Web Host News – The Netherlands - DE-CIX, the central, international Internet exchange in Frankfurt am Main, has expanded its infrastructure at Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, by extending its Internet exchange infrastructure into Interxion’s latest Frankfurt data centre, Frankfurt5. For the exchange DE-CIX, this means that they now have five infrastructure locations distributed across the city of Frankfurt. Moving into the new data centre will give DE-CIX and its customers more space to grow as well as access to some of the most advanced IT infrastructure currently available in Germany.

The newly extended relationship brings significant advantages for DE-CIX customers. Inter-continental Internet Service Providers and telcos in particular will find the one-stop-shop for peering and colocation opportunity very attractive. DE-CIX participants can peer at the Internet Exchange and secure the data centre space they need at the same time. Over the many years of cooperation between DE-CIX and Interxion, which have culminated in DE-CIX’s expansion into Frankfurt 5, the international importance of Frankfurt as Germany’s digital communication hub has grown steadily, to the extent that today no exchange in the world has more Internet traffic than DE-CIX.

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Web Host News – Jersey City, NJ - Comodo, the leading provider of trust online, which develops software and services enabling e-merchants, enterprises, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business securely via the Internet, today announced an alliance with SafeMashups Inc., an application authentication pioneer.

“Be it an eCommerce site interacting with a payments processor, or with a new mashup technology, Internet applications continue their relentless march. Consumers get their functionality from multiple interacting web services now,” said James Langman, VP of Business Development at Comodo Group Inc. “In this new environment it is critical for web applications interacting through a user’s browser to be able to establish a secure, mutually-authenticated channel, even in the presence of a potentially malicious user. SafeMashups’ innovative MashSSL repurposes the tried and tested SSL infrastructure to solve this issue.”

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Web Host News – HOUSTON – Mezeo Software, the leading provider of deployable cloud storage solutions, today announced that Mezeo President and CEO Steve Lesem will participate in a panel discussion at the Hosting Transformation Summit North America. The panel, “Storage Opportunities: Cloud vs. Conventional,” will explore the advantages of modern cloud storage over traditional SAN- and NAS-based storage.

“The cloud storage market is growing rapidly, and it is a significant opportunity for IT hosters and Managed Service Providers,” Lesem said. “This group has very distinct needs based on their business models, and is looking for service-enabled solutions that provide differentiation versus the bulk storage solutions out there. I look forward to the discussion with my colleagues on the panel about the pros and cons of various approaches to cloud storage and best practices for service providers looking to monetize cloud storage services.”

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Web Host News – DENVER - Verio Inc., the leading provider in delivering online business solutions to SMBs worldwide, including web hosting, application hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS), today announced that Janine Soika has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in the Channel. The Top 100 Women in the Channel were chosen by the editors of the magazine based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel. The Top 100 Women in the Channel represent a changing trend in a traditionally all-male industry.

“We are very pleased to see women executives reaching the highest levels in a wide range of dynamic companies. It is with great pleasure that we honor the women that have made a profound impact in the technology marketplace. We offer our congratulations to Janine for her significant contributions to our industry,” Robert C. DeMarzo, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director, Everything Channel.

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Web Host News – London – Mimecast®, the email management specialist that delivers SaaS email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, today announced a significant upgrade to its flagship Unified Email Management platform with the launch of new functionality to expand the scope of its cloud-based services. The new offering provides the advanced features and capabilities of on-premise email solutions in the flexible, cost-effective SaaS delivery model.

The new functionality helps businesses address increasing industry regulations and concerns around data retention and e-Discovery. The company’s new archiving, mailbox management and data protection features allow companies to control their inboxes while preventing data leaks.

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Web Host News – Fayetteville, NC - Web host and domain registrar AIT has added dedicated hosting to its recent limited time offer of no-cost, ad-free web hosting accounts to enhance the visibility of its core products and services, as well as its search engine, tyBit. In this unheard of offering, businesses and individuals receive a free dedicated hosting plan for one year for the web site associated with their domain name.

AIT’s July 7th release offered small business tailored plans without a fee and included 10 GB of web space, 1,000 email accounts and 500 GB of data transfer as well as additional features to help build a web presence via a free site builder and a web statistics analyzer. The company today stated it would extend both offers due to the overwhelming success but would now include dedicated hosting which includes 80 GB of web space, 2,000 GB of data transfer, a free shopping cart, and the ability to host unlimited domains.

AIT’s Chief Marketing Officer, Sean McCoy: “Given the current business climate, being able to offer a free plan is pretty compelling. We are thrilled at the level of response we’ve received and the opportunity to introduce ourselves, our products and services while demonstrating the power of tyBit which is extremely valuable.”

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Web Host News – London, UK - UK2, the leading provider of web hosting services in the UK today announced the acquisition of a new data centre in London, United Kingdom.

“We are extremely happy to announce our acquisition of a new data centre” commented UK2 Managing Director Martin Baker. “This is a strategic move for UK2, allowing us to increase investment in data connectivity and ensure we have sufficient capacity for traditional services and our expanding cloud offering VPS.NET”.

UK2 has been a major player in the hosting industry for over a decade now, and currently host thousands of websites and dedicated servers for customers in various countries. UK2 has always prided itself as a market leader, the first to launch innovative products and services such as 10TB monthly traffic on servers, an unrivalled Reseller Plus package and even a super fast SSD system drive as standard. Following in the same trend, they recently launched a new cloud hosting product – VPS.NET which competitively priced from just £20 per month, is comprehensive and comes with everything you’ll need to get your own cloud server up and running in no time.

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Web Host News – Fareham, UK - Web Hosting firm – Just Host, today announced they just signed up their 100,000th new web hosting customer for this year to date. This remarkable figure was actually Just Host product manager, Sophy Gasson’s target for new web hosting customers for the year, but it’s mid August and her target has already been reached, with 4 months of the year still remaining.

Sophy explained, “When we first set our original target of 100,000 for the year we thought that with a lot of hard work that goal could be just about reachable, We never thought we would have reached it in August.”

“We have always had a powerful shared Web Hosting setup with fast servers and a very easy to use control panel, but recently we have focused heavily on customer support. I like to believe our hard work and dedication to our customer service has been paying off, as we have been receiving lots of awards over the last few months for our customer service and support, and truly believe this is the main reason for our rapid growth this year.”

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Web Host News – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Peak 10, Inc., the leading independent data center operator and managed services provider, announced today that it will exhibit at the 2009 Game Developers Conference (GDC) Austin. Taking place at the Austin Convention Center in downtown Austin, Texas, September 15-19, the conference will host representatives from computer and video game companies around the world.

Members of the Peak 10 game technology team will consult with game companies at GDC Austin about their technology and data security needs and how virtualization and cloud-based computing can reduce overhead costs while still protecting their data and achieving high performance and availability. Peak 10 will be providing developers, publishers and business executives with complimentary IT environment audits to identify ways to make their IT environments more cost-effective and efficient.

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Web Host News – Amsterdam – LeaseWeb, one of the largest hosting providers in Europe based in Amsterdam, plans to increase its market share for website hosting in Turkey. LeaseWeb recruited 29-year old Emrah Aydin as their new business development manager to handle this job.

Emrah Aydin, 29, will be a strong addition to LeaseWeb’s international business development team for its intensive marketing campaign in Turkey. Mr Aydin previously worked as a regional sales manager for Emerson Network Power in Poland.

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