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Miami, Florida - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Integrated Tier-1 Internet exchange and managed IT infrastructure solutions provider, Terremark, has reported its results for the quarter ending September 30, 2008, including $59.6 million, representing a 31% year-over-year increase.

Revenues generated during the second quarter were at the high end of previously announced guidance, with more than 91 percent of the $59.6 million in revenues recurring in nature.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. is a leading operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet exchanges and a global provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions for government and private sectors. Terremark delivers its portfolio of services from seven locations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and from four service aggregation and distribution locations, which aggregate network traffic and distribute network-based services in Europe and Asia to meet specific customer needs. Terremark’s flagship facility, the NAP of the Americas, is the model for the carrier-neutral Internet exchanges the company has in Santa Clara, California (NAP of the Americas/West), in Sao Paulo, Brazil (NAP do Brasil) and in Madrid, Spain (NAP de las Americas - Madrid). The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is a state-of-the-art facility that provides exchange point, colocation and managed services. Terremark is headquartered at 2601 S. Bayshore Drive, 9th Floor, Miami, Florida USA, (305) 856-3200.

Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark remarked, ”We executed well and reached the high-end of our revenue guidance despite a tough macro-economic environment. Demand for IT infrastructure services, and particularly Terremark’s full suite of offerings, remains strong driven by the compelling value proposition we offer to today’s CIOs who are under pressure to produce more effectively and efficiently with smaller budgets.”

Jose Segrera, CFO of Terremark commented, ”With a fully funded growth strategy and diverse, blue-chip customer base, we anticipate that our company will continue to produce strong results despite the tough macro-economic environment. Given our strong revenue growth this past quarter, we feel confident that the recurring nature of our business model enhances our ability to continue our strong performance in the coming quarters.”

Mr. Medina added, ”We are excited about the long-term prospects for our business. While our results this quarter were impacted by a strategic process that is now complete, our Company remains ideally positioned to meet the needs of CIOs, as demonstrated by our healthy bookings and pipeline.”

Q209 Financial Highlights include:

• Total revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 were $59.6 million, which is in-line with the high-end of previously announced guidance and representing a 31% year-over-year increase.
• EBITDA, as adjusted, for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 was $9.9 million, which represents a 27% year-over-year increase. Income from operations for the six months ended September 30, 2008 was $3.5 million. A significant impact on our results of operations and EBITDA, as adjusted, during the September 2008 quarter was related to the evaluation of strategic alternatives by the Company’s Board of Directors. This evaluation began in April 2008 upon receipt by the Company of an unsolicited expression of interest regarding a potential acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Company stock at a premium to the then current trading price. The Board of Directors formed a strategic committee to conduct a market check and to authorize and oversee management’s preliminary exploratory process to identify transaction alternatives to maximize stockholder value. No definitive transaction with any third party ensued as a result of the process in light of global economic conditions and credit market illiquidity. Therefore, the Board of Directors determined that it was in the shareholders’ best interest to continue executing the Company’s business plan.
• Cross connects billed to customers increased to 7,459 as of September 30, 2008 from 7,232 the previous quarter and 6,119 a year earlier, representing increases of 3% and 22%, respectively. This increase continues to highlight the strong demand for Terremark’s network-neutral model.

Sales and Marketing

• During the quarter ended September 30, 2008, Terremark added 80 new customers, for a total of 1,068 customers at the end of the period.
• Terremark booked $27.6 million of new annual contract value, which represents the fourteenth straight quarter of strong bookings.

Operations

• Total built-out colocation space increased to 187,671 as a result of additional space coming online in the NAP of the Capital Region and the NAP of the Americas. The Company is currently deploying customers into the new space and is seeing a robust pipeline for services in both facilities.
• Total colocation space utilization was 23.3% as of September 30, 2008 compared to 23.7% as of June 30, 2008. Utilization of built-out colocation space was 55.0% as of September 30, 2008. The utilization rates both decreased due to the activation of additional space in the NAP of the Capital Region and Terremark’s facility in Miami.
• Following the launch of the Enterprise Cloud in June, Terremark has continued to promote its innovative cloud computing platform. The Company presented at a number of the leading industry conferences and hosted a series of customer webinars, which have resulted in a number of customer contracts.

Business Outlook

• For the third quarter of fiscal 2009, the Company expects revenues to range from $65.0 million to $67.0 million and EBITDA, as adjusted, to range from $15.0 million to $16.0 million.
• For the 2009 fiscal year, guidance remains between $255 million to $260 million of revenues and EBITDA, as adjusted, to range between $58 million and $60 million.

