Achievement signifies that the company has proved its expertise with Microsoft technologies along with the ability to deliver on customers' needs.
ZNet, a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced that it has attained 'Silver Hosting Competency' in the Microsoft Partner Program. It claims that this signifies that the company has proved its expertise with Microsoft technologies along with the ability to deliver on customers' needs. To earn a Microsoft Silver Competency, partners must complete a set of tests to prove their level of technology expertise, submit customer references that feature the design and implementation of a hosting solution that includes Microsoft technologies.
The company mentions that it has earlier attained the Microsoft Silver Server Platform Competency, Microsoft Small Business Specialist, Microsoft Certified Partner and Microsoft SPLA Approved accreditations. It has also received an award from Microsoft for its contribution in making the 2008 Launch Wave a big success.
It avers that the company has recently announced the multi-location hosting delivering the choice of choosing server location to customers. The customers can now choose from Indian & US data centers.
Munesh Jadoun, CEO, ZNet Technologies, said, "ZNet is a pioneer in aligning its solutions with customer needs. Microsoft has closely aligned the competency attainment requirement with the customer needs and we didn't had a tough time to attain it. Our company focuses on attaining the technology expertise and thereby delivering the best to the end customers. The attainment of Silver Hosting Competency is a proof of our expertise in Microsoft technologies."
Thursday, June 30, 2011
GlobalSign HackAlert Now Available Through CloudFlare Apps
Company's malware detection and early warning system HackAlert is now available through CloudFlare Apps.
GlobalSign, a Certification Authority (CA) and provider of SSL Partner Programs, today announced that it has partnered with CloudFlare, a web service performance and security solution provider, to offer its malware detection and early warning system, HackAlert, via CloudFlare Apps. HackAlert will protect CloudFlare's customer base by identifying drive-by downloads and providing alarms for 'zero-day' malware threats hidden in websites, protecting website owners and their customers from the damaging effects of malware. HackAlert is available via the CloudFlare App marketplace starting at USD 49 per year.
The company articulates that everyday thousands of websites are hacked and used as vehicles to distribute malware to website visitors. Malicious code is injected into unsuspecting websites to compromise PCs and spread virus', hijack computers, or steal personal data. Once a website becomes infected with malware, the damages are usually irreversible; search engines like Google will flag the infected site and alert potential visitors of the danger of visiting the site in the search results and the browser interface, immediately driving down website traffic, and in turn causing loss of brand reputation and revenue.
According to it, introducing HackAlert to CloudFlare's customer base via CloudFlare Apps will give website owners an early warning and detection solution should their site be injected with malicious code. HackAlert uses numerous techniques to actively analyze the content of each webpage for signs of compromise and ensure even the newest and most advanced malware distribution techniques are identified. Delivered as a cloud-based web service, users do not have to install or download any software. Users are immediately notified via real-time if malicious code is found on their site with the snippet of malicious code for quickly and easy remedy, essentially allowing website owners to confidently do business with their customers knowing their website, customers, and brand reputation will be protected.
The company states that CloudFlare Apps is a service that makes installing web applications fast, safe and one-click simple. CloudFlare Apps allow web applications to be activated through CloudFlare without requiring code changes. The HackAlert solution is now available via CloudFlare Apps. Users simply sign up through CloudFlare's dashboard and HackAlert will begin immediately monitoring users' web pages. The HackAlert plan allows for daily monitoring up to 100 pages and includes immediate notification via email along with the snippet of malicious code for quick and easy removal.
"GlobalSign anticipates the introduction of HackAlert Malware monitoring technology to CloudFlare's customer base will help raise awareness of zero-day threats as well as response to the increasing demand for web based protection services," said Steve Waite, Chief Marketing Officer, GlobalSign. "We are dedicated to helping organizations implement malware detection to protect their customers, their search engine traffic, and their corporate brand."
"CloudFlare is committed to web security," said Matthew Prince, CEO and Co-founder of CloudFlare. "That's why we are pleased to add GlobalSign's HackAlert service to our new Apps marketplace, specifically for websites owners who will benefit from early compromise warnings to ensure their valuable websites are not blacklisted by search engines like Google."
GlobalSign, a Certification Authority (CA) and provider of SSL Partner Programs, today announced that it has partnered with CloudFlare, a web service performance and security solution provider, to offer its malware detection and early warning system, HackAlert, via CloudFlare Apps. HackAlert will protect CloudFlare's customer base by identifying drive-by downloads and providing alarms for 'zero-day' malware threats hidden in websites, protecting website owners and their customers from the damaging effects of malware. HackAlert is available via the CloudFlare App marketplace starting at USD 49 per year.
The company articulates that everyday thousands of websites are hacked and used as vehicles to distribute malware to website visitors. Malicious code is injected into unsuspecting websites to compromise PCs and spread virus', hijack computers, or steal personal data. Once a website becomes infected with malware, the damages are usually irreversible; search engines like Google will flag the infected site and alert potential visitors of the danger of visiting the site in the search results and the browser interface, immediately driving down website traffic, and in turn causing loss of brand reputation and revenue.
According to it, introducing HackAlert to CloudFlare's customer base via CloudFlare Apps will give website owners an early warning and detection solution should their site be injected with malicious code. HackAlert uses numerous techniques to actively analyze the content of each webpage for signs of compromise and ensure even the newest and most advanced malware distribution techniques are identified. Delivered as a cloud-based web service, users do not have to install or download any software. Users are immediately notified via real-time if malicious code is found on their site with the snippet of malicious code for quickly and easy remedy, essentially allowing website owners to confidently do business with their customers knowing their website, customers, and brand reputation will be protected.
The company states that CloudFlare Apps is a service that makes installing web applications fast, safe and one-click simple. CloudFlare Apps allow web applications to be activated through CloudFlare without requiring code changes. The HackAlert solution is now available via CloudFlare Apps. Users simply sign up through CloudFlare's dashboard and HackAlert will begin immediately monitoring users' web pages. The HackAlert plan allows for daily monitoring up to 100 pages and includes immediate notification via email along with the snippet of malicious code for quick and easy removal.
"GlobalSign anticipates the introduction of HackAlert Malware monitoring technology to CloudFlare's customer base will help raise awareness of zero-day threats as well as response to the increasing demand for web based protection services," said Steve Waite, Chief Marketing Officer, GlobalSign. "We are dedicated to helping organizations implement malware detection to protect their customers, their search engine traffic, and their corporate brand."
"CloudFlare is committed to web security," said Matthew Prince, CEO and Co-founder of CloudFlare. "That's why we are pleased to add GlobalSign's HackAlert service to our new Apps marketplace, specifically for websites owners who will benefit from early compromise warnings to ensure their valuable websites are not blacklisted by search engines like Google."
Oracle to Acquire Pillar Data Systems
Acquisition adds to the company's storage portfolio.
Oracle, a provider of software for information management, yesterday announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Pillar Data Systems, a provider of SAN Block I/O storage systems that provide performance scaling characteristics with patented Quality of Service. The combination is expected to help the company deliver a complete line of storage products that runs its software faster and more efficiently.
The company says that the evaluation and negotiation of the transaction was led by an independent committee of its Board of Directors. The transaction is structured as a 100% earn-out with no up-front payment. The company does not expect that the amount of the earn-out or its potential impact will be material to its results of operations or financial position. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in July 2011.
"The acquisition of Pillar Data Systems provides Oracle with a compelling SAN storage architecture that complements our core strengths," said John Fowler, Executive Vice President of Systems at Oracle. "Customers can optimize the value of their Oracle applications, database, middleware and operating system software by running on Oracle's storage solutions."
"Pillar Data Systems has spent the last decade building truly world-class storage technologies," said Mike Workman, Chairman and CEO, Pillar Data Systems. "We are excited to benefit from the scale and reach of Oracle to help continue to build innovative and optimized storage systems."
Oracle, a provider of software for information management, yesterday announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Pillar Data Systems, a provider of SAN Block I/O storage systems that provide performance scaling characteristics with patented Quality of Service. The combination is expected to help the company deliver a complete line of storage products that runs its software faster and more efficiently.
The company says that the evaluation and negotiation of the transaction was led by an independent committee of its Board of Directors. The transaction is structured as a 100% earn-out with no up-front payment. The company does not expect that the amount of the earn-out or its potential impact will be material to its results of operations or financial position. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in July 2011.
"The acquisition of Pillar Data Systems provides Oracle with a compelling SAN storage architecture that complements our core strengths," said John Fowler, Executive Vice President of Systems at Oracle. "Customers can optimize the value of their Oracle applications, database, middleware and operating system software by running on Oracle's storage solutions."
"Pillar Data Systems has spent the last decade building truly world-class storage technologies," said Mike Workman, Chairman and CEO, Pillar Data Systems. "We are excited to benefit from the scale and reach of Oracle to help continue to build innovative and optimized storage systems."
NTT America Names Three Senior Executives
Announces appointments to three key executive positions that focus on corporate sales and streamlined corporate processes.
NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, yesterday announced that it has filled three key executive positions that focus on corporate sales and streamlined corporate processes.
The company mentions that Michael DeVito has been appointed the new Vice President for Enterprise Solutions. Reporting to the head of the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit, DeVito will have responsibility for both the business management and network services teams, which operate the Arcstar network, determine pricing, product marketing and bid management, and deliver enterprise sales. DeVito comes to the company with more than 20 years of leadership experience in building and managing highly successful technology services businesses in competitive global markets across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. He has held executive positions at BT Global Services, Equant Network Services (now Orange Business), Qwest and MCI.
It states that reporting to Michael DeVito, Bryan Tam has been promoted to Vice President and Head of Enterprise Sales. In this role, he is responsible for day-to-day management of the sales team focused on Fortune Global 1000 and multinational corporation (MNC) sales for public and private network services, colocation, unified communications and managed security services. Tam has more than 28 years of experience in management, solution selling and global relationship building. He joined the company 10 years ago and previously was Regional Vice President of Enterprise Sales for the Northeastern, Central, and Southeastern regions of the United States.
The company further states that Jun Nojima has been appointed to the newly created role of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). In this role, Nojima will have responsibility for corporate marketing, human resources, corporate strategy and legal. He will work to increase its efficiencies as an organization, while interfacing with other NTT group companies in a more holistic fashion. Nojima is a 23-year veteran of the company, and brings a wealth of experience and contacts to the office of the CAO. Most recently, he led the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit as the Vice President and Head of Sales and Marketing, a position to which he was appointed in January 2010. He received his Masters of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in 2009.
"The wealth of experience with global 1000 companies that Mike, Bryan and Jun bring to the table ensures that NTT America has the best leadership to continue the growth of our business in the upcoming years," said Kazuhiro Gomi, President and CEO of NTT America. "We welcome Mike on board and congratulate Bryan and Jun on their new positions."
NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, yesterday announced that it has filled three key executive positions that focus on corporate sales and streamlined corporate processes.
The company mentions that Michael DeVito has been appointed the new Vice President for Enterprise Solutions. Reporting to the head of the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit, DeVito will have responsibility for both the business management and network services teams, which operate the Arcstar network, determine pricing, product marketing and bid management, and deliver enterprise sales. DeVito comes to the company with more than 20 years of leadership experience in building and managing highly successful technology services businesses in competitive global markets across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. He has held executive positions at BT Global Services, Equant Network Services (now Orange Business), Qwest and MCI.
It states that reporting to Michael DeVito, Bryan Tam has been promoted to Vice President and Head of Enterprise Sales. In this role, he is responsible for day-to-day management of the sales team focused on Fortune Global 1000 and multinational corporation (MNC) sales for public and private network services, colocation, unified communications and managed security services. Tam has more than 28 years of experience in management, solution selling and global relationship building. He joined the company 10 years ago and previously was Regional Vice President of Enterprise Sales for the Northeastern, Central, and Southeastern regions of the United States.
The company further states that Jun Nojima has been appointed to the newly created role of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). In this role, Nojima will have responsibility for corporate marketing, human resources, corporate strategy and legal. He will work to increase its efficiencies as an organization, while interfacing with other NTT group companies in a more holistic fashion. Nojima is a 23-year veteran of the company, and brings a wealth of experience and contacts to the office of the CAO. Most recently, he led the Enterprise Solutions Business Unit as the Vice President and Head of Sales and Marketing, a position to which he was appointed in January 2010. He received his Masters of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in 2009.
"The wealth of experience with global 1000 companies that Mike, Bryan and Jun bring to the table ensures that NTT America has the best leadership to continue the growth of our business in the upcoming years," said Kazuhiro Gomi, President and CEO of NTT America. "We welcome Mike on board and congratulate Bryan and Jun on their new positions."
Standing Cloud Partners with Flexiant
Partnership to bring a simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to European cloud users.
Standing Cloud, Inc., a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, yesterday announced a partnership with Flexiant, a cloud infrastructure software and services provider, to bring a simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to European cloud users.
It states that available in July 2011, 'Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant' will marry an application layer from the company with Flexiant's Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, removing the mystery of the cloud for 'informal buyers' who have struggled to make the cloud accessible and easy. Forrester Research defines this group to include application developers, innovative business users and service providers.
The company avers that earlier this year, it began expanding its support for data centers in the UK and Europe so that users could take advantage of its ability to restore their application in minutes to another cloud in case of downtime on their primary cloud provider.
"Informal buyers come to the cloud to fulfill a business need, but are often met by a blinking cursor on a command line. By partnering with a leading cloud provider like Flexiant, we're able to remove much of the complexity and offer true ease of use to any cloud consumer," said David J. Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud.
"Together with Standing Cloud we recognize the need to look at things from the users' point of view. We've created a service that 'just works', that doesn't need a lot of knowledge or skills. You shouldn't have to hire someone to manage your cloud computing, you should be able to do it yourself. And with Standing Cloud's innovative application layer, you can," said Alex Bligh, Flexiant CEO.
Standing Cloud, Inc., a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, yesterday announced a partnership with Flexiant, a cloud infrastructure software and services provider, to bring a simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to European cloud users.
It states that available in July 2011, 'Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant' will marry an application layer from the company with Flexiant's Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, removing the mystery of the cloud for 'informal buyers' who have struggled to make the cloud accessible and easy. Forrester Research defines this group to include application developers, innovative business users and service providers.
The company avers that earlier this year, it began expanding its support for data centers in the UK and Europe so that users could take advantage of its ability to restore their application in minutes to another cloud in case of downtime on their primary cloud provider.
"Informal buyers come to the cloud to fulfill a business need, but are often met by a blinking cursor on a command line. By partnering with a leading cloud provider like Flexiant, we're able to remove much of the complexity and offer true ease of use to any cloud consumer," said David J. Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud.
"Together with Standing Cloud we recognize the need to look at things from the users' point of view. We've created a service that 'just works', that doesn't need a lot of knowledge or skills. You shouldn't have to hire someone to manage your cloud computing, you should be able to do it yourself. And with Standing Cloud's innovative application layer, you can," said Alex Bligh, Flexiant CEO.
Cloud.com Joins the NetApp Alliance Partner Program
As part of this collaboration, CloudStack seamlessly integrates with NetApp storage systems and simplifies how customers can build, deploy and manage cloud environments.
Cloud.com, a developer of cloud infrastructure management software, yesterday announced that it has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. As part of this collaboration, Cloud.com CloudStack, an innovative Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, seamlessly integrates with NetApp storage systems and simplifies how customers can build, deploy and manage public and private cloud environments, for improved IT flexibility and efficiency.
The company articulates that this integration with NetApp gives it the ability to directly integrate with the NetApp OnCommand management software to help automate provisioning volumes on the storage system, create Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) of administrator-specified sizes, and perform LUN masking. It has also integrated, tested, and validated CloudStack with NetApp unified storage systems, allowing customers to continue to use the NetApp Data ONTAP platform, which effectively creates and manages storage pools and devices requiring ever-increasing capacity and bandwidth. Whether organizations are running private or public clouds, the CloudStack and NetApp collaboration provides a turnkey cloud infrastructure software stack for delivering all of the essential components used to build, deploy and manage any cloud environment.
It states that recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, the company provides service providers with the fastest path to delivering their own cloud services by providing the latest and the most advanced software platform for building highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. It currently enables over 50 large-scale production clouds in deployment that have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution including KT, Tata Communications, Nokia Research Center, GreenQloud and Profitability.net. The company's technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services.
"Data center infrastructure is facing a number of challenges as enterprises increasingly move to deploying on-premise clouds, making it even more important for leading companies like Cloud.com and NetApp to partner," said Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing Offer at Cloud.com. "By leveraging NetApp OnCommand management software, cloud architects can empower their users with self-service automation while improving storage and service efficiency through functions that help users control, automate, and analyze their secure, multi-tenant NetApp storage infrastructure."
