Daily Archives: April 27, 2010

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EPiServer Hits 300 Customers in the UK

EPiServer, a provider of Web Content Management (WCM), online community and e-commerce platforms has reached the 300 customer mark in the UK. The wins have been bolstered by several recent customer contracts in Q1, including the Canary Wharf Group (with partner Rufus Leonard), Aggregate Industries (with twentysix digital), NHS Grampian (with Mimtech), Corinthia Hotels (with Nucleus) and Ryman (with e-inbusiness).

With increasing numbers of brands looking to improve their online communication strategies, by taking steps to speak directly with their audiences online, the Swedish-based company has seen phenomenal growth in the UK, with hundreds of brands eager to take control of the way they communicate online, making their websites more dynamic, engaging and community-led.

Some of the UK’s leading digital agencies – including LBi, Fortune Cookie and Auros – have also been quick to adopt EPiServer CMS as their platform of choice due to its user friendliness for end users and developers alike.

Neal Perry, Country Manager, UK, Ireland & Middle East, EPiServer: “It has been an exciting few months for the team here in the UK, with some notable deals completed. We are seeing many businesses and brands in the UK eager to take their online presence to the next level and find new and exciting ways to engage with their online visitors.”

Martin Henricson, CEO from EPiServer: “The UK is a strategically important country for us and so this early success is particularly welcome. We are committed to providing our partners and customers with online solutions that will enable them to build dynamic and engaging websites and communities that can have dramatic effects on their business.”

In March, EPiServer launched the latest version of its web content management platform, EPiServer CMS 6, including a new OnlineCenter that makes it easy for businesses to develop, manage and measure all aspects of their online presence.

About EPiServer:EPiServer is the world’s fastest growing provider of Web Content Management (WCM), online community and e-commerce platforms. More than 3,000 customers worldwide use EPiServer CMS to create collaborative and engaging websites. EPiServer CMS is the foundation for more than 9,000 websites and is used by more than 130,000 web editors daily. The EPiServer platform is delivered through an extensive network of over 400 partner companies in 30 countries. EPiServer combines the stability and support of a commercial product with EPiServer World, a thriving developer community of more than 9,000 developers. EPiServer is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with an AAA-ranking by Dun & Bradstreet since 2000. The company was founded in 1994 and has offices in the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit www.episerver.com

The Planet Offers 10TB of Bandwidth on Dedicated Servers

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced a limited-time offer that includes 10TB of bandwidth at no additional cost on new dedicated server orders. The promotion, which ends April 30, 2010, applies to servers hosted in the company’s enterprise-class Houston and Dallas data centers, and includes premium bandwidth from Tier 1 providers.

“We consistently hear from our customers that they want the latest technology at the best prices,” said Todd Mitchell, general manager for dedicated hosting and global services at The Planet. “We recently announced the addition of the latest server technology from Intel and Dell to our portfolio, and with a bonus 10TB of bandwidth, customers can easily scale their capacity needs without worrying about overage charges.”

As with all The Planet solutions, customers receive more than 250 Gbps of capacity on The Planet network and a 100 percent SLA on uptime. For more information, visit http://www.theplanet.com/10tb-april.

About The Planet

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 18.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com

Internap Unveils New XIP Web Acceleration Service

Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business products and services, today announced Accelerated IP (“XIP”), a new service-based Internet traffic accelerator that can dramatically improve the performance of enterprise web services and applications by up to 400%. XIP ? to be shown at Interop in Las Vegas, April 27-29 in booth 550 ? complements Internap’s worldwide Performance IP? route-optimized network, resulting in end-to-end network and application optimization and a superior experience for end users.

As enterprises increasingly deliver mission-critical, latency-sensitive, and often dynamic, applications and services ? such as ecommerce, software as a service (SaaS), financial trading and streaming video ? over the Internet, the performance of the underlying network has become a key priority. One of the primary sources of poor web traffic performance is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), a fundamental protocol for Internet communications which manages sessions between servers and clients. Designed nearly 40 years ago, TCP can slow the loading and utilization of web based applications due to the inefficient way that it manages session initiation, packet loss, and transmission windows during sessions.