Additional information regarding the Company’s financial performance as of and for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 and a comparison to the quarter ended September 30, 2007 can be found on the balance sheet and statement of operations and in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Terremark Worldwide 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 acclaimed Infinistructure utility computing architecture has redefined industry standards for scalable and flexible computing infrastructure and its DigitalOps service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal.

To learn more, please visit: www.terremark.com.

Dublin, Ireland - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Research and Markets’ new report, detailing the future of data center network equipment, describes how related vulnerabilities and regulatory requirements can be engaged to ensure availability of data.

”Data Center Network Equipment and Data Center Automation Solutions Market 2007-2010 - Bundled Report” includes information on how the increase in web hosting services and other web services has significantly driven the sales of Data Center Network Equipment. Further, there are many industry specific needs such as digital imaging, Picture Archive Systems (PACS) in multimedia companies, which drive the sales for efficient Data Center Network Equipment.

Secondly, the adoption of data center automation solutions is becoming increasingly critical for IT departments, driven by the need for high availability, need to reduce management costs, need to improve regulatory compliance, increasing technology consumption, adoption of virtualization etc. In addition, exponential growth in number of servers, storage devices and network equipment has significantly increased the infrastructure complexity. Further, while the price of servers has declined by over 50 percent in the last decade, the cost of managing a server over its lifetime has increased significantly. Currently, most organizations either manually administer their servers or use stand-alone solutions, which are incapable of managing its entire data center portfolio. However, with the rapid increase in cost and complexity of managing data centers, the adoption of data center automation solutions is expected to increase significantly over the period 2008-2010. Open source and policy-based form factors of data center automation solutions are expected to gain momentum in the market. In addition, server automation and configuration and change management are expected to account for a significant share of the DCA market.

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Fremont, California - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider, Gearworx, building on its six-year support and hosting of intensive ColdFusion applications, has launched its new line of Adobe ColdFusion 8 enabled Virtual Private Servers (VPS).

William Gregorian, CEO of Gearworx remarked, ”With more than eight years experience in Web hosting and six years specializing in ColdFusion, we are experts in creating world-class, affordable, and reliable web hosting solutions. We built our ColdFusion VPS plans to compete aggressively on price and features and meet the requirements of businesses and individual developers.”

ColdFusion Virtual Private Servers, hosted on robust Dell PowerEdge 2900 series powered by Intel Quad Core Xeon hardware, are designed to offer developers with the tools and resources they need to run powerful and scalable applications for their clients. VPS plans start at just $60 per month for 50GB of storage space and 500GB of short-path data transfer.

All ColdFusion VPS plans from Gearworx provide full privileges to the ColdFusion 8 administration interface so developers can make configuration changes as needed. Plans are hosted on the Windows 2003 Enterprise operating system, powered by Parallels Virtuozzo.

Gearworx’s network features a gigabit ethernet backbone, built on redundant routing architecture with hardware failover and the Cisco HSRP (Hot Spare Router Protocol). All server hardware is owned and operated by Gearworx, and not outsourced or leased from a third party.

Since 2000, Gearworx has provided managed and unmanaged hosting services for individuals and small businesses. Gearworx offers a variety of shared, private label, and VPS hosting solutions. It also offers merchant accounts, hosted mailing lists, and SSL certificates.

To learn more about ColdFusion Virtual Private Servers from Gearworx, please visit: http://gearworx.net/vps/coldfusion.

For more information about Gearworx, please visit: www.gearworx.net.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer partner, i365, A Seagate Company, has expanded its EVault data protection portfolio, with new recovery products and services.

Justin Scott, technical assurance specialist with SoftLayer remarked, ”Our customers entrust their important data and servers with our on-demand data center and web hosting services. We cannot afford to lose data. i365’s flexible recovery solutions, such as EVault Real-Time Protection, give us near continuous backups of mission critical systems while providing fast, flexible and comprehensive restores without disrupting our existing EVault Software nightly backup.”

The solutions address different needs for file, application, server and site recovery, and offer customers the choice of attached, virtual, onsite or remote solutions with the flexibility to choose software, Software as a Service (SaaS) or a managed service deployment.

Small to Mid Size Businesses (SMB) and remote offices within large organizations are refining their data protection strategies to apply different recovery policies to different levels of data, which allows them to respond with more flexibility and greater cost efficiencies. The expanded portfolio of EVault(TM) Data Protection solutions enable customers to meet a wide range of Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) with flexible, integrated solutions that best suit their business requirements.

