Web Hosting News – San Jose, CA – Fortune Data Centers, one of the nation’s leading data center innovators, is building the first wholesale data center in Oregon located at the nexus of the termination points for three trans-Pacific cables.

Latency, a measure of time delay, when calculated from the San Francisco Bay Area to Asia is currently 100-105 milliseconds round-trip (msRT). Latencies from Fortune’s Hillsboro, Oregon site are 84-87 msRT. According to Sarah Garrison, economic development manager, City of Hillsboro, “There are three major trans-Pacific cables terminating in Hillsboro, OR—Tata, Verizon and Alaska Communications. This is a great benefit to those businesses operating in Hillsboro that need low latency connectivity to Asia.” Fortune’s data center is within one-half mile of these termination points.

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Web Hosting News – LONDON, UK – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, today announced its strategic partnership with service provider, SIPCOM, to deliver Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010 to organisations across Europe. Interoute is placing SIPCOM’s unified communication platform in its pan-European cloud, enabling organisations to connect employees in new ways, regardless of physical location.

By turning to SIPCOM and Interoute for their unified communications needs, organisations can move their global inbound and outbound VoIP communication to a single interface, without having to overcome the complexity of combining multiple software architectures, or embarking on expensive migration projects. Moreover, additional capabilities of the new Microsoft end user license agreement, as a result of License Mobility through Software Assurance, makes it easier for organisations to switch to a hosted cloud environment without additional costs.

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Web Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, announced today it expects to again double its number of users — reaching 80 million paid mailboxes by the end of 2012, making it among the world’s largest providers.

The company is a pioneer in enabling service providers to offer a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to their customers – from consumers to businesses of all sizes – and is now entering its fifth year since the introduction with 1&1 in Europe and the U.S. Open-Xchange gives service providers of all kinds and sizes the ability to compete with global and local cloud mail offerings.

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Web Hosting News – Vaughan, Ontario Canada – Data Centers Canada a data center provider which operates, develops and manages Canadian real estate for the purpose of providing turn-key data center solutions including colocation and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises, today announced that is has begun construction on expanding its Toronto North Data Center Facility.

The Toronto North Facility which is located in the Greater Toronto Area in the City of Vaughan, will be expanded to approximately 20,000 square feet with its Phase 4 POD expansion.

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Web Hosting News – KnownHost LLC announced today that it expanded its VPS offerings to include a New Jersey-based datacenter.  The addition joins its already-established locations in Texas and California, and is the company’s third major datacenter brought online in six years.

The development comes on the heels of the firm’s news earlier this year that it now monitors 201 physical servers, placing it as the number-one webhost among the HyperSpin rankings for reliability and uptime.

According to the newest figures, KnownHost achieves a 99.967% uptime ranking, exceeding the 99.954% benchmark that HyperSpin considers to be a reliable webhost.

“Our growth is allowing us to rapidly invest in more managed virtual private server offerings,” said Justin Sauers, CEO at KnownHost LLC.  “Adding our third datacenter allows our customers to have more flexibility and reinforces our commitment to providing the best products and the most reliable support in the industry.”

Congruent with technological trends in managed VPS systems, KnownHost is recognizing the benefits of investing in the use of additional datacenters.  The Data Center Journal noted in June that according to the Uptime Institute’s inaugural datacenter-industry survey, “nearly two-thirds of respondents (60%) expect to upgrade/renovate an existing datacenter or construct a new data center within the next three years.”

As such, KnownHost has selected a leading datacenter provider in Piscataway, New Jersey, that was ranked by Inc. magazine as a fastest-growing company in America, that holds a certification for operating effectiveness, and that has the resources for world-class support within the surrounding New York City metro area.

KnownHost has been consistently ranked as a top Managed VPS Host in the HyperSpin rankings over the previous four years.  It also received a 2011 Editors’ Choice Award from the Web Hosting Directory and Review site FindMyHost.com, which bases its recognition on both editor-level and consumer-level reviews.

