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San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Clustered hosting provider, and Rackspace Hosting’s cloud division, Mosso, has expanded its leadership team, naming Emil Sayegh as general manager, previously the vice president of the product group at Rackspace.

Mr. Sayegh’s responsibilities at Rackspace included the development, marketing and management of new products and services for the company’s managed hosting product line.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Mr. Sayegh spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product development and marketing roles. Most recently, Mr. Sayegh was the services marketing and development director at Dell Inc. where he oversaw the global services roadmap. Additionally, Mr. Sayegh served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents in the fields of electronics and telecommunication.

Lanham Napier, CEO, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ”As the VP of our product group, Emil directed the launches of multiple, successful products including the company’s Hosted Microsoft Exchange and our virtualization product set. Our cloud hosting initiatives are extremely important to the company’s future, which is why we’ve selected someone with a winning track record to run that business.”

Rackspace’s cloud hosting division is currently hosting more than 80,000 websites and applications on Cloud Sites, reflecting a 175 percent increase over this time last year. Last month the company unveiled its cloud hosting strategy, including the announcement of two acquisitions and a suite of cloud solutions at the Rackspace Cloud Event. The two newest additions to the product suite, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, will leverage technology acquired through the acquisitions of Jungle Disk.

Mr. Sayegh remarked, ”I am honored to be joining the cloud division. This is a great opportunity to lead what could be one of the biggest technology evolutions the market has seen - cloud computing. Cloud technologies delivered by Rackspace will provide the cost and scalability advantages of the cloud with Rackspace’s world-leading service approach, making the cloud both affordable and easy to use.”

Mr. Sayegh holds a bachelor of science in Engineering and a master of science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.

A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments, by handling infrastructure maintenance and management. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust, a provider of business-class hosted email solutions. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.

Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud, providing enterprise-grade hosting through an easily managed interface so that developers, designers and IT managers can deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily. Founded by two former Rackspace employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture.

To learn more about Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

For more information, please visit: www.mosso.com.

Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Web hosting provider, LeaseWeb, in order to facilitate the exponential growth in bandwidth demand from existing and new clients, has more than doubled the capacity of its hosting network, from 210 Gbps to 500 Gbps, or half a Terabit.

Pieter Dijkhuis, Finance Director of LeaseWeb says, ”Our client database has expanded to approximately 10,000 this year. We are pleased with the trust that our clients have given us. Doubling the number of clients was also a logical step for us. Until last year, we primarily focused on developing a stable structure for our hosting network and our support organization. The current structure of our organization allows us to easily facilitate further growth. Growth is a key requirement for LeaseWeb to be able to maintain competitive prices and an attractive price-quality ratio.”

LeaseWeb expanded its capacity to 500 Gbps by purchasing additional port capacity from telecom carriers (transit) and Internet exchanges (peering). Since June 2008, actual bandwidth usage by LeaseWeb’s clients has increased from 100 to 240 Gigabits per second (Gbps).

The available capacity of 500 Gbps is intentionally twice the actual use of bandwidth because of LeaseWeb’s ongoing commitment to providing quickly scalable hosting solutions.

Mr. Dijkhuis explained, ”Bandwidth availability is a key requirement for many clients to be able to expand their Web environment. This is equally important as the available datacenter space and inventories of network and server equipment. Our proposition is designed to meet those requirements. We have ample space available in our CO2-neutral EvoSwitch datacenter, among other facilities, and we maintain large inventories of equipment for clients such as HP, Dell and Cisco.”

LeaseWeb’s hosting network bandwidth capacity of half a Terabit is exceptional. Bastiaan Spandaw, network architect at LeaseWeb confirmed, ”I know of virtually no other hosting providers in Europe that have this amount of bandwidth in their networks. LeaseWeb is one of the few hosting providers in Europe that have this much bandwidth available.”

The total capacity of LeaseWeb’s hosting network was already increased from 160 to 210 Gbps in late May 2008. And now another 290 Gbps have been added.