"The NetApp Alliance Partner Program helps bring together solution providers that have a shared vision of helping customers get the most business value from their IT investments," said Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Corporate Alliances at NetApp. "Cloud.com's membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program will help our customers achieve a faster time-to-market and improve IT flexibility and efficiency by combining leading cloud and storage infrastructure technology."
Cloud.com, a developer of cloud infrastructure management software, yesterday announced that it has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. As part of this collaboration, Cloud.com CloudStack, an innovative Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, seamlessly integrates with NetApp storage systems and simplifies how customers can build, deploy and manage public and private cloud environments, for improved IT flexibility and efficiency.
The company articulates that this integration with NetApp gives it the ability to directly integrate with the NetApp OnCommand management software to help automate provisioning volumes on the storage system, create Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) of administrator-specified sizes, and perform LUN masking. It has also integrated, tested, and validated CloudStack with NetApp unified storage systems, allowing customers to continue to use the NetApp Data ONTAP platform, which effectively creates and manages storage pools and devices requiring ever-increasing capacity and bandwidth. Whether organizations are running private or public clouds, the CloudStack and NetApp collaboration provides a turnkey cloud infrastructure software stack for delivering all of the essential components used to build, deploy and manage any cloud environment.
It states that recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, the company provides service providers with the fastest path to delivering their own cloud services by providing the latest and the most advanced software platform for building highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. It currently enables over 50 large-scale production clouds in deployment that have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution including KT, Tata Communications, Nokia Research Center, GreenQloud and Profitability.net. The company's technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services.
"Data center infrastructure is facing a number of challenges as enterprises increasingly move to deploying on-premise clouds, making it even more important for leading companies like Cloud.com and NetApp to partner," said Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing Offer at Cloud.com. "By leveraging NetApp OnCommand management software, cloud architects can empower their users with self-service automation while improving storage and service efficiency through functions that help users control, automate, and analyze their secure, multi-tenant NetApp storage infrastructure."
"The NetApp Alliance Partner Program helps bring together solution providers that have a shared vision of helping customers get the most business value from their IT investments," said Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Corporate Alliances at NetApp. "Cloud.com's membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program will help our customers achieve a faster time-to-market and improve IT flexibility and efficiency by combining leading cloud and storage infrastructure technology."
DiscountASP.NET Extends Free VSS to TFS Migration Service
Company announces free migration from Visual SourceSafe (VSS) to its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution until September 30, 2011.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced free migration from Visual SourceSafe (VSS) to its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution until September 30, 2011.
According to the company, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 is a collaboration platform that is at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution. With the company's TFS hosting solution, Microsoft developers can use familiar development tools to manage source control and track issues and bugs, whether the developer works alone or in a team. To qualify for this free VSS migration offer, it requires pre-screening and approval due to the potential complexity in migration.
"Mainstream support for Visual SourceSafe is slated to end next year, so we want to help VSS users make the move to Team Foundation Server," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "Through the third quarter, we will help developers migrate from VSS to TFS and they can experience TFS hosting and get the first 30 days for free."
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced free migration from Visual SourceSafe (VSS) to its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution until September 30, 2011.
According to the company, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 is a collaboration platform that is at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution. With the company's TFS hosting solution, Microsoft developers can use familiar development tools to manage source control and track issues and bugs, whether the developer works alone or in a team. To qualify for this free VSS migration offer, it requires pre-screening and approval due to the potential complexity in migration.
"Mainstream support for Visual SourceSafe is slated to end next year, so we want to help VSS users make the move to Team Foundation Server," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "Through the third quarter, we will help developers migrate from VSS to TFS and they can experience TFS hosting and get the first 30 days for free."
Paragon Internet Group Acquires Hostroute
Acquisition to further improve both performance and reliability for all Hostroute customers.
Paragon Internet Group, a web hosting provider, recently announced its acquisition of Hostroute, a web hosting provider.
The company mentions that following the acquisition, Hostroute customers can now take advantage of 365-day telephone and e-mail support. Plans are already in place for a seamless migration to brand new enterprise-grade server hardware to further improve both performance and reliability for all customers. Prices will remain unchanged for existing customers and all accounts will receive the popular R1Soft Continuous Data Protection tool and Softaculous script installer, amongst many other enhancements, at no extra cost.
"Hostroute is already an excellent brand but there is always more we can do. We look forward to bringing our customer service ethos and high-end technology to the Hostroute customer base," said Adam Smith, Director of Paragon Internet Group. He further added, "Over the coming weeks, I will make myself available personally by telephone or e-mail to any Hostroute clients who have any concerns about the transition."
Paragon Internet Group, a web hosting provider, recently announced its acquisition of Hostroute, a web hosting provider.
The company mentions that following the acquisition, Hostroute customers can now take advantage of 365-day telephone and e-mail support. Plans are already in place for a seamless migration to brand new enterprise-grade server hardware to further improve both performance and reliability for all customers. Prices will remain unchanged for existing customers and all accounts will receive the popular R1Soft Continuous Data Protection tool and Softaculous script installer, amongst many other enhancements, at no extra cost.
"Hostroute is already an excellent brand but there is always more we can do. We look forward to bringing our customer service ethos and high-end technology to the Hostroute customer base," said Adam Smith, Director of Paragon Internet Group. He further added, "Over the coming weeks, I will make myself available personally by telephone or e-mail to any Hostroute clients who have any concerns about the transition."
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Servers Australia Partners with R1Soft
Company makes move to maximize uptime with the introduction of R1Soft Continuous Data Protection.
Servers Australia, a dedicated hosting provider, yesterday announced that it has introduced R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software as its exclusive backup and disaster recovery solution. The company will leverage CDP to back up its entire shared hosting fleet. It will also offer CDP backups for dedicated server and virtual dedicated server customers as either a fully- or self-managed service.
The company articulates that by implementing R1Soft Continuous Data Protection, it aims to bring reliable server backup and disaster recovery protection to as many customers as possible. Whether the company needs to protect Windows or Linux, physical or virtual dedicated servers, it can do so seamlessly, thanks to CDP's convenient cross-platform design. A central backup repository and management interface greatly simplifies system administration; at the same time, CDP's hosting control panel restore allows it to put restore management directly in the hands of those customers that choose the self-managed backup option. CDP also provides maximum data protection for MySQL databases.
It mentions that along with CDP's reliability and affordability, the software's robust Bare-Metal Restore feature was a big draw for the company. Bare-Metal Restore quickly and efficiently restores the complete server file system and allocated blocks from any disk-based backup storage, in several fewer steps than is typical. The company estimates that R1Soft's Bare-Metal Restore feature will reduce current restore times by half, which translates into significantly less downtime for customers in the event of a server crash.
"In the industry, R1Soft is a well-known and trusted name, which helps put our clients at ease. On top of that, we did our own internal testing to confirm that their CDP software definitely lives up to its claims. R1Soft offers a solution that is reliable and affordable at the same time," explained Jared Hirst, Chief Information Officer for Servers Australia.
"R1Soft is very excited to have one of Australia's leading providers of dedicated hosting as a partner, and we expect this partnership to help Servers Australia propel its business even further," stated Domingo Martinez, Global Marketing Manager for R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies. "By offering R1Soft backups, Servers Australia sends a strong message that the data protection needs of its customers are of paramount importance. That type of message really resonates with both current and prospective customers."
Servers Australia, a dedicated hosting provider, yesterday announced that it has introduced R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP) software as its exclusive backup and disaster recovery solution. The company will leverage CDP to back up its entire shared hosting fleet. It will also offer CDP backups for dedicated server and virtual dedicated server customers as either a fully- or self-managed service.
The company articulates that by implementing R1Soft Continuous Data Protection, it aims to bring reliable server backup and disaster recovery protection to as many customers as possible. Whether the company needs to protect Windows or Linux, physical or virtual dedicated servers, it can do so seamlessly, thanks to CDP's convenient cross-platform design. A central backup repository and management interface greatly simplifies system administration; at the same time, CDP's hosting control panel restore allows it to put restore management directly in the hands of those customers that choose the self-managed backup option. CDP also provides maximum data protection for MySQL databases.
It mentions that along with CDP's reliability and affordability, the software's robust Bare-Metal Restore feature was a big draw for the company. Bare-Metal Restore quickly and efficiently restores the complete server file system and allocated blocks from any disk-based backup storage, in several fewer steps than is typical. The company estimates that R1Soft's Bare-Metal Restore feature will reduce current restore times by half, which translates into significantly less downtime for customers in the event of a server crash.
"In the industry, R1Soft is a well-known and trusted name, which helps put our clients at ease. On top of that, we did our own internal testing to confirm that their CDP software definitely lives up to its claims. R1Soft offers a solution that is reliable and affordable at the same time," explained Jared Hirst, Chief Information Officer for Servers Australia.
"R1Soft is very excited to have one of Australia's leading providers of dedicated hosting as a partner, and we expect this partnership to help Servers Australia propel its business even further," stated Domingo Martinez, Global Marketing Manager for R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies. "By offering R1Soft backups, Servers Australia sends a strong message that the data protection needs of its customers are of paramount importance. That type of message really resonates with both current and prospective customers."
AccelOps Names New CFO
In the CFO role, William Delaney will oversee the company's finance, legal, human resources, and administration departments.
AccelOps, a data center service management provider, yesterday announced that it has named William Delaney as its Chief Financial Officer. The company avers that Delaney will play a key role in shaping its overall business strategy, day-to-day operations, and fundraising. In the CFO role, he will oversee the company's finance, legal, human resources, and administration departments.
It says that most recently, Delaney served as Vice President and CFO at Chelsio Communications, ConSentry Networks, and MediaQ, a venture-backed startup acquired by NVIDIA. Delaney earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
"William brings the expertise and knowledge, along with the hands-on business experience, of a seasoned operations executive," said Elie Antoun, President and CEO of AccelOps. "This strong combination of skills and experience will be an important addition to AccelOps' executive management team and will support his success as CFO of a fast-growing company like AccelOps."
AccelOps, a data center service management provider, yesterday announced that it has named William Delaney as its Chief Financial Officer. The company avers that Delaney will play a key role in shaping its overall business strategy, day-to-day operations, and fundraising. In the CFO role, he will oversee the company's finance, legal, human resources, and administration departments.
It says that most recently, Delaney served as Vice President and CFO at Chelsio Communications, ConSentry Networks, and MediaQ, a venture-backed startup acquired by NVIDIA. Delaney earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
"William brings the expertise and knowledge, along with the hands-on business experience, of a seasoned operations executive," said Elie Antoun, President and CEO of AccelOps. "This strong combination of skills and experience will be an important addition to AccelOps' executive management team and will support his success as CFO of a fast-growing company like AccelOps."
Nirvanix Names New CTO
Paul Froutan to drive the company's strategy and vision, accelerate innovation to capture market share.
Nirvanix, an enterprise cloud storage service provider, today announced the appointment of Paul Froutan as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately. Froutan will report to Scott Genereux, President and CEO of the company.
According to the company, Froutan will provide critical insight to enhance its technology leadership and increase market share gains against both cloud service providers and storage hardware vendors. He will be responsible for driving long-term cloud storage strategy and vision to anticipate market direction and customer and partner needs. In collaboration with the company's Engineering Organization, Froutan will chart the future technology direction of the company to further develop its services and optimize data center efficiency to support its increasing base of enterprise-class customers.
It says that Froutan has extensive experience in the cloud services industry, and was most recently at Google as Head of Global Data Center Infrastructure, responsible for designing, building and managing the extremely high levels of reliability and efficiency present in Google's worldwide green data center operations. Other notable accomplishments for Froutan include a patent received for Exterminator, the first Intrusion Detection and Response System in the hosting industry, and the design and implementation of PrivateNet, the first private back-end network offered by managed service providers to enable secure communication between a customer's servers in multiple physical locations.
"Over the last six months, Nirvanix has posted major share gains in Fortune 500 companies versus its principal competitors," said Scott Genereux, President and CEO, Nirvanix. "With Paul's strong background in managed services and data center efficiency, we're now in a position to further expand our market presence and help even more enterprise customers make the shift to the enterprise cloud."
"Nirvanix is at a strategic inflection point in the cloud industry with substantial differentiation and growth potential," said Paul Froutan, CTO, Nirvanix. "The company is the only service provider to own a Public Cloud Storage Network and deliver Private Cloud Storage nodes, enabling it to provide Hybrid, Federated Cloud Storage with complete network visibility, management and service level guarantees. I plan to expand upon this competitive advantage and enable the company to make significant inroads in a market that is forecast to reach USD 7B by 2014."
Nirvanix, an enterprise cloud storage service provider, today announced the appointment of Paul Froutan as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately. Froutan will report to Scott Genereux, President and CEO of the company.
According to the company, Froutan will provide critical insight to enhance its technology leadership and increase market share gains against both cloud service providers and storage hardware vendors. He will be responsible for driving long-term cloud storage strategy and vision to anticipate market direction and customer and partner needs. In collaboration with the company's Engineering Organization, Froutan will chart the future technology direction of the company to further develop its services and optimize data center efficiency to support its increasing base of enterprise-class customers.
It says that Froutan has extensive experience in the cloud services industry, and was most recently at Google as Head of Global Data Center Infrastructure, responsible for designing, building and managing the extremely high levels of reliability and efficiency present in Google's worldwide green data center operations. Other notable accomplishments for Froutan include a patent received for Exterminator, the first Intrusion Detection and Response System in the hosting industry, and the design and implementation of PrivateNet, the first private back-end network offered by managed service providers to enable secure communication between a customer's servers in multiple physical locations.
"Over the last six months, Nirvanix has posted major share gains in Fortune 500 companies versus its principal competitors," said Scott Genereux, President and CEO, Nirvanix. "With Paul's strong background in managed services and data center efficiency, we're now in a position to further expand our market presence and help even more enterprise customers make the shift to the enterprise cloud."
"Nirvanix is at a strategic inflection point in the cloud industry with substantial differentiation and growth potential," said Paul Froutan, CTO, Nirvanix. "The company is the only service provider to own a Public Cloud Storage Network and deliver Private Cloud Storage nodes, enabling it to provide Hybrid, Federated Cloud Storage with complete network visibility, management and service level guarantees. I plan to expand upon this competitive advantage and enable the company to make significant inroads in a market that is forecast to reach USD 7B by 2014."
Interphase Launches clouDevice Cloud Client Portfolio
The debut of clouDevice marks the company's entry into the cloud computing market.
Interphase Corporation, a provider of networking services, today announced the launch of clouDevice, a comprehensive cloud computing/desktop virtualization product line, offering schools, business entities, and government agencies a smart choice for IT departments implementing private cloud-based desktop virtualization. The company mentions that the debut of clouDevice marks its entry into the cloud computing market. The clouDevice product line includes multi-seat clients that support Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server, enterprise thin clients, and high-performance PCoIP zero clients, reaching a wide range of market segments: education, enterprise, SMB, and government. The clouDevice portfolio distinguishes itself with optimized features, and these devices are priced very attractively.
It states that in a time when technology plays an integral role in the classroom, clouDevice offers schools affordable, innovative technology to make computer resources accessible to more faculty and students while at the same time minimizing IT departments' end-point support burden. Multi-seat clients within the clouDevice portfolio are designed to support Windows MultiPoint Server and can help schools reduce CAPEX by 62%, save annual OPEX by 67%, and slash energy consumption by 78%. Overall, the key benefits of the entire clouDevice product line to end customers include lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enhanced security, simplified end-point management, and green computing.
The company claims that clouDevice addresses one of the biggest challenges for school IT departments - managing network configurations effectively. USB-based cloud clients available in the market today have a distance limitation of up to 16 feet between the client and a host computer running Windows MultiPoint Server. clouDevice multi-seat clients overcome such distance limitations and provide the most flexible network configuration and management options to school IT departments by providing both wired Ethernet and built-in Wi-Fi support.
"Our company's track record of providing high-quality and innovative products is carried through with pride as we launch clouDevice," said Greg Kalush, Chairman, President, and CEO of Interphase Corporation. "Our product portfolio brings a strong value proposition to schools, enterprises, SMBs, and government agencies. In schools where IT budgets are tight, our tailored solutions allow the IT department to expand computer resources to students, deploy virtual desktops with utmost flexibility, and manage them cost-effectively; Our clouDevice portfolio also includes an extensive line of feature-rich and cost-effective thin/zero clients for business entities and government institutions."
