Web Hosting Wire – NEW YORK - Intermedia, the global leader in Microsoft Exchange hosting, will offer free migrations to its hosted Exchange 2010 customers when the service debuts. Migrations will be performed by Intermedia’s Exchange Concierge™ team using proprietary tools the company developed for hosted Exchange 2003 and 2007. The tools are being readied for use with hosted Exchange 2010, in part through the hosted Exchange 2010 beta Intermedia launched in May 2009. Exchange 2010 is not yet available for sale from Microsoft.

The free migration offer will be open to Intermedia’s new customers as well as existing customers that choose to upgrade to an Intermedia Exchange 2010 hosting plan. Migrations will be managed by Intermedia’s Exchange Concierge service, which is staffed by veteran support technicians. The Exchange Concierge program relies on Intermedia’s proprietary tools to migrate email data, contacts and distribution lists.

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Web Hosting Wire – Tokyo – NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced that it starts offering today Biz Hosting Enterprise, a cloud-based hosting service renamed from the conventional Green Hosting Enterprise with additional new features in Japan, offered under NTT Com’s BizCITY® concept of providing secure access to enterprise services from anyplace at anytime.

The new Biz Hosting Enterprise is offered with reliable and robust data centers enabling a Tier 3 or higher ranking by The Uptime Institute, stable communication facilities and high-quality security services as well as the latest server virtualization technologies developed through about 10 years of expertise in the hosting business field. The new service will enhance customers’ sustainable growth and flexibly meet customers’ short-term needs, such as a redundantly designed Internet access environment at low cost, while expanding their business on electronic commerce sites or temporarily adding hardware in accordance with peak access demand times by introducing new features to virtually provide security and load balancing.

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Web Hosting Wire – Orlando, Fl – Atlantic.Net is pleased to announce the completion of Statement of Auditing Standard Number 70 (SAS 70) certification for Service Organizations. SAS 70 certification confirms the reliability, security, availability, and processing integrity of Managed Server Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, and Server Colocation provided by Atlantic.Net through its World Class Data Center operations.

The SAS 70 certification was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to audit and report on the effectiveness of operations and controls of a service provider. Atlantic.Net’s Data Center control objectives were closely examined in the areas of organizational structure, administration, physical and environmental controls, and physical and logical security. Atlantic.Net invested significant time and resources into the SAS 70 certification process to ensure the security, controls, and processes in its Data Center operations are closely followed and monitored. The audit also enhances Atlantic.Net’s ability to support companies facing Sarbanes Oxely requirements when they outsource their data center needs through Server Colocation, Dedicated Hosting, or Managed Server Hosting.

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Web Hosting Wire – TACOMA, Wash. – A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG) reveals that the longevity of phishing Web sites dropped by 25 percent over the last year.

Uptimes are a vital measure of how damaging phishing attacks are — the longer a phishing attack remains active, the more victims there can be. The decrease indicates collective progress is being made by the parties that fight phishing, and may be attributable to improved policies and operations at Internet infrastructure providers, brandholders, domain name registrars and registries, and private Internet security providers.

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Web Hosting Wire – REDWOOD CITY, CA - Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its entire server infrastructure.

With about EUR 1.2 billion in revenues, 8 million customers, and 10 million domains being managed, 1&1 is the largest Web hosting provider in the world. In order to deliver its portfolio of shared and dedicated hosting, ISP, and new cloud computing services, 1&1 needs to manage a vast infrastructure that includes more than 65,000 servers.

The IT staff at 1&1 realised it needed to replace the existing open source monitoring solution in order to most effectively optimise the performance and reliability of its servers. After evaluating solutions from IBM, Hyperic and Nimsoft, the staff found that only NMS offered the combination of scalability, ease of deployment, and security they required.

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Web Hosting Wire – RENTON, WA — Cloud enablement leader, Parallels, today announced that MESH (mesh.eu/en), the premier European data center and services provider, has deployed Parallels Automation to provide their reseller channel with a wider portfolio of white-labeled applications, including Microsoft Hosted Exchange, Windows Sharepoint, and Open-Xchange Linux-based email and groupware. Following this week’s successful launch, MESH is now able to leverage Parallels Automation to deliver cost-effective, hosted services in a cloud model and with capabilities that were previously only available to large enterprise businesses.

“Parallels Automation provides MESH a scalable platform to deliver our white-label resellers multiple SaaS applications,” explains Ernesto Fries Urioste, founder and member of the Board at MESH. “Our vast reseller channel requires a flexible billing and administration solution that is consistent across all our service offerings and Parallels meets that need. With the success of this launch, we are already planning to add more SaaS applications in the coming months.”