Mr. Spandaw added, ”The extremely rapid growth of the past few months is not that surprising. If you have ample bandwidth capacity, you are bound to attract clients that use much bandwidth. And this makes our network grow even faster.”

Mr. Dijkhuis added, ”October in particular showed a rapid increase in new clients and bandwidth usage. In that respect, October was definitely not a recession month for us. We expect continued strong growth going forward.”

The strong growth of LeaseWeb’s network is due to existing and new bulk users of bandwidth. These are clients who distribute their streaming audio and video data through the LeaseWeb network, such as 123Video.nl (www.123video.nl), the Danish company Octoshape (www.octoshape.com), product comparison site Twenga (www.twenga.com), Garage TV from Belgium (www.garagetv.be), Turkish media giant Haber7 (www.haber7.com), and the German broadcasting company WIGE Media AG.

LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that is primarily geared towards the professional market. The company is among the top-20 hosting providers worldwide and its services include collocation, dedicated servers, webhosting, server virtualization, streaming, and domain name registration. LeaseWeb is the proprietor of a first-class network that offers a bandwidth of more than 210 Gbps, spanning four datacenters in the Amsterdam region. LeaseWeb is also present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid.

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

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application firm, Ensim Corporation, has partnered with solutions integrator, Norseman Defense Technologies, to offer the Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to government agencies.

Under the terms of the agreement, Norseman Defense Technologies will sell and support Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to its nation-wide customer base of public sector organizations.

Ensim Unify allows organizations to meet security and compliance requirements by enabling access control, identity management, change management, automated provisioning, reporting and auditing, password and role management, along with delegated administration and device/client configuration. Available as tools or a complete suite, Ensim Unify delivers instant savings - reducing the number of help desk calls by as much as forty percent - and by eliminating repetitive IT administrative tasks, helping improve workforce effectiveness and enabling IT departments in medium and large-sized organizations to focus on more strategic tasks.

Justin Bonner, Vice-President, Norseman Defense Technologies remarked, ”In today’s economy of speed and of choices, possessing the tools necessary to identify a client’s needs and deliver a solution is paramount. Norseman prides itself on our ability to exceed client expectations. Being able to choose a single partner allows our clients the ability to make choices with ease and flexibility, and we’re confident that by partnering will Ensim we will only improve upon our ability to meet our clients’ needs.”

Norseman Defense serves numerous government agencies, including The National Institute of Health, FBI, FEMA, Navy and the US General Services Administration. Norseman provides clients with an array of computer hardware and software solutions, adding a compliment of services such as network and custom system design, consultation, installation and management support to create a complete go-to-market offering. Norseman will sell and support the complete Ensim Unify Enterprise Suite, as well as its individual modules, including:

Microsoft Active Directory Manager
Provides greater control over Active Directory and facilitates the administration of complex tasks, while reducing the number of privileged accounts and preventing unauthorized changes.

Microsoft Exchange Manager

Prevents misconfiguration of Exchange server, increases uptime and automates key tasks.

Mobility Manager
Enables easy configuration and wipe of smart phones Over The Air.
Self-Service and User Manager
Lets employees easily self-manage, from distribution lists to email profiles, reducing helpdesk and IT time by half.

Password Manager
allows employees to reset their own passwords via a web-based portal.

Scott Young, Vice President of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”Norseman Defense Technologies provides high quality services to many of the most critical government agencies. Norseman will play an integral role in extending our reach into new verticals and enabling us to deliver greater value to our customers.”

Norseman Defense Technologies, a small, woman-owned businesses, is an information technology solutions integrator based in Elkridge, MD. Norseman has over fifteen years of experience in delivering value to Federal Government entities and provides premier quality computer technology products and services at the most competitive prices possible. Norseman is driven to meet the information technology needs of its clients with a focus on exceeding expectations.

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 about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Server software provider, Wowza Media Systems, has made available its Media Server Pro Subscription Edition, featuring friction-free monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength solution.

The media server is designed to make it both ”painless” and cost-effective for any CDN, streaming service or hosting provider to offer lucrative Flash media streaming services to customers.

