Web Host News – Jerusalem, Israel - Minicom Advanced Systems, a leading developer of IT management solutions for data centers, announced today that they have successfully hosted an event in India on the topic of increasing data center efficiency. End-users, resellers, and system integrators from India’s most prestigious companies, such as HCL and Wipro, gathered in New Delhi on May 3rd to learn about “Maximizing IT Value – Dynamic Remote Management and Power Management Strategies for Today’s Data Center.” Presentations were given by Michael Lahav, Director of Sales – APAC at Minicom, Manish Gokhale, Country Sales Manager – Services & Telecom Vertical at APC, and V.Chandrasekhar, Head of IT at Apollo Tyres Ltd.

Emarson IT Solutions, Minicom’s long-standing representative in India, assisted in organizing and running the event.
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Web Host News – New York, N.Y. – NTT America (NTTA), the US subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, announced the availability of an enhanced set of information security professional services, in partnership with Integralis, a global IT security solutions provider and an NTT Communications company.  Combining Integralis’ deep security expertise with NTTA’s global hosting, private network, and Internet infrastructure, NTTA is now able to offer customers services such as strategic security planning, policy development, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and other professional services.

The powerful melding of the two companies services bring an unprecedented array of data center capabilities from a single source to the market.  NTTA’s global infrastructure footprint compliments Integralis’ expansive international professional services team. The combination of services enables clients to reduce cost, maximize service quality, and maintain an acceptable level of risk, security and compliance. The expanded service offerings can be deployed either in the United States or on a global basis, leveraging the resources of NTT Communications around the world. NTTA and Integralis have already won a number of joint customer projects.
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Web Host News – Fremont, CA - Grid Dynamics today announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft that makes Grid Dynamics a High Performance Computing (HPC) consultant and positions Grid Dynamics to continue building its Windows HPC Server practice with a strategic focus on delivering solutions for the financial services and semiconductor sectors.

While working toward this relationship, Grid Dynamics became a certified Microsoft consultant and is already delivering innovative, end-to-end solutions on the Windows HPC Server platform. This includes the HPC Excel Acceleration Tool Kit (HEAT), which is a set of simple interfaces that Grid Dynamics developed. HEAT allows customers to run complex Excel spreadsheets in distributed parallel execution environments on the Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 beta. The solution has been validated in real-world tests and can be delivered to customers by Grid Dynamics.
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Web Host News – Herndon, VA - Apptix (OSE: APP), the leading provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange email, Microsoft SharePoint, and business VoIP services for businesses worldwide, today announced the availability of two new email security and anti-spam solutions for on-premise email systems: Apptix Email Defense with Continuity and Apptix Perimeter Email Defense. While both products are hosted, they are designed to protect in-house email servers with top-to-bottom spam and virus protection or supplement existing email protection solutions.

“By blocking known spammers and potentially harmful email traffic at the perimeter, Apptix’s new email defense solutions quickly pay for themselves by eliminating up to 80% of spam traffic being delivered to corporate email systems, not to mention protecting the company from devastating email attacks,” said James Bond, Vice President of Product and Software Development for Apptix. “Message continuity ensures employees can maintain email communications if internal email systems are ever down. This is email protection that no company should be without, and the Apptix solutions can be deployed and protecting systems in minutes with no start up or equipment costs.”
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Web Hosting News – Orlando, FL - Atlantic.Net, a privately held data center company specializing in Fully Managed IT Solutions, today announced its participation in the Governor’s Hurricane Conference and Expo. The upcoming Governor’s Hurricane Conference and Expo will be held May 23rd – 28th, 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the focus this year is on training and education for hurricane and disaster preparedness.

If the devastation of past hurricane seasons has taught us anything, it is that as a community, we need to be better prepared. Atlantic.Net has long been an advocate in Data Management and Disaster Recovery, through the utilization of hardened facilities as well as fully redundant data centers. Atlantic.Net stands uniquely positioned and readily available to help businesses operate without any interruption in the event of a natural disaster.

