Web Hosting Wire – BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – In an economic environment where demands are high and margins often thin, problems with critical business applications can quickly turn profits to losses. With Verizon Business’ new Application Assurance service, however, business customers are better able to keep their network-based business processes running smoothly and reliably.

The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based offering, available in December to Verizon Private IP customers around the world, enables customers to efficiently monitor both application and network traffic.

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Web Hosting Wire – DENVER – Secure64 Software Corporation announced today that the U.S. Department of the Interior has purchased the company’s Secure64 DNS Signer product to meet the December 2009 OMB mandate requiring all federal agencies to add DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the DNS. The Domain Name System (DNS) is responsible for translating host names to IP addresses (and vice versa) and is critical for the normal operation of Internet-connected systems. The Department of Interior is the latest in a growing list of government agencies to select the Secure64 DNS Signer.

According to William Corrington, CTO for the Department of Interior, “DOI required a solution able to sign for the entire department, including all component bureaus and offices, so scalability was a factor in our decision. Even more importantly, we needed an automated product with the highest level of security to prevent signature forging. We selected Secure64 DNS Signer because it met all of our requirements and successfully completed a pilot deployment in three days.”

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Web Hosting Wire – Portsmouth, NH – GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced that AB Connect, a leading French hosting provider, has joined the GlobalSign Partner Program and will be promoting GlobalSign’s full range of SSL Certificates to its existing and new customer base via its website www.hosteur.com. The newly formed partnership will allow AB Connect to complement its existing hosting product portfolio with GlobalSign’s highly trusted 2048bit SSL technology enabling their customers to secure websites, online transactions, web mail and other next generation online services.

Hosting thousands of domain names for clients ranging from large enterprises to smaller organizations and individuals, it is essential for AB Connect to provide efficient and reliable online security solutions to protect its customers from the increased threat of phishing attacks and online fraud. AB Connect made the decision to switch to GlobalSign’s Partner Program from another leading SSL provider after considering a number of different vendors. GlobalSign was chosen for the quality of its products as well as its simplified product range. GlobalSign SSL Certificates can easily be matched to individual customer requirements; from quick issuance Domain validated SSL, traditional Organisation validated SSL, to the most advanced Extended Validated SSL, which activates the green address bar in new high security browsers such as IE8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari. AB Connect is also keen to be able to benefit from GlobalSign’s quick and effective support services as well as its all round excellent value for money.

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Web Hosting Wire – SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Cloud Storage service provider Zetta, Inc announces the commercial availability of its enterprise-class on-demand NAS, opening up a new solution for enterprise IT storage buyers. Zetta Enterprise Cloud Storage enables businesses to quickly adopt storage-as-a-service without expensive or risky changes to their current IT environments.

LiveOps provides cloud computing-based contact center platform and services to hundreds of companies in both direct response and enterprise markets that rely on the company’s technology for delivering a superior customer service experience. “One of the value propositions of the cloud computing model is scalability, which is why we decided to work with fellow cloud computing company Zetta on this pilot project to address some of our current needs for on-demand video storage,” said Gary Slater, VP of Network Operations at LiveOps. “Zetta’s cloud storage is highly complementary to our own cloud based applications giving us flexibility and performance to best serve our customers while saving us the overhead of in-house storage hosting and management.”

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Web Hosting Wire – JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Colo5, a leading independent data center operator headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, today announced the addition of key personnel to the Company’s infrastructure.

Colo5 CEO Doug Recker commented, “As our company grows, we continue to make meaningful investment in the quality of our personnel, who are backbone of our data center’s superb infrastructure. We are excited to have added some of North Florida’s top-notch IT and sales talent to the Colo5 team.”

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Web Hosting Wire – St. Louis, MO - Hostirian, L.L.C. has acquired web hosting provider NPSIS, augmenting it’s suite of web hosting products and services. NPSIS delivers website hosting solutions for small business, home business, non-profit organizations and entrepreneurs – with the tools necessary to design, market, maintain and grow their websites and businesses.

“NPSIS is a natural fit for Hostirian,” stated Ken Cox, Hostirian’s Vice President of Operations. “NPSIS offers a unique niche of hosting products and services that complement our “Business Class” Shared, VPS, Dedicated and Colocation services, providing real value to business professionals worldwide. Success in business depends on business partnerships and acquisitions that benefit both parties. NPSIS clients will profit from Hostirian’s data center infrastructure, monitoring, environmental controls, and service level agreements. One of our strengths is our hands-on approach to customer support, pre and post sales – and our ability to provide a stable secure platform for our clients.”

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Web Hosting Wire – Jersey City, NJ - “Comodo continues its commitment to free email security,” said Abdulhayoglu, the Chief Security Architect at Comodo. “We care for end users. We won’t abandon them.”

Abdulhayoglu’s comments were in response to thawte’s announcement that it would revoke its existing email certificates as of November 16. Both thawte and Comodo are certificate authorities, organizations sanctioned to issue digital certificates, small computer files that allow their owners to encrypt and decrypt other computer files.

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Web Hosting Wire – Fremont, CA — 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that top-ten UK hosting provider Ultraspeed has consolidated onto the 3PAR InServ® F-Class Storage Server as part of a cloud computing datacenter transformation to support the underlying storage requirement for their next-generation Diskless Infrastructure®. With 3PAR Utility Storage, Ultraspeed has cut their storage capacity, administration, and power requirements in half and saved on support costs associated with the new infrastructure to support their Diskless Platform®. By consolidating onto a single 3PAR InServ Storage Server, Ultraspeed has not only increased the flexibility and scalability of their storage environment, but has gained the ability to purchase capacity only as they need it in order to reduce up-front costs, leverage falling disk prices, and minimize operating expenses associated with powering, cooling, housing, and administering disks.

Ultraspeed is renowned for their highly virtualized Diskless Infrastructure, which is built on their Diskless Platform. The Diskless Platform is a compilation of best-of-breed architectures which provides end users with the ability to deploy and manage their diskless storage in real time, without the limitations experienced with physical hard disk drives. Ultraspeed’s previous storage environment supported the first generation of the provider’s Diskless Platform, but was hitting major limitations in terms of storage capacity and this was affecting Ultraspeed’s ability to serve end users.

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Web Hosting Wire – The Netherlands - Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced it will be supporting the Broad Group’s 4th Power and Cooling Event for Data Centres in London on the 22nd October 2009.

This year’s theme revolves around the issue of using innovation to reduce cost and energy consumption and increasing efficiency in data centres. For one day the event will explore an array of new solutions emerging to tackle the most critical issue in data centres today – cost.

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Web Hosting Wire – CHICAGO, Illinois — RegistryPro, the exclusive operator of the .PRO top-level domain (TLD) on the Internet, announced today it will serve as an official sponsor of the 36th ICANN International meeting in Seoul, South Korea, October 25-30, 2009. The Seoul meeting is the second public ICANN meeting sponsorship for .PRO, the only TLD reserved exclusively for business and service professionals.

“We’re excited to once again support the ICANN International Meeting,” said Catherine Sigmar, general manager of RegistryPro. “.PRO’s dramatic growth in 2009 has given us the opportunity to broaden our efforts to promote and develop the .PRO namespace in these visible and valuable public forums. As one of the fastest growing gTLDs in the industry, meeting sponsorship is a chance for us to connect with our core customers, accredited registrars and those in the industry who may not have discovered the opportunity present in the high-value names still available in .PRO.”

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