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Colocation Expansion Inspires Interxion Copenhagen Data Center Opening

2009-05-29T09:38:00-04:00

Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands (The Hosting News) Peder Bank, Managing Director for Interxion in Denmark remarked, ''We have expanded our capacity while maintaining and improving an uncompromising focus on service quality and data center security.''

The newly equipped space will be ready for customers from May 2009 and will give access to the data center's 10 megawatt power supply, supporting exceptionally high-density power configurations of up to 17.5 kW per cabinet. The build-out consolidates Interxion’s position as the leading carrier-neutral data center operator in the Danish market.

Mr. Bank added, ''Whilst growing at approximately 50 per cent year on year in Denmark, we have also recently achieved certification for ISO 27001 information security management systems, as well as maximum ratings for IT security in an independent KPMG report. A major part of our growth comes from system integrators and enterprises that have chosen us for our carrier and vendor neutrality and our constant focus on customer satisfaction.''

Interxion is a European operator of carrier-neutral data centers. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customer from its 24 carrier-neutral data centers located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion's data centers offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

For more information please visit: www.interxion.com.

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Intermedia Unveils Hosted Instant Messaging Service for BlackBerry

2009-05-28T10:15:00-04:00

New York, NY (The Hosting News) Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia offered, '''Host OCS 2007 on the BlackBerry is another first to market achievement for Intermedia. We continuously strive to help our small and medium business customers compete more effective.''

This Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) for BlackBerry solution is designed to go beyond basic wireless email synchronization to better connect mobile and remote employees with their offices for increased collaboration and productivity. Intermedia’s offering is the first hosted version of OCS for the BlackBerry platform.

Rachi Messing, Vice President of Technology Services for DiscoverReady LLC, an Integrated Discovery Management solutions provider and Intermedia customer remarked, ''Having instant messaging and presence through OCS 2007 on our BlackBerry devices makes it easier for our staff to be in constant contact and able to share information. Intermedia's services have greatly improved communications and productivity for our company and this new offering is an excellent extension of that.''

This offering is an extension of Intermedia's existing hosted OCS 2007 service, which Intermedia was also first to launch in February 2008. OCS 2007 is a business instant messaging platform that integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to provide secure communication and integrated presence. Presence capabilities allow users to immediately determine at-a-glance their colleague's status - available, busy, away and offline - enabling them to quickly connect with available colleagues. The OCS for BlackBerry solutions extends these capabilities to mobile users when they are out of the office. Combined, the two solutions provide small business customers with enterprise-grade unified communications tools that greatly increase collaboration and productivity at a price they can afford.

A recent Osterman Research study on instant messaging shows that mobile IM grew 18% in 2008, the fastest growing segment of the IM market. Osterman identifies 'traveling employees' and 'senior technical managers' as the biggest users of mobile IM. 52% of the study's participants responded that enabling users to use IM on mobile devices is either important or extremely important to them.

Business users already heavily rely on their BlackBerry smartphones for telephone and wireless email communications. The OCS for Blackberry solution adds secure instant messaging and presence, to fill in the missing gap, and provide true remote connectivity and productivity capabilities to mobile workers.

Founded in 1995, Intermedia is the leading provider of business email including Microsoft Exchange hosting to the small and medium business market. Intermedia specializes in providing enterprise-grade solutions through its world class infrastructure and service to small and medium businesses at a price they can afford.

To learn more, please visit: www.Intermedia.net/Exchange.

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Web Hosting Firm, Paid, Deploys Enhanced E-Commerce Calculation Products

2009-05-27T09:50:00-04:00

Boston, MA (The Hosting News) The updates are designed to help ensure that the AuctionInc family of products maintains its standing as the most accurate of any online shipping calculator software. The enhancements will enable Internet retailers to further increase productivity, reduce costs and enhance customer satisfaction related to shipping and fulfillment.

Richard Rotman, COO of Paid, Inc. remarked, ''E-commerce growth has slowed and vendors are seeking to maximize efficiencies and boost sales. ShopCart's sophisticated and highly configurable shipping engine has been proven time after time to reduce the human resources needed to coordinate shipping, provide highly accurate rates that account for a wide variety of shipping situations, and greatly simplify post-sale communications between retailer and customer. Many sellers who moved to using our cart had previously discovered that hidden costs, such as packaging, special handling, delivery confirmation or oversize shipping charges were not being passed on to the customer and were eating into their profits. AuctionInc's ShopCart solves these problems while, at the same time, not resulting in overcharging customers for shipping, something that customers are very sensitive about.''

The Paid AuctionInc software product line is available in multiple formats to meet the needs of the broadest array on Internet retailers ranging from major enterprise and multi-merchant organizations to online auction sellers. All retailers can benefit from the system's ease and speed of integration while maximizing cost efficiencies, enhancing customer perception and reducing ecommerce abandonment.

Mr. Rotman added, ''Another major advantage is that AuctionInc's advanced 'Packaging Engine' intelligently determines how to package all items in your shipment into the appropriate number of packages, taking into account carrier limits and account configuration settings, encouraging your customers to purchase more items in the same order and take advantage of reduced shipping costs.''

ShopCart provides real-time comparative shipping rates, recalculating automatically when items are added or removed, by using the country/zip code as a destination location indicator. In addition to calculating base charges for the full range of services from carriers including the US Postal Service, FedEx, UPS and DHL, a major asset is its granular accounting of additional item characteristics, such as packaging weight, item dimensions, special handling requirements, discounts/promotional offers, state taxes and shipping insurance costs. Administrator access allows highly detailed control and visibility of information such as customized carrier discounts, fixed rate alternatives, fuel and other surcharges, multiple ship origins and many more, based on independent, client-driven account settings.

At a time when consumers may be more price-sensitive than ever, it is hoped that consumers will appreciate retailers' efforts to provide shipping charges that reflect the actual costs of shipping the products. Savvy online shoppers usually recognize that ecommerce sites providing free shipping often hide the cost in increased product prices resulting in higher overall costs, particularly for multi-item orders. ShopCart fosters additional sales by showing that shipping costs increase minimally and often not at all with the purchase of additional items.

