Web Hosting News – Arlington, VA – Acting on the popularity of video sharing in content publishing and Internet marketing, WebNet Hosting now provides superior cloud hosting and media streaming software to better accommodate the hosting market. A WebNet source confirms that these solutions for quicker and better quality video streaming are the only way for content creators to effectively stream fine video to their users. Progressive cloud hosting plans coupled with the right video streaming software are essential to video streaming in today’s market, and WebNet Hosting has developed a plan to better fit the needs of their customers.

As complex media becomes a more prevalent mode of information dissemination, content publishers need more sophisticated ways of streaming live or on-demand video over the web. WebNet’s recent utilization of the cloud to host videos provides optimal results for users accessing such models of streaming entertainment. With the cloud, extremely high quality, reliable video streaming is established—ensuring that users stay on a site to see the video and content all the way through.
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Web Hosting News – REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HONG KONG – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), has extended its global trading network into Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers in Hong Kong and Tokyo. The extension of NYSE Technologies’ Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI®) will allow current and prospective customers within these facilities to directly connect from Hong Kong and Tokyo to services offered by NYSE Technologies and access a range of financial markets, market data and post-trade services.

With these deployments, NYSE Technologies now offers direct access to SFTI® Access Centers inside eight Equinix data centers in seven key markets around the world including New York, Chicago, Singapore, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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Web Hosting News – SAN FRANCISCO – Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center solutions, today announced that it has contracted with Uptime Institute to achieve Tier III certification for 20 of its new data center projects worldwide. To date, five newly completed Turn-Key FlexSM data centers have received Tier III certification, including two projects in Sydney and two in Melbourne, Australia, and one data center in Trumbull, Connecticut.

“As a global developer, operator and long-term owner of enterprise-quality data centers, we have long since designed our Turn-Key Flex solution to meet rigorous engineering and reliability standards,” said Jim Smith, chief technology officer for Digital Realty. “Working with Uptime Institute to obtain Tier III certifications for these new projects further demonstrates our commitment to meeting these high standards on behalf of our customers.”
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Web Hosting News – Jelastic offers a fundamentally new approach to Java and PHP hosting: no need to learn custom systems or recode applications in order to deploy. Jelastic is the first cloud platform that can run and scale any Java or PHP application without any code changes.

The newly launched Jelastic 1.9.1 has a number of new features and improvements.

- Regulating the sequence of balance charging
- Config manager improvement
- PostgreSQL 9.2.4 support
- CRON Scheduler
- Scheduling backups for end user DBs
- Cutting database tables
- Notification about running out of resources (Mem, Disk, CPU)
- NetBeans IDE Plugin
- Generating direct URL for solution deploy
- Software Stacks Versions
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Web Hosting News – CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – SIGNiX, a leading digital signature provider, announced a strategic partnership with Computime, a trusted sales and distribution firm with significant experience in the electronic signature marketplace. The relationship will expand SIGNiX’s reach through Computime’s relationships in more than 110 countries around the world.

“Computime has a tremendous track record of marketing and selling signature pads and has dominated the business for many years,” said Jay Jumper, president and CEO of SIGNiX. “Our partnership will strengthen our position in the growing e-signature market.”
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Web Hosting News – London, UNITED KINGDOM – euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23.SI), a pan-European bandwidth infrastructure provider, announced it has built a diverse route from London to Basildon (NYSE Euronext), supporting a growing connectivity requirement in the market. In December 2012, euNetworks launched its leading ultra low latency fibre route linking Basildon to Frankfurt. Since that time, euNetworks has leveraged this fibre route to support the many customer requests for a diverse route linking London to Basildon, with this connectivity service now live and supporting customer’s bandwidth requirements from 100Mbps Ethernet through 10Gbps Wavelengths.

euNetworks offers market leading latency performance from all major capital markets across Europe, enabling customers with direct and high bandwidth connectivity via the euTrade service portfolio.
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Web Hosting News – Dallas, TX – Global data center services provider CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE) is pleased to introduce the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange (IX), an on-net platform deployed across CyrusOne facilities in Texas and Arizona.

The CyrusOne National IX delivers interconnection across states and between metro-enabled sites within the CyrusOne facility footprint and beyond. The platform enables high-performance, low-cost data transfer and accessibility for customers and unites 12 state-of-the-art CyrusOne sites in Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Phoenix, with other locations coming online soon.
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Web Hosting News – Raleigh, NC – ViUX adds a new “Enterprise” plan to MightyCall Receptionist virtual phone service for small businesses and entrepreneurs who need to project a professional business image.

MightyCall Reception (Enterprise) is $50 per month for up to five toll-free or local phone numbers, including optional vanity number(s) – and supports both unlimited minutes and users. The “Enterprise” plan is a recent addition to the prior “Entrepreneur” and “Unlimited” plans of MightyCall Receptionist, which are $10 and $30 per month (respectively).

ViUX has added the Enterprise plan to MightyCall Receptionist to better support those needing multiple phone lines, as it was noticed that this was a common need for many that were seeking the new virtual phone service from ViUX. Continue reading “ViUX Adds New Enterprise Plan for MightyCall Receptionist Virtual Phone Service” »

Web Hosting News – SAN JOSE, Calif., – Cisco and Telefonica Global Solutions have successfully completed a long-distance 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) technology trial intended to increase available bandwidth, simplify network operations, reduce capital expenses, and help user in a new generation of consumer and business services.

Telefonica and Cisco completed the Internet protocol over wavelength-division multiplexing (IPoDWDM) trial using integrated coherent 100 Gbps optical interfaces in the Cisco® CRS Carrier Routing System (CRS), to prepare Telefonica’s network for growth and services. IPoDWDM is an advanced technology that enables high-speed Internet services over existing DWDM networks, thereby eliminating the need for network upgrades and accelerating the introduction of new higher-speed, Internet services.
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Web Hosting News – REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. and FRANKFURT — Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it has expanded its relationship with DE-CIX, one of the world’s largest Internet Exchanges, with the installation of new Points of Presence (PoPs) in three Equinix data centers in Frankfurt – Equinix FR4 and FR5 (now called Campus Kleyer) and FR2.

Highlights / Key Facts

• The new DE-CIX infrastructure follows uninterrupted growth in port and data volume demand from its members, and is the first phase in a higher-capacity network architecture for the Internet Exchange. In addition to providing increased colocation capacity for DE-CIX members, the new PoPs will offer enhanced performance and peering opportunities for network, content delivery and cloud service providers in Equinix’s Frankfurt data centers.

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