Phil Koblence, VP, Operations, New York Internet, a Data Center services firm remarked, ”We chose Wowza Pro Subscription Edition because it enabled us to increase our capacity in nearly real time and offer clients the ability to host their streaming solutions without a large initial licensing fee. Additionally, this new model allows us to benefit from Wowza’s superb software and efficiently roll it into our existing hosting offerings.”

Wowza Media Server Pro, recently declared the #1 media server choice by the readers of Streaming Media Magazine, now counts more than 14,000 global licensees worldwide, including a rapidly growing number of service providers such as T-Systems (Deutsche Telecom), Interoute, Avacast, SimpleCDN, StreamUK, Nacamar, and StreamZilla, among others.

Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition offers service providers the most full-featured version of Wowza Pro and a risk-free, flexible model for managing their licensing costs according to their customers’ streaming demands.

Key Benefits include:
- No upfront financial commitment
- No long-term contracts
- No minimum number of server instances
- No per-GB fees - just low fixed per-server monthly fee that declines in volume
- No cost for future software upgrades
- Flexible capacity and cost management - add/delete servers as needed and only pay for servers used


In a recent daily briefing, Jim Davis, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research, wrote that Wowza’s subscription model ”is going to help streaming service providers and hosting companies by enabling them to keep a lid on capital expenditures. They can pass these cost savings on, enabling them to compete for customers that might not otherwise bother to buy CDN services.”

Other Wowza Pro licensees offer similar perspectives:


Michael Terretta, CEO, Advection.NET, a global CDN added, ”When serving media clients in broadcast and entertainment, it is imperative for a CDN to have flexible licensing for media server infrastructure that lets us adapt to clients’ needs in an economical, competitive and growth-oriented way without taking an up-front hit to the bottom line. Wowza’s friction-free licensing model along with Wowza Pro’s industrial strength performance and functionality gives us precisely that.”

Troy Leaver, Systems Administrator, Mediaserve, a family-owned hosting provider noted, ”Having served our customers with Windows Media streaming services for several years, as Flash streaming grew ever more popular, we knew we were going to have to look into providing Flash streaming. We chose Wowza Media Server Pro based on features and reputation, but it was Wowza’s approachable subscription licensing that made it possible for us to roll out Flash streaming services.”


Brad Mitchell, CEO, MojoHost, offering first-class hosting solutions since 1999 remarked, ”Our decision to make Wowza Pro our streaming platform of choice has allowed us to deliver robust, highly scalable Flash streaming to the global marketplace. Wowza’s subscription licensing enables us to deliver services at a price that lets our customers of all sizes achieve a substantial return on their investment.”

Wowza’s friction-free philosophy extends beyond just offering its customers irresistible economics. The full-featured Wowza Pro Subscription Edition includes exclusive functionality that enables service providers to offer Flash services that eliminate friction for their customers as well.


Wowza Pro’s exclusive SHOUTcast-to-Flash streaming capability is a no-barrier way to offer services to Web radio netcasters who wish to reach larger audiences without having to invest in Flash-compatible technologies.

Frank Wilson, Chief Engineer, SimpleCDN, a premier CDN provider commented, ”SimpleCDN chose Wowza Pro Subscription Edition, because it allows us to instantly scale our server infrastructure, without the need to constantly track licensing agreements. Overall the choice to go with Wowza vs. FMIS/FMSS was easy - Wowza allows us to fully utilize our 64-bit infrastructure, adds valuable features such as RTP, RTSP and MPEG-TS support, not to mention its rich Java plug-in capabilities. Wowza was a perfect fit for us, allowing SimpleCDN to provide the exact services our customers were looking for.”

By offering numerous free tools, such as the Centralized Management Utility, a Live Stream Monitoring Tool, and a fully Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Wowza also reduces friction for creating, operating and growing services efficiently.

Available immediately, Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition starts at $65/month for the first Wowza Media Server Pro server instance and lower pricing for subsequent instances.

