MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research’s new report “Cloud Based Office Productivity Software Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010 to 2016,” to their collection of Internet Applications market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?ProductID=2737163

Virtualization of software and servers creates ways to generate more effective automated control of personal and team business data. Cloud systems manage personal productivity: word processors, spread sheets, presentation logic, and collaboration tools available online.

Software is needed for management and sales implementations of different productivity tasks in different industries. Group cooperation is supported with the systems.

According to the report, IBM Lotus is positioned to support office productivity beyond the desktop and outside data centers. Businesses are generating 15 petabytes of new information each day. There is a massive increase of connected devices used to work with that data. Systems are optimized for remarkably diverse workloads managed by businesses, organizations, and governments. IBM offers flexible sourcing options including cloud computing.

Google Apps are considered the premier offering for cloud based office productivity systems. There is a fundamental difference between personal computer client offerings and the cloud offerings. The cloud offerings are tuned to leverage the flexibility and collaboration achievable from groups working online together. Cloud based systems operate from memory and are designed to be instantly available. Personal client device office productivity software systems provide a more elaborate feature function package funded and supported by a large installed base, reports Wintergreen.

Cloud computing provides support for collaboration. Collaboration is supported by Google Apps and Google Docs. Users can edit documents at the same time, creating a compelling team based system, permitting managers to get all members of the team involved in thinking about and designing the project.

Cloud computing strategy is positioned to help organizations make a transition from siloed personal data to a shared virtualized data center in an evolutionary manner. Not every enterprise is ready for a move to cloud computing. IT organizations want to evolve from datacenter architectures to cloud computing. Premise investments are being leveraged.

According to the report, vendors are thinking beyond the desktop and outside data centers to supporting the evolution of business across national boundaries, providing a global reach to marketing departments. Cloud office productivity tools support that strategy.

Office productivity software enables use of computers intuitively. Continuous systems upgrades improve the functions available to users. Businesses are generating 15 petabytes of new information each day. There is a massive increase of connected devices used to work with that data.

As systems are optimized for remarkably diverse workloads managed by businesses, organizations, and governments, office productivity systems play a part in generating useful information sharing. Flexible sourcing options including cloud computing are being used to generate team documents.

The major management objectives for this critical area of office productivity applications implementation include words, numbers, image, and video content management. Cloud based systems are simple to use and collect different types of information in a cohesive manner.

The fundamental aspect of cloud office productivity applications implementation relates to flexibility. The ability to be responsive to changing market conditions is central to the modern IT team collaboration task. The desire for systems that support flexibility is anticipated to spur rapid growth of cloud computing office productivity systems. Cloud productivity office computing markets at $3.3 billion in 2009 are anticipated to reach $17 billion by 2016.

Topics covered in the report include…

- Cloud Computing Market Description and Market Dynamics
- Cloud Office Productivity Market Shares and Forecasts
- Cloud Office Productivity Market Description and Dynamics
- Cloud Technology
- Cloud Computing Office Productivity Company Profiles

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IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Storwize, a privately held company based in Marlborough, MA. Storwize provides real-time data compression technology to help clients reduce physical storage requirements by up to 80% (1), which improves efficiency and lowers the cost of making data available for analytics and other applications. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the third quarter of 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Storwize has over one hundred customers such as Mobileye, Polycom Israel, Shopzilla, Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Construction across a wide range of industries including energy, manufacturing, finance, insurance, telecommunications and cloud services.

With Storwize, IBM is acquiring storage technology that is unique in the industry in that it can compress primary data, or data that clients are actively using, of multiple types — from files to virtualization images to databases — in real-time while maintaining performance. This is in contrast to other storage compression technologies that only compress secondary or backup data. By compressing primary data, Storwize users can store up to five times more data using the same amount of storage, preventing storage sprawl and lowering power and cooling costs.

This is important now more than ever as the world’s data already vastly exceeds available storage space and enterprise demand for storage capacity worldwide is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 43% from 2008 to 2013, according to IDC (2).