According to the ESG Research Report, Data Protection Market Trends, January 2008, 58 percent of midmarket organizations said they could only tolerate 4 hours or less downtime before experiencing significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact. An additional 31 percent had a tolerance window of between four and twenty four hours.

EVault Real Time Protection, for up to the minute protection of mission critical systems, and EVault System Restore, for fast and easy recovery of a failed system, are integrated to provide customers with a single pass server/data recovery. EVault Remote Disaster Recovery is a DR warm site for guided recovery and virtual access to mission critical servers in the event of a site disaster.

EVault Real Time Protection — Available as an extension to the EVault online backup and recovery Software, EVault Real Time Protection provides up to the minute protection of mission critical systems by continuously tracking changes and generating recovery points as frequently as every five minutes — minimizing potential data loss on Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and other high volume servers. Key features include:

– Robust volume-level protection of Windows 2003, 2008, and XP

– Fast, flexible restoration from a local data store

– Ability to restore entire volumes or individual files

EVault System Restore — Available as an extension to EVault online backup and recovery Software and EVault Real Time Protection, EVault System Restore can quickly recover a failed system in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure onto similar or dissimilar hardware, or a virtual machine within minutes. Compared to the traditional system recovery process that can take hours, days or weeks, EVault System Restore integrates directly with EVault backup products, and can recover system, applications and data in a single pass. Key features include:

– Painless, guided, one stop recovery of Windows 2003, 2008, Vista and XP servers

– Recovery to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments

– Dynamic driver loading with ability to customize the recovery media

EVault Remote Disaster Recovery a^’ EVault Remote Disaster Recovery is a hosted service to help companies remotely recover key servers and data after a site disaster quickly, and access in a secure virtual environment. Key operational systems/data can be recovered within 24-48 hours. EVault Remote Disaster Recovery is an imperative for SMBs looking for a fully integrated disaster recovery solution that was once much too costly to afford. Flexible packaging and pricing are specifically designed for the SMB.

Valerie Fawzi, senior director of product marketing at i365, A Seagate Company commented, ”All data is important, but from an operational efficiency standpoint we know that there is some data that is more mission-critical and requires immediate recovery. SMBs are looking for differentiated levels of recovery management solutions with the flexibility to choose between software, SaaS or a managed service. With the expansion of the EVault Data Protection portfolio customers can meet their recovery objectives with a portfolio of integrated recovery solutions that reduce costs, increase efficiencies and give them confidence in the event of a disaster.”

i365 EVault Data Protection solutions address the complexity of explosive data growth while solving regulatory compliance, disaster recovery, and protection for local and remote offices and mobile devices. Incorporating DeltaPro(TM) technology, patented Quick File Scanning, and patent-pending Adaptive Compression technologies, i365 EVault Data Protection solutions provide efficient backup and recovery across a broad range of operating systems and applications. Multiple delivery options and price points enable tailored solutions for small, mid-size, and enterprise organizations.

EVault Real Time Protection, EVault System Restore and the EVault Remote Recovery Service are available through i365, A Seagate Company, or one of our approved partners.

i365, A Seagate Company, provides proven solutions for the protection, retention management, and discovery of electronic information. Trusted by over 22,000 customers, our innovative technologies combined with flexible deployment options form solutions to solve organizations’ most rigorous compliance and data management problems. Our solutions address the complexity of explosive data growth, the challenge of maintaining high availability of critical business systems, and the increasing demands of regulatory compliance and litigation. Our offerings include i365 EVault Data Protection software and SaaS for backup and recovery; i365 Retention Management solutions for data recovery, migration, restoration and data management solutions; and i365 MetaLINCS(R) E-Discovery solutions for first pass processing and advanced content analysis of electronic information.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA and Washington DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

For more information about i365, please visit: www.i365.com.

To learn more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2008 - Internet performance network services company, Internap Network Services Corporation, has been chosen for IP networking and data center colocation, by ThePort Social Media Suite Platform.

Bob Cramer, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of ThePort Network remarked, ”Internap delivers premier networking and data center solutions to support our socially enabled online communities. It is clearly integrated into the ongoing success of our business and gives us the scalability we need to add new customers with confidence.”

