Acquisition strengthens solution portfolios of CA Technologies Service Assurance and Nimsoft.
CA Technologies, a provider of IT management software and solutions, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Watchmouse B.V. (WatchMouse), a provider of SaaS-based monitoring for cloud, mobile and traditional web applications. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
According to the company, WatchMouse solutions utilize a globally-distributed infrastructure of more than 60 monitoring stations in more than 40 countries. WatchMouse replicates real-user transactions from these locations to provide rich, up-to-the-minute insight into application performance and availability. With WatchMouse technology, customers of both CA Technologies Service Assurance and Nimsoft will gain the ability to:
Proactively manage the end-user experience around the world
Quickly identify and resolve application performance issues
Keep cloud vendors accountable for their service level agreements (SLAs)
It avers that delivered as a SaaS model, WatchMouse solutions provide these capabilities in an easy-to-use format that doesn't require customers to install or manage software. WatchMouse is a 100 percent subscription-based service requiring no upfront payment and no long-term commitments. It also enables customers to get up and running quickly.
The company claims that WatchMouse will bolster its CA Application Performance Management (APM) solution, giving large enterprise customers comprehensive and flexible options to manage their applications within a single solution set. WatchMouse will augment the Nimsoft IT Management-as-a-Service strategy by enabling customers to quickly and easily monitor response times for different types of business services - from the cloud to the data center.
It explains that the CA APM solution provides 24/7 monitoring of real end-user transactions in physical, virtual, cloud and mainframe environments. The solution enables customers to proactively identify, prioritize and resolve performance problems before they adversely affect end-user productivity and highly-critical, revenue-generating applications. The WatchMouse solution will be sold as an add-on capability to the full-featured CA APM solution. Existing CA APM customers can further extend the value of the solution and gain even deeper visibility into end-to-end transaction performance, regardless of where their applications are running - in the data center, outside the firewall, in the cloud or from a MSP. For customer applications that do not require a comprehensive APM solution, WatchMouse provides a fast, easy and cost-effective way to understand the health, availability and end-user experience.
The company further explains that its Nimsoft Unified Manager is a solution that helps organizations easily monitor and manage IT services in increasingly complex business environments - delivered as a SaaS solution or enabled on premises. Nimsoft products integrate with existing solutions at any point from the data center to the cloud and are available on a pay-as-you-go basis. The WatchMouse solution will be sold as a standalone capability to Nimsoft Monitor, giving customers a flexible and cost-effective way to monitor cloud and traditional applications from outside the firewall. With the addition of WatchMouse, customers will have the ability to monitor and validate that their internet-facing applications are performing at optimal levels for users around the world. WatchMouse also extends Nimsoft Monitor by providing deeper dive, root cause analysis for optimizing slow-performing web sites.
"As companies extend more applications to their customers through the web and smartphones, the performance of those applications is having a greater impact on revenue, customer loyalty and brand value," said David Dobson, Executive Vice President, CA Technologies. "By adding WatchMouse to our industry-leading portfolio of solutions for managing and monitoring IT, we are enabling these companies to better safeguard the performance of these customer-facing applications - so they can better safeguard the performance of their business."
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Bunker Partners with CNS
Collaboration offers PCI DSS & GSx CoCo (IL3) certified solutions within secure data centers.
The Bunker, a provider of secure hosting and managed services, yesterday announced a partnership with Convergent Network Solutions Ltd (CNS), an IT security and networking consultancy provider, to offer CNS's COMPLIANCEngine and payment card industry (PCI QSA) compliance services alongside the company's secure data centers.
The company articulates that the partnership will enable it and CNS to offer a range of complimentary services ranging from consultancy and network-auditing processes, accreditation to QSA, CESG, CHECK and CLAS standards, through to colocation, managed hosting and cloud computing in ultra secure, ex-military nuclear bunker data centers. CNS's COMPLIANCEngine managed service (www.compliancengine.com), was built in response to the increasing levels of IT compliance regulation across all industries. It works for any industry or in-house standard by automating compliance-specific functions such as build validation, log management (SIEM), vulnerability assessment, configuration and patch management. It can also be customized according to a client's applications, systems, IT estate and risk management methodology.
Simon Neal, Director of Data Center Services at The Bunker commented, "The Bunker needed independent and certified personnel to assist us with delivering PCI DSS and GSx CoCo (IL3) certified solutions. We were particularly impressed with CNS's COMPLIANCEngine, a comprehensive suite of software and services, which has already significantly reduced the time to certification for several of our clients. The company's levels of innovation and in-depth understanding of security standards, as well as its approach to delivering certified solutions, has been exceptional."
Kevin Dowd, Director of Security Assessment & Founder of CNS, commented, "We're delighted to be able to offer our PCI accreditation services to The Bunker clients, as well as our COMPLIANCEngine." He continued, "We developed the concept for this service after years of auditing to a full range of regulation and governance requirements. We realized that we needed a tool which could audit a network once and provide the information for many controls. So we built one."
The Bunker, a provider of secure hosting and managed services, yesterday announced a partnership with Convergent Network Solutions Ltd (CNS), an IT security and networking consultancy provider, to offer CNS's COMPLIANCEngine and payment card industry (PCI QSA) compliance services alongside the company's secure data centers.
The company articulates that the partnership will enable it and CNS to offer a range of complimentary services ranging from consultancy and network-auditing processes, accreditation to QSA, CESG, CHECK and CLAS standards, through to colocation, managed hosting and cloud computing in ultra secure, ex-military nuclear bunker data centers. CNS's COMPLIANCEngine managed service (www.compliancengine.com), was built in response to the increasing levels of IT compliance regulation across all industries. It works for any industry or in-house standard by automating compliance-specific functions such as build validation, log management (SIEM), vulnerability assessment, configuration and patch management. It can also be customized according to a client's applications, systems, IT estate and risk management methodology.
Simon Neal, Director of Data Center Services at The Bunker commented, "The Bunker needed independent and certified personnel to assist us with delivering PCI DSS and GSx CoCo (IL3) certified solutions. We were particularly impressed with CNS's COMPLIANCEngine, a comprehensive suite of software and services, which has already significantly reduced the time to certification for several of our clients. The company's levels of innovation and in-depth understanding of security standards, as well as its approach to delivering certified solutions, has been exceptional."
Kevin Dowd, Director of Security Assessment & Founder of CNS, commented, "We're delighted to be able to offer our PCI accreditation services to The Bunker clients, as well as our COMPLIANCEngine." He continued, "We developed the concept for this service after years of auditing to a full range of regulation and governance requirements. We realized that we needed a tool which could audit a network once and provide the information for many controls. So we built one."
Thursday, July 28, 2011
GlobalSign Announces Strategic Partnership with OnApp
OnApp includes the company's OneClickSSL technology in its cloud software and Cloud-in-a-Box promotion.
GMO GlobalSign Inc, a Certification Authority (CA) and provider of SSL Partner Programs, today announced a strategic partnership with OnApp, a cloud hosting provider. The terms of the partnership include integration of the company's OneClickSSL technology into OnApp's cloud deployment and management software, giving hosting customers easy access to automated SSL provisioning and reselling. To launch the partnership, OnApp has included the company's SSL solution in its Cloud-in-a-Box promotion - a USD 25m giveaway available from OnApp at HostingCon in San Diego August 8-10 2011.
It avers that OnApp software dramatically reduces the time and cost of building a cloud hosting business. Hosting providers choose OnApp for its rapid time to market, low entry requirements and rich cloud management features, which now include instant deployment of SSL secure sites through OneClickSSL from the company. OnApp customers include Dediserve, eApps and VPS.NET, to name a few.
The company mentions that its OneClickSSL technology rewrites the SSL paradigm by moving away from the traditional, long-winded and error prone process of SSL provisioning and replacing it with an automated click to 'Activate SSL' workflow, which is easily understood by customers of all technical abilities. OneClickSSL revolutionizes the SSL installation process to enable full SSL Certificate installation in under a minute and is available at a number of platform levels including cPanel, Parallels Plesk, IIS and Apache, thus offering hosting companies the most efficient way to employ SSL security ever available. It adds that the company will be demoing OneClickSSL at the OnApp booth, #313 at HostingCon between August 8th -10th 2011 in San Diego.
"We are very pleased to enter into a strategic partnership with OnApp," said Motoo Noda, CEO GMO GlobalSign Inc. "Automating SSL through the OnApp cloud deployment platform is a huge benefit for hosting companies by eliminating the problems and costs associated with supporting SSL."
"OnApp is the only cloud software provider focused totally on the hosting market. We add value to hosters not only through the core functionality of our software, but also through partnerships with leading providers like GlobalSign," said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO at OnApp. "GlobalSign's OneClickSSL is truly unique in the way it optimizes the SSL reselling workflow. It's a natural fit for our hosting customers, adding real value by enabling them to automate SSL as an integrated part of their cloud hosting services."
GMO GlobalSign Inc, a Certification Authority (CA) and provider of SSL Partner Programs, today announced a strategic partnership with OnApp, a cloud hosting provider. The terms of the partnership include integration of the company's OneClickSSL technology into OnApp's cloud deployment and management software, giving hosting customers easy access to automated SSL provisioning and reselling. To launch the partnership, OnApp has included the company's SSL solution in its Cloud-in-a-Box promotion - a USD 25m giveaway available from OnApp at HostingCon in San Diego August 8-10 2011.
It avers that OnApp software dramatically reduces the time and cost of building a cloud hosting business. Hosting providers choose OnApp for its rapid time to market, low entry requirements and rich cloud management features, which now include instant deployment of SSL secure sites through OneClickSSL from the company. OnApp customers include Dediserve, eApps and VPS.NET, to name a few.
The company mentions that its OneClickSSL technology rewrites the SSL paradigm by moving away from the traditional, long-winded and error prone process of SSL provisioning and replacing it with an automated click to 'Activate SSL' workflow, which is easily understood by customers of all technical abilities. OneClickSSL revolutionizes the SSL installation process to enable full SSL Certificate installation in under a minute and is available at a number of platform levels including cPanel, Parallels Plesk, IIS and Apache, thus offering hosting companies the most efficient way to employ SSL security ever available. It adds that the company will be demoing OneClickSSL at the OnApp booth, #313 at HostingCon between August 8th -10th 2011 in San Diego.
"We are very pleased to enter into a strategic partnership with OnApp," said Motoo Noda, CEO GMO GlobalSign Inc. "Automating SSL through the OnApp cloud deployment platform is a huge benefit for hosting companies by eliminating the problems and costs associated with supporting SSL."
"OnApp is the only cloud software provider focused totally on the hosting market. We add value to hosters not only through the core functionality of our software, but also through partnerships with leading providers like GlobalSign," said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO at OnApp. "GlobalSign's OneClickSSL is truly unique in the way it optimizes the SSL reselling workflow. It's a natural fit for our hosting customers, adding real value by enabling them to automate SSL as an integrated part of their cloud hosting services."
4PSA Simplifies Provisioning and Billing for Business Partners
Company's commercial partners can conveniently access and automatically provision cloud services and software licenses without any human intervention.
4PSA, a cloud computing software technology company, today announced the release of Business Zone API, a REST based web service that the company's commercial partners can use to conveniently access and automatically provision cloud services and software licenses without any human intervention. Commercial partners can have this service activated on request.
The company states that by using a combination of REST HTTP requests and XML/JSON answers, commercial partners can retrieve information about its products and services, order new services or software licenses, as well as upgrade or terminate existing services. Billing processes are integrated with provisioning to simplify the partner's experience.
It further states that coupled with the cloud software licensing the company introduced in February 2011, the new REST API stands out as a powerful tool for partner service providers because it allows them to easily provision flexible, pay-as-you-grow software licenses. With Business Zone API, it is possible to provision and manage the company's products and services, as well as other products from its business partners such as Parallels.
"With Business Zone API, we want our partners to be able to automate operations that so far required human input or processing. This new service boosts the integration of their systems with our own back-end facilities and accelerates the deployment of cloud services," said Elena Carstoiu, 4PSA's VP of Sales and Marketing.
"We are enabling our partners to directly integrate 4PSA products and services into their portfolio and benefit from our automated systems. By using the Business Zone API, service providers can ensure a fully automated provisioning process even if it relies on a 4PSA resource such as a software license. The end-customer experience is also dramatically improved because the waiting time is reduced to a large extent," Carstoiu added.
4PSA, a cloud computing software technology company, today announced the release of Business Zone API, a REST based web service that the company's commercial partners can use to conveniently access and automatically provision cloud services and software licenses without any human intervention. Commercial partners can have this service activated on request.
The company states that by using a combination of REST HTTP requests and XML/JSON answers, commercial partners can retrieve information about its products and services, order new services or software licenses, as well as upgrade or terminate existing services. Billing processes are integrated with provisioning to simplify the partner's experience.
It further states that coupled with the cloud software licensing the company introduced in February 2011, the new REST API stands out as a powerful tool for partner service providers because it allows them to easily provision flexible, pay-as-you-grow software licenses. With Business Zone API, it is possible to provision and manage the company's products and services, as well as other products from its business partners such as Parallels.
"With Business Zone API, we want our partners to be able to automate operations that so far required human input or processing. This new service boosts the integration of their systems with our own back-end facilities and accelerates the deployment of cloud services," said Elena Carstoiu, 4PSA's VP of Sales and Marketing.
"We are enabling our partners to directly integrate 4PSA products and services into their portfolio and benefit from our automated systems. By using the Business Zone API, service providers can ensure a fully automated provisioning process even if it relies on a 4PSA resource such as a software license. The end-customer experience is also dramatically improved because the waiting time is reduced to a large extent," Carstoiu added.
NTT America Offers Global Virtual Link Ethernet Solution
Company expands Layer 2 Ethernet to international Point of Presence locations in Asia and Europe.
NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, recently announced the release of Global Virtual Link, the next evolution of its Ethernet solution that offers customers such as content providers and internet service providers (ISPs) direct connectivity among their multiple locations. The company claims that with the release of Global Virtual Link, it has enabled its customers to establish international point-to-point Global Virtual Link direct connections to Point of Presence (POP) locations in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and all of Europe, in addition to connections throughout the United States.
According to it, Global Virtual Link provides a point-to-point architecture that enables the company's customers to establish a seamless connection between two locations by integrating Wide Area Network (WAN) reach into existing Ethernet-based Local Area Networks (LAN). The service allows dedicated bandwidth from 100 Mbps to 10Gbps, leveraging the reach and reliability of the NTT Com Global Tier-1 IP Network. As a virtual point-to-point connection operating over the NTT Communications network, Global Virtual Link allows the company's global customers to efficiently deliver content through major internet network nodes and data centers located both in the U.S. and abroad.
"We're excited to be able to extend our Global Virtual Link Direct service to international markets," said Michael Wheeler, Vice President of NTT America's Global IP Network (GIN) business unit. "As our customers - many of whom are global service providers and content networks - continue to look to the cloud for cost-effective network solutions, extending our Global Virtual Link service to POPs in Asia and Europe was a natural next step."
NTT America, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, recently announced the release of Global Virtual Link, the next evolution of its Ethernet solution that offers customers such as content providers and internet service providers (ISPs) direct connectivity among their multiple locations. The company claims that with the release of Global Virtual Link, it has enabled its customers to establish international point-to-point Global Virtual Link direct connections to Point of Presence (POP) locations in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and all of Europe, in addition to connections throughout the United States.
According to it, Global Virtual Link provides a point-to-point architecture that enables the company's customers to establish a seamless connection between two locations by integrating Wide Area Network (WAN) reach into existing Ethernet-based Local Area Networks (LAN). The service allows dedicated bandwidth from 100 Mbps to 10Gbps, leveraging the reach and reliability of the NTT Com Global Tier-1 IP Network. As a virtual point-to-point connection operating over the NTT Communications network, Global Virtual Link allows the company's global customers to efficiently deliver content through major internet network nodes and data centers located both in the U.S. and abroad.
"We're excited to be able to extend our Global Virtual Link Direct service to international markets," said Michael Wheeler, Vice President of NTT America's Global IP Network (GIN) business unit. "As our customers - many of whom are global service providers and content networks - continue to look to the cloud for cost-effective network solutions, extending our Global Virtual Link service to POPs in Asia and Europe was a natural next step."
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Go Daddy Launches Next Generation '4GH' Web Hosting
The new hosting platform provides customers numerous benefits, including scalability, security, performance and value when compared to traditional shared hosting.
Go Daddy, a domain name Registrar and hosting provider, today announced the launch of its 4th Generation Web Hosting (4GH). Set up in a cloud environment, the new hosting platform provides customers numerous benefits, including scalability, security, performance and value when compared to traditional shared hosting.