"According to analyst forecasts and industry trends, desktop virtualization is on the verge of rapid growth," said HJ Li, Interphase Senior Director of Product Management who manages the clouDevice business. "We are entering the market with a comprehensive portfolio that supports both established and newly emerged desktop virtualization host environments. Our focus is to offer industry-leading product functionality and cost-saving benefits to end customers."
Interphase Corporation, a provider of networking services, today announced the launch of clouDevice, a comprehensive cloud computing/desktop virtualization product line, offering schools, business entities, and government agencies a smart choice for IT departments implementing private cloud-based desktop virtualization. The company mentions that the debut of clouDevice marks its entry into the cloud computing market. The clouDevice product line includes multi-seat clients that support Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server, enterprise thin clients, and high-performance PCoIP zero clients, reaching a wide range of market segments: education, enterprise, SMB, and government. The clouDevice portfolio distinguishes itself with optimized features, and these devices are priced very attractively.
It states that in a time when technology plays an integral role in the classroom, clouDevice offers schools affordable, innovative technology to make computer resources accessible to more faculty and students while at the same time minimizing IT departments' end-point support burden. Multi-seat clients within the clouDevice portfolio are designed to support Windows MultiPoint Server and can help schools reduce CAPEX by 62%, save annual OPEX by 67%, and slash energy consumption by 78%. Overall, the key benefits of the entire clouDevice product line to end customers include lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enhanced security, simplified end-point management, and green computing.
The company claims that clouDevice addresses one of the biggest challenges for school IT departments - managing network configurations effectively. USB-based cloud clients available in the market today have a distance limitation of up to 16 feet between the client and a host computer running Windows MultiPoint Server. clouDevice multi-seat clients overcome such distance limitations and provide the most flexible network configuration and management options to school IT departments by providing both wired Ethernet and built-in Wi-Fi support.
"Our company's track record of providing high-quality and innovative products is carried through with pride as we launch clouDevice," said Greg Kalush, Chairman, President, and CEO of Interphase Corporation. "Our product portfolio brings a strong value proposition to schools, enterprises, SMBs, and government agencies. In schools where IT budgets are tight, our tailored solutions allow the IT department to expand computer resources to students, deploy virtual desktops with utmost flexibility, and manage them cost-effectively; Our clouDevice portfolio also includes an extensive line of feature-rich and cost-effective thin/zero clients for business entities and government institutions."
"According to analyst forecasts and industry trends, desktop virtualization is on the verge of rapid growth," said HJ Li, Interphase Senior Director of Product Management who manages the clouDevice business. "We are entering the market with a comprehensive portfolio that supports both established and newly emerged desktop virtualization host environments. Our focus is to offer industry-leading product functionality and cost-saving benefits to end customers."
A2 Hosting Launches CloudLinux OS on Web Hosting Plans
Offering serves to reinforce the company's commitment to provide the best possible experience for its customers.
A2 Hosting, a Linux website hosting provider, recently announced that it is now offering CloudLinux on each of its web hosting packages. The company avers that CloudLinux is the only commercial-supported server operating system which is fully CentOS and RHEL compatible and designed for shared hosting. CloudLinux has made a name for itself by increasing reliability by effectively isolating web hosting accounts from one another.
It articulates that CloudLinux was designed from the start to prevent a single resource-hogging web hosting account from crashing or even slowing down a server. Instead, it allows sysadmins to finely adjust the resources available to an account so that a resource spike affects only that account's web site. CloudLinux Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) effectively cages each user, allowing precise control over the resources available while effectively isolating one account from another. If a site hosted at the company continues to experience a resource spike, customers can easily upgrade their account to a Managed VPS Hosting package for a seamless transition.
A2 Hosting's Marketing Manager, Brad Litwin, commented, "We take great pride in our 99.9% uptime guarantee. CloudLinux has helped us to further enhance our reliability. The levels of innovation that CloudLinux and A2 Hosting offer clearly parallel one another. I see zero irony in the fact that both of our companies are headquartered in Ann Arbor, a city that has been heralded as a technological hub."
"It's always been clear to us that A2 Hosting works hard to maintain their stellar reputation as a reliable, high-quality hosting provider," said Marv Steigman, Vice President of Marketing for CloudLinux. "The fact that A2 Hosting is now offering our solution serves to reinforce their commitment to offering the best possible experience for their customers. We have had a wonderful relationship and are excited to continue working with them in the future."
A2 Hosting, a Linux website hosting provider, recently announced that it is now offering CloudLinux on each of its web hosting packages. The company avers that CloudLinux is the only commercial-supported server operating system which is fully CentOS and RHEL compatible and designed for shared hosting. CloudLinux has made a name for itself by increasing reliability by effectively isolating web hosting accounts from one another.
It articulates that CloudLinux was designed from the start to prevent a single resource-hogging web hosting account from crashing or even slowing down a server. Instead, it allows sysadmins to finely adjust the resources available to an account so that a resource spike affects only that account's web site. CloudLinux Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) effectively cages each user, allowing precise control over the resources available while effectively isolating one account from another. If a site hosted at the company continues to experience a resource spike, customers can easily upgrade their account to a Managed VPS Hosting package for a seamless transition.
A2 Hosting's Marketing Manager, Brad Litwin, commented, "We take great pride in our 99.9% uptime guarantee. CloudLinux has helped us to further enhance our reliability. The levels of innovation that CloudLinux and A2 Hosting offer clearly parallel one another. I see zero irony in the fact that both of our companies are headquartered in Ann Arbor, a city that has been heralded as a technological hub."
"It's always been clear to us that A2 Hosting works hard to maintain their stellar reputation as a reliable, high-quality hosting provider," said Marv Steigman, Vice President of Marketing for CloudLinux. "The fact that A2 Hosting is now offering our solution serves to reinforce their commitment to offering the best possible experience for their customers. We have had a wonderful relationship and are excited to continue working with them in the future."
Friday, June 24, 2011
CloudLinux Names VP of Marketing
Marv Steigman brings to the company extensive experience in subscription-oriented technology brands.
CloudLinux Inc., a software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, yesterday announced that Marv Steigman has joined the company as its new Vice President of Marketing. Formerly a Group Director of NTL (now Virgin Media) in the UK, Steigman brings with him extensive experience in subscription-oriented technology brands.
The company mentions that in his new role, he will take responsibility for developing CloudLinux into a universally recognized brand within the shared hosting space. Steigman will do this by effectively communicating the company's vision through advertising, brand management, media relations, and trade show presence. He will also apply his experience managing a recurring-revenue customer base to the rapidly expanding CloudLinux community assuring that as the customer base increases they continue to receive the enthusiastic care that they have become accustomed to as valued CloudLinux users.
It avers that upon joining the company, Steigman will focus on three priorities including placing its focus on shared hosts, strengthening partnerships between shared hosts and control panels, and introducing a new messaging campaign making it easier for potential users to recognize the benefits of CloudLinux. The company most recently announced a partnership with cPanel, a provider of Linux and Windows server automation. As a result of this partnership, cPanel now offers on-demand cPanel/CloudLinux synchronized licenses to Partner NOCs and direct customers with pay-per-usage delivery.
In announcing the news, CloudLinux Founder and CEO Igor Seletskiy stated, "With the addition of Marv Steigman, CloudLinux continues to position itself for growth as we aim to become the premier operating system used by shared hosting companies, providing them with the most stable shared-tenant environment possible."
CloudLinux Inc., a software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, yesterday announced that Marv Steigman has joined the company as its new Vice President of Marketing. Formerly a Group Director of NTL (now Virgin Media) in the UK, Steigman brings with him extensive experience in subscription-oriented technology brands.
The company mentions that in his new role, he will take responsibility for developing CloudLinux into a universally recognized brand within the shared hosting space. Steigman will do this by effectively communicating the company's vision through advertising, brand management, media relations, and trade show presence. He will also apply his experience managing a recurring-revenue customer base to the rapidly expanding CloudLinux community assuring that as the customer base increases they continue to receive the enthusiastic care that they have become accustomed to as valued CloudLinux users.
It avers that upon joining the company, Steigman will focus on three priorities including placing its focus on shared hosts, strengthening partnerships between shared hosts and control panels, and introducing a new messaging campaign making it easier for potential users to recognize the benefits of CloudLinux. The company most recently announced a partnership with cPanel, a provider of Linux and Windows server automation. As a result of this partnership, cPanel now offers on-demand cPanel/CloudLinux synchronized licenses to Partner NOCs and direct customers with pay-per-usage delivery.
In announcing the news, CloudLinux Founder and CEO Igor Seletskiy stated, "With the addition of Marv Steigman, CloudLinux continues to position itself for growth as we aim to become the premier operating system used by shared hosting companies, providing them with the most stable shared-tenant environment possible."
Nimbula Joins Open Virtual Alliance (OVA)
Company's move aimed at accelerating the adoption of Open Virtualization Technologies.
Nimbula, the cloud operating system company, yesterday announced that it has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). HP, IBM, Intel and Red Hat are governing members of the new consortium.
According to the company, KVM is built into versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and beyond. It recently announced that Nimbula Director will support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2, which provide a strong foundation for today's cloud deployments. This new support enables enterprises and service providers to take advantage of recent advancements around virtualization, performance and security from one of the world's most trusted IT platforms and extend it into the cloud using their existing applications or management tools.
It says that Open Virtualization Alliance's goal is to help:
Increase overall awareness and understanding of KVM
Foster the adoption of KVM as an open virtualization alternative to proprietary solutions
Accelerate the emergence of an ecosystem of third-party solutions around KVM
Encourage interoperability, promote best practices, and highlight examples of customer successes
"Supporting KVM as a hypervisor since day 1, Nimbula Director is a robust, scalable and highly automated Infrastructure-as-a-Service software platform for both enterprise and service provider customers," said Reza Malekzadeh, Nimbula VP of Marketing. "We are thrilled to be participating in the Open Virtualization Alliance as it is very much aligned with our strong commitment to offering an open and extensible platform to our customers."
"We are very pleased to welcome Nimbula into the Open Virtualization Alliance," said Scott Crenshaw, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Business at Red Hat and a founding member of the Open Virtualization Alliance. "This groundswell of support for the Open Virtualization Alliance from industry leaders and innovators shows the overwhelming demand for KVM as the open virtualization alternative. KVM delivers leading performance, scalability and security, making it the ideal alternative to proprietary virtualization technologies."
Nimbula, the cloud operating system company, yesterday announced that it has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). HP, IBM, Intel and Red Hat are governing members of the new consortium.
According to the company, KVM is built into versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and beyond. It recently announced that Nimbula Director will support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2, which provide a strong foundation for today's cloud deployments. This new support enables enterprises and service providers to take advantage of recent advancements around virtualization, performance and security from one of the world's most trusted IT platforms and extend it into the cloud using their existing applications or management tools.
It says that Open Virtualization Alliance's goal is to help:
Increase overall awareness and understanding of KVM
Foster the adoption of KVM as an open virtualization alternative to proprietary solutions
Accelerate the emergence of an ecosystem of third-party solutions around KVM
Encourage interoperability, promote best practices, and highlight examples of customer successes
"Supporting KVM as a hypervisor since day 1, Nimbula Director is a robust, scalable and highly automated Infrastructure-as-a-Service software platform for both enterprise and service provider customers," said Reza Malekzadeh, Nimbula VP of Marketing. "We are thrilled to be participating in the Open Virtualization Alliance as it is very much aligned with our strong commitment to offering an open and extensible platform to our customers."
"We are very pleased to welcome Nimbula into the Open Virtualization Alliance," said Scott Crenshaw, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Business at Red Hat and a founding member of the Open Virtualization Alliance. "This groundswell of support for the Open Virtualization Alliance from industry leaders and innovators shows the overwhelming demand for KVM as the open virtualization alternative. KVM delivers leading performance, scalability and security, making it the ideal alternative to proprietary virtualization technologies."
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
DiscountASP.NET Extends Hosted TFS Promotion
Company extends 30-day free promotion for Team Foundation Server Hosting through end of 2011.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced extending its 30-day free promotion for hosted Team Foundation Server (TFS) Basic for up to 5 users. The promotion expires on December 31, 2011.
The company articulates that Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 is the collaboration platform which is at the center of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution. TFS hosting is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for source control and issue/bug tracking that integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. With its hosted TFS solution, developers can use familiar Microsoft Visual Studio development tools to manage source control and track bugs, whether the developer works alone or with a team.
"We want developers to try out the TFS hosting solution and see how easy the service is to use, so we extend our 30 day free offer until the end of the year," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "Our TFS hosting solution is separate from our web site hosting service, so developers do not need to be a web hosting customer to take advantage of TFS hosting."
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced extending its 30-day free promotion for hosted Team Foundation Server (TFS) Basic for up to 5 users. The promotion expires on December 31, 2011.
The company articulates that Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 is the collaboration platform which is at the center of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution. TFS hosting is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for source control and issue/bug tracking that integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. With its hosted TFS solution, developers can use familiar Microsoft Visual Studio development tools to manage source control and track bugs, whether the developer works alone or with a team.
"We want developers to try out the TFS hosting solution and see how easy the service is to use, so we extend our 30 day free offer until the end of the year," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "Our TFS hosting solution is separate from our web site hosting service, so developers do not need to be a web hosting customer to take advantage of TFS hosting."
Afilias Partners with Right of the Dot
Announces collaboration to support applications for ICANN new TLD program.
Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services, yesterday announced an agreement with Right of the Dot, LLC., a consulting firm with expertise in domain name valuation, to assist applicants in ICANN's forthcoming program for new Top Level Domains (TLDs). Under the agreement, the company and Right of the Dot will collaborate to help applicants with a wide variety of services needed to successfully apply for and launch a new TLD. ICANN approved the new TLD program at its current meeting in Singapore and set January 12, 2012, as the date it will begin accepting applications.
The company states that Monte Cahn (Co-Founder and President of Right of the Dot) and Michael Berkens (Co-Founder and Managing Director of Right of the Dot) are widely recognized as two of the domain industry's most respected valuation and sales experts, and have assisted in the strategy for several previous domain launches and re-launches. They have helped build some of the most successful appraisal algorithms and auction valuation models used in the domain business. Also, they have been central to more than USD 300 million in domain sales, including some of the highest profile domain sales in history, such as Slots.com, CreditCheck.com, Poker.ca, University.org and Dating.com.
It further states that the company's Global Registry and DNS services power 20 million registrations across 15 TLDs, including five TLDs operating under ICANN contracts. Its new TLD services include a state-of-the-art EPP Registry, a globally diverse and redundant Anycast DNS network, 24x7 call center and technical support, and links to the global distribution channel. In addition, the company provides other premium solutions to augment its Registry offerings, including technology to enable mobile phone compatibility for websites and a unique IDN-capable email solution. All its services are DNSSEC and IPv6 ready, and reflect more than 10 years of experience in supporting gTLDs operating under ICANN contracts.
"Afilias has helped launch more new TLDs than any other provider, and has long been recognized as a leading provider of the critical Registry services required by ICANN for new TLDs," said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President of Afilias. "Many applicants are now developing their business plans and have found the need for additional expertise in areas such as premium name valuation. Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens of Right of the Dot are well known valuation experts, and we are pleased to make these expanded resources available to applicants."
"We have worked with Afilias for years and are glad to form this alliance," said Monte Cahn. "Proper valuation is a critical element in the success of a new TLD, as it helps put the TLD on sound financial footing. With decades of experience in the domain name secondary market, Michael and I can provide fact-based advice on what names might be valuable and how much they may bring. Each TLD will only launch once, and getting this part of the launch right can make the difference between financial success and failure."
Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services, yesterday announced an agreement with Right of the Dot, LLC., a consulting firm with expertise in domain name valuation, to assist applicants in ICANN's forthcoming program for new Top Level Domains (TLDs). Under the agreement, the company and Right of the Dot will collaborate to help applicants with a wide variety of services needed to successfully apply for and launch a new TLD. ICANN approved the new TLD program at its current meeting in Singapore and set January 12, 2012, as the date it will begin accepting applications.
The company states that Monte Cahn (Co-Founder and President of Right of the Dot) and Michael Berkens (Co-Founder and Managing Director of Right of the Dot) are widely recognized as two of the domain industry's most respected valuation and sales experts, and have assisted in the strategy for several previous domain launches and re-launches. They have helped build some of the most successful appraisal algorithms and auction valuation models used in the domain business. Also, they have been central to more than USD 300 million in domain sales, including some of the highest profile domain sales in history, such as Slots.com, CreditCheck.com, Poker.ca, University.org and Dating.com.
