Archive for May 2008
Hosted Solutions, a dedicated hosting provider, declared that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has chosen its services. The company currently operates two data centers in Charlotte, as well as facilities in Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts.
The company expresses that The College of Health and Human Services’ web-based portal will be hosted on its servers. Hosted Solutions will provide bandwidth, managed firewall, collocation, SPLA licensing, OS management, managed backup services out of its SAS 70 Type II certified data center facility.
The portal is a part of the State Center for Health Statistics project, North Carolina Community Health Assessment Initiative. Information about people’s health care needs and strengths will be collected in this portal, enabling professionals to necessary information to build effective programs and policies and follow the results of these observations.
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Ipowerweb, a shared hosting provider, announced special offer for spring. The professional shared plan is available for $4.95 a month instead of $7.95 a month. This plan features: free domain name, 1,500GB of space, 15,000GB of bandwidth, 500 e-mail accounts, over $200 in Advertising Credits and instant activation. Moreover, clients may host unlimited domains with 25 MYSQL database, 2500 POP3 email accounts with forwarding and spam filtering. 24×7 customer support is available.
Hosting more than 700,000 websites Ipowerweb provides end-to-end internet solutions for small to medium sized enterprises to build, promote, manage and profit from their online presence.
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C I Host officially introduced the SecureStore backup system. It offers a complete backup solution especially for enterprise customers, as well as dedicated hosting customers.SecureStore simply offers an enhanced level of security and reliability and the user can customize it to the level of protection needed.
The company states that the backup solution is a safety measure to secure data, containing critical business systems, file permissions, system state, registry and SQL databases. SecureStore can be used with all Windows and Debian Unix servers. Backups are stored off-server in C I Host’s NAS to keep critical system information continuously protected, even in case of system failure. The solution also minimizes administrative overages since backups do not increase customer’s bandwidth use.
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The Planet, one of the biggest dedicated hosting provider declared that it calls Internet product developer Directi a member of its affiliate program. Directi with more than 7,000 web hosting partners is The Planet’s largest affiliate to day. Directi’s businesses include ResellerClub, LogicBoxes WebHosting.info, and publicdomainregistry.com.
The Planet’s affiliate program, launched this January, gives partners the opportunity to receive a one-time 65% commission for each new dedicated customer referred to The Planet, after that customer’s third month. The company points out that its current commission range is between $44 and $1,700. It adds that the average commission is $139.62 per sale.
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Shared hosting provider SoftLayer declared that it has completed the first level of integration between its API and the Plesk utility. This first level of integration allows Plesk users to access all SoftLayer management tools through a single interface.
The company also declared that it has added rackAID (rackAID.com) to its Preferred Partner Program. RackAID provides managed services and support to businesses using SoftLayer infrastructure. This contains of administration and maintenance of computing clusters using the Plesk control panel. 
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Dedicated hosting company The Planet has acquired Touch Support, a server administration management provider. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. With this acquisition, The Planet extends with high-quality advanced services for dedicated customers, especially for business level customers helping them grow their businesses. Customers will select advanced services from a modular suite of solutions.
The Planet states that the IT infrastructure management gets harder as it grows. Therefore, they needed to enforce their business with additional services. Touch Support is a good match for their need with a line of services including server technical support, administration, security controls and server hardening, virtualization, migration, monitoring and managed backups. Moreover, hourly server administration support is available for customers who need this service for one-time or custom requests.
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1&1, one of the largest shared hosting providers in Europe, has joined the Open Source Business Foundation. Open source technology is now an important feature of its plan. OSBF is a Nuremberg, Germany based network of open source developers with more than 120 members.
The company expresses that its success in business relates to open source developments from the beginning. More than 90% of the over 3 million websites hosted by the company are hosted on open source technology. The company runs operations on more than 40,000 Linux servers and has more than 400 open source developers. 1&1 points out that its own advancements get redistributed into the online community.
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Fortrust, a colocation company announced the addition of its managed services its high-availability data center services.
Fortrust Managed Services will give customers the opportunity to outsource the management, monitoring and maintenance of their applications and information systems to the company. These new managed services are available to existing customers of the company’s data center. New customers will receive a discount as well.
Fortrust expresses that Absolute Performance partnered in providing with management, monitoring, pre-production load testing, end user experience validation and reporting functions. Fortrust is confident about Absolute’s reliability and quality. Absolute preserves special servers for Fortrust Managed Services product that will be hosted in Fortrust’s facility.
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The Planet, dedicated hosting company, has upgraded and expanded its Network Operations Center (NOC). Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) designation requirement played an important role on this. Now, all NOC employees of the company are required to have the CCNA. Moreover, the staff is certified.
To get this designation, NOC technicians have gone through tests featuring install, configure, operate and troubleshoot routed and switched networks. Some of the team members have been awarded with more senior Cisco certifications.
CCNA, prepared by Cisco, is the industry-recognized standard of expertise for IT network professionals. Applicants should have a solid understanding of core network functions such as verification of remote sites in a WAN (Wide Area Network), of various network types and the basic decrement of security threats. Moreover, they should be able to implement LAN (Local Area Networks) and understand of wireless networking.
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VPS hosting company 1&1 Internet announced that Oliver Mauss is its new CEO. He is responsible for subsidiaries in France, France, Spain and UK. In 1999 Andreas Gauger was appointed Chairman of the Bord, leading the company among the top web hosts in the world. After his 13 years of service, Mauss is now in charge of international web hosting operations.
With a Ph.D. in Communications Engineering from the University of Aachen, Oliver Mauss worked for Vodafone Group for over 10 years. He held positions in product management and business development at telecommunication companies o.tel.o and RWE Telliance. Before he was appointed to be the new CEO, he was the Global Director of Business Product Marketing.
As a subsidiary of United Internet, 1&1 Internet Inc. was founded in 1988. Today the company has become a leading provider hosting services, serving over 7 million customer, more than 10 million domain names, running more than 47,000 servers in five state-of-the-art data centers. User-friendly and cost-effective web hosting solutions have been directing 1&1 successful international expansion strategy. 1&1 today is the leading provider for hosting personal and business websites.
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