Hosting News - HONOLULU, HI - Superb Internet, one of the most prominent leaders in the web hosting industry, announced the opening of a new data center strategically located in Springfield, Virginia. This new space, called DCA3, compliments Superb Internet’s existing data centers located in McLean, VA and Seattle, WA.

Superb Internet invested significant resources to ensure this facility has optimal network connectivity with direct access to major fibers with fully redundant systems which include 8 parallel UPS units, 2 redundant 1.25MW diesel generators, and over 200 tons of AC cooling, expandable to over 500 tons.

The new facility will accommodate the growing demand for Superb Internet’s dedicated server, colocation, and managed services. Superb Internet attributes their continued success to the combination of offering high-performance servers with superior connectivity and unparalleled customer support.

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Hosting News - Herndon, VA – Leading Web solutions provider Network Solutions, pioneer of the domain name registration service, announces their latest holiday-related promotion: in celebration of Independence Day this July 4th, .US domain names will be available for the discounted price of $9.99.

After the original .com, .net and .org domain name extensions, .US is one of the most popular among United States individuals. The .US domain name is useful in signifying that a business is American owned and operated, as well as for companies for whom the business name .com domain name extension is taken by another organization.

“The World Wide Web is moving beyond .com,” said Sean Kaine of Network Solutions. “As new top level domains are being added, the .US domain name extension remains a popular alternative for domain name registrations.”

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Hosting News - New York, NY – NTT America, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and a Tier-1 global IP network services provider, today announced the appointment of Michael Wheeler as the company’s vice president of the Global IP Network Business Unit. Mr. Wheeler will succeed Kazuhiro Gomi who was recently named COO of NTT America. In his new role, Mr. Wheeler will be responsible for leading the Global IP Network Business Unit for NTT America, including all facets of finance, engineering and customer relations.

Most recently, Mr. Wheeler was the vice president of Sales and Business Development for the Global IP Network Business Unit. Mr. Wheeler has 15 years of sales management and business development experience in the Internet and Data Communications industries.

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Hosting News - BANGKOK, Thailand – True Internet is paving the way for next-generation cloud services, starting with the deployment of the Cisco NexusTM 7000 Series Switch, a robust platform that will help True Internet transform the delivery of consumer and business applications to any place and device. The deployment is part of True Internet’s goal to become a next-generation service provider delivering a comprehensive range of world-class, innovative data, communications and entertainment services to its customers.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 is a data-center-class switching platform combining Ethernet, Internet Protocol (IP) and storage capabilities across one unified network fabric. The platform is also an essential component of Cisco® Unified Service Delivery, an architecture that enables a service provider to deliver video, data and video services from the data center, enabling it to substantially optimize resources, assure quality, significantly reduce operational costs, and deliver a better, more expansive and more secure virtual experience for their customers.

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Hosting News - NEW YORK - Apps4Rent, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a leading managed service provider of SharePoint hosting, Hyper-V hosting, and hosted Exchange announces dedicated SharePoint server hosting plans with full features of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Managed dedicated SharePoint server plans start at $225/month. There is no setup fee for Apps4Rent’s dedicated SharePoint server, SharePoint hosting, hosted exchange and Hyper-V virtual dedicated server plans.

“Some enterprise users are looking for greater control and flexibility over their Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hosting environment,” said Wade Dube, Manager for Apps4Rent. “With the help of our fully managed dedicated SharePoint servers and SharePoint experts available round the clock, enterprises can extract the maximum business advantage from their SharePoint implementations.”

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Hosting News - London – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced that TweetMeme, the innovative online application that tracks the popularity of links sent via Twitter, has subscribed to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise database offering in order to keep up with the microblogging service’s explosive growth.

Created in 2008 by pioneering Web 2.0 startup Fav.or.it, TweetMeme gives the rapidly expanding Twitter community a means of easily seeing and sorting the most popular links on Twitter. TweetMeme also provides a realtime search facility of fully expanded, qualified and indexed links so that users can get answers to queries about very recent events or news.

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Hosting News - Sunnyvale, CA – Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced the expansion of its cloud infrastructure with the launch of a new detection center in Washington, DC, the Company’s fifth worldwide.

Commtouch’s Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and Data Cloud technologies currently process more than two billion Internet transactions each week within the Company’s globally distributed detection centers to identify new messaging and Web threat outbreaks as they are initiated.

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Hosting News - DENVER, CO – Hosting.com, the first name in managed hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is expanding by opening a 30,000 square foot datacenter and 13,000 square foot corporate complex in the Denver metro area in late August. Company owners Art Zeile and Joel Daly have operated three successful high-tech firms, all headquartered in Denver, including InFlow, Inc., sold to Sungard in 2005.

The demand for secure, reliable colocation space in Denver continues to outpace availability. Art Zeile, Hosting.com CEO, commented, “We are excited to serve a very large need in Denver with this new datacenter. Colocation space with our high level of service and support is absent from downtown.” He continued, “We will grow aggressively over the next 24 months through a national platform of managed and secure services; we are excited that Denver is at the center of our growth.”

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Hosting News - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - According to analyst firm Netcraft, there are more than 238 million Web sites online. Getting a Web site noticed online can be daunting, which is why Go Daddy released Search Engine Visibility.

Search Engine Visibility walks users through a step-by-step process to make their Web site search engine friendly. This not only makes a search engine more likely to index the entire site, but to help get the Web site higher in search engine rankings.

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Hosting News - UNION CITY, CA – Data Center Pulse Inc. (DCP), a newly formed datacenter industry organization, today announced that it has enrolled its 1,000th member. This major milestone has been reached in just under 9 months, bringing the DCP community into 45 countries representing over 600 companies in virtually every market segment both public and private.

“We knew that there was a gap in the industry, but we were surprised at how quickly the membership grew”, says Dean Nelson, co-founder and Chairman of DCP. “Our goal was simple; to create a place that datacenter industry operators could gather to share ideas on best practices and ultimately influence the industry. With the myriad of pressures we are all facing; rising costs, density increases, complexity and new ecological scrutiny; we knew that a collaborative community could prove to be very beneficial.”

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