ShopCart's features include: Supports unlimited coupons based on order subtotal threshold Coupons can be applied to all items or selected item groups Cart page can be tailored to match the look and feel of your site Encrypted 'Add to Cart' HTML can be generated Wide variety of custom 'Add to Cart' / 'View Cart' buttons available Unlimited item 'attribute' feature allows you to pass on item features such as size, color, etc.' Shipping Inspector' provided for detailed view of shipping rate components for authorized users Checkout to PayPal, which accepts all major credit cards PayPal supports mailing label generation for UPS and USPS Recent upgrades to ShopCart's shipping calculation functionality include:

Support for FedEx international priority flat rate pricing using their packaging - reviews flat rate and calculated rate and displays whichever is less expensive. The solution supports dimensional rates for all carriers

Supports wide variety of accessorial fees for special carrier services such as special handling, and delivery confirmation, among other features.

UPS discounted 'shipment pricing' supported for international deliveries Country-specific weight and dimension limitations for each service supported.

Supports drop-shipping from unlimited locations within the same shipment Sophisticated support for fixed rates as well as calculated rates. Differential fixed rates can be offered based on carrier service, geographical destination, and quantity of items. Multiple fixed rates can be offered for various service levels.

Support for customer pickup and local delivery Support for USPS flat rate packages and envelopes.

Differential supplemental item handling fee codes can be configured based on carrier service and/of geographical destination Shipping discounts can be configured based on item subtotal thresholds Paid's shipping calculation technology is already in use by hundreds of companies, ranging from small online auction sellers to large enterprise systems, as well as and running within numerous e-commerce sites hosted and managed by Paid, Inc. Paid is continuing to seek software licensing agreements with all sizes of companies for its products, as well as well as explore other business relationships surrounding its patented technology.

Paid's solution is hosted on a standard XML platform for ease of integration into the customer's custom or open source cart or product, and is available for both single seller (SS version) and multiple seller (XS version) scenarios. In real time, ShopCart™ users and their online customers procure accurate rates from all major shipping carriers while administrative users can gain direct access to multiple data levels for inspection of shipping rate components and packaging detail.

Paid, Inc. operates a diversified set of businesses, including its celebrity services and AuctionInc ecommerce technology businesses. Paid, Inc.'s celebrity services provides celebrities and organizations with official web sites and fan club services that include e-commerce storefronts, ticketing and fan experience packages and web site content to attract tens of thousands of visitors daily. Using proprietary patented technology, Paid's innovative AuctionInc brand shipping calculation and auction management software and services are utilized to streamline online auctions, ecommerce and web site development and hosting. The Company's common stock is traded on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol PAYD.

For more information about Paid web hosting services, please visit: www.paid.com.

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Rackspace Web Hosting Premieres Discounted Business Class Email Hosting

2009-05-27T09:43:00-04:00

San Antonio, TX (The Hosting News) Features for the solution include right-click functionality, multiple personal calendars, the ability to delegate calendar 'write access' to another user such as an administrative assistant, iCal calendar feeds, and improved foreign language handling.
Pat Matthews, General Manager of Rackspace Email and Apps remarked, ''Email is the lifeblood of business communications and there is no reason that an organization should be spending time, money, and resources to host their own email servers. With Rackspace Email 7.0, we provide businesses an exciting alternative to in-house email hosting that fulfills the ROI promise of cloud computing.''

The release of Rackspace Email 7.0 coincides with new reduced pricing for Rackspace Email customers. For the current pricing of $1 per mailbox, per month, customers get:

• Real POP and IMAP email access from any email or mobile app
• Web-based email, shared calendaring, contacts and tasks
• Full synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile
• Multi-layer, integrated anti-spam and anti-virus protection
• 10GB of storage per user
• Award-winning Fanatical Support, delivered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

This new product release and new pricing comes at a time when Rackspace Email has seen significant traction in the market, adding email hosting for about 350 new businesses domains a day. Rackspace provides Rackspace Email and Microsoft Exchange services to over 1 million paid mailboxes worldwide across more than 200,000 email domains. The service includes Fanatical Support to over 15,000 direct customers and over 600 resellers and their clients.

Mr. Matthews added, ''The release of Rackspace Email 7.0 is a significant milestone. Rackspace Email together with our Microsoft Exchange services, provides our customers with the most comprehensive email hosting service on the market, at a price that delivers massive cost-savings to businesses of all sizes.''

To learn more about Rackspace Email 7.0 and Fanatical Support, please see the Rackspace Email and Apps website and blog, and follow them on Twitter at RackApps.

As a leader and specialist in hosting services, 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[R], 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 (www.racspace.com), email hosting (www.rackspace.com/apps) and cloud hosting (www.moso.com).

For more information on Rackspace Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

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Easyspace, Web Hosting Firm, Offers Free Web Hosting, Discounts

2009-05-26T10:02:00-04:00

London, United Kingdom (The Hosting News) Errol Vanderhorst, sales and marketing director at Easyspace offered, ''Domain names and web hosting aren't immune to the current economic climate and, like other services and products, people are more aware of their associated costs than ever before. We realise the value of owning a domain and website, particularly to a small business, so we've decided to help those looking to reduce their outgoings.''

Customers, both new and existing, who transfer their domain names to Easyspace will receive a full year of free web hosting, along with the full service and support of the company's dedicated technical expert team. Included within the hosting package estimated worth worth 47 pounds will be 3GB web space, 200 mailboxes, and 15GB monthly bandwidth, among other features.

Mr. Vanderhorst added, ''Our free web hosting offer means that all customers can transfer their domains and websites to Easyspace and pay nothing for one full year while still receiving the full benefits offered.''