Compression shrinks data so files and databases take up less space. Storwize’s Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) is based on the industry-standard compression algorithm and uses Storwize’s patented technology for real-time data compression without any performance degradation.

With Storwize, analytics applications can improve decision making by scanning many more years of historical data from multiple sources without the need to add additional storage equipment. Compressing data in real-time can also help make data available up to four times faster for transaction workloads (3).

Running Storwize data compression does not affect business and IT processes or other applications and does not require special skills to maintain. Product installation can be completed in as little as four hours, with little or no downtime.

“Real-time data compression helps address a significant client need — making it affordable to analyze and make sense of massive amounts of data in order to provide new services” said Brian Truskowski, general manager, IBM System Storage and Networking. “By adding Storwize to our innovative portfolio of storage solutions, IBM is better equipped than ever to help clients handle growing quantities of data and make more of it available for analytics”

“IBM has the strongest vision for the future direction of storage and we are pleased to become a part of that vision” said Ed Walsh, CEO, Storwize. “Our customers will benefit significantly as our talented employees and innovative storage solutions merge with IBM’s world-wide reach in sales, service and research and development”

Storwize joins other key IBM storage acquisitions and innovations that improve storage efficiency and analytics, including:

* ProtecTIER deduplication technology that can be used together with compression technology to significantly improve storage efficiency.
* The XIV high-end disk storage architecture that provides the performance needed to make data quickly available for analysis.
* IBM’s Scale-out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), invented by IBM Research to support multiple petabytes of storage in a single file system.
* The IBM System Storage Easy Tier feature, which uses ongoing performance monitoring to move only the most active data to faster solid-state drives (SSDs) on IBM’s flagship DS8700 disk storage system.

The Storwize appliance will work with popular NAS systems, including IBM N series and SONAS, as well as non-IBM NAS systems from EMC, HP, NetApp and others. Storwize real-time compression can provide added value to clients already using data deduplication, thin provisioning and other storage efficiency technologies.

This acquisition continues IBM’s investment in real-time compression, which has been proven for DB2 and Informix to reduce the overall total cost of information ownership by up to 80%.

About Storwize

Storwize provides online storage optimization through real-time data compression, delivering dramatic cost reduction without performance degradation. Based on the Storwize’s Random Access Compression Engine™ (RACE), Storwize STN appliances transparently compress primary storage between 50 and 80 percent without changes in performance, storage, applications, networks, or processes. RACE ensures that Storwize appliances deliver real-time random access and deterministic, lossless data compression to maintain reliable and consistent performance and data integrity. Storwize helps slow the growth of storage acquisition and related storage life-cycle costs, including reducing the amount of storage to be managed, powered, and cooled. Storwize is headquartered in Marlborough, MA with offices worldwide. Storwize, optimize without compromise.

About IBM

For more information on IBM, visit www.ibm.com. For more information on IBM Storage, go to www.ibm.com/systems/storage/.

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Hosting Metro, Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement with long-time Drupal web host company Drupal Value Hosting. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro will migrate existing services and marketing to its own operations. In doing so, Hosting Metro will be able to offer expanded customer support through a dedicated 24/7 support line, as well as additional hosting features previously unavailable to Drupal Value Hosting customers including VPS, Dedicated Servers and shared web hosting.

Tony Chu, CEO of Hosting Metro stated, “By acquiring Drupal Value Hosting, we’ve looked to increase our support of Drupal and its development community by integrating the knowledge-base of Drupal Value Hosting’s existing development team into our already reliable infrastructure and application network. As a hosting company who specializes in application support, this is something that our customers have been asking for and with only 1% of the web running on Drupal there is a still a lot of room for growth.”

