“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.”

Microsoft BI provides a complete, fully integrated set of BI capabilities that can help make it less complicated and more economical for companies to build, manage and use BI. These capabilities range from scalable technical platforms to applications that support decision making for people at all levels across an organization.

“With this interoperability between Microsoft and Netezza, we now have more options with our Microsoft toolset,” said Michael Klug, Technical Solutions Architect, Data Warehouse Group, Time Warner Cable. “We can now integrate the Netezza system with Microsoft tools, like Visual Studio and SSIS, and run SQL, build objects and move data more easily between them.”

“Through our alliance with Microsoft, we have access to their technology resources and expertise so that we can jointly satisfy our customers’ needs by bringing more closely compatible business intelligence and data warehousing solutions to market faster,” said Jim Baum, president and COO, Netezza. “This collaboration is part of a growing relationship that will tighten interoperability, allowing Microsoft BI customers to utilize the high performance of Netezza across the full set of Microsoft BI applications. Through this partnership, we can offer our mutual customers more choice, significantly broadening our market opportunity.”

About Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ):
Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza family of appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Nationwide, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Marlborough, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

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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.

“The Internet is a critical personal and professional tool, yet broadband Internet services are unavailable for millions of consumers,” said Paul Evans, chief executive officer of Sharedband. “Internap provides us data center space and optimized IP connectivity that, when combined with Sharedband’s customized firmware, bring broadband Internet to these underserved markets.”

Internap’s bundled data center colocation and Performance IP™ networking services offer a 100 percent performance service level agreement (SLA). Performance IP is based on patented software technology called MIRO (Managed Internet Route Optimizer TM) and 55 network access points worldwide. The Performance IP platform monitors Internet performance across multiple backbones to select the best path for content to travel. It also integrates seamlessly with Internap’s enterprise data center locations at 44 sites throughout the world, giving businesses a vehicle to successfully manage Web sites and network intensive applications.

“Sharedband’s solution provides their customers a high-speed, resilient link into Internap’s route-optimized global IP network,” said James DeBlasio, chief executive officer at Internap. “The result is broadband Internet service can now be delivered to millions of new residential and business consumers using off-the-shelf technology and currently available network capacity.”

According to TeleGeography, a research division of PriMetrica, Inc., Internet traffic grew 53 percent from mid-2007 to mid-20081. As Internet traffic continues to increase, business and residential consumers need a solution that can facilitate fast, reliable connectivity and provide capacity to keep up with the growing dependence on the Web.

About Sharedband
Sharedband software enhances broadband communications by creating faster upload and download speeds and more resilient connections for business sites anywhere using existing lines. It is deployed as a managed service connecting to Sharedband’s national data centers and resold by Service Providers including ISPs, ASPs and Systems Integrators or directly from www.sharedband.com. Sharedband Service Providers are able to offer business customers enhanced broadband services using existing lines. The service improves connectivity for remote sites and branch offices, and bandwidth hungry applications like multiple VoIP, VPN’s, hosted applications and off site data backup. Sharedband works by managing data flows at the packet level across several lines so that the capacities of the lines are aggregated together and act as a single connection that is also resilient. Sharedband is a patented technology and Sharedband Limited is a private company based in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. Its US subsidiary, Sharedband Technologies, LLC is based in Seattle, WA.

About Internap
Internap is a leading Internet solutions company that provides The Ultimate Online Experience™ by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with unsurpassed performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed Internet services, a content delivery network (CDN) and content monetization services, Internap frees its customers to innovate their business and create new revenue opportunities. More than 3,000 companies across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals. For more information, visit www.internap.com.

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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.

The subscription plans range from $14.95 per month to $29.95 per month. The largest plan (Jumbo Plan) sells for $29.95 a month and includes over $3,000.00 of tutorial product.

