Technology to further optimize the company's servers for cloud computing, analytics and other new workloads.
IBM, a provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), a provider in network virtualization for servers and storage. The company says that the acquisition is anticipated to close in the fourth quarter of 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and applicable regulatory reviews. Financial terms were not disclosed by it.
The company explains that BLADE provides blade server and top-of-rack switches as well as software to virtualize and manage cloud computing and other workloads. Customers include more than half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list across 26 industry verticals, including automotive, telecom services, education, government, healthcare, defense and finance. The company and BLADE have worked together since 2002, resulting in thousands of joint clients. In fact, over 50 percent of its System x BladeCenters currently attach to or use BLADE products (1).
It further explains that the BLADE acquisition builds on the capabilities and technologies the company is applying to its systems, which are optimized to help clients manage a range of new, more demanding workloads. This year, it introduced a full line-up of new, workload-optimized systems that incorporate innovation at each level - from microprocessors and firmware software to middleware and hardware. With BLADE, the company can drive innovation at the systems networking level to enable clients to speed the delivery of key information from system to system - for workloads such as analytics and cloud computing - while also reducing data center costs.
According to the company, emerging business models from smart grids to smart traffic systems are infusing intelligence into every day processes, generating a torrent of information. Business decisions require rapid access to that information. BLADE's switches and software are designed to improve systems performance for faster delivery of information, optimize virtual environments and lower energy use.
It states that over the past 18 months, the company has expanded its core networking business through relationships with leading networking companies. It plans to continue providing clients a choice in core networking solutions through these important, ongoing relationships while using BLADE's industry standard-based system networking technology to create systems that are efficient, easy to manage and simple to deploy. Today, networks are made up of different layers, each one designed to pass information up and down to the next layer as data is processed. BLADE's switches will be brought closer to the company's systems and then pass information to the core networking layer, optimizing systems performance.
The company avers that BLADE provides software that helps address the massive virtualization requirements of cloud computing environments. BLADE software allows servers to more closely integrate with the network so that clients can deploy thousands of virtual machines to run large application workloads in the cloud and reduce complexity through simplified management.
"BLADE will help IBM better integrate networks with its systems, optimizing them for workloads that require high-speed and low-latency performance such as cloud computing and business analytics. For example, faster data transport enables faster decisions important for analytics workloads," said Brian Truskowski, General Manager, IBM System Storage and Networking. "BLADE will increase IBM's System Networking development, sales, support, skills and awareness and help IBM build smarter systems that are optimized for client requirements."
"BLADE views this as a great opportunity to continue working with the ecosystem of technology providers that have helped make our company successful while allowing our technology to become a more central part of the data center," said Vikram Mehta, CEO of BLADE. "Our very talented and hard working people are focused on building innovative system networking solutions, making BLADE an ideal fit to help IBM execute on its strategy to build smarter systems that deliver more value to clients around the world."
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
HP Completes Acquisition of 3PAR
Accelerates HP Converged Infrastructure strategy and expands company's solutions portfolio for cloud computing and service provider markets.
HP, a technology solutions provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of 3PAR Inc., a provider of utility storage, for a price of $33 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $2.35 billion.
The company claims that 3PAR technologies expand its storage portfolio into enterprise-class public and private cloud computing environments, which are its key growth markets. Complementary with the company's current storage portfolio, 3PAR brings market-differentiating technology to the company that will enable clients to maximize storage utilization, balance workloads and automate storage tiering. This allows clients to improve productivity and more efficiently operate their storage networks.
It mentions that with a worldwide sales and channel network, coupled with extensive service operations, the company is uniquely positioned to rapidly expand 3PAR's market opportunity. As part of the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio, which integrates servers, storage, networking and management technologies, 3PAR solutions will further strengthen its ability to simplify data center environments for clients. The company adds that further details on product integration will be announced at a later date.
According to it, the acquisition was completed by means of a tender offer by a company subsidiary for all of the outstanding shares of 3PAR followed by the merger of that purchasing subsidiary with 3PAR, as a result of which 3PAR became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. The tender offer expired at midnight, New York City time, on Sept. 24, 2010. As of that time, approximately 55.9 million shares, representing approximately 87.8 percent of 3PAR's outstanding shares, were tendered and not withdrawn in the offer. The company has accepted for payment all tendered shares. It completed the merger with 3PAR following the exercise of the top-up option contemplated by the merger agreement.
HP, a technology solutions provider, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of 3PAR Inc., a provider of utility storage, for a price of $33 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $2.35 billion.
The company claims that 3PAR technologies expand its storage portfolio into enterprise-class public and private cloud computing environments, which are its key growth markets. Complementary with the company's current storage portfolio, 3PAR brings market-differentiating technology to the company that will enable clients to maximize storage utilization, balance workloads and automate storage tiering. This allows clients to improve productivity and more efficiently operate their storage networks.
It mentions that with a worldwide sales and channel network, coupled with extensive service operations, the company is uniquely positioned to rapidly expand 3PAR's market opportunity. As part of the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio, which integrates servers, storage, networking and management technologies, 3PAR solutions will further strengthen its ability to simplify data center environments for clients. The company adds that further details on product integration will be announced at a later date.
According to it, the acquisition was completed by means of a tender offer by a company subsidiary for all of the outstanding shares of 3PAR followed by the merger of that purchasing subsidiary with 3PAR, as a result of which 3PAR became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. The tender offer expired at midnight, New York City time, on Sept. 24, 2010. As of that time, approximately 55.9 million shares, representing approximately 87.8 percent of 3PAR's outstanding shares, were tendered and not withdrawn in the offer. The company has accepted for payment all tendered shares. It completed the merger with 3PAR following the exercise of the top-up option contemplated by the merger agreement.
CloudSigma Adds Rackspace Cloud API Compatibility
The API emulator is designed to extend compatibility of the cloud to the Rackspace API which also forms the basis of the new OpenStack initiative.
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, today announced the launch of a new Rackspace API emulator for its customers. The company avers that the API emulator is designed to extend compatibility of its cloud to the Rackspace API which also forms the basis of the new OpenStack initiative. By adding a Rackspace API emulator, it is able to offer existing Rackspace customers a smooth migration path to its cloud without the need to re-development any API based tools that the customer may already be using.
According to the company, its open software and networking layers support additional functionality not offered within the Rackspace platform. As a result, it is running its Rackspace API emulator in parallel to its existing full feature API that includes a number of additional features unique to the company's platform. It claims that users of the company's cloud will now be able to choose between its native API and the Rackspace API Emulator seamlessly. The web console will continue to run under both systems. The company plans to roll out additional API emulators in response to customer demand and feedback.
The company states that it hopes the new API emulators will prove popular with the increasing number of US based clients that it is attracting, particularly from within Rackspace's existing customer base. When used in conjunction with the unique Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) FTP gateway, it is possible to add a European availability zone to existing cloud based infrastructure with ease in a number of short easy steps:
* Extract RAW ISO files from existing Rackspace compatible cloud infrastructure
* FTP in the ISO files to the company's cloud
* Re-configure networking on the new servers with correct IP information
* Re-point any relevant API scripts to the company's Rackspace API emulator
It further states that by minimizing the development and migration time needed, the return on investment of a transition or extension of infrastructure using its cloud is significantly higher than with competing platforms. The company is already experiencing significant interest from new potential US customers following the launch of the API emulator. It decided to start development of its API emulators after working with a number of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers that were looking to add European availability zones to their existing US cloud infrastructure underlying their service offerings.
CloudSigma AG CEO Patrick Baillie commented, "The Rackspace API emulator is the latest new product as part of a continuing effort to improve interoperability. Interoperability is crucial in eliminating data and vendor lock-in which has been a rising concern amongst prospective customers in the IaaS space." Patrick continued, "Many customers are spending significant time developing for different competing clouds that lack compatibility. This can easily eat into the cost savings and return on investment that using cloud infrastructure can convey to customers. Minimizing migration and development time between clouds allows our customers to concentrate on their own business and not waste time keeping up with changing compatibilities within the IaaS space."
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, today announced the launch of a new Rackspace API emulator for its customers. The company avers that the API emulator is designed to extend compatibility of its cloud to the Rackspace API which also forms the basis of the new OpenStack initiative. By adding a Rackspace API emulator, it is able to offer existing Rackspace customers a smooth migration path to its cloud without the need to re-development any API based tools that the customer may already be using.
According to the company, its open software and networking layers support additional functionality not offered within the Rackspace platform. As a result, it is running its Rackspace API emulator in parallel to its existing full feature API that includes a number of additional features unique to the company's platform. It claims that users of the company's cloud will now be able to choose between its native API and the Rackspace API Emulator seamlessly. The web console will continue to run under both systems. The company plans to roll out additional API emulators in response to customer demand and feedback.
The company states that it hopes the new API emulators will prove popular with the increasing number of US based clients that it is attracting, particularly from within Rackspace's existing customer base. When used in conjunction with the unique Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) FTP gateway, it is possible to add a European availability zone to existing cloud based infrastructure with ease in a number of short easy steps:
* Extract RAW ISO files from existing Rackspace compatible cloud infrastructure
* FTP in the ISO files to the company's cloud
* Re-configure networking on the new servers with correct IP information
* Re-point any relevant API scripts to the company's Rackspace API emulator
It further states that by minimizing the development and migration time needed, the return on investment of a transition or extension of infrastructure using its cloud is significantly higher than with competing platforms. The company is already experiencing significant interest from new potential US customers following the launch of the API emulator. It decided to start development of its API emulators after working with a number of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providers that were looking to add European availability zones to their existing US cloud infrastructure underlying their service offerings.
CloudSigma AG CEO Patrick Baillie commented, "The Rackspace API emulator is the latest new product as part of a continuing effort to improve interoperability. Interoperability is crucial in eliminating data and vendor lock-in which has been a rising concern amongst prospective customers in the IaaS space." Patrick continued, "Many customers are spending significant time developing for different competing clouds that lack compatibility. This can easily eat into the cost savings and return on investment that using cloud infrastructure can convey to customers. Minimizing migration and development time between clouds allows our customers to concentrate on their own business and not waste time keeping up with changing compatibilities within the IaaS space."
Parallels Launches Linux Shared Hosting NG
New service module makes it possible for service providers to cut infrastructure costs for delivering the service, reduce churn, and decrease downtime.
Parallels, a provider of virtualization and automation software, recently announced the launch of Linux Shared Hosting NG (Next Generation) Service Delivery Solution that will reduce infrastructure and operating expenses for service providers, achieve greater density of web sites per server compared to traditional solutions, and enable to deliver shared web hosting service with guaranteed SLAs.
The company articulates that the new module uses clustering, load balancing and proprietary site isolation technology to deliver 99.99% or better uptime with consistent performance for shared web-hosting services. Small businesses that rely on their web sites value this level of reliability and performance. It claims that service providers are able to achieve profitability and margins through reduced infrastructure and operating costs, reduced churn, and increased average revenue per user by enabling the delivery of hundreds of additional services through its Automation Service Delivery system.
The company mentions that Linux Shared Hosting NG is deployed as a module within its Automation Cloud service delivery software. Service providers that automate cloud service delivery using the company's Automation system are able to profitably host and syndicate hundreds of cloud services including messaging and collaboration, SaaS applications, and various virtualized infrastructures services.
"The shared web hosting market is large and growing. The keys to success in this competitive space are lowering operating costs and delivering a complete set of services for small business customers that leads to higher ARPUs and increased profitability. The Linux Shared Hosting NG module addresses the needs of service providers by achieving these objectives and allowing them to focus on their core business," said Jack Zubarev, President of Marketing and Alliances at Parallels.
"We are constantly looking to offer the best cloud based services to our customers," said Dennis Ng, CEO at Pachosting. "The Linux Shared Hosting NG module reduces operational expenses, eliminates the need to develop and maintain a system that implements clustering and site isolation, and our small business customers get world class reliability for their web site at an affordable price."
Parallels, a provider of virtualization and automation software, recently announced the launch of Linux Shared Hosting NG (Next Generation) Service Delivery Solution that will reduce infrastructure and operating expenses for service providers, achieve greater density of web sites per server compared to traditional solutions, and enable to deliver shared web hosting service with guaranteed SLAs.
The company articulates that the new module uses clustering, load balancing and proprietary site isolation technology to deliver 99.99% or better uptime with consistent performance for shared web-hosting services. Small businesses that rely on their web sites value this level of reliability and performance. It claims that service providers are able to achieve profitability and margins through reduced infrastructure and operating costs, reduced churn, and increased average revenue per user by enabling the delivery of hundreds of additional services through its Automation Service Delivery system.
The company mentions that Linux Shared Hosting NG is deployed as a module within its Automation Cloud service delivery software. Service providers that automate cloud service delivery using the company's Automation system are able to profitably host and syndicate hundreds of cloud services including messaging and collaboration, SaaS applications, and various virtualized infrastructures services.
"The shared web hosting market is large and growing. The keys to success in this competitive space are lowering operating costs and delivering a complete set of services for small business customers that leads to higher ARPUs and increased profitability. The Linux Shared Hosting NG module addresses the needs of service providers by achieving these objectives and allowing them to focus on their core business," said Jack Zubarev, President of Marketing and Alliances at Parallels.
"We are constantly looking to offer the best cloud based services to our customers," said Dennis Ng, CEO at Pachosting. "The Linux Shared Hosting NG module reduces operational expenses, eliminates the need to develop and maintain a system that implements clustering and site isolation, and our small business customers get world class reliability for their web site at an affordable price."
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Afilias Receives Excellence in Online Trust Award
Company gets recognition for Excellence in Registry Services for DNSSEC and Anti-Abuse efforts.
Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services and the Registry operator for .INFO, today announced that it has been awarded a 2010 Excellence in Registry Services award from the Online Trust Alliance. The company says that it was recognized on Thursday, September 23rd at the Online Trust Alliances' fifth annual 2010 Excellence in Online Trust Awards in Washington D.C. for its role in online safety initiatives over the past year.