It further states that the company's Global Registry and DNS services power 20 million registrations across 15 TLDs, including five TLDs operating under ICANN contracts. Its new TLD services include a state-of-the-art EPP Registry, a globally diverse and redundant Anycast DNS network, 24x7 call center and technical support, and links to the global distribution channel. In addition, the company provides other premium solutions to augment its Registry offerings, including technology to enable mobile phone compatibility for websites and a unique IDN-capable email solution. All its services are DNSSEC and IPv6 ready, and reflect more than 10 years of experience in supporting gTLDs operating under ICANN contracts.
"Afilias has helped launch more new TLDs than any other provider, and has long been recognized as a leading provider of the critical Registry services required by ICANN for new TLDs," said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President of Afilias. "Many applicants are now developing their business plans and have found the need for additional expertise in areas such as premium name valuation. Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens of Right of the Dot are well known valuation experts, and we are pleased to make these expanded resources available to applicants."
"We have worked with Afilias for years and are glad to form this alliance," said Monte Cahn. "Proper valuation is a critical element in the success of a new TLD, as it helps put the TLD on sound financial footing. With decades of experience in the domain name secondary market, Michael and I can provide fact-based advice on what names might be valuable and how much they may bring. Each TLD will only launch once, and getting this part of the launch right can make the difference between financial success and failure."
CoreLink Data Centers Unveils New Link Net Service
Managed network services suite spans basic physical interconnection up to complex layer 3 network connectivity.
CoreLink Data Centers, a colocation provider, yesterday announced an addition to its Link Net Services, a suite of managed network services that provides clients with highly reliable connectivity together with the flexibility of leveraging a new CoreLink managed network solution. This new managed network option delivers optimal interconnection and performance between any of its data center facilities located in Chicago, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Seattle.
The company says that Link Net Services range from basic layer 1 physical interconnection services to significantly more complex layer 3 network connectivity. As it does for each of its data center network services and colocation solutions, the company provides Link Net Services clients with 24/7 responsiveness, transparency and scalability under its 100 percent Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA). Combined with its suite of Managed Security and Data Center Hosting services, businesses now have a comprehensive set of solutions capable of fulfilling the most stringent business requirements. It adds that other managed network services under the Link Net Services umbrella include IP Bandwidth, an SLA-based multi-tier platform that aggregates multiple ISP access; IP Addressing, which gives customers the option of using their own or company-provided IP address space; and, reverse DNS services.
"Our various Link Net Services provide site-to-site virtual transport connectivity among our five data centers, delivering exceptional business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities," said Charles Picasso, CoreLink Chairman and CEO. "In addition to CoreLink's traditional managed data center hosting solutions, clients can now choose the specific connectivity options needed to support all their business needs." "CoreLink's Link Net Services offerings provide customers the opportunity to streamline their connectivity needs by contracting all their local, remote, or client connectivity under one CoreLink contract vehicle," Picasso added.
CoreLink Data Centers, a colocation provider, yesterday announced an addition to its Link Net Services, a suite of managed network services that provides clients with highly reliable connectivity together with the flexibility of leveraging a new CoreLink managed network solution. This new managed network option delivers optimal interconnection and performance between any of its data center facilities located in Chicago, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Seattle.
The company says that Link Net Services range from basic layer 1 physical interconnection services to significantly more complex layer 3 network connectivity. As it does for each of its data center network services and colocation solutions, the company provides Link Net Services clients with 24/7 responsiveness, transparency and scalability under its 100 percent Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA). Combined with its suite of Managed Security and Data Center Hosting services, businesses now have a comprehensive set of solutions capable of fulfilling the most stringent business requirements. It adds that other managed network services under the Link Net Services umbrella include IP Bandwidth, an SLA-based multi-tier platform that aggregates multiple ISP access; IP Addressing, which gives customers the option of using their own or company-provided IP address space; and, reverse DNS services.
"Our various Link Net Services provide site-to-site virtual transport connectivity among our five data centers, delivering exceptional business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities," said Charles Picasso, CoreLink Chairman and CEO. "In addition to CoreLink's traditional managed data center hosting solutions, clients can now choose the specific connectivity options needed to support all their business needs." "CoreLink's Link Net Services offerings provide customers the opportunity to streamline their connectivity needs by contracting all their local, remote, or client connectivity under one CoreLink contract vehicle," Picasso added.
mindSHIFT Launches Cloud Platform for SMBs
cloudSHIFT computing platform provides SMBs access to enterprise-class IT services.
mindSHIFT Technologies, a provider of IT and cloud services, yesterday launched cloudSHIFT services aimed at meeting the needs of SMBs. Leveraging the cloudSHIFT computing platform, SMBs now have access to the benefits of all aspects of an enterprise-class IT infrastructure previously unavailable to them.
The company avers that the cloudSHIFT service portfolio includes:
cloudSHIFT Applications - enables users to access a suite of secure cloud application services without the need to purchase hardware or software.
cloudSHIFT Desktop - a secure, affordable, trouble-free alternative to purchasing, managing and maintaining desktop equipment. Software traditionally located on the customer's desktop is housed and managed on servers in the company's secure data centers and accessible through a web browser.
cloudSHIFT Server - allows SMBs to take advantage of the company's expertise, facilities and support to achieve all the benefits of virtualization, without the time, costs and resources required to deploy and maintain their own on-premise solution.
cloudSHIFT VoIP - provides users with a business-grade telephone system that offers low initial startup costs, offsite disaster recovery protection and a simplified user interface, when compared to standard business phone systems.
According to it, the company offers a broad range of 'Grow-As-You-Go' IT outsourcing and cloud services. SMBs start by outsourcing what makes sense for their organizations, and then grow with the company as their needs grow. For example, it can host email and provide other infrastructure services, such as backup, recovery and archiving. Some organizations use the company's data center services, while other companies use it to host and manage their entire IT infrastructure - desktops, servers, networks and security.
"Unlike other providers that claim one size fits all, mindSHIFT understands that its customers have differing requirements and needs," said Mona Abutaleb, President and COO, mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. "We like to say that we move our customers to the cloud at the speed of 'makes sense.' We take the time to understand our customers' business and IT requirements and then match cloud services to meet those needs - now and as their businesses grow."
"Off-loading our IT needs to mindSHIFT has proven a smart business decision," said Denise Doll-Kiefer, CFO of Salo, LLC. "We have access to enterprise-class services that have never been practical for us to use before. With mindSHIFT, our employees can remain focused on projects key to growing the business while mindSHIFT takes the remainder off our plate at a great price. They have removed a significant burden, our business runs more efficiently and the personal attention and support from mindSHIFT has been great."
mindSHIFT Technologies, a provider of IT and cloud services, yesterday launched cloudSHIFT services aimed at meeting the needs of SMBs. Leveraging the cloudSHIFT computing platform, SMBs now have access to the benefits of all aspects of an enterprise-class IT infrastructure previously unavailable to them.
The company avers that the cloudSHIFT service portfolio includes:
cloudSHIFT Applications - enables users to access a suite of secure cloud application services without the need to purchase hardware or software.
cloudSHIFT Desktop - a secure, affordable, trouble-free alternative to purchasing, managing and maintaining desktop equipment. Software traditionally located on the customer's desktop is housed and managed on servers in the company's secure data centers and accessible through a web browser.
cloudSHIFT Server - allows SMBs to take advantage of the company's expertise, facilities and support to achieve all the benefits of virtualization, without the time, costs and resources required to deploy and maintain their own on-premise solution.
cloudSHIFT VoIP - provides users with a business-grade telephone system that offers low initial startup costs, offsite disaster recovery protection and a simplified user interface, when compared to standard business phone systems.
According to it, the company offers a broad range of 'Grow-As-You-Go' IT outsourcing and cloud services. SMBs start by outsourcing what makes sense for their organizations, and then grow with the company as their needs grow. For example, it can host email and provide other infrastructure services, such as backup, recovery and archiving. Some organizations use the company's data center services, while other companies use it to host and manage their entire IT infrastructure - desktops, servers, networks and security.
"Unlike other providers that claim one size fits all, mindSHIFT understands that its customers have differing requirements and needs," said Mona Abutaleb, President and COO, mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. "We like to say that we move our customers to the cloud at the speed of 'makes sense.' We take the time to understand our customers' business and IT requirements and then match cloud services to meet those needs - now and as their businesses grow."
"Off-loading our IT needs to mindSHIFT has proven a smart business decision," said Denise Doll-Kiefer, CFO of Salo, LLC. "We have access to enterprise-class services that have never been practical for us to use before. With mindSHIFT, our employees can remain focused on projects key to growing the business while mindSHIFT takes the remainder off our plate at a great price. They have removed a significant burden, our business runs more efficiently and the personal attention and support from mindSHIFT has been great."
Trustwave Introduces File Integrity Monitoring in the Cloud
Cloud-based solution makes file integrity monitoring accessible to customers of any size.
Trustwave, a provider of on-demand and subscription-based information security and payment card industry compliance management solutions, yesterday announced the release of its cloud-based file integrity monitoring (FIM) solution.
The company explains that FIM checks for additions, modifications, or deletions of sensitive files or other stored data. FIM can inform business stakeholders of unauthorized system or application access and indicate the potential presence of malware or other malicious activity. Deploying FIM as an ongoing simple or intermediate control can help organizations minimize these risks to avoid a data breach. As a cloud-based solution, FIM reduces costs and takes the burden off customers because all configuration, monitoring and reporting is performed by the company. There is nothing for an organization to manage or maintain on its own. With no hardware or management console to deploy, its FIM is a cost-effective solution for customers of any size - from small businesses with a few endpoint devices to the largest enterprises with thousands.
It further explains that acting as a watchdog, FIM provides an audit trail of what file resources were changed, added or deleted, helping organizations determine if such modifications were made outside of formal or regularly scheduled change or maintenance windows. FIM complements and extends other host monitoring tools including SIEM and anti-virus installations by explicitly detecting unauthorized changes to OS and application files and other system resources, which other host monitoring tools are not designed to do. The FIM also helps meet specific compliance needs, addressing regulatory and internal compliance requirements. Specific to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the FIM addresses the requirement for file integrity monitoring and alerting.
"This solution is the most cost effective way for customers to get these critical security controls in place and address compliance requirements at the same time," said Robert J. McCullen, Chairman, President and CEO of Trustwave. "At the seemingly unending assortment of cyber attacks, FIM is an essential tool for early detection of a potential breach."
Trustwave, a provider of on-demand and subscription-based information security and payment card industry compliance management solutions, yesterday announced the release of its cloud-based file integrity monitoring (FIM) solution.
The company explains that FIM checks for additions, modifications, or deletions of sensitive files or other stored data. FIM can inform business stakeholders of unauthorized system or application access and indicate the potential presence of malware or other malicious activity. Deploying FIM as an ongoing simple or intermediate control can help organizations minimize these risks to avoid a data breach. As a cloud-based solution, FIM reduces costs and takes the burden off customers because all configuration, monitoring and reporting is performed by the company. There is nothing for an organization to manage or maintain on its own. With no hardware or management console to deploy, its FIM is a cost-effective solution for customers of any size - from small businesses with a few endpoint devices to the largest enterprises with thousands.
It further explains that acting as a watchdog, FIM provides an audit trail of what file resources were changed, added or deleted, helping organizations determine if such modifications were made outside of formal or regularly scheduled change or maintenance windows. FIM complements and extends other host monitoring tools including SIEM and anti-virus installations by explicitly detecting unauthorized changes to OS and application files and other system resources, which other host monitoring tools are not designed to do. The FIM also helps meet specific compliance needs, addressing regulatory and internal compliance requirements. Specific to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the FIM addresses the requirement for file integrity monitoring and alerting.
"This solution is the most cost effective way for customers to get these critical security controls in place and address compliance requirements at the same time," said Robert J. McCullen, Chairman, President and CEO of Trustwave. "At the seemingly unending assortment of cyber attacks, FIM is an essential tool for early detection of a potential breach."
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Open-Xchange Partners with Surftown
Surftown customers will have the easy-to-use, integrated email, calendar and contact management from the company.
Open-Xchange, a provider of open source collaboration software, today announced an agreement with Surftown, a domain name registration and web hosting service provider, to bring cloud-based communication and collaboration to more than 500,000 users. It avers that by the end of Q3 2011, Surftown customers will have the easy-to-use, integrated email, calendar and contact management from the company. The cloud-based application can be accessed with a standard internet browser (without installing software) and a PC, notebook, iPad or smartphone.
The company articulates that by deploying the Open-Xchange in-application upsell mechanism, customers of Surftown's standard hosting packages will be able to easily upgrade to premium features such as advanced sharing and document management functions. In addition, the Open-Xchange basic groupware package will become part of Surftown's high-end hosting offering that provides small- and medium-sized businesses with a one-stop internet presence and communication solution. Additionally, organizations that simply need a business-class email and collaboration solution can get it as an off-the-shelf product while Surftown handles transfer services to enable an easy and smooth transition.
It states that Open-Xchange integrates email, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing, along with cutting-edge social network integration. By adding the Open-Xchange mobility capabilities, users can receive push email and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information from their Open-Xchange account to their smartphones, including iPhone, Android-based devices, Nokia, Windows Mobile and others.
"Surftown is one of the first service providers to utilize the recently released Open-Xchange Mobile Web App that enables their customers access to emails, contacts and calendars via smartphones," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "With Social OX - where personal contacts from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing can be added to the Open-Xchange address book - users can access that information on their mobile devices without having to do anything further."
"Scandinavia is at the forefront of adopting new internet and mobility technologies," said Morten Felsvang, CEO of Surftown. "By providing consumers, as well as business customers, with cloud-based services, Open-Xchange is the perfect partner for differentiation in a highly-competitive hosting market."
Open-Xchange, a provider of open source collaboration software, today announced an agreement with Surftown, a domain name registration and web hosting service provider, to bring cloud-based communication and collaboration to more than 500,000 users. It avers that by the end of Q3 2011, Surftown customers will have the easy-to-use, integrated email, calendar and contact management from the company. The cloud-based application can be accessed with a standard internet browser (without installing software) and a PC, notebook, iPad or smartphone.
The company articulates that by deploying the Open-Xchange in-application upsell mechanism, customers of Surftown's standard hosting packages will be able to easily upgrade to premium features such as advanced sharing and document management functions. In addition, the Open-Xchange basic groupware package will become part of Surftown's high-end hosting offering that provides small- and medium-sized businesses with a one-stop internet presence and communication solution. Additionally, organizations that simply need a business-class email and collaboration solution can get it as an off-the-shelf product while Surftown handles transfer services to enable an easy and smooth transition.
It states that Open-Xchange integrates email, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing, along with cutting-edge social network integration. By adding the Open-Xchange mobility capabilities, users can receive push email and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information from their Open-Xchange account to their smartphones, including iPhone, Android-based devices, Nokia, Windows Mobile and others.
"Surftown is one of the first service providers to utilize the recently released Open-Xchange Mobile Web App that enables their customers access to emails, contacts and calendars via smartphones," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "With Social OX - where personal contacts from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing can be added to the Open-Xchange address book - users can access that information on their mobile devices without having to do anything further."
"Scandinavia is at the forefront of adopting new internet and mobility technologies," said Morten Felsvang, CEO of Surftown. "By providing consumers, as well as business customers, with cloud-based services, Open-Xchange is the perfect partner for differentiation in a highly-competitive hosting market."
Hostway Announces Data Center Expansion
Company announces expansion of Tampa-based data center with FlexCloud Servers for disaster recovery and redundancy.
Hostway Corporation, a web services provider, today announced an expansion of its 18,000 square foot Tampa, Florida-based data center to include FlexCloud Server services. The company now operates 12 data centers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
It says that the company's secure and reliable FlexCloud Servers will now be supported in both the Austin and Tampa data centers. Having multi-location support allows the company's customers to select a preferred geographical location to provision their cloud services. The Tampa facility will offer a disaster recovery and redundancy option for clients who desire to protect data and applications from single location failures.
The company mentions that with cloud services in separate geographic areas, customers can further protect their applications from the failure of a single location. The expansion also provides lower latency connectivity for users in the US Eastern regions. It has setup identical cloud infrastructures in both locations allowing the company to offer an array of services at the same price points. Customers can manage the two data center regions with a single control panel, providing ease of use and continuity.
According to it, FlexCloud Servers are a scalable, on-demand cloud computing solution with public cloud reliability and enterprise-grade performance. With 100 percent server uptime and automatic recovery/failover, FlexCloud Servers offer unparalleled data security and peace of mind for clients. They feature on-demand scalability with Windows and Linux servers that are completely customizable through administrator access.
