Web Hosting News – Renton, WA - The leading enabler of Cloud services, Parallels, today announced that The Planet has selected Parallels Small Business Panel as part of a new value-added solutions bundle.

The announcement comes ahead of the Parallels Summit 2010 to be held in Miami from February 23-24, where a large focus will be on small businesses moving their services to the Cloud.
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Web Hosting News – Sunnyvale, CA – Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) announced the upcoming release of its connector for Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing operators of hosted and managed Microsoft Exchange environments to easily reduce costs and differentiate their email offerings. This latest innovation will allow these operators to enjoy the same ease of integration that is already experienced by service providers that have deployed Commtouch on their open source infrastructure.

The new Commtouch connector will enable operators of Microsoft Exchange environments to benefit from the industry’s leading spam, phishing and malware outbreak protection technology:
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Web Hosting News – Pasadena, CA – DiscountASP.NET announces launching support for Microsoft IIS Database Manager 1.0 for their Windows Server 2008 hosting platform, allowing customers to manage local and remote databases from within IIS Manager. DiscountASP.NET further announces enhancing the user experience through integrating a SQL Server backup and SQL Server restore solution within the DB Manager interface.

The IIS Database Manager is an out-of-band IIS UI module released by Microsoft to allow users to manage their local and remote databases from within IIS Manager. Once connected, IIS DB Manager provides an array of functionalities including managing tables, views, stored procedures and data as well as running ad hoc queries. IIS Database Manager provides support for both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 databases.
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Web Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ – Datapipe, a provider of Managed Hosting and IT Services, is a panel sponsor for the 2010 New Jersey Technology Council CIO Conference on Cloud Computing to be held Friday, February 26th at the Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. Following the keynote address by Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, Datapipe will be part of an expert panel discussing “Transforming IT with Cloud Computing – Where do you start?”.

“For many CIOs the challenge is to take advantage of the efficiencies and economics of cloud computing while maintaining security and compliance,” said Robb Allen, CEO of Datapipe. “We are pleased to be part of a conference that gives decision makers the information necessary to implement an enterprise ready cloud platform,” Allen said.
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Web Hosting News – BERLIN, NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, and eleven, Germany’s leading e-mail security provider, have agreed on comprehensive technical cooperation to easily add e-mail security to all Open-Xchange products.

Web hosters, ISPs and telcos can combine Open-Xchange Hosting Edition — with more than 10 million users — with eleven’s e-mail security solution eXpurgate. eXpurgate is scalable, easy to integrate, and offers a spam detection rate of more than 99 percent. In addition, eXpurgate will be integrated as a premium option in the Open-Xchange products aimed at companies that want to operate their e-mail server in-house.
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Web Hosting News – MONTREAL, QUEBEC – iWeb Group inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. René Bousquet as a director of iWeb.

“We are proud that René Bousquet has accepted to be a director of the Company. His past experience, especially in executive positions, as the person responsible for finance, for marketing and then as president of a major telecommunication company will bring us new ideas and reinforce our existing marketing team. In addition, René will be the president of a new board of directors’ committee, the Strategy Committee.” says Eric Chouinard, iWeb’s President and CEO.
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Web Hosting News – Ann Arbor, MI – Linux hosting company A2 Hosting has released PHP 6 Hosting. A2 Hosting’s server support for the latest web development technology has consistently been ahead of the industry curve. This has been made evident by their release of PHP 6 hosting and the fact that they were one of the very first hosting companies to offer PHP 5 hosting.

PHP is an open source scripting language. Improvements seen in PHP 6 compared to its predecessor versions include improved support for Unicode, a new accelerator named Alternative PHP Cache (APC) and namespace to prevent conflicts among class names.
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Web Hosting News – DALLAS — Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced that SoftLayer has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its enterprise cloud infrastructure, providing global, on-demand data center and hosting services for thousands of customers. Using Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS® operating system, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, streamlining data management and increasing efficiency across three different, geographically disparate data center facilities. With Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer can scale its storage resources in lockstep with customer demand, reducing capital expenditures while delivering more robust, flexible and responsive services to its worldwide customer base.

“Our cloud services address customers’ need for enterprise-class data center resources, meaning our network, servers and storage must always be available on-demand,” said Jacob Linscott, director of IT systems, SoftLayer. “Isilon IQ fits the bill perfectly—an easy-to-use single file system that allows us to buy what we need, when we need it, and then scale capacity and performance in-line with business growth. With Isilon, we’ve improved service functionality and flexibility without having to add any headcount.”

SoftLayer’s global, on-demand data center and hosting services deliver fully automated solutions from facilities across the United States, providing enterprises with complete access, control, security and scalability. Prior to deploying Isilon IQ, SoftLayer’s traditional SAN system was incapable of cost-effectively scaling to meet the high I/O and data growth requirements of its rapidly expanding customer base, preventing SoftLayer from fully capitalizing on market demand. By deploying Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure can now service a broad spectrum of enterprise applications—including server and desktop virtualization, highly transactional workloads and disaster recovery—improving its ability to address mainstream data center requirements. With Isilon IQ, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, easy-to-use, “pay as you grow” file system, decreasing both capital and operational expenditures, while accelerating business growth. Continue reading “SoftLayer® Powers Enterprise Cloud Services With Isilon® IQ” »

Web Hosting News – Los Angeles, CA – Colocation America recently transformed its web presence and updated its legacy web site with the Adrecom Web Portal CMS Platform. The upgrade gives CLA a cutting edge web solution that improves collaboration among its mobile workforce and enables it to quickly enter new markets.

Although ColocationAmerica.com (CLA) had been expanding its business for over 10 years, its web presence had not kept up with its corporate identity as a premium Internet Service Provider with data centers across the United States. The Adrecom platform, which enables companies to improve legacy web sites and develop a next generation web presence, was an ideal solution for CLA’s requirements.
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Web Hosting News – Wayne, PA — SunGard Availability Services is expanding its data centers in Midtown Atlanta and Smyrna, Ga. to meet increasing customer demand for colocation and managed services. SunGard’s investment in the facilities will help customers address business IT needs without incurring the capital and operating expenses of building and running their own data centers.

The SunGard expansion specifically addresses the needs of Atlanta area technology companies, which have higher power density requirements than non-tech firms. Also, the Atlanta area has a number of companies that need data center space in more than one center – and SunGard provides a cost-effective, gigabit network connection for customers to link up operations across SunGard’s three Atlanta area sites. Continue reading “Sungard Expands Colocation and Managed Services Centers in Atlanta” »