It explains that its cyber security initiatives included its Anti-Abuse Policy for the .INFO domain, which has helped .INFO to continuously score one of the lowest phishing uptimes for all generic top-level domains (TLDs). It also includes cross-industry collaboration initiatives which have helped suppress two of the largest cyber-gangs and incidents in the Internet's history, Avalanche and Conficker. In addition, the company has worked to increase implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), a protection against cache-poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks.
"We appreciate the recognition of our work to enable a more trustworthy internet and owe thanks to a very cooperative industry, including our domain name registrars who have been responsive in helping us address domain abuse," said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Afilias. "We will continue to strengthen our anti-abuse program and will add DNSSEC protection to more than a dozen registries in the months ahead."
"Afilias is committed to defeating abusive uses of domains and, since introducing our anti-abuse policy in 2008, we have demonstrated measurable results in fighting phishing, malware, and spam," added Greg Aaron, Director of Domain Security for Afilias. "Collaboration with our registrars, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, law enforcement, and security vendors and researchers has helped make our efforts successful. This results-oriented approach and expertise sets our registry services apart."
The Online Trust Alliance specifically cited it as exemplifying excellence in online trust "for the commitment to working with the registry community, ICANN, APWG and other organizations advancing DNSSEC and developing .ORG. Their development of tools successfully have helped to block over 2.5 million Conficker domains and aided anti-abuse policies, resulting in the suspension in over 100,000 abusive domains."
Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services and the Registry operator for .INFO, today announced that it has been awarded a 2010 Excellence in Registry Services award from the Online Trust Alliance. The company says that it was recognized on Thursday, September 23rd at the Online Trust Alliances' fifth annual 2010 Excellence in Online Trust Awards in Washington D.C. for its role in online safety initiatives over the past year.
It explains that its cyber security initiatives included its Anti-Abuse Policy for the .INFO domain, which has helped .INFO to continuously score one of the lowest phishing uptimes for all generic top-level domains (TLDs). It also includes cross-industry collaboration initiatives which have helped suppress two of the largest cyber-gangs and incidents in the Internet's history, Avalanche and Conficker. In addition, the company has worked to increase implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), a protection against cache-poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks.
"We appreciate the recognition of our work to enable a more trustworthy internet and owe thanks to a very cooperative industry, including our domain name registrars who have been responsive in helping us address domain abuse," said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Afilias. "We will continue to strengthen our anti-abuse program and will add DNSSEC protection to more than a dozen registries in the months ahead."
"Afilias is committed to defeating abusive uses of domains and, since introducing our anti-abuse policy in 2008, we have demonstrated measurable results in fighting phishing, malware, and spam," added Greg Aaron, Director of Domain Security for Afilias. "Collaboration with our registrars, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, law enforcement, and security vendors and researchers has helped make our efforts successful. This results-oriented approach and expertise sets our registry services apart."
The Online Trust Alliance specifically cited it as exemplifying excellence in online trust "for the commitment to working with the registry community, ICANN, APWG and other organizations advancing DNSSEC and developing .ORG. Their development of tools successfully have helped to block over 2.5 million Conficker domains and aided anti-abuse policies, resulting in the suspension in over 100,000 abusive domains."
Go Daddy Expands into Asia with New Singapore Data Center
The operation is designed to enable faster services for the company's web hosting and e-mail customers in Asia.
Go Daddy, a domain name registrar and hosting provider, today announced that it is expanding its global reach with another data center - in Singapore. The company avers that the operation is designed to enable faster services for its web hosting and e-mail customers in Asia. It adds that the facility accommodates the company's expanding customer base. The company claims that its customers whose websites run through the new Singapore data center will afford their local visitors faster website load times, based on the distance the data is traveling.
According to it, the company has been expanding in the U.S. and internationally. After seeing an influx of European customers, it opened a data center in The Netherlands last year. In July, the company opened a new office in Hiawatha, Iowa, adding U.S.-based customer care representative jobs to keep up with customer growth. The company mentions that it has long served Asian customers with domain name extensions like .JP, .TW and .ASIA.
"People everywhere are looking for quality products at affordable prices," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Go Daddy has always been committed to providing the best possible products and services to all our customers. Having data centers strategically located in our growth areas just makes sense."
Go Daddy, a domain name registrar and hosting provider, today announced that it is expanding its global reach with another data center - in Singapore. The company avers that the operation is designed to enable faster services for its web hosting and e-mail customers in Asia. It adds that the facility accommodates the company's expanding customer base. The company claims that its customers whose websites run through the new Singapore data center will afford their local visitors faster website load times, based on the distance the data is traveling.
According to it, the company has been expanding in the U.S. and internationally. After seeing an influx of European customers, it opened a data center in The Netherlands last year. In July, the company opened a new office in Hiawatha, Iowa, adding U.S.-based customer care representative jobs to keep up with customer growth. The company mentions that it has long served Asian customers with domain name extensions like .JP, .TW and .ASIA.
"People everywhere are looking for quality products at affordable prices," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Go Daddy has always been committed to providing the best possible products and services to all our customers. Having data centers strategically located in our growth areas just makes sense."
Cirrus Tech Upgrades its Xen Virtual Machine Hosting Plans
Company aims to attract SMBs and enterprises looking for an alternative to dedicated server hosting with its Xen VM hosting plans.
Cirrus Tech, a web hosting and virtualization technologies provider, yesterday announced that it has updated its Xen Virtual Machine (VM) hosting plans with a more robust version of the Xen VM offering.
The company articulates that it has observed that more and more SMBs and enterprises are moving away from traditional web hosting solutions, such as dedicated servers, towards a more flexible hosting environment, such as Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Virtual Machines (VMs). With its Xen VM hosting service, clients can benefit from high-availability, dynamic scalability, and built-in redundancy for their mission-critical hosted applications.
According to it, the hallmark of the company's Xen VM plans is the high-availability options offered. With high-availability, clients can have peace of mind in knowing that if there is a hardware related issue on the hardware node (server) that their VM is currently running on, their VM will be automatically switched to another available hardware node for minimum service interruption.
The company states that with the ability to scale up to 8 CPU Cores and 8 GB of RAM, its Xen VM plans allow clients to start small and scale their service when needed without having to worry about the costs and time associated with migrating their services or upgrading existing hardware. The hardware independence inherent in the Xen VM allows for client's VMs being able to utilize even more resources and newer hardware in the future as they become available.
It further states that each Xen Virtual Machine offered by the company is an isolated virtual environment that is allotted guaranteed resources, such as CPU, RAM, and disk space. The company has built its Xen VM hosting infrastructure with redundancy as a key factor. All Xen VMs run on Dell Blade servers with redundant power and redundant SAS hard drives. Xen VMs feature hardware Raid 6 which allows data redundancy of up to 2 hard drive failures. Clients can also choose to purchase multiple Xen VMs and load balance them with a virtual load balancer add-on. The company adds that its Xen VMs are available in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, and the following Linux distributions: CentOS 5, Debian 5, Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora Core 12.
Cirrus Tech, a web hosting and virtualization technologies provider, yesterday announced that it has updated its Xen Virtual Machine (VM) hosting plans with a more robust version of the Xen VM offering.
The company articulates that it has observed that more and more SMBs and enterprises are moving away from traditional web hosting solutions, such as dedicated servers, towards a more flexible hosting environment, such as Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Virtual Machines (VMs). With its Xen VM hosting service, clients can benefit from high-availability, dynamic scalability, and built-in redundancy for their mission-critical hosted applications.
According to it, the hallmark of the company's Xen VM plans is the high-availability options offered. With high-availability, clients can have peace of mind in knowing that if there is a hardware related issue on the hardware node (server) that their VM is currently running on, their VM will be automatically switched to another available hardware node for minimum service interruption.
The company states that with the ability to scale up to 8 CPU Cores and 8 GB of RAM, its Xen VM plans allow clients to start small and scale their service when needed without having to worry about the costs and time associated with migrating their services or upgrading existing hardware. The hardware independence inherent in the Xen VM allows for client's VMs being able to utilize even more resources and newer hardware in the future as they become available.
It further states that each Xen Virtual Machine offered by the company is an isolated virtual environment that is allotted guaranteed resources, such as CPU, RAM, and disk space. The company has built its Xen VM hosting infrastructure with redundancy as a key factor. All Xen VMs run on Dell Blade servers with redundant power and redundant SAS hard drives. Xen VMs feature hardware Raid 6 which allows data redundancy of up to 2 hard drive failures. Clients can also choose to purchase multiple Xen VMs and load balance them with a virtual load balancer add-on. The company adds that its Xen VMs are available in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, and the following Linux distributions: CentOS 5, Debian 5, Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora Core 12.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Google Chrome Frame Leaves Beta Version
Google announced today that Google Chrome Frame has reached stable status and left its beta version. The plug-in for bringing HTML5 and the latest Web apps to IE 6, 7, and 8 allows developers of websites and apps to support legacy browsers, with the plug-in handling the HTML5 rendering when a user’s old browser can’t handle the task.
Users that are currently using the Chrome Frame beta will be automatically updated to the stable version, and future updates will happen on the same update schedule as Chrome itself.
Users that are currently using the Chrome Frame beta will be automatically updated to the stable version, and future updates will happen on the same update schedule as Chrome itself.
Sweden Democrats Web Site Shut Down by Host
Swedish web host Binero today shut down the sites ”Sverigedemokrater.se“ and “Vaktad.se“. The domains were registered in the same Binero account under the company name of Gottfrid Swartholm Warg, founder of The Pirate Bay, while the content is hosted by Wikileaks host PRQ. When it could be proven that Swartholm was not the owner Binero shut down the domains and contacted the police. Both the sites contain personal information on people accused of sympathizing with the Sweden democrats, or being Security guards.
– The web should be free, but no wild west. We have fought hard to improve the reputation of the hosting business for years, and whenever we find faulty user information, we act. In these cases we also know that the sites have caused considerable suffering. We acted as fast as we could to contact Gottfrid, even if that did take a while. He denied both ordering and owning the sites, said Binero founder and CEO, Anders Aleborg.
From the 20th of September onwards, Sverigedemokrater.se contained names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail and maps showing the way home to 5700 members of the Sweden democrat party (SD) or people who are to have requested information about the party. The information is believed to have come from an earlier hacker attack on the SD home page on April 16th. The site slogan was “Find a buddy near you“. During Thursday, the content was replaced with a torrent link leading to the members registry.
On the page Vaktad.se lay personal photos, phone numbers and adresses to hundreds of security guards, along with accusations of misuse of force or authority.
The legal responsibility for the content on the pages lies with the vendor offering the server hosting the content, which is PRQ, also known as the host handling the content for Wikileaks. If there is a suspicion of false user information and hence breach of contract, the vendor whose name servers host the domains can also act, which is the case here.
Since its creation in 2007, Binero has worked to offer fair terms and more openness in the swedish hosting industry: no binding period, no period of notice and a refund for unused time once the service is discontinued. In 2009 the host successfully ran a two week petition “Namnbank.se“ which stopped the Post- and Telecom Authority (PTS) proposal of prior filtering of all combinations of the word “bank“ in Swedish .se-domain names. In 2009 and 2010, Binero was elected “Best Swedish web host“ by Internetworld magazine.
– The web should be free, but no wild west. We have fought hard to improve the reputation of the hosting business for years, and whenever we find faulty user information, we act. In these cases we also know that the sites have caused considerable suffering. We acted as fast as we could to contact Gottfrid, even if that did take a while. He denied both ordering and owning the sites, said Binero founder and CEO, Anders Aleborg.
From the 20th of September onwards, Sverigedemokrater.se contained names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail and maps showing the way home to 5700 members of the Sweden democrat party (SD) or people who are to have requested information about the party. The information is believed to have come from an earlier hacker attack on the SD home page on April 16th. The site slogan was “Find a buddy near you“. During Thursday, the content was replaced with a torrent link leading to the members registry.
On the page Vaktad.se lay personal photos, phone numbers and adresses to hundreds of security guards, along with accusations of misuse of force or authority.
The legal responsibility for the content on the pages lies with the vendor offering the server hosting the content, which is PRQ, also known as the host handling the content for Wikileaks. If there is a suspicion of false user information and hence breach of contract, the vendor whose name servers host the domains can also act, which is the case here.
Since its creation in 2007, Binero has worked to offer fair terms and more openness in the swedish hosting industry: no binding period, no period of notice and a refund for unused time once the service is discontinued. In 2009 the host successfully ran a two week petition “Namnbank.se“ which stopped the Post- and Telecom Authority (PTS) proposal of prior filtering of all combinations of the word “bank“ in Swedish .se-domain names. In 2009 and 2010, Binero was elected “Best Swedish web host“ by Internetworld magazine.
GlobalSign Updates SSL Certificate Licensing to Support Unlimited Servers
Change to core product DNA means SSL customers benefit from unlimited deployment potential and reduced SSL costs.
GlobalSign, a Certification Authority and specialist in SSL Partner Programs, today announced a significant update to its SSL server licensing policy across all its branded SSL certificates. The company states that as of September 27, 2010, the current server licensing policy, governing the conditions and costs of installing the same certificate across multiple physical web servers or web devices, will be replaced by a true unlimited server licensing model. This allows a customer to use a GlobalSign certificate across any number of physical servers or devices without incurring additional incremental costs, thereby supporting virtualized environments and large SSL deployments.
It explains that typically, major SSL providers will issue SSL certificates with only a single 'machine' license and additional licenses must be purchased for a premium. This method of licensing means high per certificate costs, often forcing organizations to restrict the number of physical servers using SSL. The company's change in licensing policy will help customers meet their internal and external security policies by encouraging the use of SSL across all networked devices without fear of increased licensing costs.