Wowza Media Systems is a software company solely focused on making industrial-strength media servers. With the February 2007 introduction of its award-winning product, Wowza Media Server Pro, Wowza has taken a leadership position in redefining Flash streaming. Wowza has not only radically changed Flash streaming economics, it has also revolutionized online media by introducing innovative and exclusive capabilities that make live, on-demand, and interactive Flash media streaming feasible for a broad range of customers. Deployed by thousands of global licensees in entertainment, social media, advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet commerce, Wowza customers include such well-known companies as Sun Microsystems, Interoute, RAINet, Astral Media, and T-Systems.

For more information, please visit: www.wowzamedia.com.

Phoenix, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - November 17, 2008 - Subsidiary of Newtek Business Services and a provider of Windows-based web hosting, CrystalTech Web Hosting, will be attending the Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco, California, being held through November 19th.

CrystalTech, a long time Adobe partner and ColdFusion hosting provider’s representatives will attend many of the conference’s hands-on labs and sessions, covering design and development topics relating to Adobe products such as Creative Suite and ColdFusion.

Robert Cichon, President and Chief Operating Officer of Newtek Technology Services noted, ”As a web hosting company that specifically caters to designers and developers, it was important that we attended this year’s Adobe MAX conference. With a large segment of our customers using products such as Photoshop, Flash, or ColdFusion to deploy websites and applications in our hosting environment, the knowledge and techniques our staff acquires through the conference’s hands-on labs and sessions gives us the opportunity to better support the ever-evolving needs of our customers.”

As a renowned ColdFusion hosting provider, CrystalTech has acquired a portfolio of customers over the years that includes one of the largest ColdFusion developer communities in the industry. The company has also taken steps over the past year to further expand on its ColdFusion offering by introducing one of the most affordable leasing options for ColdFusion 8 Enterprise licenses on dedicated servers.

Mr. Cichon added, ”We’ve been providing reliable ColdFusion hosting for nearly a decade, even before it was a product of Adobe or Macromedia. Adobe MAX is a wonderful opportunity for us to put some faces to names, and to meet many of the developers who have stuck with us over the years, as well as reach out to ColdFusion enthusiast not familiar with the great service we provide.”

Newtek’s Technology service lines include:

· CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.: An industry leading provider of Microsoft Windows web hosting since 1997, CrystalTech offers shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting plans, along with domain registrations, SSL certificates, and online shopping cart tools.

· Web Services: Customized web design and development services.

· Data Backup, Storage, and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory and compliance needs of any business.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT), Newtek Technology Services is a premier provider of web technology solutions to the small- to medium-sized business market, providing services to customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.

Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor to the small to medium-sized business market under the Newtek brand. According to the SBA, there are over 25.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7% of all employer firms, generate 60 to 80% of all new jobs annually and create more than 50% of non-farm private GDP. Since 1999, Newtek has helped these business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses. Newtek focuses on providing its 75,000 customers with access to financial, management and technological resources that enable them to better grow and compete in the marketplace.

Newtek’s Technology service lines include:

CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.: An industry leading provider of Microsoft Windows web hosting since 1997, CrystalTech offers shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting plans, along with domain registrations, SSL certificates, and online shopping cart tools.

Web Services: Customized web design and development services.

Data Backup, Storage, and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory and compliance needs of any business.

Founded in 1992, CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows-based web hosting companies in the world, hosting customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. CrystalTech uses a data center that includes redundancy throughout core systems such as, power, air conditioning, network connectivity, network transportation, as well as a secured environment for their network operations center. CrystalTech is a subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc., a provider of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses. For more information about CrystalTech, please contact 877-323-4678.

To learn more about Newtek, please visit: www.newtekbusinessservices.com.

To learn more about CrystalTech, please visit: www.crystaltech.com.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - November 17, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, is offering Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, as part of its dedicated server offerings.

SoftLayer provides servers for many small and medium sized hosters, responding to their need for a cost-efficient means to offer services that enable them to move up the value chain. Softlayer’s new offering underpins this kind of ’sticky’ service, increasing customer loyalty and providing an end-to-end solution for infrastructure, hardware and applications to customers and service providers worldwide.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer, SoftLayer noted, ”SoftLayer sees the benefits of delivering an easier, more complete, high end solution with better services. We partnered with Parallels because they offer industry-leading virtualization products and services, dedicated sales and development teams, and a commitment to customer service and support. We are proud of the relationship that we have built with Parallels and look forward to fantastic benefits in the future for all of our customers.”