"Our Tampa data center provides our clients with the ability to easily provision secure cloud services in multiple locations for disaster recovery and redundancy," said Todd Benjamin, Vice President of Enterprise Hosting for Hostway. "This expansion is a part of our goal to introduce our secure and reliable FlexCloud Servers throughout North America and to further build our global presence."
Hostway Corporation, a web services provider, today announced an expansion of its 18,000 square foot Tampa, Florida-based data center to include FlexCloud Server services. The company now operates 12 data centers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
It says that the company's secure and reliable FlexCloud Servers will now be supported in both the Austin and Tampa data centers. Having multi-location support allows the company's customers to select a preferred geographical location to provision their cloud services. The Tampa facility will offer a disaster recovery and redundancy option for clients who desire to protect data and applications from single location failures.
The company mentions that with cloud services in separate geographic areas, customers can further protect their applications from the failure of a single location. The expansion also provides lower latency connectivity for users in the US Eastern regions. It has setup identical cloud infrastructures in both locations allowing the company to offer an array of services at the same price points. Customers can manage the two data center regions with a single control panel, providing ease of use and continuity.
According to it, FlexCloud Servers are a scalable, on-demand cloud computing solution with public cloud reliability and enterprise-grade performance. With 100 percent server uptime and automatic recovery/failover, FlexCloud Servers offer unparalleled data security and peace of mind for clients. They feature on-demand scalability with Windows and Linux servers that are completely customizable through administrator access.
"Our Tampa data center provides our clients with the ability to easily provision secure cloud services in multiple locations for disaster recovery and redundancy," said Todd Benjamin, Vice President of Enterprise Hosting for Hostway. "This expansion is a part of our goal to introduce our secure and reliable FlexCloud Servers throughout North America and to further build our global presence."
CM4all Partners with U-SYNC
U-SYNC launches cloud storage solution powered by CM4all OnlineDrive.
Content Management AG (CM-AG), a provider of web-based applications, today announced that U-SYNC. (Taiwan) Services Co. Ltd., a web hosting and hardware provider, launched 'Cloud Drive', an online storage and backup solution powered by a Chinese-language version of CM4all OnlineDrive. The new Cloud Drive is currently being offered to end customers via U-SYNC's partner Asia Pacific Telecom.
The company explains that with CM4all OnlineDrive, U-SYNC meets the constantly growing demand for online storage and backup solutions in Taiwan. The application's clearly structured file manager features familiar drag and drop operations and facilitates file administration. A Java-based uploader enables fast uploading of multiple files or folders and automatically extracts ZIP archives. Users are able to log in to their accounts from anywhere in the world in order to download, modify, and save their digital documents, music and image files. Guest accounts created by the account owner permit friends and colleagues to access shared folders and allow for cooperation regardless of the users' location. U-SYNC also offers apps for iOS and Android enabling file access from smart phones and tablet PCs.
It further explains that additionally, a U-SYNC-branded backup client allows both PC and Mac users to conveniently and automatically back-up their digital resources according to simple and intuitive rules they can easily define. With advanced scheduling, file synchronization, WebDAV access and the creation of multiple profiles and filters, they can be sure that the latest versions of their files are always available and safe. Using the back-up client, both the file transfer and the stored data is protected from unauthorized access with 128-bit encryption. The company adds that the user interface of the Chinese-language version of CM4all OnlineDrive was adapted to Asia Pacific Telecom's corporate design, and co-branded with U-SYNC's logo. The company safeguards the software's availability with 24/7 support and continuously updates both the operating system and the software application.
"We are pleased to see U-SYNC, our first Taiwanese partner, successfully leveraging CM4all OnlineDrive to provide its customers with a state-of-the-art, cloud-based online storage solution," said Robert Schovenberg, CEO of Content Management AG. "With our highly scalable software, U-SYNC is well prepared to profit from the rapidly growing demand in this sector while keeping hardware costs at a competitive level."
"CM4all OnlineDrive strengthens our value proposition by enabling us to offer our customers a complete package of sophisticated server hardware combined with a market proven online storage and data management application. We built on that and created iPhone, iPad and Android Phone apps that allow our customers to conveniently access Cloud Drive on the go. This way they can both open and share files stored in their account as well as back-up files from their mobile devices to protect them against data loss. Additionally, we offer our customers the option to access their media files such as videos and images directly from their set-top boxes," explained Paul Wang, Chief Information Officer of U-SYNC.
Content Management AG (CM-AG), a provider of web-based applications, today announced that U-SYNC. (Taiwan) Services Co. Ltd., a web hosting and hardware provider, launched 'Cloud Drive', an online storage and backup solution powered by a Chinese-language version of CM4all OnlineDrive. The new Cloud Drive is currently being offered to end customers via U-SYNC's partner Asia Pacific Telecom.
The company explains that with CM4all OnlineDrive, U-SYNC meets the constantly growing demand for online storage and backup solutions in Taiwan. The application's clearly structured file manager features familiar drag and drop operations and facilitates file administration. A Java-based uploader enables fast uploading of multiple files or folders and automatically extracts ZIP archives. Users are able to log in to their accounts from anywhere in the world in order to download, modify, and save their digital documents, music and image files. Guest accounts created by the account owner permit friends and colleagues to access shared folders and allow for cooperation regardless of the users' location. U-SYNC also offers apps for iOS and Android enabling file access from smart phones and tablet PCs.
It further explains that additionally, a U-SYNC-branded backup client allows both PC and Mac users to conveniently and automatically back-up their digital resources according to simple and intuitive rules they can easily define. With advanced scheduling, file synchronization, WebDAV access and the creation of multiple profiles and filters, they can be sure that the latest versions of their files are always available and safe. Using the back-up client, both the file transfer and the stored data is protected from unauthorized access with 128-bit encryption. The company adds that the user interface of the Chinese-language version of CM4all OnlineDrive was adapted to Asia Pacific Telecom's corporate design, and co-branded with U-SYNC's logo. The company safeguards the software's availability with 24/7 support and continuously updates both the operating system and the software application.
"We are pleased to see U-SYNC, our first Taiwanese partner, successfully leveraging CM4all OnlineDrive to provide its customers with a state-of-the-art, cloud-based online storage solution," said Robert Schovenberg, CEO of Content Management AG. "With our highly scalable software, U-SYNC is well prepared to profit from the rapidly growing demand in this sector while keeping hardware costs at a competitive level."
"CM4all OnlineDrive strengthens our value proposition by enabling us to offer our customers a complete package of sophisticated server hardware combined with a market proven online storage and data management application. We built on that and created iPhone, iPad and Android Phone apps that allow our customers to conveniently access Cloud Drive on the go. This way they can both open and share files stored in their account as well as back-up files from their mobile devices to protect them against data loss. Additionally, we offer our customers the option to access their media files such as videos and images directly from their set-top boxes," explained Paul Wang, Chief Information Officer of U-SYNC.
Monday, June 20, 2011
ICANN Approves New TLD Program
The company's Board of Directors approve plan to increase the number of generic Top Level Domains.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that its Board of Directors have approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet's Domain Name System. The Board vote was 13 approving, 1 opposed, and 2 abstaining.
The company mentions that during a special meeting, the Board approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of internet domain name endings - called generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) - from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .COM, .ORG and .NET.
According to it, new gTLDs will change the way people find information on the Internet and how businesses plan and structure their online presence. Internet address names will be able to end with almost any word in any language, offering organizations around the world the opportunity to market their brand, products, community or cause in new and innovative ways.
The company articulates that the decision to proceed with the gTLD program follows many years of discussion, debate and deliberation with the Internet community, business groups and governments. The Applicant Guidebook, a rulebook explaining how to apply for a new gTLD, went through seven significant revisions to incorporate more than 1,000 comments from the public. Strong efforts were made to address the concerns of all interested parties, and to ensure that the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet are not compromised. It adds that the company will soon begin a global campaign to tell the world about this dramatic change in internet names and to raise awareness of the opportunities afforded by new gTLDs. Applications for new gTLDs will be accepted from 12 January 2012 to 12 April 2012.
"ICANN has opened the Internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today's decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the Domain Name System to better serve all of mankind," said Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN.
"Today's decision will usher in a new internet age," said Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors. "We have provided a platform for the next generation of creativity and inspiration."
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that its Board of Directors have approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet's Domain Name System. The Board vote was 13 approving, 1 opposed, and 2 abstaining.
The company mentions that during a special meeting, the Board approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of internet domain name endings - called generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) - from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .COM, .ORG and .NET.
According to it, new gTLDs will change the way people find information on the Internet and how businesses plan and structure their online presence. Internet address names will be able to end with almost any word in any language, offering organizations around the world the opportunity to market their brand, products, community or cause in new and innovative ways.
The company articulates that the decision to proceed with the gTLD program follows many years of discussion, debate and deliberation with the Internet community, business groups and governments. The Applicant Guidebook, a rulebook explaining how to apply for a new gTLD, went through seven significant revisions to incorporate more than 1,000 comments from the public. Strong efforts were made to address the concerns of all interested parties, and to ensure that the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet are not compromised. It adds that the company will soon begin a global campaign to tell the world about this dramatic change in internet names and to raise awareness of the opportunities afforded by new gTLDs. Applications for new gTLDs will be accepted from 12 January 2012 to 12 April 2012.
"ICANN has opened the Internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today's decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the Domain Name System to better serve all of mankind," said Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN.
"Today's decision will usher in a new internet age," said Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors. "We have provided a platform for the next generation of creativity and inspiration."
Afilias Partners with HiChina
Alliance designed to help Chinese companies apply for 'dot.BRAND' Top Level Domains.
Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has entered into a formal agreement with HiChina, an internet service provider, to help Chinese brands take advantage of ICANN's forthcoming New TLD Program.
The company says that the agreement recognizes HiChina's leadership and customer service excellence, and names HiChina as its preferred new TLD partner in China. Chinese brands who intend to establish a dot.BRAND presence online will benefit from the combined resources of the company and HiChina.
It mentions that brands interested in pursuing a dot.BRAND approach will need to act quickly to develop strong, compelling proposals to ICANN for their desired new TLD string, one of many areas where the company is able to assist TLD applicants. Other TLD Registry services offered by the company include a 'thick' EPP Registry, a globally diverse and redundant Anycast DNS network, and 24x7 call center and technical support. The company adds that it offers other premium solutions to augment its Registry offering, including technology to enable mobile phone compatibility for websites and a unique IDN-capable email solution. All its services are DNSSEC and IPv6 ready, and reflect 10 years of experience in supporting gTLDs operating under ICANN contracts.
"With the world's largest internet population, China also represents one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Brands based in China need unique marketing approaches to reach this large, diverse pool of consumers. One approach is a 'dot.BRAND' name, meaning the use of a brand name instead of a .COM or .NET," said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President of Afilias. "A dot.BRAND TLD lets major companies control how customers experience their brand online and helps break through the noise and clutter online." LaPlante added, "With the tremendous rise of Chinese language on the Internet, our partnership will enable Chinese brands to present their domains in Chinese script rather than in English alone."
"Chinese consumers want domain names and websites in their own language. The combined experience of Afilias and HiChina will provide a great user experience for the Chinese market," said Bridge Song, Vice President of HiChina. "With HiChina's reach and influence in the Chinese enterprise market, and Afilias' successful history of supporting more TLDs than any other company, this partnership helps ensure that Chinese brands are on equal footing with Western brands applying for dot.BRAND TLDs," added Bridge Song.
Afilias, a provider of internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has entered into a formal agreement with HiChina, an internet service provider, to help Chinese brands take advantage of ICANN's forthcoming New TLD Program.
The company says that the agreement recognizes HiChina's leadership and customer service excellence, and names HiChina as its preferred new TLD partner in China. Chinese brands who intend to establish a dot.BRAND presence online will benefit from the combined resources of the company and HiChina.
It mentions that brands interested in pursuing a dot.BRAND approach will need to act quickly to develop strong, compelling proposals to ICANN for their desired new TLD string, one of many areas where the company is able to assist TLD applicants. Other TLD Registry services offered by the company include a 'thick' EPP Registry, a globally diverse and redundant Anycast DNS network, and 24x7 call center and technical support. The company adds that it offers other premium solutions to augment its Registry offering, including technology to enable mobile phone compatibility for websites and a unique IDN-capable email solution. All its services are DNSSEC and IPv6 ready, and reflect 10 years of experience in supporting gTLDs operating under ICANN contracts.
"With the world's largest internet population, China also represents one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Brands based in China need unique marketing approaches to reach this large, diverse pool of consumers. One approach is a 'dot.BRAND' name, meaning the use of a brand name instead of a .COM or .NET," said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President of Afilias. "A dot.BRAND TLD lets major companies control how customers experience their brand online and helps break through the noise and clutter online." LaPlante added, "With the tremendous rise of Chinese language on the Internet, our partnership will enable Chinese brands to present their domains in Chinese script rather than in English alone."
"Chinese consumers want domain names and websites in their own language. The combined experience of Afilias and HiChina will provide a great user experience for the Chinese market," said Bridge Song, Vice President of HiChina. "With HiChina's reach and influence in the Chinese enterprise market, and Afilias' successful history of supporting more TLDs than any other company, this partnership helps ensure that Chinese brands are on equal footing with Western brands applying for dot.BRAND TLDs," added Bridge Song.
NaviSite Launches New UK Cloud Node
The new UK cloud infrastructure will provide European enterprises access to its Managed Cloud Services.
NaviSite, Inc., a provider of cloud-enabled enterprise hosting and application services, today announced the launch of its first European cloud node, located in Woking, UK. The company avers that the new UK cloud infrastructure will provide European enterprises access to its Managed Cloud Services (MCS) - helping them comply with local regulations while eliminating network performance issues caused by long-distance broadband connections to offshore data centers.
It explains that the company's MCS allow customers to provision on-demand, scalable, usage-billed, and fully-managed infrastructure services from virtualized resource pools. With MCS, customers get the scalability and flexibility of cloud computing in a managed service that is uniquely suited to address stringent requirements for security, availability, flexibility and performance. MCS runs on NaviCloud, a secure, high-performance cloud platform. NaviCloud's features include:
Enterprise-Class - NaviCloud is built on hardware and software from Cisco (UCS), VMware (vSphere), and IBM (XIV storage).
Compliance - All NaviCloud data centers are compliant with SSAE 16 requirements for physical and logical security. In addition, the company works with organizations to ensure adherence to industry-specific compliance standards.
Comprehensive Security Framework - NaviCloud provides all of the security measures associated with traditional hosting environments, including two-factor authentication; network intrusion detection and prevention; automated vulnerability scans; and third-party penetration testing. Advanced firewall technology provides intelligent threat defense with advanced capabilities, including identity-based access control and denial of service (DoS) attack protection. Security also extends to the management interface. Role-based access control ensures that users have only the permissions required for their business or support roles.
Full Transparency - The company's management portal, AppCenter, is built on unique, innovative intellectual property, and enables customers to fully monitor and manage their environments.
The company states that its MCS has been designed to address the critical IT issues confronting organizations, such as cost, agility, reliability and business continuity. Key benefits include:
Consumption-Based Billing - Customers pay only for what they need - eliminating the hidden costs of IT resource underutilization. This 'pay for use' billing model yields savings of 20-40%, compared to traditional infrastructure hosting services.
Speed of Deployment - MCS accelerates the time to value by eliminating long procurement cycles associated with in-house development projects, and ensuring that deployments move quickly from staging to live production.
Simplified IT Operations - The fully-managed option delivers an enterprise class, cloud-enabled IT environment, while eliminating the complexity of managing an in-house data center.
Guaranteed Service Levels - MCS is backed by service level guarantees for performance, 99.999% availability, and 'response and resolution'.
Business Continuity and Performance Manageability - MCS includes 24x7 monitoring and support, and leverages the NaviCloud architecture - spanning multiple data centers - for built-in disaster recovery.
"We are excited to announce our new UK cloud node," said Philip Cheek, UK Managing Director, NaviSite Europe Ltd. "We are now well-positioned to meet the growing demand for enterprise-class managed cloud services in the UK and Europe, and are thrilled that we can offer our award-winning Managed Cloud Services to enterprises that require a local European cloud presence."
NaviSite, Inc., a provider of cloud-enabled enterprise hosting and application services, today announced the launch of its first European cloud node, located in Woking, UK. The company avers that the new UK cloud infrastructure will provide European enterprises access to its Managed Cloud Services (MCS) - helping them comply with local regulations while eliminating network performance issues caused by long-distance broadband connections to offshore data centers.
