Web Hosting News – LAS VEGAS, NV - Photoshop World — Media Lab, Inc., today announced a partnership with UK2 Group, a world leader in web hosting, providing SiteGrinder customers with an optimized hosting solution for SiteGrinder generated and managed websites. The partnership will greatly enhance the SiteGrinder 3 user experience providing a complete solution from the initial web design in Photoshop all the way to deployment of the website to the Internet.

“We have years of experience, best of breed technology, world-class support and state of the art data centers to bring SiteGrinder 3 users the very best that hosting has to offer,” said Jeff Hunsaker, President/COO of UK2 Group, US Operations. “Our MidPhase brand hosting integration with SiteGrinder 3 is just one of many opportunities we envision with our Media Lab partnership.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (“Welsh Carson”), a leading private equity firm, have entered into a transaction in which Welsh Carson and Peak 10’s executive management will acquire a majority shareholder interest in Peak 10. Selling shareholders include majority owner Seaport Capital, a New York-based private equity firm and McCarthy Capital, an Omaha, Neb.-based private equity fund.

Peak 10’s existing management team, led by Co-Founder, President and CEO David Jones will continue to operate the business.   David Jones indicated, “Our partnership with Welsh Carson enables Peak 10 to continue increasing the scale of our business to meet the high demand for data center infrastructure and related managed services. Our strategic focus remains intact but our resources now position us to more rapidly extend our geographic footprint, strengthen our team and further accelerate our managed services and cloud offerings.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – London, UK - GMO GlobalSign Ltd. one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that Ultraspeed UK Limited, one of the UK’s top webhosts and specialists in managed hosting solutions has joined GlobalSign’s Partner Program. Ultraspeed’s hosting customers will now be able to purchase GlobalSign’s full range of SSL Certificates as an additional value add product to their hosting package to fully secure their websites, online transactions, web mail and other next generation online services using GlobalSign highly trusted 2048bit SSL technology.

After deciding to switch from their current SSL provider, Ultraspeed sought a leading international Certificate Authority who could offer the most highly trusted and reliable SSL Certificates available in today’s market, to complement their existing premium hosting solutions. The location of their chosen SSL vendor was also a key business factor for Ultraspeed, with the availability of UK-based support seen as a crucial element to assist their high profile clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – Wayne, PA - More and more people are browsing the web on the go with devices such as the iPhone, BlackBerry or Android phone. In order to help website owners benefit from this boom, 1&1 Internet Inc., the world’s largest web host, today announced that its hosting packages are now offered with free professional web design software. Depending on the chosen hosting package, new customers will receive full versions of either NetObjects Fusion 1&1 Edition or Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Both solutions allow easy creation of a website optimized for mobile viewing.

NetObjects Fusion 1&1 Edition is exclusive to 1&1 customers and especially suitable for beginners. This powerful website design application, included free with 1&1 Beginner Package, (priced from $3.99/month) and 1&1 Home Package, (from $6.99/month), provides a variety of templates already optimized for handheld viewing and navigation. All templates can be implemented into a homepage with ease. Even users without prior Internet experience can create a new, modern website in just a few minutes or adapt an existing web presence to be mobile compatible. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – HOUSTON - INX Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed a data center virtualization upgrade for Associa.

Associa, the Dallas-based leader in community association management, has over 100 office locations nationwide that serve its four million members, spread across North America. With a nearly 20% annual growth rate, Associa’s data management needs have increased. Associa recently contracted INX to design and deploy a data center virtualization upgrade designed to improve efficiency, decrease its data center footprint and increase cloud computing capacity. The project began in the summer of 2010 and it was recently completed successfully. INX has been a solution integration partner to Associa on core business critical projects since December 2007 for including unified communications, digital media, storage, virtualization and video communications technologies. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – LONDON - Global provider of managed solutions and business connectivity services Easynet, has announced its sale from BSkyB (Sky) to Lloyds Development Capital (LDC), the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group for £100 million.

