Web Hosting News – Miami, FL, Parallels Summit - Parallels, the worldwide leader in enabling cloud services, outlined its 2010 roadmap today during the Parallels Summit, including plans for new offerings for partners interested in providing enhanced cloud-based services to their small business customers.

More than 1100 people are attending Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami, to focus on small businesses moving their IT services to the cloud and how hosters and cloud services providers can innovate, optimize and grow in order to profit from the cloud. Continue reading “Parallels Summit 2010 “News of the Day”” »

Web Hosting News – PALO ALTO - Dasient Inc., the leading provider of anti-malware solutions for websites, today announced that it is introducing the Dasient SafeSite security seal for websites to communicate that they are continuously testing clear of any malware by the most reliable, precise, and real-time monitoring service available — Dasient’s WAM (Web Anti-Malware). The Dasient SafeSite seal is the world’s first recognized security seal specifically for malware protection and will provide critical differentiation for web businesses that are committed to offering a safer user experience for their site visitors.

With the dramatic increase in malware-based web attacks, website owners and consumers are increasingly seeking ways to protect themselves. “Security is becoming a bigger and bigger concern on the web,” said Dr. Neil Daswani, one of Dasient’s three co-founders. “Unfortunately, hackers are becoming more sophisticated and infecting more websites with malware which in turn infect consumers with viruses. Dasient SafeSite was conceived with the notion that websites that are being monitored against malware will provide a safer online experience for visitors.”
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Web Hosting News – Miami, FL - The leading enabler of cloud services, Parallels today announced that Netfirms has launched Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to help strengthen its market share.

Netfirms, Canada’s largest web hosting provider with more than 1.2 million websites integrated Parallels Virtuozzo Containers primarily to achieve its strategic goal of delivering profitable Cloud services while expanding its offerings to its customers.
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Web Hosting News – Overland Park, KS – Stallard Technologies, Inc., an enterprise IT equipment refurbishing company based in Overland Park, KS, was recently selected by Microsoft to enter into a leading-edge MAR (Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher) agreement. Stallard is the first server-specific hardware remanufacturer to be chosen for the MAR program. They will now offer genuine Microsoft software as a feature on their pre-owned IT equipment inventory, which includes Dell servers, workstations and storage solutions.

Microsoft sought out Stallard based on the company’s track record of success in providing top-quality, reliable pre-owned equipment for small-to-Fortune 1000 companies across North America. Their extensive client list includes Xerox, Weyerhaeuser, SureWest, Unisys, NASA, DirecTV, Exxon Mobil, Pizza Hut and Yale University among others. “We are excited about our partnership with Stallard Technologies, one of the country’s premier IT hardware providers. They’ve demonstrated a commitment to their customers, selling high-quality pre-owned IT servers and storage solutions, and providing tremendous economic value to the business community,” states Microsoft’s Michael Warren, OEM Account Manager.
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Web Hosting News – Netherlands — The leading enabler of Cloud services, Parallels, announced today that the Dutch hoster Keenondots will implement Parallels Automation to provide a complete end-to-end automation platform to provide cloud services for their customers, including regional small businesses and larger national and international clients.

Keenondots provides managed services to support the infrastructure needs of over 750 customers and selected Parallels Automation as the flexible solution that will support all core cloud enablement processes. Parallels Automation provides Keenondots a scalable platform. “We are now implementing a very mature system that covers all our core cloud enablement processes, from account management to virtualization technology, disaster recovery and service monitoring. Our already automated way of doing business with many key suppliers will be enhanced even further,” Laurens van Alphen, founder and owner of Keenondots said.
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Web Hosting News – Southampton, UK - PEER 1 Hosting the global online business hosting provider has today announced the launch of a dedicated smart-phone app hosting service, taking advantage of its peering relationships with mobile network operators. The company, which provides dedicated hosting solutions through ServerBeach, has assigned a specialist “Host My App” team tasked with supporting fast growth innovators who are developing smart-phone apps, to enable the potential explosion in popularity that successful apps attract.

In addition to peering with mobile operators, including Vodafone and O2, which ensures that apps are downloaded quickly to end users and operate at optimum speeds, the Host My App team offers flexible and scalable month-to-month contracts. These elements, coupled with the ability to offer robust hosted test development environments, have been packaged to create a bespoke hosting solution specifically to meet the needs of smart-phone app developers.
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Web Hosting News – NEW YORK – ReliableSite.Net LLC, a Web host serving individuals and small to medium sized businesses, today released Network Tools, the first-ever application for the Palm webOS that enables users to perform basic network testing functionality directly from their smartphone.

Network Tools offers a variety of essential network functions, such as retrieving the IP address of the device, pinging outside Web and IP addresses, traceroutes, network information, URL decoding, URL encoding, and HTML header and source retrieval. The application was developed by ReliableSite and will be available free to the general public in the PalmOS Apps Catalog.
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Web Hosting News – LONDON - Nimbus Technology, a leading infrastructure hosting and cloud computing provider today announced the launch of the Nimbus Cloud Storage Service powered by the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform. Developed by Mezeo Software™, the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is a Web Services API-based cloud storage platform purpose-built for service providers.  The Mezeo Service Provider Alliance Program offers service providers an accelerated time to market, providing complete support to deploy and monetize their cloud storage service, including branding support, training resources and marketing assistance.

The announcement was made in conjunction with Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami Beach in Florida. The Nimbus Cloud Storage solution is hosted by the UK-based ThinkGrid.
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Web Hosting News – Portsmouth, NH - GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certificate Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Identities for securing electronic documents including Adobe PDFs, will meet with security professionals from the San Francisco area at the upcoming 10th annual CSO Council Bay Area Round Table event. Members of the CSO Council Bay Area and invited guests will gather together for a round table event to discuss the merits of electronic signatures versus digital signatures from a legal perspective in the federal court system. As a participant, GlobalSign will provide firsthand insight into the legal validity of digital signatures and participate in the discussion to support the expansion of digital signatures within the legal arena.

As a leading digital certificate provider, GlobalSign supports the expansion of digital signatures into the U.S. court system and will convey the benefits and opportunities of implementing reliable and legally binding digital signatures by demonstrating its digital signature and document signing solution, branded as DocumentSign. Solutions like DocumentSign can provide the federal court system the opportunity to eliminate the use of easily forge-able handwritten judges’ signatures on various juridical orders and implement trusted digital signatures which are highly resistant to tampering and can be verified at any time unlike a traditional handwritten signature. Continue reading “GlobalSign to Demonstrate Legally Compliant Digital Signature Solutions at CSO Council Bay Area Round Table Event” »

Web Hosting News – United Kingdom - Managed web hosting provider Webhosting.uk.com (www.webhosting.uk.com) has launched three different Cloud-based virtual private server hosting plans, powered by industry-leading virtualization platform VMware.

For this new Cloud VPS Hosting environment, according to its Tuesday announcement, the company has setup a cluster of five servers: four active servers and one standby server along with one controller server with failover solution to ensure 100 percent uptime and redundancy. Out of the five server cluster, one will always remain as a standby server and won’t host any data.
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