Web Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany —  MESH, one of the leading infrastructure providers in Europe for co-location and IP services, announced today the availability of white-labeled Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration solutions delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). MESH’s vast retail channel is now able to provide collaboration and mobility services to consumers and small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) without upfront investment.

“Open-Xchange provides our resellers with a competitive advantage in the market and strengthens our leading position as innovative provider of white-labeled hosting services,” said Claudia Gharavi, CEO at MESH. “Our partners can easily add Open-Xchange to their hosting portfolio through MESH I.Q., our Whitelabel Cloud Automation online portal, and grow their business with individually branded business-class e-mail and collaboration and mobility services.”
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Web Hosting News – Eden Prairie – VISI, the Minnesota-based data center, managed hosting and cloud computing provider, was awarded Tier III Design Certification from Uptime Institute for their Eden Prairie, Minnesota facility.  VISI is the first commercial data center in Minnesota to receive the Tier III Design Certification from the Uptime Institute.

“This is a significant milestone for VISI,” said Mike Sowada, CEO of VISI.  “Businesses can rest easy knowing that VISI has the infrastructure to support the demands of mission-critical applications and 24x7x365 production environments.” Continue reading “VISI Becomes First Tier III Design Certified Commercial Data Center in Minnesota” »

Web Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, and The Planet® today began merged operations under the SoftLayer name.

The transaction merging the companies was completed on November 9, creating the largest hosting services provider in the world. The new SoftLayer brings customers the full-range of infrastructure as a service from one source, with fully-automated solutions and innovation, greater technical expertise, expanded geographic diversity, and higher customer value through increased economies of scale. Details include:

- 76,000+ deployed servers
- 10 data centers
- 24,000+ customer accounts in 110+ countries
- More than 1,500G of total connectivity

“Our first priority over the last few months has been to create the most seamless transition possible for our customers,” said Lance Crosby, continuing Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer. “We’re operating as one company, but the only differences customers should notice will be the opportunities they have as we offer more options to more people, with even more value. All products and services continue to be provided, supported, and managed as before.”

Existing Planet accounts and services remain unchanged and accessible through the same control portals that Planet customers have used previously. In addition, the company has greatly integrated the SoftLayer and Planet portals to provide an easier transition for all customers. Legacy Planet customers can log into the SoftLayer Customer Portal with their Planet username and password, access information about their systems on either platform from within either portal, and move between both portals without signing in and out.

New products and services will only be offered on the SoftLayer platform, where the company will consolidate its offerings over time to leverage its advantages in automation and advanced networking architecture. However, legacy Planet customers will not be required to migrate their services, allowing them to decide when such a transition makes the best sense for their individual goals and needs.

“With our merged size, strategic advantages, and market position, we are ready to bring even more changes to the industry than either of us could have alone,” said George Karidis, SoftLayer Chief Strategy Officer, who is also serving as Chief Integration Officer. “We’ve worked hard to get ready for this day. I’m proud and, frankly, impressed by how far we are toward full integration. We’re hitting the ground running, already at a point that many merged companies don’t reach for months.”

SoftLayer’s new executive team brings together leaders from both companies: Mr. Crosby; Mr. Karidis; Tom Blair, Senior Vice President, Sales; Nathan Day, Chief Scientist; Sam Fleitman, Chief Operating Officer; Suzy Fulton, General Counsel; Mike Jones, Chief Financial Officer; and Duke Skarda, Chief Technology Officer.

DH Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to SoftLayer in connection with the merger transaction. Continue reading “SoftLayer and The Planet Begin Merged Operations” »

Web Hosting News – Seattle, WA - Adhost Internet, one of the Seattle region’s leading providers of server colocation, dedicated servers and cloud hosting, finished construction of its third data center in downtown Seattle – just in time for the upcoming stormy winter forecasted for western Washington.

“Businesses continue to seek secure data centers with redundant Internet connections, power and cooling for their servers storing critical, sensitive data,” said Will Riffle, Adhost President and CEO. “We’ve designed a redundant Seattle colocation facility to keep business servers running and online even during natural disasters and the worst winter storms.” Continue reading “Adhost Internet Opens New Seattle Data Center” »

Web Hosting News – Chicago, IL - WiredTree, a leading managed dedicated server and managed hybrid server hosting company, announced today its compliance with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework. The Safe Harbor certification demonstrates WiredTree’s ability to provide privacy protection and handle customers’ personal data in the appropriate manner as set forth by the European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection.

