Web Hosting Wire – MILFORD, CT – Perimeter E-Security, the trusted market leader of information security services that delivers enterprise-class protection and compliance to companies of all sizes, announced the top ten biggest information security breaches and blunders of 2009.  According to Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Prince, there is a common thread between all of these incidents: they could have been avoided.

“2009 has been a year full of data breaches, compromises and exposures all around cyber-criminality.  These incidents could have been prevented by adopting basic security standards and embracing a culture of security,” added Prince.  “Most companies actually know exactly where they lack security and where their gaps and exposures are. But knowing this, they still ‘play with fire’ and hope that they won’t get burned. Now is the time for everyone to take into account of all the malicious breaches and blunders that have happened in the last year alone, and take the time to reconfigure their network protection systems to prevent these mishaps from happening to them.” Continue reading “Perimeter E-Security Exposes Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009” »

Web Hosting Wire – Durham, UK - eUKhost.com, a provider of Shared, Reseller, Virtual Private Servers and dedicated servers, today introduced Enterprise Linux/Windows Dedicated Servers. The company states that starting at just £129 GBP per month, Enterprise Dedicated Servers will have a setup identical to its existing Shared Hosting Servers. These servers will have the same security settings applied, and they will also be actively monitored similar to the shared hosting servers they currently manage.

Besides the regular backups, each server will also be setup with RAID 1 in order to minimize potential problems and prevent subsequent data loss. It further states that all Enterprise Dedicated Servers are based on Linux or Windows Platform where each Linux Enterprise Dedicated Server will be pre-installed with cPanel/WHM control panel, while Windows Enterprise Dedicated Servers will be pre-installed with DotNetPanel control panel. Continue reading “UKhost.com Launches Enterprise Level Dedicated Servers” »

Web Hosting Wire – NEW YORK – AOL today previewed its new brand identity for its future as an independent company committed to creating the world’s most simple and stimulating content and online experiences.

The new AOL brand identity is a simple, confident logotype, revealed by ever-changing images. It’s one consistent logo with countless ways to reveal. The new brand identity will be fully unveiled on December 10, when AOL common stock begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Continue reading “AOL Previews New Brand Identity for its Future as an Independent Content-Driven Company” »

Web Hosting Wire – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, today announced enhancements to its Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering, including new ease-of-use functions and automation of key CDN capabilities. Exclusively delivered with Internap’s Performance IP™ service – which ensures optimal video delivery across the Internet – these enhancements deliver an intelligent video streaming solution that simplifies and automates content creation, management and reporting with the highest quality end user experience.

According to comScore’s Video Metrix service, during the month of September 2009, more than 84.8% of the total U.S. Internet audience watched online video, and the average online viewer watched 9.8 hours of video. As more organizations look to adopt video CDNs as part of their marketing strategy and business operations, they also face cost and complexity challenges associated with delivering high-quality content across an increasingly diverse device landscape of PCs, netbooks and mobile phones. Additionally, as video usage broadens beyond the user-generated content and over-the-top media and entertainment markets and becomes a core enterprise tool for communicating with business-critical audiences – such as employees, customers, investors and partners – ensuring the highest quality experience to those consumers by overcoming issues of network latency, congestion and downtime are also becoming key CDN requirements. Continue reading “Internap Enhances Content Delivery Network for High-Quality Video” »

Web Hosting Wire – VANCOUVER, BC - PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX: PIX), the global online business hosting provider, will lead an industry roundtable on the ‘Future of Hosting’, with respected industry analyst GigaOM, to be streamed live online on Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 9.30AM PST.

Live webstream — 12/3/09, 9:30A.M. PST — www.livestream.com/gigaomTV

The Breakfast Briefing brings together leading hosting industry strategists and technologists to debate the perfect hosting environment for early stage entrepreneurs as the hosting market evolves towards an on-demand model. The discussion follows on from a PEER 1 sponsored panel at Structure 09, that features industry thought-leaders debating direction for customers and service providers within the fast-moving hosting environment, delivery of platform-as-a-service and optimizing scalable hosting and cost-effectiveness for start-up businesses. Continue reading “PEER 1 Maps Out ‘Future of Hosting’ with GigaOM Breakfast Briefing” »

Web Hosting Wire – IRVINE, Calif. - Nexus, the leading provider of Advanced Technologies (AT) in the U.S., today announced the launch of the Nexus Solution Center in Irvine to help enterprises grow their Data Center 3.0 capabilities.

