Web Hosting Wire – Montreal - iWeb is pleased to announce the following changes in the company’s management structure; Cyrille Mertès, formerly Vice-President of IT & Infrastructure is now Chief Technology Officer and Marc Trudel, formerly Senior Director, Customer Experience, becomes Vice-President, Operations.  Mr. Mertès will be actively involved in the evolution and development of new technologies within the company while Mr. Trudel will overview most operational activities other than sales and marketing.

The newly created role of Chief Technology Officer will enable better synergy between iWeb’s Infrastructure, Development and Technology groups.  Mr. Mertès will lead those groups with high availability and automation in mind.   “iWeb’s efficiency depend on the technologies that automate our processes.”, said Mr. Mertès.  “Automation will be our primary focus in the year to come”, he added.
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Web Hosting Wire – London – Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services company, today announced the launch of Affinity Service for SAP customers, a partnership with Bluefin Solutions to deliver end to end operational service and support for business critical SAP systems.

Affinity is a new Service from Attenda & Bluefin in partnership, to provide end-to-end Service Levels across all SAP business processes, delivering best of breed support without the overheads and costs usually associated with traditional IT support. Affinity is being launched at the SAP UK & Ireland User Group Conference, Manchester Central, 23rd-24th November. Continue reading “Attenda and Bluefin Solutions partner to deliver Affinity for SAP customers” »

Web Hosting Wire – LONDON – UK2 Group announced the availability of R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) across its extensive virtual private server cloud. VPS.NET now offers customers a more advanced level of data protection with user-ready CDP backups and individual file-restoration capabilities.

VPS.NET offers an “instantly deployable” image that can have a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Server up and running in just 60 seconds giving customers complete administrative privileges over scheduling and managing their backups. The CDP software protects VPS.NET customers’ environments by performing asynchronous replication of the target servers and archiving only the deltas or changed blocks to disk. Each replication creates a full backup that typically only takes minutes to create, even on larger data sets. This gives VPS.NET customers the ability to perform more granular restores of individual files or folders as opposed to restoring the entire VPS. Continue reading “VPS.NET Brings R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® to the Cloud” »

Web Hosting Wire – LONDON, UK - euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23.SI), Europe’s foremost provider of mission-critical, high-performance networking solutions, has announced the availability of their high performance Ethernet based solution, euTrade, to customers at NASDAQ OMX Europe (NEURO).  The addition of the euTrade solution, which offers ultra-low latency and high availability connectivity to Europe’s financial community, will provide NEURO customers with an additional choice of best-of-breed networks.

NEURO is a multilateral trading facility that enables best execution in high volume securities trading in a cross-border, multi-market environment. euTrade contributes towards demonstrating best execution due to its guaranteed ultra-high performance. Continue reading “euNetworks Connects to NASDAQ OMX Europe to Extend Ultra-Low Latency Trading Platform” »

Web Hosting Wire – GLASGOW, UK - A 47% increase in revenues has helped managed hosting and cloud computing business iomart Group plc report a profit of £1.4M (£0.65M loss Sept 2008) in its half yearly results to September 30 2009.

The Group also revealed that it’s managed hosting arm, iomart hosting, has doubled its customer based and moved into profitability, following a period of investment. Overall, the results show the Group is delivering on its strategy of growing its managed hosting business as it bids to become recognised as the UK’s foremost managed hosting company.
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Web Hosting Wire – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced enhancements that vastly simplify the aggregation of e-mail and contact information — personal and business — giving users access to their data anywhere, anytime and with any device.

To improve ease-of use, the latest enhancements introduce a wizard that eases the setup for new and existing Open-Xchange users. The wizard configures the subscriptions of external mail accounts from Google, GMX, Web.de and many others, along with social and business networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and others, as well as the push synchronization of mobile phones. Continue reading “Latest Open-Xchange Makes Webmail and Social Network Integration Easy” »

Web Hosting Wire – NEW YORK - NTT America, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, today announced it will provide data center and connectivity services to ACTIV Financial, a leading global provider of fully managed low-latency market data solutions.

In the initial phase, NTT America will provide ACTIV with its reliable, secure and affordable Arcstar Global IP-VPN service to offer seamless connectivity between ACTIV’s corporate headquarters in Chicago and its offices in Tokyo.
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Web Hosting Wire – FREMONT, Calif. - Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that it is the first network in the world to connect to over 600 IPv6 networks, doubling its IPv6 network size in less than a year.

The majority of Internet traffic today is composed of IPv4 transmissions, but the IPv4 protocol’s 32-bit address will soon be overwhelmed by the rapidly growing number of Internet-connected devices. Continue reading “Hurricane Electric Doubles IPv6 Network Size In Less Than a Year” »

Web Hosting Wire – RALEIGH, N.C. - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include next-generation Ogg Theora video, virtualization improvements and advancements to NetworkManager, among numerous others.

“Fedora always looks to include the latest cutting-edge features in its distribution and we believe that Fedora 12 stays true to this pattern, packing a lot of punch across its feature set,” said Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat. “Our community of global contributors continues to expand, with about 25 percent growth in Fedora Accounts since the release of Fedora 11. We’ve also seen more than 2.3 million1 installations of Fedora 11 thus far, which is a 20 percent increase over the previous release.” Continue reading “Fedora 12 Unites Latest Features and Usability Into Compelling Free Distribution” »

Web Hosting Wire – SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the availability of a new cloud-based Desktop as a Service for educational institutions. Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group are now offering a secure, cost-effective computing solution delivered anytime, anywhere via the Internet that provides a rich, virtual desktop experience for all leading Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to nearly any client device, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms with Java(TM)-based browsers.

The Sun Ray device’s zero-maintenance and 4-5 watt power draw makes it one of the greenest desktop solutions on the market today. Sun also offers the Sun Ray technology with built-in VPN security so that parents, teachers and administrators can feel secure about the privacy and security of students on the network. The Sun Desktop as a Service solution, part of Sun’s education solutions portfolio, is a subscription-based service available for purchase immediately for as little as $1.00 per day per user. Continue reading “Sun Microsystems and Ashbourne Technology Group Unveil Industry’s First Full-Function, Cloud-Based Desktop as a Service” »