Web Host News – SAN DIEGO – Parallels®, the hosting and Cloud services enablement leader, today announced an alliance with Tucows Inc., whose wholesale Internet services group OpenSRS will offer domain names and SSL certificates to end-users through direct integration with Parallels Business Automation, Parallels Business Automation Standard and Parallels Plesk Panel billing platforms. The alliance will result in more ways for Parallels users and OpenSRS resellers to help small and medium business (SMB) customers quickly arm themselves with the Web services and tools they need to effectively compete and grow. Parallels and Tucows/OpenSRS made the announcement here at HostingCon 2011, the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, which attracts industry professionals from over 30 countries.

“We’re thrilled to be working with Parallels to integrate domain name management and SSL certificates through OpenSRS, directly into Parallels’ platforms,” said Dave Woroch,  EVP Sales, Tucows. “This new partnership between Parallels and OpenSRS will provide an even greater opportunity to enable an ever-expanding base of Parallels customers in the hosting industry to offer OpenSRS services.” Continue reading “Parallels Announces Alliance with Global Internet Services Leader Tucows” »

Web Host News – SAN DIEGO – Parallels®, the hosting and Cloud services enablement leader, today announced the latest release of Parallels Plesk Panel, its leading control panel tool for managing the delivery of hosted services to small and medium businesses (SMBs). Parallels Plesk Panel 10.3 includes numerous enhancements that extend its lead as the industry’s most complete, cost-efficient control panel for service providers who are marketing and managing hosted services to SMBs. Parallels Plesk Panel power users and customers can also now participate in the new Parallels Product Expert (PPE) program, which provides an online community to interact with experts that are well-versed on the deployment and management of Parallels platforms. Parallels Plesk Panel 10.3 and the Parallels Product Expert program were introduced here at HostingCon 2011, the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, which attracts industry professionals from over 30 countries.

Among Plesk Panel 10.3’s new features is the integration for directly managing Facebook and other social media applications, via the introduction of Parallels Plesk Web Presence Builder (replacing the formerly-named Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder). The name change reflects Parallels Plesk Panel’s expansion of capabilities for managing any company’s Web presence, including: the building of full websites using hundreds of business-specific templates; updating and posting social media content to sites such as Facebook; creating and launching applications such as online stores and other e-commerce activities; and support for file sharing, multimedia and other Cloud-based content. Continue reading “Parallels Plesk Panel 10.3 Introduces Web Presence Builder” »

Web Host News – San Diego, CA (HostingCon 2011) – Leading Web hosting provider Superb Internet announced today that it has implemented Outbound Spam Protection from Commtouch® (Nasdaq: CTCH), in order to identify and block spam emanating from its network.

“Commtouch Outbound Spam Protection ensures that our network and infrastructure are protected from the effects of outgoing spam,” said Haralds Jass, president and CEO of Superb Internet. ”We consistently strive to enhance our solution and offer our customers the best possible service and protection, and the Commtouch solution allows us to cut operating costs, while offering the best experience for our customers.”

Outbound spam can be a serious problem for hosting providers, leading to increased costs and customer dissatisfaction as a result of blacklisted IP addresses. Cybercriminal tactics have also evolved recently to use more compromised accounts for sending spam, which introduces additional challenges and costs for hosters.

Integrated within Superb’s account management portal, Outbound Spam Protection enables Superb to track suspicious email messages and identify the senders, whether they are zombies, malicious or hacked accounts. Superb can then pro-actively reach out to its customers that may have been compromised, or disconnect spammer accounts.

“We are pleased to be working with leading hosting providers such as Superb Internet,” said Francois Depayras, Commtouch vice president, Americas sales and business development. “Commtouch’s innovative, proven outbound protection solution, which is part of Commtouch’s complete email security suite for Web hosting providers, enables hosting companies to reduce operating expenses, increase operational simplicity and put their full focus on building the business.”

Commtouch will be presenting its Internet security solutions at HostingCon 2011, booth #232, at the San Diego Convention Center, August 9-10, 2011. At the booth, service providers can enter to receive a free Domain Analysis Report, to identify compromised accounts in their networks. Continue reading “Superb Internet Identifies Hacked and Spammer Accounts with Commtouch Outbound Spam Protection” »

Web Host News – Boston, MA – GMO GlobalSign Inc, a specialist in SSL partner programs and security automation technologies, announced results of a survey revealing the challenges SSL resellers face, including an extremely competitive industry, an antiquated workflow, and increasingly complex hosting technical environments requiring flexible SSL technology.  The survey included responses from 240 SSL resellers from the United States and Europe.