It explains that the company's MCS allow customers to provision on-demand, scalable, usage-billed, and fully-managed infrastructure services from virtualized resource pools. With MCS, customers get the scalability and flexibility of cloud computing in a managed service that is uniquely suited to address stringent requirements for security, availability, flexibility and performance. MCS runs on NaviCloud, a secure, high-performance cloud platform. NaviCloud's features include:
Enterprise-Class - NaviCloud is built on hardware and software from Cisco (UCS), VMware (vSphere), and IBM (XIV storage).
Compliance - All NaviCloud data centers are compliant with SSAE 16 requirements for physical and logical security. In addition, the company works with organizations to ensure adherence to industry-specific compliance standards.
Comprehensive Security Framework - NaviCloud provides all of the security measures associated with traditional hosting environments, including two-factor authentication; network intrusion detection and prevention; automated vulnerability scans; and third-party penetration testing. Advanced firewall technology provides intelligent threat defense with advanced capabilities, including identity-based access control and denial of service (DoS) attack protection. Security also extends to the management interface. Role-based access control ensures that users have only the permissions required for their business or support roles.
Full Transparency - The company's management portal, AppCenter, is built on unique, innovative intellectual property, and enables customers to fully monitor and manage their environments.
The company states that its MCS has been designed to address the critical IT issues confronting organizations, such as cost, agility, reliability and business continuity. Key benefits include:
Consumption-Based Billing - Customers pay only for what they need - eliminating the hidden costs of IT resource underutilization. This 'pay for use' billing model yields savings of 20-40%, compared to traditional infrastructure hosting services.
Speed of Deployment - MCS accelerates the time to value by eliminating long procurement cycles associated with in-house development projects, and ensuring that deployments move quickly from staging to live production.
Simplified IT Operations - The fully-managed option delivers an enterprise class, cloud-enabled IT environment, while eliminating the complexity of managing an in-house data center.
Guaranteed Service Levels - MCS is backed by service level guarantees for performance, 99.999% availability, and 'response and resolution'.
Business Continuity and Performance Manageability - MCS includes 24x7 monitoring and support, and leverages the NaviCloud architecture - spanning multiple data centers - for built-in disaster recovery.
"We are excited to announce our new UK cloud node," said Philip Cheek, UK Managing Director, NaviSite Europe Ltd. "We are now well-positioned to meet the growing demand for enterprise-class managed cloud services in the UK and Europe, and are thrilled that we can offer our award-winning Managed Cloud Services to enterprises that require a local European cloud presence."
Friday, June 17, 2011
Infinitely Virtual Unveils InfiniteApp Business Edition
This service will allow the company's clients to run Windows Applications from any PC, tablet, Android phone, Mac, Linux, or thin client.
Infinitely Virtual, a provider of virtual server technology, yesterday announced the development of InfiniteApp Business Edition. This service will allow its clients to run Windows Applications from any PC, tablet, Android phone, Mac, Linux, or thin client.
The company claims that InfiniteApp Business Edition is the perfect solution for organizations of all sizes, as it provides a private and secure location in which multiple users can store documents and data. With Business Edition, data can also be shared easily among different users within the same organization. Standard features include driverless printing, display acceleration, multimedia direction, support for scanner, Exchange Server, and Sun Open Office.
It states that driverless printing allows PCs, laptops, and handheld devices to print documents, emails, web contents and other files without installing and setting up a print driver; enabling faster printing, enhanced security, the capacity to print remotely, a minimization of bandwidth, and the ability to restrict printing access. Display Acceleration brings about faster screen updates, and seamless interaction across WAN and internet or VPN connections; thus easing the transition from physical to virtual desktops and applications for users. Multimedia Redirection decreases bandwidth usage, saving crucial server resources. The company adds that Microsoft Office is an optional feature for InfiniteApp Business Edition, and can be added onto a plan at any time.
"I'm excited to announce the development of InfiniteApp Business Edition. We've created a product unlike anything on the market. With our enhanced features, businesses can share data quickly and easily anywhere," said Adam Stern, President and CEO of Infinitely Virtual.
Infinitely Virtual, a provider of virtual server technology, yesterday announced the development of InfiniteApp Business Edition. This service will allow its clients to run Windows Applications from any PC, tablet, Android phone, Mac, Linux, or thin client.
The company claims that InfiniteApp Business Edition is the perfect solution for organizations of all sizes, as it provides a private and secure location in which multiple users can store documents and data. With Business Edition, data can also be shared easily among different users within the same organization. Standard features include driverless printing, display acceleration, multimedia direction, support for scanner, Exchange Server, and Sun Open Office.
It states that driverless printing allows PCs, laptops, and handheld devices to print documents, emails, web contents and other files without installing and setting up a print driver; enabling faster printing, enhanced security, the capacity to print remotely, a minimization of bandwidth, and the ability to restrict printing access. Display Acceleration brings about faster screen updates, and seamless interaction across WAN and internet or VPN connections; thus easing the transition from physical to virtual desktops and applications for users. Multimedia Redirection decreases bandwidth usage, saving crucial server resources. The company adds that Microsoft Office is an optional feature for InfiniteApp Business Edition, and can be added onto a plan at any time.
"I'm excited to announce the development of InfiniteApp Business Edition. We've created a product unlike anything on the market. With our enhanced features, businesses can share data quickly and easily anywhere," said Adam Stern, President and CEO of Infinitely Virtual.
Virtual Internet Launches Cloud Hosting Platform in the US
Company launches its Private and Public Cloud Hosting solutions in the US market.
Virtual Internet (VI), a pan-European internet service provider, yesterday announced that it is officially launching its flagship cloud-hosting product. With recently upgraded VMware cloud servers increasingly outselling conventional hosting solutions, its business-class cloud solutions deliver reliability, cost savings, scalability, and performance.
The company explains that it has created a hardware-based cloud that is fully hardware and network redundant including redundant hardware firewalls. The cloud is sandbox-ready and production-ready the instant customers sign up for a customized SLA. Customers' data is hosted at a 10,000 square foot data center in Lindon, Utah. The state-of-the-art facilities are SAS 70 compliant with Tier 3 classification.
"The bottom line is that cloud hosting is the most efficient hosting solution today and we're happy to deliver our solutions to the US market. This is the future of web hosting," said Patrick McCarthy, VI's Managing Director.
"Having an advanced and flexible hosting solution is an indispensable part of a solid business plan. The hosting provider you choose will be the backbone of your business and VI has been that vital framework for numerous customers since 1996," remarked McCarthy. "We invite US businesses to experience a new level in cloud web hosting, with industry-leading SLAs and 24/7 customer support."
Virtual Internet (VI), a pan-European internet service provider, yesterday announced that it is officially launching its flagship cloud-hosting product. With recently upgraded VMware cloud servers increasingly outselling conventional hosting solutions, its business-class cloud solutions deliver reliability, cost savings, scalability, and performance.
The company explains that it has created a hardware-based cloud that is fully hardware and network redundant including redundant hardware firewalls. The cloud is sandbox-ready and production-ready the instant customers sign up for a customized SLA. Customers' data is hosted at a 10,000 square foot data center in Lindon, Utah. The state-of-the-art facilities are SAS 70 compliant with Tier 3 classification.
"The bottom line is that cloud hosting is the most efficient hosting solution today and we're happy to deliver our solutions to the US market. This is the future of web hosting," said Patrick McCarthy, VI's Managing Director.
"Having an advanced and flexible hosting solution is an indispensable part of a solid business plan. The hosting provider you choose will be the backbone of your business and VI has been that vital framework for numerous customers since 1996," remarked McCarthy. "We invite US businesses to experience a new level in cloud web hosting, with industry-leading SLAs and 24/7 customer support."
cPanel Releases Enkompass 2.0
Latest release represents a significant evolution of the Enkompass product.
cPanel, a hosting automation software provider, recently announced the release of Enkompass 2.0. The company avers that this latest release represents a significant evolution of the Enkompass product including:
Emulation of cPanel & WHM's XML-API, an industry standard for billing automation
Support for Classic ASP as well as more ASP configuration options
Re-designed bandwidth monitoring system, allowing more flexibility
Re-written backup system, lowering resource usage and providing additional restoration control
Several significant user interface refinements beginning the moment you login
Many performance and resource usage enhancements
It says that Enkompass now supports Classic ASP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 and ASP.NET 4.0. This can be configured on a per-account basis by a server administrator or reseller. Additionally, by granting the 'Configure ASP.NET Framework' role to web site owners, they can configure their account via the Web Site Owner interface. Also available is the option to switch between Classic and Integrated Pipeline Mode.
The company mentions that use of ASP is now optional, and accounts will not have ASP capabilities enabled by default anymore. Disabling ASP can save up to 20 megabytes of memory per account. As a result of this change, we have modified the default docs to be as follows (in order): index.php, Default.htm, Default.asp, index.htm, index.html, iisstart.htm, default.aspx, index.aspx, index.asp, and default.html.
It articulates that Enkompass 2.0 also introduces new measures to thwart malicious activity. Among them are two Tweak Settings: Commonly Spoofed Domain Protection and External Domain Protection. Commonly Spoofed Domain Protection prevents the use of commonly spoofed domains like cPanel.net and Google.com. External Domain Protection stops someone from registering an account on your Enkompass deployment using domains already managed by your local DNS.
According to the company, knowing when to update Enkompass is now easier. After upgrading to Enkompass 2.0, the system administrator will now receive an email whenever an update for Enkompass is available. To further ease the updating process, an icon will appear on the home screen in System Administration Interface when an update is available.
cPanel, a hosting automation software provider, recently announced the release of Enkompass 2.0. The company avers that this latest release represents a significant evolution of the Enkompass product including:
Emulation of cPanel & WHM's XML-API, an industry standard for billing automation
Support for Classic ASP as well as more ASP configuration options
Re-designed bandwidth monitoring system, allowing more flexibility
Re-written backup system, lowering resource usage and providing additional restoration control
Several significant user interface refinements beginning the moment you login
Many performance and resource usage enhancements
It says that Enkompass now supports Classic ASP, ASP.NET, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5 and ASP.NET 4.0. This can be configured on a per-account basis by a server administrator or reseller. Additionally, by granting the 'Configure ASP.NET Framework' role to web site owners, they can configure their account via the Web Site Owner interface. Also available is the option to switch between Classic and Integrated Pipeline Mode.
The company mentions that use of ASP is now optional, and accounts will not have ASP capabilities enabled by default anymore. Disabling ASP can save up to 20 megabytes of memory per account. As a result of this change, we have modified the default docs to be as follows (in order): index.php, Default.htm, Default.asp, index.htm, index.html, iisstart.htm, default.aspx, index.aspx, index.asp, and default.html.
It articulates that Enkompass 2.0 also introduces new measures to thwart malicious activity. Among them are two Tweak Settings: Commonly Spoofed Domain Protection and External Domain Protection. Commonly Spoofed Domain Protection prevents the use of commonly spoofed domains like cPanel.net and Google.com. External Domain Protection stops someone from registering an account on your Enkompass deployment using domains already managed by your local DNS.
According to the company, knowing when to update Enkompass is now easier. After upgrading to Enkompass 2.0, the system administrator will now receive an email whenever an update for Enkompass is available. To further ease the updating process, an icon will appear on the home screen in System Administration Interface when an update is available.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
LeaseWeb Deploys HP ProLiant Servers in Data Centers
The new servers deliver increased performance and capacity to support rapid business growth.
HP, a technology solutions provider, yesterday announced that LeaseWeb, a hosting provider, has implemented HP ProLiant server technology in its data centers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, as well as at its newest facility in Virginia. The new servers deliver increased performance and capacity to support rapid business growth.
The company articulates that LeaseWeb has already deployed more than 15,000 HP ProLiant servers across its data centers. With the opening of its new U.S. data center, and in response to increased customer demand for server outsourcing, LeaseWeb is adding 5,700 HP ProLiant DL 120 G6 and HP ProLiant DL180 G6 servers to meet its burgeoning global workloads. The new HP ProLiant servers will provide LeaseWeb with greater processing speed and significantly improved system operations.
It claims that the HP ProLiant DL server series are low-cost, high-capacity, storage-optimized servers that deliver high density for a variety of rack deployments and applications. The server installation will allow LeaseWeb to manage its extended IT environments for hosting, while improving its customer response time and overall satisfaction levels.
"As our business expands, so does our need to keep pace with user demands, as well as offer new services, while providing a fast, powerful and secure hosting environment," said Con Zwinkels, Managing Director, LeaseWeb Netherlands. "HP ProLiant servers have increased our application performance and enabled faster time to solution to meet our business challenges while delivering improved operational efficiency."
HP, a technology solutions provider, yesterday announced that LeaseWeb, a hosting provider, has implemented HP ProLiant server technology in its data centers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, as well as at its newest facility in Virginia. The new servers deliver increased performance and capacity to support rapid business growth.
The company articulates that LeaseWeb has already deployed more than 15,000 HP ProLiant servers across its data centers. With the opening of its new U.S. data center, and in response to increased customer demand for server outsourcing, LeaseWeb is adding 5,700 HP ProLiant DL 120 G6 and HP ProLiant DL180 G6 servers to meet its burgeoning global workloads. The new HP ProLiant servers will provide LeaseWeb with greater processing speed and significantly improved system operations.
It claims that the HP ProLiant DL server series are low-cost, high-capacity, storage-optimized servers that deliver high density for a variety of rack deployments and applications. The server installation will allow LeaseWeb to manage its extended IT environments for hosting, while improving its customer response time and overall satisfaction levels.
"As our business expands, so does our need to keep pace with user demands, as well as offer new services, while providing a fast, powerful and secure hosting environment," said Con Zwinkels, Managing Director, LeaseWeb Netherlands. "HP ProLiant servers have increased our application performance and enabled faster time to solution to meet our business challenges while delivering improved operational efficiency."
Future Hosting Upgrades International CDN
Company adds several key features to its international Cloud Delivery Network (CDN).
Future Hosting, an internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises and developer of Future Engineer, yesterday added several key features to its international Cloud Delivery Network (CDN), which it launched just last month. With the new features, customers can now host individual files in the CDN, which can be uploaded through a new web interface or through FTP. Previously, the CDN only allowed customers to have the CDN pull files from the customer server and not upload files directly to each POP in the CDN.
The company mentions that additionally, these individual files can be stored with POP Pull on the CDN, in contrast to Origin Pull. In a traditional Origin Pull configuration, website files are temporarily copied to the CDN from an origin server when they are first accessed by a user. The files are purged from the CDN usually within 24 hours of access. In a POP Pull configuration, however, files are stored permanently on the CDN. This allows for faster performance, improved reliability, and reduced strain on client servers.
It avers that through partnerships with upstream providers, the company's CDN offers a physical presence in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia, and additional locations are planned, including in the Middle East. This connectivity allows for low-latency, high throughput file transfers worldwide, and delivers failover protection and instant scalability. Both existing and new clients can add CDN-capability to their account.
According to the company, it is the developer of Future Engineer, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
"After nearly a month in operation, our CDN has proven itself to be an asset to our customers and our company. We are able to provide mission-critical content delivery services to our international customers who require low-latency, high-bandwidth access to important data in cities around the world. Nothing meets that need better than the cloud," said Future Hosting Chief Technical Officer Nick Zyren.
Future Hosting, an internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises and developer of Future Engineer, yesterday added several key features to its international Cloud Delivery Network (CDN), which it launched just last month. With the new features, customers can now host individual files in the CDN, which can be uploaded through a new web interface or through FTP. Previously, the CDN only allowed customers to have the CDN pull files from the customer server and not upload files directly to each POP in the CDN.
The company mentions that additionally, these individual files can be stored with POP Pull on the CDN, in contrast to Origin Pull. In a traditional Origin Pull configuration, website files are temporarily copied to the CDN from an origin server when they are first accessed by a user. The files are purged from the CDN usually within 24 hours of access. In a POP Pull configuration, however, files are stored permanently on the CDN. This allows for faster performance, improved reliability, and reduced strain on client servers.
It avers that through partnerships with upstream providers, the company's CDN offers a physical presence in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia, and additional locations are planned, including in the Middle East. This connectivity allows for low-latency, high throughput file transfers worldwide, and delivers failover protection and instant scalability. Both existing and new clients can add CDN-capability to their account.
According to the company, it is the developer of Future Engineer, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
"After nearly a month in operation, our CDN has proven itself to be an asset to our customers and our company. We are able to provide mission-critical content delivery services to our international customers who require low-latency, high-bandwidth access to important data in cities around the world. Nothing meets that need better than the cloud," said Future Hosting Chief Technical Officer Nick Zyren.
