You won me at the word “variable.” Bring forward more IT cost models that can gear up and down with our business needs and sales trends.

“Some of these are obviously a little tongue-in-cheek, but there’s a lot of truth behind each one. I recommend you take a look through the list before submitting your next technology budget request,” says Baker.

For more information, visit http://www.us.logicalis.com.

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New WebmasterRadio.FM Introduces New Show: Marketing Nirvana

2011-01-05T09:57:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - WebmasterRadio.FM, the premier free, 24/7 Internet business radio network focused on the B2B marketplace introduces a new monthly radio series that rings individuals involved in online marketing that boasts “to help listeners be driven closer to finding their own personal 'marketing nirvana'”.

“The show will focus on all types of internet marketing information, with a bent towards PPC,” said Geddes. “We’ll investigate various ways on which your marketing efforts can reach the state of nirvana.”

Brad is the author of Advanced Google AdWords, the most advanced book ever written about AdWords. Brad is one of the first Google Advertising Professionals and Microsoft adExcellence members. He was the first advanced AdWords Seminar Leader and works directly with Google to conduct AdWords seminars. He has written extensively about internet marketing for more than a decade.

On the premiere episode, Brad welcomes Rob Lenderman, one of the co-founders of BoostCTR and Ryan Healy, BoostCTR’s Director of Writer Development to discuss ad copy writing and how they examine their work via a method of crowdsourcing. Show notes on the radio series as well as reference items can be viewed at http://certifiedknowledge.org/groups/marketing-nirvana-radio-show/. The episode is now available on its WebmasterRadio.FM show page (http://www.webmasterradio.fm/marketing-nirvana)

Listeners are able to interact with their questions and comments to the host and guests for each interview, as well as all live WebmasterRadio.FM programming, by:

Following us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/webmasterradio

Becoming a member of the WebmasterRadio.FM Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/webmasterradio

“Marketing Nirvana” airs every first Monday at Noon Eastern / 9am Pacific on http://www.WebmasterRadio.FM. Episodes are archived on WebmasterRadio.FM, as well as on iTunes and other premier podcast portals.

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New SEO Service Designed to Boost Clients’ Rankings in Google Places

2010-11-08T09:00:00-05:00

(Gawkwire.com) - Absolute Placement Today, a leading SEO firm based in Dallas, Texas, has created new services that are designed to boost clients’ online presence by optimizing their businesses for Google Places. The goal is to help clients target their local areas more effectively – without spending money on costly Pay Per Click advertising.

Targeting local markets and searches has become more popular in recent months, thanks to the recent unveiling of “Google Places”. On average, there are 2 million Google searches conducted every minute. Out of those, 20% are related to location – meaning that 400,000 people are looking for local businesses every minute.

Taking advantage of the new focus on local searches, Absolute Placement Today has come up with special tools and techniques to help get its clients’ Google Places listings ranked on the first page of search results.
What is Google Places?

Google Places offers free listings for any business that has a legal, registered address. The typical Google Places listing has a map to the business’ location, its hours of operation, customer reviews, pictures of the business, and a link to the business’ homepage. Google Places categorizes local businesses, neighborhoods, local landmarks, and anything else that may be of interest to internet searchers in the area. Plus, with a listing in Google Places, businesses are automatically entered into Google Maps.

For every applicable search, Google Places listings come up ahead of traditional websites – meaning that Google Places listings are the first thing internet searchers see when they are looking for something local. With a high-ranking Google Places listing, businesses no longer need to spend money on Pay Per Click advertising.

While getting a Google Places listing is free, getting the listing placed on the first page of search results is not as easy. The most Google Places listings that will show up in a single search is 7 – meaning that the vast majority of businesses will never make it onto page one.

Similar to traditional SEO, optimizing for Google Places requires careful keyword research and proper on-page optimization. That’s why Absolute Placement Today is offering its new and existing clients specialized optimization services that were designed solely for success on Google Places.

The optimization techniques being used at Absolute Placement Today are not region or industry-specific. In fact, the new services are designed to help virtually any client, in any area, in any industry. And, as is the case with all of Absolute Placement Today’s SEO techniques, everything done for clients in Google Places is white-hat and ethical.

The experts at Absolute Placement Today have more than 50 years collective experience. Absolute Placement Today and their team has worked to improve the search engine rankings of more than 12,000 different websites. For more information, log onto http://absoluteplacementtoday.com.

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