Internap’s XIP service addresses these issues by significantly enhancing TCP, improving recovery time after packet loss is detected and enabling it to transmit more data at a continuously faster rate, allowing the application to load quickly and maintain accelerated performance throughout the entire session. XIP accelerates “application to client” traffic, making it well-suited for dynamic web content with improved response times for websites and web-based applications, as well as faster file downloads ? resulting in higher customer and end user satisfaction.

XIP will be available to customers in combination with Internap’s Performance IP service, which provides premium network connectivity and performance across its global platform of data centers. Deployed by thousands of companies around the world and backed by a 100% uptime service level agreement, Performance IP combines the ability to deliver traffic across numerous carrier networks globally with patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer? (MIRO) technology. Similar to the way in which XIP overcomes TCP’s inherent design issues that inhibit today’s enterprise business models, MIRO overcomes limitations with the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) by delivering traffic over the best-performing network path versus the shortest. The combination of XIP and Performance IP better position enterprises to address today’s more dynamic and demanding IT delivery models and applications needs.

XIP is the first web traffic accelerator to be delivered as a service from ‘source to destination’, resulting in enhanced traffic performance from the application to the end user. As a service, XIP expands the geographic reach of applications, allowing high-performance application delivery from any location ? and also reducing costs ? by eliminating the need to deploy hardware and software at regional data centers or on the client side.

“The new XIP service ensures enterprises and SaaS providers of high-performance websites and applications through a services model that eliminates the need for expensive hardware and cumbersome end user software,” said Scott Hrastar, senior vice president ? IP Service at Internap. “When combined with the performance benefits of our premium IP network services, enterprises will reap the benefits of unparalleled, end-to-end network and application optimization.”

Internap’s new XIP service will be available in select markets starting in the second quarter of 2010. For more information about Internap’s XIP service, visit: www.internap.com.

About Internap

Internap is a leading Internet products and services company that provides The Ultimate Online Experience® by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with 100 percent performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed Internet services and a content delivery network, Internap frees its customers to innovate, improve service levels, and lower the cost of IT operations. Thousands of companies across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals. For more information, visit http://www.internap.com

CloudPronto Offers Green Servers

In a move to help environmentally-conscious companies make a positive impact on Earth Day and beyond, CloudPronto is rolling out “green” alternatives to traditional servers and web hosting.
As part of the Earth Day celebration, CloudPronto is making available its latest Cloud Servers and Dedicated Cloud products that offer customers practical ways to “go green” without sacrificing the reliability and affordability they have come to expect from the Pronto Group family of companies.

“Forty years ago, when Earth Day was first instituted, technologies like the Internet, cloud computing and virtualized servers were not yet on the radar screen of most companies,” said Octavio Diaz, Operations Manager for CloudPronto. “Plenty has changed in the last four decades. Today, we can proudly offer virtualized servers and hosting options that are truly green.”

By truly green, Diaz means that CloudPronto’s virtualized servers and hosting options have energy efficiency in mind. Companies can leverage Cloud Servers and Dedicated Cloud products that are based on VMware’s virtualization technology and use only a fraction of the power consumption of traditional server products. Because CloudPronto’s cloud servers are based on VMware technology, the company can guarantee high availability on a fault tolerant platform.

The cloud model not only lets companies go green, it also helps companies save green. In other words, companies can save money with the cloud model because they only pay for the bandwidth they use. Companies can scale up or down based on demand, and CloudPronto’s cloud hardware infrastructure spans data centers around the world, providing network access and speed where it’s needed.

“CloudPronto offers customers who need dedicated servers and web hosting the best of both all worlds: affordability, reliability, and the opportunity to do your part to reduce your carbon footprint,” Diaz said. “As with all Pronto Group products, our Cloud Servers are backed-up by 24×7 Expert Technical Support.”

About CloudPronto Hosting
CloudPronto is part of the ‘Pronto family’ of companies with MailPronto, ColoPronto and ServerPronto, which have been leading a low-cost revolution in the hosting industry since 2003. Following in those footsteps, CloudPronto Hosting is poised to change the way businesses worldwide buy IT, by delivering computing-as-a-service. Integrating the industry’s best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable.

To learn more, visit http://www.cloudpronto.com

Hostway Corporation Launches Cloud Based Database Administration

Hostway Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure and web application hosting, announced today that it has partnered with Stratavia, a market leader in IT automation, to launch NetDBAs; a revolutionary, enterprise-class database automation solution that simplifies the management of corporate databases and can be consumed cost effectively as a service.