The company further explains that its SSL certificates also include a number of other premium features, and are inclusive of Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) (to 'step up' weak browser encryption to strong encryption on older browsers), and support Wildcard technology and Subject Alternative Names (SANs for Unified Communications) to allow the securing of multiple sites with a single certificate. All GlobalSign certificates are issued from the widely distributed 2048 bit GlobalSign Root CA Certificate providing the most trusted level of encryption currently available and are supported by all popular browsers and mobile devices.
"Single machine, single SSL license has often been a contentious issue in the eyes of the SSL customer, and in these times of virtualization such policies make very little sense," said Steve Waite, Chief Marketing Director, GlobalSign. "Over three years ago we pioneered the 3 for the price of 1 server licensing policy and gave customers migrating to GlobalSign greatly reduced costs when installing on multiple physical servers. Now in 2010, where virtual environments are becoming the norm, we are once again happy to lead the industry with visionary product policies such as the complete removal of server licensing restrictions."
GlobalSign, a Certification Authority and specialist in SSL Partner Programs, today announced a significant update to its SSL server licensing policy across all its branded SSL certificates. The company states that as of September 27, 2010, the current server licensing policy, governing the conditions and costs of installing the same certificate across multiple physical web servers or web devices, will be replaced by a true unlimited server licensing model. This allows a customer to use a GlobalSign certificate across any number of physical servers or devices without incurring additional incremental costs, thereby supporting virtualized environments and large SSL deployments.
It explains that typically, major SSL providers will issue SSL certificates with only a single 'machine' license and additional licenses must be purchased for a premium. This method of licensing means high per certificate costs, often forcing organizations to restrict the number of physical servers using SSL. The company's change in licensing policy will help customers meet their internal and external security policies by encouraging the use of SSL across all networked devices without fear of increased licensing costs.
The company further explains that its SSL certificates also include a number of other premium features, and are inclusive of Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) (to 'step up' weak browser encryption to strong encryption on older browsers), and support Wildcard technology and Subject Alternative Names (SANs for Unified Communications) to allow the securing of multiple sites with a single certificate. All GlobalSign certificates are issued from the widely distributed 2048 bit GlobalSign Root CA Certificate providing the most trusted level of encryption currently available and are supported by all popular browsers and mobile devices.
"Single machine, single SSL license has often been a contentious issue in the eyes of the SSL customer, and in these times of virtualization such policies make very little sense," said Steve Waite, Chief Marketing Director, GlobalSign. "Over three years ago we pioneered the 3 for the price of 1 server licensing policy and gave customers migrating to GlobalSign greatly reduced costs when installing on multiple physical servers. Now in 2010, where virtual environments are becoming the norm, we are once again happy to lead the industry with visionary product policies such as the complete removal of server licensing restrictions."
ServInt Names Kevin Nicastro as Director of Engineering
Nicastro leads team of engineers that design and build the company's products and network.
ServInt, a provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced that it has appointed Kevin Nicastro to the position of Director of Engineering.
The company avers that Nicastro joined it in 2004 and was instrumental in the implementation of its VPS and SuperVPS products. It adds that he was the lead architect for the company's cross-country network.
The company states that as Director of Engineering, Nicastro leads the group that designs and develops the software and hardware required to deliver its hosting services. Nicastro and the Engineering group are responsible for projects ranging from back-end development to retro-fitting legacy infrastructure. Nicastro reports directly to the company's Chief Technology Officer Matt Loschert.
"Kevin's team is responsible for ServInt's technological innovations," said Matt Loschert. "His team has built the strongest network in ServInt history, and we're ecstatic about our Engineering team's ongoing work in building our next generation hosting platform."
ServInt's Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson added, "Kevin's new position will provide him with the tools he needs to continue ServInt's aggressive growth. Kevin's appointment is the latest in a series of announcements surrounding the growth of our management team. With these leaders in place, ServInt is innovating the next generation of web hosting solutions for businesses everywhere."
ServInt, a provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced that it has appointed Kevin Nicastro to the position of Director of Engineering.
The company avers that Nicastro joined it in 2004 and was instrumental in the implementation of its VPS and SuperVPS products. It adds that he was the lead architect for the company's cross-country network.
The company states that as Director of Engineering, Nicastro leads the group that designs and develops the software and hardware required to deliver its hosting services. Nicastro and the Engineering group are responsible for projects ranging from back-end development to retro-fitting legacy infrastructure. Nicastro reports directly to the company's Chief Technology Officer Matt Loschert.
"Kevin's team is responsible for ServInt's technological innovations," said Matt Loschert. "His team has built the strongest network in ServInt history, and we're ecstatic about our Engineering team's ongoing work in building our next generation hosting platform."
ServInt's Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson added, "Kevin's new position will provide him with the tools he needs to continue ServInt's aggressive growth. Kevin's appointment is the latest in a series of announcements surrounding the growth of our management team. With these leaders in place, ServInt is innovating the next generation of web hosting solutions for businesses everywhere."
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
ResellerClub's Mega Bargains Month - Last 8 Days to go
With the promo coming to an end soon, there are only 8 more days left to avail of all the exciting offers and promotions at the company.
Mega Bargains Month which is the annual promotion run by ResellerClub, one of the largest Web services providers in the world, still has 8 more days of discounted pricing. The highlight of this year's promo is .com/.net registrations at $ 8.39 and .in at $1.49, apart from the usual 'all products at best slab prices'.
"The response to the promo was overwhelming this time around, and even in terms of numbers, we have surpassed those of every other year that the promo has been run," said Bhavin Turakhia, CEO and Founder, ResellerClub. "We have always believed in offering our Resellers the best deals in the industry, and Mega Bargains Month ensures an entire month of lowest slab pricing even to Resellers who are on the starting slab."
Some of the other deals include the cPanel Migration Special wherein unlimited Web hosting & email is offered at $1.49, and unlimited Windows hosting at $2.49.
With the promo coming to an end soon, there are only 8 more days left to avail of all the exciting offers and promotions at ResellerClub.
ResellerClub, a Directi Group Business, is one of the largest private label Web solutions providers in the world and an industry leader in providing end-to-end automation to domain resellers, Web hosts, Web designers, and other Web service companies. We provide the most comprehensive product portfolio at the most competitive prices. We currently provide our products and services and power the back end infrastructure and software of thousands of Web hosts worldwide.
For more details about ResellerClub's exclusive Mega Bargains Month and the various offers, deals and discounts currently running, visit http://www.resellerclub.com.
Mega Bargains Month which is the annual promotion run by ResellerClub, one of the largest Web services providers in the world, still has 8 more days of discounted pricing. The highlight of this year's promo is .com/.net registrations at $ 8.39 and .in at $1.49, apart from the usual 'all products at best slab prices'.
"The response to the promo was overwhelming this time around, and even in terms of numbers, we have surpassed those of every other year that the promo has been run," said Bhavin Turakhia, CEO and Founder, ResellerClub. "We have always believed in offering our Resellers the best deals in the industry, and Mega Bargains Month ensures an entire month of lowest slab pricing even to Resellers who are on the starting slab."
Some of the other deals include the cPanel Migration Special wherein unlimited Web hosting & email is offered at $1.49, and unlimited Windows hosting at $2.49.
With the promo coming to an end soon, there are only 8 more days left to avail of all the exciting offers and promotions at ResellerClub.
ResellerClub, a Directi Group Business, is one of the largest private label Web solutions providers in the world and an industry leader in providing end-to-end automation to domain resellers, Web hosts, Web designers, and other Web service companies. We provide the most comprehensive product portfolio at the most competitive prices. We currently provide our products and services and power the back end infrastructure and software of thousands of Web hosts worldwide.
For more details about ResellerClub's exclusive Mega Bargains Month and the various offers, deals and discounts currently running, visit http://www.resellerclub.com.
ViaWest Hires New SVP of Data Center Operations
Dave Leonard brings his experience to enhance the company's operations team.
ViaWest, a provider of managed hosting solutions, today announced the hiring of Dave Leonard to head up Data Center Operations for the company. The company says that as the Senior Vice President of Data Center Operations, Dave will be overseeing the day to day facility operations of its 16 data centers which span a 5 state footprint including Colorado, Texas, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon, as well as all future expansion projects and new construction.
It mentions that prior to the company, Dave served as Senior Vice President and CTO at Infocrossing. Dave holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Texas Christian University.
"Dave is a great addition to the ViaWest team," said Nancy Phillips, ViaWest's COO. "With growth and expansion key in our agenda, we feel very confident that Dave is the right fit." Nancy continued, "Our commitment to deliver the best service experience has always been a pride point for ViaWest. With Dave's hiring we are showing a clear continuation of that dedication to our customers, even in the midst of a growth phase."
ViaWest, a provider of managed hosting solutions, today announced the hiring of Dave Leonard to head up Data Center Operations for the company. The company says that as the Senior Vice President of Data Center Operations, Dave will be overseeing the day to day facility operations of its 16 data centers which span a 5 state footprint including Colorado, Texas, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon, as well as all future expansion projects and new construction.
It mentions that prior to the company, Dave served as Senior Vice President and CTO at Infocrossing. Dave holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Texas Christian University.
"Dave is a great addition to the ViaWest team," said Nancy Phillips, ViaWest's COO. "With growth and expansion key in our agenda, we feel very confident that Dave is the right fit." Nancy continued, "Our commitment to deliver the best service experience has always been a pride point for ViaWest. With Dave's hiring we are showing a clear continuation of that dedication to our customers, even in the midst of a growth phase."
180Servers Offers Lifetime Price-Lock to All Customers
Company will guarantee an indefinite price-lock to all customers who signup on any of its available servers.
180Servers, a provider of self-managed dedicated hosting, today announced that it will guarantee an indefinite price-lock to all customers who signup on any of the company's available servers. The company avers that the price-lock offer is not only limited to its new customers, but will also be extended to current customers of the company and will guarantee that the price of their hosting package will never increase as long as their account is active.
It explains that while other hosting companies have tried standard promotions including price-locks to customers who join during that particular month of the promotion, the company price-lock works a little differently. Its price-lock is 100% indefinite to all customers of the company, not just new sign ups. The price-lock will guarantee that the price of a purchased hosting package will never increase. The price-lock will also guarantee that the benefits of a package will never decrease. The price-lock guarantee will remain indefinite as long as the customers' company account remains active.
"As the years go on and as hosting rates continue to increase, all of us at 180Servers thought that we would offer our customers a new way to save even more money," commented Anthony Morgan, General Manager of 180Servers. Anthony continued, "We began to think of every option possible and settled with an indefinite price-lock to all of our customers, with no limitation on when you must signup to receive this offer."
180Servers, a provider of self-managed dedicated hosting, today announced that it will guarantee an indefinite price-lock to all customers who signup on any of the company's available servers. The company avers that the price-lock offer is not only limited to its new customers, but will also be extended to current customers of the company and will guarantee that the price of their hosting package will never increase as long as their account is active.
It explains that while other hosting companies have tried standard promotions including price-locks to customers who join during that particular month of the promotion, the company price-lock works a little differently. Its price-lock is 100% indefinite to all customers of the company, not just new sign ups. The price-lock will guarantee that the price of a purchased hosting package will never increase. The price-lock will also guarantee that the benefits of a package will never decrease. The price-lock guarantee will remain indefinite as long as the customers' company account remains active.
"As the years go on and as hosting rates continue to increase, all of us at 180Servers thought that we would offer our customers a new way to save even more money," commented Anthony Morgan, General Manager of 180Servers. Anthony continued, "We began to think of every option possible and settled with an indefinite price-lock to all of our customers, with no limitation on when you must signup to receive this offer."
SingleHop Announces Expansion into Brazil Hosting Market
Expands its operations in Brazil and introduces a Portuguese-language site to increase its presence in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
SingleHop, Inc., a dedicated and managed web hosting provider, yesterday announced the expansion of the company's Tandem reseller program to the Brazilian market. The company mentions that it is expanding its operations in Brazil and introducing a Portuguese-language site to increase its presence in one of the world's fastest-growing economies, in which consumers are adopting web services at an unprecedented pace.
It articulates that due to the company's geographic expansion, clients from Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking nations can look forward to:
* Account management in their native language
* Easier navigation on the site and control panels
* Regionally focused hardware and services
* Portuguese-language hosting support, Tandem & LEAP Panel support
"I am very excited to be involved in SingleHop's push to focus on their Brazilian clientele," said Felipe Felury, SingleHop's Brazil Managing Director. "As a native of Brazil, I will be facilitating SingleHop's relationship with the Portuguese-speaking community and improving our Brazilian customers' experience. SingleHop has always been focused on exceptional customer service, and bridging the language gap is key to fulfilling this mission."
Zak Boca, President and CEO of SingleHop, said, "Our expansion in Brazil continues our commitment to offering our clients the most control and improving our customers' experience. We're very excited to officially introduce our services, our successful Tandem reseller program, and our way of handling clients to the Brazilian market."
SingleHop, Inc., a dedicated and managed web hosting provider, yesterday announced the expansion of the company's Tandem reseller program to the Brazilian market. The company mentions that it is expanding its operations in Brazil and introducing a Portuguese-language site to increase its presence in one of the world's fastest-growing economies, in which consumers are adopting web services at an unprecedented pace.
It articulates that due to the company's geographic expansion, clients from Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking nations can look forward to:
* Account management in their native language
* Easier navigation on the site and control panels
* Regionally focused hardware and services
* Portuguese-language hosting support, Tandem & LEAP Panel support
"I am very excited to be involved in SingleHop's push to focus on their Brazilian clientele," said Felipe Felury, SingleHop's Brazil Managing Director. "As a native of Brazil, I will be facilitating SingleHop's relationship with the Portuguese-speaking community and improving our Brazilian customers' experience. SingleHop has always been focused on exceptional customer service, and bridging the language gap is key to fulfilling this mission."
Zak Boca, President and CEO of SingleHop, said, "Our expansion in Brazil continues our commitment to offering our clients the most control and improving our customers' experience. We're very excited to officially introduce our services, our successful Tandem reseller program, and our way of handling clients to the Brazilian market."
