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Crucial Paradigm declared that Windows 2008 Virtual Dedicated Servers aka. Windows 2008 Virtual Private Servers hosting plans are available. The company claims that it is one of the first hosting providers to adopt the new platform.
There are two Windows 2008 VPS plans. First plan offers 35GB storage, 300GB bandwidth and 1GB of server RAM for an $80 per month. You can choose between the Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter versions of Windows Server 2008 for free. Second plan offers 70GB storage, 600GB bandwidth and 2GB of server RAM. The company provides total control over what you install on the VDS just as though it were a full dedicated server. It doesn’t tell whether Server 2008’s built-in virtualization features or with a third-party virtualization solution are used on its offerings. It says that it’s not possible to overload/oversell their servers since they use true virtualization technology.

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Host Color, a dedicated hosting provider, introduced its open source ticket support system: osTicket. Three of their shared packages, Max, Mega and Multi Domain will feature osTicket software. The company integrates osTicket in its PowerTools application library, enabling access easily from user’s hosting control panel.
The company claims that osTicket provides an organized solution for entrepreneurs as well as other website owners to deal with customer requests and control their preferences. According to the company, osTicket is a simple ticket software that gathers comments or requests received via mail or an online form into an easy manageable web interface. The system stores customers’ requests and responses enabling you classify them and support your customers with quick and precise answers.

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Dedicated hosting provider Peer 1 has donated IT infrastructure to support Pangea Day Worldwide Film Event. Peer 1 will provide free managed hosting services, database failover services, systems architecture, on- site, day-of-event technical support for the Pangea Day IT network with 15 data centers at 17 points in North America. The company aims to show its allegiance to the Internet that according to the company crosses borders and brings individuals, organizations and businesses of all kinds around the world together.
The event will last for one day and connect participants from all over the world through live broadcast. There will be 24 short films and presentations of speakers and musical performers. The films were chosen out of more than 2,500 submissions from 100 countries. For more information about attending scheduled events or hosting events, please visit Pangea Day website at pangeaday.org

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Top 10 Dedicated Server Hosting, a Dedicated Hosting Reviews organization, calls for participate in its 2008 Dedicated Hosting Award Program. Special awards will be distributed for each category and subcategory. The most successful service provider who keeps stimulating the industry will receive the best dedicated hosting provider award .
Top 10 Dedicated Hosting Website categorizes Dedicated server hosting providers as Cheap Dedicated hosting, Best Dedicated hosting and Managed Dedicated services based on both Linux and Windows platforms and offering options such as Celeron, Pentium 4, Dual Xeon, Xeon Quad Core, Kentsfield, Conroe, Woodcrest and Clovertown Processors, Dual Core AMD Opteron, cPanel, Plesk, WHM, Redhat, Debian, FreeBSD, CentOS and Windows 2003.
There will be five main categories: Server & O/S Hosting, Database Hosting, Application Hosting, Service Provider Hosting and Solutions By Industry For subcategories and also further details please check out: http://www.top10dedicatedhosting.com/awards.html
Top 10 Dedicated Hosting’s team consists of experienced professionals specialized on providing Dedicated Server Hosting Reviews to customers, Consultancy and Training to Web Hosting Providers, End Users and others. They aim to show businesses how to make best use of online presence, introduce them cost-effective strategies, and keep overall the web environment plain.

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SoftLayer, a dedicated hosting company, announced the opening of its newest data center in Washington DC. This expansion brings additional 10,000 server capacity increasing the total capacity to 45,000 servers. The new data center connects directly to its data centers in Dallas and Seattle. The company claims that the new data center has one of the highest concentrations of fiber connectivity in the USA, enabling them and their customers multiple network options and high class performance.
SoftLayer Washington D.C. is 7 miles away from Dulles International Airport in a facility designed to full Tier IV standards. Its support staff work 24×7 and multiple security protocols check access to the building. Moreover, the facility provides infrastructure features:
34 x 480v 3-Phase PDUs
Redundant 30-ton CRAC Units
FM-200 Fire Suppression System with VESDA
Biometric Security System
Digital Security Video Surveillance
SoftLayer has already started pre-selling servers in DC data center to current customers, receiving an excessive demand causing a high backlog of server requests. This new data center is the third one the company has opened in the last five months.