The company explains that under the shared hosting model, many customer websites are housed on a single server. If a web server experiences issues, it affects everyone on that server - for example, if a hosting server goes down, all customers' sites hosted on that server go down with it. If a website on that server has an unexpected traffic spike, in certain cases it would cause website slowness or loading issues for everyone else hosted on that server as well. Using a new architecture consisting of multiple web hosting servers networked together, these issues are now a thing of the past. Under the 4GH model, because websites are hosted in a cloud supported by several servers with load balancing, if a server goes down, another server quickly takes its place, without customers experiencing a disruption in service. If a website receives a bunch of traffic, resources are shifted and the other websites still operate normally.
The company mentions that with 4GH, if more servers are needed, the cluster can quickly expand, providing plenty of power for all web hosting customers. Customers using its 4GH with proprietary Dynamic Traffic Management, Dynamic Defense Management and Dynamic Server Management are receiving a near-enterprise level service for a small monthly fee. 4GH Web Hosting is also backed by its 24/7 Site Defenders team.
"4GH was created to help our customers succeed," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "For example, a customer would be mentioned on Oprah or CNN and suddenly their web server had more traffic than it was designed to handle. We'd quickly move them to a dedicated server to protect them, along with our other shared hosting customers. It was like an epiphany - we needed a new platform that could react immediately. You could say, with 4GH our customers who suddenly find themselves in the limelight won't miss their '15 minutes of fame'."
"Every time our site gets mentioned in the media, we notice a huge surge in web traffic," said Mike Bender, co-creator of AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. "Go Daddy's 4GH ensures our site will be fast and stable, no matter what. It's critical to our success and we depend on it every day."
Go Daddy, a domain name Registrar and hosting provider, today announced the launch of its 4th Generation Web Hosting (4GH). Set up in a cloud environment, the new hosting platform provides customers numerous benefits, including scalability, security, performance and value when compared to traditional shared hosting.
The company explains that under the shared hosting model, many customer websites are housed on a single server. If a web server experiences issues, it affects everyone on that server - for example, if a hosting server goes down, all customers' sites hosted on that server go down with it. If a website on that server has an unexpected traffic spike, in certain cases it would cause website slowness or loading issues for everyone else hosted on that server as well. Using a new architecture consisting of multiple web hosting servers networked together, these issues are now a thing of the past. Under the 4GH model, because websites are hosted in a cloud supported by several servers with load balancing, if a server goes down, another server quickly takes its place, without customers experiencing a disruption in service. If a website receives a bunch of traffic, resources are shifted and the other websites still operate normally.
The company mentions that with 4GH, if more servers are needed, the cluster can quickly expand, providing plenty of power for all web hosting customers. Customers using its 4GH with proprietary Dynamic Traffic Management, Dynamic Defense Management and Dynamic Server Management are receiving a near-enterprise level service for a small monthly fee. 4GH Web Hosting is also backed by its 24/7 Site Defenders team.
"4GH was created to help our customers succeed," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "For example, a customer would be mentioned on Oprah or CNN and suddenly their web server had more traffic than it was designed to handle. We'd quickly move them to a dedicated server to protect them, along with our other shared hosting customers. It was like an epiphany - we needed a new platform that could react immediately. You could say, with 4GH our customers who suddenly find themselves in the limelight won't miss their '15 minutes of fame'."
"Every time our site gets mentioned in the media, we notice a huge surge in web traffic," said Mike Bender, co-creator of AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. "Go Daddy's 4GH ensures our site will be fast and stable, no matter what. It's critical to our success and we depend on it every day."
Dell Unveils OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Solution
New solution to help further advance the adoption of open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Dell yesterday announced the first available cloud solution offering based on the OpenStack platform - the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. Customers seeking alternatives to existing cloud options based on proprietary, licensed software models can now utilize the OpenStack Cloud Solution, which integrates the OpenStack cloud operating system, cloud-optimized Dell PowerEdge C servers, the company developed 'Crowbar' OpenStack installer, and services from the company and Rackspace Cloud Builders.
It mentions that the OpenStack Cloud Solution comes with a reference architecture designed to help customers quickly integrate, deploy and manage their IT resources in an OpenStack environment. Tested, validated, and supported by the company, the reference architecture is based on its PowerEdge C Series servers, which capture the efficiencies and design lessons learned from some of the world's largest hosting and cloud providers, while being engineered to maximize revenue per-square foot within the data center.
The company states that this solution also incorporates its Crowbar software framework, which manages the OpenStack deployment from the initial server boot to the configuration of the primary OpenStack components, allowing users to complete bare metal deployment of multi-node OpenStack clouds in a matter of hours, as opposed to days. Once the initial deployment is complete, Crowbar can be used to maintain, expand, and architect the complete solution, including BIOS configuration, network discovery, status monitoring, performance data gathering, and alerting. The company has released Crowbar to the community as open source code to enable users to build functionality to address their specific system needs, and is working with the community to submit Crowbar as a core project in the OpenStack initiative.
It articulates that the company has been part of the OpenStack community since its creation, and has worked closely with a number of key OpenStack partners, including Rackspace, Citrix, Opscode, Canonical, Intel, and others. Its expertise in servers, software, and services is the underpinning of the OpenStack Cloud Solution, which utilizes the current OpenStack release, Cactus. With support for the two top public compute cloud application programming interfaces from Amazon and Rackspace, as well as extensive support for all of the major virtualization technologies from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware, OpenStack and the OpenStack Cloud Solution provide all the components necessary to deliver a comprehensive cloud offering.
"Dell is an active participant in the OpenStack community because it brings our customers open APIs, capable practices for cloud operations, and affordable infrastructure. Utilizing and integrating the efficiencies of the PowerEdge C line with optimized software, and tailored services, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution enables users to go from unboxing servers to running a usable OpenStack cloud in mere hours," said Mark Linebaugh, Vice President, Next Generation Computing Solutions, Dell. "The ability to quickly develop, deploy, and deliver open source cloud services can translate not only to lower costs, but also the flexibility to rapidly add new features and meet customer needs on demand."
"In order to efficiently serve over 300,000 customers, DreamHost has built intelligent service automation into all our web hosting solutions," said Simon Anderson, CEO of DreamHost. "As we expand into cloud services based on Ceph, the open source distributed storage system sponsored by DreamHost, we've chosen Dell's PowerEdge C servers, OpenStack and Crowbar open source service provisioning software to enable a dramatic improvement in operational efficiencies at scale. These unique advantages, powered in part by Dell, give DreamHost the ability to pursue disruptive business models and stay true to our vision to democratize the delivery of data and compute intensive web services."
"Service providers and enterprises wanting to build highly scalable, flexible cloud infrastructure can now deploy OpenStack-based clouds more quickly and confidently with the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution and services from Rackspace Cloud Builders," said Jim Curry, GM, Rackspace Cloud Builders. "Backed by the OpenStack experts at Dell and Rackspace, organizations will have access to tested reference architectures and ongoing support to optimize their OpenStack cloud environments."
"Citrix is a founding member of the OpenStack initiative and has been one of the largest contributors to the project to date. OpenStack has seen tremendous momentum in the last year as the demand from organizations looking to build open, elastic, scale-out infrastructures have dramatically increased," said Sameer Dholakia, Group VP and GM, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix. "With this announcement, Dell is building on that momentum by delivering solutions and services that make it easier to deploy an OpenStack-based cloud environment. We will continue to collaborate with Dell and Rackspace on OpenStack to create innovative new offerings that help organizations make the transition to the cloud."
Dell yesterday announced the first available cloud solution offering based on the OpenStack platform - the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. Customers seeking alternatives to existing cloud options based on proprietary, licensed software models can now utilize the OpenStack Cloud Solution, which integrates the OpenStack cloud operating system, cloud-optimized Dell PowerEdge C servers, the company developed 'Crowbar' OpenStack installer, and services from the company and Rackspace Cloud Builders.
It mentions that the OpenStack Cloud Solution comes with a reference architecture designed to help customers quickly integrate, deploy and manage their IT resources in an OpenStack environment. Tested, validated, and supported by the company, the reference architecture is based on its PowerEdge C Series servers, which capture the efficiencies and design lessons learned from some of the world's largest hosting and cloud providers, while being engineered to maximize revenue per-square foot within the data center.
The company states that this solution also incorporates its Crowbar software framework, which manages the OpenStack deployment from the initial server boot to the configuration of the primary OpenStack components, allowing users to complete bare metal deployment of multi-node OpenStack clouds in a matter of hours, as opposed to days. Once the initial deployment is complete, Crowbar can be used to maintain, expand, and architect the complete solution, including BIOS configuration, network discovery, status monitoring, performance data gathering, and alerting. The company has released Crowbar to the community as open source code to enable users to build functionality to address their specific system needs, and is working with the community to submit Crowbar as a core project in the OpenStack initiative.
It articulates that the company has been part of the OpenStack community since its creation, and has worked closely with a number of key OpenStack partners, including Rackspace, Citrix, Opscode, Canonical, Intel, and others. Its expertise in servers, software, and services is the underpinning of the OpenStack Cloud Solution, which utilizes the current OpenStack release, Cactus. With support for the two top public compute cloud application programming interfaces from Amazon and Rackspace, as well as extensive support for all of the major virtualization technologies from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware, OpenStack and the OpenStack Cloud Solution provide all the components necessary to deliver a comprehensive cloud offering.
"Dell is an active participant in the OpenStack community because it brings our customers open APIs, capable practices for cloud operations, and affordable infrastructure. Utilizing and integrating the efficiencies of the PowerEdge C line with optimized software, and tailored services, the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution enables users to go from unboxing servers to running a usable OpenStack cloud in mere hours," said Mark Linebaugh, Vice President, Next Generation Computing Solutions, Dell. "The ability to quickly develop, deploy, and deliver open source cloud services can translate not only to lower costs, but also the flexibility to rapidly add new features and meet customer needs on demand."
"In order to efficiently serve over 300,000 customers, DreamHost has built intelligent service automation into all our web hosting solutions," said Simon Anderson, CEO of DreamHost. "As we expand into cloud services based on Ceph, the open source distributed storage system sponsored by DreamHost, we've chosen Dell's PowerEdge C servers, OpenStack and Crowbar open source service provisioning software to enable a dramatic improvement in operational efficiencies at scale. These unique advantages, powered in part by Dell, give DreamHost the ability to pursue disruptive business models and stay true to our vision to democratize the delivery of data and compute intensive web services."
"Service providers and enterprises wanting to build highly scalable, flexible cloud infrastructure can now deploy OpenStack-based clouds more quickly and confidently with the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution and services from Rackspace Cloud Builders," said Jim Curry, GM, Rackspace Cloud Builders. "Backed by the OpenStack experts at Dell and Rackspace, organizations will have access to tested reference architectures and ongoing support to optimize their OpenStack cloud environments."
"Citrix is a founding member of the OpenStack initiative and has been one of the largest contributors to the project to date. OpenStack has seen tremendous momentum in the last year as the demand from organizations looking to build open, elastic, scale-out infrastructures have dramatically increased," said Sameer Dholakia, Group VP and GM, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix. "With this announcement, Dell is building on that momentum by delivering solutions and services that make it easier to deploy an OpenStack-based cloud environment. We will continue to collaborate with Dell and Rackspace on OpenStack to create innovative new offerings that help organizations make the transition to the cloud."
SoftLayer Adds Local Disk Option for CloudLayer Computing
Provides faster I/O speeds and lower price points for cloud computing instances.
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, yesterday announced the expansion of its storage options for CloudLayer Computing Instances (CCI) to include Local Disk Storage. Available as an alternative to its Storage Area Network (SAN)-based CCIs, the new option brings customers the ability to choose the storage that best meets their individual application and performance needs.
The company avers that Local Disk Storage for CloudLayer Computing is implemented as RAID Level 10, for enterprise-grade reliability and security. 25 GB or 100 GB Local Disks are available for primary storage, and 100 GB or 200 GB Local Disks are available for additional storage. SAN-based storage continues to be available; currently the two storage options cannot be used together.
"Every customer is different, and needs different things from cloud," said Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer for SoftLayer. "That's why we created Build Your Own Cloud, letting customers tailor the CPU power, RAM, and storage capacity of their CCIs to their application requirements. Local Disk Storage takes that even farther, bringing customers even greater control over how their cloud solutions perform."
"There are inherent differences between SAN and Local Storage that give each their own advantages," said Skarda. "Since SAN-based CCIs store their data in a shared location, they will always provide faster recovery options and greater flexibility in scaling total storage capacity. But, naturally, Local Disk-based CCIs can provide faster input/output speeds, making them an even better option for storage-intensive applications and lowering total cost of operations. Now, it's entirely up to you which benefits you'd rather leverage."
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, yesterday announced the expansion of its storage options for CloudLayer Computing Instances (CCI) to include Local Disk Storage. Available as an alternative to its Storage Area Network (SAN)-based CCIs, the new option brings customers the ability to choose the storage that best meets their individual application and performance needs.
The company avers that Local Disk Storage for CloudLayer Computing is implemented as RAID Level 10, for enterprise-grade reliability and security. 25 GB or 100 GB Local Disks are available for primary storage, and 100 GB or 200 GB Local Disks are available for additional storage. SAN-based storage continues to be available; currently the two storage options cannot be used together.
"Every customer is different, and needs different things from cloud," said Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer for SoftLayer. "That's why we created Build Your Own Cloud, letting customers tailor the CPU power, RAM, and storage capacity of their CCIs to their application requirements. Local Disk Storage takes that even farther, bringing customers even greater control over how their cloud solutions perform."
"There are inherent differences between SAN and Local Storage that give each their own advantages," said Skarda. "Since SAN-based CCIs store their data in a shared location, they will always provide faster recovery options and greater flexibility in scaling total storage capacity. But, naturally, Local Disk-based CCIs can provide faster input/output speeds, making them an even better option for storage-intensive applications and lowering total cost of operations. Now, it's entirely up to you which benefits you'd rather leverage."
Gazzin.com Upgrades Servers, Reseller Hosting Plans
With the upgrades, all reseller hosting plans now offer increased data transfer and disk space allotments, without increases in price.
Gazzin.com, a reseller hosting provider, today announced upgrades that affect its infrastructure, reseller hosting plans, and overall service offerings. The changes have been in development for several months and take effect today.
The company says that all reseller hosting plans now offer increased data transfer and disk space allotments, without increases in price. Reseller hosting plans have also been migrated to its new cloud hosting environment, offering increased performance and access to Litespeed Web Server. It has also made significant improvements to server hardware and network infrastructure, resulting in increased system performance and more robust network uptime. Existing customers will automatically receive the upgrades.
According to it, the company has also made improvements to its line of Virtual Private Servers. Customers can choose from Xen-based VPS plans and Windows VPS featuring control panel from DirectAdmin, cPanel, and Plesk free of charge. Customers can also choose from unmetered bandwidth and a new, turnkey hosting control panel designed to help them start and grow a web hosting business. Through a new partnership with CloudFlare, the company also now boasts access to a Content Delivery Network, allowing its customers to use CDN services alongside their traditional hosting plans.
"As a market leader in reseller hosting for nearly eight years, we have always believed it is critical to continually improve our infrastructure and service offerings. Today's announcement underscores our commitment to not only staying competitive in the marketplace, but also making the long-term investments in technology that allow our customers to prosper in their own businesses," said Jimmy Lu, Director of Operations for Gazzin.com.
Gazzin.com, a reseller hosting provider, today announced upgrades that affect its infrastructure, reseller hosting plans, and overall service offerings. The changes have been in development for several months and take effect today.
The company says that all reseller hosting plans now offer increased data transfer and disk space allotments, without increases in price. Reseller hosting plans have also been migrated to its new cloud hosting environment, offering increased performance and access to Litespeed Web Server. It has also made significant improvements to server hardware and network infrastructure, resulting in increased system performance and more robust network uptime. Existing customers will automatically receive the upgrades.
According to it, the company has also made improvements to its line of Virtual Private Servers. Customers can choose from Xen-based VPS plans and Windows VPS featuring control panel from DirectAdmin, cPanel, and Plesk free of charge. Customers can also choose from unmetered bandwidth and a new, turnkey hosting control panel designed to help them start and grow a web hosting business. Through a new partnership with CloudFlare, the company also now boasts access to a Content Delivery Network, allowing its customers to use CDN services alongside their traditional hosting plans.
"As a market leader in reseller hosting for nearly eight years, we have always believed it is critical to continually improve our infrastructure and service offerings. Today's announcement underscores our commitment to not only staying competitive in the marketplace, but also making the long-term investments in technology that allow our customers to prosper in their own businesses," said Jimmy Lu, Director of Operations for Gazzin.com.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
CloudLinux Receives FindMyHost Editor's Choice Award
Company awarded for its ability to isolate individual websites on a multi-tenant server using LVE technology and for its focus on shared hosting providers.
