Hosting News – San Francisco, CA – UnitedLayer is an established datacenter and managed hosting provider that has served enterprise customers in San Francisco and Los Angeles for over a decade. Continuing on a strategic path to take its services to the next level, UnitedLayer offers scalable enterprise-grade IT infrastructure solutions from multiple geographies across North America. Powered by the highest quality datacenters in San Francisco & Los Angeles as well as a broad solution set, UnitedLayer is committed to furthering its ability to specialize, customize, and innovate to meet client needs.

In 2010, UnitedLayer was acquired by Accelon Capital, a private equity firm focused on growth-stage companies, and Abhijit Phanse took the helm as UnitedLayer’s new CEO. “UnitedLayer has been a premier colocation and managed services provider for over a decade. We have years of experience architecting high performance and high availability solutions while executing tough migrations. Over the last eighteen months, we have made investments in our datacenters, team, processes, and research & development to launch innovative solutions that offer scalable, enterprise-grade managed IT infrastructure at a great price.”– Abhijit Phanse, CEO, UnitedLayer

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Hosting News – Providence, UT – VPS.NET, a leading cloud hosting provider with over 13 unique locations, announced today that it has partnered with WHMCS. Through this partnership VPS.NET clients are now able to purchase the WHMCS client management software at a discounted rate of only $7.50 a month. In addition to the discount WHMCS has committed to improving the reseller module so customers can effortlessly resell VPS.NET’s cloud hosting services.

WHMCS offers a turnkey client management solution, providing users with an all in one billing and support portal, automating many of the day-to-day tasks for online businesses. With direct integration to over 100 different APIs for payment gateways, provisioning systems, domain registration providers and many other services, WHMCS can work as a stand-alone solution or alongside other providers to help make your online business successful.

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Hosting News – LONDON, UK – Ecwid, Inc., producer of the world’s first platform-neutral, drop-in store builder widget, has today announced the launch of an enhanced partner programme and reseller drive. The new, simplified Ecwid partner programme gives members the chance to gain a competitive edge by upselling easy-to-deploy e-commerce solutions to existing and new customers. Ecwid can be easily embedded into any website, blog or social network page meaning that website owners can quickly and simply set up an online store in minutes. By offering this solution to partners in a transparent, simple and flexible tiered package, Ecwid can empower resellers to capitalise on the rapid expansion of the e-commerce market, which is growing at a rate of 19.4% per year and set to be worth $963 billion globally by 2013*.

Ecwid’s new partner programme aims to recruit resellers of all sizes: large web hosting companies, medium sized providers and smaller affiliate partners. Ecwid offers an e-commerce solution which can be easily integrated with any portfolio or site builder and mirrored on many sites at the same time. Multiple store fronts are run from a single control panel, and seamless, action-free upgrades mean high ease of use for the store owner, with minimal support requirements. Low overheads offer partners high return on investment, and Ecwid’s freemium model encourages high customer adoption.

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Hosting News – LONDON, UK – Application hosting specialist, eApps, is one of the new breed of cloud providers offering scalable, fully-supported cloud services powered by OnApp software.

eApps was founded in 1986 by three ex-‘Big 4’ consultants. It has been active in hosting services since the mid-1990s, with particular strengths in Java application hosting and enterprise collaboration, email and security services. eApps now uses the OnApp Cloud platform to power a range of scalable, on-demand cloud application hosting services.

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Hosting News – LONDON – INTERXION HOLDING NV, (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that VPS.net, part of the UK2 Group and a global leader in cloud hosting, has chosen to host its cloud services for France and Germany in Interxion’s data centres in Paris and Frankfurt.

VPS.net offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to its customers. The basis of its cloud hosting services lies in providing low-cost, flexible, and scalable solutions to these customers. To maintain its rapid pace of global roll out, VPS.net needed to be able to scale up quickly and to engage with each new market in an informed and relevant way. Interxion’s strong European presence helped VPS.net to navigate the commercial differences and varying rules, regulations, and laws that are inherent in doing business across Europe.

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Hosting News – Houston – Mezeo Software®, a leading provider of the storage services layer for cloud-scale applications, today announced that it has been formally recognized as a certified partner in the Dell™ DX Object Storage Technology Partner Program. Dell has certified the MezeoCloud Storage Connector for seamless integration with the Dell DX Object Storage Platform.

