Web Hosting News – ANDOVER, Mass. - NaviSite, Inc., (“NaviSite”) a leading provider of Enterprise Hosting and Application Services, today announced that Leading Indicator Systems (“LIS”), LLC of Bedford, MA has chosen NaviSite’s expanded line of dedicated servers to host their complex, Software as a Service (“SaaS”) application and its associated web interfaces and databases.

LIS solutions enable its customers to assess and track key indicators that impact organizational performance. Their state-of-the-art assessment solutions bridge the significant gap between the collection of data and the ability of businesses to rapidly analyze, understand, interpret, act, and realize tangible results from survey findings. NaviSite’s powerful servers, server management, and network services create a strong foundation that Leading Indicator Systems will leverage to deliver its mission of rapidly transforming data into meaningful and actionable information. NaviSite’s managed dedicated servers are hosted in a SAS70 Type II facility, and provide best-in-class solutions that will enable LIS to reliably provide a broad array of web-based assessment and survey solutions to its global customers. Continue reading “Leading Indicator Systems, LLC Selects NaviSite’s Managed Dedicated Servers for its SaaS Application” »

Web Hosting News – MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - SOASTA, the leader in Cloud-based testing solutions, today announced an alliance with Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS), a global leader in outsourced managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications. The alliance will give Savvis customers a state-of-the-art, on-demand testing service in the Cloud, enabling affordable, highly scalable load and performance testing of web applications and services.

The new “virtual test lab” will be offered as part of Savvis’ new SaaS hosting platform and enablement services (announced September 29, 2008). For those Savvis customers preferring to test inside the firewall, SOASTA also offers a variety of virtual and hardware appliances with seamless upgrade to hours in the Cloud. Continue reading “SOASTA Teams With Savvis to Deliver Cloud Testing Service” »

Web Hosting News – Santa Clara, Calif. - OpSource™, the leader in Web operations, today announced that Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, will leverage OpSource On-Demand™ to deliver Taleo Business Edition Platform. Taleo Business Edition is the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering consisting of recruiting and performance management solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

When Taleo decided to outsource SaaS delivery for its SMB client base they needed a scalable solution they could depend on to meet performance requirements and eliminate the large upfront costs of a data center. Taleo selected OpSource On-Demand because of its proven reputation as a robust, cost effective and secure solution. Continue reading “Taleo Selects OpSource to Deliver On-Demand Talent Management Solutions for SMBs” »

Web Hosting News – SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for SSL VPNs.1 The report evaluates vendors based on the company’s ability to execute and completeness of vision in the SSL VPN market.

According to the Gartner report, “The Magic Quadrant considers which vendors likely will dominate remote-access VPN sales and influence technology directions through 2013, as well as which vendors are most visible among clients, generate the greatest number of requests for information and contract reviews, and account for the most new and ongoing installations in Gartner’s client base.” The report continues, “Leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort in all execution and vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry. To remain in the Leaders quadrant, vendors must excel in mobile access and protection and must dominate in sales.” Continue reading “Juniper Networks Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Leading Analyst Firm’s SSL VPN Magic Quadrant” »

Web Hosting News – New York, NY - Intermedia, the leading provider of email, collaboration and productivity SaaS solutions, today announced the availability of its Business Productivity Suite (BPS), the first hosted solution to include hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) and Microsoft Outlook 2007 as a bundled offering. This new solution helps businesses increase productivity and efficiency while allowing greater flexibility and lower risk, all for a lower price point than on-premise software or a la carte hosted services.

“Hosted OCS from Intermedia has really helped us communicate and collaborate more efficiently,” said Diana Umarova of MGN Capital, a New York-based financial services consulting firm and an Intermedia client. “Its tight integration with hosted Exchange to provide real-time presence information within Outlook makes our hosted Exchange service far more powerful effective than Exchange on its own.” Continue reading “Intermedia Announces Business Productivity Suite” »

Web Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ - Comodo Security Solutions is pleased to announce the release of the beta version of its EasyVPN™ software. With this release, computer enthusiasts can use their home computer from the office through chat software.

EasyVPN™’s zero configuration peer-to-peer virtual private network (VPN) and instant messenger client is capable of establishing direct and secure VPN connections between computers, simulating a local area network over the Internet. EasyVPN™ works on a wide variety of networks and configurations, even those behind Network Address Translations (NATs). Continue reading “Comodo EasyVPN beta uses IM clients to access files, PCs” »

Web Hosting News – Overland Park, Kansas, and Washington, D.C. - Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) and Cogent Communications (Nasdaq:CCOI) announced that they have reached a multi-year interconnection agreement for the purposes of exchanging Internet traffic.

This agreement will benefit the customers of both Sprint and Cogent and resolves the earlier dispute to the satisfaction of both Parties. The agreement is in accordance with both Parties’ previous and long standing interconnection policies and agreements. The specifics of this agreement are confidential. Continue reading “Sprint And Cogent Reach Agreement On Exchange Of Internet Traffic” »

Host News – HOUSTON – ThePlanet.com Internet Services, the global leader in IT hosting, and EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich media content delivery network, today announced the selection of EdgeCast for The Planet’s new hosted Content Delivery Network (CDN) product offering. The EdgeCast CDN provides a world-class platform that offers customers the cost benefits and flexibility for controlling their own CDN, while eliminating the expensive capital investments and operational hassles typically associated with the technology.

CDNs rapidly distribute Web content to end-users through an interconnected computer network, caching data on multiple servers and delivering the content to users based on their geographic location. It also dramatically increases the number of concurrent users who can access data from a single Web site. EdgeCast points of presence (POPs) are located in San Jose; Los Angeles; Ashburn, Va.; New York; Chicago; Dallas; Atlanta; Seattle; London; Frankfurt; Hong Kong; Tokyo; and Sydney. Continue reading “The Planet Partners with EdgeCast for Content Delivery” »

Host News – Los Angeles, CA - NameCheap, a leader in domain registration and web hosting services, is launching its presence on the micro-blogging service Twitter by giving away $17,000 worth of domain names in the “NameCheap Twitter Trivia Challenge” (www.namecheap.com/contest). NameCheap currently has several representatives monitoring the service, and plan to add more should the need require arise.

In the “NameCheap Twitter Trivia Challenge”, NameCheap asks a holiday trivia question every hour on the hour until Christmas using its Twitter feed. Other Twitter users can respond to the questions with the answer. Three are chosen to win free domains each hour and the three top trivia winners will win iPods. Thus far, NameCheap has amassed over 3300 Twitter followers participating. Continue reading “NameCheap to Use Twitter for Basic Support and Customer Feedback” »

Host News – Wilmington, Delaware - WebHostingBuzz.com, a leading US based web hosting company providing services to over 75,000 websites, announced last week that it has launched VPS web hosting plans.

Wayne Reavill, of WebHostingBuzz.com, states “We have been providing shared and reseller hosting for over 6 years. Dedicated servers were introduced a couple of years back and introducing Virtual Private Servers (VPS) was an easy and obvious decision to make. Continue reading “WebHostingBuzz.com Launches VPS Web Hosting Service” »