Internap will power ThePort with its Performance IP networking services and data center colocation are supporting the applications and websites of ThePort Network, Inc., a leading social media solutions provider. As a result of Internap’s reliable, secure and scalable solutions, ThePort is able to expand its social media platform and meet the needs of its rapidly growing customer base.

ThePort delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions designed to empower customers to create, operate and monetize socially enabled online communities. ThePort’s Social Media Suite integrates a robust set of social networking, content aggregation and publishing tools into existing Web properties, fostering member-to-member interaction, high-engagement marketing and new revenue streams. Media companies, nonprofit organizations and associations are among the targets for ThePort’s services.

Hunter Eskew, Director of engineering at ThePort commented, ”We outgrew our previous networking infrastructure and chose Internap to ensure the continued high performance of our SaaS environment. We believe Internap’s networking and data center colocation services are unmatched in the industry.”

ThePort Social Media Suite enables website owners to quickly infuse potent social media and social networking capabilities, making it possible to provide a more dynamic online experience that allows community members to interact with each other, contribute content and share perspectives and information. Website owners benefit from increased site traffic, page views and session times, as well as higher levels of audience engagement and brand loyalty.

Tim Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer at Internap remarked, ”Social networking communities require 100 percent performance and reliability, and the combination of ThePort applications and Internap network and data center solutions does exactly that. We are pleased to provide the technology infrastructure for ThePort’s fully hosted, powerful and highly scalable platform that integrates social media into any existing website.”

Internap’s Performance IP and data center colocation solutions are unique in the industry, offering an integrated application hosting platform with a 100 percent performance service level agreement (SLA). The platform is based on patented software technology called MIRO (Managed Internet Route Optimizer, a global network of private network access points (P-NAPs) and 44 data center locations around the world. MIRO and the P-NAPs monitor the performance of Internet backbones and automatically select the best path for data to travel, thus providing a high-performance Internet platform for running business-critical websites and applications.

ThePort Network, Inc. provides software as a service (SaaS) solutions designed to enable customers to create, operate and monetize socially enabled communities. Through its integrated suite of enterprise-class social media solutions, ThePort enables companies to build and manage branded online communities that facilitate high-engagement marketing, foster member-to-member interaction and drive additional revenue opportunities. With a focus on the nonprofit, trade association and media industries, ThePort customers include such world-renowned organizations as CARE, Arthritis Foundation, Lee Enterprises and Sierra Club.

Internap is an 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 about ThePort Network, please visit: www.theport.com.

To learn more about Internap, please visit: www.internap.com.

Portland, Oregon - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2008 - Developer-focused provider of managed linux hosting solutions, Network Redux, LLC, was given the privilege of hosting the reporting database and providing technical support to the Twitter Vote Report 2008 project.

Thomas Brenneke, President of Network Redux remarked, ”Utilizing our cloud computing resources we were able to dynamically scale the Twitter Vote Report platform in real time, giving life to a project which allowed voters to report on the conditions of their voting precincts, as well as positive and negative experiences (such as length of voting lines.)”

A record number 11,000 voters reported on problems at the polls. Joining a volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators, Network Redux monitored the data flow as 11,000 voters reported on problems they faced at the polls via Twitter, SMS, and iPhones nationwide.

Network Redux is a developer-focused provider of managed Linux hosting solutions, with primary operations in Portland, Oregon.

To learn more, please visit: www.networkredux.com.

La Mesa, California - (The Hosting News) - November 12, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider of cPanel/WHM-based shared and reseller hosting solutions, AllureHost, has introduced a new semi-dedicated hosting solution offering. John Lewis, Executive Vice President at AllureHost noted, ”Semi-Dedicated hosting thrives by blending ease of use with total […]

Providence, Utah - (The Hosting News) - November 12, 2008 - British web hosting company, and high bandwidth dedicated hosting provider, UK-2 Group, has acquired Utah-based WestHost.com, completing its program of growth-by-acquisition in the US Hosting Market.

Ditlev Bredahl of UK2 noted, ”I’ve followed WestHost for years, and I have always been impressed with their quality of service, respect for their clients and great offerings. I want to assure all WestHost clients that they are not going to see any changes in that kind of personal service. We’re keeping the data center in Utah open, because a local presence is important, and we’re keeping the excellent staff there.”

UK2 Group will continue to operate WestHost’s data center in Salt Lake City, as well as offices in Logan, UT, and will maintain WestHost’s high levels of personal service by retaining all key personnel.