Easyspace provides solutions for online business service setup aspects, with a variety of hosting plans, and low cost shopping carts for e-commerce, as well as security and dedicated website design services. Founded in 1997, Easyspace was one of the first domain and web hosting companies in the UK. Easyspace domains come with the usual admin features, including MX Control, Name Server Control and web redirection.

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

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Web Hosting Services by UK2 Group, VPS.NET, Offers Free ISPmanager

2009-05-23T06:00:00-04:00

London, United Kingdom (The Hosting News) Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of UK2 Group remarked, ''Our VPS.NET product is doing extremely well across the UK2 Group and we have had lots of great feedback from our customers. We aspire to having the best Cloud Hosting solution available so will continue to launch great features which will amaze current and potential customers.''

ISPmanager PRO is one of the leading server management control panels in the market. The control panel allows customers to manage various aspects of a web server through a friendly web interface. ISPmanager Pro is powerful but lightweight, as it only utilizes 10MB of RAM and 40MB of Hard Disk space. The usual pricing for ISPmanager is 34.00 Euros per month, which means that VPS.NET customers get even greater value from their VPS solution as they will get ISPmanager for free.

In addition, VPS.NET have recently launched a new feature which allows customers to upgrade the amount of nodes on their VPS when needed. There are two kinds of upgrade available, temporary and permanent. With a temporary upgrade a customer can select to add a number of nodes to their VPS at a certain date and time, and keep it there for a determined period of days and afterwards the extra nodes will simply go away. Customers only pay for the extra temporary burst nodes on a daily rate of 1 pound per node. With a permanent upgrade a customer can schedule their VPS to be upgraded to an increased number of nodes, which are permanently added to the account and assigned to the VPS.

The nodes can be removed at any time but are charged for at the standard monthly rates.

This feature is ideal for customers who need to extra capacity on a short term, flexible basis with pricing to match. Instances of when temporary or permanent bursts night be needed are; to support marketing activities which result in an influx of website traffic, for increasing the amount of resources for development projects, for growing companies who might not need the extra resources straight away but want to future proof and so on. In the near future VPS.NET will be launching Recurring Scheduled Bursts where customers can set temporary increases in nodes on a recurring basis.

VPS.NET has been designed to simplify the process of virtual private server cloud hosting, whilst at the same time making it available and affordable for everyone.

It will be a valuable addition to many of the brands within the UK2 Group is the ideal hosting solution for many customers.

VPS.NET is a recent addition to the UK2 Group, and offers affordable virtual private server cloud hosting. It is a redundant cloud system, which utilizes a RAID 10 SAN backend and node based VPS architecture. It also has immediate scalability with pre set up stacks, a simple billing process and a user friendly management portal.

UK2 Group provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many global customers through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, midPhase, WestHost, 10TB.com, AN Hosting, Autica, Resell.biz, US2.net, WingSix, Supreme Support, Dotable, VI.net and the most recent addition VPS.NET. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centres in the UK and US, and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.

For more information about VPS.net, please visit: http://vps.net.

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Web Hosting Domain Registrar, Go Daddy, Awards SmartSpace Contest Winners

2009-05-19T14:00:00-04:00

Scottsdale, AZ (The Hosting News) Go Daddy created SmartSpace as a very affordable web site building tool that quickly and easily allows a domain name to be transformed into a web site - packed with a person's favorite content in just a few clicks.

Jerry Fleming's DenverSportsBlog.com is an example of how the software can be utilized. Mr. Fleming had been looking for a way to turn his passion for the Denver sports scene into an online business, but he couldn't figure out how to make it happen until he discovered SmartSpace.

Mr. Fleming explained, ''Before I started using Go Daddy, I had great ideas but no way to put them together. With SmartSpace, I put together a professional-looking site quickly and with no graphic design schooling. What started as a fun side project now has paid advertisers and regular contributors.''

Mr. Fleming earned $5,000 simply for telling that story and entering Go Daddy's SmartSpace contest.

In March and April, Go Daddy put out the call asking the company's SmartSpace users to describe the creative ways they have used the Web builder and then awarded $25,000 in prize money for the most creative submissions. Fleming and 12 other SmartSpace customers won.

Go Daddy's SmartSpace was developed to make creating a personal or potentially profit-making web site simple for anyone with a Go Daddy domain name. SmartSpace customers can personalize their Web site with photos, videos, blogs, RSS feeds, even material from social media sites like Digg, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy explained, ''It was impressive to see all the different uses of SmartSpace people submitted for our contest. As easy as this is to use, anyone who ever wanted a web site, but was worried about having to be tech savvy to get it done, can just throw those worries out the window.''

In all, three grand prize winners were awarded $5,000 each. Another 10 runners-up were awarded $1,000 each. Go Daddy awarded all 13 winners free use of SmartSpace for life'

Grand Prize Winners include:

- DenverSportsBlog.com
- ShirleyHank.com
- oNoItsMatt.com

Top 10 Runners-Up:

- CookingWithJolene.com
- WaltPitts.com
- McNeillies.info
- GarnaModa.com
- JohnnyLozoya.com
- BillyWillis.com
- CheeseInTheDesert.com
- RonChambers.me
- Alabamilton.com
- ConnectWithMegan.com

Go Daddy is a leader in domain registration, web hosting, design and new SSL certificates, which are used to keep web sites secure. Go Daddy offers 50+ products backed by 24/7 industry-best customer care to make enhancing your image online quick, easy and affordable.

Go Daddy is a provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 35 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

For more information about SmartSpace, please visit: www.godaddy.com/gdshop/domains/landing.asp.

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Hosting Provider, Attenda, Manages Regus Global Data Centers

2009-05-15T09:39:00-04:00

London, United Kingdom (The Hosting News) Regus provides outsourced workplace solutions, offering the widest range of products and services that allow individuals and companies to work however, wherever, and whenever they need to. Regus operates over 1,000 business centres across 450 cities in 75 countries.