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The Planet, a dedicated hosting company, announced that it has expanded its private rack portfolio with of a new virtual rack solution. The company states that new virtual rack offers cost-effective hosting solution for customers with as few as two servers. It also offers a smaller footprint.
The company claims that virtual racks provide hosting to customers who require cost-effective scalability and security with the power and flexibility for their multi-server solutions. The company expresses that customers can host multi-server online applications without compromising the control since they have the option to choose from a wide range of servers, bandwidth pooling and unlimited server-to-server data transfer.
Beginning today, this offering will be available only for a limited time. The first month is free on all Kentsfield servers that are hosted in a virtual rack.

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Eleven2 Hosting, a dedicated hosting provider, declared that it has officially moved to its new headquarters in Spring, Texas. The company states that it is happy about this relocation and that the new headquarters give them space to easily meet the requirements of increasing number of customers.
The company has been growing constantly since 2004. Today, it provides hosting services over 66,000 web sites. Until reaching these numbers, the company relocated its headquarters five times to find enough space for growing customer portfolio. Eleven2 Hosting also offers shared and reseller hosting from its data centers in Houston, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia.

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NaviSite, a dedicated hosting provider, declared a new partnership with Sun Microsystems to offer the Solaris On Demand program. With this program, NaviSite will serve independent software vendors, allowing them easily developing and delivering their software applications in an on-demand platform hosted and backed by NaviSite, using Sun products and technologies. The program also enables ISVs to convert their existing applications to a SaaS model, enabling them to move from a traditional licensing structure to one where their applications will be available on-demand without the use of a multi-tenant application platform. ISVs will benefit developing software applications cost-effectively that meet the availability, security and scalability needs of their own customers.
According to Gartner Group’s report, SaaS has been growing constantly in demand and its expected growth rate through 2011 is 22%. The report highlights that SaaS is a good match for small to medium-sized Small businesses that have low resources to convert their applications to complement their existing legacy systems.
A couple days agoo, NaviSite, providing many optional fee-based services, including SaaS business consulting, technology consulting, application development and project management services, was chosen the most reliable hosting company site for April 2008 by Netcraft.

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Computer Sciences Corporation, a dedicated hosting company, declared that it is named to be a Certified Global SAP Hosting Partner. The company achieved to obtain certification from SAP AG based on its high-performance delivering hosting services. It expresses that it’s not necessary for its clients to employ and train special staff or pay additional infrastructure. Therefore, they benefit more from their SAP applications.

To get certification, SAP partners go through a extensive evaluation of their hosting operational and delivery skills. SAP’s Global Ecosystem and Partner Group does these evaluations. At the end, the partners who receive the certification prove their ability to usefully support and operate SAP business applications for their customers. The certified partners also offer a wide range of hosting services supported by SAP Business Suite applications and the SAP NetWeaver platform.
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Peer 1, dedicated hosting provider, declared that it is the headline sponsor of the first Structure 08, which is a conference organized by GigaOM focusing on the innovations of Internet network infrastructure. Industry’s most influential leaders will meet at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, California on June 25. They will lay new computing technologies of the next generation such as virtualization, SaaS and cloud computing on the table.
PEER 1 states that it is proud of being the headline sponsor of this event that it believes is the perfect opportunity to establish solid communication between leading companies to settle the most applicable ways for the infrastructure market and for businesses that search for the best services to build their online presence and host it inexpensively.
Peer 1 offers a wide range of hosting solutions that include colocation, self-managed and managed hosting. The company’ network operates in 15 data centers and 17 points in North America. Its radiant performance has been leading the company to triple its assets in the last three years.

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