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the a leading operating system (OS) virtualization solution. On a single physical server and single OS installation, it enables users to run workloads in multiple, simultaneously running execution environments called ‘containers’. Compared to other virtualization technologies, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability.

By incorporating Parallels Virtuozzo Containers into its dedicated server offering, SoftLayer enables hosting providers to take advantage of the benefits of virtualization, reducing the total cost of ownership resulting from server consolidation and the virtualization of the entire data center, which ultimately leads to an increase in profitability for resellers. The combination of Softlayer technology and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers allows hosting resellers to focus on sales and customer support without the worry of managing co-location space, power, cooling, and hardware support.

John Eng, Vice President, Service Provider Marketing, Parallels remarked, ”A market leader like SoftLayer realizes that users are demanding more than just dedicated server offerings. By enhancing offerings with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, SoftLayer provides their customers higher value and satisfaction through greater server density and scalability, better performance and higher availability.”

SoftLayer’s future plans include an extension of its reseller focused offering to include Parallels Plesk Panel with Billing, a comprehensive server management solution designed for professional hosting service providers.

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.

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

Santa Clara , California - (The Hosting News) - November 17, 2008 - Technology firm and web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc., has introduced the new GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 Prelude solution, as well as a preview of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 application.

According to the company, GlassFish has surpassed 14 Million downloads and 225,000 registrations worldwidem becoming one of the most popular open source application servers. The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, was developed as a lightweight web application server based on a modular OSGi architecture. A new preview of the upcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE) features, is also available.

Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President of engineering, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems remarked, ”GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude is a great example of the innovations that a dynamic, open source community can create as well as an interesting view into the future of web application development and production environments. This release, which is fully supported by Sun and targeted at web-tier production environments, will be the basis for the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 — a complete application server based on the OSGi standard and the upcoming Java EE 6 platform.”

GlassFish is one of the leading open source application servers in the industry today with more than 14 million downloads since its first release in May 2005, more than 225,000 registrations in 2008 and hundreds of production deployments around the globe. With features such as: ease of installation and management, modularity and extensibility and enhanced JRuby support, GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude allows developers to easily scale their projects from small Web-tier deployments to large-scale mission critical architectures, simplify complex development and production tasks and increase productivity.

Customers will benefit from GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude’s more efficient and simplified development and management environments. The new release delivers major productivity features such as:

• Java EE 6 Preview Features - Offers access to the latest functionality in the upcoming Java EE 6 platform, such as: EJB 3.1 Lite and Java Server Faces 2.0. In addition, JAX-RS 1.0 is fully supported for building RESTful Web Services. Users can receive add-ons when new features become available.
• Production Support for Lightweight Web Tier - Provides a lightweight web-tier deployment platform with full production support. In addition, users can match GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude in the web tier with GlassFish Enterprise Server v2 in the application tier for an enterprise-wide architecture.
• Dynamic Language Support with Reliable Performance - Allows users to run development languages like Java, Groovy on Grails and JRuby on Rails at the same time without sacrificing performance. Also, JRuby applications can run without the Java technology-based servlet container, improving productivity by eliminating the need to bundle and deploy JRuby applications as web archive.
• Easy-to-use Administration Console - Offers a simple user interface with point-and-click configuration, application deployment and installation of additional components from the update center. Also, a feature-parity command line interface (CLI) is also available for automated tasks.
• Rapid Deployment Technology - Simplifies the web development cycle of Java-based applications to edit code, save and immediately refresh browser with no loss of application state. Developers can expect to be more productive when GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude is combined with the upcoming release of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.5.

More than 100 companies have joined the Sun Partner Advantage Program, which connects solution providers for the GlassFish application server to the GlassFish user and developer community. New additions include companies like: CloudAPPy Drag and Drop Cloud Hosting, ehCache, Imixs, JasperSoft, Nuxeo, and planConnect.