The hosting industry is a very competitive market landscape with thousands of companies reselling SSL.  Gaining a competitive edge is extremely difficult, as indicated by the eighty percent of respondents who identified industry competition as the number one challenge to reselling SSL Certificates.  Adding to the challenge is the confusion that seems to surround SSL.  With seventy-five percent of respondents reporting difficulty marketing SSL and sixty-nine percent of respondents reporting a challenge explaining the value proposition, it is clear that customers are still unsure of SSL.  SSL providers, hosting companies, and the press need to continue explaining the significance and benefits of SSL via all channels. Continue reading “GlobalSign Survey Reveals Challenges Facing the SSL Reseller Industry” »

Web Host News – San Diego, CA – Hexagrid Computing, a leading enabler of Infrastructure as a Service solutions, reveals the ‘DNA software for healthy cloud’ that is making IT work for hosting and service providers worldwide.

“We are looking forward to showcasing the award-winning VxDatacenter cloud platform as the ‘DNA software for healthy cloud’ at HostingCon 2011,” says Suresh Mandava, CEO and Founder of Hexagrid Computing.  “Making IT work for providers, business consumers, and end users alike is the heart of Hexagrid’s Infrastructure as a Service solutions.  A healthy cloud ecosystem requires this holistic approach to be a viable in the global marketplace.” Continue reading “Hexagrid Reveals the Infrastructure as a Service DNA Software for Healthy Cloud at HostingCon 2011” »

Web Host News – LONDON – Datapipe, a leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for mission critical IT and cloud computing, announced today that it has expanded its presence in the UK. Datapipe now controls an additional 8,000 square feet of high density data center space at the Global Switch facility in the Docklands, London, bringing Datapipe’s total space at the facility to 15,000 square feet. The company has also added a second facility in Slough, which clients can utilize as either a primary location or a Disaster Recovery (DR) site for the Docklands facility.

The expansion in the UK comes at a time of significant global growth for Datapipe. The company’s overall revenue growth in the second quarter of 2011 was equal to the total growth the company experienced in all of 2009. Continue reading “Datapipe Expands UK Presence” »

Web Host News – Atlanta, GA - PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, has today announced the expansion of its Content Delivery Network (CDN) to global locations, enabling customers to serve web content more quickly to their users, wherever they are in the world.

PEER 1 Hosting will connect four of its Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in North America to an expanded CDN infrastructure of 18 additional PoPs, delivered through the OnApp CDN Federation, a collective of hosting providers who share data center resources to establish a global content delivery network. The global PEER 1 CDN will enable customers to benefit from faster page serving and high-performance bandwidth, at affordable prices. Continue reading “PEER 1 Hosting extends CDN reach worldwide” »

Web Host News – ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the creation of the Services Innovation Lab (SIL), a new global lab that will initially comprise about 200 technology experts hand-picked from around the company. The lab will accelerate the expansion of real-time analytics and software automation in both IBM’s technology services offerings and its global services delivery capabilities.

The SIL significantly expands IBM’s nearly 10-year-old services research program by bringing together services, research, software developers and industry experts from around the company to focus initially on the creation of services software applications for cloud computing, analytics and mobility.  IBM invests more than $6 billion annually on research and development and employs about 3,000 researchers worldwide, with about a third of them focused on services and analytics. Continue reading “IBM Announces New Innovation Lab Dedicated To Technology Services” »

Web Host News – New York, NY – Telx®, a leading interconnection and data center provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that GigeNET, a leading cloud services provider delivering dedicated, hosted servers and custom solutions for the enterprise, has chosen Telx’s Los Angeles Cloud Connection Center to further its expansion plan for the West coast while maintaining high levels of network uptime and availability. As a member of the Telx cloudXchange community, GigeNET can offer Telx’s customers in Los Angeles direct access to its industry-leading cloud solutions, backed by Telx’s Private Interconnect service activation capabilities of less than 24 hours and an availability of 99.999 percent.

“GigeNET chose Telx as our cloud connectivity partner in Los Angeles to ensure the highest network availability to our enterprise cloud customers,” said Chris Armer, senior vice president of Operations at GigeNET.  “With Telx, we can leverage their cloudXchange community of cloud service providers and telecommunications carriers, giving us the choice and flexibility we need to keep our cloud computing services running quickly and securely. Our presence in Telx’s Cloud Connection Center in Los Angeles helps us expand our service reach along the West Coast and out to Asia, a region that has a high demand for cloud services.” Continue reading “GigeNET Selects Telx Cloud Connection Center to Expand in Los Angeles” »

Web Host News – NUREMBERG, Germany and HOUSTON – Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and groupware for cloud providers, joins forces with cPanel, a leading provider of hosting automation tools, to enable web hosts and service providers to offer advanced email and teamwork capabilities to their hosting customers.

The integration of Open-Xchange into cPanel´s industry-standard control panel will be previewed to the service provider industry at HostingCon in San Diego, August 8–10. Continue reading “Integration of Open-Xchange with cPanel Extends Groupware Benefits to Web Hosters” »