Hosting News – Amsterdam – LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s largest hosting providers, has added two new modules to the two Cisco CRS-1 routers in the backbone of its global hosting network.  The cost of these modules: USD 790,000, i.e. more than half a million euros.

The two Cisco CRS-1 units – non-stop devices with a basic purchase value of 1.6 million euros – are a crucial element in LeaseWeb’ global hosting network.  They link the four data centers in LeaseWeb’s network with telecom carriers and a multitude of Internet exchanges, including LINX (London), DE-CIX (Frankfurt), AMS-IX (Amsterdam) and NYIIX (New York).  LeaseWeb specifically uses two Cisco CRS-1 units because they provide the best guarantee for uptime in the hosting network.
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Hosting News – AMSTERDAM – Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, has become a partner of the Dutch Media Hub industry initiative and will provide expertise in the design and operation of critical server environments for media aggregation and dissemination to support the Dutch Media Hub’s goals.

Launched in June 2007, Dutch Media Hub is a publicly funded project to stimulate national collaboration and international growth for the Dutch media sector. Partners, who include over 30 firms ranging from content producers to storage and distribution operators, cooperate on issues such as standardization, interoperability, anti-piracy and international marketing. The aim of Dutch Media Hub is to bundle the rich variety of Dutch creative, media and facility companies to create an integrated Digital Gateway to Europe. Continue reading “Interxion Partners with Dutch Media Hub” »

Hosting News – MADRID – NicLine, an ICANN accredited registrar for domain name resellers, announced it is now offering internationalized domain names (IDNs) under the .eu top-level domain. All companies and individuals based in the European Union can register a .eu that supports all official EU languages.

These IDNs are domain names represented by local language characters and can contain letters or characters from non-ASCII scripts such as the Spanish ñ, the French ç, the Swedish å, the German ü, the Romanian ș, etc.
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Hosting News – Reading, UK – As eCommerce continues to develop as a strong revenue stream for UK high street retailers, Moss Bros has today announced its renewed online strategy to provide customers with an easily navigable website which will assist in it increasing checkout conversion rates.

The refreshed Moss Bros website is being re-platformed with DediPower, one of the UK’s leading managed hosting specialists, which is managing the site on a dedicated server, ensuring 24/7 support and the capacity to handle the high level of traffic expected for a retailer of its size.  The site is preparing for an increase in repeat traffic, following a site redesign by online conversion specialists Lost Ferret.
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Hosting News – Fayetteville, NC - AIT’s Reseller Web Hosting Plans have enabled many home businesses to prosper over the years. The Company recently announced a large discount on its core line of Web Hosting Plans including fully managed Dedicated Servers, empowering Entrepreneurs to resell Web Hosting and Domain Registration for less than the cost of an average monthly utility bill. All AIT plans include a series of free private label Web Hosting and Domain Registration services for the Holiday Season.

AIT customers include Small Businesses to the Dedicated Hosting clients from around the worldwide with a core group of thousands of private label Web Hosting and Domain Name Resellers. AIT’s senior management cited the most recent price cuts as the first of many improvements and value additions that now include advertising credits within the companies tyBit search engine. “The cost savings with free advertising to promote my products and services is turning out to be a holiday windfall,” said Ken Rivers, an AIT Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration Reseller.
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Hosting News – United Kingdom - Web hosting giants Just Host, today announced the launch of their professional reseller hosting services. After a record breaking year for Just Host in the shared web hosting market, they have now moved into reseller hosting and it seems they have launched with a bang as their pricing and specifications look set to compete with all the current major reseller hosts.

Just Host are renown for offering affordable shared web hosting with superb uptime and support and they hope to carry this forward with their new reseller hosting plans. Sophy Gasson Just Host’s Marketing Director said “Reseller hosting is the obvious move for any shared web host who has built up a name for themselves as a reliable host. People buying reseller services are very much in the know about web hosting and their success is in our hands they are relying on our infrastructure to provide a first class service to their customers. With this in mind we are confident that Just Host can become a major force in the reseller hosting market”

Just Host’s reseller plans have a vast list of features that are sure to impress new and existing customers, these features included a free eNom domain reseller account, a choice of free billing systems, WHM for full account management and unlimited free cPanel accounts. All of these tools will be vital to resellers looking to set up their own web hosting business. Continue reading “Just Host Launches Reseller Hosting Services” »

Hosting News – ANDOVER, Mass. - NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of cloud-enabled enterprise-hosting and application-management services, announced today the appointment of Claudine Bianchi as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role Bianchi will lead NaviSite’s global market positioning and messaging and provide strategic marketing direction for accelerating the growth of NaviSite’s brand within the cloud computing space.

“Claudine has a proven track record of marketing success in the technology industry,” said Brooks Borcherding, Navisite’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer. “Her experience identifying market trends, building industry leadership in emerging markets, and working with sales teams to drive revenue will help NaviSite establish a leadership position in the emerging cloud-based managed services and application management market.”

Bianchi brings to NaviSite more than 20 years experience in technology marketing. Most recently, she was Vice President of Marketing at MetaCarta, a pioneer in the burgeoning “geoweb” space, whose technology allows content to be geographically referenced and searched using a map as a filter. She worked extensively with brand leaders including National Geographic and Reuters and helped propel MetaCarta’s business in the public sector and energy markets.
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Hosting News – SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the completion of its identity management portfolio update with the availability of a new, fine-grained entitlement enforcement engine, as part of OpenSSO Express 9, for both enterprise and extranet deployments and a next-generation directory proxy server, as part of Sun OpenDS(TM) Standard Edition 2.2, for rapid, horizontal and on-demand scaling. For more information visit: www.sun.com/identity.

“With the release of Sun’s fine-grained entitlement enforcement engine and next-generation directory proxy server, Sun has completed its 2009 portfolio update and has added a high-scaling, standards-based entitlement enforcement solution and a next generation proxy server to our arsenal of capabilities,” said Daniel Raskin, chief identity strategist at Sun. “Innovative functionality such as granular security controls combined with the ability to quickly augment infrastructure performance keeps Sun well-positioned as a leading provider of large-scale identity management solutions.”
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Hosting News – HOUSTON - The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the addition of a third server to its portfolio powered by Intel’s next-generation Nehalem microarchitecture. The Xeon 3450, based on the Dell PowerEdge R210 platform, is now the most powerful single-processor server in the company’s fleet. The server is available immediately.

“Our customers consistently look for the latest technology to power mission-critical applications, from e-commerce sites to databases,” said Todd Mitchell, general manager for dedicated hosting and global services. “This new Nehalem-based platform works best as a versatile workhorse, offering an optimal price/performance ratio. Our size allows us to leverage our purchasing power from Dell and offer the newest technology at an affordable rate to our customers.”
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Hosting News – Amsterdam – EvoSwitch, the Dutch carrier-neutral data center with CO2-neutral operations, has lowered the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its data center from 1.6 in 2008 to 1.5 in 2009.  Thus, the energy savings compared to a conventional data center has increased from 40 to 50 percent.  The ultimate goal of EvoSwitch is to achieve an energy savings rate of 80 percent.

“Actually, our energy savings rate is already more than 50 percent,” says Eric Boonstra, Managing Director of EvoSwitch.  “This is due to the fact that the PUE of our data center continuously has been slightly below 1.5 for some time now.  The extra savings is primarily due to further investments in green technology and in control systems.  The expansion due to customer growth in 2009 was another reason for the reduced PUE.”
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