NetDBAs is a unique database automation tool meant to simplify and automate routine, time consuming tasks such as installing new databases, administering users, applying patches, and managing backups. Through a simple and intuitive web-interface, NetDBAs turns complex work flows into point and click operations that can be performed by any member of an IT organization. NetDBAs is distinctive in that it can be accessed by any business, anywhere from the Hostway cloud. Database servers may be located in one of Hostway’s global data centers, on-site in the customer’s corporate offices, or in any third party data center. The initial release will manage editions of Microsoft SQL Server database; future versions will add support for databases from other manufacturers.

“We are excited to team with Hostway to launch the industry’s first database administration as a service offering on the cloud,” said Thor Culverhouse, President and CEO, Stratavia. “With Stratavia’s Data Palette driving the automation behind NetDBAs, IT administrators can better manage the full lifecycle of database operations, thereby enabling companies to realize economies of scale and better return on investment from the cloud.”
“We are excited to launch this value added solution that will automate and simplify the most time consuming and repetitive tasks typically performed by database administrators,” says Todd Benjamin, vice president of Enterprise Hosting, Hostway.” With assistance from Stratavia we have harnessed high-end enterprise-class automation technology, simplified it, and deployed it in the cloud to be cost effective and versatile, solving a prevailing challenge for today’s efficiency minded corporations.”

About Stratavia
Stratavia is the leader in application stack automation for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. Stratavia automates the full operational lifecycle of enterprise database and application server technology including planning, provisioning, patching, recurring maintenance, incident response, and common change requests from a self-service console. Fortune 1,000 companies rely on the Data Palette Automation Platform and pluggable Data Palette Apps to automate their database and application operations across both internal clouds and physical infrastructure. Founded in 2001, Stratavia is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and is privately held and venture funded. For more information, go to www.stratavia.com.

About Hostway Corporation
Hostway Corporation provides dedicated hosting, shared hosting, colocation, domain name registration, ecommerce solutions and other Web-based services to over 1.4 million Web sites and 600,000 customers worldwide. The company operates more than 250,000 square feet of state-of-the-art data center space that reduces the complexity and cost of Web-based technologies for small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the world’s largest Web hosting companies with a direct presence in 14 countries, 17 worldwide operation centers and more than 700 employees. http://www.hostway.com

eUKhost Announce Reseller Account Offers

eUKhost, the UK’s premier web hosting company, have announced a range of offers now available on their reseller hosting plans, including free end user support and a free domain reseller account amongst others.

A reseller account through eUKhost is one of the most affordable ways for web entrepreneurs to set up their own website hosting operation in the UK today. For just £14.99 a month, customers who sign up for eUKhost’s reseller packages will get a wealth of benefits including a free domain, the ability to host multiple domains, free end user support, a free domain reseller account, a 99.95% uptime guarantee, 24/7 technical support 365 days of the year and instant account activation.

UK hosting through an eUKhost reseller package is currently one of the best deals offered on the hosting market – the free end user support especially being one of the key selling points of a reseller package. Through it, customers of resellers will be able to contact eUKhost for 24/7 customer support via an anonymous email address or resellers can redirect emails to their helpdesk. Resellers also have the option to put a support request form on their website, which will be redirected to eUKhost technical support when submitted.

“We have seen a surge in people contacting us when they’re looking to become resellers, mostly due to some of the fantastic benefits our UK hosting can provide to potential clients,” says Ryan Watson, Business Development Manager at eUKhost. “One of our main selling points has been our customer service and technical support. We always offer our services 24-hours a day, seven days a week for peace of mind should our resellers or their clients ever encounter any problems. It’s this depth of service that will assure resellers that they are getting the best online hosting package across the UK, courtesy of eUKhost.”

For more information details about eUKhost Ltd and their services please visit http://www.eukhost.com or call 0808 262 0255.

Launched in 2001, eUKhost Ltd offer a range of services including Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Business Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Semi-Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers and Offsite Backup Solutions. 24/7 technical support is available and 99.95% uptime guarantee is offered as standard with their UK-based servers.

