Web Hosting News – CANADA - SkGold Hosting is pleased to announce that their collection of 4,000-plus website templates is now available to customers at no charge. The templates cover a broad spectrum of business, career and special interest topics, and they simplify the entire web design process.

According to Mr. Krongold, founder and owner of the Calgary-based Canadian hosting company, the colorful website templates help users create stylish and professional websites that are suitable for any number of uses. “Our selection of templates goes beyond the traditional Business, Retail and Services categories. For example, our users can select templates designed specifically for limousine services or child care or tuxedo rental shops or music teachers.”
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Web Hosting News – LONDON, UK - Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres, and managed ICT services, today announced its platinum sponsorship of Data Centre World at the Barbican, London on the 23rd-24th February.

Data Centre World, the largest free Data Centre exhibition and conference in the UK, will examine the issues surrounding the selection, outsourcing, building and running of a data centre for UK data centre professionals.
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Web Hosting News – Orlando, FL - Atlantic.Net a privately–held high performance data center services company, today announced its participation as a sponsor for the California Linux Show 2010. Since inception, Atlantic.Net has been a major supporter of grass root organizations within the technology industry. The recent announcement of Atlantic.Net’s sponsorship of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), to be held February 19-21, 2010, comes on the heels of the sponsoring the Florida Linux Show, held in November 2009.

Atlantic.Net has always taken great pride in supporting the technology community,” said John Rossiter, Director of Channel Development with Atlantic.Net. “It is an honor to provide ongoing support and encouragement to these grass root technology platforms such as SCALE and we look forward to continuing to do so for many years to come. The role these organizations play in providing engineers with the opportunities to learn and grow cannot be understated and is one of the driving forces behind our participation because it is so huge for our industry,” Rossiter said.
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Web Hosting News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its co-sponsorship of the next Web Host Industry Review (WHIR) networking event, to be held at The Grove Houston this evening.  Scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m., the event provides a venue for local hosting industry professionals to personally connect with peers, customers and partners.

“Houston is our headquarters hometown, which makes it a natural for us to sponsor an event with the industry’s leading hosting outlet,” said Todd Mitchell, General Manager for The Planet’s Dedicated Hosting and Global Services business.  “Anytime we’re able to talk about our company with business locals, it’s another opportunity to let companies know about the value we provide.”
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Web Hosting News – Elk Grove, CA - PacificHost, a provider of linux based, shared and reseller hosting announced earlier today the release of a new cPanel skin for its shared and premium hosting customers. PacificHost also announced the addition of a new auto-installer which allows customers to automatically install a wide variety of new and supported scripts on its services.

cPanel is the most popular control panel used in hosting services today. Pacifichost just unveiled its new “PacificPanel” skin which hopes to bridge the gap between billing, support and managing a website. The new panel features a new twitter widget allowing clients to view the company’s twitter updates in their control panel. It also comes with a list of new icons allowing the customer to switch back and forth between their Client Portal, Support Center and cPanel account.
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Web Hosting News – BOCA RATON, FL — Applied Innovations, a Microsoft Gold Certified Windows hosting provider, announced today it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to deploy 500 Hyper-V-based Managed Virtual Private Servers (VPSs) for small businesses in Microsoft’s popular WebsiteSpark Program.

The Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program ignites success in Web businesses by helping Web Professionals, from designers and developers to small business owners, to drive new business opportunities through connections with partners and customers around the world. WebsiteSpark also provides Web Professionals with free Microsoft software and solutions, as well as support and training opportunities. Through their participation in the Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program, potential partners can grow their own business and customer base by gaining exposure as a Microsoft partner and participating in an ecosystem that includes not only Web developers and designers, but also their customers.
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Web Hosting News – Overland Park, Kan. – Codero, a dedicated and managed hosting provider, has donated 100 computers from its San Diego data center to the San Luis Rey Elementary School, located in Oceanside, California. The Board of Education will formally accept the gift at its regular board meeting scheduled for March 23, 2010.

“Our students and staff derive great benefit from gifts such as yours, and on their behalf and that of the school board, I am pleased to extend to you our appreciation and gratitude,” stated District Superintendent, Larry Perondi. “Your generosity and thoughtfulness will help us provide the best possible experience and environment for the young people we serve.”

The donation and preparation of the computers was facilitated by Dave Stanford, Director, Data Centers and Provisioning for Codero at its San Diego data center. “At Codero, being a good steward to the communities in which we work and live in is an ongoing focus. By providing technology to the youth of today, we know that we are contributing to the future of our community.”
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Web Hosting News – Orlando, FL – Atlantic.Net a privately–held high performance data center services company, today announced its participation as a sponsor for the California Linux Show 2010. Since inception, Atlantic.Net has been a major supporter of grass root organizations within the technology industry. The recent announcement of Atlantic.Net’s sponsorship of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), to be held February 19-21, 2010, comes on the heels of the sponsoring the Florida Linux Show, held in November 2009.

“Atlantic.Net has always taken great pride in supporting the technology community,” said John Rossiter, Director of Channel Development with Atlantic.Net. “It is an honor to provide ongoing support and encouragement to these grass root technology platforms such as SCALE and we look forward to continuing to do so for many years to come. The role these organizations play in providing engineers with the opportunities to learn and grow cannot be understated and is one of the driving forces behind our participation because it is so huge for our industry,” Rossiter said. In addition to the Southern California Linux Expo, Atlantic.Net actively supports and sponsors the Central Florida Information and Technology Society, Florida Linux Show and the BarCamp Community in Orlando, Tampa, Miami, and Fort Meyers. Atlantic.Net also sponsors online communities such as DOTNETNUKE, which is dedicated to the education and promotion of open source software.

“It’s encouraging to see leading technology companies such as Atlantic.Net help support our initiatives” says Ilan Rabinovitch of the Southern California Linux Expo. “We credit our sponsors and friends, like Atlantic.Net, who have enabled us to be where we are today. Being able to hold our 8th annual expo this year proves how well supported we are by the technology community; allowing us to continue to promote and educate the IT community.” Continue reading “Atlantic.Net to sponsor California Linux Expo 2010, true grass root organization supporting Linux enthusiasts” »

Web Hosting – 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.
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Web Hosting – Andover, MA - NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), the worldwide leader of cloud-enabled, enterprise-class hosting, managed applications and services, and Data Age Business Systems, Inc. (Data Age), a leading provider of Financial Transaction Software Solutions, announced today they have entered into an agreement in which NaviSite will provide its Data Protection and Disaster Recovery hosted service to back up all Data Age customer mission critical data as part of the Data Age Digi-Shield continuous off-site back up service.

Data Age sells Digi-Shield along with its line of point-of-sale software designed for niche retail markets it has served for over twenty years. The company’s agreement with NaviSite is a strategic move given the growing concern its small business retail customers convey about backing up their data.

“NaviSite brings tremendous value to the table, providing Data Age with greater scalability and improved efficiencies, and we know this is the right move for us in order to execute our expansion plans and improve effectiveness,” said Victor Guzman, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Data Age. “As our customers focus on their businesses, they can rest assured knowing that the lifeline of their business, their data, is well protected with NaviSite.”
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