Amit Ghupta, former CEO of Drupal Value Hosting has agreed to stay on with the new company and will continue to provide development and consultation services dedicated to the Drupal community. “Hosting Metro is a great company, and I am very confident that they will exceed the needs of their customers by delivering outstanding support. I have been especially impressed with their solid infrastructure and there ability to deliver the most reliable uptime in the industry.”
Hosting Metro has stated that existing Drupal Value Hosting customers will receive one month of free hosting as a courtesy while the transition takes place. In addition, each customer will receive a free SEO account with Attracta as a way to introduce Hosting Metro’s business services and to help customers build traffic to their sites.

About Hosting Metro
Hosting Metro is dedicated to developing innovative services and providing exceptional technical support to meet the Web hosting needs of its customers. As an independent company, they have 13 years of experience in the web hosting industry, and work to integrate emerging technologies and provide comprehensive, integrated solutions to their hosting clients. With their innovative Campfire Support system, Hosting Metro moves beyond standard domain hosting to provide leading technical support and a range of hosting solutions that are focused on improving productivity, increasing profitability, and empowering their clients’ to achieve their goals.

For more information go to: www.hostingmetro.com or visit their forum for the latest news.

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SiteValley.com, web hosting service provider, announced that starting from July 30th, 2010 registration of .CO TLD is available to all its customers at the rate of $30/year. Moreover, free .CO registration is available with every annual small business hosting package purchase.

Domains with .CO extension have gained enviable popularity as this TLD is associated with companies, corporations and commerce in common. Websites for such projects usually require a more serious solution, than a simple shared plan. A solution, similar to Small Business Hosting package, SiteValley.com offers.

According to Sergey Skurikhin, SiteValley.com CEO – “Small Business Hosting package is a perfect solution for those, who need affordable, yet resource intensive hosting plan. This package enables our customers to run their business online at its full capacity and is very popular among our customer base. With the launch of .CO domain registration we decided that such a TLD will perfectly fit this package as a free addon.”

.CO is going to fit those, who cannot register a desired name with .com extension or just strive for link shortening. Whatever the business you run, a new .CO is going to be a perfect start for it, as a catchy and brandable domain is able to attract more traffic and more potential clients.

With any pre-sales questions or inquiries about this offer you are welcome to contact Sitevalley.com customer support via a live chat or send an e-mail to sales@sitevalley.com.

About SiteValley:

SiteValley.com is a reliable Linux hosting company, which provides affordable shared, VPS and dedicated servers hosting aimed at meeting clients’ requirements. Founded in 2002, it walked through making complicated things simpler, so currently it takes just a couple of clicks for any customer to have his site setup. This did prove this company to be one of the best hosting services providers for small-to-medium sized web-projects and organizations.

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DomainSponsor®, the domain monetization business of Oversee.net® and organizer of the DOMAINfest® series of conferences, announced its agenda and roster of speakers for the DOMAINfest® One-Day Power Networking Event on August 18, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, N.Y.

David Mason, Senior Vice President, AOL Content Platform, will keynote the New York event. Mason joined the company when AOL acquired StudioNow, which he co-founded in 2007 and developed into the world’s largest web-based video creation platform. A veteran technology entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer, he started one of the first Internet bookstores in 1994, which later became Buy.com.

Event Agenda

The event runs from 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, August 18, 2010. The agenda includes:

Opening Remarks – “They Paid What? Why? – Case Studies of Successful Domain Purchases” Jeff Kupietzky, CEO & President, Oversee.net, will talk about the increasing value of Internet Real Estate.
Keynote – David Mason, Senior Vice President, AOL Content Platform.

Power Networking – Meet the Experts

A free-flowing power networking session has been included in the agenda. This session allows attendees to engage in one-on-one and small group discussions with colleagues and experts in four different subject areas:

Local Search Trends—Is It Time to Invest? Are consumers increasing their usage of geo keywords in desktop browser searches? When is the right time to invest in long-tail geo domains for parking or build-out?
Andrew Allemann is editor of the popular DomainNameWire.com news site.
Domain Name Wire was the first blog covering the business of domain names and has been online since 2005. He has written extensively about local search and local domains.
David Asplund is an account executive at Zco Corporation, which develops industrial-strength back-end applications and apps for all major mobile platforms, including apps focused on local search.
Steven Kaziyev is the Founder and CEO of Name Pursuit, Inc., a New York-based company that owns and selectively develops thousands of high-quality generic dot coms, including locally oriented domains.
Frank Langston, Co-President of RootOrange, focuses on the development of products designed to leverage and monetize local search traffic for domain owners and investors.

