Web Hosting Reviews – Portland, OR – The Green Grid Association, the IT industry’s leading voice for advancing resource efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, together with The Data Center Metrics Coordination Taskforce, today delivered its latest recommendations for energy efficiency measurement and reporting.

The new report, titled “Recommendations for Measuring and Reporting Overall Data Center Efficiency: Version 2 – Measuring PUE at Data Centers” completes the guidelines for applying the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE™) metric, created and promoted by The Green Grid. The new information includes specific recommendations for how to measure and calculate PUE in mixed-use data center facilities and introduces a condenser water source energy weighting factor.
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Web Hosting Reviews – Boston, MA - GlobalSign, a specialist in issuing Code Signing Digital Certificates used to authenticate the publisher of software and produce tamper-evident virtual “shrink-wrapped” software, has today announced the launch of a free comprehensive Code Signing Tool. The tool expedites the process of digitally signing a wide group of application types from Microsoft, Adobe, Sun, Mozilla and Apple among others.

GlobalSign Code Signing certificates allow software developers to digitally sign and timestamp the software they distribute over the internet, which is the virtual equivalent to shrink-wrapping CD based software for distribution. Users who download digitally signed software and applications can be sure of the origin of the code and that it has not been altered in any way since the time-stamp was applied. By utilizing Code Signing certificates the “Unknown Publisher” popup in Operating Systems and browsers is removed. Digitally signing your code enhances the brand and reputation of software developers while also protecting their users from malware and spyware. Continue reading “GlobalSign Develops Free Tool to Simplify Code Signing Process” »

Web Hosting Reviews – BOLTON, ONTARIO – Server-Logix, a Nuisoft hosting division announces it’s long awaited partnership with the leader of the high end dedicated server, SoftLayer Technologies Inc. Nuisoft Systems Inc. is a registered partner of many advanced and innovative corporations including Microsoft, 3Com, Ubuntu, Redhat, and others. Since 2006, Server-Logix have offered complex and innovating solutions for personal, small buisness, and corporate by operating out of data centers located in Montreal and Toronto.. This partnership will allow Server-Logix to offer it’s premiere services in other regions of the world, while maintaining and exponentially improving our cutting-edge network and hardware.

SoftLayer’s state of the art, low latency, redudant data centers have astonished many customers and companies over the years and we are honored to offer this level of service. All data centers will have multiple power feeds, fiber links, dedicated generators, battery backups.and all data centers are SAS 70 Type II certified. Additionally, this highly-beneficial partnership will add ten (10) new points of presence for our clients, numerous geographically diverse data centers, over two thousand gigabytes of network capacity, and will lower latency to thousands of web visitors who browse our clients’ corporate web servers. Continue reading “Server-Logix Announces New Partnership With SoftLayer” »

Web Hosting Reviews – Vancouver, BC - Canadian Web Hosting announced today that it has been running a trial version of Enkompass, by cPanel, since July 15th, and is now making the Windows-based hosting control panel available to its Web hosting customers. In development for more than a year, Enkompass is built to run on Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 or 2008 R2, and represents the latest addition to Canadian Web Hosting’s growing suite of web hosting services focused on Windows and further complements their automation solutions that give Canadian Web hosting’s customers’ additional flexibility and control over their websites and how their businesses operate online.

Kevin Liang, Canadian Web Hosting’s Chief Technology Officer stated, “We’ve been pleased with the performance and features of Enkompass, and we’re anxious to move forward and grow our Windows hosting business.” And added, “Because the Enkompass interface is similar to cPanel/WHM, which our customers are already familiar with, there will be little or no training time required. That’s gives our customers a tremendous value and helps us maintain the highest levels of customer satisfaction.” Continue reading “Canadian Web Hosting Now Running Enkompass” »

Web Hosting Reviews – PHOENIX — Software developer SmarterTools Inc. today announced that global e-commerce provider PayPal has adopted the SmarterTrack help desk to manage internal support and customer service issues for thousands of agents in its European and North American operations centers.

“We are excited that PayPal chose SmarterTrack as a solution for their internal communication needs,” said Jeff Hardy, vice-president of business operations at SmarterTools. “The implementation at PayPal is a great example of SmarterTrack resonating with businesses of any size—from smaller companies accessing SmarterTrack as a service at our datacenter to large enterprise organizations implementing SmarterTrack on site in a fully distributed and load-balanced architecture.” Continue reading “PayPal Adopts SmarterTrack Help Desk for Internal Support and Customer Service Communications” »

Web Hosting Reviews – ATLANTA – Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, is proud to announce it will be sponsoring the 2011 Digital Summit conference, being held May 16-17 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta. The two-day conference will feature more than 60 industry speakers who will discuss best practices in Internet technology-related areas such as cloud computing, mobile marketing, search, e-commerce, analytics and geolocation. Peak 10 Atlanta’s vice president and general manager, Matt Searfoss, will be serving as the moderator for the conference’s cloud computing session.