Cloud Linux Inc., a software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announced that it is the recipient of the July 2011 Editor's Choice Award from FindMyHost.com. The company received the award for its ability to isolate individual websites on a multi-tenant server using Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology and for its focus on shared hosting providers.
It explains that CloudLinux was launched in early 2010 and is the only commercially supported server operating system proven to increase server density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. The company invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment, a kernel-level technology that isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight environment and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others - especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant. The technology is designed to eliminate the risk of an unstable server that can undermine operations and profitability.
The company says that CloudLinux is already installed on more than four thousand production servers. It is compatible with all major hosting control panels, including, cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, ISPmanager and InterWorx control panel products, as well as with Apache and LiteSpeed web servers. It is also used as a base for Parallels Web Hosting Next Generation platform. CloudLinux is the only server OS sold, supported, and distributed by cPanel.
"Shared hosting providers have a unique set of needs and they require a solid infrastructure that can be managed easily and effectively for complex and multi-tenant environments," stated Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. "We built CloudLinux to give hosting providers the control they need to protect customers from outages frequently caused by individual tenants. This award is a gratifying validation of the work we are doing and our team is greatly honored to receive this Editor's Choice Award."
Cloud Linux Inc., a software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announced that it is the recipient of the July 2011 Editor's Choice Award from FindMyHost.com. The company received the award for its ability to isolate individual websites on a multi-tenant server using Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology and for its focus on shared hosting providers.
It explains that CloudLinux was launched in early 2010 and is the only commercially supported server operating system proven to increase server density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. The company invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment, a kernel-level technology that isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight environment and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others - especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant. The technology is designed to eliminate the risk of an unstable server that can undermine operations and profitability.
The company says that CloudLinux is already installed on more than four thousand production servers. It is compatible with all major hosting control panels, including, cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, ISPmanager and InterWorx control panel products, as well as with Apache and LiteSpeed web servers. It is also used as a base for Parallels Web Hosting Next Generation platform. CloudLinux is the only server OS sold, supported, and distributed by cPanel.
"Shared hosting providers have a unique set of needs and they require a solid infrastructure that can be managed easily and effectively for complex and multi-tenant environments," stated Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. "We built CloudLinux to give hosting providers the control they need to protect customers from outages frequently caused by individual tenants. This award is a gratifying validation of the work we are doing and our team is greatly honored to receive this Editor's Choice Award."
Digital Realty Trust Enters Australian Data Center Market
Company to provide its customer-driven data center solutions to meet strong local demand.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a wholesale data center provider, yesterday announced that it has entered the Australian data center market with the acquisition of a 3.48 hectare development site in Sydney, Australia for a purchase price of approximately USD 10.7 million. This represents the first acquisition in Australia for the company.
The company articulates that the site, located in Erskine Park, an industrial precinct located in the Western Sydney Employment Hub, is capable of supporting approximately 18,600 square meters of data center development with over 11.5MW of IT capacity. It has secured permitting for the development and plans to commence construction on the first phase of 9,300 square meters in the fall of 2011, which will consist of building out the first of two data center facilities. The building is designed to support four 1440 kW Turn-Key Data center PODs.
According to it, each of the company's Turn-Key Data center facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Data center is built using the company's proprietary POD Architecture and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use. The facility also comes standard with its PowerVU software, which enables centralized monitoring and management of data center power consumption, energy efficiency and load analysis.
"The acquisition of this site adds a very important market to our portfolio and is key to our expansion in the Asia Pacific region," said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer for Digital Realty Trust. "The Sydney market is characterized by a robust business environment, yet has a limited supply of data center space available to meet customer demand for highly reliable, flexible and secure facilities."
"In the Sydney market, the availability of data center space has long been the domain of colocation, managed services and regional telecommunications providers," said Kris Kumar, Regional Head, Asia Pacific, Digital Realty Trust. "We believe that our ability to deliver secure, reliable and cost effective data center solutions will be a significant benefit to customers that are expanding their IT operations in the region. Utilizing our operating expertise and global resources, we expect a twelve month construction period to complete the building's shell and core and the first two 1440 kW Turn-Key Data center PODs."
Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a wholesale data center provider, yesterday announced that it has entered the Australian data center market with the acquisition of a 3.48 hectare development site in Sydney, Australia for a purchase price of approximately USD 10.7 million. This represents the first acquisition in Australia for the company.
The company articulates that the site, located in Erskine Park, an industrial precinct located in the Western Sydney Employment Hub, is capable of supporting approximately 18,600 square meters of data center development with over 11.5MW of IT capacity. It has secured permitting for the development and plans to commence construction on the first phase of 9,300 square meters in the fall of 2011, which will consist of building out the first of two data center facilities. The building is designed to support four 1440 kW Turn-Key Data center PODs.
According to it, each of the company's Turn-Key Data center facility is physically secure and features a state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimized for green operation. Every Turn-Key Data center is built using the company's proprietary POD Architecture and uses metered power to ensure that clients pay only for the power that they use. The facility also comes standard with its PowerVU software, which enables centralized monitoring and management of data center power consumption, energy efficiency and load analysis.
"The acquisition of this site adds a very important market to our portfolio and is key to our expansion in the Asia Pacific region," said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer for Digital Realty Trust. "The Sydney market is characterized by a robust business environment, yet has a limited supply of data center space available to meet customer demand for highly reliable, flexible and secure facilities."
"In the Sydney market, the availability of data center space has long been the domain of colocation, managed services and regional telecommunications providers," said Kris Kumar, Regional Head, Asia Pacific, Digital Realty Trust. "We believe that our ability to deliver secure, reliable and cost effective data center solutions will be a significant benefit to customers that are expanding their IT operations in the region. Utilizing our operating expertise and global resources, we expect a twelve month construction period to complete the building's shell and core and the first two 1440 kW Turn-Key Data center PODs."
CyrusOne Completes Expansion of North Dallas Data Center
Commissions 65,000 square feet of data center space in North Dallas.
CyrusOne, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell and data center provider, yesterday announced the commissioning of an additional 65,000 square feet of premium data center space in its North Dallas facility. Its North Dallas facility, which is located in the Convergence Technology Campus, currently offers 192,000 square feet of prime redundant power architecture with high-density capability and abundant connectivity.
The company avers that in order to meet future power requirements, it has entered into an agreement with Texas-New Mexico Power to add 14 megawatts (MW) of power capacity at the North Dallas facility by 2012. This will result in available power capacity of 22 MW with future expansion available up to 62 MW, as required.
It states that the company's data centers are uniquely designed to support highly powered server environments backed by fully redundant power architecture. This high density infrastructure allows customers the flexibility in choosing the most current server technology to install within their environment - more than 250 watts per square foot. Combined with its fully redundant power architecture, and dedicated on-site substation, the company provides the highest resiliency of power to customers, ensuring the availability of mission-critical systems.
"With the expansion of our North Dallas facility, CyrusOne stands ready to help enterprise customers better manage their data center requirements with highly cost-efficient and flexible solutions," said Gary Wojtaszek, President of CyrusOne. "Increasing demand from Fortune 1000 companies for colocation space in the Dallas area is being driven by business expansion and a growing desire to have a centralized location for applications and data center. CyrusOne is uniquely qualified to meet this demand."
CyrusOne, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell and data center provider, yesterday announced the commissioning of an additional 65,000 square feet of premium data center space in its North Dallas facility. Its North Dallas facility, which is located in the Convergence Technology Campus, currently offers 192,000 square feet of prime redundant power architecture with high-density capability and abundant connectivity.
The company avers that in order to meet future power requirements, it has entered into an agreement with Texas-New Mexico Power to add 14 megawatts (MW) of power capacity at the North Dallas facility by 2012. This will result in available power capacity of 22 MW with future expansion available up to 62 MW, as required.
It states that the company's data centers are uniquely designed to support highly powered server environments backed by fully redundant power architecture. This high density infrastructure allows customers the flexibility in choosing the most current server technology to install within their environment - more than 250 watts per square foot. Combined with its fully redundant power architecture, and dedicated on-site substation, the company provides the highest resiliency of power to customers, ensuring the availability of mission-critical systems.
"With the expansion of our North Dallas facility, CyrusOne stands ready to help enterprise customers better manage their data center requirements with highly cost-efficient and flexible solutions," said Gary Wojtaszek, President of CyrusOne. "Increasing demand from Fortune 1000 companies for colocation space in the Dallas area is being driven by business expansion and a growing desire to have a centralized location for applications and data center. CyrusOne is uniquely qualified to meet this demand."
DataChambers Introduces Cloud Hosting Service
New capability helps medical technology firm cost-effectively manage peak demand.
DataChambers, an information technology and managed services provider, yesterday launched a new cloud hosting service that will enable companies to replace or extend their existing server network without making a costly capital investment. A secure, high-performance computing infrastructure will be accessible over the internet - hosted, maintained and managed by the company.
The company mentions that organizations using the service can use cloud hosting to replace their existing servers, to augment their existing computing capabilities or to provide redundant processing capacity in the event of an in-house network outage. In each instance they will have the ability to respond to changing information technology needs, without sacrificing performance or paying for excess, unused capacity.
It claims that it has made significant investments to prepare for the new service offering and ensure maximum availability. The company has added additional high-speed internet ports to expand network connectivity and new high-availability cloud infrastructure and routers to expand capacity. It also has upgraded existing servers and routers for compliance with IPv6, an emerging internet protocol.
The company explains that cloud hosting is engineered to meet each client's objectives and is monitored and managed around-the-clock by its network operations team. The service is supported by an onsite power substation and dual power grids, multiple backup generators, state-of-the-art security and surveillance systems, and redundant connectivity to virtually every major communications carrier in the country. In addition, the company and its team are SAS 70 Type II audited to ensure continuous protection of client systems and data.
It states that one of the early adopters of cloud hosting is Clinical Ink, a provider of electronic source records for clinical trials. The company houses and manages the servers Clinical Ink uses to deliver applications to clients around the globe. With rapid growth, though, Clinical Ink's processing needs have begun to exceed its current hardware investment.
"We've designed cloud hosting for maximum flexibility so companies can respond quickly to changing business dynamics and budgets," said Nicholas Kottyan, CEO of DataChambers. "They can lower their hardware and maintenance costs, improve scalability and eliminate the headaches that can come with managing their own in-house servers."
"Cloud hosting helps us keep in sync with customer demand," said Doug Pierce, Clinical Ink CEO. "We can easily scale our capability as our needs ebb and flow, while keeping our hardware investment steady. It's a much more flexible and affordable alternative than buying new servers to handle peak processing needs."
John Taylor, Clinical Ink's Director of Information Technology, credits network designers at the company with quickly engineering an effective solution to support the growing business. "Within 48 hours, the cloud hosting services we needed were established, and we were up and running," Taylor said. "We've been delighted with the service and the support we've gotten from the DataChambers team."
DataChambers, an information technology and managed services provider, yesterday launched a new cloud hosting service that will enable companies to replace or extend their existing server network without making a costly capital investment. A secure, high-performance computing infrastructure will be accessible over the internet - hosted, maintained and managed by the company.
The company mentions that organizations using the service can use cloud hosting to replace their existing servers, to augment their existing computing capabilities or to provide redundant processing capacity in the event of an in-house network outage. In each instance they will have the ability to respond to changing information technology needs, without sacrificing performance or paying for excess, unused capacity.
It claims that it has made significant investments to prepare for the new service offering and ensure maximum availability. The company has added additional high-speed internet ports to expand network connectivity and new high-availability cloud infrastructure and routers to expand capacity. It also has upgraded existing servers and routers for compliance with IPv6, an emerging internet protocol.
The company explains that cloud hosting is engineered to meet each client's objectives and is monitored and managed around-the-clock by its network operations team. The service is supported by an onsite power substation and dual power grids, multiple backup generators, state-of-the-art security and surveillance systems, and redundant connectivity to virtually every major communications carrier in the country. In addition, the company and its team are SAS 70 Type II audited to ensure continuous protection of client systems and data.
It states that one of the early adopters of cloud hosting is Clinical Ink, a provider of electronic source records for clinical trials. The company houses and manages the servers Clinical Ink uses to deliver applications to clients around the globe. With rapid growth, though, Clinical Ink's processing needs have begun to exceed its current hardware investment.
"We've designed cloud hosting for maximum flexibility so companies can respond quickly to changing business dynamics and budgets," said Nicholas Kottyan, CEO of DataChambers. "They can lower their hardware and maintenance costs, improve scalability and eliminate the headaches that can come with managing their own in-house servers."
"Cloud hosting helps us keep in sync with customer demand," said Doug Pierce, Clinical Ink CEO. "We can easily scale our capability as our needs ebb and flow, while keeping our hardware investment steady. It's a much more flexible and affordable alternative than buying new servers to handle peak processing needs."
John Taylor, Clinical Ink's Director of Information Technology, credits network designers at the company with quickly engineering an effective solution to support the growing business. "Within 48 hours, the cloud hosting services we needed were established, and we were up and running," Taylor said. "We've been delighted with the service and the support we've gotten from the DataChambers team."
Monday, July 25, 2011
ZNet Joins Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program
The company is now authorized reseller of Google Apps & is offering Google Apps for Business at USD 48/user/year.
ZNet, a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced that it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools.
The company states that Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size - all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs. With Gmail (including Google email security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated IM, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs and Google Sites, which include word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and website creation tools, they can share files and collaborate in real-time, keeping versions organized and available wherever and whenever users work.
It articulates that the Google Apps Reseller program includes resellers, consultants and independent software vendors that sell, service and customize Google Apps for Business for their customers. The company has received training, support and deployment services from Google, as well as access to APIs for integrating Google Apps into their customers' business operations. It is able to retain a close relationship with their customers in order to provide additional service and support. The businesses receiving Google Apps will benefit from the additional attention to their specific needs.
"The Google Apps Reseller program will help us enhance the value of Google Apps for users of IT industry," said Munesh Jadoun, Founder & CEO, ZNet Technologies. "Google Apps for Business offers a broad set of powerful APIs that enable our customers to collaborate easily with their employees, customers and other stakeholders. ZNet is offering Google Apps for Business at USD 48/user/year."
ZNet, a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced that it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools.
The company states that Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size - all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs. With Gmail (including Google email security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated IM, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs and Google Sites, which include word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and website creation tools, they can share files and collaborate in real-time, keeping versions organized and available wherever and whenever users work.
It articulates that the Google Apps Reseller program includes resellers, consultants and independent software vendors that sell, service and customize Google Apps for Business for their customers. The company has received training, support and deployment services from Google, as well as access to APIs for integrating Google Apps into their customers' business operations. It is able to retain a close relationship with their customers in order to provide additional service and support. The businesses receiving Google Apps will benefit from the additional attention to their specific needs.
"The Google Apps Reseller program will help us enhance the value of Google Apps for users of IT industry," said Munesh Jadoun, Founder & CEO, ZNet Technologies. "Google Apps for Business offers a broad set of powerful APIs that enable our customers to collaborate easily with their employees, customers and other stakeholders. ZNet is offering Google Apps for Business at USD 48/user/year."
Limestone Networks Partners with Ksplice
Company has entered into a partnership with Ksplice that allows for kernel upgrades in Linux without rebooting.
Limestone Networks, Inc., an on-demand dedicated server provider, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Ksplice, Inc., a security software firm.
According to the company, the Ksplice Uptrack software makes Linux systems more secure, reliable, and maintainable by offering seamless kernel upgrades. The need for a system reboot is eliminated, reducing downtime and ensuring up-to-date security. Further, Ksplice has been integrated with its client control portal to make implementation and management extremely simple for the client. This new software addition compliments the company's recent upgrade to its shared NAS solution. The company has taken steps to ensure its client's safety and uptime by offering all the tools necessary to maintain proper backups and ensure server uptime.
It now offers this service as an add-on to their dedicated server packages. Kris Anderson, Director of Support for Limestone Networks stated, "Ksplice not only ensures proper security updates, but increases uptime and hard drive longevity by providing less wear-and-tear on server hardware. We are pleased to be offering Ksplice Uptrack as a value-added service to our clients."
Limestone Networks, Inc., an on-demand dedicated server provider, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Ksplice, Inc., a security software firm.
According to the company, the Ksplice Uptrack software makes Linux systems more secure, reliable, and maintainable by offering seamless kernel upgrades. The need for a system reboot is eliminated, reducing downtime and ensuring up-to-date security. Further, Ksplice has been integrated with its client control portal to make implementation and management extremely simple for the client. This new software addition compliments the company's recent upgrade to its shared NAS solution. The company has taken steps to ensure its client's safety and uptime by offering all the tools necessary to maintain proper backups and ensure server uptime.
