Web Hosting News – DALLAS, TX - FireHost, a secure Web hosting company, is making protection against Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) attacks available for all customers as a standard part of every secure hosting plan. The company is joining forces with RioRey, a leading worldwide DoS/DDoS mitigation provider, to give superior protection to all current and future customers against one of the most devastating kinds of cyber attacks a business can face.

“We fight DDoS attacks weekly and have worked hand-in-hand with RioRey in training our team and sharpening our attack policies,” said Chris Drake, CEO and founder of FireHost. “FireHost is absolutely committed to using premium solutions that protect SMBs from cyber attacks as dangerous as DDoS, and having a rock-solid team to back up the products.”
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Web Hosting News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today outlined plans to spend more than $7 million to enhance the network infrastructure in Houston and Dallas, its core operating cities. The company plans capital investments in network capacity upgrades, expanded infrastructure for its Private and Virtual Rack solutions, new routers and switches, and robust test platforms to evaluate custom solutions. To increase network resilience and capacity, the company plans to double the number of 10 Gig-E links connecting its data centers with its Internet Service Providers. Also planned are capacity and functionality upgrades to meet the unprecedented traffic utilization demands of its colocation and managed hosting customers.

The Planet operates seven data centers – two in Houston and five in Dallas – with 179,000 square feet of raised floor, and additional capacity in London for virtual rack customers. Approximately 44 percent of the company’s business originates from outside of North America, and it operates network points of presence on the East and West Coasts to enhance network performance and reduce latency.
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Web Hosting News – Dallas, TX - Businesses in search of highly developed web hosting solutions need look no further than CartikaCloud’s new utility based, High Availability Linux and Windows Cloud hosting services. New CartikaCloud redefines the standard for hosted services by offering a range of high availability Cloud based web hosting solutions in addition to an easy-to-use web interface and unparalleled client assistance.

CartikaCloud features completely redundant and self healing architecture with additional and optional load balancing and clustering of all Cloud servers and services within the CartikaCloud. Complimented by utility billing, 360 degree scalability, predictive failure analysis, Countinous Data Protection and enterprise grade Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus features.
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Web Hosting News – San Diego, CA - Next Level Internet, Inc., California’s leading mission critical Internet access provider, today announced the launch of their private, secure, virtual co-location service. This new green virtualization service offers a multitude of benefits that enable IT professionals the ability to grow and extend their network while maintaining the highest level of security.

The private virtual co-location service has many benefits, including reduced costs, improved security and performance, increased availability, reduced management overhead and server provisioning time, simplified budgeting, and built-in disaster recovery, all with 24/7 USA-based support. Additionally, computing power and other services can be accessed on demand and in a manner that is much more efficient and greener than owning racks of computers and stacks of software that almost never run at peak efficiency
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Web Hosting News – LONDON - Microsoft Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of software for business and personal computing, announced today that they will be hosting a workshop presentation on their cloud platform offering ‘Windows Azure’ at the Cloud Computing Congress, www.cloudcomputingcongress.com/ taking place on the 16th March at Olympia, London.

Eric Nelson, Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist will be giving an introduction to one of the leading cloud platforms that is at the cutting edge of the Cloud Computing Age. Attendees will learn what Windows Azure is capable of doing and why, how and when you should adopt the Azure platform that went into production on the 4th January 2010.
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Web Hosting News – London -  Mimecast®, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, today announced the results of its Cloud Computing Adoption Survey, which examined the perception and adoption of cloud computing solutions among 565 respondents responsible for managing their organization’s IT operations and budget across the U.S. and Canada in the Fall of 2009.