The subscription tutorials still include the customer’s logo branding throughout and they are still hosted on the customer’s site. The only difference is the cost. Subscription tutorials display for as long as the customer’s account is in good standing. Logo changes and tutorial series updates are included in the monthly fee, which would otherwise incur an additional cost if the tutorials were purchased outright.

About DemoDemo
Since its inception in 2002, DemoDemo (www.demodemo.com) has been the pioneer in producing web hosting Flash tutorials and innovative customer support solutions. Its products include web hosting tutorials, non-English tutorials, custom tutorials and its flagship DemoCenter™. There are now over 2000 tutorials available at DemoDemo.com for cPanel, Plesk, WebHostManager, Ensim, H-Sphere, FrontPage, WS_FTP, SmartFTP and CuteFTP, Helm, ModernBill, phpBB and much more. New tutorial series are added every month. DemoDemo.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Netasis Internet, Inc.

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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.

In retaking the lead, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has demonstrated the benefits of using the industry-standard SPECweb2005 benchmark to help optimize datacenter web servers. The newest results, recorded last month at the Fujitsu Siemens Computers benchmarking laboratories in Paderborn, Germany, represent the latest top score in a closely-contested category.

The SPECweb2005 test measures machine performance as a web server, handling requests for static and dynamic page requests, and simulates three different workload scenarios. Under official test lab conditions, the world record-setting PRIMERGY RX600 S4 returned a SPECweb2005 score of 47,504. This exceeded the previous-best result, established by a US server vendor, of 43,854.

Says Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Server Business at Fujitsu Siemens Computers: “The latest world record demonstrates the value of the SPEC benchmark for web servers. Not only is it a development platform for vendors to ensure their server performance is optimized, but also it enables datacenter IT managers to really understand the performance of their enterprise web servers, in environments where space and performance really count.”

Specification of the record-setting PRIMERGY RX600 S4: Four six-core Intel Xeon X7460 (Dunnington) processors, 64 GB of memory and four Intel PRO/1000PT Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The server was fitted with five internal SAS 2.5” disks for the operating system and webserver log files, and used 48 external 3.5” SAS disks in four FibreCAT SX40 storage subsystems connected to a LSI MegaRAID SAS8880E PCIe disk controller for the workload files.

Full details of the test results will be available on the SPEC website at: http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/web2005.html

About Fujitsu Siemens Computers:
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT Infrastructure Provider. By delivering Infrastructure products, solutions and services as well as Managed Infrastructure or a combination of these offerings, our customers have the freedom to choose whatever IT infrastructure fits best to their specific needs.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is present in all key markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East serving large, small or medium-sized companies or private consumers, while its Infrastructure Services division is active in 170 countries. The company benefits from the global cooperation and innovation power of both its shareholders, Fujitsu Ltd. and Siemens AG.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is one of the pioneers in offering a complete range of environmentally conscious products and in using environmentally friendly technologies and processes throughout the entire lifecycle of a product.

More information about Fujitsu Siemens Computers is at: www.fujitsu-siemens.com.

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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.

Ensim Unify Shared gives customers access to best-of-breed technology supporting key customer initiatives that include MS Exchange, SharePoint and CRM as well as the skilled resources required to support other hosting strategies. Using Ensim Unify Shared, customers can deploy hosted services more quickly and easily implement their desired business models, while better managing growth and change.

“Ensim has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace. Unified Communications is pleased to grant a 2008 Unified Communications Excellence Award to its Ensim Unify,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Editor-in-Chief of Unified Communications magazine. “We’re proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Ensim in the future.”

A full list of Unified Communications Excellence Award winners are published in the November/December, 2008 issue of Unified Communications magazine, www.uc-mag.com.

For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About Ensim Corporation
Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access control software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft. For more information, visit www.ensim.com.

