Web Hosting News - Marlborough, MA - Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), today announced its collaboration with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the first part of its high-performance data integration strategy for Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI). Microsoft customers can now take advantage of Netezza’s unique high-speed terascale analytic capabilities and extend the value of their existing Microsoft BI investment. Through this partnership, Netezza customers will now have more choice through tighter integration and technology compatibility with Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008.

“Integration with Netezza offers joint enterprise customers the ability to utilize Microsoft BI for analysis, reporting and compatibility via Microsoft Office 2007 and Office PerformancePoint Server, as well as SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Integration Services,” said Alexandre Pombo, Sr. Director Global Partner Team at Microsoft. “This new connectivity enables customers to realize enhanced business agility and value from their Microsoft and Netezza investments.” Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News - ATLANTA — Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today its IP network and data center colocation services are being used by UK-based Sharedband to expand its operations and offer its innovative network solution in the US, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sharedband Technologies. As the name suggests, Sharedband bonds broadband lines including DSL, cable, T1, wireless and fiber connections from major Internet providers to offer both residential and business customers faster speeds with added resilience.

Until now, high-speed broadband Internet service was not available for millions of homes and businesses due to geographic limitations of carrier infrastructure. Sharedband solves this ‘last mile’ problem by aggregating local bandwidth connections. Applications such as VoIP, video conferencing and software as a service (SaaS) place greater demands on the local loops used to connect to the Internet. Enhanced broadband services such as ADSL2+ and SDSL also suffer from the ‘distance-to-central office’ problem, and are available from a limited number of central offices. Sharedband solves this problem. Sharedband also resolves the issue of upstream-delivery speed. Most Internet services are engineered to provide significantly lower bandwidth for sending files than for downloading files — consequently resulting in the slower upstream time. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News - Brampton, Canada - DemoDemo.com, the market leader in Flash web hosting tutorials, is pleased to announce the launch of monthly subscription tutorials.

Since 2002, DemoDemo has provided hosting Flash tutorials on a one time upfront purchase basis only. As of today, monthly subscription plans are now available. Customers can now pay a small monthly fee rather than having to deal with the larger upfront purchase. This allows medium to large sized hosts the option of minimizing purchasing costs and otherwise using funds for advertising, support and other ways of building their business. But more importantly, it opens the door to small web hosts who would otherwise be unable to confront the one time upfront cost of purchased tutorials due to budget restraints. Read the rest of this entry »

Web Hosting News - Munich - It is officially the world’s fastest web server: Benchmark test results prove that the PRIMERGY RX600 rack server is the best-performing web server in the world.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers made use of the new Intel Dunnington multi-core processor family, introduced in the fall, in setting the new SPECweb2005 benchmark with a PRIMERGY RX600 S4 datacenter-class rack server, which is designed to offer robustness and redundancy features in a space-optimized 4U rack module. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News - Santa Clara, CA – Ensim Corporation, the leading provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Unified Communications magazine has named Ensim Unify Shared Edition as a recipient of its 2008 Unified Communications Excellence Award.

Ensim Unify Shared Edition raises the industry standard for simplifying the day-to-day burden of provisioning, activating, configuring and managing a service provider’s Unified Communications and Collaboration infrastructure throughout the customer product life cycle. Co-developed with Microsoft, Unify enables service providers to centrally create, control, and deliver hosted IP and application services based on Microsoft infrastructure. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News - Jersey City, NJ - Comodo, a leading provider of Identity and Trust Assurance Internet Services, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with leading UK payment provider - PayPoint.net. The strategic partnership will allow PayPoint.net customers to benefit from special discounting across a range of Comodo SSL certificates including new industry standard Extended Validation (EV), SSL Certificates which represent the highest level of SSL security available.

As a reciprocated gesture, PayPoint.net will extend special offers across its online payment services to Comodo customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News - MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced an immediate transition to the SHA-1 algorithm on new RapidSSL brand certificates as of 11:00 a.m. Pacific on Tuesday, December 30. Additionally, VeriSign is offering free re-issuance of RapidSSL Certificates on the SHA-1 algorithm to replace those created with MD5.

The transition to the SHA-1 algorithm came within a few hours of the public unveiling of an MD5 flaw presented by researchers during the 2008 Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Berlin, rendering the MD5 flaw ineffective for all new RapidSSL Certificates. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News - NEW YORK – Jon A. DeLuca, President and CEO of FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTGX), a leading provider of complex interconnection services, will present at 11th Annual Needham & Co. Growth Stock Conference.

Held in New York, this two-day conference will showcase more than 350 companies in the Communications & Technology Services; Consumer; Industrial & Diversified Growth; Internet Services & Digital Media; IT Hardware & Consumer Electronics; Medical Technology & Services; Semiconductors; Semiconductors Equipment; Software; and Storage Network, Disk Drives, Distribution & EMS industries. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News - MIAMI - Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that it will host NANOG 45, the North American Network Operators Group’s (NANOG) forum for the exchange of technical information and discussion of network implementation issues. NANOG 45, which will be the first NANOG event held outside North America, will take place January 25-28, 2009 at the Renaissance Jaragua Hotel in Santo Domingo.

NANOG is an education and operations organization that coordinates and disseminates technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. NANOG events are held tri-annually and attract more than 450 Internet network operators, engineers, and software and hardware vendors from throughout the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Hosting News - DALLAS, TX - FireHost, Inc., a premier managed hosting provider, announces a web application security scanning solution at no charge to SMBs. The hacker security scanning provides detailed reporting on website and web application vulnerabilities.

Many small and medium-sized businesses do not have the resources or expertise necessary to test for website and web application vulnerabilities. When a small business’ website gets hacked, it puts every current and potential customer who visits the site at risk of receiving a malware installation. Understanding SMBs’ unique needs, FireHost announced today a free vulnerability scanning service to help ensure websites and web applications are properly protected. Read the rest of this entry »