It now offers this service as an add-on to their dedicated server packages. Kris Anderson, Director of Support for Limestone Networks stated, "Ksplice not only ensures proper security updates, but increases uptime and hard drive longevity by providing less wear-and-tear on server hardware. We are pleased to be offering Ksplice Uptrack as a value-added service to our clients."
myhosting.com Re-launches Custom VPS Hosting Plan Builder
With the re-launched Custom VPS Hosting Plan Builder, clients can customize every aspect of their server and hosting plan.
myhosting.com, a provider of affordable VPS hosting and cloud services, yesterday announced the re-launch of its Custom VPS Plan Builder. The newly re-launched tool includes a visual interface
and an updated set of interactive features that put customers in control. With the re-launched Custom VPS Hosting Plan Builder, clients can customize every aspect of their server and hosting plan.
The company explains that customers may choose between a list of preset packages, discount VPS hosting packages and a la carte plans, including options for small businesses, resellers and web developers. Users can further customize server specs by adjusting their Operating System or Virtualization Platform, increasing disk space, RAM, CPU, bandwidth, IP addresses, adding storage and backup options, all with familiar sliders, check boxes or radio buttons. Customers can also add VPS control panels including Plesk and cPanel, billing software for resellers such as WHMCS or Plesk Billing, and a complete selection of add-ons, including Fantastico, Plesk Power Pack and RVSkin. It adds that the company offers customers a complete selection of scalable VPS hosting packages with flexible features, so customers can select their level of service, on their own terms.
The company mentions that an user can build a customized plan today at http://myhosting.com/virtual-server-hosting/custom-vps.aspx, and receive the first month of VPS Hosting for only USD 1 by using the promotion code VPSPressRelease. This offer is good until August 31, 2011 and does not apply to any add-ons included with the order.
Product Manager Jeremy Adams explained, "Our newly re-launched Custom VPS 'Wizard' is a virtual technology buffet with an intuitive visual interface that allows customers to choose a la carte services quickly and easily." Adams added, "To experience all the benefits of VPS and VDS hosting, it's important for our customers to be able to mix and match each service and add-on to fit their current hosting needs."
Stephen Nichols, the VP of Online Sales, commented on several more benefits of the Custom VPS Hosting Plan Builder, "Giving customers the freedom to choose their level of service and virtual server specs has a number of financial benefits. We have made it accessible for anyone to buy exactly what they need with real-time totals that show buyers a breakdown of their costs and savings."
myhosting.com, a provider of affordable VPS hosting and cloud services, yesterday announced the re-launch of its Custom VPS Plan Builder. The newly re-launched tool includes a visual interface
and an updated set of interactive features that put customers in control. With the re-launched Custom VPS Hosting Plan Builder, clients can customize every aspect of their server and hosting plan.
The company explains that customers may choose between a list of preset packages, discount VPS hosting packages and a la carte plans, including options for small businesses, resellers and web developers. Users can further customize server specs by adjusting their Operating System or Virtualization Platform, increasing disk space, RAM, CPU, bandwidth, IP addresses, adding storage and backup options, all with familiar sliders, check boxes or radio buttons. Customers can also add VPS control panels including Plesk and cPanel, billing software for resellers such as WHMCS or Plesk Billing, and a complete selection of add-ons, including Fantastico, Plesk Power Pack and RVSkin. It adds that the company offers customers a complete selection of scalable VPS hosting packages with flexible features, so customers can select their level of service, on their own terms.
The company mentions that an user can build a customized plan today at http://myhosting.com/virtual-server-hosting/custom-vps.aspx, and receive the first month of VPS Hosting for only USD 1 by using the promotion code VPSPressRelease. This offer is good until August 31, 2011 and does not apply to any add-ons included with the order.
Product Manager Jeremy Adams explained, "Our newly re-launched Custom VPS 'Wizard' is a virtual technology buffet with an intuitive visual interface that allows customers to choose a la carte services quickly and easily." Adams added, "To experience all the benefits of VPS and VDS hosting, it's important for our customers to be able to mix and match each service and add-on to fit their current hosting needs."
Stephen Nichols, the VP of Online Sales, commented on several more benefits of the Custom VPS Hosting Plan Builder, "Giving customers the freedom to choose their level of service and virtual server specs has a number of financial benefits. We have made it accessible for anyone to buy exactly what they need with real-time totals that show buyers a breakdown of their costs and savings."
OnApp Launches OnApp Version 2.2
Company brings high-end autoscaling and load balancing features to mass-market cloud hosting.
OnApp, a cloud hosting provider, today announced that it has launched Version 2.2 of its cloud management software for hosting providers. The new version introduces features that, until now, have only been available from hugely more complex and expensive cloud service providers, and out of reach of a typical mass-market host and its customers.
The company states that Version 2.2 of OnApp introduces autoscaling and load balancing for virtual machines hosted in the cloud, as well as support for the Free BSD operating system. The new version is available now to hosting providers, and can be set up in as little as 24 hours. Existing customers can request a free upgrade through their OnApp support team.
It further states that OnApp software was developed from the ground up to enable mass-market hosts to build their own cloud hosting services. Version 2.2 includes:
Autoscaling: OnApp 2.2 supports 'autoscale up' and 'autoscale out' for virtual machines based on Linux operating systems. OnApp 2.2 provides these capabilities as standard through an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage graphical control panel. OnApp 2.2 handles the autoscaling process transparently, and automatically calculates billing for the additional resources.
Load balancing: OnApp 2.2's load balancing features are powered by Loadbalancer.org, a provider of load balancing technology. Load balancing enables the cloud to support clusters of virtual machines that present themselves to users as a single website or application. Traffic is distributed across all virtual machines in the cluster, improving performance and resilience for cloud end users. Load balancing is managed through OnApp's graphical control panel in just a few clicks.
FreeBSD support: OnApp 2.2 also adds support for virtual machines based on the FreeBSD operating system, a Linux-based OS that offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features. OnApp-powered clouds support a range of Windows and Linux operating systems for virtual machines, in 32- and 64-bit flavours. This enables hosting providers to offer far greater choice to their customers in the applications they are able to move to the cloud.
"This is a major release of OnApp cloud management software, and big news for the hosting market," said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp. "Our mission is to make the cloud as simple and affordable as possible for all hosting providers, without compromising on high-end functionality. By introducing autoscaling and load balancing we're bringing cutting-edge cloud features to the mass market for the first time, and enabling even a small host to compete with the likes of AWS - but in a customer-friendly way, and at a fraction of the cost."
OnApp, a cloud hosting provider, today announced that it has launched Version 2.2 of its cloud management software for hosting providers. The new version introduces features that, until now, have only been available from hugely more complex and expensive cloud service providers, and out of reach of a typical mass-market host and its customers.
The company states that Version 2.2 of OnApp introduces autoscaling and load balancing for virtual machines hosted in the cloud, as well as support for the Free BSD operating system. The new version is available now to hosting providers, and can be set up in as little as 24 hours. Existing customers can request a free upgrade through their OnApp support team.
It further states that OnApp software was developed from the ground up to enable mass-market hosts to build their own cloud hosting services. Version 2.2 includes:
Autoscaling: OnApp 2.2 supports 'autoscale up' and 'autoscale out' for virtual machines based on Linux operating systems. OnApp 2.2 provides these capabilities as standard through an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage graphical control panel. OnApp 2.2 handles the autoscaling process transparently, and automatically calculates billing for the additional resources.
Load balancing: OnApp 2.2's load balancing features are powered by Loadbalancer.org, a provider of load balancing technology. Load balancing enables the cloud to support clusters of virtual machines that present themselves to users as a single website or application. Traffic is distributed across all virtual machines in the cluster, improving performance and resilience for cloud end users. Load balancing is managed through OnApp's graphical control panel in just a few clicks.
FreeBSD support: OnApp 2.2 also adds support for virtual machines based on the FreeBSD operating system, a Linux-based OS that offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features. OnApp-powered clouds support a range of Windows and Linux operating systems for virtual machines, in 32- and 64-bit flavours. This enables hosting providers to offer far greater choice to their customers in the applications they are able to move to the cloud.
"This is a major release of OnApp cloud management software, and big news for the hosting market," said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp. "Our mission is to make the cloud as simple and affordable as possible for all hosting providers, without compromising on high-end functionality. By introducing autoscaling and load balancing we're bringing cutting-edge cloud features to the mass market for the first time, and enabling even a small host to compete with the likes of AWS - but in a customer-friendly way, and at a fraction of the cost."
Dell to Acquire Force10 Networks
Force10's networking capabilities complement the company's data center solutions portfolio, enabling it to offer customers a broader range of enterprise offerings.
Dell yesterday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Force10 Networks, Inc., a data center hardware provider. Force10's networking capabilities complement the company's data center solutions portfolio, enabling it to offer customers a broader range of enterprise offerings.
The company articulates that it has taken significant steps over the past three years to expand its enterprise portfolio to offer customers a complete range of data center products and solutions. This includes developing an integrated stack of leading server, storage, networking and services resources to help customers streamline operations, reduce IT costs, manage data growth and simplify management. The acquisition of Force10 and investment in networking is a natural complement to its server strength.
According to it, Force10 provides global service and support capabilities around the world through a direct sales force and an extensive network of channel partners and systems integrators. Much like past acquisitions of Compellent and EqualLogic, the company is committed to maintaining and growing Force10's channel program. Force10's customers include leading Web 2.0 and Fortune 100 companies, internet portals, global carriers, leading research laboratories and government organizations with some of the world's most demanding network environments.
The company states that in the 'Virtual Era', it delivers an open and integrated approach to data center solutions. As part of this approach, its networking philosophy drives performance that can radically reduce costs by significantly streamlining operations. Force10 solutions provide enterprise performance and resiliency while reducing overall total cost of ownership (TCO), simplifying network deployment, and supporting open, standards-based systems and management solutions. The company and Force10 have had a successful partnership for more than six years, providing data center customers with open, capable and affordable networking solutions. It adds that the company also plans to keep Force10's existing operations in Chennai, India as it continues to invest in additional engineering and sales capability to grow this business.
The company avers that the transaction was approved by the board of directors of the company and Force10. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction remains subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in late summer.
"Today's data center networks are too complex and require too much manual intervention. What worked in the past is no longer viable in the virtual era," said Brad Anderson, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell. "Dell's approach of offering customers open, capable and affordable solutions aligns with Force10's approach to offering customers new levels of flexibility, performance, scale and automation which is fundamental to changing the economics of data center networking."
"We are excited to work with Dell. Combining Dell's global scale, reach and enterprise portfolio with our innovation in high-performance networking provides our customers the best end-to-end solution for today's and tomorrow's data centers," said Henry Wasik, Chief Executive Officer, Force10 Networks.
Dell yesterday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Force10 Networks, Inc., a data center hardware provider. Force10's networking capabilities complement the company's data center solutions portfolio, enabling it to offer customers a broader range of enterprise offerings.
The company articulates that it has taken significant steps over the past three years to expand its enterprise portfolio to offer customers a complete range of data center products and solutions. This includes developing an integrated stack of leading server, storage, networking and services resources to help customers streamline operations, reduce IT costs, manage data growth and simplify management. The acquisition of Force10 and investment in networking is a natural complement to its server strength.
According to it, Force10 provides global service and support capabilities around the world through a direct sales force and an extensive network of channel partners and systems integrators. Much like past acquisitions of Compellent and EqualLogic, the company is committed to maintaining and growing Force10's channel program. Force10's customers include leading Web 2.0 and Fortune 100 companies, internet portals, global carriers, leading research laboratories and government organizations with some of the world's most demanding network environments.
The company states that in the 'Virtual Era', it delivers an open and integrated approach to data center solutions. As part of this approach, its networking philosophy drives performance that can radically reduce costs by significantly streamlining operations. Force10 solutions provide enterprise performance and resiliency while reducing overall total cost of ownership (TCO), simplifying network deployment, and supporting open, standards-based systems and management solutions. The company and Force10 have had a successful partnership for more than six years, providing data center customers with open, capable and affordable networking solutions. It adds that the company also plans to keep Force10's existing operations in Chennai, India as it continues to invest in additional engineering and sales capability to grow this business.
The company avers that the transaction was approved by the board of directors of the company and Force10. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction remains subject to customary conditions and is expected to close in late summer.
"Today's data center networks are too complex and require too much manual intervention. What worked in the past is no longer viable in the virtual era," said Brad Anderson, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell. "Dell's approach of offering customers open, capable and affordable solutions aligns with Force10's approach to offering customers new levels of flexibility, performance, scale and automation which is fundamental to changing the economics of data center networking."
"We are excited to work with Dell. Combining Dell's global scale, reach and enterprise portfolio with our innovation in high-performance networking provides our customers the best end-to-end solution for today's and tomorrow's data centers," said Henry Wasik, Chief Executive Officer, Force10 Networks.
AccelOps Names VP of Marketing
Mahesh Kumar will oversee product management, product marketing, analyst and public relations, marketing communications, and channel marketing.
AccelOps, a data center service management provider, yesterday announced that Mahesh Kumar has joined the company's executive team as Vice President of Marketing. A cloud product strategist with expertise in CMDB and change management, SaaS, and managed service provider solutions, Kumar brings 20 years of marketing and engineering experience at both startups and established companies. In his new role, Kumar will oversee product management, product marketing, analyst and public relations, marketing communications, and channel marketing.
The company says that prior to joining it, Kumar served as director of marketing at HP , where he took their CMDB software business from inception to market leadership and also led the team that built HP's first SaaS-only product. Mahesh holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in engineering from Clemson University.
"Mahesh possesses the vision and entrepreneurial energy to help drive the success of a fast moving company like AccelOps, and we're extremely pleased to welcome him on our executive staff," said Elie Antoun, President and CEO of AccelOps. "His deep product marketing experience and insight into the cloud computing space will drive AccelOps' business in the rapidly growing data center marketplace."
"I am impressed by AccelOps' market potential and the strength of its cloud-generation technology," Kumar said. "The company is in a unique position to realize transformational results for IT organizations. I look forward to working with such a talented team to achieve this goal."
AccelOps, a data center service management provider, yesterday announced that Mahesh Kumar has joined the company's executive team as Vice President of Marketing. A cloud product strategist with expertise in CMDB and change management, SaaS, and managed service provider solutions, Kumar brings 20 years of marketing and engineering experience at both startups and established companies. In his new role, Kumar will oversee product management, product marketing, analyst and public relations, marketing communications, and channel marketing.
The company says that prior to joining it, Kumar served as director of marketing at HP , where he took their CMDB software business from inception to market leadership and also led the team that built HP's first SaaS-only product. Mahesh holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in engineering from Clemson University.
"Mahesh possesses the vision and entrepreneurial energy to help drive the success of a fast moving company like AccelOps, and we're extremely pleased to welcome him on our executive staff," said Elie Antoun, President and CEO of AccelOps. "His deep product marketing experience and insight into the cloud computing space will drive AccelOps' business in the rapidly growing data center marketplace."
"I am impressed by AccelOps' market potential and the strength of its cloud-generation technology," Kumar said. "The company is in a unique position to realize transformational results for IT organizations. I look forward to working with such a talented team to achieve this goal."
VMTurbo Releases Cloud Operations Manager
New solution helps organizations achieve the agility promised by virtualization and cloud computing in large, complex and dynamic environments.
VMTurbo, a provider of software to analyze, optimize and control the virtualized data center, yesterday announced availability of the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager for multiple virtual center and cloud environments. Designed specifically to orchestrate across multiple layers of services and infrastructure, the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager helps organizations achieve the agility promised by virtualization and cloud computing in large, complex and dynamic environments. For managing multi-virtual center and cloud environments, the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager is being offered at USD 49 per socket per month or USD 9 per VM per month.
The company mentions that the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager is a workload management solution for cloud and virtualized environments and uses an economic scheduling engine to dynamically adjust resource allocation to meet business goals. This ensures that applications get the resources they need to operate reliably, while utilizing infrastructure and human resources in the most efficient way.
It avers that the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager is geared to manage multiple virtual centers, multiple hypervisors and provides multi-tenancy customer-scoped views. Features specific to the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager include:
Grouping support for standard groups (data centers, clusters, storage tiers, folders) as well as custom groups
Workload placement policies
Policy driven corrective action execution
Email/SNMP notifications
Workload service levels
Resource analysis settings
Storage configuration settings
Active directory support
REST/Perl API
"IT management is struggling to meet the challenges of managing multiple virtual center environments with yesterday's tools, which invariably are siloed by technology and function, stuck in the weeds of collecting too much detailed data, swamped by a myriad of point tools with little intelligence to automate decision making," said Shmuel Kliger, President and CEO of VMTurbo. "With the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager, organizations can eliminate the multiple plagues of performance degradation, inefficiencies, waste and unscalable operations and ensure that they are utilizing the virtual environment as efficiently as possible."