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Please tell us the year established and brief history of Prestige Technologies?Prestige Technologies has been providing managed hosting services we started in 2002. When we started we were looking to provide a service to web designers and web developers, providing them with wholesale rates for hosting and also a support system they can use for development and applications. Since then we provide hosting on windows, linux, mysql, mssql, email, exchange, shopping carts, cms systems, and our own web based email marketing system.

What do you offer your customers that are unique to your company?
We offer a solution that not only provides a home for your websites but also a way to bring those websites to market with our web based marketing systems. We provide a relationship with our customers that allow them to lean on us for support 24/7/365. Not only is your website available 24/7/365 but we are as well.

What is it that makes Prestige Technologies a competitive company in the Web Hosting market?
Expertise, customer service, on site developers and designers. We really specialize in email solutions and database solutions. Since we created our own email system this helps us with understanding the hosted environment of email as well. With our developers always needing new database solutions we have customized database solutions for each customers needs.

What new features have Prestige Technologies added for its customers in the past year?
In the last year we have introduced Email Marketing Platform, Shopping Cart Platform, Exchange Hosting, Sharepoint Hosting and a 24/7/365 support team.

What would you say is Prestige Technologies #1 asset to its customer base?
Availability of account managers. Each customer direct contact information for their account manager that knows every part of their account. Continue reading “Web Host Interview features Michael Batalha, President at Prestige Technologies” »

Web Hosting News – LONDON — Qube Managed Services, a cloud services and managed hosting provider, today announced the recent implementation of R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) across its three carrier-class data centers in London, New York, and Zurich. CDP is a full replacement of the company’s previous backup software.

Qube’s selection of R1Soft CDP follows the company’s decision to find backup software more compatible with its needs; as a managed hosting provider, Qube has many different types of customers and servers, each with different backup and security needs. Further, Qube required a simpler approach to licensing. In search of a backup replacement well-suited to multi-tenant environments, Qube discovered R1Soft CDP Enterprise Edition.

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Web Hosting News – Cologne, Germany; Boston, USA – Content Management AG (CM-AG), a leading provider of web-based applications and value-added services, is proud to announce that Hostpoint has successfully launched German, French, Italian, and English versions of CM4all Sites. Founded in 2001, Hostpoint is the largest Swiss hosting provider, currently hosting 130,000 websites and 150,000 domains. A CM-AG partner since 2004, the company has begun offering CM4all’s latest site building solution to its Swiss customers under the product name Hostpoint Sites. The solution is available in limited and full versions for CHF 14.90 and CHF 29.90 per month, respectively.

“We are convinced that thanks to CM4all Sites, we now have the opportunity to create a truly integrated homepage product and deliver the functionality that users want in a well designed and tested user interface that all of them can actually use. It goes without saying that we will make our new solution available to all Swiss customers from day one no matter which languages they speak and which one they prefer,” explains Yvan Knapp, Chief Customer Officer of Hostpoint.

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Web Hosting News – EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – VISI, a Minnesota-based leader in data center services, is pleased to announce that all of its data centers and managed service offerings are now operated under SSAE 16 Type 2 audited controls. The new framework, which replaces the SAS 70 guidebook, reaffirms VISI’s promise to meet the highest standards for security and availability, while making sure all of the appropriate controls and safeguards are firmly in place.

“The SSAE 16 audit provides third party validation that we’re delivering what we promise,” said Leon Schilmoeller, Executive Director of Data Center Operations. “Delivering on our promises is one of our most important values, and VISI is committed to making sure our customers have complete confidence in our ability to maintain a secure, reliable and prepared data center operation.”

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Web Hosting News – Cologne, Germany – Host Europe, who are part of the Host Europe Group, have been doing site builder analyses for quite a while now. Patrick Pulvermüller, Managing Director Host Europe GmbH, explains why they’ve chosen BaseKit to partner up with:

“We were looking for a premium website builder and BaseKit does the job perfectly. Our clients want to build their own website but none of the site builders can offer the design quality which BaseKit can; the templates powered by BaseKit look as if they were designed by a professional web design company. To top it all, someone with no knowledge of hosting or html can have a good looking website live within a matter of a few hours.”

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