CoreVault Partners with VMware
Partnership enables the company to launch new VMware vCloud powered hosting service.
CoreVault, a provider of data protection services, yesterday announced the availability of its new VMware vCloud powered hosting service. Through its partnership with VMware, the company has developed its Cloud Hosting service to take advantage of all the cost and efficiency benefits of cloud computing, without sacrificing the control of information security.
The company states that its Cloud Hosting service offers multiple advantages for companies both large and small, including:
High performance with minimized risk and maximized security
Easy deployment that virtually automates infrastructure virtualization with instant scalability
Built-in backup
Cost savings that benefit the bottom line by reducing capital expenses
Flexibility to access applications and data from anywhere at anytime
It mentions that the Cloud Hosting service leverages the latest VMware technology, including VMware vCloud Director, which enables the delivery and consumption of multi-tenant private and public clouds. The company provides backup, recovery and hosting services to customers nationwide. Its services are endorsed by professional associations in the legal, healthcare and financial services industries representing over 500,000 business professionals.
"We are pleased to build upon the value of our partnership with VMware to offer one of the most secure, flexible and efficient cloud computing environments available," said Jim Rutherford, President, CoreVault. "By matching industry leading technology with our years of data protection and disaster recovery expertise, CoreVault has perfected cloud computing so that today's businesses can remain more agile without worrying about business continuity or security."
CoreVault, a provider of data protection services, yesterday announced the availability of its new VMware vCloud powered hosting service. Through its partnership with VMware, the company has developed its Cloud Hosting service to take advantage of all the cost and efficiency benefits of cloud computing, without sacrificing the control of information security.
The company states that its Cloud Hosting service offers multiple advantages for companies both large and small, including:
High performance with minimized risk and maximized security
Easy deployment that virtually automates infrastructure virtualization with instant scalability
Built-in backup
Cost savings that benefit the bottom line by reducing capital expenses
Flexibility to access applications and data from anywhere at anytime
It mentions that the Cloud Hosting service leverages the latest VMware technology, including VMware vCloud Director, which enables the delivery and consumption of multi-tenant private and public clouds. The company provides backup, recovery and hosting services to customers nationwide. Its services are endorsed by professional associations in the legal, healthcare and financial services industries representing over 500,000 business professionals.
"We are pleased to build upon the value of our partnership with VMware to offer one of the most secure, flexible and efficient cloud computing environments available," said Jim Rutherford, President, CoreVault. "By matching industry leading technology with our years of data protection and disaster recovery expertise, CoreVault has perfected cloud computing so that today's businesses can remain more agile without worrying about business continuity or security."
Logicworks Names George Kerns as CEO
Kerns brings significant leadership experience within the enterprise managed hosting industry to the company.
Logicworks, a provider of enterprise hosting and cloud computing for high-availability applications and content, yesterday announced the appointment of George Kerns as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Kerns brings significant leadership experience within the enterprise managed hosting industry to it along with a track record of successful senior management positions dating back to the birth of the commercial internet.
The company avers that most recently, Kerns served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fusepoint Managed Services, an enterprise hosting provider for companies with applications requiring the highest levels of security and availability. In his role as CEO, he led the company to substantial year-over-year growth and margin expansion from 2005 through its successful sale to Savvis in 2010.
It says that Carter Burden, the company's Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, who served as CEO from 1993 through 2010, will continue in his current role as Chief Strategy Officer. Kenneth Ziegler will also continue to serve as President and Chief Operating Officer. Kerns will join Burden, Ziegler, and Bill Luby of Seaport Capital on the company's Board of Directors.
"Over the past decade, Logicworks has evolved from a regional services provider to a leading global provider of enterprise hosting and cloud solutions," said Carter Burden. "With traditional enterprises accelerating cloud adoption the timing couldn't be better to expand our company. George brings an unmatched track-record of success within the managed hosting industry and as our CEO will help us advance our mission to be a world class service organization with lasting meaning within the technology services landscape."
"Logicworks has reached a scale and operating sophistication that makes it incredibly well positioned to benefit from the inflection point that's upon us in the hosting and cloud industry," said Kerns. "I am thrilled to bring my industry experience to a company with such a long-standing and impressive base of blue-chip clients, an unparalleled reputation for quality, an integrated service platform, and an industry-leading engineering team. I'm excited to join Carter, Ken, and the Logicworks team to help bring our capabilities and market reach to new heights."
Logicworks, a provider of enterprise hosting and cloud computing for high-availability applications and content, yesterday announced the appointment of George Kerns as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Kerns brings significant leadership experience within the enterprise managed hosting industry to it along with a track record of successful senior management positions dating back to the birth of the commercial internet.
The company avers that most recently, Kerns served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fusepoint Managed Services, an enterprise hosting provider for companies with applications requiring the highest levels of security and availability. In his role as CEO, he led the company to substantial year-over-year growth and margin expansion from 2005 through its successful sale to Savvis in 2010.
It says that Carter Burden, the company's Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, who served as CEO from 1993 through 2010, will continue in his current role as Chief Strategy Officer. Kenneth Ziegler will also continue to serve as President and Chief Operating Officer. Kerns will join Burden, Ziegler, and Bill Luby of Seaport Capital on the company's Board of Directors.
"Over the past decade, Logicworks has evolved from a regional services provider to a leading global provider of enterprise hosting and cloud solutions," said Carter Burden. "With traditional enterprises accelerating cloud adoption the timing couldn't be better to expand our company. George brings an unmatched track-record of success within the managed hosting industry and as our CEO will help us advance our mission to be a world class service organization with lasting meaning within the technology services landscape."
"Logicworks has reached a scale and operating sophistication that makes it incredibly well positioned to benefit from the inflection point that's upon us in the hosting and cloud industry," said Kerns. "I am thrilled to bring my industry experience to a company with such a long-standing and impressive base of blue-chip clients, an unparalleled reputation for quality, an integrated service platform, and an industry-leading engineering team. I'm excited to join Carter, Ken, and the Logicworks team to help bring our capabilities and market reach to new heights."
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Verizon Business Partners with Tata Communications
Expands global telepresence reach through agreement with Tata Communications.
Verizon Business, a provider of communications and IT solutions, today announced that it is extending the range of its immersive video, or telepresence, offering to enable virtual face-to-face collaboration in more locations around the world, under a new agreement with Tata Communications, the global telecommunications arm of Tata Group.
The company states that the agreement enables meetings to take place between its telepresence customers and any public or private telepresence room on the Tata Communications Global Meeting Exchange, which is one of the broadest telepresence networks accessible today and a gateway to the company's public room network spanning 31 cities on five continents. This will supplement its telepresence offering powered by its expansive global Private Internet Protocol Network service. Similarly, Tata Communications telepresence customers can use the company's facilities to communicate with Verizon customers.
It avers that telepresence replicates face-to-face interactions so realistically that it feels as though everyone is in the same room, even though they may be hundreds or thousands of miles apart. By leveraging collaboration technology to replace in-person meetings, telepresence reduces travel time and cost while reducing the carbon emissions associated with business travel. As a result, the service makes collaboration among employees, customers, suppliers and business partners more efficient and economical.
The company says that its and Tata Communications' customers currently can use Cisco TelePresence to conduct intercarrier telepresence meetings. Plans are under way to establish similar agreements with other immersive video providers and services to further expand the availability of telepresence.
"Video is the new voice for business, and it's becoming more and more available to meet the changing nature of work," said Farooq Muzaffar, Verizon Vice President of Enterprise Network and Communications Solutions. "As businesses expand beyond the traditional four walls of an office building, we're seeing more of our customers turning to advanced collaboration tools like telepresence for a bigger impact on their overall productivity and performance."
Peter Quinlan, Vice President, Integrated Business Video Services, Tata Communications, said, "We are delighted to welcome Verizon to our global telepresence partner ecosystem. Intercarrier connections such as this one will benefit customers by offering a broader telepresence business ecosystem that connects regardless of network or service provider. It's agreements like this that fundamentally make telepresence a truly global collaboration tool."
Verizon Business, a provider of communications and IT solutions, today announced that it is extending the range of its immersive video, or telepresence, offering to enable virtual face-to-face collaboration in more locations around the world, under a new agreement with Tata Communications, the global telecommunications arm of Tata Group.
The company states that the agreement enables meetings to take place between its telepresence customers and any public or private telepresence room on the Tata Communications Global Meeting Exchange, which is one of the broadest telepresence networks accessible today and a gateway to the company's public room network spanning 31 cities on five continents. This will supplement its telepresence offering powered by its expansive global Private Internet Protocol Network service. Similarly, Tata Communications telepresence customers can use the company's facilities to communicate with Verizon customers.
It avers that telepresence replicates face-to-face interactions so realistically that it feels as though everyone is in the same room, even though they may be hundreds or thousands of miles apart. By leveraging collaboration technology to replace in-person meetings, telepresence reduces travel time and cost while reducing the carbon emissions associated with business travel. As a result, the service makes collaboration among employees, customers, suppliers and business partners more efficient and economical.
The company says that its and Tata Communications' customers currently can use Cisco TelePresence to conduct intercarrier telepresence meetings. Plans are under way to establish similar agreements with other immersive video providers and services to further expand the availability of telepresence.
"Video is the new voice for business, and it's becoming more and more available to meet the changing nature of work," said Farooq Muzaffar, Verizon Vice President of Enterprise Network and Communications Solutions. "As businesses expand beyond the traditional four walls of an office building, we're seeing more of our customers turning to advanced collaboration tools like telepresence for a bigger impact on their overall productivity and performance."
Peter Quinlan, Vice President, Integrated Business Video Services, Tata Communications, said, "We are delighted to welcome Verizon to our global telepresence partner ecosystem. Intercarrier connections such as this one will benefit customers by offering a broader telepresence business ecosystem that connects regardless of network or service provider. It's agreements like this that fundamentally make telepresence a truly global collaboration tool."
Cotendo Launches Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS)
The new suite delivers reliable and fast content acceleration globally on any network or device.
Cotendo, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Value-Added Site Acceleration services provider, today announced the launch of its purpose-built Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS). The company explains that this new suite extends its powerful existing web acceleration services to dramatically speed up delivery of mobile websites and mobile applications. With MAS, it now delivers reliable and high-performance acceleration for content to any device on any network in any location in the world. For content providers, latency on mobile devices is one of the top revenue killers. Long page-load times reduce conversions and engagement with applications or sites. Designed from the ground up to accelerate mobile content and to integrate effortlessly with the company's widely used and customer proven content acceleration technologies, MAS elegantly solves latency and page-load performance problems caused by slow or variable mobile network data connectivity rates, giving mobile network operators, website operators, and enterprise application developers a new way to ensure their content arrives faster and more reliably than ever to end users' handsets.
It mentions that MAS achieves this result without any required modifications to the origin site such as creation of separate web sites or infrastructure dedicated to mobile content. The MAS suite applies optimizations to speed up mobile content delivery at the logic, content and network layers. These services are available for deployment and are presently operating in numerous customer production environments. Deployments to date have resulted in radical improvements in mobile content delivery performance even for extremely dynamic content that has traditionally choked legacy CDNs and stymied other specialized mobile content delivery offerings.
The company says that its Mobile Acceleration Suite offers mobile-specific solutions that also leverage the company's other services for content acceleration including, Dynamic Site Acceleration, CDN Load Balancing, Advanced DNS services, and the unique Cloudlet Platform - the first CDN-integrated High Performance Cloud Application Environment. MAS is fully integrated with these and other company offerings. Customers can manage all of its services through a single simple-to-use portal.
"Delivering solutions to hard problems, such as last-mile delivery of complex, dynamic, and highly personalized content, is exactly the type of challenge we like to work on at Cotendo," said Ronni Zehavi, CEO of Cotendo. "Our technology team will relentlessly pursue innovation to ensure that we are providing high-value solutions to high-class problems that keep CIOs and CEOs up at night. We want to give them back their peace of mind and boost their bottom line while delighting their end users with unbelievably fast content delivery anywhere, anytime, on any device."
"While using Cotendo services we've seen up to a 33 percent performance improvement on our site. That's huge because our customers expect instant response when downloading apps to their handsets," said Allan Moger, Operations Manager for GetJar, an open app and entertainment store for smartphones. "Aside from the performance benefits, we chose to use Cotendo services because they understand the importance of the mobile space and are ahead of the curve in improving services for the mobile industry."
"Cotendo is a one stop shop for Redfin's content delivery and acceleration needs both for mobile and traditional end users. And thanks to performance improvements resulting from implementation of Cotendo's MAS, Redfin has seen healthy traffic growth in our mobile apps. Cotendo's console provides detailed real-time views of our traffic volumes, site usage patterns, and associated costs," said Michael Young, CTO of Redfin.com, a supplier of real-estate mobile applications and web-based real estate brokerage services. "Their innovative technology has helped us focus on what we do best - providing the best real estate search, service offerings and market transparency on any device."
Cotendo, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Value-Added Site Acceleration services provider, today announced the launch of its purpose-built Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS). The company explains that this new suite extends its powerful existing web acceleration services to dramatically speed up delivery of mobile websites and mobile applications. With MAS, it now delivers reliable and high-performance acceleration for content to any device on any network in any location in the world. For content providers, latency on mobile devices is one of the top revenue killers. Long page-load times reduce conversions and engagement with applications or sites. Designed from the ground up to accelerate mobile content and to integrate effortlessly with the company's widely used and customer proven content acceleration technologies, MAS elegantly solves latency and page-load performance problems caused by slow or variable mobile network data connectivity rates, giving mobile network operators, website operators, and enterprise application developers a new way to ensure their content arrives faster and more reliably than ever to end users' handsets.
It mentions that MAS achieves this result without any required modifications to the origin site such as creation of separate web sites or infrastructure dedicated to mobile content. The MAS suite applies optimizations to speed up mobile content delivery at the logic, content and network layers. These services are available for deployment and are presently operating in numerous customer production environments. Deployments to date have resulted in radical improvements in mobile content delivery performance even for extremely dynamic content that has traditionally choked legacy CDNs and stymied other specialized mobile content delivery offerings.
The company says that its Mobile Acceleration Suite offers mobile-specific solutions that also leverage the company's other services for content acceleration including, Dynamic Site Acceleration, CDN Load Balancing, Advanced DNS services, and the unique Cloudlet Platform - the first CDN-integrated High Performance Cloud Application Environment. MAS is fully integrated with these and other company offerings. Customers can manage all of its services through a single simple-to-use portal.
"Delivering solutions to hard problems, such as last-mile delivery of complex, dynamic, and highly personalized content, is exactly the type of challenge we like to work on at Cotendo," said Ronni Zehavi, CEO of Cotendo. "Our technology team will relentlessly pursue innovation to ensure that we are providing high-value solutions to high-class problems that keep CIOs and CEOs up at night. We want to give them back their peace of mind and boost their bottom line while delighting their end users with unbelievably fast content delivery anywhere, anytime, on any device."
"While using Cotendo services we've seen up to a 33 percent performance improvement on our site. That's huge because our customers expect instant response when downloading apps to their handsets," said Allan Moger, Operations Manager for GetJar, an open app and entertainment store for smartphones. "Aside from the performance benefits, we chose to use Cotendo services because they understand the importance of the mobile space and are ahead of the curve in improving services for the mobile industry."
"Cotendo is a one stop shop for Redfin's content delivery and acceleration needs both for mobile and traditional end users. And thanks to performance improvements resulting from implementation of Cotendo's MAS, Redfin has seen healthy traffic growth in our mobile apps. Cotendo's console provides detailed real-time views of our traffic volumes, site usage patterns, and associated costs," said Michael Young, CTO of Redfin.com, a supplier of real-estate mobile applications and web-based real estate brokerage services. "Their innovative technology has helped us focus on what we do best - providing the best real estate search, service offerings and market transparency on any device."
Queplix Introduces Data Quality Manager for QueCloud
The data integration and data management cloud delivers advanced data quality functionality with core services through a single platform.
Queplix Corp., a provider of data virtualization, yesterday introduced the new Data Quality Manager for QueCloud, enabling companies to seamlessly create and maintain data consistency throughout the data migration, integration and management lifecycle - all with a single cloud-based platform. Data Quality Manager is also available on-premise with Virtual Data Manager. Both products are available today.
The company articulates that QueCloud securely integrates cloud applications such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn, and FaceBook with speed and simplicity. Data Quality Manager addresses the common data quality challenges that create barriers for any data integration effort. As a central component of the QueCloud dashboard, Data Quality Manager is tightly coupled with the solution's core data integration and data management functionality. This is the first time a cloud-based data integration platform service has offered advanced data quality, integration and management in one environment, performing in a simultaneous continuum that eliminates the need to invest in separate tools.