The new Attenda platforms deliver Regus' 14 lines of business applications, which range from regus.com, their eCommerce website, to Titan, a custom-developed application for Enterprise planning and invoicing, which processes tens of millions of pounds per month globally. Attenda also support Regus' messaging platform together with three finance applications and SAP Business Objects analytics tool.

Rudy Lobo, COO of Regus remarked, ''Attenda demonstrated that as a totally focused IT managed service provider, it could provide us with a more agile and cost effective infrastructure and services solution to meet our current and future business needs.''

The Attenda solution comprises some 200 servers in a hybrid physical and virtual architecture across two data centres. Attenda's experience in infrastructure consolidation and virtualisation has enabled some 60% of the servers to be virtualised, consolidating over 100 physical servers down to 12. The remaining physical servers represent database clusters for SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and other applications. The Attenda solution extends the implementation of virtualisation to include Regus' network and security infrastructure. Regus also has circa 40 TB of storage from Attenda's shared SAN and NAS platforms.

Mr. Lobo concluded, ''Attenda's methodology and expertise in virtual infrastructure design and management has minimised the risk in both consolidating and migrating our server base. We are delighted with the result that we have achieved and we plan to embrace virtualisation much more aggressively in the next 12 -18 months.''

Attenda manages those vital applications that every business relies upon today to function effectively allowing our clients to selectively outsource their IT operations and re-focus on using IT to add strategic value to their business. The company manages, secures and optimises the performance of the applications, irrespective of the physical location of the infrastructure. With over 8 years' investment into Attenda M.O., Attenda's operations platform, the company provides the people, process and technology to deliver services at a cost that is amortised across Attenda's entire client base - currently 134 of the UK's leading companies. The company enjoys substantial financial backing, the industry's leading accreditations and an unrivalled portfolio of clients including bmi, Christian Aid, easyCar, Microsoft, NHS, Princes, St. James's Place and Travelodge.

Attenda is ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO20000 accredited, an HP SP Signature Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a SAP Adaptive IT Hosting Provider, a SunTone accredited managed service provider and an Accredited Supplier of Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for UK public services. Attenda is one of only seven companies to have been ranked in the UK's Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 for three consecutive years. It was voted Best Managed Services Provider by Data Centre Europe Awards for both 2007 and 2008 and VMware's EMEA Hosting Partner of the Year 2008 and 2009.

To learn more, please visit: www.attenda.net.

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Web Hosting Provider, Neosurge.com, Debuts VPS Hosting Discounts

2009-05-15T09:34:00-04:00

Chicago, IL (The Hosting News) Brian Easley, a Neosurge representative remarked, ''We're providing impressive speed and reliability features built into our Virtual Private Server platform at prices less then many shared virtual hosting providers. Our VPS customers are offered a wide selection of Linux Operating Systems (various 32 and 64 bit versions of CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and Ubuntu Linux distributions) and control panels like Cpanel, DirectAdmin and LxAdmin/Kloxo. Even with prices as low as $6.95/mo we're able to offer extremely powerful computing power due to recent advances in CPU computing power, RAM/Disk capabilities and networking capacities.''

Neosurge Virtual Private Servers include instant setup, root access, full control panel, OS choice, ability to reinstall OS, reboot control, system recovery tools, full DNS management, backups, dedicated IP address(es), dedicated ram, quad core CPU, and hardware RAID 10 all at rock bottom pricing with instant activation.

Neosurge is a provider of web hosting services with clients in every major continent, and has been in operation since 2002. The company provides a wide portfolio of services including web hosting, dedicated servers, reseller hosting, colocation, streaming and bandwidth services.

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LiquidWeb Unveils Parallels Plesk Panel

2009-05-11T14:00:00-04:00

Herndon, VA (The Hosting News) Hosting and data center services firm, LiquidWeb, will offer automation and virtualization provider, Parallels' Plesk Panel 9.0 on 100% of its dedicated and virtualized servers.

Clinton Hansen, Manager of Windows Products, LiquidWeb remarked, ''The value and performance of Parallels Plesk Panel is unmatched in the market. By working closely with Parallels, we are able to offer the solution on 100% of our servers and enable our customers to focus on IT efficiency and the optimization of internal resources.''

By adding Parallels hosting automation control panel software to its Linux based servers, LiquidWeb is able to increase per server profitability and provide its entire customer base with the most stable and secure multi-platform hosting control panel on the market.

LiquidWeb started offering Parallels Plesk Panel on its Windows servers and is now expanding this to include the 80% of its servers that are Linux based. The intuitive interface is easy to navigate and enables the company to present all of its customers with a way of making cumbersome tasks quick and straight-forward, regardless of their operating system. This gives small-and-medium sized business owners the ability to save money and better manage their servers without needing to employ a large IT team.

Parallels Plesk Panel also offers complete integration with leading services such as the Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog and Parallels Plesk Billing 6.0. The APS Catalog provides access to hundreds of pre-packaged applications, while the integration of Parallels Plesk Billing creates a full-featured hosting automation solution that eliminates the need for third party billing software.

Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Division, Parallels noted, ''The increased functionality of Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 creates an easy and completely integrated end-user experience for LiquidWeb customers. The availability of the APS Catalog and Parallels Plesk Billing 6.0 enables service providers and resellers to build more profitable full-featured offerings to increase their revenue streams.''

The offering will vary in price and be available within the next two weeks through LiquidWeb.

Liquid Web is a leading provider of premium web hosting products and data center infrastructure. Established in 1997, Liquid Web's growth has been fueled by providing unbeatable managed services to businesses of all sizes, in all areas of the world. Liquid Web currently serves more than 10,000 clients in over 100 countries around the world. Liquid Web has been honored by INC Magazine as one of the nation’s fastest growing companies consecutively in 2007 and 2008.

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more about Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0, please visit: www.parallels.com/products/plesk.

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Yahoo! Web Host Hosts Business and Human Rights Summit

2009-05-11T14:00:00-04:00

Sunnyvale, CA (The Hosting News) The summit includes experts from the business, academic, journalist, human rights and advocacy communities - each with a unique perspective but united in a common desire to advance this fundamental right.