Data from the recently completed online survey highlights the complex, often contrasting, thought process of IT decision makers regarding cloud computing.  While security and integration issues are clearly users’ biggest fears about cloud computing, these concerns have not dissuaded companies from implementing cloud-based applications within their corporate infrastructure.  The well-known fears with cloud computing appear to be at odds with reality, as the survey findings suggest strong satisfaction with cloud computing once it is installed.  70 percent of IT decision makers already using cloud computing are planning to move additional solutions to the cloud—most within the next 12 months—indicating that those respondents have come to quickly recognize the inherent ease of implementation, robust security features and cost-savings of cloud computing. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News – Portsmouth, NH – GlobalSign Inc., one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Identities for securing PDF documents, has today announced the success of GlobalSign’s digital signature solution, DocumentSign in the pharmaceutical industry. Euthymics, a start-up biotechnology company has implemented a joint GlobalSign and SafeNet solution not only designed to meet the requirements of FDA regulated activities, but to solve Euthymics’ need for a streamlined, improved, and standardized documenting process deploying electronic signatures.

Before the introduction of digital signatures Euthymics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on neuroscience, was required to hand-sign documents and manually manage the process of distribution, storage, and retrieval of all signed records. This manual process extended project schedules and deadlines and increased cost due to the overhead of archiving, mailing, and faxing documents. Recognizing the cost and time saving advantages of using electronic signatures over hand signatures, Euthymics required a solution that automated the streamlined exchange of documents from remote locations, and critically complied with Federal Regulations for electronic signatures and electronic records (Title 21 CFR Part 11). Title 21 CFR Part 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations establishes criteria under which electronic records and electronic signatures are considered trustworthy, reliable, and equivalent to paper records.
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Web Hosting Wire – HONOLULU - The Internet has revolutionized the way we do business; and now there are more legitimate ways than ever to profit by partnering with industry leaders. As an unprecedented number of people turn to the Internet to pay their bills, expand their careers, or start up businesses, Superb Internet Corporation (www.superb.net) has responded by offering a new sales Affiliate Program that offers high-conversion sales and multiple ways to participate. Now there’s a program to fit every need, from the chance referral that leads to a high one-time payout, to the possibility of building an entire business based on referrals.

For 14 years, Superb Internet has been one of the most prominent web hosting companies in the industry. Superb has now designed a unique affiliate marketing program that provides optimal tools and flexibility for affiliates and Internet marketers to build multiple income streams.

Since building long-term business partnerships is central to the company’s ethos, one choice of payout options offers a recurring revenue stream of up to 15% of the referred customer’s monthly recurring revenue (MRR), for the entire lifetime of the account. “Lifetime revenues are quite rare in the hosting industry,” says Patrick Ahler, Director of Sales. “Affiliates also profit from the added value of upgrades, another fairly unique way to build higher than average profits.”
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Web Hosting Wire – Herndon, VA –  Network Solutions® has enhanced its website package and hosting services to include file sharing capabilities to its existing feature set, which includes online file storage, email, hosting and more.  Small Business owners using nsWebsite™ or nsHosting™ packages to create a website, will now have the ability to share files, photos and documents with customers as well as  collaborate with employees  in a secure and easy to use environment.

“What makes this feature really exciting is that it allows small business owners to setup a private way to share files with their customers,” said Bill Jolly, director at Network Solutions.  “For instance, a remodeling contractor can setup folders for each remodeling project that could include a copy of the contract, work permits, project updates and photos.  It’s a simple way to organize information and communicate specific project details to each customer in a private and secure environment.”

The website packages include a free domain – with annual purchase – email, a Website Builder & Marketing Tool, hosting, online file storage, additional tools that help to market a business online and now, file share capabilities.  Customers will be able to collaborate and share access to their information anytime, from any location.
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Web Hosting Wire – DENVER - FORTRUST, Colorado s leading high-availability data center services provider and colocation facility, today announced a partnership agreement with Consonus, a leading data center hosting and Managed IT Services provider. This partnership enables each company s customers to utilize both providers  data center and colocation facilities for geographically diverse disaster recovery and business continuity options.

FORTRUST owns and operates a premium SAS70 Type II data center and colocation facility in the Denver metropolitan area. Consonus has three high-availability SAS70 Type II audited data centers in the Salt Lake City area as well as more than 20 other locations across the United States. Customers of either company can now colocate their IT infrastructure in Denver and Salt Lake City and interconnect the two facilities, establishing a geographically diverse footprint for increased resiliency.
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