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Web Hosting Wire – MIAMI - Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced the most recent addition to its portfolio of virtualized services with the launch of cloud-enabled disaster recovery services. Terremark’s Virtualized Disaster Recovery solution provides customers with leading-edge, proven solutions that leverage the company’s enterprise-class cloud computing platform to deliver fully secure, pre-provisioned computing and network capacity with advanced data replication and fully managed data center failover.

This innovative disaster recovery solution, which supports a variety of operating systems and enterprise applications and databases, provides customers protection for their business-critical environments without the cost or complexity of maintaining the server, networking, and facility infrastructures at a secondary site. This service is based on a time-tested framework developed by Terremark’s team of disaster recovery experts and takes advantage of the company’s highly secure, top-tier data center facilities to deliver reliable, repeatable and predictable solutions that reduce recovery times to a matter of hours at a much lower cost than that of traditional disaster recovery services.

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Web Hosting Wire – Foster City, CA and Tampa, FL – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and Switch & Data Facilities Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: SDXC), a leading provider of data center and Internet exchange services, have entered a definitive agreement for Equinix to acquire Switch and Data in a transaction valued at approximately $689 million in cash and stock, based on yesterday’s market close. The combination of the two companies will further strengthen Equinix’s leadership position in the global data center services market by extending the company’s presence to 16 new markets across North America. Equinix will integrate Switch and Data’s data center business and operations, including the company’s 34 data centers in 22 markets in the U.S. and Canada. The acquisition will add more than one million gross square feet of data center capacity, bringing Equinix’s total global footprint to 79 data centers in 34 markets and more than six million square feet across the North American, European and Asia-Pacific markets. It will allow Equinix to immediately expand into new strategic markets, including Atlanta, Denver, Miami, Seattle and Toronto, as well as provide a platform for future expansion of Switch and Data assets.

The acquisition will help the companies’ customers respond to two broad market trends. The rapid growth of demand for online information is requiring companies to store and distribute larger volumes of latency sensitive assets and applications at the network edge, near local population centers. At the same time, the market compels companies to develop global aggregation and distribution strategies for their digital assets and applications. The transaction is expected to give Equinix customers broader access to local markets for their network edge deployments, and Switch and Data customers a comprehensive solution to their global data center needs. The customers of both companies will benefit from a stronger product portfolio and capacity pipeline in a market where demand continues to outpace supply, and from doing business with a partner that brings together the capabilities of two companies with strong reputations for operational excellence and high customer satisfaction.

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Web Hosting Wire – PALO ALTO, Calif. – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced accelerated momentum for VMware vSphereTM 4, with more than 500,000 customer downloads since being made generally available on May 21, 2009. This pace has rapidly increased to an average rate of more than 3,660 downloads per day. VMware vSphere is the world’s leading virtualization platform, delivering customers unmatched business agility, cost savings; and efficiency required to run business critical applications; along with uncompromised control over application service levels. The award winning VMware vSphere platform is broadly recognized as the foundation for a pragmatic path to Cloud Computing.

“As customers continue to leverage virtualization for business critical applications, what becomes paramount is not just virtualizing server resources but also improving availability, security and scalability for applications,” said Raghu Raghuram, VP and general manager of VMware’s server business unit. “VMware vSphere is a proven platform that has consistently delivered optimal performance, security and cost savings to businesses of all sizes.”

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Web Hosting Wire – HONOLULU - Superb Internet, one of the oldest and most prominent members of the web hosting community, announced today the extension of its existing industry-leading lease-to-own program to all of its dedicated servers; a move that is sure to shake up the industry. The existing (so provided since 1996) lease-to-own program, until now only offered on the Superb Enterprise high-end/custom dedicated line of servers, allows – as of today, all — dedicated server customers to pay a small lease to own fee for a year and then at the end of one year they own the hardware outright while the monthly fee is reduced to a minimal colocation fee, saving the customers thousands of dollars over the life-time of the server.

“We understand that in tough economic times customers are looking for more and more value, and we believe this is one of the best deals out there,” states William Song, Senior Product Manager. “This represents a paradigm shift in the relationship between customer and web host, offering much more transparency in the billing practices. At other web hosts customers are typically forced to pay outrageous ongoing monthly fees for hardware that is often 3-4 years old. With the Superb lease-to-own program customers always know that they have paid off their hardware after year 1, and the low ongoing fees simply represent, space, power, AC, support, and bandwidth among other costs. If customers wish to upgrade their server they can do so at wholesale rates, and if they decide to leave they can have the server shipped to them, because they own it! Compare that to most companies where customers end up paying thousands of dollars more (many times the cost of the server hardware) and end up with nothing when they cancel.”

This program is particularly well-suited to large partners and resellers who often have hundreds (or thousands) of servers representing huge ongoing monthly costs. Resellers can own all their servers after one year of service, significantly reducing their costs, which they can use to grow their businesses.

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