Web Host News – LONDON, UK – Following a survey of global cloud providers, OnApp reports that 49 per cent expect the small business sector to drive take-up of cloud services in the next 12 months. A total of 27 per cent expect the enterprise sector to be their primary source of growth, while just 18 per cent see consumers as their greatest opportunity. The results are taken from an independent survey of cloud service providers commissioned by OnApp, a leading provider of software for the hosting industry.

OnApp software powers over half of all public clouds globally. It commissioned the survey to assess the hosting industry’s expectations for the cloud, and its view of the challenges it faces provisioning and selling hosted cloud services. The survey found that the most common reasons SMBs adopt cloud computing are the ability it gives them to scale their IT services on demand; being able to pay just for the computing resources they use; the lower cost overall of cloud services; and not having to run their own IT infrastructure.

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Web Host News – UK2.net, a leading UK web host, has launched their new web site builder, aptly named SiteBuilder. This latest product from this world-renown host gives customers the power to create, publish and manage their own websites, even those without any programming or web design experience in less than 30 minutes.

Customers do not have to have any coding experience to design professional looking websites. UK2’s SiteBuilder comes with hundreds of theme combinations which are fully customisable through a drag-and-drop design interface. Users can easily create new pages, sections, categories, text and image content with the click of a button and place them exactly where they want them.

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Web Host News – ST. LOUIS – Savvis, a CenturyLink company (NYSE: CTL), today announced its schedule of North American data center expansions and grand openings for the second half of 2011.

The opening of new Savvis data centers in Seattle and Piscataway, N.J., combined with expansions of the existing Savvis data centers in Atlanta, Boston and Toronto, will increase the company’s North American footprint in response to growing demand for its cloud, managed hosting and colocation services.

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Web Host News – San Jose, CA – Future Facilities, a leading provider of data center infrastructure simulation software, today announced that its General Manager, Sherman Ikemoto, will speak at Advancements in Thermal Management 2011 on September 21st at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee.

At 10:15 a.m., Mr. Ikemoto will give a presentation titled Data Center Efficiency with Higher Ambient Temperatures and Optimized Airflow Management. The discussion will describe a new methodology that combines computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling with data gathered from thermal sensors embedded in servers. The new method allows data center managers to create a virtual test facility for IT load capacity planning – enabling better critical cooling and power decisions.

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Web Host News – New York, NY – Telx®, a leading interconnection and data center provider in strategic North American markets, today announced the successful completion of its Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16 examination. The examination was conducted by Weaver and Tidwell, LLP (Weaver), a full service accounting firm providing SSAE 16 Type 1 and Type 2 reports that evaluated Telx’s design and operating effectiveness of internal controls and processes. The report, produced after a lengthy independent examination of Telx’s control processes in 12 carrier-dense, connection-rich facilities, demonstrates the company’s continued leadership in operational excellence and underscores its commitment to providing industry-leading security for its customers.

“Colocation customers, specifically in the telecom services, financial services, cloud services and managed hosting industries, will be increasingly demanding accreditations and certifications such as SSAE 16 from vendor companies like Telx,” said Jason Schafer, Research Manager, Datacenter Technologies with Tier1 Research. “These accreditations and certifications will be essential points of differentiation for providers and will help customers by streamlining due diligence and internal auditing processes saving them time, effort and money.”

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Hosting News – ALLENTOWN, PA – Leading managed hosting provider INetU has announced its exclusive “Gated Community Cloud™” service built specifically for enterprises that demand a secure, scalable and tailored hosting solution in the Cloud. This unique Cloud service offers companies more online security features, higher availability, live 24/7 support, deep monitoring, and memory and bandwidth configurations that fit exacting needs – all without the risks associated with commercially available Public Clouds.

“The downside to a typical Public Cloud is that you don’t know who your virtual neighbors are,” said Dev Chanchani, president of INetU. “With our Gated Community Cloud, only serious businesses get exclusive access to the infrastructure, which offers our clients a safe and reliable enterprise-centric Cloud environment.”

In Public Clouds, business critical website functions will always be competing with other unknown users’ web applications. These unknown neighbors may have significant demands and usage spikes in processing, bandwidth and memory – causing degradation in performance and reliability for everyone on the public cloud. The INetU Gated Community Cloud was created as a solution for those enterprises that cannot afford to compromise on performance, reliability and scale. INetU assigns businesses into a Gated Community, shielding them from users who could potentially hoard the typical Public Cloud resources and cause poor performance or downtime.

Key differentiators of the INetU Gated Community Cloud include a 100% reliability and performance promise that extends past simple connectivity and goes deep into the Cloud’s CPU, memory and disk guarantees. Also unique is built-in high availability such as distributed resource scheduling and persistent SAN based storage, secure hybrid connectivity, complete flexibility to scale as your business grows and fulltime support.