6fusion, a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services, plans to integrate with VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager to drive increased value for its internationally distributed network of data centers. "With VMTurbo and 6fusion combined, customers and partners are able to better manage virtualized infrastructure and do so more efficiently. Together we will significantly improve agility, scalability, and operational efficiency for cloud operators," said Rob Bissett, Vice President, Product Management, 6fusion.
VMTurbo, a provider of software to analyze, optimize and control the virtualized data center, yesterday announced availability of the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager for multiple virtual center and cloud environments. Designed specifically to orchestrate across multiple layers of services and infrastructure, the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager helps organizations achieve the agility promised by virtualization and cloud computing in large, complex and dynamic environments. For managing multi-virtual center and cloud environments, the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager is being offered at USD 49 per socket per month or USD 9 per VM per month.
The company mentions that the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager is a workload management solution for cloud and virtualized environments and uses an economic scheduling engine to dynamically adjust resource allocation to meet business goals. This ensures that applications get the resources they need to operate reliably, while utilizing infrastructure and human resources in the most efficient way.
It avers that the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager is geared to manage multiple virtual centers, multiple hypervisors and provides multi-tenancy customer-scoped views. Features specific to the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager include:
Grouping support for standard groups (data centers, clusters, storage tiers, folders) as well as custom groups
Workload placement policies
Policy driven corrective action execution
Email/SNMP notifications
Workload service levels
Resource analysis settings
Storage configuration settings
Active directory support
REST/Perl API
"IT management is struggling to meet the challenges of managing multiple virtual center environments with yesterday's tools, which invariably are siloed by technology and function, stuck in the weeds of collecting too much detailed data, swamped by a myriad of point tools with little intelligence to automate decision making," said Shmuel Kliger, President and CEO of VMTurbo. "With the VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager, organizations can eliminate the multiple plagues of performance degradation, inefficiencies, waste and unscalable operations and ensure that they are utilizing the virtual environment as efficiently as possible."
6fusion, a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services, plans to integrate with VMTurbo Cloud Operations Manager to drive increased value for its internationally distributed network of data centers. "With VMTurbo and 6fusion combined, customers and partners are able to better manage virtualized infrastructure and do so more efficiently. Together we will significantly improve agility, scalability, and operational efficiency for cloud operators," said Rob Bissett, Vice President, Product Management, 6fusion.
ResellerClub Launches Local Programs for UK and Germany
The company creates local versions of its popular global program to cater to the UK & Germany market comprehensively.
ResellerClub, the 4th largest global Web Hosting Provider and Domain Registrar, recently made its customized UK and German programs live.
These new programs focus on making it extremely convenient for Resellers to use ResellerClub's platform. With the UK and German programs, resellers now have the ability to transact in local currencies (Pounds, Euros), use interfaces translated into local languages and interact with staff in their own language.
According to CEO, Bhavin Turakhia, "The UK and Germany are two of the biggest markets in the Domains and Internet Industry. The level of knowledge and internet penetration among the population makes it imperative for us to localize our offering for these markets."
Over the last few months, ResellerClub has embarked on an aggressive drive to localize their global program across various high growth markets. They have launched local offerings in China, Spain & Russia that have gained immense popularity over a very short period of time.
As Shridhar Luthria, Director - Marketing and Business Development, tells us, "We've seen a definite spurt in numbers and in revenue from these markets since we launched these programs. The most exciting thing for us, however, is the positive feedback we've been receiving from our existing and prospective clients."
ResellerClub now has localized programs for China, India, Russia, Spain, UK and Germany and is looking to launch programs specifically for Brazil, Portugal and Australia in this quarter.
About ResellerClub:
ResellerClub is the most popular Web Hosting, Domain Registration and Web Presence Products Provider to Web Hosts, Web Designers, Technology Consultants and Domain Resellers worldwide.
Currently, ResellerClub is reinventing global distribution in the Domain Names industry through ResellerClub Local.
Current Resellers: Over 65,000
Domains Served: Over 4 Million
Countries Served: Over 230
Team Strength: 100+
ResellerClub, the 4th largest global Web Hosting Provider and Domain Registrar, recently made its customized UK and German programs live.
These new programs focus on making it extremely convenient for Resellers to use ResellerClub's platform. With the UK and German programs, resellers now have the ability to transact in local currencies (Pounds, Euros), use interfaces translated into local languages and interact with staff in their own language.
According to CEO, Bhavin Turakhia, "The UK and Germany are two of the biggest markets in the Domains and Internet Industry. The level of knowledge and internet penetration among the population makes it imperative for us to localize our offering for these markets."
Over the last few months, ResellerClub has embarked on an aggressive drive to localize their global program across various high growth markets. They have launched local offerings in China, Spain & Russia that have gained immense popularity over a very short period of time.
As Shridhar Luthria, Director - Marketing and Business Development, tells us, "We've seen a definite spurt in numbers and in revenue from these markets since we launched these programs. The most exciting thing for us, however, is the positive feedback we've been receiving from our existing and prospective clients."
ResellerClub now has localized programs for China, India, Russia, Spain, UK and Germany and is looking to launch programs specifically for Brazil, Portugal and Australia in this quarter.
About ResellerClub:
ResellerClub is the most popular Web Hosting, Domain Registration and Web Presence Products Provider to Web Hosts, Web Designers, Technology Consultants and Domain Resellers worldwide.
Currently, ResellerClub is reinventing global distribution in the Domain Names industry through ResellerClub Local.
Current Resellers: Over 65,000
Domains Served: Over 4 Million
Countries Served: Over 230
Team Strength: 100+
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Data Foundry Opens Texas 1 Data Center in Austin
The company now operates three carrier-neutral data centers in Texas: Texas 1 and ADC, located in Austin, and HDC in Houston.
Data Foundry, a provider of data center outsourcing, secure colocation and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the opening of Texas 1, the first purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center in the Central Texas region. The initial phase of the highly anticipated 250,000 square foot data center is now fully operational and the first customers have started moving in. With the addition of Texas 1, Data Foundry now operates three carrier-neutral data centers in Texas: Texas 1 and ADC, located in Austin, and HDC in Houston.
The company claims that Texas 1 is unlike any data center in the Central United States. Texas 1's unique infrastructure features independent and diverse power, water and network feeds without a single point of failure in its power, cooling and network systems. Texas 1's power system is fed from two independent substations and showcases an underground power feed enclosed end-to-end in a concrete duct bank - a rare feature for modern data centers. The chilled water system enables flexible cooling solutions ranging from single cabinet deployments up to high-density configurations. Even the most complex High Performance Computing (HPC) environments can be properly cooled in Texas 1. With over 17 network carriers available, Texas 1 offers a wide variety of carrier-neutral options for its customers.
"Texas 1 reflects the culmination of 17 years of experience in owning, operating and using data centers. Over the years, the Data Foundry team has toured data centers around the world, leading us to envision a facility in Austin that would compete on a global scale," stated Carolyn Yokubaitis, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Data Foundry. "This invaluable perspective is inherent in Texas 1's flexible and innovative design which will benefit our customers for years to come."
"The opening of Texas 1 demonstrates Data Foundry's commitment to establishing Austin as a leading market for wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation and disaster recovery services," stated Ron Yokubaitis, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Data Foundry. "Austin, by virtue of its low disaster incidence and stable climate, is the ideal location for secure and fully redundant colocation of businesses' mission critical data."
"We are proud to open our doors and start customer deployments, delivering on our commitment to provide a facility engineered for efficiency and redundancy," said Edward Henigin, Chief Technology Officer of Data Foundry. "The combination of Texas 1's unique infrastructure with Data Foundry's 17 years of experience will create a new standard for data center operators."
Data Foundry, a provider of data center outsourcing, secure colocation and disaster recovery solutions, today announced the opening of Texas 1, the first purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center in the Central Texas region. The initial phase of the highly anticipated 250,000 square foot data center is now fully operational and the first customers have started moving in. With the addition of Texas 1, Data Foundry now operates three carrier-neutral data centers in Texas: Texas 1 and ADC, located in Austin, and HDC in Houston.
The company claims that Texas 1 is unlike any data center in the Central United States. Texas 1's unique infrastructure features independent and diverse power, water and network feeds without a single point of failure in its power, cooling and network systems. Texas 1's power system is fed from two independent substations and showcases an underground power feed enclosed end-to-end in a concrete duct bank - a rare feature for modern data centers. The chilled water system enables flexible cooling solutions ranging from single cabinet deployments up to high-density configurations. Even the most complex High Performance Computing (HPC) environments can be properly cooled in Texas 1. With over 17 network carriers available, Texas 1 offers a wide variety of carrier-neutral options for its customers.
"Texas 1 reflects the culmination of 17 years of experience in owning, operating and using data centers. Over the years, the Data Foundry team has toured data centers around the world, leading us to envision a facility in Austin that would compete on a global scale," stated Carolyn Yokubaitis, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Data Foundry. "This invaluable perspective is inherent in Texas 1's flexible and innovative design which will benefit our customers for years to come."
"The opening of Texas 1 demonstrates Data Foundry's commitment to establishing Austin as a leading market for wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation and disaster recovery services," stated Ron Yokubaitis, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Data Foundry. "Austin, by virtue of its low disaster incidence and stable climate, is the ideal location for secure and fully redundant colocation of businesses' mission critical data."
"We are proud to open our doors and start customer deployments, delivering on our commitment to provide a facility engineered for efficiency and redundancy," said Edward Henigin, Chief Technology Officer of Data Foundry. "The combination of Texas 1's unique infrastructure with Data Foundry's 17 years of experience will create a new standard for data center operators."
SunGard Availability Services Announces Expansion into India
Two Workplace Recovery centers will serve a major international bank and meet increasing demand for high levels of off-shore resilience.
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of disaster recovery services, yesterday announced its expansion into India with two new dedicated Workplace Recovery facilities. The company avers that the opening of the new centers follows the signing of a dedicated workplace recovery contract with a major international bank, and aims to meet the demand from international businesses for high levels of resilience for their key operations, whereby mission-critical, off-shore or outsourced business processes are protected according to business value, not just location.
According to it, the Workplace Recovery centers are located in Thane, near Mumbai, and Noida, near New Delhi. Built to the latest design standards, the facility at Noida will offer over 400 workplace recovery positions and is ideally placed to serve businesses in Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon. The Thane operation provides 243 seats and is well positioned to provide recovery capabilities to companies west of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, as well as those in Navi Mumbai and the new business districts developing near the airport at Santacruz and Bandra Kurla. Both facilities provide the option for future phases of development in line with industry requirements. The company has a significant presence within India through a 250-strong team of dedicated professionals, including software development support for its business continuity management software.
It mentions that to head up Indian operations, the company has appointed Balachander Vasireddi as General Manager for India. Vasireddi brings over 25 years' experience to the company, working in various customer-facing leadership roles within the IT industry, both in India and the US, including responsibility for managing hundreds of staff across globally dispersed service delivery teams.
"This expansion is as a result of direct demand from global businesses - particularly in the financial sector - for the same levels of security and resilience that they enjoy in their other territories," said Keith Tilley, Managing Director UK and Executive Vice President Europe for SunGard Availability Services. "Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the effect that major disruptions can have on their business wherever it's located. In the current economic environment, it's unthinkable to have large swathes of your workforce out of action as a result of a business disruption."
"SunGard's unrivalled heritage for robustness and scalability, combined with our existing knowledge of the Indian business landscape - including the challenges peculiar to the competitive Business Process Outsourcing sector - means we are well placed to deliver cost-effective availability solutions of high global standards for businesses located in India. We see this as just the initial phase of our expansion in India and are currently reviewing options for additional services as well as locations," Tilley added.
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of disaster recovery services, yesterday announced its expansion into India with two new dedicated Workplace Recovery facilities. The company avers that the opening of the new centers follows the signing of a dedicated workplace recovery contract with a major international bank, and aims to meet the demand from international businesses for high levels of resilience for their key operations, whereby mission-critical, off-shore or outsourced business processes are protected according to business value, not just location.
According to it, the Workplace Recovery centers are located in Thane, near Mumbai, and Noida, near New Delhi. Built to the latest design standards, the facility at Noida will offer over 400 workplace recovery positions and is ideally placed to serve businesses in Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon. The Thane operation provides 243 seats and is well positioned to provide recovery capabilities to companies west of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, as well as those in Navi Mumbai and the new business districts developing near the airport at Santacruz and Bandra Kurla. Both facilities provide the option for future phases of development in line with industry requirements. The company has a significant presence within India through a 250-strong team of dedicated professionals, including software development support for its business continuity management software.
It mentions that to head up Indian operations, the company has appointed Balachander Vasireddi as General Manager for India. Vasireddi brings over 25 years' experience to the company, working in various customer-facing leadership roles within the IT industry, both in India and the US, including responsibility for managing hundreds of staff across globally dispersed service delivery teams.
"This expansion is as a result of direct demand from global businesses - particularly in the financial sector - for the same levels of security and resilience that they enjoy in their other territories," said Keith Tilley, Managing Director UK and Executive Vice President Europe for SunGard Availability Services. "Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the effect that major disruptions can have on their business wherever it's located. In the current economic environment, it's unthinkable to have large swathes of your workforce out of action as a result of a business disruption."
"SunGard's unrivalled heritage for robustness and scalability, combined with our existing knowledge of the Indian business landscape - including the challenges peculiar to the competitive Business Process Outsourcing sector - means we are well placed to deliver cost-effective availability solutions of high global standards for businesses located in India. We see this as just the initial phase of our expansion in India and are currently reviewing options for additional services as well as locations," Tilley added.
i/o Data Centers Launches Government Programs Business Unit
Ronald Yaggi to head the company's Government Business Unit.
i/o Data Centers, a data center operator and colocation provider, yesterday announced the appointment of retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Ronald Yaggi to the newly created role of Senior Vice President of Government Programs.
The company states that Yaggi joins it from Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), where he was General Manager leading Defense Intelligence and Cyber Operations teams, and previously was Director of Federal Information Assurance Solutions. Prior to entering the private sector, General Yaggi had a distinguished career of military service.
It says that the i/o ANYWHERE modular data center system, optimized and managed with the i/o OS data center infrastructure operating system, can be rapidly deployed and scaled both centrally and in the field, and is engineered to withstand environmental, logical and physical threats.
George D. Slessman, CEO of i/o, stated, "I am excited to have Ron join i/o. His track record of leadership, execution and service made him the clear choice to lead i/o's Government Programs business. Under Ron's leadership, i/o will extend our commercial tradition of excellence; designing, engineering and delivering digital energy technology to the defense and service of our country and its allies."
"I joined the company because i/o offers the most secure, technologically advanced and purpose-engineered modular data center in the entire industry, which will not only improve cyber operations but also offer substantial savings to the government," said Yaggi. "As many defense, homeland security, and other critical systems operate on a 'failure is not an option' basis, i/o is ideally suited to address the most demanding, just-in-time needs of government organizations through its digital energy technology products and services."
i/o Data Centers, a data center operator and colocation provider, yesterday announced the appointment of retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Ronald Yaggi to the newly created role of Senior Vice President of Government Programs.
The company states that Yaggi joins it from Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), where he was General Manager leading Defense Intelligence and Cyber Operations teams, and previously was Director of Federal Information Assurance Solutions. Prior to entering the private sector, General Yaggi had a distinguished career of military service.
It says that the i/o ANYWHERE modular data center system, optimized and managed with the i/o OS data center infrastructure operating system, can be rapidly deployed and scaled both centrally and in the field, and is engineered to withstand environmental, logical and physical threats.
George D. Slessman, CEO of i/o, stated, "I am excited to have Ron join i/o. His track record of leadership, execution and service made him the clear choice to lead i/o's Government Programs business. Under Ron's leadership, i/o will extend our commercial tradition of excellence; designing, engineering and delivering digital energy technology to the defense and service of our country and its allies."
"I joined the company because i/o offers the most secure, technologically advanced and purpose-engineered modular data center in the entire industry, which will not only improve cyber operations but also offer substantial savings to the government," said Yaggi. "As many defense, homeland security, and other critical systems operate on a 'failure is not an option' basis, i/o is ideally suited to address the most demanding, just-in-time needs of government organizations through its digital energy technology products and services."
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
SoftLayer Launches High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls
New offering provides uninterrupted protection.
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, today announced the introduction of High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls to its lineup of security solutions. Its customers have the option of adding this high level of protection as a new service for current or new Cloud, Dedicated, or Virtual systems that share the same VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).