Michael Samway, vice president and deputy general counsel at Yahoo! noted, ''Yahoo! was founded on the belief that access to information can enrich people's lives, and we hope this summit and our other initiatives will both stimulate greater awareness about free expression issues and bring others to this important cause.
The summit's keynote speaker is Ory Okolloh, Kenyan blogger and the executive director of Ushahidi. Ushahidi is a crowdsourcing platform for crisis situations developed in Kenya, which now serves as a platform that allows anyone around the world to gather - and map - news about emergent situations by mobile phone, email and the web. Ushahidi has been used in Kenya, the Congo, Gaza and is currently being deployed during the 2009 Indian Lok Sabha election.

In addition, journalists and social entrepreneurs from Africa, Asia and the Middle East will address their efforts to harness the Internet's capabilities for a range of endeavors involving the sharing of information. In a panel entitled ''Social Media and Citizen Journalists,'' panelists will discuss how they have used the Internet and social media in their regions to support free expression and drive social change. The panelists include Indian blogger Gaurav Mishra and Ethiopian journalist and former prisoner of conscience Abebe Gellaw, both of whom are currently fellows at Georgetown and Stanford universities (respectively) as part of a Yahoo! initiative to facilitate scholarship on freedom of expression in the information age.

They will be joined by Ushahidi's Okolloh, Bahraini journalist Amira Al Husseini, and panel moderator Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Beijing and Tokyo bureau chief.

Mr. MacKinnon added, ''As more people around the world turn to the Internet to advocate for human rights, the challenges they face from governments and other powerful entities are also growing more complex and sophisticated. The stories told by our panelists about online activism in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are inspiring. They also show how decisions made by Internet and telecommunications companies can have a big impact on what is and isn't possible.''

The summit is an outgrowth of Yahoo!'s recent leadership role in co-founding the Global Network Initiative (GNI), an organization of information and communications technology companies, human rights organizations, academics, investors and technology leaders dedicated to protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in the information and communication technology industry.

The Global Network Initiative (GNI) was formed to help stakeholders in the technology industry uphold the rights of freedom of expression and privacy in the face of pressures from governments to comply with laws and policies that violate these internationally recognized human rights.

Leslie Harris, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology remarked, ''It takes a proactive, collaborative approach to make significant progress on promoting free expression and Yahoo! has been a thoughtful and committed partner. This summit gives us a great forum to discuss how GNI can help companies around the world to address the complex challenges at the intersection of human rights and technology.''

GNI member companies have committed to protect freedom of expression and privacy, partner with others to ensure collective governance and accountability, and promote GNI objectives throughout the world. GNI participants engage with governments and advocate for change where policies or practices are inconsistent with the protection of free expression and privacy.

At the Summit, a number of GNI participants will participate in a panel - ''The GNI's Multi-Stakeholder Approach'', including:

Chuck Cosson, Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft
Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel, Google
Leslie Harris, President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology; Dunstan Hope, Managing Director, ICT Practice, Advisory Services, Business for Social Responsibility
Colin Maclay, Managing Director, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Rob Mahoney, Deputy Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
Ebele Okobi-Harris, Director, Business and Human Rights Program, Yahoo!
The panel will discuss the goals and principles of the GNI and the ways in which the GNI helps provide clear guidance for technology companies facing threats to freedom of expression around the world.

Yahoo! was founded on the principle that promoting access to information can improve lives and advance human rights around the world.

In addition to the formation of the GNI, Yahoo! has continued its own efforts to support user privacy and free expression by:

Establishing the Yahoo! Business and Human Rights Program, which brings together an international, cross-functional core team of professionals - including legal, security, government affairs, public affairs, product and emerging markets, among others - to integrate human rights into our business decisions.
Developing and instituting a Human Rights Impact Assessment process that includes engaging with external stakeholders, and designing risk mitigation strategies.
Working with noted human rights activist Harry Wu to establish a human rights fund to provide humanitarian and legal support to political dissidents who have been imprisoned for expressing their views online, as well as support for their families.
Engaging with governments to secure the release of certain political dissidents through ongoing discussions with high-ranking U.S. and Chinese officials, human rights groups, and the State Department.
Establishing international fellowships at Stanford University and Georgetown University to support scholarship about free expression in press-restrictive countries and about the intersection of human rights and communication technology.
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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Dedicated Servers Expaned, at The Planet European Data Center

2009-05-11T10:01:00-04:00

Houston, TX (The Hosting News) The new facility is the company's eighth data center, and joins its seven domestically located data centers in Houston and Dallas. The Planet's popular Virtual Racks, the fastest-growing solution in its product portfolio, are the exclusive offering for the new European operation. The Virtual Rack solution - the optimal platform hosting choice for powering customer applications - provides flexible scalability and rapid provisioning as IT requirements grow. Customers with multi-server environments leverage increased performance with a private backend network to ensure all servers are properly linked and communicate securely. Load balancing options ensure web traffic is optimally managed by the available servers. In a limited-time promotion, the company waives all set-up fees for customers in the new data center.

Bryce Edwards, general manager for The Planet's Complex Infrastructure line of business remarked, ''For multi-server environments, the Virtual Rack has been a highly effective solution for our customers, since it offers flexible scalability. Customers often start with just one or two servers, and appreciate the ease of adding new boxes. They can choose from a portfolio of dedicated firewalls and load balancers, and all European servers come with Gigabit uplinks. In particular, this platform is ideal for multi-tier web applications.''

The London data center features up to 20kW of power per rack, backed by N+1 redundancy on generators, transformers and UPS systems. Customers gain access to a 10GB private fiber interconnect to The Planet's core network through its Ashburn, Va., data center, as well as local connectivity to Tier-1 providers and the major European peering exchanges.