BODHost UK launches Shared and Reseller Hosting Packages

Wakefield, United Kingdom – BODHost, the UK’s leading web server hosting company, announced a range of offers now available on their shared hosting and reseller hosting services including end-user support, pre-installed applications and much more starting at only £1.99.

A shared hosting service through BODHost is one of the most cost effective ways for any webmaster or user to host their websites in the UK today. At a higly affordable price of £1.99 per month, customers who signup for BODHost shared or reseller hosting service will get access to benefits such as hosting unlimited domains, free end-user support for resellers, pre-installed applications and services, 100% uptime guarantee, 24×7 customer support and instant account activation.

Web Hosting in UK cannot be more simpler than BODHost UK shared hosting and reseller hosting packages. Features included with shared and reseller hosting packages are offered at a much higher price by other web hosting service providers.

“Till date we gained expertise in hosting vps and dedicated server hosting packages, but soon we realized that many customers demand for cheaper hosting solutions which they can offer to their clients and susequently, we came up with a decision to launch shared hosting and reseller hosting services at affordable prices. We offer 24×7 customer support and complete management features which are standard with all of our shared and reseller hosting packages.”

For more information details about BODHost Ltd and their services please visit http://www.bodhost.co.uk or call 0808 262 0909.

BlackLogic Hosting Releases New Client Account Management Platform

BlackLogic Hosting, a division of BlackLogic Communications, has announced the launch of their new web hosting client account interface.

According to Robert Bonin, Sales Manager at BlackLogic Hosting, “We have long realized that we needed to have a better web interface for our clients to manage their web hosting accounts with us”. Robert continues, “Our old interface was clunky and inadequate. With our new platform, based on WHMCS, our clients can now order a multitude of hosting account upgrades, pay or change their billing plans and to submit trouble tickets as well”.

BlackLogic Hosting is a full service web hosting company that only caters to business clients. From web hosting accounts, complete web design services, SEO/SEM and social media development and management services, BlackLogic Hosting has everything that a small to medium size business needs to provide their company with a solid web presence.

Robert states, “One thing thats sets us apart from our competition is that we generally focus on regional business clients.” Although our web presence markets our services to the US and Canada, we prefer the face to face interviews we have with our Florida clients.” “We feel that if a business is going to put their trust and money into a company such as ours, that the clients generally feel much more secure with traditional in person consultations.”

For on site consultations or email quotes, please contact BlackLogic Hosting through their site at www.blacklogichosting.com

EPiServer Everweb Provides High Availability Web Hosting

STOCKHOLM and CHICAGO, IL – EPiServer, the world’s fastest growing provider of platforms that drive online engagement, today announced the expansion of its high availability web hosting solution, Everweb. With growing customer demand for website hosting solutions that promise continuous availability, EPiServer Everweb delivers 99.9 percent availability with high quality and performance. This means websites that utilize Everweb – from large enterprise implementations to single sites – are operational round the clock, week in and week out, year after year. More than 1,000 websites currently rely on EPiServer Everweb to host their sites.

“A company’s website is often the first point of contact with customers and prospects, and as such it needs to function properly at all times,” said Martin Henricson CEO of EPiServer. “With EPiServer Everweb, not only are the pages of our customer sites always up-and-running, but when a slight issue does arise, EPiServer and our partner network can take care of the issue before our customer is aware of it. By the time it comes to their attention, the problem has already been solved.”

Business Critical Availability

EPiServer Everweb accommodates customers of all sizes and needs. It is designed for outsourced web operations where page availability is business critical. Everweb combines industry standard operational processes with insight about the EPiServer software environment, application management, and a strong relationship with the web development partner to ensure pages are always available to visitors. EPiServer understands how websites really operate and is thus able to monitor system health down to the page level, as well as at key points in the infrastructure, so any issues can be identified and resolved quickly – before web pages become unavailable.

Key Features
* Comprehensive operational process – Everweb extends beyond network and servers, covering content management system and website software.
* Page availability monitoring – Custom-built monitoring tools allow Everweb to monitor page availability issues and alert for resolution before visitors experience unavailability.
* Dedicated service manager – Each EPiServer Everweb customer is assigned a dedicated service manager who knows the customer site, operational needs, and web development partner for maximum focus on page uptime.
* Redundant operating environment – Everweb infrastructure features redundant network connections, hardware, and software for immediate failover in cases of system failure, ensuring pages are always available.
* Scalable infrastructure – EPiServer operates leverages state-of-the-art, virtualized infrastructure in multiple data centers around the globe. This infrastructure can be quickly re-configured to as site traffic increases.
* Experienced track record – EPiServer Everweb has been delivering its hosting service to satisfied customers around the globe for more than 10 years.