The company avers that High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls go beyond protecting servers from malicious activity. The service includes a secondary physical firewall for failover protection, and automatic fall back when the primary firewall regains service.
It mentions that its firewalls stand between the entire VLAN and the Public Network, analyzing and filtering all network traffic. With the company's simple-to-use Customer Portal, customers can easily configure the firewall settings for the entire VLAN as well as for individual computing systems. The Portal also provides a library of templates for applying protection rules and configurations for specific applications. Current templates include mail and web services, Parallels Plesk, and cPanel.
The company explains that High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls are the newest addition to its selection of firewall security services, which includes Dedicated Hardware Firewalls and Standard Firewalls. All can be provisioned on demand and without service interruption through the company's Customer Portal. The extra security of these firewalls complements its effort to provide further individualization for each customer's network security strategy to help them achieve even greater uptime, accessibility, and control.
"High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls provide our customers with greater peace of mind," said Matt Chilek, Vice President of Systems Development and Technology at SoftLayer. "Unfortunately, malicious network activity can happen to anyone, so we're dedicated to providing our customers with the best protection possible so they can focus on their business and not worry about the security of their infrastructure."
SoftLayer Technologies, an on-demand data center services provider, today announced the introduction of High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls to its lineup of security solutions. Its customers have the option of adding this high level of protection as a new service for current or new Cloud, Dedicated, or Virtual systems that share the same VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).
The company avers that High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls go beyond protecting servers from malicious activity. The service includes a secondary physical firewall for failover protection, and automatic fall back when the primary firewall regains service.
It mentions that its firewalls stand between the entire VLAN and the Public Network, analyzing and filtering all network traffic. With the company's simple-to-use Customer Portal, customers can easily configure the firewall settings for the entire VLAN as well as for individual computing systems. The Portal also provides a library of templates for applying protection rules and configurations for specific applications. Current templates include mail and web services, Parallels Plesk, and cPanel.
The company explains that High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls are the newest addition to its selection of firewall security services, which includes Dedicated Hardware Firewalls and Standard Firewalls. All can be provisioned on demand and without service interruption through the company's Customer Portal. The extra security of these firewalls complements its effort to provide further individualization for each customer's network security strategy to help them achieve even greater uptime, accessibility, and control.
"High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls provide our customers with greater peace of mind," said Matt Chilek, Vice President of Systems Development and Technology at SoftLayer. "Unfortunately, malicious network activity can happen to anyone, so we're dedicated to providing our customers with the best protection possible so they can focus on their business and not worry about the security of their infrastructure."
Monday, July 11, 2011
Ensim Introduces Unify Cloud Manager
Enables service providers to rapidly offer a wide variety of cloud application, desktop, and compute environment solutions.
Ensim Corporation, a provider of user provisioning and change management software, today announced the release of Unify Cloud Manager, which enables service providers to leverage all of the functionality of the carrier-grade Unify platform to empower resellers and organizations to efficiently and securely offer a wide variety of cloud services including desktop, server, and application.
The company explains that Unify Cloud Manager is a complete, centralized platform that manages the creation, activation, configuration, and administration of cloud services. Unify Cloud Manager features multi-tenant enablement, automated provisioning, fine-grain privilege management, and delegated administration, along with robust resource and pool management for service providers, resellers, organizations and end-users in a single solution. The advanced virtualization management technology pioneered by it enables system administrators to increase service levels and operational efficiencies by automating repetitive provisioning and management tasks and empowering users with policy-based self-service capabilities that are compliant and secure.
It further explains that the Unify Cloud Manager includes the following capabilities:
Cloud Desktop Management - Provides streamlined multi-tenant configuration with granular role-based delegation while automating time consuming provisioning and management tasks, ensuring that end users and system administrators gain all of the benefits of hosted desktop virtualization. Unify Cloud Manager supports all three desktop delivery mechanisms, including application streaming, session desktop, and virtual machine desktop.
Cloud Computing Management - Provides server and computing management technology that allows service providers to automate the provisioning and management of data center or cloud based computing environments to resellers and organizations from a mixed set of vendors and cloud platforms.
Cloud Applications Management - Enables service providers to deliver cloud-based applications and services to their resellers and customers in a bundled, feature-rich, low risk manner with a wide variety of connectors for leading cloud applications.
"In addition to server virtualization, private, public, and hybrid environments must be supported by service providers to remain competitive," said David Wippich, CEO of Ensim. "With many components, tools, and variations available today, service providers need a single platform that enables them to offer a wide variety of industry leading products and services from vendors such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, and others. Ensim's comprehensive suite of cloud management solutions allows integration of service provider and enterprise-scale management tools, via a centralized, role-based, easy to use, web management interface."
"SaaS based cloud applications are typically resold by service providers, but do not run in the service provider data center like other hosted applications," said David Chang, Director of Technology at Ensim. "While these types of applications allow service providers to avoid expensive infrastructure and capital investment and lower the operational costs of on-premise infrastructure, they still need to be offered in a secure and effective way. Unify Cloud Manager enables the delivery of cloud applications and services in a cohesive, bundled, automated, and controlled manner in line with other offerings from the service provider."
Ensim Corporation, a provider of user provisioning and change management software, today announced the release of Unify Cloud Manager, which enables service providers to leverage all of the functionality of the carrier-grade Unify platform to empower resellers and organizations to efficiently and securely offer a wide variety of cloud services including desktop, server, and application.
The company explains that Unify Cloud Manager is a complete, centralized platform that manages the creation, activation, configuration, and administration of cloud services. Unify Cloud Manager features multi-tenant enablement, automated provisioning, fine-grain privilege management, and delegated administration, along with robust resource and pool management for service providers, resellers, organizations and end-users in a single solution. The advanced virtualization management technology pioneered by it enables system administrators to increase service levels and operational efficiencies by automating repetitive provisioning and management tasks and empowering users with policy-based self-service capabilities that are compliant and secure.
It further explains that the Unify Cloud Manager includes the following capabilities:
Cloud Desktop Management - Provides streamlined multi-tenant configuration with granular role-based delegation while automating time consuming provisioning and management tasks, ensuring that end users and system administrators gain all of the benefits of hosted desktop virtualization. Unify Cloud Manager supports all three desktop delivery mechanisms, including application streaming, session desktop, and virtual machine desktop.
Cloud Computing Management - Provides server and computing management technology that allows service providers to automate the provisioning and management of data center or cloud based computing environments to resellers and organizations from a mixed set of vendors and cloud platforms.
Cloud Applications Management - Enables service providers to deliver cloud-based applications and services to their resellers and customers in a bundled, feature-rich, low risk manner with a wide variety of connectors for leading cloud applications.
"In addition to server virtualization, private, public, and hybrid environments must be supported by service providers to remain competitive," said David Wippich, CEO of Ensim. "With many components, tools, and variations available today, service providers need a single platform that enables them to offer a wide variety of industry leading products and services from vendors such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, and others. Ensim's comprehensive suite of cloud management solutions allows integration of service provider and enterprise-scale management tools, via a centralized, role-based, easy to use, web management interface."
"SaaS based cloud applications are typically resold by service providers, but do not run in the service provider data center like other hosted applications," said David Chang, Director of Technology at Ensim. "While these types of applications allow service providers to avoid expensive infrastructure and capital investment and lower the operational costs of on-premise infrastructure, they still need to be offered in a secure and effective way. Unify Cloud Manager enables the delivery of cloud applications and services in a cohesive, bundled, automated, and controlled manner in line with other offerings from the service provider."
myhosting.com Launches Private Cloud Services
Company makes virtual hosting and virtual servers accessible to individuals, SMBs and any organization seeking comprehensive web hosting services.
myhosting.com, a provider of affordable VPS hosting and cloud services, today announced enhancements to its Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V based offering to provide a virtual server offering on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center.
The company mentions that speed, stability and reduced downtime are at the core of the newly expanded cloud hosting services offered by it. By making use of Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis) automation, it has made virtual hosting and virtual servers accessible to individuals, small and mid-sized businesses and any company seeking comprehensive web hosting services. By leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters, the company has developed scalable hosting services for businesses and individuals who are storing data in the cloud. Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Server has improved the way data and disk resources are handled. As well, Dynamic memory integrated in the Microsoft Hyper-V Server platform optimizes resource usage across the system.
It states that together with Microsoft and its partners, the company successfully architected an optimally configured Hyper-V cluster. The clustered solution was designed to ensure workload is seamlessly moved to an alternate virtual machine to avoid outages related to scheduled patching. The new service reduces downtime due to maintenance by up to 50 percent. Outages due to hardware failure are also reduced because seamless workload allocation ensures that virtual machines are transferred to working locations with as little as one ping of downtime.
The company further states that in addition to the offerings based on Microsoft Hyper-V Server and the Windows Server 2008 R2, it provides VPS services and virtual Virtuozzo Containers from Parallels that are compatible with CentOS and Debian Linux. As a full-service hosting company and subsidiary of the brand SoftCom, it delivers Microsoft SharePoint hosting, domain name registration services and Managed SaaS Applications that reflect its experience and recent award for its work in the automation of collaboration services and messaging tools.
myhosting.com Product Manager Jeremy Adams said, "Windows VDS and virtual server hosting services are designed to meet the demands of businesses that need servers to operate in the new cloud environments with minimal downtime."
As part of the company's high availability deployment, Cisco and NetApp plays a large role as well. By implementing NetApp storage services, VPS Hosting is now easier to manage and more reliable. According to Darish Rajanayagam, Director of Operations for myhosting.com, "NetApp technology allows us to provide High Availability Virtual Private Servers that handle all levels of disk I/O while allowing us to synchronize backup files, snapshot vaults and secondary storage systems."
"Existing customers of myhosting.com will benefit from improved service because of the addition of Microsoft's Dynamic Data Center Toolkit to enhance myhosting.com's Hyper-V based private cloud services," said Anil Reddy, Director, Microsoft Server and Tools Business. "In addition, myhosting.com will be able to reach a new breed of customer who previously hadn't considered a hosted option. New customers will see the value in this highly available, scalable private cloud platform built on Windows Server Hyper-V."
myhosting.com, a provider of affordable VPS hosting and cloud services, today announced enhancements to its Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V based offering to provide a virtual server offering on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center.
The company mentions that speed, stability and reduced downtime are at the core of the newly expanded cloud hosting services offered by it. By making use of Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis) automation, it has made virtual hosting and virtual servers accessible to individuals, small and mid-sized businesses and any company seeking comprehensive web hosting services. By leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters, the company has developed scalable hosting services for businesses and individuals who are storing data in the cloud. Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Server has improved the way data and disk resources are handled. As well, Dynamic memory integrated in the Microsoft Hyper-V Server platform optimizes resource usage across the system.
It states that together with Microsoft and its partners, the company successfully architected an optimally configured Hyper-V cluster. The clustered solution was designed to ensure workload is seamlessly moved to an alternate virtual machine to avoid outages related to scheduled patching. The new service reduces downtime due to maintenance by up to 50 percent. Outages due to hardware failure are also reduced because seamless workload allocation ensures that virtual machines are transferred to working locations with as little as one ping of downtime.
The company further states that in addition to the offerings based on Microsoft Hyper-V Server and the Windows Server 2008 R2, it provides VPS services and virtual Virtuozzo Containers from Parallels that are compatible with CentOS and Debian Linux. As a full-service hosting company and subsidiary of the brand SoftCom, it delivers Microsoft SharePoint hosting, domain name registration services and Managed SaaS Applications that reflect its experience and recent award for its work in the automation of collaboration services and messaging tools.
myhosting.com Product Manager Jeremy Adams said, "Windows VDS and virtual server hosting services are designed to meet the demands of businesses that need servers to operate in the new cloud environments with minimal downtime."
As part of the company's high availability deployment, Cisco and NetApp plays a large role as well. By implementing NetApp storage services, VPS Hosting is now easier to manage and more reliable. According to Darish Rajanayagam, Director of Operations for myhosting.com, "NetApp technology allows us to provide High Availability Virtual Private Servers that handle all levels of disk I/O while allowing us to synchronize backup files, snapshot vaults and secondary storage systems."
"Existing customers of myhosting.com will benefit from improved service because of the addition of Microsoft's Dynamic Data Center Toolkit to enhance myhosting.com's Hyper-V based private cloud services," said Anil Reddy, Director, Microsoft Server and Tools Business. "In addition, myhosting.com will be able to reach a new breed of customer who previously hadn't considered a hosted option. New customers will see the value in this highly available, scalable private cloud platform built on Windows Server Hyper-V."
Future Hosting Opens Second London Data Center
Move adds capacity and enables the company to serve customers with more advanced requirements.
Future Hosting, an internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises and developer of Future Engineer, recently opened its second data center in London, a move that adds capacity and enables the company to serve customers with more advanced requirements. The company avers that it has already begun deploying servers in the new facility. Eventually, all clients will be migrated to the new facility. New customers will all be placed in the new facility.
It says that the new facility, which is located just outside the city, provides substantially greater access to IP transit providers and offers additional redundant infrastructure to minimize chances of downtime. Additionally, the new facility will provide the company with far greater control over its network infrastructure and enable it to deploy new technologies and services.
The company articulates that in June, it expanded features on its Cloud Delivery Network (CDN). Through partnerships with upstream providers, the company's CDN offers a physical presence in North America, Europe, 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.
According to it, the company 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.
"Our presence in London remains essential to the expansion of our global operations. As a key interchange between North America and Europe, London provides our international clients with access to the high-performance fiber they need to reach users around the world. By transitioning to a second facility in London, we are able to deliver on significantly higher performance standards and improve stability. This is a sizeable investment, but we believe the benefits are tremendous," said Future Hosting CEO Vik Patel.
Future Hosting, an internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises and developer of Future Engineer, recently opened its second data center in London, a move that adds capacity and enables the company to serve customers with more advanced requirements. The company avers that it has already begun deploying servers in the new facility. Eventually, all clients will be migrated to the new facility. New customers will all be placed in the new facility.
It says that the new facility, which is located just outside the city, provides substantially greater access to IP transit providers and offers additional redundant infrastructure to minimize chances of downtime. Additionally, the new facility will provide the company with far greater control over its network infrastructure and enable it to deploy new technologies and services.
The company articulates that in June, it expanded features on its Cloud Delivery Network (CDN). Through partnerships with upstream providers, the company's CDN offers a physical presence in North America, Europe, 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.
According to it, the company 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.
"Our presence in London remains essential to the expansion of our global operations. As a key interchange between North America and Europe, London provides our international clients with access to the high-performance fiber they need to reach users around the world. By transitioning to a second facility in London, we are able to deliver on significantly higher performance standards and improve stability. This is a sizeable investment, but we believe the benefits are tremendous," said Future Hosting CEO Vik Patel.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Zimbabwe Online Signs OEM Partner Agreement for CM4all WebsiteCreator
Zimbabwe Online customers will soon be able to create professional-looking websites without requiring any programming knowledge.
Content Management AG (CM-AG), a provider of web-based applications, today announced that Zimbabwe Online (ZOL), an internet service provider, has signed a multi-year deal for the company's wizard driven site building product CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition.
According to the company, ZOL is an independent ISP in Zimbabwe, providing dial-up, broadband, WiMAX, and hosting services to its clients. ZOL operates its own satellite links and a high-speed national backbone. In order to offer its customers unrivaled connectivity, ZOL also runs almost 100 WiFi hotspots across the country. Committed to accelerating its growth in the SMB market, ZOL will fulfill the market's need for do-it-yourself site building tools by incorporating CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition into its portfolio.
It says that with the upcoming integration of CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition, ZOL's customers will soon be able to create professional-looking websites without requiring any programming knowledge. Business users will benefit from industry-related templates and profit from the site builder's powerful features, such as online shops, business blogs, RSS feeds, live statistics, and search engine optimization.
"We are very pleased about further expanding our business footprint in Africa with a dynamic and trusted partner like Zimbabwe Online. At this early stage of our partnership, we are looking forward to a prosperous and successful long-term alliance as well as to helping Zimbabwe Online reach its ambitious goals in a truly exciting and challenging marketplace," said Robert Schovenberg, CEO of CM-AG.
"A fast growing number of businesses in Zimbabwe aim to establish their own web presence. Thanks to the CM4all WebsiteCreator, we will enable our customers to put their plans into action. I am convinced that WebsiteCreator's huge variety of specially created design templates and business features will help customers easily build and maintain state-of-the-art websites to support their business ventures," explained David Behr, CEO of Zimbabwe Online.
Content Management AG (CM-AG), a provider of web-based applications, today announced that Zimbabwe Online (ZOL), an internet service provider, has signed a multi-year deal for the company's wizard driven site building product CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition.