London-headquartered TelecityGroup, which operates 20 network-independent data centers across seven European countries, provides the facilities for The Planet's new data center. Procedures in the new facility comply with ISO 9001:2000, which benchmarks quality processes for data center operations and management.

TelecityGroup is highly regarded for both its premium data centers and operational expertise. A member of the Green Grid, it is also taking the lead in driving energy efficiency in Europe as the first data center operator to sign up for the new EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres.

Customers can expect the same high-quality Virtual Rack solutions in the European data center that they experience in The Planet's domestically located operations:

All the Benefits of a Virtual Rack : Virtual Racks offer an innovative and flexible infrastructure, with unlimited server-to-server transfer and bandwidth pooling, as well as access to advanced firewalls and load balancing.

Globally Redundant Hosting Options: Customers are able to host servers across two continents, which provides higher fault tolerance and improved site performance for end-users.

Lower Latency for End Users: The Planet's network architecture and routing topology ensure the most reliable and fastest route to end users, wherever they are located. By hosting servers closer to end users, customers can expect better performance with fewer hops from user to site.

Connectivity to The Planet Core Network: The new data center is connected to the London Internet Exchange (LINX), which provides world-class connectivity throughout Europe. A dedicated 10 Gbps private link, connected directly to The Planet's core North America network, provides fast and reliable connectivity to servers hosted in the company's domestic data centers.

Same Outstanding SLA: The London data center and network are backed by The Planet's 100 percent Network and Power Service Level Agreement, which provides customers with assurances of uptime and connectivity for their businesses.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide:

High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 16.9 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

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Web Hosting Virtualization for Windows 7 Integration, Unveiled at Parallels

2009-05-08T09:26:00-04:00

Renton, WA (The Hosting News) Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels remarked, ''There is a great deal of anticipation for Windows 7. However, users who upgrade typically find that critical applications are not yet available for the new operating system,. With market-leading products such as Parallels Desktop for Mac, we have extensive experience of enabling users to run multiple operating environments side by side. This offering for Windows 7 is a natural extension to our established product line. By combining proven technology and feedback from our beta testing community, we will offer users a simple yet high performing way to migrate to Windows 7 and still run critical Windows XP applications.''

The product was developed to simplify migration to Microsoft's next client operating system (OS), rumoured to be released in late 2009. Interest in Windows 7 is already significant, with Microsoft committing to support at least 2.5 million users in the beta tests of the new OS. However, experts predict that many users who upgrade will encounter compatibility issues preventing them from running popular existing applications like Roxio 2009, AOL Instant Messenger and many custom business applications.

Parallels addresses this compatibility challenge with a product that leverages its experience of serving more than 2 million users worldwide with desktop virtualization solutions that offer the greatest stability and performance available. This new solution leverages Parallels' high performance adaptive hypervisor, as well as award-winning, patent-pending technologies such as Coherence and SmartSelect: innovations that enable users to seamlessly run differing OSs and their applications side-by-side. Customers will benefit from our recognized industry-leading capabilities in 3D graphc support, USB compatibility and unmatched performance. The solution also integrates Parallels’ easy-to-use migration tools, such as Parallels Transporter, allowing users to quickly transfer applications and data from older Windows operating systems such as Windows 2000, XP or Vista to a new Windows 7 machine.

For more information on the beta program, or to sign up, please visit: www.parallels.com/products/xptowin7migration/.

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Colocation Hosting Data Center, Acquired by Host.net

2009-05-07T09:36:00-04:00

Boca Raton, FL (The Hosting News) Lenny Chesal, Chief Marketing Officer at Host.net explained, ''Customers and partners have been asking Host.net to consider opening a Ft. Lauderdale facility to provide additional geographic diversity and business solutions, which is in line with the company's long-term strategic plan. Our success in partnering with clients combined with a truly local service philosophy has enabled us to extend a customer-focused team and service mentality to the South Florida market.''

Jeffrey Davis, Co-Founder and CEO at Host.net remarked, ''The move into Ft. Lauderdale reflects Host.net's strategy of expanding in its existing markets to better service our customers needs. Our team has done a wonderful job of delivering a disciplined local service-driven business model, while deepening our footprint and service delivery capabilities. As a result, we have achieved significant scale without diminishing our core value proposition - strong local market presence and customer service.''

Randy Epstein, Co-Founder and CIO of Host.net confirmed, ''We will be adding over 40Gbps of lit Internet and Transport connectivity as well as increasing the cooling and electrical capacity of this newly acquired facility. The building boasts diverse conduit and fiber entrance facilities from such carriers as FiberLight, AT and T, Level(3), tw telecom and FPL FiberNet along with Host.net's own metro fiber network.''

Mr. Chesal added, ''Host.net's expansion has capitalized upon the growing trend in the business community to outsource IT infrastructure; increasing awareness of the need for business continuity and disaster recovery services; increasing demand for managed IT services; and meeting regulatory compliance demands. Host.net allows customers to cost-effectively manage and accelerate their growth, due to the importance of having a trusted and scalable partner.''

Founded in 1996, Host.net is a global communications and information services company, and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The company operates a large diverse multinational fiber-optic based Internet, MPLS and layer 2 backbone, delivered to its customers utilizing a vast number of last-mile options. The company also operates over 30,000 square feet of enterprise-class colocation space in South Florida and provides other vital network services including Disaster Recovery office space, Managed VoIP, and Managed Network Security.

To learn more about Host.net, please visit: www.host.net.

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Go Daddy to Sponsor Indy 500 Broadcast

2009-05-05T14:00:00-04:00

Scottsdale, Arizona - (The Hosting News) GoDaddy.com will once again, be the presenting sponsor for the Indianapolis 500 telecast this year, from broadcast segments to aerial and in-car views, as well as commercials, during the live broadcast on May 24 for ABC.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder at Go Daddy remarked, ''This is, by far, the hottest Go Daddy commercial we've ever done. Considering all the Go Daddy ads rejected over the years, this is as GoDaddy-esque as it gets. Our Internet-Only version will have people talking.''

Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick will have a high profile at Indy. She's IndyCar's Most Popular driver and will of course be among those competing on the track and appearing in television ads. Danica, however, will be the only driver starring in a racy new Go Daddy commercial tailor-made for the Indy 500.

Danica is literally behind the wheel for a twist on speeding tickets in her latest Go Daddy commercial, titled 'Speeding.' In the ad, the Go Daddy Girl is pulled over for going too fast on a deserted highway. Without revealing the punch line, the premise revolves around a police officer who stops Danica and quickly proclaims a desire to become a Go Daddy spokesperson.

Mr. Parsons is referencing the commercial's cue for viewers to go to www.GoDaddy.com on race day to see the ad's steamy conclusion. Go Daddy's 'cliffhanger' tradition has served as a way to entertain viewers and drive Web site traffic. It's a technique the company first pioneered during the 2008 Super Bowl.

As far as sponsoring the Indy 500 telecast, Go Daddy has carved out a tradition there as well. This year marks Go Daddy’s third consecutive broadcast sponsorship.

Ms. Patrick said, ''Go Daddy has supported me and the IndyCar Series since the beginning of our relationship and I love that. A lot of people tease me about the Go Daddy ads because they push the envelope - but GoDaddy-esque ads are fun to make, fun to watch - you just never know what's going to happen.''

Danica's last big ad was ranked as the 2009 Super Bowl's Most Watched, according to TiVo.

She is with Andretti Green Racing and made history as the first woman ever to win an IndyCar Series race last year in Motegi, Japan. In 2005, she was the first woman to lead the field at the Indy 500, where she led for 19 laps, before finishing fourth. Safe to say, millions of viewers will be rooting for the Go Daddy Girl in her GoDaddy.com sponsored car again this year.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 34 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

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Web Hosting Provider, Web.com, Completes Solid Cactus Acquisition

2009-05-05T14:00:00-04:00

Jacksonville, FL (The Hosting News) Solid Cactus will continue to operate as a separate brand of Web.com and will retain its offices in Shavertown and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

The acquisition of Solid Cactus is hoped to enhance Web.com's strategic position as a comprehensive, ``one-stop'' resource for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking online marketing and eCommerce solutions.

David Brown, Chairman and CEO of Web.com remarked, ''The acquisition of Solid Cactus demonstrates our commitment to providing SMBs with a broad range of online marketing solutions and eCommerce expertise to help them convert website traffic to sales. As more consumers make their buying decisions online, small businesses see the increasing importance of having a professionally built e-store. This is further reinforced by recent studies that show that online shoppers are less sensitive to adverse economic conditions than the average U.S. consumer. Solid Cactus' eCommerce site building capabilities and suite of solutions are an excellent complement to Web.com's 1ShoppingCart.com eCommerce platform and our recent partnerships in small business payment processing.''
Solid Cactus provides a full-range of solutions for new and existing online businesses, including website and eCommerce store design and programming, pay-per-click advertising management, search engine optimization, affiliate program and e-mail marketing management, call center and virtual office services, and Software as a Service (SaaS) products (FeedPerfect and Cactus Complete Commerce).

Scott Sanfilippo, co-founder and President of Solid Cactus added, ''Joining Web.com provides Solid Cactus with the resources to enhance our specialized eCommerce and online marketing product offerings. We look forward to working with our new colleagues at Web.com in expanding our presence in the eCommerce market.''

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Web.com does not expect the transaction to have a material impact to its 2009 non-GAAP diluted earnings per share, which excludes the non-cash expense associated with amortization of intangibles associated with acquisitions. Management has not yet determined the impact on its 2009 GAAP earnings per share, as it has not completed its valuation analysis.

In conjunction with the acquisition, Web.com will grant inducement awards to 125 new employees from Solid Cactus under Web.com's 2009 Inducement Award Plan, adopted in anticipation of the acquisition. The inducement awards consist of options to purchase an aggregate of 146,900 shares of Web.com's common stock. The options have a ten year term and an exercise price equal to the closing price of Web.com's common stock on the date of grant. The options vest each month ratably over four years.

Solid Cactus, Inc., headquartered in Shavertown, PA, has designed or redesigned more than 3,500 eCommerce websites. Solid Cactus was recognized as one of the country's fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine in 2007 and 2008 and was named one of the ``Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania'' in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The company provides its clients with a full array of Web design and eCommerce solutions, including search engine marketing (SEM), pay-per-click (PPC) management, affiliate program management, call center services, back-end order management, print design and consulting.

Web.com Group, Inc. is a leading provider of online marketing for small businesses. Web.com offers a full range of online services, including Internet marketing and advertising, local search, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, lead generation, home contractor specific leads, website design and publishing, logo and brand development and eCommerce solutions, meeting the needs of small businesses anywhere along their lifecycle.

To learn more about Solid Cactus, please visit: www.solidcactus.com.

For more information on Web.com, please visit: www.web.com.

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Hosted Web 2.0 Threat Management Solution, Released by Optenet

2009-05-02T06:00:00-04:00

London, United Kingdom (The Hosting News) Designed to enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver a full suite of high-performance security services to millions of users from a single platform with personalised and exclusive options, the solution also retains powerful centralised management.

Designed to protect operations, desktops and mobile devices of millions of subscribers, the new OST include a full suite of services such Web and mail filtering, WAP and MMS filtering for mobile operators, a wide range of antivirus and malware detection engines, firewall, IDS/IPS, web acceleration and unified policy management.

The main benefit of OST is Optenet's unique multitenant architecture that reaches beyond the traditional ''one-to-may'' paradigm of providing Security as a Service (SaaS) where ''one size fits all'' and introducing for the first time in the industry a viable highly scalable ''many-to-many'' model. One of the commercial advantages of this model is that it allows the service provider to differentiate a range of security services depending on his client/target. OST enables customised interfaces to be assigned to each client group or segment depending on their needs, bringing simplicity for personal users and detailed sophistication for companies.