How to Get the Most Out of Affiliate Marketing. The experts shed light on the opportunities and tactics associated with affiliate marketing.
Dan Ho is the General Manager of Domains for Adknowledge, one of the largest privately owned ad networks in the United States. In this role, Dan oversees day-to-day operations of domain monetization and traffic quality.
Evan Horowitz is CEO and Co-Founder of essociate.com which has over a decade of affiliate program management and domaining experience.
Reed Shelly heads up Business Development, Sales and Account Management efforts for Oversee’s Emerging Businesses division. He is responsible for strategic partnerships, advertiser and affiliate relationships as well as new website build-outs.
Adam Weiss, Vice President for Network Development at LinkShare, leads four distinct, yet related, teams: Publisher Business Development, Publisher Account Management, Network Quality, and Publisher Support. He is responsible for securing new partnerships while insuring the quality of the LinkShare Network in the U.S. and Canada.

Online Advertising Trends. The experts share their perspectives on trends to help make intelligent domain buying, parking, and build-out decisions.
Jay Berkowitz, CEO of Ten Golden Rules, is a senior online marketing professional with over twenty years of marketing experience, including expertise in social media.
Adam Epstein serves as President and COO of adMarketplace, which specializes in online advertising and marketing strategies.
Rodderick “Roddy” Moon is a Senior Vice President in the Media Investment Banking Group at Jefferies and Company, leading the firm’s east coast digital media efforts. Moon specializes in the digital media, e-commerce, and interactive content & services sectors.
Tom Rusling, Business Development at MediaWhiz, has ten years of online experience, including web entrepreneur, Marketing Director (SkyAuction.com), and seven years of progressive search marketing, link building, online reputation management, and strategy consulting experience.
Hui Tam is the Senior Director of Partner Relations for Adknowledge. She helped pioneer the domain and error space from the publisher side and worked directly with many key domain owners, parking companies and ISPs.

Legal Q&A. Legal experts offer their thoughts on potential regulatory environment changes that need to be factored into business planning for the future.
John Berryhill, Ph.D., is an attorney who has represented domain name registrants and trademark claimants in numerous UDRP proceedings and federal court proceedings.
Ari Goldberger has been a Domain Name lawyer since 1996 when he defended his domain name ESQwire.com in a federal court action against the Hearst Corporation, which possessed a trademark for its ESQUIRE magazine.
Todd Greene is Oversee.net’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, responsible for all legal, policy and compliance matters for Oversee and its operating companies.

Moniker.com Live Domain Auction

DOMAINfest New York will feature a live auction of premium domain names from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET. Hosted by Moniker®, this auction will include category-defining names such as Rate.com, Stocks.com, Quotes.com, Cable.com, Lawsuits.com and hundreds more. Bids will be accepted in-person or remotely in real-time from anywhere in the world via a free software download. For a full list of domains available, please visit http://domainauctions.moniker.com/2010/DOMAINfest-New-York.

Pre-bids for the auction may be submitted on any domain listed until August 18 at 11:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern time. The highest bid for each domain will then become the starting bid in the live auction. All live auction pre-bidders will be notified via email of their position in the auction along with instructions for joining the live and extended auction.

Moniker’s sister company, SnapNames.com, will also host an extended online auction in conjunction with the live event. The online auction will begin immediately after the live auction on August 18 and will continue for a full week, concluding on Wednesday, August 25 at 3:15 p.m. U.S. Eastern time.

For more information, including details on how to submit bids in person at the event or remotely in real-time, visit: http://www.moniker.com/dfauction

DOMAINfest New York Registration

Visit www.domainfest.com for event details and to register. The registration fee of $175 includes the keynote, all sessions, lunch, refreshments, domain auction, and a dinner cocktail party.