GMX Acquires Mail.com
Company accelerates growth and core business with acquisition of Mail.com.
GMX Internet Services, Inc., an email service provider, yesterday announced that the company is accelerating its growth by acquiring the internet domain Mail.com. The company states that in addition to the portal, the acquisition also includes the e-mail customers of the globally active brand. In the American market, the company not only secures the catchy international domain itself, but also further attractive e-mail identifiers using domains such as email.com, doctor.com, consultant.com, post.com or usa.com. The portal Mail.com offers a news portal with the categories politics, economy, sports and entertainment as well as further services such as search functions, a job market and games along with its e-mail service.
It further states that over the course of the integration, the current e-mail service will be replaced, with every user receiving the GMX e-mail interface. The migration of data is scheduled to start within the next few months. In the immediate future, there will be no changes resulting for the company's users. In connection to the acquisition of Mail.com, the previous owner MMC has also agreed on strategic cooperation for the website India.com, which is also part of the MMC portfolio. This website will also take advantage of company's e-mail products.
"With Mail.com, we are looking forward to being able to combine the best international domain for e-mails with our successful e-mail product," said CEO GMX Jan Oetjen. "The specific strength of this domain is its generic character: You can easily memorize the name Mail.com, it is an attractive and at the same time neutral alternative to provider-oriented address endings such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Google Mail globally. On the internationally highly competitive e-mail market we perceive this generic e-mail domain as a unique opportunity for differentiation, which cannot be copied."
GMX Internet Services, Inc., an email service provider, yesterday announced that the company is accelerating its growth by acquiring the internet domain Mail.com. The company states that in addition to the portal, the acquisition also includes the e-mail customers of the globally active brand. In the American market, the company not only secures the catchy international domain itself, but also further attractive e-mail identifiers using domains such as email.com, doctor.com, consultant.com, post.com or usa.com. The portal Mail.com offers a news portal with the categories politics, economy, sports and entertainment as well as further services such as search functions, a job market and games along with its e-mail service.
It further states that over the course of the integration, the current e-mail service will be replaced, with every user receiving the GMX e-mail interface. The migration of data is scheduled to start within the next few months. In the immediate future, there will be no changes resulting for the company's users. In connection to the acquisition of Mail.com, the previous owner MMC has also agreed on strategic cooperation for the website India.com, which is also part of the MMC portfolio. This website will also take advantage of company's e-mail products.
"With Mail.com, we are looking forward to being able to combine the best international domain for e-mails with our successful e-mail product," said CEO GMX Jan Oetjen. "The specific strength of this domain is its generic character: You can easily memorize the name Mail.com, it is an attractive and at the same time neutral alternative to provider-oriented address endings such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Google Mail globally. On the internationally highly competitive e-mail market we perceive this generic e-mail domain as a unique opportunity for differentiation, which cannot be copied."
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
DiscountASP.NET Attains U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Status
Company joins thousands of TRUSTe-certified websites in recognizing privacy's ability to accelerate online commerce and information exchange.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows hosting provider, today announced its participation in the TRUSTe U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Program and its certification to display the TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor Seal, demonstrating its global commitment to privacy's core principles of transparency, accountability and consumer choice. The company says that it joins thousands of TRUSTe-certified websites in recognizing privacy's ability to accelerate online commerce and information exchange.
It articulates that participation in TRUSTe's U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Program signifies a website's compliance with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, a legal safe harbor established by the Department of Commerce that allows U.S. companies to satisfy EU privacy directives protecting the personal information of European citizens. TRUSTe awards its EU Safe Harbor Seal only to companies that complete TRUSTe certification, submit to ongoing site monitoring, and participate in TRUSTe's consumer privacy dispute resolution program.
According to the company, consumers prefer websites that demonstrate responsiveness to privacy concerns, set clear expectations for the processing of personal information and offer timely choice should those expectations change. With its privacy programs, TRUSTe helps companies address this consumer preference for transparency, accountability and choice and effectively advertise their privacy commitment with TRUSTe's well-recognized privacy seals.
"We are pleased to join TRUSTe in increasing consumer trust and following industry best privacy practices," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development of DiscountASP.NET. "Participating in TRUSTe's EU Safe Harbor Seal Program was important to us as we offer website hosting in the US and UK and host many European customers. This certification serves as a benchmark in our ongoing commitment to building consumer trust."
"Given abundant consumer privacy concerns it's no surprise that 71 percent of consumers look for trustmarks before doing business online," said Fran Maier, President of TRUSTe. "With the TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor Seal DiscountASP.NET sends a clear signal to its customers that it respects their personal information. We've found that 82 percent of consumers who see a TRUSTe privacy seal trust it, which translates directly into increased site engagement. That's the privacy payoff."
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows hosting provider, today announced its participation in the TRUSTe U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Program and its certification to display the TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor Seal, demonstrating its global commitment to privacy's core principles of transparency, accountability and consumer choice. The company says that it joins thousands of TRUSTe-certified websites in recognizing privacy's ability to accelerate online commerce and information exchange.
It articulates that participation in TRUSTe's U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Program signifies a website's compliance with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, a legal safe harbor established by the Department of Commerce that allows U.S. companies to satisfy EU privacy directives protecting the personal information of European citizens. TRUSTe awards its EU Safe Harbor Seal only to companies that complete TRUSTe certification, submit to ongoing site monitoring, and participate in TRUSTe's consumer privacy dispute resolution program.
According to the company, consumers prefer websites that demonstrate responsiveness to privacy concerns, set clear expectations for the processing of personal information and offer timely choice should those expectations change. With its privacy programs, TRUSTe helps companies address this consumer preference for transparency, accountability and choice and effectively advertise their privacy commitment with TRUSTe's well-recognized privacy seals.
"We are pleased to join TRUSTe in increasing consumer trust and following industry best privacy practices," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development of DiscountASP.NET. "Participating in TRUSTe's EU Safe Harbor Seal Program was important to us as we offer website hosting in the US and UK and host many European customers. This certification serves as a benchmark in our ongoing commitment to building consumer trust."
"Given abundant consumer privacy concerns it's no surprise that 71 percent of consumers look for trustmarks before doing business online," said Fran Maier, President of TRUSTe. "With the TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor Seal DiscountASP.NET sends a clear signal to its customers that it respects their personal information. We've found that 82 percent of consumers who see a TRUSTe privacy seal trust it, which translates directly into increased site engagement. That's the privacy payoff."
AccelOps Releases AccelOps SP (Service Provider) Edition
New release delivers multi-tenancy, on-premise/off-premise context, dynamic scaling, API integration and coverage enhancements.
AccelOps, a data center service management provider, today announced its expansion into the service provider and large enterprise markets with the release of AccelOps SP (Service Provider) edition. The company avers that the platform provides extensive visibility, proactive alerting, analytics flexibility and service insight for managing multiple customers/divisions across on-premise, off-premise and cloud environments.
It explains that hosting providers, managed service providers (MSPs) and large enterprises must expand their service offerings and address SLA compliance while improving efficiency. At the same time, the complexity of their growing data centers, with multiple customers/divisions and technologies spread across on-premise, off-premise and cloud platforms, makes gaining operational oversight, pinpointing issues and coordinating responses challenging - resulting in business risk and financial loss. In addition, service providers must expand service offerings to be competitive, but require a cost-effective IT management solution.
The company states that AccelOps SP offers an integrated approach that replaces disparate IT tools and legacy management systems with a scalable platform that monitors performance, availability, security, change and business service management across the entire extended data center. Delivered as a virtual appliance cluster, AccelOps raises the bar for ease of use, rapid deployment, simple administration and return on investment.
It further explains that AccelOps offers a more cost-effective means to assure service commitments and optimize resources that overcomes the integration complexity, time-to-value and high TCO of legacy tools and modular infrastructure monitoring. New features in AccelOps SP with regard to multi-tenancy, multi-site management, scalability and customization, include:
"The 10-20 years old element management approach to data center and network management won't meet today's cloud computing and innovative service delivery models," said Imin Lee, CEO of AccelOps. "The AccelOps SP integrated monitoring platform delivers the level of operational intelligence, automation and value required by service providers and large enterprises to meet SLA commitments, reduce costs and capitalize on service opportunities."
"Companies are looking to augment and enhance their ability to monitor the health of their IT infrastructure, supplement their event management and gain an early warning of outages based on trends and patterns, while also gaining a view on how potential issues can affect the IT services delivered to the business. Without proper event management, IT operations can be deluged with event storms, numerous false positives and a 'sea of red' on their consoles," said David Williams, Research Vice President at Gartner. "Through integration with performance-monitoring, these tools can associate an event with a broader service impact and enable IT operations personnel to proactively address performance-based service degradation issues in-line with business priorities."
Europe-based Belgacom ICT selected AccelOps to assure service-level guarantees and improve operational efficiency for their hosted commercial IT service customers. "As a leading global service provider, Belgacom must optimize resources and enhance services to extend our competitive advantage and best serve our enterprise customers," said Akin Tatar, Data Center Manager, Belgacom ICT. "AccelOps' integrated monitoring platform was selected because of its functional depth, usability, customization, implementation and scalability strengths over the other leading vendors we tested."
Texas-based Austin Radiological Association, who provides outpatient imaging services and a digital imaging application SaaS for their local market, is also using AccelOps. "IT organizations are being asked to manage themselves as a business - we can't wait for calls and red lights to appear. With AccelOps, we can readily understand, prioritize and sustain all the different components that 'create' a function that our internal and external customers rely on," said R. Todd Thomas, Chief Information Officer at Austin Radiological Association. "With a more holistic view of operations, we can stay ahead of issues, quickly resolve problems and better serve our customers."
AccelOps, a data center service management provider, today announced its expansion into the service provider and large enterprise markets with the release of AccelOps SP (Service Provider) edition. The company avers that the platform provides extensive visibility, proactive alerting, analytics flexibility and service insight for managing multiple customers/divisions across on-premise, off-premise and cloud environments.
It explains that hosting providers, managed service providers (MSPs) and large enterprises must expand their service offerings and address SLA compliance while improving efficiency. At the same time, the complexity of their growing data centers, with multiple customers/divisions and technologies spread across on-premise, off-premise and cloud platforms, makes gaining operational oversight, pinpointing issues and coordinating responses challenging - resulting in business risk and financial loss. In addition, service providers must expand service offerings to be competitive, but require a cost-effective IT management solution.
The company states that AccelOps SP offers an integrated approach that replaces disparate IT tools and legacy management systems with a scalable platform that monitors performance, availability, security, change and business service management across the entire extended data center. Delivered as a virtual appliance cluster, AccelOps raises the bar for ease of use, rapid deployment, simple administration and return on investment.
It further explains that AccelOps offers a more cost-effective means to assure service commitments and optimize resources that overcomes the integration complexity, time-to-value and high TCO of legacy tools and modular infrastructure monitoring. New features in AccelOps SP with regard to multi-tenancy, multi-site management, scalability and customization, include:
- Consolidated, multi-tenant console offers service providers and large enterprises interactive views aggregated across sites, and by customer/division, that are integrated and fully customizable
- Agent-less, multi-site integration functionality streamlines on-boarding and management of multiple customers/divisions
- Scalable dynamic clustering in which AccelOps' virtual appliance cluster members can be added on-the-fly to enhance performance and support unlimited online data analysis
- Integration APIs to incorporate AccelOps' data into other IT management systems
- In-depth database monitoring to alert and track Oracle and SQL availability, performance and security issues analyzing audit logs, process metrics and JDBC-based synthetic transactions
- Enhanced virtualization and network monitoring such as virtual switch and respective vLANs, as well as Cisco CBQoS (class Based Quality of Service)
- Smart incident management reduces notification noise and sharpens administrative focus on a select set of active incidents through alert consolidation, auto-suppression rules, instant filtering and state management
- Enhanced usability and knowledge base including new data displays, dashboards and charts to complement an extensible knowledge base of built-in rules and over 900 report templates
"The 10-20 years old element management approach to data center and network management won't meet today's cloud computing and innovative service delivery models," said Imin Lee, CEO of AccelOps. "The AccelOps SP integrated monitoring platform delivers the level of operational intelligence, automation and value required by service providers and large enterprises to meet SLA commitments, reduce costs and capitalize on service opportunities."
"Companies are looking to augment and enhance their ability to monitor the health of their IT infrastructure, supplement their event management and gain an early warning of outages based on trends and patterns, while also gaining a view on how potential issues can affect the IT services delivered to the business. Without proper event management, IT operations can be deluged with event storms, numerous false positives and a 'sea of red' on their consoles," said David Williams, Research Vice President at Gartner. "Through integration with performance-monitoring, these tools can associate an event with a broader service impact and enable IT operations personnel to proactively address performance-based service degradation issues in-line with business priorities."
Europe-based Belgacom ICT selected AccelOps to assure service-level guarantees and improve operational efficiency for their hosted commercial IT service customers. "As a leading global service provider, Belgacom must optimize resources and enhance services to extend our competitive advantage and best serve our enterprise customers," said Akin Tatar, Data Center Manager, Belgacom ICT. "AccelOps' integrated monitoring platform was selected because of its functional depth, usability, customization, implementation and scalability strengths over the other leading vendors we tested."
Texas-based Austin Radiological Association, who provides outpatient imaging services and a digital imaging application SaaS for their local market, is also using AccelOps. "IT organizations are being asked to manage themselves as a business - we can't wait for calls and red lights to appear. With AccelOps, we can readily understand, prioritize and sustain all the different components that 'create' a function that our internal and external customers rely on," said R. Todd Thomas, Chief Information Officer at Austin Radiological Association. "With a more holistic view of operations, we can stay ahead of issues, quickly resolve problems and better serve our customers."
Aflexi Integrates WHMCS Web Hosting Billing System
Service providers and web hosting companies can now quickly and easily add the company's CDN services to their customer base.
Aflexi, a developer of CDN Software and Content Delivery Network Management solutions, today announced the beta integration of WHMCS automated billing into the its CDN management and software platform.