According to the company, ZOL is an independent ISP in Zimbabwe, providing dial-up, broadband, WiMAX, and hosting services to its clients. ZOL operates its own satellite links and a high-speed national backbone. In order to offer its customers unrivaled connectivity, ZOL also runs almost 100 WiFi hotspots across the country. Committed to accelerating its growth in the SMB market, ZOL will fulfill the market's need for do-it-yourself site building tools by incorporating CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition into its portfolio.
It says that with the upcoming integration of CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition, ZOL's customers will soon be able to create professional-looking websites without requiring any programming knowledge. Business users will benefit from industry-related templates and profit from the site builder's powerful features, such as online shops, business blogs, RSS feeds, live statistics, and search engine optimization.
"We are very pleased about further expanding our business footprint in Africa with a dynamic and trusted partner like Zimbabwe Online. At this early stage of our partnership, we are looking forward to a prosperous and successful long-term alliance as well as to helping Zimbabwe Online reach its ambitious goals in a truly exciting and challenging marketplace," said Robert Schovenberg, CEO of CM-AG.
"A fast growing number of businesses in Zimbabwe aim to establish their own web presence. Thanks to the CM4all WebsiteCreator, we will enable our customers to put their plans into action. I am convinced that WebsiteCreator's huge variety of specially created design templates and business features will help customers easily build and maintain state-of-the-art websites to support their business ventures," explained David Behr, CEO of Zimbabwe Online.
Rackspace Cloud DNS (Beta) Now Available for US & UK Cloud Customers
The free service is IPv6 compatible and is available for customers with a Rackspace Cloud account.
Rackspace, a hosting and cloud computing provider, yesterday announced that it has launched its Cloud DNS (Beta) to all UK and US cloud customers. Initially announced in March, its Cloud DNS (Beta) was previously only available to customers who participated in the private beta phase.
The company mentions that its Cloud DNS (Beta) automates and simplifies Domain Name System management and lists its features as:
REST-based API
New Record Types
Performance Improvements
Comprehensive Management Capability
Full TTL Control
Simplified Migration
It avers that as part of the next phase of this project, the company will be completely overhauling the DNS management sections of the cloud control panel. Full set of capabilities that are available via API, including management of TXT records, TTL settings, import/export will be exposed.
The company articulates that the free service is IPv6 compatible and is available for customers with a Rackspace Cloud account. Existing Cloud Servers, Cloud Servers with a managed service level, Cloud Sites, and RackConnect customers have access to the Cloud DNS (Beta) by default. The solution is backed by its 'fanatical support'.
It states that implementation and management of Cloud DNS (Beta) solution is available through API. The API Developers Guide can be downloaded from http://docs.rackspace.com/api/. To use the API, customers should have a general understanding of DNS management and be familiar with:
RESTful Web Services
JSON and/or XML Data Serialization Formats
Rackspace, a hosting and cloud computing provider, yesterday announced that it has launched its Cloud DNS (Beta) to all UK and US cloud customers. Initially announced in March, its Cloud DNS (Beta) was previously only available to customers who participated in the private beta phase.
The company mentions that its Cloud DNS (Beta) automates and simplifies Domain Name System management and lists its features as:
REST-based API
New Record Types
Performance Improvements
Comprehensive Management Capability
Full TTL Control
Simplified Migration
It avers that as part of the next phase of this project, the company will be completely overhauling the DNS management sections of the cloud control panel. Full set of capabilities that are available via API, including management of TXT records, TTL settings, import/export will be exposed.
The company articulates that the free service is IPv6 compatible and is available for customers with a Rackspace Cloud account. Existing Cloud Servers, Cloud Servers with a managed service level, Cloud Sites, and RackConnect customers have access to the Cloud DNS (Beta) by default. The solution is backed by its 'fanatical support'.
It states that implementation and management of Cloud DNS (Beta) solution is available through API. The API Developers Guide can be downloaded from http://docs.rackspace.com/api/. To use the API, customers should have a general understanding of DNS management and be familiar with:
RESTful Web Services
JSON and/or XML Data Serialization Formats
Thursday, July 7, 2011
ZNet Renews Partnership with SmarterTools
Company renews its partnership with SmarterTools to offer SmarterTools bundle to its VPS & Dedicated hosting customers.
ZNet, a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced that it has renewed its partnership with SmarterTools Inc., an information technology management software provider, to distribute feature-rich software to qualified customers.
The company states that under the terms of the partnership, customers that purchase Windows - VPS and Dedicated hosting will receive professional editions of the SmarterMail mail server, SmarterStats web log analytics and SEO software, and SmarterTrack customer service software at no additional charge. The software bundle is valued at USD 800. SmarterStats is comprehensive web log analytics and SEO software that cost-effectively delivers relevant, accurate, and detailed website statistics to help businesses increase conversions and maximize ROI.
It mentions that SmarterMail is a cost-effective Microsoft Exchange alternative, bringing enterprise-level functionality to businesses, ISPs, and web hosting environments. Features include a rich webmail interface, file storage, detailed reporting, events/notifications, throttling, email archiving, intrusion detection/prevention, advanced synchronization, out-of-the-box antispam and antivirus and optional add-ons for Exchange ActiveSync, Commtouch Premium Antispam, and Commtouch Zero-hour Antivirus.
The company says that SmarterTrack is a help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Features include a ticket system, live chat, call logs, time logs, Who's On, branding and language support, cost analysis, data mining, reporting, surveys, a task management system, and a knowledge base.
Munesh Jadoun, CEO, ZNet Technologies quoted, "The renewal of partnership with SmarterTools is a step ahead in providing cost effective solutions to users. We feel that the SmarterTools products are the best solutions that we can provide to our Windows VPS/Dedicated hosting customers. We hope the customers will get the maximum return with this partnership renewal."
ZNet, a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced that it has renewed its partnership with SmarterTools Inc., an information technology management software provider, to distribute feature-rich software to qualified customers.
The company states that under the terms of the partnership, customers that purchase Windows - VPS and Dedicated hosting will receive professional editions of the SmarterMail mail server, SmarterStats web log analytics and SEO software, and SmarterTrack customer service software at no additional charge. The software bundle is valued at USD 800. SmarterStats is comprehensive web log analytics and SEO software that cost-effectively delivers relevant, accurate, and detailed website statistics to help businesses increase conversions and maximize ROI.
It mentions that SmarterMail is a cost-effective Microsoft Exchange alternative, bringing enterprise-level functionality to businesses, ISPs, and web hosting environments. Features include a rich webmail interface, file storage, detailed reporting, events/notifications, throttling, email archiving, intrusion detection/prevention, advanced synchronization, out-of-the-box antispam and antivirus and optional add-ons for Exchange ActiveSync, Commtouch Premium Antispam, and Commtouch Zero-hour Antivirus.
The company says that SmarterTrack is a help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Features include a ticket system, live chat, call logs, time logs, Who's On, branding and language support, cost analysis, data mining, reporting, surveys, a task management system, and a knowledge base.
Munesh Jadoun, CEO, ZNet Technologies quoted, "The renewal of partnership with SmarterTools is a step ahead in providing cost effective solutions to users. We feel that the SmarterTools products are the best solutions that we can provide to our Windows VPS/Dedicated hosting customers. We hope the customers will get the maximum return with this partnership renewal."
myhosting.com Unveils VPS with Parallels Plesk Panel 10
Company announces the launch of Parallels Plesk Panel 10.2 with its Virtual Server hosting offerings.
myhosting.com, a provider of affordable VPS hosting and cloud services, today announced that it has updated its Plesk Virtual Private Server hosting plans to support the new Parallels Plesk Panel 10 platform. The company has integrated Plesk Panel 10 within all of its VPS hosting plans, making it available for Debian Linux, CentOS and Windows 2008 VPS hosting plans.
It articulates that with Plesk Panel 10, users have more options for establishing their Virtual Private Servers, as the control panel is even more compatible with both Windows and Linux-based VPS operating systems. With Plesk Panel 10, Parallels has introduced a number of new features designed to make the control panel the most powerful on the market. Overall, Plesk Panel 10 is an integral part of a VPS hosting plan because it allows users to simplify server management tasks.
According to the company, the Plesk Panel 10 new user interface features a web-like design, making navigation an intuitive and familiar process. It also simplifies the overall learning curve associated with using a new control panel, helping users quickly learn how to perform new tasks and leverage the control panel's most powerful tools. The user interface is also designed with a completely separate administrator interface, making it easier for administrators to manage server and business-related tasks without having to sort through day-to-day maintenance and development issues.
It avers that other upgrades in Plesk include general control panel enhancement, improved overall performance and page loading speed, and an optional integrated billing application to automate the hosting process throughout the customer's lifecycle. The control panel also includes an integrated site builder application, allowing less technical users and end users to build a website using powerful tools built into the control panel itself.
"With Plesk 10, users can simultaneously manage all of their hosting plans in a single interface. This alone makes it a powerful control panel, but the new version also features a simplified user interface that is capable of reducing maintenance tasks to such an extent that it saves users money in the long run," said Celal Ulgen, Chief Marketing Officer at myhosting.com.
"At myhosting.com we are happy to offer our customers the opportunity to improve their Virtual Server hosting experience with Parallels Plesk Panel 10," said Jeremy Adams, Product Manager at myhosting.com. "Plesk 10 simultaneously makes our hosting platform more intuitive and powerful for users while allowing us to improve our VPS services."
myhosting.com, a provider of affordable VPS hosting and cloud services, today announced that it has updated its Plesk Virtual Private Server hosting plans to support the new Parallels Plesk Panel 10 platform. The company has integrated Plesk Panel 10 within all of its VPS hosting plans, making it available for Debian Linux, CentOS and Windows 2008 VPS hosting plans.
It articulates that with Plesk Panel 10, users have more options for establishing their Virtual Private Servers, as the control panel is even more compatible with both Windows and Linux-based VPS operating systems. With Plesk Panel 10, Parallels has introduced a number of new features designed to make the control panel the most powerful on the market. Overall, Plesk Panel 10 is an integral part of a VPS hosting plan because it allows users to simplify server management tasks.
According to the company, the Plesk Panel 10 new user interface features a web-like design, making navigation an intuitive and familiar process. It also simplifies the overall learning curve associated with using a new control panel, helping users quickly learn how to perform new tasks and leverage the control panel's most powerful tools. The user interface is also designed with a completely separate administrator interface, making it easier for administrators to manage server and business-related tasks without having to sort through day-to-day maintenance and development issues.
It avers that other upgrades in Plesk include general control panel enhancement, improved overall performance and page loading speed, and an optional integrated billing application to automate the hosting process throughout the customer's lifecycle. The control panel also includes an integrated site builder application, allowing less technical users and end users to build a website using powerful tools built into the control panel itself.
"With Plesk 10, users can simultaneously manage all of their hosting plans in a single interface. This alone makes it a powerful control panel, but the new version also features a simplified user interface that is capable of reducing maintenance tasks to such an extent that it saves users money in the long run," said Celal Ulgen, Chief Marketing Officer at myhosting.com.
"At myhosting.com we are happy to offer our customers the opportunity to improve their Virtual Server hosting experience with Parallels Plesk Panel 10," said Jeremy Adams, Product Manager at myhosting.com. "Plesk 10 simultaneously makes our hosting platform more intuitive and powerful for users while allowing us to improve our VPS services."
1&1 Launches MyPersonal Site
New site design tool makes creating personal websites effortless.
1&1 Internet Ltd, a web hosting company, today launched a tool to make creating a personal website quick and easy.
The company avers that with its new private website design product, MyPersonal Site, anyone can create a modern online presence in minutes. Users can choose from a variety of layouts as well as pre-designed content to incorporate themes such as hobbies, interests, holidays, and celebrations into their website. MyPersonal Site is priced at GBP 4.99 per month+VAT, and those interested can create a personalized site with all included features for free during the company's risk-free, 30-day trial. It adds that after the 30-day trial, MyPersonal Site costs GBP 4.99 per month+VAT on a 12 month contract, with no set-up fee. The package also includes 1 top-level domain name and 5 email accounts.
The company says that with appropriate text and images already incorporated into the design, only a few personal details and a couple of clicks of the mouse are needed to create an attractive website. To maximize ease of use, all of a website's content can be edited directly within the browser. Thus, the design of the site is as simple as typing a Word document. No technical experience or software programs are needed with this user-friendly product.
"The new offer is primarily for internet users who do not yet have their own personal website," said 1&1 CEO Oliver Mauss. "Even for users who want to enhance their existing web presence, this website solution provides a feature-rich alternative suitable to use in one's private life. We see great growth potential in light of the increasing need with consumers to communicate through a unique online space focusing on the individual, for instance through social media profiles and blogs. While many hope to share personal events and experiences with others, 1&1 now provides them with the means to do so online."
1&1 Internet Ltd, a web hosting company, today launched a tool to make creating a personal website quick and easy.
The company avers that with its new private website design product, MyPersonal Site, anyone can create a modern online presence in minutes. Users can choose from a variety of layouts as well as pre-designed content to incorporate themes such as hobbies, interests, holidays, and celebrations into their website. MyPersonal Site is priced at GBP 4.99 per month+VAT, and those interested can create a personalized site with all included features for free during the company's risk-free, 30-day trial. It adds that after the 30-day trial, MyPersonal Site costs GBP 4.99 per month+VAT on a 12 month contract, with no set-up fee. The package also includes 1 top-level domain name and 5 email accounts.
The company says that with appropriate text and images already incorporated into the design, only a few personal details and a couple of clicks of the mouse are needed to create an attractive website. To maximize ease of use, all of a website's content can be edited directly within the browser. Thus, the design of the site is as simple as typing a Word document. No technical experience or software programs are needed with this user-friendly product.
"The new offer is primarily for internet users who do not yet have their own personal website," said 1&1 CEO Oliver Mauss. "Even for users who want to enhance their existing web presence, this website solution provides a feature-rich alternative suitable to use in one's private life. We see great growth potential in light of the increasing need with consumers to communicate through a unique online space focusing on the individual, for instance through social media profiles and blogs. While many hope to share personal events and experiences with others, 1&1 now provides them with the means to do so online."
Cloud.com Names Vice President of Enterprise Solutions
Christian Reilly joins the company to drive enterprise cloud adoption.
Cloud.com, a developer of cloud infrastructure management software, today announced the appointment of Christian Reilly as Vice President of Enterprise Solutions. Reilly brings more than 15 years of experience and will be responsible for increasing visibility of the company's flagship technology, CloudStack, in the market and helping enterprises make a successful transition to the cloud.
The company articulates that named to SearchCloudComputing.com's list of the 'Top 10 cloud computing leaders of 2011,' Reilly was most recently the Manager of the Global Systems Engineering Team at Bechtel, where he built one of the largest private cloud infrastructures to date. Joining Bechtel in 1996, Reilly has been responsible for enterprise engineering of data center, virtualization, cloud, client, network, video and voice. Additionally, he managed the sourcing management group and led global IT procurement, contracts, and vendor management.
It states that recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, the company provides customers with the fastest path to owning their own cloud by offering the latest and the most advanced software platform for building highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. It currently enables over 50 large-scale clouds in production that have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution including Zynga, Edmunds.com, KT, Nokia Research Center, Tata Communications, GreenQloud and Logicworks. The company's technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services.
"Christian is a pioneer of the private cloud and incredibly articulate and well-versed in the benefits enterprises gain from moving to this new paradigm of IT. His extensive hands-on experience, and skill in strategically architecting and deploying the Bechtel cloud is unmatched," said Sheng Liang, CEO and Founder of Cloud.com. "Cloud.com has a number of enterprise customers running similar clouds that will benefit from Christian's expertise. We look forward to Christian joining our team."
"I am pleased to be working with such a forward-thinking company like Cloud.com. Their focus on building large and successful enterprise clouds coupled with an executive team with deep expertise in the cloud industry is unmatched by the majority of companies in the space," said Reilly. "Cloud.com is already receiving great traction in the private cloud realm, and my goal is to continue expanding that market. I feel that coming to join this team from the customer side illustrates how much I believe in this company, their mission and the technology they create."
Cloud.com, a developer of cloud infrastructure management software, today announced the appointment of Christian Reilly as Vice President of Enterprise Solutions. Reilly brings more than 15 years of experience and will be responsible for increasing visibility of the company's flagship technology, CloudStack, in the market and helping enterprises make a successful transition to the cloud.
The company articulates that named to SearchCloudComputing.com's list of the 'Top 10 cloud computing leaders of 2011,' Reilly was most recently the Manager of the Global Systems Engineering Team at Bechtel, where he built one of the largest private cloud infrastructures to date. Joining Bechtel in 1996, Reilly has been responsible for enterprise engineering of data center, virtualization, cloud, client, network, video and voice. Additionally, he managed the sourcing management group and led global IT procurement, contracts, and vendor management.