According to it, Data Quality Manager delivers fast, automated and easy access to comprehensive data quality functionality for null fields, duplicate detection, syntax error notification, date range checks and much more in a manner that works seamlessly as part of the data integration and management process. As a result, companies no longer need multiple tools; data is made consistent from the onset of integration, and consistency is maintained throughout the data management lifecycle.
The company states that QueCloud is designed for the business user - no SQL programming is needed. The architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. Once integrated, data remains easily accessible to any number of additional applications, enabling a high degree of flexibility and scalability. As a result, organizations can dramatically reduce the lifecycle total cost of ownership for data management, by up to 75 percent or more over the cost of a traditional deployment.
"Today, companies must purchase separate data quality products that run data cleansing exercises in complete isolation from data integration," said Steve Yaskin, Chief Technology Officer, Queplix. "Not only is this more expensive, it's also far less effective since separate products aren't designed to interact with each other. Queplix provides data integration, data management and data quality functionality in a single integration-as-a-service platform. QueCloud and our on-premise product, Virtual Data Manager both now automatically check for and repair inconsistencies as part of the data integration and management process. This saves a tremendous amount of time, money and effort. No other vendor is doing this today."
Queplix Corp., a provider of data virtualization, yesterday introduced the new Data Quality Manager for QueCloud, enabling companies to seamlessly create and maintain data consistency throughout the data migration, integration and management lifecycle - all with a single cloud-based platform. Data Quality Manager is also available on-premise with Virtual Data Manager. Both products are available today.
The company articulates that QueCloud securely integrates cloud applications such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn, and FaceBook with speed and simplicity. Data Quality Manager addresses the common data quality challenges that create barriers for any data integration effort. As a central component of the QueCloud dashboard, Data Quality Manager is tightly coupled with the solution's core data integration and data management functionality. This is the first time a cloud-based data integration platform service has offered advanced data quality, integration and management in one environment, performing in a simultaneous continuum that eliminates the need to invest in separate tools.
According to it, Data Quality Manager delivers fast, automated and easy access to comprehensive data quality functionality for null fields, duplicate detection, syntax error notification, date range checks and much more in a manner that works seamlessly as part of the data integration and management process. As a result, companies no longer need multiple tools; data is made consistent from the onset of integration, and consistency is maintained throughout the data management lifecycle.
The company states that QueCloud is designed for the business user - no SQL programming is needed. The architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. Once integrated, data remains easily accessible to any number of additional applications, enabling a high degree of flexibility and scalability. As a result, organizations can dramatically reduce the lifecycle total cost of ownership for data management, by up to 75 percent or more over the cost of a traditional deployment.
"Today, companies must purchase separate data quality products that run data cleansing exercises in complete isolation from data integration," said Steve Yaskin, Chief Technology Officer, Queplix. "Not only is this more expensive, it's also far less effective since separate products aren't designed to interact with each other. Queplix provides data integration, data management and data quality functionality in a single integration-as-a-service platform. QueCloud and our on-premise product, Virtual Data Manager both now automatically check for and repair inconsistencies as part of the data integration and management process. This saves a tremendous amount of time, money and effort. No other vendor is doing this today."
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
i/o Data Centers Names New Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
Anthony J. D'Ambrosi brings large-scale, multinational sales & marketing expertise to the company.
i/o Data Centers, a data center operator and colocation provider, today announced the appointment of Anthony J. D'Ambrosi in the newly created global role of Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. D'Ambrosi is responsible for driving the company's sales and marketing vision, brand, strategy and organization, as the company expands its digital energy technology footprint across the enterprise data center market worldwide.
The company articulates that D'Ambrosi joins it from CIBER where he was Chief Operating Officer of the global ITO Division. D'Ambrosi led the global strategy, business development and delivery operations for the ITO Division line of business spanning end-user computing, infrastructure as a service, network and data center operations, managed application hosting and security operations.
On making the announcement, i/o CEO George Slessman said, "Anthony brings a unique blend of subject matter expertise in the successful marketing, sale and delivery of enterprise-wide IT products, services and solutions. His winning track record and ability to commercialize, market, and sell solutions on a global scale is well aligned with our commitment to serve our large enterprise customers and our global expansion."
"The ever-increasing demand in the global enterprise data center and cloud computing market is perfectly aligned with our business model, technology platform and track record of success with Global 2000 clientele. I am excited to join the team at i/o and take our already rapid growth in the digital energy technology market to the next level," said D'Ambrosi. "i/o has the best growth platform the IT industry has to offer and is uniquely positioned to be the sole provider of scalable enterprise data center solutions delivered both as a product and as a service."
i/o Data Centers, a data center operator and colocation provider, today announced the appointment of Anthony J. D'Ambrosi in the newly created global role of Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. D'Ambrosi is responsible for driving the company's sales and marketing vision, brand, strategy and organization, as the company expands its digital energy technology footprint across the enterprise data center market worldwide.
The company articulates that D'Ambrosi joins it from CIBER where he was Chief Operating Officer of the global ITO Division. D'Ambrosi led the global strategy, business development and delivery operations for the ITO Division line of business spanning end-user computing, infrastructure as a service, network and data center operations, managed application hosting and security operations.
On making the announcement, i/o CEO George Slessman said, "Anthony brings a unique blend of subject matter expertise in the successful marketing, sale and delivery of enterprise-wide IT products, services and solutions. His winning track record and ability to commercialize, market, and sell solutions on a global scale is well aligned with our commitment to serve our large enterprise customers and our global expansion."
"The ever-increasing demand in the global enterprise data center and cloud computing market is perfectly aligned with our business model, technology platform and track record of success with Global 2000 clientele. I am excited to join the team at i/o and take our already rapid growth in the digital energy technology market to the next level," said D'Ambrosi. "i/o has the best growth platform the IT industry has to offer and is uniquely positioned to be the sole provider of scalable enterprise data center solutions delivered both as a product and as a service."
DiscountASP.NET Launches TFS Build Server Hosting
Company enhances Team Foundation Server hosting solution with Hosted TFS Build Server.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced enhancing its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with hosted TFS Build Server. Team Foundation Build Server is available as an add-on to the TFS hosting service.
The company explains that Team Foundation Build Server provides the functionality of a build lab in a hosted environment. With this new service, build managers can synchronize project code sources, compile applications, and download builds securely. Team Foundation Build works with other TFS tools during the build process, including source control and work item tracking. TFS Build offers many options for build managers. With the build definition feature, build managers are in control of when and how a build is performed. They can trigger manual, scheduled or rolling builds, or take advantage of continuous integration or gated check-in features. Project builds are available for secure download via FTP over SSL.
"Ever since we launched our TFS hosting service last year, we heard from our customers that they wanted an affordable TFS Build option," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "We are excited to provide our customers with a hosted solution for TFS build server and we hope that this service will facilitate application development and help developer teams increase their productivity."
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced enhancing its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with hosted TFS Build Server. Team Foundation Build Server is available as an add-on to the TFS hosting service.
The company explains that Team Foundation Build Server provides the functionality of a build lab in a hosted environment. With this new service, build managers can synchronize project code sources, compile applications, and download builds securely. Team Foundation Build works with other TFS tools during the build process, including source control and work item tracking. TFS Build offers many options for build managers. With the build definition feature, build managers are in control of when and how a build is performed. They can trigger manual, scheduled or rolling builds, or take advantage of continuous integration or gated check-in features. Project builds are available for secure download via FTP over SSL.
"Ever since we launched our TFS hosting service last year, we heard from our customers that they wanted an affordable TFS Build option," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "We are excited to provide our customers with a hosted solution for TFS build server and we hope that this service will facilitate application development and help developer teams increase their productivity."
TELEHOUSE Expands into China's South Coast
Company will be offering premier carrier neutral data center services specializing in cloud computing.
TELEHOUSE America, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation space and services, yesterday announced its continued global expansion into China's South Coast with the TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC. Scheduled to begin service in December 2011, this new facility offers premier carrier neutral data center services, specializing in cloud computing. TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC will be the 42nd data center in the company's global portfolio, and the third new data center to open this year.
The company mentions that it chose Hong Kong as the location for its first TELEHOUSE Cloud Computing Complex due to its reputation as the 'Network Hub' of Asia. TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC offers customers excellent regional access across all Asian territories, including India. Built in the Tseung Kwan O district, TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC, a neighbor to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Data Center, offers high connectivity capacity from local cable landing stations.
It avers that the new TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC facility meets the 'TELEHOUSE Global Facility and Operations Standards', including the following features:
Located in Tseung Kwan O District, Hong Kong
36,000 square meters of space
N+1 or 2(N+1) infrastructure
24/7 security guards and authorized access
High perimeter walled site, security cameras, IC cards, and an authentication system
English and Cantonese Languages
The company says that the facility is the result of its parent company, KDDI, who made a 50 percent investment in HKCOLO.NET, a data center operator in Hong Kong who will manage TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC. The partnership was founded on the mutual need for new data center space in this densely populated, high demand region.
"This premier facility in Hong Kong will be the first TELEHOUSE data center to target the cloud computing industry," stated Noriyuki Kita, Executive Vice President of TELEHOUSE America. "TELEHOUSE seeks to meet marketplace demands, which in this case, targets the popularity and accelerated growth of cloud computing due to its reduced costs and capacity to meet the demands of businesses of all sizes. TELEHOUSE has responded directly to increasing demand in the Asian market from corporations moving their businesses' IT needs to cloud platforms with a trusted, experienced global carrier-neutral colocation provider."
TELEHOUSE America, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation space and services, yesterday announced its continued global expansion into China's South Coast with the TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC. Scheduled to begin service in December 2011, this new facility offers premier carrier neutral data center services, specializing in cloud computing. TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC will be the 42nd data center in the company's global portfolio, and the third new data center to open this year.
The company mentions that it chose Hong Kong as the location for its first TELEHOUSE Cloud Computing Complex due to its reputation as the 'Network Hub' of Asia. TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC offers customers excellent regional access across all Asian territories, including India. Built in the Tseung Kwan O district, TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC, a neighbor to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Data Center, offers high connectivity capacity from local cable landing stations.
It avers that the new TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC facility meets the 'TELEHOUSE Global Facility and Operations Standards', including the following features:
Located in Tseung Kwan O District, Hong Kong
36,000 square meters of space
N+1 or 2(N+1) infrastructure
24/7 security guards and authorized access
High perimeter walled site, security cameras, IC cards, and an authentication system
English and Cantonese Languages
The company says that the facility is the result of its parent company, KDDI, who made a 50 percent investment in HKCOLO.NET, a data center operator in Hong Kong who will manage TELEHOUSE Hong Kong CCC. The partnership was founded on the mutual need for new data center space in this densely populated, high demand region.
"This premier facility in Hong Kong will be the first TELEHOUSE data center to target the cloud computing industry," stated Noriyuki Kita, Executive Vice President of TELEHOUSE America. "TELEHOUSE seeks to meet marketplace demands, which in this case, targets the popularity and accelerated growth of cloud computing due to its reduced costs and capacity to meet the demands of businesses of all sizes. TELEHOUSE has responded directly to increasing demand in the Asian market from corporations moving their businesses' IT needs to cloud platforms with a trusted, experienced global carrier-neutral colocation provider."
Monday, June 13, 2011
FIBERTOWN Adds Data Center Vice Presidnt For Central Taxas Colocation Faciltiy
FIBERTOWN, Houston colocation data center provider and Central Texas business continuity campus, announced the addition of Bruce Buell, CPMM CHFM as the new vice president of data center facility operations. Buell will oversee the daily operations and strategic growth initiatives of the Tier IV-designed colocation data center in Bryan, Texas. He comes from an extensive background in information technology, with more than 35 years in the industry.
“Our continued growth has allowed us to focus on adding executives like Bruce who enhance the depth and breadth of our leadership team,” said John Clanton, CEO at FIBERTOWN.
Buell possesses a wealth of experience managing data center facilities with certifications in Plant Maintenance Management (CPMM) and Healthcare Facilities Management (CHFM). His specialties include electrical power management and design, quality control, construction management, and raised floor space and critical systems capacity planning.
Fresh from his role as senior IT facilities manager at The Home Depot, Buell also hails from Cyrusone as director of facilities engineering and carries more than a decade as director of engineering at HealthPlus.
“I’m excited to join the FIBERTOWN leadership team and look forward to providing technical guidance in the operations and maintenance of the Bryan data center,” said Buell.
“Our continued growth has allowed us to focus on adding executives like Bruce who enhance the depth and breadth of our leadership team,” said John Clanton, CEO at FIBERTOWN.
Buell possesses a wealth of experience managing data center facilities with certifications in Plant Maintenance Management (CPMM) and Healthcare Facilities Management (CHFM). His specialties include electrical power management and design, quality control, construction management, and raised floor space and critical systems capacity planning.
Fresh from his role as senior IT facilities manager at The Home Depot, Buell also hails from Cyrusone as director of facilities engineering and carries more than a decade as director of engineering at HealthPlus.
“I’m excited to join the FIBERTOWN leadership team and look forward to providing technical guidance in the operations and maintenance of the Bryan data center,” said Buell.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Hetzner Online nominated for the eco Awards 2011!
The Association of German Internet Industry annually recognizes the best businesses in the industry for their services with its eco Awards.
Hetzner Online has already been able to convince the jury in the nomination phase and is one of the top three providers in the "Hosting" as well as the " Data Center" categories.
The final award winner will be announced on 30 June at the official eco Gala in Cologne/Germany.
Hetzner Online has already been able to convince the jury in the nomination phase and is one of the top three providers in the "Hosting" as well as the " Data Center" categories.
The final award winner will be announced on 30 June at the official eco Gala in Cologne/Germany.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
ResellerClub Announces Customized Reseller Programs for 8 Major Markets
The company launches ResellerClub Local - a set of new custom programs to cater to its major markets.
ResellerClub, a Web Hosting Provider and Domain Registrar, recently announced plans to launch customized versions of its Reseller Program for 8 of its major markets around the world.
Over the past year, ResellerClub has launched a separate program for the Chinese market and more recently the Russian market, and is on track to localize its presence in eight markets by the end of this Quarter.
According to CEO, Bhavin Turakhia, "While our system is popular in over 230 countries worldwide, we realized that Resellers prefer complete localization - be it local currency transactions, local payment options, local language interfaces or dealing with local staff. Our latest focus is to provide them with just that."
ResellerClub's local Russian program includes a Russian Website, Russian Interfaces, Rubles as the default transaction currency and even a free Russian Storefront with every Reseller Account. It is driven through sales & support by Russian staff.
"We're essentially making it as easy as possible for Resellers to join and use our system. Our Chinese program proved to be a great success and expanding to key markets like Russia, UK, Spain and Germany was the next natural step," added Shridhar Luthria, Director - Marketing and Business Development.
ResellerClub plans on launching customized reseller programs for the UK, India, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Portugal by the end of this Quarter.
ResellerClub provides Web Hosting, Domain Registration and several other Web Presence Products & Services to Web Hosts, Web Designers, Technology Consultants and Domain Resellers worldwide.
Current Resellers: Over 65,000
Domains Served: Over 4 Million
Countries Served: Over 230
Team Strength: 100+
ResellerClub, a Web Hosting Provider and Domain Registrar, recently announced plans to launch customized versions of its Reseller Program for 8 of its major markets around the world.
Over the past year, ResellerClub has launched a separate program for the Chinese market and more recently the Russian market, and is on track to localize its presence in eight markets by the end of this Quarter.
According to CEO, Bhavin Turakhia, "While our system is popular in over 230 countries worldwide, we realized that Resellers prefer complete localization - be it local currency transactions, local payment options, local language interfaces or dealing with local staff. Our latest focus is to provide them with just that."
ResellerClub's local Russian program includes a Russian Website, Russian Interfaces, Rubles as the default transaction currency and even a free Russian Storefront with every Reseller Account. It is driven through sales & support by Russian staff.
"We're essentially making it as easy as possible for Resellers to join and use our system. Our Chinese program proved to be a great success and expanding to key markets like Russia, UK, Spain and Germany was the next natural step," added Shridhar Luthria, Director - Marketing and Business Development.
ResellerClub plans on launching customized reseller programs for the UK, India, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Portugal by the end of this Quarter.
ResellerClub provides Web Hosting, Domain Registration and several other Web Presence Products & Services to Web Hosts, Web Designers, Technology Consultants and Domain Resellers worldwide.
Current Resellers: Over 65,000
Domains Served: Over 4 Million
Countries Served: Over 230
Team Strength: 100+
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