Optenet's OST enables users to customise their own service and protection policies, while providing the ISP with a single powerful management console to supervise and administer all client security rules. |
Omar Aguirre, General Manager at Optenet noted, ''As the telecommunications space becomes increasingly competitive, service providers need to support the rapid growth and demands of their enterprise and residential customers. This means offering reliable value-added services that will make Internet access faster, safer and more cost-effective. Optenet's technology enables service providers to raise their competitive advantage, expand their portfolio of telecommunications services and generate additional revenue by offering flexible, scalable and reliable security services to their customers.''

The new OST marks a major step forward in helping service providers tackle the new wave of security threats and challenges that target popular Web 2.0 enabled services such as social networking sites, blogs and Wikis. By embracing Web 2.0 or allowing their customers to deploy Web 2.0 services, Service providers need to ensure that the integrity and security of their core network services such as hosting, databases and email servers, is not compromised.

Optenet has developed a major update on its set of technologies to help protect and classify the contents from Web 2.0. The Multi-content Inspection and Dynamic Analysis System (Optenet MIDAS) uses the most advanced artificial intelligence techniques, such as the Multilingual Semantic Analyzer, to dynamically categorise and assess Web 2.0 contents. Optenet Global Internet Acquisition Network for Threats (Optenet GIANT) represents our groundbreaking effort to obtain collective intelligence about the latest risks and threats on the Internet to be used on its security products, and provides customers with unparalleled protection from those threats.

New Multi-tenant Services for users includes:

Web Acceleration Proxy - An entirely redesigned Web Acceleration Proxy with support for HTTPS filtering, granular user authentication policies and content acceleration engine for improved performance providing better end user experience.

Antiphising and Antispam tools - A new antiphishing engine scans both web and mail traffic for suspicious activity and known phishing scams, while an outgoing spam filter prevents an organisation’s mail servers from being used for mass spam distribution.

MMS and WAP Filtering - Features for mobile service providers to enable filtering of MMS messages and mobile websites. MMS antispam protection effectively prevents MMS spam from spreading through the network and reaching end users. Network Firewall - A full featured firewall offers also the possibility of filtering groups of internet services (Application Management).

- A new service that combines Optenet's state-of-the-art threat intelligence from its Global Intelligence Acquisition Network for Threats (Optenet GIANT) platform with the proven technology of Snort, the most widely deployed intrusion detection and prevention technology worldwide and the de facto standard for the industry. Enables Service Providers to offer a complete set of threat detection rules that administrators and subscribers can fully customise and prioritise according to severity.

Notification Service - This new service provides ISPs with an incredibly powerful mechanism to send automatic and customisable notifications to customers based on the combination of multiple policies and traffic analysis, representing a major step forward in Operator-Client relationship management and a new level of one-to-one marketing capabilities based on behavioural pattern analysis.

New product features include:

Unified policy management - A completely new approach to policy creation and implementation in a fully unified and redesigned console. Enables Administrators to now manage and implement policies from a single view, vastly improving their visibility of potential issues and simplifying policy creation and management.
End-user interface templates - New ready-to-use residential and enterprise end user interface templates allow service providers to reduce the time-to-market for new value added services.

QoS and Bandwidth Management - Available to administrators, these two functionalities allow the definition of granular policies to control network service levels and limit the bit-rate of network traffic by client and IP.

Dynamic Routing - Improving on the deployment flexibility of the solution, the new firewall includes a dynamic router with a fully functional Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) engine and the possibility to assign routes to profiles.

The main features of the new OST are designed for Internet Service Providers of all sizes, Mobile Operators and Large Multi-branch Enterprises. It allows service providers to implement Internet security controls in both, a SaaS and single customer environment, whilst retaining a high degree of flexibility over how traffic and requests are filtered, threats are identified and what action is taken.

Mr. Aguirre offered, ''Optenet's objective is to consolidate our leadership as strategic partner of the service provider community, providing them with the most complete multi-tenant, integrated security service offering, capable of adapting to the precise requirements of each of their subscribers. Thanks to the new functionalities, optimised performance and increased scalability of OST, we offer the multi-tenant technology ''In the Cloud and managed security that service providers desire.''

Optenet is a global IT security company that provides high-performance content filtering solutions to service providers and large enterprises worldwide. Optenet's technology protects 75 million end users around the globe, including the customers of many of the world's leading ISPs and mobile operators, as well as employees of global enterprise organisations. The Company is a socially conscious organisation, committed to eliminating illegal content on the Internet, protecting children and supporting government agencies and non-profit organisations that share the same goal.

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Dedicated Servers in New Jersey, Launched by ReliableSite

2009-05-02T06:00:00-04:00

New York, NY (The Hosting News) Radic Davydov, owner of ReliableSite remarked, ''Our reputation is built on the promise of quality and personal service. As we introduce dedicated servers, our commitment is as strong as ever. Utilizing our New Jersey facility enables us to tap into premium bandwidth from New York providers while still reducing our cost structure. It's the best of both worlds.''

Available in Dual Core, Quad Core, and 8 Core hardware configurations, dedicated servers start at just $109 per month and can be loaded with a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows Server and Linux.

Dedicated servers also include remote boot functionality, self-management, 24 hour provisioning, and a 100% uptime SLA for network, power, and cooling. Customizers can purchase software upgrades directly from ReliableSite, including DotNetPanel and applications from SmarterTools.

The North Bergen data center facility offers fully redundant security, connectivity, environmental management, and Tier-3 performance. It also has access to premium bandwidth from providers based in New York.

Since 2006, ReliableSite has been serving individuals and businesses internationally with its line of award-winning shared and dedicated Web hosting solutions. Offering 24/365 technical support, all technicians are Microsoft Certified Professionals and fully qualified in their field.

To learn about several launch discounts on dedicated servers, please visit: www.reliablesite.net/v3/coupons.asp#dedicated-coupons.

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