Web Hosting Reviews – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, now gives users the ability to consolidate any kind of existing webmail accounts – for example from Google and Yahoo — into a folder in Open-Xchange so they can managed more easily.

In addition, users can now integrate and merge their address books from Google Mail Gmail and Facebook into Open-Xchange. New contact details are added automatically providing users easy access to the latest contact information – all from one place.

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Web Hosting Reviews – Ashburn, VA – Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, announced today the addition of Brian Winter to the Carpathia management team as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

In his new role, Winter will be responsible for the company’s overall marketing strategy with a focus on growing awareness of the company, expanding it’s presence in the federal sector and maximizing the recent acquisition of ServerVault. Winter will report directly to Carpathia Hosting CEO, Peter Weber.

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Web Hosting Reviews – Ashburn, VA – Today Virtacore Systems, Inc. launches a new website and community to help solve the complexities of virtualization and cloud computing technologies for businesses of all sizes.

Thomas Kiblin, CEO and Founder, believes the complexities of virtualization can be explained and tailored to each individual business. “We view our relationship with our customers as a partnership to leverage the best web technologies to help improve their business. Whether businesses are new to web technology or familiar with hosting concepts, we will educate and explain everything needed in order to maximize their hosting experience.”

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Web Hosting Reviews – Santa Monica, CA - Green Geeks, LLC today announced its purchase of green power and its partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership. Green Geeks, LLC is purchasing more than 48,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, which is enough green power to meet 300 percent of the organizations purchased electricity use. Green Geeks, LLC is buying renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a leading national supplier of green power products.

“This is a huge honor and we are proud to be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” said Trey Gardner, Green Geeks CEO “We’ve always been diligent and we’ve worked hard to make Green Geeks the most eco friendly company we could be. When the EPA contacted us we were pleased to find out that companies like ours could get the support of the EPA through their Green Power Partner Program. We look forward to working with the EPA and their Program to further the cause for more companies to go green.”

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Web Hosting Reviews – HERNDON, Va. – Automation and virtualization leader, Parallels, today announced support of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in its Parallels Automation product, which will be available shortly following Microsoft’s official release expected second half of 2009. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 beta was released in April, 2009, and is the first server in a new generation of Microsoft server technology built from the ground up to work on-premise and as an online service.

Exchange Server 2010 introduces many new features to help achieve new levels of reliability and performance, protect communications, and meet customers’ demands for greater business mobility. Microsoft Hosted Exchange offers small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a cost-effective alternative to managing an in-house e-mail server. In the Hosted Exchange model, the service provider manages all the technology and support for the SMB.

Building on the native capabilities introduced in Exchange Server 2007, the new high availability architecture in Exchange 2010 provides a simplified, unified framework for both high availability and disaster recovery. The result is greater uptime for end users, increased freedom for administrators, and decreased capital and operational costs for the organization. Exchange Server 2010 also enables organizations to run Exchange Server on a wide range of storage options. The latest version of Exchange Server requires less storage performance and is more tolerant of storage failures and helps SMBs provide larger mailboxes at lower cost without sacrificing system availability.

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Web Hosting Reviews – TORONTO, ON – Fusepoint Managed Services, a national provider of outsourced IT and infrastructure services, today announced it has launched its offering of customizable SharePoint application development tools in addition to providing ongoing management for Microsoft’s web-based portal solutions.

Microsoft Office SharePoint is an integrated suite of business intelligence tools that boost organizational effectiveness by facilitating team collaboration and knowledge-sharing across an organization. SharePoint offers a secure, scalable corporate-level portal environment based on a powerful framework with ready-to-use web parts. With feature-rich, out-of-the-box functionality, administrators can readily build applications, workflows and portals to accelerate shared business processes and improve efficiencies.

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Web Hosting Reviews – Portsmouth, NH - GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Certificate security, today announced that Janmedia Interactive, a leading international full service digital agency, will be promoting GlobalSign’s Code Signing Certificates and SSL Certificates via their websites, serving Poland and its surrounding regions. The newly formed partnership will allow customers to easily purchase and install GlobalSign’s Code Signing Certificates to securely distribute Adobe AIR applications, as well as SSL Certificates to secure websites, login pages and other next generation online services.

GlobalSign’s Code Signing solution allows software vendors to digitally sign and timestamp the software they distribute over the Internet. This digital signing process is the virtual equivalent to shrink-wrapping CD based software for distribution – it ensures the end user knows the software is legitimate, comes from a known software vendor and the code has not been tampered with since being published. Code Signing certificates provide software vendors with the ability to attest to the authenticity, security and integrity of their code. Janmedia Interactive will be providing Code Signing solutions for all applications including Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR enables developers to deliver branded rich Internet applications outside the browser that gives them a closer connection to their customers – boosting productivity, enhancing customer satisfaction and increasing profits.

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Web Hosting Reviews – SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Netcraft LTD, a leading industry analyst firm, is predicting GoDaddy.com will surpass all SSL certificate competitors worldwide in a matter of months. In its Sept. Secure Server Survey Report, Netcraft states, “If VeriSign and Go Daddy’s market shares continue to converge as they have been since 2006, they look set to cross in about 18 months’ time.”[1]

GoDaddy.com is already the world leader in net-new SSL certificates, even as a relative newcomer to the SSL industry. GoDaddy.com started offering certificates in April 2004, quickly rivaling the Old Guard, which was in place from the SSL industry’s inception and has acquired numerous SSL providers.

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Web Hosting Reviews – Redwood City, Calif. – Nominum, the leader in intelligent network naming and addressing today announced that it has extended its business through a new and independent business unit, called SKYE™. SKYE offers a suite of cloud-based services to address infrastructure and new service needs such as web services that connect to and augment Nominum’s installed base of Intelligent DNS systems worldwide and provide enhanced navigation, safety and security for end-user subscribers. SKYE also makes Nominum’s Intelligent DNS available to new markets by delivering fast, secure, and reliable hosted DNS services via a cloud infrastructure based on the same software currently serving over 170 million broadband households.

“DNS has evolved from a simple name resolution protocol to a policy-based system that provides essential availability, auditing and security services for the entire ecosystem of web-based applications,” said Eric Ogren, principal analyst at the Ogren Group. “Since the first step of any Internet request is a DNS lookup, the name service is a natural position to deploy technology asserting manageable controls over the complexities and threats of today’s Internet. With web threats dominating the Internet, the time could not be better for Nominum to launch its SKYE service for ISPs and enterprises.”

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Web Hosting Reviews – LONDON, UK – Telehouse Europe today announced that the final bolt of its Telehouse West datacentre has been put into place. As part of yesterday’s ‘topping out’ ceremony, staff gathered on the top floor of the nine-storey building to witness Mr Mitsui, Managing Director, Telehouse Europe, tighten the last of 57,334 bolts used in the construction of the state-of-the-art facility.

The ceremony marked a key milestone in the building of Telehouse West, which is due for completion in March 2010. The datacentre will provide 19,000 square metres of secure storage space for UK businesses and will act as a connection hub to over 60 available carriers and over 300 ISPs, allowing customers to choose the service that best suits their needs. The facility will also help companies reduce their carbon footprint by exporting waste heat to help heat nearby homes and businesses in the heart of London’s Docklands. The move will save up to 1,110 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum and provide up to nine megawatts of power for the local neighbourhood.

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