Web Host News – Orem, UT - NetHosting, a US-based provider of global Dedicated, VPS, and Cloud hosting services, will be represented at TechWeb’s premier cloud computing event, Could Connect, by NetHosting CEO, Lane Livingston.

The event will be held March 15th through the 18th in Silicon Valley, CA, opening with select pre-conference programs that include the Cloud Business Summit—an in depth discussion venue on funding, marketing, and investing in the cloud—and elite developer workshops.
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Web Host News – London, UK - SunGard has acquired 365 Hosting Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based cloud computing and data centre services company which trades as ‘Hosting 365’. The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard’s results.

Privately-owned Hosting 365 has built a strong presence in Ireland delivering both data centre managed IT services and, more recently, on-demand computing services within its cloud computing environment.
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Web Host News – San Jose, CA - Sonasoft Inc., an emerging leading provider of fully integrated and automated solutions for archiving, disaster recovery, and data backup/recovery solutions for the small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) and remote office, back office (ROBO) market, is pleased to announce the expansion of its email archiving software to include a full featured solution for companies around 25 employees and larger.

“Sonasoft is always looking for new ways to help the small and medium businesses achieve operational excellence when it comes to managing their exchange environments, and preparing for regulatory compliance,” commented Andy Khanna, President and CEO, Sonasoft. “With the expansion of our SonaVault it enables us to address the demands that we are receiving in the market for our products by companies around 25 employees and larger.”
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Web Host News – SAN MATEO, CA — NetSuite Inc.(NYSE: N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced that it plans to make its cloud computing enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite available in the Google Apps Marketplace, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. NetSuite’s cloud-based ERP suite enables users to run their key back-office operations and financial business processes—including accounting, inventory and supply chain, order management and business intelligence—with a single, comprehensive SaaS application.

“NetSuite is committed to bringing the power of cloud computing to businesses, so integrating with Google Apps is a logical choice for us,” says Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite. “By adding NetSuite to the Google Apps Marketplace, we plan to make it extremely easy for Google Apps customers to get a powerful cloud computing ERP application that works seamlessly with their technology platforms.”
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Web Host News – SAN FRANCISCO - Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced the availability of a free trial version of Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server (ECS) for VMware vSphere 4 customers.

In this offering, ECS lets customers compose, orchestrate and deploy application infrastructure to virtualization environments managed with VMware vSphere 4. ECS already supports private clouds based on VMware VCenter or Citrix XEN, as well as the Amazon public cloud. Systems created for one virtualization environment are portable to another. The trial version only supports vSphere 4 environments – no other cloud platforms are supported in the trial version.
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Web Host News – SANTA CLARA, CA - Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading, global provider of converged IP network test solutions, announced that over 25 enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, and service providers are attending the world’s first Low-Latency Measurement Summit which is taking place today at its iSimCity facility in Santa Clara. The charter of the Low-Latency Summit is to help NEMs, data center planners, and enterprises that require low-latency communications create and deploy next generation converged data centers. Speakers will discuss how latency affects the key issues and trends in data center technology, including cloud networking, bandwidth needs, design and scale, traffic patterning, and testing methodologies. Ixia will post videos of the summit to the iSimCity solution page next week.

“Low-latency devices are critical to the delivery of time-sensitive data flows, as in financial transactions,” said Douglas Gourlay, Vice President of Marketing for Arista Networks. “Low-latency testing, as performed at iSimCity, is crucial for data center equipment and network deployment.”
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Web Host News – RALEIGH, N.C. - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swedish Internet company Voddler has standardized its movie service on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Voddler has also selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite as the basis for its new infrastructure, providing the company with a centralized and scalable server platform.

Voddler offers its customers a wide variety of movies on-demand, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will enable the company to virtualize its web servers responsible for the movie service and the database servers containing all of its film titles.
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Web Host News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies®, a global provider of on-demand data center hosting and cloud services, has announced the addition of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) to its best-in-class portal allowing customers to securely connect to their infrastructure environment through a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

IPsec provides a framework of protocols for protecting transmissions over an IP network. This allows the creation of a secure VPN over the existing Internet, with data fully encrypted and secure when transferred between two points. IPsec resides at the network level and can be implemented regardless of applications used, giving remote users full access to their network and to robust data, voice, or video applications.
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Web Host News – DALLAS, TX - FireHost, a secure Web hosting company, today announces it has closed its Series A funding round totaling $2 million. The company has been earning revenue at a 40 percent growth rate, quarter over quarter, since its marketing launch in June 2009. This initial infusion of capital was raised solely to help the company swiftly expand its team in the areas of IT, sales and marketing and build out it’s infrastructure in order to meet tremendous demand. FireHost opened the round to highly experienced technology entrepreneurs and investors around the Southwest, such as Pat Sullivan of ACT!, SalesLogix, and Flypaper, and Doug Ducey of iMemories and Cold Stone Creamery. FireHost was able to close the round in under three months.

“The investors who came to the table to participate in the round are incredibly accomplished and seasoned entrepreneurs. Each one has been generous enough to not only invest, but also give us the benefit of their mentorship. In the end, both will pay off for this company,” said Chris Drake, founder and CEO FireHost. “I’m proud to say this was a very easy round to close.”
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Web Host News – Isle of Man, THE BRITISH ISLES — Netcetera, one of Europe’s leading managed hosting and data center providers, today announced it has implemented R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) software to offer a new self-managed backup service to its Windows and Linux clients.

R1Soft CDP enables Netcetera to provide its clients with many beneficial features including an easy-to-use Web interface for client self-service and bare-metal restore capabilities for minimal down time. Through the web-based administration portal, clients can easily manage their own high-performance backups and restores. By allowing the delegation of administrative functions, R1Soft CDP simplifies the entire process for clients and administrators. Read the rest of this entry »