The INetU Gated Community Cloud is available today exclusively to businesses that need a managed solution using scalable and modern virtualization technologies. Hybrid integration allows for many compliant solutions that add additional security and performance. Companies interested in INetU’s exclusive Gated Community Cloud service should contact INetU at 610-266-7441 or visit www.inetu.net.

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Hosting News – Ann Arbor, Michigan – Online Tech has added HIPAA compliance to its growing list of successfully completed audits. Online Tech achieved compliance across all 54 HIPAA citations and the complete set of 136 audited components when audited by an independent Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) and Certified Health Security Specialist (CHSS).

The HITECH Act, coupled with sizeable fines enforced by Health and Human Services, has brought HIPAA compliance into sharp focus across the healthcare industry. Both the patient facing entities, and the business associates and IT vendors that support them, are all corporately and personally responsible for the protection, availability, and security of protected health information (PHI). The entire spectrum of health related companies – from hospitals and physician health organizations to Software-as-a-Service and electronic medical records (EMR) providers – must meet HIPAA compliance.

“We’ve built a world class data center business keeping mission critical applications secure and available 24×7” says Mike Klein, President and COO of Online Tech. “Our focus demands a commitment to repeatable, audited processes for everything we do. A certified HIPAA audit was a natural next step to our audit process to give our health care and health IT clients even greater peace of mind.”

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Hosting News – LONDON - INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that it has achieved recertification of the internationally recognised ISO 27001 (Information Security and Business Continuity) standard for all 11 of its European country operations.

In addition to ensuring consistent best-in-class service and physical and data security for all customers, the pan-European ISO accreditation reinforces Interxion’s ability to provide a uniform, integrated solution for multi-country customers in 28 data centres in 13 of Europe’s leading business and consumer hubs. Interxion’s Single Master Services Agreement is Europe-wide, meaning that there is no need to renegotiate terms and conditions across countries. There is one single point of contact for account management and one central European Customers Services Centres allowing customers to easily spread geographically across Interxion’s data centre footprint.

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Hosting News - SoftLayer^® Technologies, the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed hosting, today announced that the company has completed upgrading the edge network routers across its wide area network (WAN). SoftLayer’s networking team installed Juniper Networks® MX 3D Universal Edge Routers to all facilities and network points-of-presence. The newly implemented routers increase the company’s routing footprint by 400 percent adding four times the port capacity.

Key advantages include:

- Faster performance
- Greater stability
- Increased reliability
- Better visibility into network traffic

“Providing the best network performance and reliability is essential to our goal of giving customers the highest level of control over their infrastructure,” said Will Charnock, Vice President of Network Engineering for SoftLayer. “SoftLayer’s existing backbone routers were beginning to approach capacity. But rather than simply meeting those challenges, these upgrades boost performance, decrease latency, and give us capacity that will meet the demands of our growing customer base well into the future.”

“At the core of Juniper’s partnership with SoftLayer is the shared desire to deliver the best service and value in the industry, including supporting SoftLayer’s rapidly growing cloud-based and hosted subscribers,” said Mike Marcellin, vice president of systems strategy and marketing at Juniper Networks. “Critical features, including the unmatched scalability, enhanced security and automated provisioning and management of the MX Series, along with the proven reliability of the Junos® operating system, makes the MX Series the right choice for creating and supporting demanding cloud environments like SoftLayer. We look forward to continuing to work with the SoftLayer team to find and implement new ways to improve value and service delivery to their customers.”

The addition of higher capacity networking gear enables SoftLayer to build a foundation for a truly global footprint across the SoftLayer backbone network. These upgrades provide high performance over geographically diverse facilities to customers and end-users around the world.

The Juniper Networks MX Series routers have been installed in all SoftLayer data centers and points of presence. Additional facilities in the coming months will be built with the same robust networking technology.

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Hosting News – Lenexa, Kan. – With the holiday buying season on the horizon, Codero is offering discounts on web hosting services in an effort to help small ecommerce businesses prepare for increased website traffic. Retailers are forecasting strong holiday sales, with promotions starting as early as October.

Recognizing e-tailer success is dependent on the accessibility and usability of the website, Codero is offering discounts on the latest processor technology, Second Generation Core i7 and Core i5, with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology for increased performance on demand. In addition, all Codero servers come with 12 TB of bandwidth to avoid any overage fees small e-tailers often experience as a result of the increased traffic.

The shopping experience at Codero.com has also been enhanced by a refreshed Codero website design. The new look features a more ecommerce-friendly way to shop which makes navigating and purchasing easier.

Codero’s Director of Marketing, Shelby Garlock, said, “Before Cyber Monday arrives and the busy Christmas season, we’ve made it easier to shop Codero.com and launched valuable discounts. The September specials are a way to help our customers be more visible to their own customers during the holiday season and assist those who are working on projects for the upcoming season. They can secure top-performing IT systems that can handle the increased traffic they will be driving to their websites. This is a great way to get quality servers that fit your IT needs at a discounted price that fits your budget.”

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