“The new Nexus Solution Center in Irvine provides the Advanced Technologies that leading enterprise organizations today are implementing, including those that enable cloud computing and virtualization environments,” said Steven Patterson, the Director of the Data Center Practice at Nexus. “IT decision makers in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area can now turn to the Nexus Solution Center to help enable the various connections to their infrastructure across multiple converged networks.” Continue reading “New Nexus Solution Center in Irvine Offers Advanced Technologies to Enable Virtualization and Cloud Computing” »

Web Hosting Wire – Raleigh, NC - Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), today expanded the range of its Stratus Trusted Cloud™ offering, introducing the availability of a hybrid option giving companies the industry’s widest range of options on how and where to more effectively host their IT infrastructures.

Stratus, a robust, enterprise-class cloud solution, was first introduced earlier this year as a massively scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure that enables customers to access a secure, enterprise-class cloud environment with built-in high availability and automated resource balancing. Since then, two versions of Stratus have been offered to the market – a multi-tenant, enterprise cloud and a private/dedicated cloud. Continue reading “Hosted Solutions Expands the Stratus Trusted Cloud” »

Web Hosting Wire – SAN JOSE, Calif. - Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced at the 2009 Streaming Media West Show that it has now integrated the latest Adobe® Flash® Media Server software into a single Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform. Level 3 has taken a unique approach to deploying Flash Media Server 3.5 software by merging the Adobe technology and its own, proprietary, advanced HTTP delivery technology into a single multi-protocol platform. This solution positions Level 3 to accelerate and optimize the evolution to HTTP as the single ubiquitous standard for content delivery over the Internet.

As content owners increasingly publish higher-quality video to the Internet, consumers are demanding that their online video experiences match those from traditional television broadcasts. Level 3 combines its global content delivery expertise with the broadcast and video experience that the company has delivered to major network and sports leagues for decades. Level 3 is working closely with Adobe to allow the Level 3 CDN platform to provide a stable, scalable environment for delivering these next-generation applications to a global audience. By combining the streaming protocols in Adobe Flash technology with Level 3′s robust CDN, Level 3 is taking a significant step forward toward the vision of bringing a broadcast quality experience to the Internet. Continue reading “Level 3 Communications Deploys Next-Generation Streaming Solutions with Adobe Flash Media Server Technologies” »

Web Hosting Wire – RENTON, WA. — Worldwide cloud-enablement leader Parallels, today announced that Melanie Posey, Research Director, Hosting and Telecom Markets at IDC will deliver the opening keynote address at Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida on 22-24 February. Ms. Posey will introduce the theme of the event — “Profit from the Cloud” — with a presentation on Public Clouds delivered on the morning of February 23rd, 2010.

“With so much emphasis on the cloud model and its implications for all telcos, hosters, VARs, managed service providers and ISVs, Parallels Summit 2010 will provide the perfect forum for tracking global trends, leveraging them in local markets and meeting some of the most significant companies in the industry,” said Melanie Posey, Research Director, Telecom Markets at IDC. Continue reading “Leading Market Research firm to Open Parallels Summit 2010 with Keynote Address on Public Clouds” »

Web Hosting Wire – ST. LOUIS, MO – Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global leader in outsourced Internet infrastructure services for the enterprise, today announced that it has recently completed its sixth consecutive examination in conformity with Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70), Service Organizations for the period October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009 that was performed by Ernst & Young LLP.

Completion of the SAS 70 Type II examination indicates that selected Savvis processes, procedures and controls have been formally evaluated and tested by an independent accounting and auditing firm. The examination included the company’s controls related to managed security services, change management, service delivery, support services, backup and environmental controls, logical and physical security, as well as managed storage and managed backup services. Continue reading “Savvis Completes SAS 70 Type II Examination” »