“As one of the industry’s leading managed services providers, Peak 10 has extensive experience designing and deploying cloud solutions that increase the scalability and efficiency of a company’s infrastructure,” said Searfoss. “We are proud to lead a conversation that addresses the complex and evolving issues that surround cloud computing today. I hope that by participating in this panel, businesses will better understand the invaluable benefits that a move to the cloud can offer companies of all sizes and verticals.” Continue reading “Peak 10 Sponsors 2011 Digital Summit” »

Web Hosting Reviews – Yaphank, N.Y. – KEMP Technologies today announced the availability of its new Virtual LoadMaster Exchange (VLM-Exchange) for Microsoft Hyper-V™. This product offering from KEMP was selected as a Microsoft Best of Tech Ed 2011 finalist by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, DevProConnections and SharePointPro, in the virtualization category. The new virtual appliance application delivery controller (ADC) is specifically designed for Microsoft Exchange 2010 running on Hyper-V machines, allowing businesses to easily establish high-availability and redundancy for Client Access Servers (CAS) and other critical Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server roles. The VLM-Exchange for MS Hyper-V ensures that a company’s investment in Microsoft Hyper-V based server virtualization is further leveraged by turning its virtual machines into fully-featured, production-capable ADCs.

The VLM-Exchange for MS Hyper-V is the software-based solution of the recently launched LoadMaster-Exchange for Microsoft Exchange 2010. As with the hardware version, it includes features such as SSL offload, caching, compression, content switching and Exchange Server affinity (persistence). Moreover, advanced Exchange application health checking and the ability to be deployed in a redundant, active/hot-standby configuration ensure high availability of Microsoft Exchange 2010. Continue reading “KEMP Launches Hyper-V Load Balancing Virtual Appliance for Microsoft” »

Web Hosting Reviews – Toronto, ON - The recently released Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.6 offers a number of noteworthy upgrades; with Disk I/O updates chief among them. This update allows myhosting.com to further enhance its Parallels Virtuozzo VPS plans with a new service, taking full advantage of the updated Virtuozzo platform in both its Toronto Data Center and new Rochester, New York Data Center.

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.6 is one of the most powerful server virtualization platforms currently available. It replaces the traditional hypervisor with a virtual server operating system, giving users more control over the device and allowing myhosting.com to maximize the resources of its physical servers. Continue reading “myhosting.com Launches Virtuozzo 4.6 VPS Hosting Plans and New York Data Center” »

Web Hosting Reviews – LAS VEGAS, NV - INTEROP – Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR) today announced the Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center solutions, a portfolio of Cloud-scale data center switches that allow organizations to more cost-effectively build highly scalable, mobile and virtualized networks featuring market leading performance, low latency and energy efficiency. Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center solutions leverage standards-based technologies preserving existing investments while bringing new innovations that drive Cloud-scale networks.

The Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center solution leverages the ExtremeXOS® operating system end-to-end and emphasizes wire-speed switching of Virtual Machines (VMs), intelligence to automate VM mobility through XNV, standards-based, non-blocking high density 10Gbs server connectivity and non-blocking high density 40Gbs fabric interconnect with multi-path forwarding that is also designed to evolve for 100GbE. Continue reading “Extreme Networks Introduces Open Fabric Data Center Architecture” »

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Web Hosting Reviews – Jersey City, N.J. - Datapipe, a leading provider of enterprise ready, mission-critical IT services, announced today that it has secured $176 million in combined equity and credit financing.  In conjunction with receiving a significant equity investment from ABRY Partners, Datapipe secured a new Senior Secured Credit Facility from a syndicate of lenders led by TD Securities as agent, joined by Brown Brothers Harriman, CapitalSource, Caterpillar Financial, CIT Group, GE Capital, ING and Raymond James Financial. DH Capital, LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to Datapipe for this transaction. The facility substantially increases Datapipe’s borrowing capacity and its ability to accelerate expansion plans.

“We are focused on enabling enterprises to outsource their mission-critical IT with confidence. This funding allows us to continue to grow and expand our services and solutions to meet our customers’ global needs,” said Robb Allen, CEO of Datapipe.  “Datapipe and our clients will benefit from the compelling combination of ABRY Partners’ deep expertise and the stability of TD Securities.” Continue reading “Datapipe Secures $176 Million Equity & Credit Facility” »

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