“In today’s technologically driven world, we need to explore every available means at our disposal to educate our business communities,” says John Rossiter, Director of Channel Development with Atlantic.Net. “Through these events we can review what worked in prior years as well as strategize solutions for areas that may not have worked as well. By taking these types of actions we can constantly fine tune our initiative to ensure the safety of our citizens and the longevity of our businesses,” he added.

“Ensuring that a community gets back on its feet after a natural disaster is much like a NASCAR pit stop. If one area is having difficulties the whole process will be out of synch, that is what this event is all about and Atlantic.Net is proud to participate and help add to the systems already in place.”
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Web Hosting News – SAN FRANCISCO, CA - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced  a series of technology collaborations with Google to deliver solutions that make enterprise software developers more efficient at building, deploying and managing applications within any cloud environment; public, private and hybrid.  Announced today onstage at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco by Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware, the two companies will bring together technologies and expertise to help accelerate enterprise adoption of cloud computing.

“Companies are actively looking to move toward cloud computing.  They are certainly attracted by the economic advantages associated with cloud, but increasingly are focused on the business agility and innovation promised by cloud computing,” said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. “VMware and Google are aligning to reassure our mutual customers and the Java community that choice and portability are of utmost importance to both companies.   We will work to ensure that modern applications can run smoothly within the firewalls of a company’s datacenter or out in the public cloud environment.”
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Web Hosting News – Mountain View, CA - What started as an ex-Oracle executive designing a simpler way to deliver customer relationship management software at Salesforce.com is now an IT revolution — Cloud Computing. Amazon Consulting, a leading partnering services firm dedicated to helping companies elevate the impact of partnering, just published two thought leadership briefs titled, ”The Ecosystem of the Cloud.” To access this two-part series analyzing the channel implications of cloud computing, go to www.amazonconsulting.com. On June 17th at 9am PST, Amazon Consulting will host a free webinar with cloud-savvy industry leaders to further discuss this cloud computing channel analysis.

“After interviewing leading vendors and more than a dozen solution providers who are deeply invested in the success of this new technology delivery model, we packaged some thought provoking insights about the critical role of channel partners to share with the industry,” said Amazon Consulting President and CEO Diane Krakora.
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Web Hosting News – Burlington, MA – FatCow, a leading provider of web hosting, domain registration and related marketing services, recently announced the launch of a ”moovelous” giveaway, “Host Smart, Drive Smart!” A few lucky winners will drive away with a smart fortwo coupe, a Vespa scooter, or one of four Shwinn bikes.

The “Host Smart, Drive Smart” giveaway is an extension of FatCow’s ongoing commitment to the environment.  FatCow takes pride in being a “green” company. Staff members, affectionately called the Moo Crew, care about minimizing the carbon footprint they leave on this planet, and they encourage their web hosting customers to do the same. All of FatCow’s datacenters are powered by 100% wind energy, which means anyone who creates a site through them is green as well.   Continue reading “FatCow Continues Green Streak with Eco-Friendly Giveaway” »

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Web Hosting News – DALLAS - Balfour Beatty Construction was selected to provide preconstruction services and manage construction of the new headquarters for NPR, the internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. Located in a business improvement district of Washington, D.C., the headquarters will transform a historic warehouse into a sustainable 330,000-square-foot office building to meet the needs of the multimedia organization.

Designed by Hickok Cole Architects to meet LEED Gold specifications, the building will incorporate recycled and sustainable materials and energy-efficient, green technologies. The project scope includes selective demolition and restoration of the existing warehouse building onsite, which will connect to a new structure with three below-grade levels and seven levels of above-grade office and studio space.
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Web Hosting News – San Antonio, TX – ServerBeach, the leading dedicated hosting provider that prides itself on being by Geeks for Geeks, today announced that it is the first company to offer fully configured MongoDB dedicated servers on dedicated hardware. MongoDB, an alternative to MySQL, is a scalable, high-performance, open source database management system (DBMS), which will enable customers to minimize errors and maximize the output from their data.

As Robert Miggins, Senior Vice President Business Development at ServerBeach explains, “MongoDB offers the benefits of a relational database without the complexities and costs associated with this type of system. At ServerBeach, we’re big fans of companies who are moving technology forward, which is why we’re proud to be the first hosting company to offer custom-configured MongoDB dedicated servers.”
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