Web Host News – Glasgow, UK - Easyspace  has launched a new feature on its website to allow non-UK visitors to view more accurate pricing for each of its range of products.

In response to a continued high volume of non-UK traffic to the website, Easyspace has launched a currency convertor on the easyspace.com website targeting the two most popular currencies used by the majority of its non-UK visitors – American Dollars (USD) and the Euro (EUR).
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Web Host News – Orlando, FL - Today Voxeo Corporation, the leader in Unlocked Communications, announced it has acquired ClackPoint, the leading real-time multi-media collaboration platform. Over 100,000 people each month use ClackPoint’s online voice, video and text virtual conference rooms to connect and collaborate with colleagues, friends, and social networks. Attendees can access ClackPoint’s virtual conference rooms using any telephone, SIP VoIP device and service, Skype phone and IM clients, and ClackPoint’s own Flash-based phone and IM web client. Additionally, ClackPoint’s easy API enables developers and enterprises to add these capabilities to new and existing applications. ClackPoint also provides pre-built “widgets” that work with existing applications and platforms including Google Wave.

Ted Schadler, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc., wrote in a recent report, “Web conferencing began life as a better way to conduct sales meetings and training sessions. But its future is much more interesting: to be a natural extension to the real-time collaboration scenarios that today start and stop with voice and instant messaging.”[1]
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Web Host News – Dallas, TX - NeoSpire, Inc., a provider of mission critical managed hosting; today announced it has again received an exception–free Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS–70) Type II certification, performed by independent auditors BKD, LLP, one of the 10 largest CPA and advisory firms in the U.S.

The SAS–70 Type II certification is an internationally recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. An exception–free SAS–70 Type II Certification report is well–known by organizations in the United States and Europe as a reliable indicator that a service provider has implemented an effective control environment. The report is also acknowledged as a critical component for companies due to the Sarbanes –Oxley Act of 2002.
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Web Host News – RALEIGH, N.C. - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Millennium Global Investments (MGI), a specialist in developing and managing alternative investment products for institutional investors, has selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) for its mission-critical business rules repository.

London-based MGI wanted to improve the flexibility of its compliance system so that its business and trade rules could be revised and adjusted rapidly within a managed environment. MGI selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS to bring business rules into a managed environment, standardise business rules and support the scalability of the business.
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Web Host News – County Clare, Ireland — MyHost.ie, a leading Web hosting and Internet services provider, today announced the introduction of a new dedicated server data protection offering. The premium backup service will feature R1Soft’s high performance Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) for Windows, Linux, and MySQL.

The new service will offer consistent, reliable R1Soft CDP backups and an easy-to-use interface that makes restoring a customer’s lost data a simple and extremely quick procedure. R1Soft’s Bare-Metal Restore feature enables MyHost.ie to restore damaged, lost or deleted files in minutes rather than the traditional hours or days customers may have experienced with other Web hosting providers.
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Web Host News – Huerth – Visitor registration for WebhostingDay 2010 is now available; the largest webhosting event in the world takes place in Phantasialand in Brühl near Cologne from March 17th to 19th. More than 70 well-known companies from all over the world, including world famous greats such as Microsoft, Parallels, Intel, AMD, Fujitsu and HP will be holding technical presentations and displaying their latest products and services at the hosting.FAIR exhibition.

WebhostingDay is the ideal event for members of the IT or Telecom industry to meet with the leaders of the world’s most important companies in the industry. In 2009 these came from 63 different, mainly European, North American and Asian countries. More than half of the visitors last year were from the CEO/CTO level therefore with a majority of decision makers WebhostingDay has a visitor structure which is certainly not the norm at such industry events.

WebhostingDay offers a varied program of information and interaction. On two of the three event days the main.FORUM and hosting.SESSIONs will welcome you to exciting discussions and presentations with successful innovators. The industry exhibition hosting.FAIR runs all day in parallel with the presentations. The popular social events, for example the ConneXion Party along with the refreshments and the Phantasialand attractions provide opportunities for rest and relaxation. Visitors can expect another opportunity for networking on the third day during the BizBrunch. Continue reading “WebhostingDay 2010 Opens Registration” »

Web Host News – Foster City, CA and White Plains, NY – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, and AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE: ABVT), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced that AboveNet has deployed operations to the Equinix New York-1 (NY1) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center, marking the company’s deployment to all 20 of Equinix’s IBX centers in the U.S. The U.S. deployments, along with AboveNet’s operations within nine of Equinix’s 20 IBX centers in Europe, enable AboveNet to enhance the exchange of data with other networks and to sell its network and infrastructure services to the aggregation of companies participating in Equinix’s centers.

The presence of AboveNet in Equinix’s U.S. centers provides existing Equinix customers with direct access to a top global infrastructure services provider. AboveNet operates a global Tier 1 optical IP network, as well as a variety of digital communications infrastructure services, including a metropolitan area fiber network, Ethernet and managed services. By operating within the same center as AboveNet, Equinix IBX participants will be able to quickly and easily establish relationships with the provider.
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Web Host News – SUNNYVALE, CA — Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that Feeva Technology, Inc., the innovator in Addressable Digital Advertising solutions for online content and advertising, has become a Juniper Networks SDK application developer. As a valued partner, Feeva will have access to Juniper engineering guidance and support that will enable them to develop solutions tightly integrated with the Juniper Networks Junos® operating system.

Feeva is planning to use the Junos SDK to integrate its MediaEnablerTM solution with Juniper’s carrier grade software and routing platforms, which will enable broadband and mobile service providers to leverage existing network assets while delivering a range of services that create value for the online advertising ecosystem.
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Web Host News – Elk Grove, CA - PacificHost, a leading provider of Linux Based, Shared and Reseller Hosting solutions announced earlier today that several major changes have been made to its entire hosting lineup. Changes include a drop in bandwidth limits, various plan name and price changes. This move comes in an effort to stay competitive and expand its hosting audience.

In addition to the dropped bandwidth limits, the company also added 2 additional plans to its offering. The “Basic” plan was added to its shared hosting plans which lowers the base price for PacificHost services to $2.95/month. In addition, the “Economy” plan was added to PacificHost’s Reseller plans, lowering the starting price to $13.95/month. All existing PacificHost clients will see that their plans have automatically been upgraded to the new plan specifications.
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Web Host News – 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 availability of both Java and Python open-source software development kits (SDKs) for the  VMware vCloud API, making it easier for developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to jumpstart their projects by flexibly leveraging private and public cloud services.  The new Python and Java SDKs for the VMware vCloud API will further simplify and accelerate developers’ ability to leverage VMware vCloud services. VMware partners Cloudera and WebAppVM also announced new solutions for VMware vCloud Express developed with the VMware vCloud API and the SDKs.

“We are working aggressively to expand the VMware vCloud ecosystem and accelerate market availability of open-source client libraries for the VMware vCloud API,” said Dan Chu, vice president, cloud infrastructure and services, VMware. “Our ISV community has embraced our investment in the VMware vCloud Initiative and is integrating key solutions as part of innovative services from VMware vCloud Express providers such as Terremark.”
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