It states that recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, the company provides customers with the fastest path to owning their own cloud by offering the latest and the most advanced software platform for building highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. It currently enables over 50 large-scale clouds in production that have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution including Zynga, Edmunds.com, KT, Nokia Research Center, Tata Communications, GreenQloud and Logicworks. The company's technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services.
"Christian is a pioneer of the private cloud and incredibly articulate and well-versed in the benefits enterprises gain from moving to this new paradigm of IT. His extensive hands-on experience, and skill in strategically architecting and deploying the Bechtel cloud is unmatched," said Sheng Liang, CEO and Founder of Cloud.com. "Cloud.com has a number of enterprise customers running similar clouds that will benefit from Christian's expertise. We look forward to Christian joining our team."
"I am pleased to be working with such a forward-thinking company like Cloud.com. Their focus on building large and successful enterprise clouds coupled with an executive team with deep expertise in the cloud industry is unmatched by the majority of companies in the space," said Reilly. "Cloud.com is already receiving great traction in the private cloud realm, and my goal is to continue expanding that market. I feel that coming to join this team from the customer side illustrates how much I believe in this company, their mission and the technology they create."
ViaWest Announces Opening of New Data Center
Company expands footprint to 22 facilities nationwide.
ViaWest, a provider of managed hosting solutions, today announced the opening of its twenty-second data center facility, Synergy Park, located in Richardson, Texas. Opening ceremonies will take place July 19-20.
The company mentions that with the addition of Synergy Park, it owns and operates 22 data centers with 500,000 square feet of raised floor space, 110,000 of which resides in the Dallas area. The new complex boasts high density power configurations, disaster recovery office space, 24x7 on-site support, and access to top network providers. Services include cloud computing, colocation, complex hosting, and managed services.
"We are thrilled to debut our new flagship facility in the Dallas area. We have a long history and a strong presence in the marketplace and our recent investment in Synergy Park reflects our belief in the growing opportunity in the Dallas area," said Roy Dimoff, Chairman and CEO of ViaWest. He added, "We secured four anchor tenants prior to our official opening, a strong testament to the quality of our facility and our staff."
"ViaWest had everything we required for our data center expansion. We evaluated several companies, but in the end ViaWest's data center infrastructure and customer service won us over," stated Tim Freeze, CEO of Dallas Data Center, an anchor tenant of the Synergy Park facility.
ViaWest, a provider of managed hosting solutions, today announced the opening of its twenty-second data center facility, Synergy Park, located in Richardson, Texas. Opening ceremonies will take place July 19-20.
The company mentions that with the addition of Synergy Park, it owns and operates 22 data centers with 500,000 square feet of raised floor space, 110,000 of which resides in the Dallas area. The new complex boasts high density power configurations, disaster recovery office space, 24x7 on-site support, and access to top network providers. Services include cloud computing, colocation, complex hosting, and managed services.
"We are thrilled to debut our new flagship facility in the Dallas area. We have a long history and a strong presence in the marketplace and our recent investment in Synergy Park reflects our belief in the growing opportunity in the Dallas area," said Roy Dimoff, Chairman and CEO of ViaWest. He added, "We secured four anchor tenants prior to our official opening, a strong testament to the quality of our facility and our staff."
"ViaWest had everything we required for our data center expansion. We evaluated several companies, but in the end ViaWest's data center infrastructure and customer service won us over," stated Tim Freeze, CEO of Dallas Data Center, an anchor tenant of the Synergy Park facility.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Open-Xchange Partners with STRATO
STRATO enters into Cloud Application Business with the company.
Open-Xchange, a provider of open source collaboration software, today announced an agreement with STRATO, a web hosting company, bringing integrated online communication and teamwork to hosting customers in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, UK, France and Italy.
The company says that as of today, STRATO starts to provision Open-Xchange business-class webmail to all its shared web hosting customers, which include more than 5 million email accounts. Existing and new STRATO customers will have access to the AJAX-based email, contact and calendar management functionality as part of their hosting package. Users benefit from a single and central communication application, which integrates personal contacts from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing, as well as email from external email accounts like Google Mail, GMX or Yahoo! Mail without any further interaction. The cloud-based application can be accessed with a standard internet browser (without installing software) and via any PC, laptop, iPad or smartphone.
It mentions that within the next months, all existing STRATO webmail accounts will be configured for Open-Xchange. Using the in-application upsell mechanism, STRATO customers will be able to easily upgrade to premium features without going through a complex storefront purchase process. Customers will benefit from advanced sharing and document management functions, as well as push-synchronization of email, contact and calendar information with smartphones, including iPhone, Android-based devices, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Through the free webmail offering, STRATO customers can get to know the benefits of Open-Xchange without any obligation and extend to a complete groupware solution or mobile solution at any time.
The company claims that Open-Xchange is a business-class email and groupware solution specifically designed to meet the needs of SaaS providers. The software is built on proven open source technologies, enables seamless integration into existing infrastructures, and can scale up to millions of users. It states that Open-Xchange integrates email, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Appointments and team meetings can be scheduled efficiently with joined team calendars. Using shared folders, team members get access to all important documents, tasks, appointments and contacts. Central storage of documents prevents duplicated work and reduces the amount of email traffic. Cutting-edge social network integration enables aggregation of email and contact information from external mail services and social networks.
"With more than 24 million users, Open-Xchange is now the world's leading technology supplier of hosted groupware," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "Providing consumers and businesses with the next-level cloud-based communication platform, Open-Xchange is the perfect partner for STRATO to differentiate in a highly-competitive hosting market."
"We have chosen Open-Xchange as the leading cloud communication platform providing STRATO customers with integrated communication capabilities," said Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO. "With Open-Xchange, we are enabling our customers to work more productively anywhere they have access to a browser and an internet connection. STRATO customers will benefit from access to all of their relevant private and business data - like contacts on the various social networks - from one easy-to-use interface."
Open-Xchange, a provider of open source collaboration software, today announced an agreement with STRATO, a web hosting company, bringing integrated online communication and teamwork to hosting customers in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, UK, France and Italy.
The company says that as of today, STRATO starts to provision Open-Xchange business-class webmail to all its shared web hosting customers, which include more than 5 million email accounts. Existing and new STRATO customers will have access to the AJAX-based email, contact and calendar management functionality as part of their hosting package. Users benefit from a single and central communication application, which integrates personal contacts from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing, as well as email from external email accounts like Google Mail, GMX or Yahoo! Mail without any further interaction. The cloud-based application can be accessed with a standard internet browser (without installing software) and via any PC, laptop, iPad or smartphone.
It mentions that within the next months, all existing STRATO webmail accounts will be configured for Open-Xchange. Using the in-application upsell mechanism, STRATO customers will be able to easily upgrade to premium features without going through a complex storefront purchase process. Customers will benefit from advanced sharing and document management functions, as well as push-synchronization of email, contact and calendar information with smartphones, including iPhone, Android-based devices, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Through the free webmail offering, STRATO customers can get to know the benefits of Open-Xchange without any obligation and extend to a complete groupware solution or mobile solution at any time.
The company claims that Open-Xchange is a business-class email and groupware solution specifically designed to meet the needs of SaaS providers. The software is built on proven open source technologies, enables seamless integration into existing infrastructures, and can scale up to millions of users. It states that Open-Xchange integrates email, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Appointments and team meetings can be scheduled efficiently with joined team calendars. Using shared folders, team members get access to all important documents, tasks, appointments and contacts. Central storage of documents prevents duplicated work and reduces the amount of email traffic. Cutting-edge social network integration enables aggregation of email and contact information from external mail services and social networks.
"With more than 24 million users, Open-Xchange is now the world's leading technology supplier of hosted groupware," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "Providing consumers and businesses with the next-level cloud-based communication platform, Open-Xchange is the perfect partner for STRATO to differentiate in a highly-competitive hosting market."
"We have chosen Open-Xchange as the leading cloud communication platform providing STRATO customers with integrated communication capabilities," said Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO. "With Open-Xchange, we are enabling our customers to work more productively anywhere they have access to a browser and an internet connection. STRATO customers will benefit from access to all of their relevant private and business data - like contacts on the various social networks - from one easy-to-use interface."
ThinkGrid Launches Windows 7 Hosted Virtual Desktop from the Cloud
Company updates platform with latest Microsoft Operating System and new features.
ThinkGrid, a platform provider enabling IT services from the cloud, today announced the launch of Microsoft Windows 7-based Hosted Virtual Desktops. The updated service offers businesses access to the full Windows 7 experience, greater flexibility around hardware and a cost-effective alternative to traditional Windows migration in one low monthly price.
According to the company, organizations can purchase the service through its partner network on a monthly Opex basis per user per month - from as little as GBP 1/USD 1.50 per day. There is no minimum number of seats and no Microsoft licenses or additional hardware required. The service has remote video performance at 1080i resolution, allowing end-users to view a range of digital content not previously possible with server-based desktop computing. Alongside the rich functionality of a Windows 7 virtual desktop, there are also significant management benefits such as real-time resource management, group management and active directory. Businesses no longer have to perform manual upgrades across all machines, which will save time and resources. The company's Hosted Virtual Desktops with Windows 7 can be accessed from a range of clients including the Apple iPad.
Rob Lovell, CEO at ThinkGrid, commented, "With support for Windows XP coming to an end, many businesses will soon have to upgrade to Windows 7 and incur significant Capex and migration costs. The Hosted Virtual Desktop route offers businesses an Opex path to Windows 7, and as with the original XP solution, a fully personalized Windows experience. This includes the ability to install ANY application since each user has their own persistent virtual machine, something no other cloud providers today are able to offer. We believe this is the most advanced Hosted Virtual Desktop solution in the market, offering the tightest integration of existing cloud and on-premise computing."
Lovell concluded, "For us, the Windows 7 experience from the cloud marks a potential year zero for desktop computing. The age-old pain points around operating system upgrades will disappear and give way to a much more flexible IT environment. For example, businesses can more easily support the trend of employee-owned devices, where people want to bring their home laptops or tablets into the workplace, by allowing them to run Hosted Virtual Desktops on these machines. Aside from no longer having to shoulder hardware costs, the wider benefit is that business-level IT is delivered in a far more secure environment with no data residing on the machine itself. In fact, because any updates or even OS upgrades take place in the cloud, end-users are completely abstracted from the process of IT management."
ThinkGrid, a platform provider enabling IT services from the cloud, today announced the launch of Microsoft Windows 7-based Hosted Virtual Desktops. The updated service offers businesses access to the full Windows 7 experience, greater flexibility around hardware and a cost-effective alternative to traditional Windows migration in one low monthly price.
According to the company, organizations can purchase the service through its partner network on a monthly Opex basis per user per month - from as little as GBP 1/USD 1.50 per day. There is no minimum number of seats and no Microsoft licenses or additional hardware required. The service has remote video performance at 1080i resolution, allowing end-users to view a range of digital content not previously possible with server-based desktop computing. Alongside the rich functionality of a Windows 7 virtual desktop, there are also significant management benefits such as real-time resource management, group management and active directory. Businesses no longer have to perform manual upgrades across all machines, which will save time and resources. The company's Hosted Virtual Desktops with Windows 7 can be accessed from a range of clients including the Apple iPad.
Rob Lovell, CEO at ThinkGrid, commented, "With support for Windows XP coming to an end, many businesses will soon have to upgrade to Windows 7 and incur significant Capex and migration costs. The Hosted Virtual Desktop route offers businesses an Opex path to Windows 7, and as with the original XP solution, a fully personalized Windows experience. This includes the ability to install ANY application since each user has their own persistent virtual machine, something no other cloud providers today are able to offer. We believe this is the most advanced Hosted Virtual Desktop solution in the market, offering the tightest integration of existing cloud and on-premise computing."
Lovell concluded, "For us, the Windows 7 experience from the cloud marks a potential year zero for desktop computing. The age-old pain points around operating system upgrades will disappear and give way to a much more flexible IT environment. For example, businesses can more easily support the trend of employee-owned devices, where people want to bring their home laptops or tablets into the workplace, by allowing them to run Hosted Virtual Desktops on these machines. Aside from no longer having to shoulder hardware costs, the wider benefit is that business-level IT is delivered in a far more secure environment with no data residing on the machine itself. In fact, because any updates or even OS upgrades take place in the cloud, end-users are completely abstracted from the process of IT management."
Monday, July 4, 2011
Web Host Go Daddy Gets Investment from KKR, Silver Lake
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Coming shortly after rumors the company was about to be sold, web hosting provider Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) announced late on Friday, in a statement posted to its website, that it had “signed a definitive agreement to receive a strategic investment and enter into a partnership with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures.”
Details of the investment were not disclosed, however rumors published last week by Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and others, which called the deal an acquisition, and identified KKR and Silver Lake as buyers, put the price tag for the company between $2 billion and $2.5 billion.
A Friday report by Reuters also referred to Go Daddy being “bought,” for $2.25 billion, including debt.
"I've always said we would make a move like this when the right deal with the right partners could help us do the right thing for our customers and our employees," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons, quoted in the announcement. "This is it! We are partnering with KKR, Silver Lake and TCV because of their technology expertise, their understanding of web based businesses and because their values align with ours. We believe, together, we will take the company to the next level, especially when it comes to accelerating international growth."
Founded in 1996 by the outspoken Parsons, Go Daddy rose to the top of the domain registration and shared hosting markets over the last decade through price competition and some shrewd marketing, that included several controversial Super Bowl ads that drove a tremendous amount of attention to the company.
In 2006, Go Daddy filed the initial papers for an IPO, but later withdrew its filing due to poor market conditions.
Go Daddy was rumored to be for sale in September of 2010, following a news story appearing in the Wall Street Journal. The details were more vague at the time, but the valuation was in the range of $1 billion.
If the rumors are true, including the suggestion that Go Daddy passed on the September 2010 deal to wait for a better valuation, the plan appears to have paid off.
The speculation that followed the sale rumor during the past week has included optimism around the fact that Go Daddy serves the small business market, which is booming in the US, along with concerns that the company trades in such low-margin commodities as shared hosting, domain names and SSL certificates.
In late June, it was reported that Go Daddy was planning the launch of a cloud computing service, called Data Center on Demand, sometime in July. The building of a cloud computing offering (a hot commodity in the investment community) may have been a step on the road to Go Daddy completing Friday’s investment, or in securing a more desirable valuation.
"In Go Daddy, we are pleased to be partnering with a high-growth market leader and an outstanding team," said Herald Chen, head of KKR's software and Internet effort, also quoted in the announcement. "Building on Go Daddy's exceptional customer service and loyal customer base, we believe there is significant opportunity to expand the current portfolio of products and services as well as accelerate growth internationally."
Details of the investment were not disclosed, however rumors published last week by Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and others, which called the deal an acquisition, and identified KKR and Silver Lake as buyers, put the price tag for the company between $2 billion and $2.5 billion.
A Friday report by Reuters also referred to Go Daddy being “bought,” for $2.25 billion, including debt.
"I've always said we would make a move like this when the right deal with the right partners could help us do the right thing for our customers and our employees," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons, quoted in the announcement. "This is it! We are partnering with KKR, Silver Lake and TCV because of their technology expertise, their understanding of web based businesses and because their values align with ours. We believe, together, we will take the company to the next level, especially when it comes to accelerating international growth."
Founded in 1996 by the outspoken Parsons, Go Daddy rose to the top of the domain registration and shared hosting markets over the last decade through price competition and some shrewd marketing, that included several controversial Super Bowl ads that drove a tremendous amount of attention to the company.
In 2006, Go Daddy filed the initial papers for an IPO, but later withdrew its filing due to poor market conditions.
Go Daddy was rumored to be for sale in September of 2010, following a news story appearing in the Wall Street Journal. The details were more vague at the time, but the valuation was in the range of $1 billion.
If the rumors are true, including the suggestion that Go Daddy passed on the September 2010 deal to wait for a better valuation, the plan appears to have paid off.
The speculation that followed the sale rumor during the past week has included optimism around the fact that Go Daddy serves the small business market, which is booming in the US, along with concerns that the company trades in such low-margin commodities as shared hosting, domain names and SSL certificates.
In late June, it was reported that Go Daddy was planning the launch of a cloud computing service, called Data Center on Demand, sometime in July. The building of a cloud computing offering (a hot commodity in the investment community) may have been a step on the road to Go Daddy completing Friday’s investment, or in securing a more desirable valuation.
"In Go Daddy, we are pleased to be partnering with a high-growth market leader and an outstanding team," said Herald Chen, head of KKR's software and Internet effort, also quoted in the announcement. "Building on Go Daddy's exceptional customer service and loyal customer base, we believe there is significant opportunity to expand the current portfolio of products and services as well as accelerate growth internationally."
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