The company mentions that WHMCS is a commonly used, all-in-one client management, billing & support solution for online businesses. WHMCS handles everything from signup to termination, with automated billing, provisioning & management.
It states that the company's CDN software provides automated installation and software upgrades for CDN server deployment as well as intuitive account management, bandwidth management, CDN server management and Publisher migration process. FlexiMart, the company's Bandwidth Exchange platform, enables web hosts to share infrastructure by allowing them to buy, sell and trade capacity, in real time and on the fly, both at a fixed price and via auction-like bidding.
"We added the WHMCS support to make it much simpler for our customers to provide CDN services to their customers," said Whei Wong, CEO of Aflexi. "As many are already using WHMCS for their bandwidth and publishing services billing, it now takes a just couple extra mouse clicks to add Aflexi CDN to those customer's accounts." Whei added, "There are no other CDN companies that integrate with a hosting-focused billing system. Right now, we are the only one."
Aflexi, a developer of CDN Software and Content Delivery Network Management solutions, today announced the beta integration of WHMCS automated billing into the its CDN management and software platform.
The company mentions that WHMCS is a commonly used, all-in-one client management, billing & support solution for online businesses. WHMCS handles everything from signup to termination, with automated billing, provisioning & management.
It states that the company's CDN software provides automated installation and software upgrades for CDN server deployment as well as intuitive account management, bandwidth management, CDN server management and Publisher migration process. FlexiMart, the company's Bandwidth Exchange platform, enables web hosts to share infrastructure by allowing them to buy, sell and trade capacity, in real time and on the fly, both at a fixed price and via auction-like bidding.
"We added the WHMCS support to make it much simpler for our customers to provide CDN services to their customers," said Whei Wong, CEO of Aflexi. "As many are already using WHMCS for their bandwidth and publishing services billing, it now takes a just couple extra mouse clicks to add Aflexi CDN to those customer's accounts." Whei added, "There are no other CDN companies that integrate with a hosting-focused billing system. Right now, we are the only one."
Fully Managed Acquires Two Vancouver IT Service Providers
The combined organization will leverage the infrastructure and processes already in place to enhance the availability and quality of services.
Fully Managed Inc., a provider of hosting, IT support and management services, yesterday announced the acquisition of two Vancouver IT service providers, Blackheron Technology Solutions and Pomarex Solutions.
The company claims that the combined organization will leverage the extensive infrastructure and processes already in place to enhance the availability and quality of services available to clients including Managed Services (IT support services), Professional Services (IT consulting services) and Cloud Hosting Services. It states that both Blackheron & Pomarex will become integrated under the Fully Managed brand and the existing brands will be retired. All technical staff have been retained. Financial terms were not disclosed by the company.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to integrate these two great companies under the Fully Managed brand," said Chris Day, President & CEO of Fully Managed. "As a combined force, our clients will enjoy an increased service level and access to a deeper talent pool. We are taking our time to ensure that the people, processes and clients are perfectly integrated."
"The team at Fully Managed respond quickly and exude a level of professionalism and attention to detail which we demand," said Hillary Hommy, Director of Operations at SparkNet Communications. "As a result, we have transitioned support for our global mobile workforce to Fully Managed and never looked back."
Fully Managed Inc., a provider of hosting, IT support and management services, yesterday announced the acquisition of two Vancouver IT service providers, Blackheron Technology Solutions and Pomarex Solutions.
The company claims that the combined organization will leverage the extensive infrastructure and processes already in place to enhance the availability and quality of services available to clients including Managed Services (IT support services), Professional Services (IT consulting services) and Cloud Hosting Services. It states that both Blackheron & Pomarex will become integrated under the Fully Managed brand and the existing brands will be retired. All technical staff have been retained. Financial terms were not disclosed by the company.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to integrate these two great companies under the Fully Managed brand," said Chris Day, President & CEO of Fully Managed. "As a combined force, our clients will enjoy an increased service level and access to a deeper talent pool. We are taking our time to ensure that the people, processes and clients are perfectly integrated."
"The team at Fully Managed respond quickly and exude a level of professionalism and attention to detail which we demand," said Hillary Hommy, Director of Operations at SparkNet Communications. "As a result, we have transitioned support for our global mobile workforce to Fully Managed and never looked back."
"The cornerstone of Xena's growth strategy is its exclusive focus on Ethernet networking technology and analysis products that display demonstrable price/performance leadership," notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Prathima Bommakanti. "Xena's solutions cost less than $10,000 per 10GbE test port, in comparison to typical solutions which cost $20,000 to $40,000 per 10GbE test port."
Acknowledging the distinct advantages offered by its solutions, Xena's channel sales partners are featuring the company in their product portfolios. Xena's messaging, positioning and business strategies are proving to be extremely effective with network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), network service providers and enterprises in the financial, governmental, and broadcast content distribution sectors.
In 2008 and 2009, the company recruited representatives from the best channel partners across all major technology markets around the globe including Europe, North America and Oceania. Presently, it is pursuing recruitment efforts in Asia. This strategy will enable the company to effectively cater to the gigabit Ethernet test equipment space throughout varied time zones and geographic markets.
In addition, the company is pursuing an ecosystem partnership strategy. As a part of this strategy, it has partnered with one of the leading companies in the sphere of compliance testing, particularly in Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) conformance testing. The company has also extended this partnership strategy to include a test automation partner.
"Xena delivers value, by offering a breakthrough price performance ratio with its innovative Ethernet test solutions for the Ethernet ecosystem," remarks Bommakanti. "Additionally, its test platform offers an open environment, which enables network traffic from 3rd party test suites or software applications to be integrated with L2-3 traffic generated at wire speed."
Its Ethernet traffic network test and analysis platforms are easy to scale from 1Mbps to 100Gbps. Its solutions allow remote management of test equipment which are situated across different locations and incorporate an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI). Accordingly, Xena's customers can conduct online demos of the solution, enabling them to make calibrated purchase decisions. Moreover, the company offers value-added services primarily through its channel and technology ecosystem partners.
Xena firmly believes that its products should provide increasing value with use over time. In this context, it offers a complimentary 12-month hardware warranty and lifetime technical support. It also offers a complimentary 36-month software maintenance agreement, through which customers can receive updates on ongoing product developments, improvements and enhancements.
"The company rapidly responds to market needs through its flexible product development policy," adds Bommakanti. "Upon receiving customer requests for specific product features, it performs a quick assessment of its implementation on its business, and commits to providing customers with the accepted features requested within 30 days of receiving the order."
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About Xena Networks ApS
Xena Networks, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a startup developer of high-performance, low-cost gigabit Ethernet test solutions. With products that deliver simplicity and the price/performance advantages of Ethernet technology, Xena enables network and equipment test engineers to deploy inexpensive, flexible and easy-to-use test solutions. The company has sales representatives in North America, Israel, Asia and Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.xenanetworks.com.
Xena Contact:
Dale Smith
Corporate Communications
P: +45 61 31 46 91
E: ds@xenanetworks.com
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Yahoo! Opens Green Data Center in Western New York
The Lockport facility will have the first implementation of the company's green data center design, called the Yahoo! Computing Coop.
Yahoo! Inc. today announced that it has opened an energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and cost-effective data center in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. The company avers that first announced in June, the data center combines the data center's hydro powered design with Lockport's naturally cool climate and prevailing winds to keep the 155,000-square-foot building cool.
It mentions that the company is hosting a ribbon cutting event with company executives and elected officials, including CEO Carol Bartz, Executive VP of Service Engineering and Operations David Dibble, US Senator for New York Charles E. Schumer, New York Governor David Paterson, US Representative Christopher Lee, New York State Senator George D. Maziarz, New York State Assembly Member Jane Corwin, and New York Power Authority President and CEO Richard M. Kessel.
The company states that the energy-efficient design was recently recognized by the US Department of Energy with a sustainability grant of $9.9 million. The YCC design is dubbed the 'Yahoo! Chicken Coop' after its long, narrow design, resembling a chicken coop, to encourage natural air flow 100 percent of the time. This results in an annualized average of less than 1 percent of the buildings' total energy consumption being required to cool the facility. The Lockport data center will consume at least 40 percent less energy, and at least 95 percent less water than conventional data center. It adds that NYPA will supply hydropower for the data center.
The company claims that it supported up to 500 jobs throughout the construction process of the facility, and is expected to create up to 125 jobs total in the state of New York. It further states that in addition to the data center, the site will also support an Operations Center, which monitors the infrastructure to ensure consistent uptime, and a Global Service Desk, a 24-hour IT support center for the company's employees. The Lockport facility will power the network of company sites, including Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, News, Sports, Finance, Answers.
"We're thrilled to unveil our world-class data center in Lockport and take an active role in the community," said Carol Bartz. "Yahoo! is serious about sustainability and is leading efforts to address climate change. That's why we believe in creating highly efficient data centers that minimize the impact on the environment."
Yahoo! Inc. today announced that it has opened an energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and cost-effective data center in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. The company avers that first announced in June, the data center combines the data center's hydro powered design with Lockport's naturally cool climate and prevailing winds to keep the 155,000-square-foot building cool.
It mentions that the company is hosting a ribbon cutting event with company executives and elected officials, including CEO Carol Bartz, Executive VP of Service Engineering and Operations David Dibble, US Senator for New York Charles E. Schumer, New York Governor David Paterson, US Representative Christopher Lee, New York State Senator George D. Maziarz, New York State Assembly Member Jane Corwin, and New York Power Authority President and CEO Richard M. Kessel.
The company states that the energy-efficient design was recently recognized by the US Department of Energy with a sustainability grant of $9.9 million. The YCC design is dubbed the 'Yahoo! Chicken Coop' after its long, narrow design, resembling a chicken coop, to encourage natural air flow 100 percent of the time. This results in an annualized average of less than 1 percent of the buildings' total energy consumption being required to cool the facility. The Lockport data center will consume at least 40 percent less energy, and at least 95 percent less water than conventional data center. It adds that NYPA will supply hydropower for the data center.
The company claims that it supported up to 500 jobs throughout the construction process of the facility, and is expected to create up to 125 jobs total in the state of New York. It further states that in addition to the data center, the site will also support an Operations Center, which monitors the infrastructure to ensure consistent uptime, and a Global Service Desk, a 24-hour IT support center for the company's employees. The Lockport facility will power the network of company sites, including Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, News, Sports, Finance, Answers.
"We're thrilled to unveil our world-class data center in Lockport and take an active role in the community," said Carol Bartz. "Yahoo! is serious about sustainability and is leading efforts to address climate change. That's why we believe in creating highly efficient data centers that minimize the impact on the environment."
IBM to Acquire Netezza
Expands business analytics capabilities through workload optimized systems.
IBM, a provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Netezza Corporation, a business analytics firm, in a cash transaction at a price of $27 per share or at a net price of approximately $1.7 billion, after adjusting for cash. The company claims that Netezza will expand its business analytics initiatives to help clients gain faster insights into their business information, with increased performance at a lower cost. It adds that the acquisition, which is subject to Netezza shareholder approval, applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2010.
According to the company, the rate and pace of data is accelerating the IT opportunity around information and analytics. A recent global study conducted by it revealed that 83 percent of CIO's identified analytics as a top priority. The combined strengths of the company and Netezza are a key differentiator at a time when organizations of all sizes are looking to gain more insight from their business information. The existing relationship between it and Netezza reinforces the combined value to clients. Today, Netezza designs and develops its appliances on the company's systems technology and combined with its software powers many applications within organizations. The two companies have been strategic partners for many years focused on workload optimized systems that deliver integrated systems, software and storage for analyzing vast amounts of complex data.
It articulates that today, more than 350 clients across a variety of industries have adopted Netezza. These companies include eHarmony, Neiman Marcus, Time Warner, Estee Lauder, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, United HealthGroup, Nationwide Insurance, Sapporo, NYSE Euronext, Virgin Media and others. The simplicity of deploying Netezza appliances makes this technology ideal for the needs of high-performance analytics, requiring minimal administration and IT skills, and enables clients to run complex data queries within days of deploying the solution.
The company explains that with Netezza appliances, NYSE Euronext has drastically cut the time it takes to load and extract massive amounts of historical data so it can run analytic queries more securely and efficiently, while reducing runtimes from hours to seconds. Virgin Media, a UK provider of TV, broadband, phone and mobile services with millions of subscribers, uses Netezza across its product marketing, revenue assurance and credit services departments to proactively plan, forecast and respond to the effect of pricing and tariff changes enabling them to quickly respond with competitive offerings.
It further explains that both the company and Netezza see the importance of integration from the multiprocessor through middleware to business consulting to bring a higher level of efficiency through workload optimized systems. For example, Netezza appliance capabilities highlight integrated software with unique FPGA-Accelerated Streaming Technology (FAST) that allows the system to execute analytic queries at streaming speeds of up to milliseconds, significantly improving the performance and response times for critical business decisions.
The company mentions that the acquisition expands its information and analytics offerings, including services available through the company's Business Analytics and Optimization Consulting organization. Following the close of the acquisition, it intends to integrate Netezza within the company's Information Management software portfolio. Netezza has approximately 500 employees around the world.
"IBM is bringing analytics to the masses. We continue to evolve our capabilities for systems integration, bringing together optimized hardware and software, in response to increasing demand for technology that delivers true business value. Netezza is a perfect example of this approach," said Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software and Systems. "Netezza strongly complements our business analytics capabilities and client base. Together, we have the opportunity to quickly leverage the technology and accelerate the offering."
"It's no longer just the CIO - every single department from finance to marketing professionals is tapping into the capabilities of analytics to draw meaningful insights. But clients cannot sacrifice time, cost or performance by deploying solutions that do not best meet each of their business needs," said Arvind Krishna, General Manager, Information Management, IBM. "The addition of Netezza will reinforce IBM's focus in understanding clients' needs by providing them a broader set of analytics capabilities and bringing the power of analytics right into the hands of business users at every level within an organization."
