Web Host News – COSTA MESA, Calif. - Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX) today announced that it has signed a multi-year, cross licensing patent agreement with IBM, enabling Emulex to accelerate the integration of their OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) architecture within IBM platforms. These UCNAs will be available for integration into virtualized, high performance servers such as IBM’s System p, System x and BladeCenter product offerings.

Emulex currently delivers its LightPulse® 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s Fibre Channel adapters for IBM servers used for virtualization, database serving, data center storage networking, and cloud computing environments. Licensing IBM patents will accelerate the integration of Emulex’s connectivity products into IBM virtualized, high performance data center solutions, supporting unified network connectivity for 10Gb/s Ethernet, 16Gb/s Fibre Channel, 10Gb/s iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solutions.

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Web Host News – RALEIGH, N.C. - rPath, an innovator in automating application deployment and maintenance, today announced its campaign to deliver release automation solutions to enterprise organizations looking to reduce the time, cost and risk of application deployment and maintenance. In addition, rPath announced its strategy and roadmap for extending its unique system version controlled management model into the broader data center automation market. Code named Project Javelin, this strategy will yield the industry’s first fully version controlled data center automation solution, offering complete automation and control over creation, deployment and maintenance of IT systems—business service, application and enabling software, and configuration data—managed together under strong version control.

“Today, rPath is delivering a powerful version control-based release automation solution for enterprises looking to remove delay, cost and risk from application deployment and maintenance,” said Mike Torto, president and CEO of rPath. “Project Javelin will take on an even broader set of automation challenges that benefit from our unique approach to system version control. The result will be a simple, lightweight and effective alternative to today’s costly and cumbersome data center automation solutions with dramatically improved time to value.”

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Web Host News – SUNNYVALE, Calif. - StarNet Communications of Sunnyvale, California, a leading developer of remote host connectivity solutions, announced LinuxLIVE, the company’s first X server solution for Linux users seeking stable, secure connections to applications running on remote Unix and Linux servers.

LinuxLIVE is an innovative Linux workstation solution that combines Linux’s native X Windows server with StarNet’s LIVE technology. LIVE adds critical persistency when users connect to applications on remote Unix and Linux hosts. LinuxLIVE allows users to reconnect to applications after experiencing an otherwise fatal network, power of system crash and also allow users to share their sessions with other Linux and Windows users.

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Web Host News – RALEIGH, N.C. - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Cisco will be the Visionary Sponsor of the Red Hat Summit in Chicago Sept. 1 through 4. Additionally, Mark Fulgham, vice president of marketing, Data Center Solutions for Cisco, will provide a partner keynote speech at the event on Sept. 3, which will address the market transition of datacenter virtualization and cloud computing. Fulgham joins other confirmed keynote speakers including, Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Brian Stevens, CTO and Vice President, Engineering, Red Hat; and Steve Rubinow, CIO, New York Stock Exchange Euronext.

“The Red Hat Summit presents a great opportunity to share how Cisco has collaborated with Red Hat to help customers unify technologies, simplify operations and amplify data center virtualization business results with the Cisco Unified Computing System,” said Fulgham. “We’re excited to share our technology expertise with attendees and build on our long-term technology collaboration and relationship with Red Hat.”

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Web Host News – BOSTON - Providing accurate, safe and convenient payment and shipping options to their customers is critical for e-commerce vendors. Paid, Inc.’s (OTCBB:PAYD) AuctionInc™ ecommerce software product line is helping merchants do just that by adding Google Checkout as one more payment option on its ShopCart™ shopping cart software for e-commerce vendors. The Google Checkout option is live now on ShopCart.

“Our integration with Google Checkout allows merchants to offer their shoppers another safe, user-friendly payment option that streamlines the shopping process for both the consumer and merchant,” said Doug Sherman, AuctionInc Product Manager. “For ecommerce vendors, simply being able to display the Google Checkout icon in all of their Google AdWords will often drive business from customers who prefer this secure payment method.”

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Web Hosting News – MONTREAL, QUEBEC – iWeb (TSX-V : IWB), a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, today released its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The complete interim financial statements and management report of the Company are available on the websites www.sedar.com and investors.iweb.com.

Third quarter highlights:

* 75 % revenue growth, totaling 7,2 M$ in the third quarter of 2009, from 4.1 M$ for the same period in 2008
* Operating income 11 times greater than same quarter in 2008; 231,000 $ compared to 21,000 $ 1 year earlier
* EBITDA (adjusted EBITDA) remains steady at 1,9 M$ for 2009; 26,4 % of revenues
* Net profit of 1,023,000 $, mostly attributable to the additional unrealized theoretical exchange gained on long-term debt in U.S. dollars

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Web Hosting News – Ann Arbor, Michigan - NEXCESS.NET LLC, a leading web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company announced an upcoming expansion of their popular Magento SIP e-commerce web hosting plans. The original SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans, launched in May 2009, are a tightly integrated combination of the popular Magento e-commerce software, combined with optimized high-end hardware and software to guarantee speed, reliability and security.

“The SIP plans have really taken off,” said Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess. “They’re popular with both small and large clients, including Fortune 500 companies which we’ve signed deals with in the last few weeks. Even the official Magento demo stores have been moved to SIPs.”

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Web Hosting News – Herndon, VA – Network Solutions®, leading provider of web-based solutions for small businesses, announced today that it will host the second free GrowSmartBusiness webinar that will focus on marketing in a downturn economy on Wednesday, August 26, 2009, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EST. This free webinar will feature marketing and small business experts who will share their creative and cost conscience tips for marketing success.

The small business marketing panel will be moderated by Prag Shah, vice president of Web Storefront for Network Solutions, and will feature:

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Web Hosting News – ST. LOUIS, MO - Connectria Corporation, a leading provider of world-class managed hosting and IT infrastructure outsourcing solutions, and REDPLAID, a division of Connectria Corporation, today announced it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with a competency in Hosting Solutions and Networking Infrastructure Solutions. This marks the third year in a row that Connectria has achieved the Gold Certified Partner distinction with Microsoft, recognizing Connectria’s expertise and impact in the technology marketplace.

As a Gold Certified Partner, both Connectria and REDPLAID have demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and a proven ability to meet customers’ needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the channel. While both Connectria and REDPLAID offer hosting solutions utilizing Microsoft technologies, Connectria focuses upon the mid-to-large enterprise organization whereas REDPLAID targets small-to-medium sized businesses.

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Web Hosting News – BROOMFIELD, Colo. - Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that it is expanding its relationship with Telekenex, a San Francisco-based provider of a variety of managed Internet protocol (IP)-based voice and data communications services.

Under the terms of the agreement, Level 3 will augment the services it already delivers to Telekenex to include private line and Ethernet-based high-speed Internet services. Level 3′s connections enable Telekenex to connect all of its locations via a private high-speed network, and also allow the company to deliver to its customers network connectivity up to 10 Gigabits per second – enough capacity to transport 128 simultaneous high-definition video downloads per second – supported by Level 3 service level agreements.

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