“The U.S.-EU & Swiss Safe Harbor Certification is an important milestone for WiredTree and its customers,” says Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree. “EU businesses can be confident in their transactions with us because we have agreed to follow the Safe Harbor’s framework for dispute resolution in case of any issues. Many small businesses are afraid of doing business overseas as they feel they have no recourse if something goes wrong. This framework sets an official agreement for disputes.” Continue reading “WiredTree Earns US-EU & Swiss Safe Harbor Certification” »

Web Hosting News – BRISTOL, PA - Data centers have a high place on the electric bills of many businesses, but DVL, Inc. wants to change that. The company is inviting area IT and facility managers to take a free tour of the Efficiency Lab, featuring the Liebert SmartAisle™, a prototype display of DVL’s unique solutions to the problems of data center energy demands.

The tour – which can be scheduled by contacting DVL’s Mike Rinaldi at 215.785.5950, or visiting www.dvlnet.com/tour – highlights the work of DVL’s data center engineers, who utilized their decades of experience to create the Efficiency Lab. Continue reading “Innovative Tech Company Offers Free Tours Of Future Green Data Center” »

Web Hosting News – FOSTER CITY, CA — At its financial analyst event, Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, highlighted new customer implementations that illustrate the company’s central role in the digital economy, including global deployments from AboveNet, ACTIV Financial, OnLive and VeriSign.

A recent Gartner, Inc. report1 on “hyperdigitized” industries states, “Gartner estimates that the hyperdigitizing sector represented nearly 20% of the entire U.S. GDP in 2009. It is outgrowing the rest of the economy and will reach 23% of the economy by 2020.” Per the report, “Hyperdigitization is the accelerated digitization of a large and growing sector of the world economy, the sector that is largely information-based. This sector is made up of industries delivering nonphysical digital services, increasingly mostly online.” According to Gartner, hyperdigitized industries include: “the communications, entertainment and media industries, but also many parts of IT-enabled business services that deliver information, content, applications or process services, among many others.” These businesses depend on specialized services, specifically “infrastructure services, access to scalable, reliable, standard infrastructure environments” in order to succeed in their core business and realize their growth potential. Continue reading “Equinix Helps Businesses Succeed in Growing Digital Economy” »

Web Hosting News – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of global IT infrastructure services, today announced the opening of a new data center in the heart of Silicon Valley at 2151 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara, Calif. The new company-controlled facility enables Internap to offer enterprise customers access to its premium colocation and route-optimized network connectivity services delivering best-in-class performance, availability and support. Internap is meeting growing customer demand for premium data center infrastructure and high-performance connectivity, particularly from online media firms and companies selling software-as-a-service, where downtime and latency are business critical issues. To celebrate the opening, Internap will host an open house at the data center on November 17th from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PST.

Internap’s new data center includes 14,000 square feet of net sellable space in Phase I, with plans for Phase II expansion to 27,000 square feet. The data center provides flexible space and high-density power options, as well as primary and redundant systems for power, cooling and fire protection. These features enable customers’ application or IT environment to scale with their business needs. Along with SAS 70 compliant practices utilized in Internap’s other company-controlled data centers, the Santa Clara colocation facility incorporates multiple layers of security with 24/7 on-site technical support as well as monitoring by engineers in Internap’s redundant Network Operations Centers. Continue reading “Internap Opens Data Center in Silicon Valley” »

Web Hosting News – TOKYO, JAPAN - NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced today that its Biz Hosting Global virtual hosting service will launch in Shanghai, China on January 5, 2011 through partnership with local partners.

The service, currently available in Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and the United States, is part of NTT Com’s BizCITY® lineup of secure, cloud-based enterprise services available to business users from anyplace at anytime. Biz Hosting Global will leverage NTT Com’s premium data center in Shanghai to enable Japanese and other multinational companies to outsource key ICT infrastructure for the rapid, cost-efficient launch of secure, robust ICT initiatives. Continue reading “NTT Com to Launch Biz Hosting Global in Shanghai” »

Web Hosting News – VANCOUVER, BC – PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), operating as PEER 1 Hosting, a leading provider of online IT infrastructure, today announced that it has entered into a credit agreement with a syndicate of lenders led by National Bank Financial Inc. (NBF) and including Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Laurentian Bank and Canadian Western Bank, for a US$45 million non-revolving term facility and a US$30 million revolving credit facility. In addition, an accordion feature allows PEER 1 Hosting to request an increase in the amount available under the revolving facility by a further $25 million, bringing the total potential credit available under the facilities to US$100 million. The credit facilities are subject to customary conditions, the adherence to certain financial covenants and are secured by the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries. Availability of the new facilities is subject to satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, which is expected to occur in the next several weeks.

“Securing access to a significant amount of non-dilutive capital at favourable rates leaves us very well positioned to execute on our global growth strategy,” said Fabio Banducci, President and CEO of PEER 1 Hosting. “In the near term this includes expansion of our Toronto data facility and a contemplated build out of a dedicated European facility, while also granting us maximum flexibility to pursue additional opportunities across a range of geographies and service offerings.” Continue reading “PEER 1 Hosting Secures $US75 Million in New Credit Facilities” »