UK2.net, flagship member of the UK2 Group family of companies, has operated successfully for 10 years. In that time it has sold over one million domain names and currently hosts hundreds of thousands of Web domains.

In December, 2007, UK2 Group began a program of growth-by-acquistion in the US market by acquiring Midphase.com. WestHost is the final acquisition of that program. The company says its focus now will be on optimizing all its hosting operations and strengthening its position in the market.

Brian Chambers, WestHost’s General Manager remarked, ”I assure all our loyal WestHost clients that our team will continue to provide the same high level of service they have grown to expect. There are no plans to move our support department, or to change the people we already have in place. Quality of service and excellent staff are what WestHost is known for. We are excited about the transition and look forward to many more years of serving our growing client base.”

As part of the transition, the company has put together a core team of UK2Group and WestHost management to personally reply to all questions, comments, concerns and other feedback from WestHost clients.

Since 1998, WestHost.com has been an affordable web hosting provider and a leader in the Web hosting industry, helping thousands of businesses worldwide enjoy low cost internet services and to become more successful, efficient, and competitive. WestHost currently host over 70,000 web sites. WestHost flexible and scalable services, including Shared Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Reseller Hosting, Domain Registration, E-commerce Tools, and Merchant Account solutions.

UK2.Net has been in the web hosting industry since 1998. The company has sold over a million domain names, and hosted thousands of websites with dedicated servers for customers in various countries. Some of the recent improvements in its products and services has included: new UK based call centre, 24/7 live online support and new product packages. UK2 is a major shareholder of the merged Redbus Interhouse and Telecity group (one of the biggest colocation managed data centers in Europe).

UK2 Group, a major player in the hosting industry since the late nineties, provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many clients through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, US2.net, midPhase Services, AN Hosting, Autica and Resell.biz. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi-million dollar data centres and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services, underpinned with excellent support. UK2 Group is accredited by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to provide .com, .biz, .info, .net, .org, .jobs, .name and .pro gTLD’s to its clients.

To learn more about WestHost, please visit: www.westhost.com.

For more about UK2 Group, please visit: www.uk2.net.

Louisville, Kentucky - (The Hosting News) - November 12, 2008 - Global hosting solutions and services firm, Hosting.com, has completed a $2 million round of funding with CapitalSouth Partners, LLC, to continue to expand its Enterprise Colocation business.

Hosting.com intends to enable enterprises to deploy custom-built micro-data centers of 2,000 - 20,000 square feet inside one of Hosting.com’s five SAS 70 certified data centers.

CapitalSouth, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, also operates an office in Louisville, KY, site of Hosting.com’s corporate offices. After years of watching the rapid growth and expansion of Hosting.com, CapitalSouth executives partnered with Hosting.com to increase the number of data centers Hosting.com operates.

Kenneth S. Berryman, Director of CapitalSouth - Louisville remarked, ”Hosting.com’s growth in the colocation space over the last two years has been exceptional. CapitalSouth invests significantly in companies that have strong competitive advantages and proven management teams, and Hosting.com fits both criteria. We are excited to be a part of their growth.”

The city of Louisville has worked closely with CapitalSouth over the past two years to encourage local mezzanine investments in Louisville-based companies. Louisville, KY Mayor Jerry Abramson stated, ”We are very pleased that our 2-year effort to attract a top mezzanine debt firm to Louisville played a role in making this exciting expansion by Hosting.com possible.”

Since 2006, Hosting.com’s expansion has included data centers in Irvine, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Louisville, KY. During that time, Hosting.com has continued to operate its other data centers in Boston, MA and Louisville, KY.

Darren G. King, CEO of Hosting.com noted, ”With today’s economy, businesses continue to outsource their IT infrastructure to save money and focus on their core competencies. Hosting.com’s colocation, managed hosting, and cloud computing solutions have never been in higher demand. We are thrilled to have a great capital partner like CapitalSouth to fund up to $15 Million of our data center expansion initiatives into key markets such as Silicon Valley, Northern Virginia, and Boston.”

Hosting.com cites the recent downturn in the economy as a reason to continue expansion and growth into new markets at this time. Jonathan Erwin, VP of Sales and Marketing at Hosting.com commented, ”We are receiving more calls from enterprises looking to save capital and improve their operational efficiencies by avoiding data center builds and turning to experienced providers such as Hosting.com for increased services.”

Mr. Berryman added, ”Hosting.com is growing tremendously on an annual basis, and the economic downturn should fuel their continued success. Even in today’s tough credit market, successful private equity investors are eager to put their money to work in great companies like Hosting.com.”

