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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Web Hosting News – Campbell, Calif. – Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of security and storage solutions, today announced the latest Barracuda Web Application Firewall, version 7.8, specifically aimed at reducing the impact of automated attack attempts from botnets.

Automated botnet attacks recently have gained notoriety for targeting major banks and web platforms like WordPress. While the overall number of attacks has stayed consistent, the dramatic increase in the ferocity and duration of these attacks demonstrates the need to deploy advanced protection.
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Web Hosting News – Keith Wagstaff recently penned an article about the demise of the computer mouse. The computer’s partner in crime has fallen out of fashion with the rise of touch technology. However, the computer mouse isn’t the only technological relic falling by the wayside. Old analog phone technology is also on its last legs of life.

Of course, some technology, like cheap Internet calling and touch technology, continue to skyrocket in popularity. To chime in on the discussion of the rise and fall of analog versus Internet technology, My VoIP Provider reveals the top 3 technologies on the rise and 2 technologies on their way out.
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Web Hosting News – BT Wi-fi has announced that it’s reached more than 5 million hotspots in the UK and Ireland, with the company adding more than 20,000 new hotspots each week over the past year.

BT saw more than 400 million connections across its wi-fi network in 2012/13* and latest figures show users’ online wi-fi time is increasing, with minutes more than tripling in the same period.

An incredible 13 petabytes of data (13 billion megabytes) were consumed across BT’s Wi-fi network during 2012/13*. The volume is the equivalent of downloading 3.9 billion MP3s (iTunes currently has 26m songs in its library), or non-stop streaming of The Hobbit in HD for 1,042 years 1. If you were to take smartphone photos placed side by side, this amount of data would be over 624,000 miles long or long enough to wrap around the equator twice.** Continue reading “BT Wi-fi Hits 5 Million Hotspots” »

Web Hosting News – Southampton, UK – PEER 1 Hosting, the global web hosting provider, today announces the successful achievement of its PCI audit, which sees its London and Los Angeles data centres become PCI compliant; increasing its line-up of PCI compliant data centres to 6 globally. The audit allows PEER 1 Hosting to offer secure hosted PCI environments to customers on both sides of the Atlantic.

PEER 1 Hosting carried out the annual audit of its PCI environment to maintain and extend continued compliance. The audit review process coincided with PEER 1 Hosting increasing the number of geographical PCI compliant locations available. As such, the successful audit is an important addition for PEER 1 Hosting customers requiring a PCI environment in multiple locations for disaster recovery purposes – especially those operating in the financial services and eCommerce sectors that require highly secure hosting environments.
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Web Hosting News – Salt Lake City, UT – Leading Web hosting company, Midphase has launched its own line of dynamic cloud servers, offering an easy-to-use and powerful product that signals a move into a rapidly expanding section of the hosting market. Midphase has introduced four levels of managed cloud servers to their product range, allowing customers to get the resources they want without a steep learning curve.

Midphase cloud technology provides a smoother customer experince by allowing cloud servers to run independantly on redundant hardware. Rather than being based on one specific piece of hardware, the Midphase cloud utilizes multiple pieces of hardware backed by the ability to relocate, or fail-over, to another location at the moment a piece of hardware begins to fail. In addition, Midphase cloud servers are scalable, allowing businesses to grow in real time.
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Parallels Gold Partner, ViUX Systems announces deployment of Parallels Cloud Server (PCS) 6.0 for High-Availability Managed Cloud Hosting and Cloud Storage on new Dell PowerEdge C6220 Servers.

Parallels Cloud Server is now the foundation upon which all ViUX services will be provisioned going forward and marks a critical step in the evolution of the ViUX Cloud, as it now includes revolutionary Parallels Cloud Storage technology, which significantly improve the availability and performance of ViUX Cloud Servers – as provisioned upon new state-of-the-Internet Dell PowerEdge C-Series Servers.
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Web Hosting News – Salt Lake City, Utah – As the online market continues to be a competitive source for business marketing, innovative online resources are becoming more and more common among website designers and low cost SEO services. i4 Solutions is introducing a new form of marketing strategy by offering bimonthly web emails for their clients. Along with other services including affordable search engine optimization, social media marketing and aggressive link building, this email management system could improve the number of relevant leads and increase business traffic for companies in any industry.

Email management systems that generate an increase in business traffic.

As part of their low cost SEO services, i4 Solutions are integrating this opt-in, bimonthly HTML email list to expand to potential clients. While most people don’t respond to spamming, they generally respond positively to lists where they can choose whether or not they receive the emails. This quality is akin to the level of presentation expected in the company’s affordable search engine optimization packages. A text based or web email that goes out twice a month to people that opt-in to see it can provide positive results and leads for companies. Unlike social media marketing, the emails contain information regarding company specials and new services, providing information that’s relevant to the readers.
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