"Our vision of an appliance-based Intelligent Economy aligns very well with IBM's Smarter Planet strategy. Netezza appliances set the standard for performance and simplicity in data warehousing and analytics," said Jim Baum, President and CEO of Netezza. "Our customers choose our appliances for their fast time to value and how they simplify analytics against big data. Together with IBM, we are looking forward to extending our capabilities to a much broader market."
IBM, a provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Netezza Corporation, a business analytics firm, in a cash transaction at a price of $27 per share or at a net price of approximately $1.7 billion, after adjusting for cash. The company claims that Netezza will expand its business analytics initiatives to help clients gain faster insights into their business information, with increased performance at a lower cost. It adds that the acquisition, which is subject to Netezza shareholder approval, applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2010.
According to the company, the rate and pace of data is accelerating the IT opportunity around information and analytics. A recent global study conducted by it revealed that 83 percent of CIO's identified analytics as a top priority. The combined strengths of the company and Netezza are a key differentiator at a time when organizations of all sizes are looking to gain more insight from their business information. The existing relationship between it and Netezza reinforces the combined value to clients. Today, Netezza designs and develops its appliances on the company's systems technology and combined with its software powers many applications within organizations. The two companies have been strategic partners for many years focused on workload optimized systems that deliver integrated systems, software and storage for analyzing vast amounts of complex data.
It articulates that today, more than 350 clients across a variety of industries have adopted Netezza. These companies include eHarmony, Neiman Marcus, Time Warner, Estee Lauder, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, United HealthGroup, Nationwide Insurance, Sapporo, NYSE Euronext, Virgin Media and others. The simplicity of deploying Netezza appliances makes this technology ideal for the needs of high-performance analytics, requiring minimal administration and IT skills, and enables clients to run complex data queries within days of deploying the solution.
The company explains that with Netezza appliances, NYSE Euronext has drastically cut the time it takes to load and extract massive amounts of historical data so it can run analytic queries more securely and efficiently, while reducing runtimes from hours to seconds. Virgin Media, a UK provider of TV, broadband, phone and mobile services with millions of subscribers, uses Netezza across its product marketing, revenue assurance and credit services departments to proactively plan, forecast and respond to the effect of pricing and tariff changes enabling them to quickly respond with competitive offerings.
It further explains that both the company and Netezza see the importance of integration from the multiprocessor through middleware to business consulting to bring a higher level of efficiency through workload optimized systems. For example, Netezza appliance capabilities highlight integrated software with unique FPGA-Accelerated Streaming Technology (FAST) that allows the system to execute analytic queries at streaming speeds of up to milliseconds, significantly improving the performance and response times for critical business decisions.
The company mentions that the acquisition expands its information and analytics offerings, including services available through the company's Business Analytics and Optimization Consulting organization. Following the close of the acquisition, it intends to integrate Netezza within the company's Information Management software portfolio. Netezza has approximately 500 employees around the world.
"IBM is bringing analytics to the masses. We continue to evolve our capabilities for systems integration, bringing together optimized hardware and software, in response to increasing demand for technology that delivers true business value. Netezza is a perfect example of this approach," said Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software and Systems. "Netezza strongly complements our business analytics capabilities and client base. Together, we have the opportunity to quickly leverage the technology and accelerate the offering."
"It's no longer just the CIO - every single department from finance to marketing professionals is tapping into the capabilities of analytics to draw meaningful insights. But clients cannot sacrifice time, cost or performance by deploying solutions that do not best meet each of their business needs," said Arvind Krishna, General Manager, Information Management, IBM. "The addition of Netezza will reinforce IBM's focus in understanding clients' needs by providing them a broader set of analytics capabilities and bringing the power of analytics right into the hands of business users at every level within an organization."
"Our vision of an appliance-based Intelligent Economy aligns very well with IBM's Smarter Planet strategy. Netezza appliances set the standard for performance and simplicity in data warehousing and analytics," said Jim Baum, President and CEO of Netezza. "Our customers choose our appliances for their fast time to value and how they simplify analytics against big data. Together with IBM, we are looking forward to extending our capabilities to a much broader market."
ZNet Technologies Launches ZNetlive
Company launches ZNetlive for its international clientele to cater their web hosting needs.
ZNet Technologies Private Limited (formerly ZNet India), a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its international website ZNetlive (http://www.znetlive.com/), thereby expanding its horizon in a highly competitive global web hosting market place. The company says that it has already launched its international site by the name of ZNeti which has now been renamed as ZNetlive.
It articulates that it started this venture to serve its international clientele and deliver a qualitative hosting experience across the world. The target market for ZNetlive will be all English-speaking international clientele who requires web hosting, domain registration and other web services. It will provide various services like domain registration, web hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting.
The company avers that the current website ZNetindia.com will continue to exist with the spotlight on Indian and other South Asian customers. The new global version of ZNet website will not only set new benchmarks in 24x7x365 customer support but also extend the benefits of infrastructure virtualization and robust IT teams available at the company.
Speaking about the launch of the new international website for hosting, Munesh Singh, CEO, ZNet, stated, "Although ZNet is growing continually but the need was felt to continue this growth journey ahead by reaching out to international clientele. ZNetlive will be one-stop destination for our international prospects for hosting solutions." "ZNet has already finalized a new team of front-end and tech support professionals who have got international customer management experience. ZNetlive will offer attractive pricing in US dollars and totally new packages for web hosting, domain registration and other web services for its international clientele," added Munesh Singh.
ZNet Technologies Private Limited (formerly ZNet India), a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its international website ZNetlive (http://www.znetlive.com/), thereby expanding its horizon in a highly competitive global web hosting market place. The company says that it has already launched its international site by the name of ZNeti which has now been renamed as ZNetlive.
It articulates that it started this venture to serve its international clientele and deliver a qualitative hosting experience across the world. The target market for ZNetlive will be all English-speaking international clientele who requires web hosting, domain registration and other web services. It will provide various services like domain registration, web hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting.
The company avers that the current website ZNetindia.com will continue to exist with the spotlight on Indian and other South Asian customers. The new global version of ZNet website will not only set new benchmarks in 24x7x365 customer support but also extend the benefits of infrastructure virtualization and robust IT teams available at the company.
Speaking about the launch of the new international website for hosting, Munesh Singh, CEO, ZNet, stated, "Although ZNet is growing continually but the need was felt to continue this growth journey ahead by reaching out to international clientele. ZNetlive will be one-stop destination for our international prospects for hosting solutions." "ZNet has already finalized a new team of front-end and tech support professionals who have got international customer management experience. ZNetlive will offer attractive pricing in US dollars and totally new packages for web hosting, domain registration and other web services for its international clientele," added Munesh Singh.
SoftLayer Launches Second Dallas Data Center
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Flagship facility provides 2G and 10G server connections and advanced networking.
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, today launched its second Dallas data center, located in the company's recently completed headquarters.
The company states that designated DAL05, the new facility features an advanced dual-path network structure, including redundant network interface cards (NICs) in every server. Customers can select up to 2G of connectivity for any DAL05 server, select servers with up to 10G, and configure their networking resources to achieve all new levels of efficiency.
It further states that DAL05 has capacity for 15,000 servers, 24x7 onsite support, and multiple security protocols controlling entrance to the facility. It is fully connected to the company's data centers located at the INFOMART in Dallas, in Seattle, Washington, and in the Washington D.C. area, and to the company's network Points of Presence in seven additional U.S. cities. DAL05 servers can be ordered starting today at www.softlayer.com or through the company's Customer Portal. 2Gbps bandwidth is available for only $15 per month.
"Networking is the killer variable for today's online services. Social networking, web application, cloud solutions - they all need higher bandwidth and more throughput control than ever," said Sam Fleitman, Chief Operations Officer for SoftLayer. "DAL05 pushes SoftLayer's trademark networking advantage even farther. The dual-path structure not only provides greater bandwidth to individual computing units, it lets customers do things like designate separate paths for different traffic streams, optimizing a server's networking for its specific application."
Flagship facility provides 2G and 10G server connections and advanced networking.
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, today launched its second Dallas data center, located in the company's recently completed headquarters.
The company states that designated DAL05, the new facility features an advanced dual-path network structure, including redundant network interface cards (NICs) in every server. Customers can select up to 2G of connectivity for any DAL05 server, select servers with up to 10G, and configure their networking resources to achieve all new levels of efficiency.
It further states that DAL05 has capacity for 15,000 servers, 24x7 onsite support, and multiple security protocols controlling entrance to the facility. It is fully connected to the company's data centers located at the INFOMART in Dallas, in Seattle, Washington, and in the Washington D.C. area, and to the company's network Points of Presence in seven additional U.S. cities. DAL05 servers can be ordered starting today at www.softlayer.com or through the company's Customer Portal. 2Gbps bandwidth is available for only $15 per month.
"Networking is the killer variable for today's online services. Social networking, web application, cloud solutions - they all need higher bandwidth and more throughput control than ever," said Sam Fleitman, Chief Operations Officer for SoftLayer. "DAL05 pushes SoftLayer's trademark networking advantage even farther. The dual-path structure not only provides greater bandwidth to individual computing units, it lets customers do things like designate separate paths for different traffic streams, optimizing a server's networking for its specific application."
Sunday, September 19, 2010
CloudSigma Launches New Cloud Server Security Suite
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Designed to work in conjunction with the existing web console interface, the new security suite offers enterprise level security options for public cloud servers.
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, today announced the launch of the cloud security suite in conjunction with its cloud computing platform. The company avers that designed to work in conjunction with its existing web console interface, the new security suite offers enterprise level security options for public cloud servers.
It articulates that a growing number of the company's customers come from the enterprise space. Enterprise customers are looking for solutions that offers secure access from within their corporate environment. Unfortunately traditional VNC access is often not possible due to restrictions on software installation and/or firewall rules within an enterprise environment. The in-browser VNC solution allows enterprises to access their cloud servers securely over the HTTPS port without having to modify their firewall settings or potentially compromise the security of their in-house desktop machines by allowing installation of third party software.
* Enable/disable FTP gateway functionality
* Control web console inactivity timeout periods
* Allow two stage login authentification using SMS
The company states that in this way, customers can dial in the level of restriction they wish to achieve with their web console access. The two stage authentification combines the usual initial username/password combination with a second stage SMS code verification step. This system is similar to the latest generation systems employed by banks to secure retail access to their online banking. All failed attempts are logged and the account owner is alerted instantly informing customers when a password has become compromised as well as providing a comprehensive audit trail.
It further states that API access represents a double-edged sword for those looking to use public Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds. On one hand, it allows full automation of cloud infrastructure allowing automatic scaling, load balancing and more. At the same time, however, such powerful tools represent a significant threat to a company's infrastructure if not secured correctly. Detailed access control to the API is an essential part of maintaining the integrity of a company's infrastructure. The following new settings allow customers to secure and limit access:
* Switch off API access completely
* Create an IP white list for API access
* Allow http/https or only https API access
* Choose between plain or digest authentification
* Choose between username/password or UUID/API key authentification
The company claims that these critical settings allow customers to tightly control the access and authentification to the API. The combination of secured web console access and secured API access present a robust answer to the concerns that have been raised with regards to securing infrastructure in a public cloud environment.
According to it, increasingly companies are using a combination of existing infrastructure with public clouds to benefit from the advantages of both models. A critical part of integrating a public cloud with existing corporate infrastructure is the ability to secure and control API and web console access.
CloudSigma AG CEO Patrick Baillie commented, "This latest announcement brings our cloud into the lead in terms of user controlled security options in the public cloud arena. Features such as two-stage authentification, IP white lists and more mean adding a public cloud to your infrastructure doesn't mean taking a step down in terms of security." Baillie continued, "We are seeing more and more demand from our customers for very fine grain security controls and audit trails from their cloud computing. New features such as our API white list and improved authentification options allow companies to bolt-on our public cloud to their existing infrastructure. Our customers are deploying VPNs then carefully restricting access to cloud infrastructure management tools using this security suite."
Designed to work in conjunction with the existing web console interface, the new security suite offers enterprise level security options for public cloud servers.
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, today announced the launch of the cloud security suite in conjunction with its cloud computing platform. The company avers that designed to work in conjunction with its existing web console interface, the new security suite offers enterprise level security options for public cloud servers.
It articulates that a growing number of the company's customers come from the enterprise space. Enterprise customers are looking for solutions that offers secure access from within their corporate environment. Unfortunately traditional VNC access is often not possible due to restrictions on software installation and/or firewall rules within an enterprise environment. The in-browser VNC solution allows enterprises to access their cloud servers securely over the HTTPS port without having to modify their firewall settings or potentially compromise the security of their in-house desktop machines by allowing installation of third party software.
* Enable/disable FTP gateway functionality
* Control web console inactivity timeout periods
* Allow two stage login authentification using SMS
The company states that in this way, customers can dial in the level of restriction they wish to achieve with their web console access. The two stage authentification combines the usual initial username/password combination with a second stage SMS code verification step. This system is similar to the latest generation systems employed by banks to secure retail access to their online banking. All failed attempts are logged and the account owner is alerted instantly informing customers when a password has become compromised as well as providing a comprehensive audit trail.
It further states that API access represents a double-edged sword for those looking to use public Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds. On one hand, it allows full automation of cloud infrastructure allowing automatic scaling, load balancing and more. At the same time, however, such powerful tools represent a significant threat to a company's infrastructure if not secured correctly. Detailed access control to the API is an essential part of maintaining the integrity of a company's infrastructure. The following new settings allow customers to secure and limit access:
* Switch off API access completely
* Create an IP white list for API access
* Allow http/https or only https API access
* Choose between plain or digest authentification
* Choose between username/password or UUID/API key authentification
The company claims that these critical settings allow customers to tightly control the access and authentification to the API. The combination of secured web console access and secured API access present a robust answer to the concerns that have been raised with regards to securing infrastructure in a public cloud environment.