DOMAINfest Europe 2010 Approaching

The DOMAINfest Europe conference will take place in Prague on October 6-7 at the landmark InterContinental Hotel. The agenda is filled with unbeatable learning and relationship-building activities, all designed to support the event’s theme: Building Bridges – Building Success. To view agenda, sponsorship and registration details, visit http://www.domainfest.com.

The first day in Prague will include a Moniker® Premium Domain Name Auction, powered by SnapNames Live™ technology, followed by a weeklong online extended auction. Domain sellers and buyers can find details at http://domainauctions.moniker.com/2010/DOMAINfest-Prague. The deadline for submission of domains for possible inclusion in the auction is August 29th.

Keep Up-To-Date On All DOMAINfest News

To keep up with news and updates on all DOMAINfest events, including Moniker and SnapNames live auctions, interested parties are encouraged to sign up for DOMAINfest email alerts at http://www.domainfest.com.

About DOMAINfest

DOMAINfest is dedicated to the success of domain owners worldwide. Founded and hosted by DomainSponsor, the domain monetization division of Oversee.net, DOMAINfest brings domain industry professionals and online marketing and advertising experts together to learn, network, and do business. To register or to get more information about DOMAINfest Global® 2011—including sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities—visit http://www.domainfest.com or e-mail info@domainfest.com.

About Oversee.net

Oversee.net® is the leader in Internet real estate, specializing in monetizing, registering, selling and developing domain names. The company provides an array of managed services to domain investors, corporations and individuals across more than ten million web sites. Oversee owns one of the largest portfolios of domain names in the world. The company’s unique optimized technology connects consumers and advertisers with highly relevant advertisements. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the company’s core brands include DomainSponsor®, SnapNames®, Moniker®, DOMAINfest® and LowFares.com™. To learn more, please visit www.oversee.net

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The company has been offering a wide variety of services since its inception back in 1999. In an effort to remain competitive, PacificHost has dropped the disk space and bandwidth limit for its web hosting and business hosting services completely. Additionally, the previous Premium Hosting plans have been changed to Business Hosting for better clarification.

With the drop in service limits, PacificHost is now provisioning servers running with the new E5620 Processor. New servers for its Web Hosting and Business Hosting are running as Dual Processor, Quad Core servers. This comes with the increased demand placed on the servers with social media scripts such as Magento, PHPmotion, Dolphin and others.

“PacificHost has been growing rapidly despite the economy. The enhancement to our services comes with our increase in hardware specs for our servers. Since our service caters to start-ups and developers, I believe it was important to make sure that we could meet the ever-growing demand for these power-hungry websites. PacificHost has gained a reputation for providing hosting without the oversold servers or constantly failing hardware, and that is how I intend to keep it,” said PacificHost President Thomas Perry.

With the limits removed, the company also lowered its pricing to $2.49 for the smallest hosting plan. With this, a 3rd billing cycle was added to all plans in order to meet the growing demand for longer payment terms.

For more information, please visit http://www.pacifichost.com/

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HP today introduced a new way for clients to cut capital investment requirements for the design and build of data centers in half while significantly decreasing their carbon footprint.(1)

The patent-pending HP Flexible Data Center (HP Flexible DC) offers a standardized, modular approach to designing and building data centers that allows clients to replace traditional data center designs with a flexible solution that can be expanded as needed while conserving resources.

“The pressure to save on capital and operating expenditures is one of the most critical issues facing enterprises today,” said David J. Cappuccio, vice president and chief of research, Gartner. “When building new data centers, clients need to consider options that support business growth, while also saving time and costs.”

“Financial institutions create an enormous volume of data, which means they need to be able to quickly add capacity to their data center without disrupting business,” Bob Cashner, senior vice president, Corporate Properties, Wells Fargo. “HP Flexible DC is a promising new approach to the way organizations can meet computing demands efficiently while addressing capital-intensive data center costs.”