About Unified Communications magazine
Launched in July 2007, Unified Communications magazine is devoted to educating enterprise decision makers on why and how they need to deploy unified communications (UC) solutions. Every issue of Unified Communications magazine features a comprehensive news section; case studies of successful deployments and lessons learned; interviews with leading hardware and software companies; and an ‘industry’ section, featuring analysis of important mergers and acquisition, partnerships and a Wall Street perspective on the unified communications market. Unified Communications has a readership of 160,000.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO and Communications Developer Conference.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

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As a reciprocated gesture, PayPoint.net will extend special offers across its online payment services to Comodo customers.

This alliance will enhance PayPoint.net’s ability to provide a service that effectively levels the playing field, offering enterprise level security and sophistication to start-ups and established brands alike. Comodo will bolster the anti-fraud credentials of all PayPoint.net’s customers, proving to consumers their commitment to data security.

“This partnership will benefit both PayPoint.net’s and Comodo’s customers,” said James Langman, VP, Business Development of Comodo. “Clearly there is a strong synergy between our solutions. By combining our core strengths, we can both offer our respective customers value-added best-in-class products.”

About PayPoint.net
PayPoint.net is a leading bank-independent online payment service provider which operates one of the most comprehensive, secure and reliable payment platforms in the UK. The product of the merger of specialist providers Metacharge and SECPay, PayPoint.net offers organizations of every size a fast start to trading online, supported by powerful fraud management capabilities and leading-edge security features.

PayPoint.net is a wholly owned subsidiary of PayPoint plc, the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK, with operations in Ireland and Romania. The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 19,800 terminals located in local shops and is used primarily for the cash payment of bills and services, plus prepayments for mobile telephones and energy meters. PayPoint handles in excess of £7 billion from over 500 million transactions annually for more than 5,000 clients and merchants.

PayPoint.net has recently launched Cash Payments, a facility that allows you to purchase goods and services online and pay in cash offline at a PayPoint in-store terminal.

For further information please visit www.paypoint.net

About Comodo
The Comodo companies provide the infrastructure that is essential in enabling e-merchants, other Internet-connected companies, software companies, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely and securely. The Comodo companies offer PKI SSL, Code Signing, Content Verification and E-Mail Certificates; award winning PC security software; vulnerability scanning services for PCI Compliance; secure e-mail and fax services.

Continual innovation, a core competence in PKI, and a commitment to reversing the growth of Internet-crime distinguish the Comodo companies as vital players in the Internet’s ongoing development. Comodo secures and authenticates online transactions and communications for over 200,000 business customers and has over 10,000,000 installations of desktop security products.

For additional information on Comodo - Creating Trust Online™ visit www.comodo.com.

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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.

During the Berlin event, researchers presented findings that highlighted an MD5 collision attack using substantial computing power to create a false SSL Certificate using the RapidSSL certificate brand. The attack was a potential method to create a new, false certificate from scratch and required the issuance of new certificates, meaning existing certificates were not targets for this attack.

Because the exploit never impacted certificates already in production on Web sites, including previously-issued RapidSSL Certificates or any other VeriSign brand certificate, current certificates used by banks, brokerages, online merchants, and all other SSL-using entities were not affected by this exploit.

“We applaud this team’s research and efforts to improve online security as well as their disclosure of the findings for the benefit of the broader Internet community,” said Chris Babel, svp and general manager, VeriSign. “We take issues like these very seriously and work quickly to remedy vulnerabilities that could potentially affect trust and security online.”

VeriSign has been phasing out the MD5 hashing algorithm for years. Until the MD5 exploit was made public, VeriSign had planned to discontinue the use of MD5 in customers’ certificates by the end of January, 2009. VeriSign has since discontinued using MD5 when issuing RapidSSL Certificates and has confirmed that all other SSL Certificates that VeriSign issues are not vulnerable to this MD5 attack. VeriSign will continue on its path to discontinue MD5 in all end entity certificates by the end of January, 2009.

Though existing end entity certificates are not at risk from this attack, RapidSSL customers who have certificates in place using the MD5 hashing algorithm may choose to replace their certificates with RapidSSL SHA-1 certificates free of charge; VeriSign is temporarily suspending its normal replacement fees for these replacement certificates. For more information, go to http://www.rapidssl.com//ssl-certificate-support/ssl-support.htm

About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. Billions of times each day, VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world engage in communications and commerce with confidence. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com.