Jose Morales, Vice President, Business Development, Jaspersoft commented, ”The GlassFish application server is showing extraordinary feature and performance maturity in a very competitive space and is growing to become a major new force in the market. Jaspersoft is pleased to add GlassFish Enterprise Server support to our family of supported Sun products, including the Solaris Operating System, NetBeans IDE and MySQL database.”

Eric Barroca, Executive Vice President, Operations, Nuxeo noted, ”We have been impressed by the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude. We have selected it to power Nuxeo WebEngine standalone server, our content-centric web framework for building Web 2.0 applications, thanks to its OSGi support and great ability to be embedded. We are looking forward to the full Java EE 6 support and plan to use it as our main application server for the open source ECM platform: Nuxeo EP.”

Sun Microsystems develops technologies utilized in more than 100 countries and on the web.

To download and sign up for an annual subscription of the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude, visit: www.sun.com/glassfishv3.

To find out more about the Sun Partner Advantage Program for the GlassFish application server, visit: www.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr/gf-isv.jsp.

For more about Sun’s Startup Essentials program, visit: www.sun.com/startups.

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 17, 2008 - Dedicated server solutions for small, medium and enterprise-scale businesses, Limestone Networks, has opened a new dedicated hosting facility and data center in the DataBank building in downtown Dallas.

The facility features all-fiber connectivity, multiple connections to the power grid, redundant power and cooling systems, and multiple security layers. The new Limestone Networks facility features all-fiber connectivity to the Internet and the latest in power, cooling and security systems.

Gary Kendall, CEO of Limestone Networks noted, ”This is probably the most secure data center in commercial use. The DataBank building used to house the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In 2000, it was thoroughly renovated to take advantage of its inherent security features, creating one of the most desirable facilities in the US for the server hosting industry.”

Limestone Networks has applied the most rigorous standards of design, testing and maintenance to their new facility to ensure maximum security and uptime for the critical data and applications of their clients. The facility enjoys:

· Six utility feeds from the Dallas Central Business District power grid, featuring reliable N+3 transformers with ATS switches, plus secure, concrete encased building feeds.

· UPS and Generator Backup Power using true A+B power configurations

· All UPS and Generator deployments provide N+1 redundancy provided by

* four 800 KVA MGE UPS systems

* two 1200 KVA CAT UPS Systems

* four 2.0 megawatt generators

* three 1.5 megawatt generators

Security for the new facility is maintained through:

· on site security, 24/7/365

· card access required to enter parking and building lobby

· biometric hand scanner required for data center entry

· annual SAS 70 Audits

A consistent data center environment is maintained by an HVAC Cooling System designed with N+1 redundancy and featuring

· 3500 Ton cooling tower capacity

· a multiplicity of 30 Ton Liebert CRAC Units.

· 80,000 gallon reserve make-up water tank

· Liebert Leak Detect System

Mr. Kendall added, ”We believe that our customers should never have any concerns whatsoever about the security, reliability and integrity of their hosted data and applications. That’s the reason we built this new facility.”

Limestone Networks, Inc. is a dedicated hosting provider, headquartered in the central business district of Dallas, TX. The company offers affordable, customizable, self-managed, dedicated server solutions to Web hosting companies and hosting resellers. The Limestone Private Tunnel is a proprietary platform that securely links all dedicated servers together through a fully-routed, private back-end network, providing full security and unlimited on-demand scalability.

For more information about Limestone Networks, please visit: www.limestonenetworks.com.

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Web hosting and solutions company, C I Host, has unveiled plans to open a new datacenter facility which is scheduled to open in 2009 in Dallas, Texas. The new facility is being developed to maximize best practices from the […]

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, announced the addition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, to its Planet Northstar Managed Hosting business line of offerings.

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at The Planet noted, ”With our rigorous Anticipation Advantage best-practices methodology, Planet Northstar Managed Hosting becomes a proactive extension of your IT team. CIOs require proactive planning, preparation and prevention, which is precisely what Planet Northstar provides. Backed by a team of certified professionals, our enterprise-class network and SAS 70 Type II world-class data centers, customers gain access to infrastructure that would otherwise be unaffordable for most companies.”

