Web Host News – New York, NY – Telx, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has expanded its data center at  the 111 8th Avenue facility in New York City.  The 50 percent increase in space and new state-of-the-art data center facilities adds 21,500 additional square feet of data center capacity for financial institutions and cloud infrastructure and software providers, offering a direct connection into one of the main fiber optic arteries in New York City— the Hudson Street Ninth Avenue fiber highway.

“Our decision to add more data center capacity to our 111 8th Avenue facility is in response to a sharp increase in demand from our financial services customers and cloud application service providers,” explained Eric Shepcaro, CEO of Telx. “With the expanded footprint, we can immediately meet the latency, proximity, security and services requirements of the most demanding financial services and cloud computing environments.”
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Web Host News – Southampton, UK - PEER 1 Hosting Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX: PIX), the International managed hosting provider has thrown down the gauntlet to other hosting providers, challenging them to publish their Net Promoter ScoresTM (NPS).

To improve transparency over service quality for buyers and users of hosting services, PEER 1 Hosting believes all serious hosting service providers should measure and publish their NPSTM score to enable a simple comparison of customer satisfaction. PEER 1 Hosting’s own Net Promoter ScoreTM has been calculated at +36. The industry average in IT services is 7.
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Web Host News – PLANO, Texas – Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today launched its new cloud storage solution called LT Depot, which is powered by the Mezeo™ Cloud Storage Platform.  LT Depot gives customers the ability to create and select scalable, reliable and secure storage for their application and storage needs without incurring significant capital expense.

LT Depot provides customers the extended advantages of sharing and collaboration regardless of their physical location.  Users can create, manage and securely share files via the Web with their desktop and laptop computers, and with Layered Tech’s unique LT Depot application, users can connect to virtually unlimited cloud storage via a range of mobile devices.  LT Depot also encrypts data in transit and in storage, so customers can meet their compliance/retention requirements. Continue reading “Layered Technologies Launches New Cloud Storage Solution” »

Web Host News – London - 1&1 Internet, a leading European Internet provider with over 9 million customer contracts, today announced a strategic partnership with Zoho Corp., maker of Zoho, a comprehensive suite of award-winning online productivity, collaboration and business applications. The goal of the cooperation is to make standard cloud solutions available to small and medium-sized companies (SME) and private users (via WEB.DE and GMX.COM, also companies of United Internet group). After years of experience developing high quality, online products for private and commercial users, both companies are familiar with the specific conditions and requirements in different national markets. This expertise will now flow into joint projects connecting the worlds of hosting and cloud applications.

The first result of the partnership will be the new 1&1 Online Office, scheduled to launch in Germany and the UK in the first half of 2010, with more countries to follow soon. 1&1 Online Office will offer users a comprehensive office suite consisting of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications that run entirely in a user’s web browser. There will be no software – other than a browser – to install locally. All data will be stored centrally and securely on servers in 1&1′s high performance data centres, thus enabling access at any time and even while on the road. Continue reading “1&1 & Zoho Announce Strategic Partnership” »

Web Host News – NUREMBERG, Germany / MOSCOW, Russia - Open-Xchange, provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced today at CloudConf 2010 Moscow (www.cloudconf.ru) an agreement with Softline, the leading software reseller in Russia and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), to resell on-premises and hosted Open-Xchange.

Softline expands its portfolio with Open-Xchange and now can sell it to enterprises, educational institutions and government authorities of all sizes. Softline now can offer customers either: Open-Xchange hosted by Softline; or on-premises installed and run on the customer’s own computers – and the ability to switch between the types of operation at any time.
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Web Host News – San Diego, CA — A group of industry leaders have collaborated on a live demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interoperability, showing the ability to pass 100 GigE traffic between a router and an optical transport system using two different CFP optical transceivers implementing the IEEE 802.3ba 100GBASE-LR4 draft standard. The demonstration marks a significant step towards commercial availability of 100 GigE services at economic cost levels.

The demonstration can be seen at the Infinera Express mobile display unit on the show floor at the OFC/NFOEC conference and exhibition which begins today at the San Diego Convention Center.
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Web Host News – Staten Island, NY – TELEHOUSE America, the United States’ leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges and managed IT services  announces its new suite of solutions specifically packaged for online gaming companies and operators.

The global online gaming industry is set to grow by 11% year-over-year through 2013, according to the Global Online Gaming Report 2009 published by Aarkstore Enterprise Market Research.  “In the US, the amount of online play is growing 10 times as fast as the overall US Internet population, with nearly one of every two users getting in the game.”  This growth is driving gaming companies to reassess their technical requirements and seek access to Internet backbone providers, traditionally housed in carrier-grade data center and colocation facilities. Continue reading “Telehouse America Offers Gaming Providers Total Solutions For Managing Online Gaming” »

Web Host News – FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that LAN Infotech has been approved and accredited to join its Software Partner Program. LAN Infotech will sell and support DataCore’s storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions. LAN Infotech is one of South Florida’s leading IT consultants.

“We are pleased to add DataCore storage virtualization software to our line of virtualization solutions,” states Michael Goldstein, President & CEO of LAN Infotech. “The fact of the matter is that even though server virtualization and desktop virtualization have the broadest mindshare, it is the storage virtualization dimension that serves as the backbone to everything. Moreover, by leveraging DataCore, our customers will be able to extend the life and easily manage their existing storage hardware.”
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Web Host News – Fayetteville, NC - Web Hosting provider AIT today launched a feature packed, dedicated server, web hosting suite that combines high performance and premium 24x7x365 live support with certified administrators for both Linux and Windows. AIT’s 100% Cisco-powered Tier 1 Network features a 93,000 SF state-of-the-art data center and infrastructure. “We have teams of experts around the clock so if something goes wrong at 2 AM, clients don’t have to wait hours for service. This is about guaranteeing dedicated support for our customers and managing their mission-critical IT environments and infrastructure,” said Mike Roberts, CIO for AIT. “We guarantee network and server uptime with immediate hardware replacement for our enterprise customers.”

Standard features of the dedicated suite include no setup fees, massive disk space, dual Xeon core processors, up to 16 gigs of memory, virtualization, two free domain registrations at AITdomains.com, and over 100 FREE web applications including security, storage, collaboration and ecommerce tools. “No other web hosting company anywhere is offering a comparable plan at our price point,” said Avery Skelton, VP of Sales. “We will match and beat any comparable quote and offer a risk free try-buy for new clients.” Continue reading “Web Hosting Provider AIT Introduces Dedicated Server Suite” »

Web Host News – Portsmouth, NH – GlobalSign Inc., one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Certificate security, has today announced that the range of companies choosing to adopt its Extended Validation (EV) SSL technology has expanded across numerous business sectors and continents within the last year.  Increasing numbers of organizations with an online presence have realized the need to fully secure their websites, online transactions, web mail and other next generation online services using the strongest and most trusted level of SSL available in today’s market and EV SSL enables them to do exactly this, increasing customer trust and confidence leading to increased website visitor to consumer conversion rates.

During 2009 GlobalSign has seen a dramatic uptake in the number of organizations large and small, switching to EV SSL. Companies including The City Bank Limited in Bangladesh,Zurich in China, METRO in Singapore, Virgin in the UK and Taylor University and BCS Engineering in the US, are some of the latest brands to benefit from GlobalSign Extended Validation (EV) SSL technology.  EV SSL shows consumers that these organizations are firm in their commitment to online security and results in building higher levels of trust and confidence, which is a clear business differentiator during times of increasing competitiveness within today’s online markets.
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