Organizations around the globe have been discovering that users, in an effort to improve efficiency and gain mobile access to data, have been storing corporate data onto the same public clouds they use to store and share personal files. This removes the security, compliance and availability of corporate data from IT and onto non-IT vetted third-parties.

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Hosting News – SAN MATEO, CA – Dome9 Security™, the leading provider of cloud server security management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and virtual private servers (VPS), today announced that its leading cloud security service supports HP Cloud Services with automated security and centralized access management. As a result of this agreement and technology integration, subscribers to HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com) can leverage Dome9’s proven security management capabilities to secure their HP Cloud Compute servers.

Under an agreement with HP, Dome9’s cloud security service integrates with HP Cloud Services out-of-the-box. The two services offer integration via an agent or API, for unparalleled flexibility and ease of use for cloud security. Customers simply enter their HP Cloud Services API key or install the lightweight Dome9 agent. Dome9 automatically connects to HP Cloud Services and begins managing the cloud server security, providing policy-based automation to secure an infinite number of servers with highly elastic controls.

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Hosting News – ENGLEWOOD, CO – Latisys, a leading national provider of IT Outsourcing solutions from colocation to cloud, today announced that Web hosting firm Lunarpages, a leading provider of fully managed web hosting services with over 150,000 customers, has expanded its presence on the Latisys platform at the Irvine data center campus by an additional 3,500 square feet of high density (HD) colocation space.

For more than a decade, Lunarpages has focused on providing secure and reliable hosting for a broad range of customers ranging from individuals and small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. In 2009, Lunarpages turned to Latisys for colocation and managed IT services as a result of customer growth and broader customer use of HD applications. Based on Latisys’ success delivering secure, scalable and reliable IT infrastructure services across its platform, Lunarpages sought to expand its presence at the Irvine facility.

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Hosting News – Doral, FL – FortaTrust, a leading provider of dedicated and cloud computing services is pleased to announce the opening of its latest data center in Doral, Florida, USA (FTNA5). This Tier 4 Carrier Class data center formally housed the core infrastructure of AT&T, provides close to 20,000 square feet of state of the art data center space, and is an immediate benefit to the clients of FortaTrust and their related services. Some of the features of FTNA5 include:

- Approximately 20,000 square feet of Tier 4 Carrier Class data center space built exclusive for, and to AT&T’s specifications in 2001.
- Six separate external Fiber Optic Vaults for redundant carrier connections.
- Direct access to AT&T, Level 3, PCCW, FiberLight, FPL Fiberlight, Verizon, and Comcast.
- A FortaTrust owned and operated Fiber Optic redundant path ring to the Terremark NAP of the Americas, providing access to the vast variety of carriers with a lit presence at this NAP.
- Full redundant underground multi-grid 1.5 Megawatt Electrical Feeds.
- Fully Redundant Electrical backup including Liebert Power Systems and Onan Diesel Generators .
- Transport and IP Transit Ports from 100Mbps to 10Gbps provided exclusively by Cisco.
- Direct Access to the FortaTrust Cloud Infrastructure, including the FortaTrust Panama data center.
- Integrated NOC staffed 24 hours a day, seven days per week.

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Hosting News – New York, NY – Telx®, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud computing enablement services and data center solutions, today announced that Unitas Global has deployed private managed hosting facilities within two Telx data centers. Unitas Global, a leading managed infrastructure provider, is expanding to new markets in support of a growing customer base with Telx’s carrier-neutral, network-rich facilities in Dallas, TX and Miami, FL. By establishing a presence in Telx’s Dallas and Miami locations, Unitas Global can quickly and cost-effectively deliver its healthcare, online gaming, finance and entertainment customers strategically-located private cloud infrastructure.

“Placing our Infrastructure-as-a-Service delivery platform in Telx’s connectivity-dense facilities enables better performance for users by shortening Internet paths,” said Grant Kirkwood, founder and CEO of Unitas Global. “By partnering with Telx in two strategic locations in North America, we can achieve our goal in building private cloud solutions for unique customer applications with seamless service regardless of location.”

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