CapitalSouth Partners was founded in 1998 to provide private equity and mezzanine capital to lower middle-market companies. Since its inception, CapitalSouth has closed over 50 transactions. With over $500 Million under management through multiple committed funds, CapitalSouth actively seeks to invest in lower middle-market companies located primarily in the South, Southwest and Midwest, but also throughout the U.S.

CapitalSouth Partners provides junior capital to lower middle-market companies for growth financings, management buyouts, control/leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations. The Fund seeks to invest between $3 Million and $15 Million in companies that possess strong competitive advantages and have proven, successful management teams. Investments of up to $25 Million can be arranged through syndication, where CapitalSouth Partners will serve as the lead investor. CapitalSouth Partners is headquartered in Charlotte, NC and operates full-service offices in Raleigh, Tampa, Dallas, and Louisville.

Since 1996, Hosting.com has provided enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 certified data centers in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; Boston, Massachusetts, and is currently expanding into Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia.

For more information about Hosting.com, please visit: www.hosting.com.

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - November 12, 2008 - Wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, NTT Europe Online’s virtualization portal is designed to provide managed hosting customers and partners, with control of virtualized server environments.

NTT Europe Online’s new portal offers levels of control and flexibility to companies deploying virtualized services in any of its European data center, that were previously unavailable. NTT Europe Online’s Customer Portal gives IT Managers around the clock, on-demand access to VMware’s powerful VirtualCenter control node - enabling users to configure provision and manage their virtualized IT environments online.

Available 24×7, the secure web portal simplifies the management process by allowing users to activate, deactivate and reboot their hosted virtual servers in a matter of seconds from their desktop. It also enables the seamless drag-and-drop migration of server resource across virtual machines without engaging SLA support services from the dedicated NTT Europe Online team.

In addition to helping organisations optimise their hosted IT infrastructure, the Customer Portal provides IT users with full-featured reporting capabilities, which can be tailored to cater for both management and technical reporting requirements. A unique ‘Snap Shot’ report function gives IT Managers an instant view or model of capacity usage and performance, which can then be separately re-configured and tested before deployment. It even includes and undo-function, meaning if the new ‘Snap Shot’ configuration isn’t optimised, users can simply revert back to the original model at the click of a mouse.

Peter Barker, Head of Development at UK digital agency Rufus Leonard, and one of the first to use NTT Europe Online’s Customer Portal noted, ”The Customer Portal means that we now have a transparent overview and complete control of our virtual servers - something we would look to our host specialists NTT Europe Online to supply. A core part of what we offer is the speed at which we can deliver our digital services. The online portal means we can launch new or reconfigure existing virtual servers for our clients much quicker than before. This has dramatically reduced the time it takes us to develop, test and launch clients’ web-projects.”

Craig Pennington, VP of Operations remarked, ”It is our Workforce Management: At the Heart of the Contact Center Learn more, download free white paper. The Modern Contact Center and Workforce Management’s Vital Role Learn more, download free white paper. Realizing the Full Promise of Workforce Management Technology: Avoiding Mistakes That Short-Change Your Investment Learn more, download free white paper. Convergence in Telecommunication Learn more, download free white paper. Convergence in Telecommunication Learn more, download free white paper. SIP Conferencing/Collaboration Learn more, download free white paper. responsibility to develop products and solutions that make the lives of our customers easier. The new Customer Portal provides businesses with unprecedented control over their entire hosted IT environment. It has traditionally been time intensive and complicated to re-deploy server capacity and truly exploit the flexibility of virtualized computing power. Our aim is to bring down all of these barriers so that managing hosted virtual servers is simple, intuitive and hassle-free.”

Video of Customer Portal here: http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/portal_demo.html Notes to Editors About NTT Europe Online NTT Europe Online provides managed hosting, security and application management services to businesses globally. These services provide the reliability, availability, security and scalability needed to underpin business success online.

Rufus Leonard is an award-winning top 10 brand and communications business. The agency was founded in 1989 by Neil Svensen and now employs over 90 people specialising in strategy, digital, design and branding. The Dubai office based in Dubai Media City opened in March 2008. Clients include: Rolls Royce, Lloyds TSB, O2, Shell Group, Foreign Office and TfL.

NTT America provides Enterprise Hosting, managed network, and IP networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide, with strong capabilities in the U.S. market. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).

For more information about NTT Europe, please visit: www.ntteuropeonline.com.