HP Flexible DC “butterfly” design

HP Flexible DC is based on a “butterfly” design featuring four prefabricated quadrants, or modules, that stem off a central administrative section. The offering uses industrial components to improve cost efficiencies as well as a streamlined building process with a variety of options for power and cooling distribution.

HP Critical Facilities Services – which provides consulting and design engineering and architecture services – collaborates with clients to evaluate their needs and to help with the planning and implementation of all aspects of their data center infrastructures.

“Clients, such as financial service providers, government entities, and cloud and colocation hosts, will find the scalable and modular nature of HP Flexible DC a compelling option,” said Kfir Godrich, chief technology officer, Technology Services, HP. “HP can help clients innovate the way they build and operate a greenfield data center for greater savings over its life span.”

Features of HP Flexible DC include:

* Prefabricated, standardized components allow clients to shorten the time it takes to build and deploy a data center, resulting in lower capital costs and faster time to market.
* The modular design extends clients’ ability to increase scalable capacity while retaining specified levels of reliability and redundancy.
* Specific configurations optimize the use of power and cooling resources to lower energy and water use, enabling clients to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a facility’s carbon footprint.
* Air-cooled, rather than water-cooled, mechanical systems save clients power and potentially millions of gallons of water annually.

Pricing and availability

HP Flexible DC is available through HP Critical Facilities Services. Pricing varies according to location and implementation. More information is available at www.hp.com/services/flexdc.

HP Critical Facilities Services is part of HP’s extensive data center infrastructure services portfolio. HP Critical Facilities Services offers advanced power and cooling solutions with proven expertise in strategic planning, design and operational continuity services for mission-critical facilities. More information is available at www.hp.com/go/cfs.

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.

(1) Based on research published in “Flexible DC – A New Approach to Industrialized IT,” Jagger, 2010. Modeled on base case in Charlotte, N.C. Actual results in different locations or climate zones may be higher or lower.

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VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced a new VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP). VMware VPP is designed to provide customers worldwide with consistent, accumulative software license discounting through an easy-to-use, tier-based points system. The program helps maximize the value derived from volume purchases of VMware software licenses, including significant cost savings on VMware solutions and increased budget predictability for future purchases. VPP is offered to customers through authorized VMware partners.
With VMware VPP, customers may enroll for a VPP membership and earn points on VMware products and services. Points are stored in customers’ accounts and accrue toward four tier levels in the program, with each tier level delivering additional incremental discounts that are applied automatically to new purchases depending on a customer’s tier. Customers can accumulate points over a rolling eight-quarter period and access an easy-to-use online portal to track the number of points and eligible discount levels. For qualified purchases, VMware VPP provides customers with discounts ranging from 4 percent to 12 percent off the published local VMware MSRP prices.

“We value our customers and sought to simplify how they do business with VMware, so we revised the VMware VPP to reward customers in a consistent and predictable way,” said Ryan Knauss, senior director, pricing and licensing, VMware. “VMware VPP functions similarly to a frequent flier program, using a simple points-based system to track and manage the benefits of purchasing software licenses in bulk quantities. This new program will further streamline the ease of doing business with VMware so our customers can accelerate their journey to IT as a service.”

Read more on VMware VPP.

About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform — VMware vSphere™ — customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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Telx, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has been selected as a colocation provider by DediPower, a UK-based managed hosting and on-demand data center company. Telx’s secure, connection-rich colocation facility at 60 Hudson Street in New York City is now DediPower’s primary Point of Presence (PoP) within the U.S., enabling secure, reliable delivery of on-demand cloud application and managed hosting services, including its recently-launched Public Cloud offering, to customers in three continents.

“DediPower was in need of a Manhattan colocation facility to extend our state-side coverage and provide connectivity to our overseas customers,” said Craig Martin, CEO of DediPower. “We looked for the colocation partner within the U.S. that had the most strategic locations and the largest number of service providers we could choose from to ensure reliable application and storage service delivery. Our international and North American customers can directly tap into our infrastructure on a guaranteed, high-speed connection in the 60 Hudson Street location, without going over the public Internet. The Telx solution provides our managed private cloud network the high redundancy, security and connectivity choice we require.”