According to it, increasingly companies are using a combination of existing infrastructure with public clouds to benefit from the advantages of both models. A critical part of integrating a public cloud with existing corporate infrastructure is the ability to secure and control API and web console access.
CloudSigma AG CEO Patrick Baillie commented, "This latest announcement brings our cloud into the lead in terms of user controlled security options in the public cloud arena. Features such as two-stage authentification, IP white lists and more mean adding a public cloud to your infrastructure doesn't mean taking a step down in terms of security." Baillie continued, "We are seeing more and more demand from our customers for very fine grain security controls and audit trails from their cloud computing. New features such as our API white list and improved authentification options allow companies to bolt-on our public cloud to their existing infrastructure. Our customers are deploying VPNs then carefully restricting access to cloud infrastructure management tools using this security suite."
VeriPortal Partners with Cloud Linux
VeriPortal to offer CloudLinux on VPS and dedicated servers.
Cloud Linux Inc. , a software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announced that VeriPortal, a division of VeriTeknik I.T. Solutions and a web hosting provider, will offer CloudLinux on its dedicated and VPS offerings. The company claims that VeriPortal selected CloudLinux for its Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology and will deploy CloudLinux to provide the benefits of increased stability, reliability and performance to its customers. The addition of VeriPortal to the growing list of the company's partners adds another international hosting provider who will offer CloudLinux.
According to it, CloudLinux's core technology is Lightweight Virtual Environment a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. While similar to container type virtualization technology, LVE is completely transparent and lightweight. Once installed, the LVE works transparently to manage resources that the hosting provider sets for the accounts on a server. It controls the CPU resources to ensure that each account on a shared server is allocated enough resources to run efficiently without jeopardizing the other tenants on that server, making the server more stable and delivering better performance.
The company articulates that with LVE, CloudLinux can deliver performance, reliability and operational benefits for VeriPortal customers including:
"We are pleased to welcome VeriPortal to the CloudLinux Partner Program and provider their customers the benefits of reliability and performance that CloudLinux can deliver," states Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Founder and CEO. "Service providers can achieve higher density and increased stability with our proven technology which ultimately provides a higher level of service and support to their clients."
"VeriPortal has been looking for a solution to give our customers better control of server resources and better security. We were very excited to discover CloudLinux," states VeriTeknik Owner and Founder Cem Karaca. "CloudLinux will help us expand our dedicated service offering by introducing the latest innovation."
Cloud Linux Inc. , a software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announced that VeriPortal, a division of VeriTeknik I.T. Solutions and a web hosting provider, will offer CloudLinux on its dedicated and VPS offerings. The company claims that VeriPortal selected CloudLinux for its Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology and will deploy CloudLinux to provide the benefits of increased stability, reliability and performance to its customers. The addition of VeriPortal to the growing list of the company's partners adds another international hosting provider who will offer CloudLinux.
According to it, CloudLinux's core technology is Lightweight Virtual Environment a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. While similar to container type virtualization technology, LVE is completely transparent and lightweight. Once installed, the LVE works transparently to manage resources that the hosting provider sets for the accounts on a server. It controls the CPU resources to ensure that each account on a shared server is allocated enough resources to run efficiently without jeopardizing the other tenants on that server, making the server more stable and delivering better performance.
The company articulates that with LVE, CloudLinux can deliver performance, reliability and operational benefits for VeriPortal customers including:
- Increased uptime since no one account can slow down or take down an entire shared server
- Reduced impact of unpredictable events like load spikes that can take down or slow down a server
- Compatibility with all major control panels for easy management
- Increased density and capability per server without increasing risk
- Protection from hackers and poorly written scripts that drain resources, cause outages and impact productivity
- Reduced operational costs related to hardware, electricity, data center space and management costs
- Better utilization of existing infrastructure
"We are pleased to welcome VeriPortal to the CloudLinux Partner Program and provider their customers the benefits of reliability and performance that CloudLinux can deliver," states Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Founder and CEO. "Service providers can achieve higher density and increased stability with our proven technology which ultimately provides a higher level of service and support to their clients."
"VeriPortal has been looking for a solution to give our customers better control of server resources and better security. We were very excited to discover CloudLinux," states VeriTeknik Owner and Founder Cem Karaca. "CloudLinux will help us expand our dedicated service offering by introducing the latest innovation."
Filer system to undergo changes in near future
When they hear the word "filer," most people think of cabinets. They think of a pile of messy paperwork yet to be finished. They think of a job they may or may not want to have. They don't usually think of the system filer.case.edu, which gives us the option of hosting personal as well as organization webpages on the Case Western Reserve University campus network.
Many students have probably visited the webpage of a club that is hosted on filer. The filer system, according to director of Student Affairs IT Operations Joel Kraft, began as a project of Student Internet Services (SIS). Kraft explained that it was "formed by a group of students wishing to fill in the gaps of IT services that were not provided by ITS, most importantly a place to host a web page." Since then, filer has changed hands and is currently hosted and maintained by the School of Engineering. However, this could be could be changing in the near future.
For a long time now, there have been rumors concerning filer - most of which have no legitimate basis. The latest rumor, concerning the complete dismantling of filer, was deemed untrue, the result of an unfortunate series of miscommunications. The debunking of this myth, though, brings us to an issue that rests not on more secure grounds, but on more practical ones. While no official statement about the issue has been released, the upcoming months there will likely see changes involving the system.
The first of the rumored changes is an end to new account creation. In implementing a change like this, Kraft said there would not be any immediate functional changes to the system. The staff and students would continue to maintain and provide support for filer.
Another of the rumors pertains to the School of Engineering being detached from the filer system. The School of Engineering would no longer provide funds for the system - funds which currently cover the hardware maintenance and administration of the over-8600 individual sites filer currently hosts. The funds would have to be drawn from an outside source. Filer is run on the open-source software called 'vtfileman' and is free of re-occurring software costs. However, if more severe issues arose, such as hardware difficulties, monetary problems could result that would put the system in jeopardy.
While filer will eventually be removed, it will be a gradual secession. According to Henry Snow, a filer administrator, the following is a probable scenario: within the next year, a date will be set when no new accounts on the server can be created. After that, the files on filer will remain for a year after the system is closed. With some simple math, filer will probably exist for another two years. Snow said that when any further developments occur, announcements will be posted on filer's home page.
As for a replacement of the system, that is a debatable issue. Undergraduate Student Government (USG) has been working on Collegiatelink, the possible future of club webhosting. Unfortunately, this is still a work in progress. Kraft also pointed to Google groups, though he mentioned a security debate on it that makes it less worthwhile than using the current filer system.
Many students have probably visited the webpage of a club that is hosted on filer. The filer system, according to director of Student Affairs IT Operations Joel Kraft, began as a project of Student Internet Services (SIS). Kraft explained that it was "formed by a group of students wishing to fill in the gaps of IT services that were not provided by ITS, most importantly a place to host a web page." Since then, filer has changed hands and is currently hosted and maintained by the School of Engineering. However, this could be could be changing in the near future.
For a long time now, there have been rumors concerning filer - most of which have no legitimate basis. The latest rumor, concerning the complete dismantling of filer, was deemed untrue, the result of an unfortunate series of miscommunications. The debunking of this myth, though, brings us to an issue that rests not on more secure grounds, but on more practical ones. While no official statement about the issue has been released, the upcoming months there will likely see changes involving the system.
The first of the rumored changes is an end to new account creation. In implementing a change like this, Kraft said there would not be any immediate functional changes to the system. The staff and students would continue to maintain and provide support for filer.
Another of the rumors pertains to the School of Engineering being detached from the filer system. The School of Engineering would no longer provide funds for the system - funds which currently cover the hardware maintenance and administration of the over-8600 individual sites filer currently hosts. The funds would have to be drawn from an outside source. Filer is run on the open-source software called 'vtfileman' and is free of re-occurring software costs. However, if more severe issues arose, such as hardware difficulties, monetary problems could result that would put the system in jeopardy.
While filer will eventually be removed, it will be a gradual secession. According to Henry Snow, a filer administrator, the following is a probable scenario: within the next year, a date will be set when no new accounts on the server can be created. After that, the files on filer will remain for a year after the system is closed. With some simple math, filer will probably exist for another two years. Snow said that when any further developments occur, announcements will be posted on filer's home page.
As for a replacement of the system, that is a debatable issue. Undergraduate Student Government (USG) has been working on Collegiatelink, the possible future of club webhosting. Unfortunately, this is still a work in progress. Kraft also pointed to Google groups, though he mentioned a security debate on it that makes it less worthwhile than using the current filer system.
Apple Relaxes Restrictions on Mobile App Development
Today, Apple announced it is relaxing the previous restrictions on the use of third-party development tools for the creation of mobile applications on iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod Touch. Specifically, sections 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.9 of the iOS Developer Program have been modified with new language that rolls back some of the changes that were enacted earlier this year.
The first two sections included restrictions on the use of development tools that allowed developers to code in languages familiar to them, like Adobe Flash, then port those applications to the iOS platform. Section 3.3.9 also placed restrictions on the use of third-party software within an app whose purpose was to collect and analyze app usage data. According to the Apple press release, these decisions were made because the company "listened to our developers" and has "taken much of their feedback to heart."
Most of the complaints at the time of the initial changes revolved around Apple's decision to ban the use of Adobe's "Packager for iPhone," a tool that allowed Flash developers to leverage their existing skills in order to produce iPhone applications. The announcement led to escalated tensions between the two companies, and shortly thereafter Apple exec CEO Steve Jobs posted a lengthy piece on Apple.com that explained all the reasons why his company did not want Flash technology on any of its mobile devices, whether as a plugin or as an app-creation tool.
However, today's news doesn't just affect Adobe Flash developers, although they were the most vocal about the prior ban - it could also permit the use of other mobile development technologies including Sun's Java or Microsoft's Silverlight/Mono, notes Apple-watching blog, AppleInsider.
They also point out that the decision, in part, may not be simply because Apple "listened to feedback" but because of recent U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigations that had the regulatory body looking into the complaint regarding the Flash ban, among other things.
Meanwhile, as the language in the Apple Developer continued to change on an ongoing basis, developers interested in building mobile applications for iOS had to remain constantly vigilant that they were not using any technology that could later come under fire from Apple.
When Apple then updated the section banning the use of some third-party analytics services, the move was called out as permitting an unfair competitive advantage for Apple's own iAds advertising platform and analytics service over competitors' services, like Flurry, Distimo and most notably, Google's AdMob, all of which were popular among mobile app developers for monitoring usage numbers and other details about how consumers were interacting with the mobile apps.
Apple says it will also publish its App Store Review Guidelines online in an effort to be more transparent with the community. This decision is likely due to the constant media attention given to each and every mobile application that Apple bars from entry into its App Store, removes from the store, or leaves in limbo, awaiting approval for months on end.
The full text of the Apple Press Release is below:
The App Store℠ has revolutionized the way mobile applications are developed and distributed. With over 250,000 apps and 6.5 billion downloads, the App Store has become the world's largest mobile application platform and App Store developers have earned over one billion dollars from the sales of their apps.
We are continually trying to make the App Store even better. We have listened to our developers and taken much of their feedback to heart. Based on their input, today we are making some important changes to our iOS Developer Program license in sections 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.9 to relax some restrictions we put in place earlier this year.
In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.
In addition, for the first time we are publishing the App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how we review submitted apps. We hope it will make us more transparent and help our developers create even more successful apps for the App Store.
The App Store is perhaps the most important milestone in the history of mobile software. Working together with our developers, we will continue to surprise and delight our users with innovative mobile apps.
Signetique’s New Partnership with Attracta Promises Guaranteed Search Engine Placement
A new partnership between Singapore-based Signetique and Attracta provides a free SEO sevice that guarantees better search visibility for companies seeking to increase their website traffic and online sales.
Singapore (PRWEB) September 19, 2010 -- A new partnership between Singapore-based Signetique (www.webhosting.com.sg) and Attracta (www.Attracta.com) guarantees better search visibility for Pacific Rim companies seeking to increase their website traffic and online sales.
Attracta, a well-known Californian developer of search engine optimization (SEO) technology, is providing Signetique customers with a free suite of powerful website marketing resources and services that deliver guaranteed placement in organic search engine rankings.
"We are very excited to offer Attracta's services to our customers because better search engine rankings has historically been complicated and expensive for most website owners,” said Signetique CEO Raymond Tan. “Attracta's search visibility technology will help these websites rise in search engine rankings easily and affordably.”
“This partnership is a terrific opportunity for both Signetique and Attracta to extend our respective market reach and presence in the Asia Pacific region," added Attracta Vice President of Channel Sales Rich Murphy. “Our technology eliminates or reduces much of the burden and effort required to rank higher in search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, results that will help Signetique distinguish itself among other Pac Rim hosting companies.”
Guaranteed Search Engine Results
Attracta guarantees that new Signetique customers starting this free SEO service will find their sites listed in Google’s organic search results within 24 hours. Signetique customers with existing sites that begin using the service can also benefit; Attracta guarantees that the number of their pages listed in Google will increase within the first seven days of beginning service.
How Attract’a Technology Help Signetique Customers
Attracta's service helps websites optimize their SEO activities by evaluating them based on Google’s Webmaster guidelines and SEO recommendations so they can boost their search engine visibility, targeted site traffic, and sales. Attracta provides a real-time scoring system delivered through a user-friendly online portal. A variety of tools and services, including automated XML sitemap submission, common SEO error identification, local search submission and link building options, help websites raise their scores and search rankings.
How Signetique Customers Can Get Started
Signetique customers wanting to increase their search engine visibility only have to click on the ‘Activate your free account today!’ button (http://www.webhosting.com.sg/services/free-seo.html)
About Attracta
Attracta provides automated search engine submission and optimization (SEO) services to more than 95,000 websites of all sizes. Attracta’s innovative web-based technology helps increase search engine visibility and site traffic by analyzing sites based on Google’s SEO Guidelines, and providing remediation assistance, including automated XML Sitemap and Local search submission and resolution of common SEO errors. Attracta sells its services directly, and through a reseller channel of web hosts, site developers, and agencies. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Napa, CA. For more information, visit www.Attracta.com or 888-317-3994.