Further exploiting its dexterity as an independent global provider, Easynet will continue with its strategy to deliver high quality, complex international managed networks and managed hosting services to businesses around the world. Chief Executive Officer, David Rowe, who founded Easynet in 1994, will remain in the role with the full backing of LDC. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – McLean, VA – ServInt today announced it has completed the largest customer disk-space upgrade in its history, more than a month ahead of schedule.  The free upgrade, which was expected to require 90 days to complete, instead was finished in only 58 days.  As a result of the upgrade, most ServInt VPS hosting customers have seen their server disk space nearly double at no charge.

ServInt Founder and Chief Executive Officer Reed Caldwell praised the engineering team responsible for implementing the upgrade process.  He noted that, in most cases, customers were unaware the upgrade was underway until their new storage resources came online.

“Disk-space upgrades that affect entire subscriber communities require an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes work that easily can impact site availability,” Caldwell said. “Our goal was to effect this massive system enhancement without negatively impacting a single one of our clients’ online businesses – even for a moment.  Many thousands of customers later, I can announce we achieved that goal.”

This summer’s disk-space upgrade was the latest service enhancement provided for ServInt customers at no charge.  ServInt frequently provides free resource upgrades to its existing customers, to ensure they have access to all the benefits and enhancements offered to new clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – LONDON - British firms are losing time and money from out-dated office practices and a struggle to handle and store electronic documents, according to research released today by 1&1 Internet Ltd, the world’s largest web host.  From a study of 410 small firms, 37 per cent report money is lost from employees failing to share updated versions of documents.  53 per cent of companies are held back by poor archiving of emails and documents, and one third have document files saved on hardware that not all colleagues can access.  1 in 4 report wasting over £2000 a year from excessive printing of documents.  Some 25 per cent are losing efficiency from slow-running email accounts clogged with attachments.  Document handling skills are inconsistent across staff in 41 per cent of firms, and only 1 in 4 firms has a strategy for increasing their efficiency in handling electronic data.  Many businesses could benefit from reviewing how they draft, share and store their electronic documents.

1&1’s ‘UK Digital Office Audit’(1) finds that many UK firms are losing time and money from their poor handling and storage of electronic materials.  A key finding is the lack of facilities for collaborating on electronic documents between colleagues.  In total, two thirds of small companies believe that their efficiency is reduced by problems with document handling.  1 in 3 firms (37 per cent) believe that time and money is lost as a result of staff failing to share the latest versions of documents.  Significantly, 43 per cent do not have access to a file-sharing method that removes the need to email whole document files.  59 per cent of owners are unable to amend documents off the premises and save them where their colleagues can access them.  Staff skills around creating and sharing documents can also be a problem.  Some 29 per cent report that documents are frequently deleted in error, and 41 per cent of firms believe their success is hindered by inconsistent levels of staff skills in this area.    Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – SAN FRANCISCO – At VMworld 2010 on Tuesday (Aug. 31), Verizon Business and VMware unveiled a new enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that will enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance. The new solution, underpinned by Verizon’s world-class global IP network and the industry-leading VMware vSphere™ virtualization platform, will help remove the major barriers to cloud computing adoption, while enabling the delivery of “IT as a Service.”

The new offering joins Verizon’s Computing as a Service (CaaS) portfolio of cloud computing services. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – UNITED KINGDOM – euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23.SI), announced it has launched the first phase of an overlay network, dedicated exclusively to the needs of the financial community. The network platform is supported by dedicated fibre and dedicated optronics, ensuring euNetworks’ euTrade services provide the lowest possible latency. As a company who specialises in designing, engineering and building ultra low latency connectivity networks, deploying a network exclusively for the finance market is a natural step in continuing to support the bandwidth needs of the financial services community. Optimising fibre routes, avoiding unnecessary Carrier Points of Presence (PoPs) and deploying latest generation optical transmission equipment has enabled industry leading latencies for direct exchange-to-exchange connectivity, a key requirement for the trading market today.

As part of a network development programme underway, euNetworks has launched a new ultra low latency route running from Slough in West London to key financial exchanges and data centres in the City of London. euNetworks has reduced the latency on this critical route by over 20% and is now providing sub 500 microsecond round trip connections between Slough and sites in the City of London. Read the rest of this entry »