As a connectivity partner, Telx delivers a secure, connection-rich environment from which DediPower can offer low-latency access to its cloud applications and managed hosting network infrastructure, including its Content Delivery Network and its new Public Cloud, a solution that uses only best of breed hardware and dedicated support normally associated with private enterprise solutions. The Telx interconnection replaces the need for a public Internet connection, ensuring that DediPower’s cloud services are more secure, latency is reduced, quality of service is enhanced and the number of hops is minimized.

“We are pleased to welcome DediPower to our flagship 60 Hudson Street location,” said Brad Hokamp, CMO of Telx. “Telx’s colocation and interconnection solutions have helped cloud and managed hosting providers like DediPower improve the reliability, security, and latency of their on-demand infrastructure through our Global Marketplace of service providers.”

To learn more on Telx’s value to cloud providers, including improved network performance, reduced time to market and direct access to the industry’s largest ecosystem of leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises, please visit http://telx.com/Industries/telx-cloud-computing-storage-and-applications.html.

About 60 Hudson Street

60 Hudson Street continues to be Telx’s flagship interconnection facility as well as the nerve center for international communications. Telx is a leading colocation and interconnection service provider within 60 Hudson Street. The building, referred to as the premier North American interconnection facility, is situated on the heart of the Hudson Street/Ninth Avenue fiber highway. This facility also provides low-latency access to Telx’s Financial Business Exchange (FBX) solution and Global Marketplace of providers. Telx’s New York colocation centers, including 60 Hudson Street and 111 8th Avenue, provide a managed, network-neutral, secure environment for core interconnection networking elements for carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprise business customers.

About DediPower

A leading UK provider of managed hosting and data center solutions, DediPower makes internet and eBusiness innovation a reality and delivers outstanding ROI for organisations of all sizes. Current clients include Sony, Virgin, ITV, NHS and The BRIT Awards. Focused on delivering service excellence through its Support with Passion� philosophy, DediPower’s enterprise class data centers offer 100% availability and accredited data security to support business critical, data-rich, ecommerce, interactive and web-based applications. It provides managed hosting, managed private cloud, virtualization, multi-server clusters, and colocation services. DediPower is a winner of numerous hosting awards and is a Microsoft Gold certified partner and RedHat Ready hosting partner. DediPower’s headquarters is located in Reading Berkshire, UK. For additional information, visit http://www.dedipower.com or follow DediPower via Twitter, twitter.com/dedipower.

About Telx

Telx is a leading provider of interconnection, colocation and business exchange services in strategic, high demand North American markets. With 15 premier facilities, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to the industry’s highest performance networks and access to more than 800 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with four facilities in the New York Metro area, two facilities in Chicago, two facilities in Dallas, three facilities in California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Clara) and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com

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Geminare Incorporated today announced the launch of the Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 (CSA 2.0) platform, its next-generation cloud storage and archiving engine. With version 2.0, Geminare is delivering the industry’s first auditable backup and archiving solution that can be integrated with major public cloud storage platforms. Geminare’s cloud-based Recovery as a Service (RaaS) portfolio now ensures the preservation of data integrity while enabling low-cost, cloud-based secure data backup and recovery without the risks and restrictions associated with vendor lock-in.

“We are truly impressed with Geminare’s latest development in cloud storage,” said Dan Elder, vice president, IT and Infrastructure, Sprott Asset Management. “With each piece of archived data uniquely identified and referenced in audit reports, the integrity of our backup files will always be preserved. This essentially replaces the auditing and document storage technology we have today, and brings so much more to the table. We have had no issues in running Geminare’s Cloud Recovery solution, so we’re excited about incorporating this latest offering.”