Customers with Linux, Microsoft or blended environments can now take advantage of premium managed hosting services. As one of just two Red Hat Premier Hosting Partners, the Planet Northstar engineering team will have direct access to the company’s product roadmaps and new platform features, creating a technically superior hosted environment for its customers.

Planet Northstar Managed Hosting provides small- and medium-sized customers with the advantage of enterprise-class IT managed hosting services, backed by a dedicated team of seasoned IT professionals who are personally accountable for their success. Web 2.0 and SaaS (Software as a Service) companies building innovative and cutting-edge applications use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a foundational component of the LAMP stack — Linux, Apache, MySQL and PhP — or J2EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition).

Databases provide the foundation for today’s advanced, multi-tier applications. To provide the support required by customers in managing these complex applications, Planet Northstar customers are assigned a dedicated MySQL cluster-certified database administrator as part of their core team.

Red Hat Certified Engineers: Every customer is assigned a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), who has passed rigorous testing requirements to earn the designation.

MySQL Management: A senior database administrator (DBA) specifically certified on MySQL is assigned to every customer account. Each customer account also has access to exclusive MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBAs who are responsible for reviewing the performance and future scalability of every database platform.

Red Hat LVM Expertise: Planet Northstar uses Red Hat’s Logical Volume Management snapshots to perform online and reliable database backups with virtually no performance impact. Customer databases are expertly managed to ensure maximum processing power.

Advanced Linux Platform Features: Linux engineers help customers leverage advanced platform features, including centralized authentication over LDAP; cluster suite failover; shared storage over high-performance SANs; or Apache Web server load balancing.

OS Management: Every Planet Northstar customer gains access to proactive OS management, including hardening procedures, performance monitoring, security patching, managed backups and scalability reviews to be certain systems grow with their business.

Planet Northstar is backed by The Planet’s core infrastructure, including six SAS 70 Type II world-class data centers, enterprise-class network, data center operations, customer provisioning systems, physical and environmental security, and problem management and resolution through its customer portal. Coupled with its powerful and industry-leading Service Level Agreement, Planet Northstar guarantees 100 percent power and network uptime, along with one-hour hardware replacement and 15-minute response times.

Using its Anticipation Advantage methodology, Planet Northstar utilizes a four-step proactive process throughout every client’s hosted IT lifecycle:
every client’s hosted IT lifecycle:

Assess: For every customer, the Planet Northstar team begins with in-depth business and technology planning to gain a thorough understanding of business and technology goals. Together they examine current and future expectations, and how each will impact the customer’s technology requirements. The result is a recommended IT implementation plan that delivers on business requirements, along with alternate configurations should the environment or goals change.

Design: Based on the customer’s business and technology goals, the team designs and develops a comprehensive, customized systems architecture plan from the ground up to satisfy specific needs now and into the future. It provides scalability foresight - not just insight - so customers are prepared for each business cycle. The plan also defines how the Planet Northstar team will work as an extension of the customer’s team.

Maintain: The dedicated team of certified and seasoned IT experts applies years of experience to proactively manage and maintain each customer’s IT performance. For example, protection of IT assets is secured by design. Customized change-control procedures are built into the plan to ensure high-availability and security for customers. These processes enable the Planet Northstar team to anticipate and mitigate risks, and prevent breaches, outages or compliance violations.

Metrics are a key component of Planet Northstar Managed Hosting. By integrating metrics and reporting best practices, the dedicated account team establishes benchmarks to report the status of IT systems and to identify critical trends. Quarterly interactive meetings are held to review systems health and discover new ways to improve operating procedures and technology performance, at the same time integrating these metrics with the Anticipation Advantage methodology.

White papers that provide additional details are available for download: The Anticipation Advantage of Proactive Managed Hosting; and Leveraging Capex-Free Managed Hosting by the Yankee Group, an industry-leading research company.

Ultimately, The Planet’s goal is to provide:

• High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution, with the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network.

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