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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.

For more information regarding the conference, please visit www.needhamco.com.

About FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc.
FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. owns and operates integrated interconnection facilities and diverse transport routes in the two gateway markets of New York/New Jersey and Los Angeles, designed to provide comprehensive broadband interconnectivity enabling the exchange of traffic over multiple networks. FiberNet’s customized connectivity infrastructure provides an advanced, high bandwidth, fiber-optic solution to support the demand for network capacity and to facilitate the interconnection of multiple carriers’ and customers’ networks. For additional information about FiberNet, visit the company’s website at www.ftgx.com.

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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.

“NANOG 45 is an important forum where global network operators come together to exchange ideas and share the latest technical and operational information affecting networks worldwide,” said Betty Burke, Project Manager of Merit Network Inc., the organization that coordinates NANOG meetings. “We are proud to have Terremark as a partner, especially since a major part of their business model is about connectivity and internetworking, which makes the Internet the unmatched communications tool that it is today.”

Terremark operates the NAP del Caribe in Santo Domingo, and its staff and NAP del Caribe personnel are working closely with NANOG and Merit to ensure another successful event. Opened in July 2008, the NAP del Caribe provides Terremark’s world-class IT infrastructure services to enterprises and government agencies throughout the country.

“We are excited to be the host of NANOG 45 in the Dominican Republic,” said Josh Snowhorn, Vice President of Terremark. “Terremark has twice hosted previous NANOG events in Miami, but we are especially looking forward to bringing this group of world-class network operators to the Dominican Republic. Hosting NANOG in the Caribbean provides an opportunity to highlight network issues related to the region and allows exposure to ISP’s and Network providers who might not otherwise be able to attend.”

About Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
Terremark Worldwide (Nasdaq:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry’s most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security and cloud computing services. Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud computing architecture delivers the agility, scale and economic benefits of cloud computing to mission-critical enterprise and Web 2.0 applications and its DigitalOps(r) service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at www.terremark.com.

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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.

Chris Drake, President of FireHost said, “We see customers being attacked every day, so in addition to application firewall protection we perform website penetration testing behind our security layer. We feel it’s important to extend hacker prevention services to every client. Our reports empower them to take an active role in website security by protecting sensitive corporate data such as credit card information and customer data before an incident occurs.”

With the FireHost’s vulnerability scanning service, customers can find out if their websites and web applications are vulnerable to hacking attempts like SQL Injections, Cross Site Scripting (XSS attacks), Path Traversal, Bad User Agents, DOS attacks and Port scanning activities. Hackers are beginning to exploit private information via common ports like 80 and 443, and the hacker prevention reports highlight vulnerabilities so they may take steps necessary to protect sensitive and valuable data.

“Common web components can easily become outdated and susceptible to hacking attempts as web developers adjust code. Daily vulnerability scanning helps ensure protection from hackers. For clients who require immediate notification of a website security breach, we have automated daily vulnerability scanning available to highlight vulnerabilities as they appear,” says Ken Richardson, Senior Security Engineer at FireHost.

Visit www.fireblog.com to watch a short, informative video highlighting the negative impact a simple SQL Injection had on BusinessWeek’s website.

About FireHost, Inc.
FireHost, Inc. delivers secure, enterprise-quality managed web hosting to SMBs. Based in Dallas, Texas, FireHost specializes in website and application security for small businesses with high web traffic, or erratic, unpredictable web traffic due to “the Digg effect.” FireHost’s web application protection solutions are universally available to Managed Shared Hosting users and Managed Dedicated Server clients without compromising speed and reliability. Qualified businesses concerned about web vulnerabilities may contact FireHost for a complimentary hacker report and application vulnerability scan. Visit www.firehost.com to learn more.

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