Geminare is the leading provider of Recovery as a Service solutions for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) sector. The company’s Cloud Recovery Server Replication service ensures the secure, continuous availability of mission-critical applications by replicating a customer’s server environment in real-time to a cloud vendor of choice. The replicated environment engages seamlessly during system interruption or failure. CSA 2.0 is available through Geminare’s Technology Partners, a network of cloud hosting and Telco providers, MSPs and VARs, as either a standalone solution or integrated into Geminare’s Cloud Recovery offering. This new product significantly broadens the scope of cloud services by offering immediate and trusted access to archived data including emails — anytime from anywhere.

“We have seen tremendous traction with our Recovery as a Service portfolio as businesses of all sizes see the value of replicating mission-critical data to a cloud environment for instant and automatic failover,” said Joshua Geist, CEO of Geminare. “Delivering secure and reliable access to this data for more than just failover purposes was the next logical step. With CSA 2.0, Geminare is propelling the Data Protection and Server Replication market forward by allowing customers to select a cloud storage partner of choice for ongoing, automatic data and email archiving, all with zero upfront capital investment.”

About Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0
Available through channel partners in Q3 2010, Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 is a data storage and archiving engine that provides SMEs with a 360� backup strategy. CSA 2.0 gives businesses the flexibility of archiving and searching through an entire email and file backup environment with indexing and data integrity assurance. An intuitive, Web-based user interface offers complete control over archiving, searching and record auditing.

When used with Geminare Server Replication, SMEs for the first time have access to an industrial-strength business continuity solution coupled with automatic archiving, extremely fast search functions and built-in audit capabilities — all without any capital investment. SMEs now have available a fast and reliable way of sorting and retrieving relevant information from the ever-growing data volumes, with assurance that the archived data has not been altered in any way. CSA search and auditing tools are ideal for addressing the typically arduous and time-consuming document management tasks of retrieving data and proving its authenticity, such as in the case of eDiscovery or proof of adherence to industry or government regulations.

Key features of CSA 2.0 include:

Unlimited Cloud Platform Accessibility & Flexibility: CSA 2.0 runs on today’s major cloud storage infrastructures and supports all file server platforms, allowing the customer to control where their data resides. By including support for Amazon S3, Atmos Partners, Iron Mountain Archive Service and many other cloud storage vendors, CSA 2.0 enables out-of-the-box integration with a trusted vendor of choice. Customers can also use private or internal clouds.

Data Integrity and Authentication: CSA 2.0 offers integrity assurance of stored cloud data by applying a unique key identifier to each file, email record and access session. This allows users to authenticate data within any public or private storage cloud. An audit log tracks downloads from the archived storage environment and provides a unique CSA 2.0 receipt. Altered historical files within the cloud are easily identified through mismatched keys.

Peace of Mind With Automated Archiving: Using the RaaS real-time replication technology, users can choose to have email and file server data archived automatically. Once the server and directories are specified, no other ongoing management is required.

Specialized Search Functions: Productivity increases when information is easier to find. By supporting user-level controls, high-speed nested searches, and dynamic tag clouds, CSA 2.0 enables users to have customized search engine interfaces specific to their data retrieval needs. This robust and leading-edge technology, incorporated into an extremely fast and dynamic search engine, means businesses spend less time searching for data.

Integration and Expandability: CSA 2.0 provides a REST-based open API kit that provides customers, partners and developers with the ability to write custom query integrations into applications such as eDiscovery and compliance auditing tools. This allows vendors in the document management industry to utilize CSA 2.0’s advanced index and audit capabilities directly within their own applications and interfaces.

About Geminare
Geminare is a pioneer in delivering Recovery as a Service solutions to the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector. Dedicated to building game-changing cloud technologies, including Cloud Recovery and Cloud Storage solutions, Geminare delivers its products through a network of channel partners worldwide. Currently in the market with Server Replication, Geminare counts among its partners Qwest Communications, Hosting.com, Bell Canada, CA Technologies Inc. and many other leading organizations. Geminare is located in Toronto, Canada with operations and partners in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

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