Web Host News – SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the opening of its green data center in Yokohama, Japan. The Yokohama Third Center is one of the most robust and reliable in the industry and occupies 10,000 square meters of total floor space. The newly opened green facility incorporates power-efficient data center technology designed to achieve a benchmarking rating of 1.6 PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness)1, while offering among the industry’s highest level of reliability, availability and data security.

To maintain a competitive edge, today’s businesses demand technology infrastructure with a 100 percent uptime. With machines running constantly, businesses quickly find that such high levels of energy usage are not sustainable and have a negative impact on the bottom line. To meet customer needs for security, cost management and efficiency, the new data center has been established with the objective of helping businesses adopt a ‘greener’ and more sustainable approach that enables them to streamline operations and lower operational expenditures.

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Web Host News – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – ORCS Web, Inc., a specialist in Microsoft Windows-based Internet hosting solutions for businesses, announced today the roll-out of an enhanced Small Business Shared Hosting solution. While the company has offered a variety of shared hosting solutions for some time, the new package provides more practical, cost-effective features for its small business clients.

“Our solutions are constantly being evaluated and enhanced by our expert team based on valuable feedback from our clients,” said Brad Kingsley, president and chief executive officer of ORCS Web. “We are committed to exceeding their satisfaction and being a supportive partner, which is why we embraced the feedback of our small business clients and adjusted the package’s features and price-point to best align with their IT needs.”

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Web Host News – London, UK - Leading domain registration and web hosting company, LCN.com has today announced the launch of a state-of-the-art email security and protection system called MailGuard. This anti-spam and virus protection solution will be added to all new LCN.com hosting packages at no cost.

Customers can access and customise their spam threshold settings and apply advanced permissions from within their LCN.com account control panel, significantly reducing spam and eliminating potential viruses from reaching their inbox.

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Web Host News – Kansas City, MO - GreenSoft Solutions, Inc. (“GSI”), a leading provider of PCI compliant and managed hosting services, today announced they have joined the R1Soft Hosting Partner Program (R1HPP). Along with their hosting services, GSI offers secure, off-site backups for Linux, Windows, and MySQL featuring R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) backup technology.

R1Soft’s disk-based CDP software captures data at the block level versus the file level enabling GSI to run high-speed backups. GSI stores clients’ data at an additional off-site, GSI-owned facility doubling data protection. The off-site backups give clients extra assurance they are protected from data loss and will only experience minimal downtime in the event of a disaster.

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Web Host News – Houston, TX – Inc. has ranked HostGator.com as the 239th fastest-growing privately owned company in the country on its prestigious Inc. 5000 list for 2009. HostGator.com is a leading provider of web hosting services including shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers.

The 2009 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2005 through 2008. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, for profit, independent (not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies), and have had at least $200,000 in revenue from 2005, and at least $2 million in 2008.

HostGator’s revenue grew by over 896% during the measured period. In 2005, the Houston-based company saw revenues of $3.4 million–while in 2008, HostGator generated $34.2 million in annual revenue.

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Web Host News – DALLAS — SoftLayer™ today began offering EVault™ Bare Metal Restores (BMR). This advanced disaster recovery capability enables customers to completely restore servers to a bare metal state after an operating system or hardware failure. Servers are restored to the latest system image safely stored in a secure SoftLayer repository.

“Everything we offer is about giving our customers more flexibility, confidence, and control,” said Andrew Maten, SoftLayer Director of IT Systems. “EVault BMR is a powerful, no-nonsense tool for getting systems back up quickly without losing data or functionality.”

EVault BMR is available for Microsoft Windows systems with SoftLayer’s standard EVault offering. For only $20/month it provides a wide range of benefits, including the capability to:
- Restore systems to a select point-in-time
- Restore systems from image or file-based backups
- Restore systems from EVault backups
- Launch recovery transactions to restore data without a bootable system

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Web Host News – CHICAGO - Midphase, Inc, a premier provider of turnkey web hosting solutions, found that nearly 60% of their SMB customers had been affected by the recession with 58% indicating a revenue drop from between 5% to over 60%. One of the main reasons cited by 46% of this group is the challenge in finding new customers.

Midphase surveyed over 3,000 of their customers and currently hosts over 120,000 websites. “We feel this is a true cross section of American Internet users,” says Marc Bollinger, Midphase General Manager.

The statistics indicate that many people are dealing with the recession by creating new revenue streams specifically through online businesses. The Midphase survey found that 60% of respondents are supplementing their existing income with a web presence. This fact is supporting by the finding that 47.7% claim that their web presence will represent less than 10% of their income.

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Web Host News – VANCOUVER, BC – Hartland Ross, president and founder of eBridge Marketing Solutions Inc., a leading provider of Internet marketing services, has announced the recent hiring of Tom Nimchuk, to serve as an account manager.

“Tom has an excellent background in new media technologies and is well-versed in other web technologies,” says Ross. “His experience – and ability to talk knowledgeably about the web – will give our technology-based clients an immediate comfort level with him.”

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Web Host News – Toronto, ON – Cirrus Tech has announced details of their Bulk Hosted Exchange Plans, which will be offered alongside their updated single mailbox plans.

Cirrus Tech’s Bulk Hosted Exchange Plans include multiple full featured Exchange mailboxes at a discounted price.

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Web Host News – SAN ANTONIO - Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing, today announced the launch of Cloud Tools, an online service for sharing tools, applications and services built by the company’s strategic partners and independent developers for The Rackspace Cloud. This announcement further signals Rackspace’s continued commitment to an open cloud, and to supporting the cloud ecosystem. The new site aims to match customers with companies and independent developers building services on The Rackspace Cloud platform that expand the functionality and openness of cloud computing.

The Cloud Tools site catalogues tools and applications created on The Rackspace Cloud in four categories: Monitoring & Reporting, Development Tools, System Management and Client Software. Visitors can browse the latest tools, search for features, rate the tools and post comments. For specific tools, users can view screenshots and user ratings, review user feedback and watch demo videos before being directed to the strategic partner’s website for download. Cloud Tools also highlights a “From the Community” section offering independent developers a way to publish their tools built using The Rackspace Cloud APIs and make them readily available to customers.

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