About Signetique
Since 1995, Signetique has provided web hosting and managed services in Asia and Pacific Rim countries. Signetique’s service and product portfolio include: dedicated, vps and shared hosting, managed services, server colocation, high availability and remote disaster recovery under the Webhosting.com.sg brand. For more information, visit www.webhosting.com.sg or call +65-62251468.
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Singapore (PRWEB) September 19, 2010 -- A new partnership between Singapore-based Signetique (www.webhosting.com.sg) and Attracta (www.Attracta.com) guarantees better search visibility for Pacific Rim companies seeking to increase their website traffic and online sales.
Attracta, a well-known Californian developer of search engine optimization (SEO) technology, is providing Signetique customers with a free suite of powerful website marketing resources and services that deliver guaranteed placement in organic search engine rankings.
"We are very excited to offer Attracta's services to our customers because better search engine rankings has historically been complicated and expensive for most website owners,” said Signetique CEO Raymond Tan. “Attracta's search visibility technology will help these websites rise in search engine rankings easily and affordably.”
“This partnership is a terrific opportunity for both Signetique and Attracta to extend our respective market reach and presence in the Asia Pacific region," added Attracta Vice President of Channel Sales Rich Murphy. “Our technology eliminates or reduces much of the burden and effort required to rank higher in search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, results that will help Signetique distinguish itself among other Pac Rim hosting companies.”
Guaranteed Search Engine Results
Attracta guarantees that new Signetique customers starting this free SEO service will find their sites listed in Google’s organic search results within 24 hours. Signetique customers with existing sites that begin using the service can also benefit; Attracta guarantees that the number of their pages listed in Google will increase within the first seven days of beginning service.
How Attract’a Technology Help Signetique Customers
Attracta's service helps websites optimize their SEO activities by evaluating them based on Google’s Webmaster guidelines and SEO recommendations so they can boost their search engine visibility, targeted site traffic, and sales. Attracta provides a real-time scoring system delivered through a user-friendly online portal. A variety of tools and services, including automated XML sitemap submission, common SEO error identification, local search submission and link building options, help websites raise their scores and search rankings.
How Signetique Customers Can Get Started
Signetique customers wanting to increase their search engine visibility only have to click on the ‘Activate your free account today!’ button (http://www.webhosting.com.sg/services/free-seo.html)
About Attracta
Attracta provides automated search engine submission and optimization (SEO) services to more than 95,000 websites of all sizes. Attracta’s innovative web-based technology helps increase search engine visibility and site traffic by analyzing sites based on Google’s SEO Guidelines, and providing remediation assistance, including automated XML Sitemap and Local search submission and resolution of common SEO errors. Attracta sells its services directly, and through a reseller channel of web hosts, site developers, and agencies. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Napa, CA. For more information, visit www.Attracta.com or 888-317-3994.
About Signetique
Since 1995, Signetique has provided web hosting and managed services in Asia and Pacific Rim countries. Signetique’s service and product portfolio include: dedicated, vps and shared hosting, managed services, server colocation, high availability and remote disaster recovery under the Webhosting.com.sg brand. For more information, visit www.webhosting.com.sg or call +65-62251468.
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Lite Speed Technologies has integrated CloudLinux LVE technology in its flagship product - LiteSpeed web server
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April 20, 2010 - Bridgewater, NJ, USA. — Lite Speed Technologies announces today that it has integrated CloudLinux's Lightweight Virtual Environment™ or LVE technology into its LiteSpeed Web Server product in the latest 4.0.14 release. LiteSpeed based hosting solution will now be able to take advantage of LVE technology to achieve increased levels of server stability and utilization and provide customers a more powerful way to manage their server environment.
Working at the kernel level, LVE technology limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes on a server. LVE provides LiteSpeed Web Server with new capabilities for a stable server environment so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server, thereby improving overall server stability. CloudLinux LVE is backed by 24x7 technical support and is compatible with the major control panels for easy management and quick deployment.
“CloudLinux’s LVE technology is proud to be included in the LiteSpeed Web Server offering as they have one of the best web server products on the market,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of CloudLinux. “LiteSpeed Web Server is used by many hosting providers who want to optimize the usage of their servers and shares our goal of leveraging innovations such as LVE to improve the hosting infrastructure and prepare for the more complex configurations and challenges of tomorrow.”
“Integrating LVE into our LiteSpeed Web Server product suite gives us the ability to help customers maximize performance within their existing infrastructures without them having to add additional hardware,” states George Wang, President and founder of Lite Speed Technologies. For hosting service providers, LiteSpeed Web Server is a high performance replacement of Apache web server, and with LVE, the offering is more robust allowing resources to be limited to individual processes, achieving increased reliability and performance. Lite Speed Technologies is proud to be the first software vendor to integrate CloudLinux’s LVE technology directly within its software, and this milestone has been achieved within just 45 days of the LVE launch to the marketplace.
About Lite Speed Technologies
Based in New Jersey, Lite Speed Technologies is a U.S. company dedicated to software technologies that enables faster Internet content delivery and infrastructure cost reduction for large websites, service providers, and enterprise datacenters. LiteSpeed Web Server, the company's flagship product, is quickly becoming the industry leader of the web server market in terms of performance, scalability and security.
For more information, please visit LiteSpeed's website at www.litespeedtech.com or contact sales @ litespeedtech.com.
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
For more information, please visit www.cloudlinux.com
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Apple Approves touchNOC Native iPhone App
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Apple has accepted the touchNOC native iPhone app for distribution from its App Store. The entire approval process, from initial app submission to acceptance, took approximately one week. Once listed in the App Store, it took about 24 hours for our app to be searchable via the key words that we provided. Development of the native iPhone application went extremely smoothly using the excellent developer tools provided by Apple. You can download the touchNOC iPhone app here.
Apple has accepted the touchNOC native iPhone app for distribution from its App Store. The entire approval process, from initial app submission to acceptance, took approximately one week. Once listed in the App Store, it took about 24 hours for our app to be searchable via the key words that we provided. Development of the native iPhone application went extremely smoothly using the excellent developer tools provided by Apple. You can download the touchNOC iPhone app here.
Google Introduces New Domain Parking Regulations
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Domain parking is becoming increasingly popular in the internet industry, as every other aspect of domain buying and selling as as well. As more domains are sold, more domains will be parked, and the domain parking industry is expected to increase in size by at least double within the next few years. However, Internet giant Google may be changing the way they allow domains to be parked. By changing just a few policies, Google is sure to confuse a lot of webmasters that are not yet aware of this change.
Sedo Announces Google Changes
Sedo is one of the largest domain buying and selling web sites on the internet, and is marketed as the leading domain marketplace of the web. Sedo helps people buy and sell more domains than any other web site, but it is also one of the leading domain parking companies. According to Sedo, Google is going to eliminate URL forwarding in parked domains, as well as requiring all domains to be parked using DNS. This change comes along with other changes that are instilling tighter rules and regulations surrounding the transparency of parked domains and the Google search engine and advertising company.
Google’s Relation to Sedo
Many people don’t fully understand what kind of business Google is. They’re primarily an internet advertising provider that mediates internet advertisements of all kinds. As such they provide contextual advertising to Sedo and partner with them to advertise their advertising solutions to new domain owners and domain speculators. Google’s AdSense and AdWords are the two most successful advertiser and publisher networks on the internet. Knowing that Sedo is a popular domain buying/selling/parkin site, Google made the wise decision of releasing the news of their domain parking regulations revisions to the well-known domain site.
When and How Will the Change Take Place
Although it is not yet clear what kind of affect the change will have on domain parking, it appears that it will be taking place in the 4th quarter of 2010, within the next couple of months. All that has been released is the guarantee that it will affect the actions of URL parking customers around the world that also use Google as an advertising provider. It should b noted that anyone with their domain already parked on a particular nameserver will not be affected by the change, as it will only affect people that engage in URL forwarding and other alternatives that do not involve the use of a DNS server.
Conclusion
If you are currently in the domain parking industry then you may want to pay close attention to the headlines within the coming weeks. Important changes in policy on behalf of Google could change the way you park domains for profit. If you currently use DNS servers to park your domain then you will find that the change will have no effect on you.
If your domains are parked with a companies nameservers such as ns1.sedoparking.com, this won’t affect you.
Domain parking is becoming increasingly popular in the internet industry, as every other aspect of domain buying and selling as as well. As more domains are sold, more domains will be parked, and the domain parking industry is expected to increase in size by at least double within the next few years. However, Internet giant Google may be changing the way they allow domains to be parked. By changing just a few policies, Google is sure to confuse a lot of webmasters that are not yet aware of this change.
Sedo Announces Google Changes
Sedo is one of the largest domain buying and selling web sites on the internet, and is marketed as the leading domain marketplace of the web. Sedo helps people buy and sell more domains than any other web site, but it is also one of the leading domain parking companies. According to Sedo, Google is going to eliminate URL forwarding in parked domains, as well as requiring all domains to be parked using DNS. This change comes along with other changes that are instilling tighter rules and regulations surrounding the transparency of parked domains and the Google search engine and advertising company.
Google’s Relation to Sedo
Many people don’t fully understand what kind of business Google is. They’re primarily an internet advertising provider that mediates internet advertisements of all kinds. As such they provide contextual advertising to Sedo and partner with them to advertise their advertising solutions to new domain owners and domain speculators. Google’s AdSense and AdWords are the two most successful advertiser and publisher networks on the internet. Knowing that Sedo is a popular domain buying/selling/parkin site, Google made the wise decision of releasing the news of their domain parking regulations revisions to the well-known domain site.
When and How Will the Change Take Place
Although it is not yet clear what kind of affect the change will have on domain parking, it appears that it will be taking place in the 4th quarter of 2010, within the next couple of months. All that has been released is the guarantee that it will affect the actions of URL parking customers around the world that also use Google as an advertising provider. It should b noted that anyone with their domain already parked on a particular nameserver will not be affected by the change, as it will only affect people that engage in URL forwarding and other alternatives that do not involve the use of a DNS server.
Conclusion
If you are currently in the domain parking industry then you may want to pay close attention to the headlines within the coming weeks. Important changes in policy on behalf of Google could change the way you park domains for profit. If you currently use DNS servers to park your domain then you will find that the change will have no effect on you.
If your domains are parked with a companies nameservers such as ns1.sedoparking.com, this won’t affect you.
Host Dime Builds New Data Center in Brazil
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Managed hosting provider HostDime (www.hostdime.com) announced on Tuesday it has completed construction of a new 5,000 square-foot data and network operations center in Brazil.
The new data center significantly expands the hosting capacity of the company’s local division, HostDime Brazil.
When HostDime opened its international division in Brazil nearly three years ago, there were no plans to open a data center facility locally. However, the rapidly increasing demand for locally-hosted services in Brazil has made such a facility necessar.
The new data center will give HostDime Brazil a considerable advantage in both reduced costs and greater accessibility.
The company’s current customer base of over 5,000 just from the Brazil division also has been generating a demand for local servers, and with more than 200 percent growth per year in the division, this facility expansion will lead to further growth.
Located in the equivalent of Class-A office space, the new data center is down the hall from HostDime Brazil’s business office in the same complex.
The data center suite is fully supported by an uninterruptable power supply and generator to reduce service disruption in the event of a power-grid failure.
HostDime originally selected João Pessoa, Paraíba to host its operations because of the city’s record as natural-disaster-free, with no hurricanes or earthquakes in its history.
It is also the easternmost city in the Americas and is often cited as the second greenest city in the world, says HostDime.
The data center is also one of few facilities in the northern part of Brazil helping businesses to host outside the saturated southern part of Brazil like São Paulo.
“Brazil has a population of over 200 million and is one of the fastest growing online countries in the world,” says Emmanuel Vivar, HostDime CEO. “While 80 percent of Brazilian websites are hosted out of the country due to lower costs, the completion of this facility is key to converting that 80 percent into a major source of growth for our Brazilian division. By hosting sites locally, latency can be reduced to under 75ms, compared to the more than 150ms latency for websites hosted on US-based servers.”
Managed hosting provider HostDime (www.hostdime.com) announced on Tuesday it has completed construction of a new 5,000 square-foot data and network operations center in Brazil.
The new data center significantly expands the hosting capacity of the company’s local division, HostDime Brazil.
When HostDime opened its international division in Brazil nearly three years ago, there were no plans to open a data center facility locally. However, the rapidly increasing demand for locally-hosted services in Brazil has made such a facility necessar.
The new data center will give HostDime Brazil a considerable advantage in both reduced costs and greater accessibility.
The company’s current customer base of over 5,000 just from the Brazil division also has been generating a demand for local servers, and with more than 200 percent growth per year in the division, this facility expansion will lead to further growth.
Located in the equivalent of Class-A office space, the new data center is down the hall from HostDime Brazil’s business office in the same complex.
The data center suite is fully supported by an uninterruptable power supply and generator to reduce service disruption in the event of a power-grid failure.
HostDime originally selected João Pessoa, Paraíba to host its operations because of the city’s record as natural-disaster-free, with no hurricanes or earthquakes in its history.
It is also the easternmost city in the Americas and is often cited as the second greenest city in the world, says HostDime.
The data center is also one of few facilities in the northern part of Brazil helping businesses to host outside the saturated southern part of Brazil like São Paulo.
“Brazil has a population of over 200 million and is one of the fastest growing online countries in the world,” says Emmanuel Vivar, HostDime CEO. “While 80 percent of Brazilian websites are hosted out of the country due to lower costs, the completion of this facility is key to converting that 80 percent into a major source of growth for our Brazilian division. By hosting sites locally, latency can be reduced to under 75ms, compared to the more than 150ms latency for websites hosted on US-based servers.”
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