Hosting News - Guildford, United Kingdom – Memset, the award-winning dedicated IT hosting company, has made the list of Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50.

Memset ranked 32nd on the list with a five-year growth rate of 823%. Ranking are based on the percentage revenue growth from 2003-2007.

“We are excited about our ranking in the Deloitte Fast 50 list. Our continuous growth over the last five years clearly demonstrates that a social conscience in business pays off as well as keeping moving quickly to exploit changing market conditions,” said Kate Craig-Wood, MD of Memset. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News - ATLANTA - Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today its Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Managed Server solutions are powering YOUniversityTV, the world’s first wholly integrated College Video Resource Community (CVRC) that provides prospective college students with an all-access pass to the campuses of colleges and universities nationwide. Internap was selected due to its engineering expertise and integrated technology solutions designed to support fast-growing, Web-based businesses.

A combination search engine, social network and video resource library, YOUniversityTV is applying innovative workflow software to streamline the complex, time-consuming and expensive ritual of visiting potential schools prior to applying. With more than 200 schools already represented, including state universities and Ivy League institutions as well as prestigious liberal arts schools, YOUniversityTV is serving as a primary resource for both colleges and their current and prospective students. Read the rest of this entry »

Managed Hosting News - SAN ANTONIO - Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX) today announced this year’s winner of THE FANATI™ award, Rackspace’s customer award for outstanding customer service. The 2008 award honors the one customer that has best demonstrated excellence when it comes to customer service and Rackspace is pleased to have named Pangea Foundation, the leader in delivering Impact Visualization On Demand™ to nonprofits of all sizes, as the winner.

As an industry-leading service company, Rackspace introduced THE FANATI to recognize the customer service excellence of other companies in an effort to promote customer service among all businesses today. Award applications, available only to Rackspace customers, were accepted online through the MyRackspace® customer portal. Customers completed the online applications, which included questions regarding how the company delivers and tracks customer service as well as success stories of going above and beyond for customers. Rackspace then reviewed the applications and a short-list of seven finalists was announced. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows Hosting News - VIA Networks, a leading provider of managed services and dedicated hosting solutions, today announced it has been certified for its Information Worker Competency from Microsoft, with a Specialization in Portals and Collaboration.

The Information Worker Competency marks the company’s fourth competency for Microsoft-centric solutions, strengthening its position as a Gold Certified Partner and validates the deep expertise VIA Networks has with messaging and collaboration solutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News - Mezeo Software Corporation, a Houston based developer of online file services software, announces the industry’s first deployable, white label online file sharing and collaboration solution, Mezeo Personal Cloud StorageTM (Mezeo PCS). Built upon the successful, highly scalable and secure Mezeo platform currently in production at KDDI (KDDI Secure Share), the third largest telecommunications company in the world, Mezeo PCS enables service providers to quickly leverage the fast-growing online file storage market and offer their own branded file service solution. Mobile operators, ISPs, converged telcos and managed hosters will find Mezeo of particular interest; it provides them an immediate entry into valuable services boost revenue and drive customer retention.

“File server replacement is one of the highest growth areas of the emerging Internet software and services sector. Hosting providers, eager to grow that aspect of their portfolios, are partnering with or acquiring vendors in this market, due to the strong growth it will see over the next five years” said Dan Golding, Vice President & Research Director, Tier 1 Research. Read the rest of this entry »

Host News - ORLANDO, Fla. – HostDime announced today it has launched HostDime United Kingdom, a new wholly owned subsidiary offering Shard hosting, Reseller hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and Dedicated Servers. Today’s launch is the company’s fifth international division.

The new United Kingdom division allows HostDime to better serve clients in the United Kingdom and Western Europe through country-specialized customer relations procedures and servers in geographically strategic locations. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows Hosting News - DiscountASP.NET, a leading innovator in Windows Server 2008 hosting, and Microsoft announce a partnership to provide a free sandbox hosting program for testing the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool. This program is designed for developers to get early experience with and provide feedback on next-generation web application packaging and deployment scenarios.

This partnership and beta program was unveiled on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles during the session entitled, “Deploying Web Applications with IIS 7.0 and the Web Deployment Tool.” Read the rest of this entry »

Host News - HOUSTON - R1Soft, a developer of Continuous Data Protection(R) products for Linux and Windows, today joined the Novell Technology Partner Program, an opportunity for independent software vendors to tap into Novell’s growing customer base and network of over 3,500 channel partners.

Leveraging Novell’s brand and go-to-market infrastructure, the Technology Partners Program allows qualified vendors to bring products to market quickly and gain greater exposure to a wide variety of customers. As a Novell Ready Partner, R1Soft will work with Novell to bring the first Continuous Data Protection® solution to Novell’s enterprise Linux customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Free Web Hosting News - Las Vegas, NV — McKremie Web Hosting Solutions is proud to announce the launch of the Nonprofit and Public School Web Hosting Program. This is a program that offers all US-based registered 501(c)(3) non profit organizations and public schools free web hosting services. This is a new service being offered by McKremie Web Hosting Solutions and it is available to all US-based non-profits, not just those located in Las Vegas! In order to request more information or to find out if your service qualifies for free web hosting, there is a request form available at the McKremie website (http://www.mckremie.com/nonprofits.php).

The web hosting plan offered by McKremie Web Hosting Solutions provides non-profits and public schools with features like 3,000 GB’s transfer, 15,000 MB disk space, unlimited MySQL databases and unlimited sub-domains. Normally this plan would cost buyers well over two hundred dollars! Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News - BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon Business will provide a broad range of data and advanced voice services to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) through two agreements worth as much as $1.12 billion. The services will be provided under the federal Networx contracting program.

Under one agreement valued at as much as $752 million, DITCO, the contracting arm of the department’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), selected Verizon Business in a Networx Fair Opportunity conducted in June 2008 to provide Defense Department agencies with data services. They include network-based Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network services based on multi protocol label switching; Internet protocol services; asynchronous transfer mode; and wireless and point-to-point private line for existing services. Read the rest of this entry »