“If a website is not available, loyalty can be easily lost as users will go elsewhere to find what they need,” Henricson added. “EPiServer Everweb ensures that all EPiServer-based sites are reliable and available around the clock. And unlike hosting farms, we take responsibility for the entire web environment, making the process of managing and maintaining every aspect of a website seamless.”

EPiServer is the world’s fastest growing provider of Web Content Management (WCM) platforms and online community platforms. 3,000 customers worldwide use EPiServer CMS to create collaborative and engaging websites. EPiServer CMS is the foundation for more than 9,000 websites and is used on a daily basis by more than 130,000 web editors. EPiServer delivers its Web Content Management platform through an extensive network of over 400 competent partner companies in 30 countries. EPiServer combines the stability and support of a commercial product with a thriving developer community of an open source project through the EPiServer World community of over 9,000 developers. EPiServer is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with an AAA-ranking by Dun & Bradstreet since 2000. The company was founded in 1994 and has offices in the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom. More information on www.episerver.com

YESpay Launches New Cloud Managed Card Payment Service

YESpay has successfully launched its new cloud computing architecture for its 4 global card payments transaction processing data centres located in London (UK), Heathrow (UK), Toronto (Canada) and San Francisco (USA). Cloud computing refers to accessing dynamically scalable and often virtualized IT resources as a service over the Internet.

“Our EMBOSS card payment service probably the world’s first card payment service to develop and deploy our new cloud computing architecture as defined by industry experts such as Sun Microsystems”, said Dr. Chandra Patni, CEO and CTO of YESpay group of companies.
YESpay provides its integrated card transaction processing service to merchants throughout Europe and North America (USA and Canada). YESpay’s new 4 data centres, branded as EMBOSS, work on the new cloud computing architecture and deliver a resilient payment service to its customers through a “Software as a Service model” (SaaS) model. In a SaaS model, a single application is accessed by thousands of customers through the Internet. The main application is hosted centrally in multiple EMBOSS data centres and a basic software (EasyV Terminal) is installed at the customers end to facilitate communication with the host. In this type of multitenant architecture, customers are just thin clients with no requirements for servers or software licenses. The customers of such a service model are generally billed on a utility (pay as you use) or subscription basis.
The benefits deriving from YESpay’s SaaS model range from infinite scalability to reduced infrastructure investment and no software licensing charges. The main benefits of replicating cloud computing architecture for YESpay’s customers are categorized below.
Data Security
Since YESpay is responsible for storing the cardholder data on behalf of its clients, it ensures high levels of security, certified to PCI DSS level 1 at all its data centres throughout Europe and North America.
Commercial Benefits
With YESpay’s SaaS model, there is no capital investment required for the merchant, just operational monthly service costs. Customers don’t need their own operational staff and physical equipment (such as servers, storage, networks, and virtualization technologies) and can access YESpay’s payment solution over the internet.
Service Availability
YESpay EMBOSS Cloud computing load sharing gives 99.99% availability (practically 100%) even during maintenance, upgrades, etc, and additionally multiple load sharing data centres provide auto Disaster Recovery (DR) capability. Hence, YESpay is utilizing the cloud computing revolution to impart a fully resilient and “ready for future” payment services to its customers helping them adapt and excel in the ever changing card payment market scenario.
About YESpay International Ltd:
YESpay, card payments service company, provides highly secure Internet, EMV Chip & PIN, contactless and gift card payment processing services to independent and multi-chain merchants. Through EMBOSS™, YESpay’s Managed Payment Service, merchants can quickly accept integrated card payments within EPOS, kiosks, hospitality and e-commerce systems with minimal capital investment and low on-going services costs. EMBOSS is an on-line IP-based payment processing service that has been generically pre-accredited by major Card Acquirers in Europe and North America (including Chase Paymentech, First Data Merchant Service (FDMS), Barclaycard Business, HSBC, HBOS, Lloyds Cardnet, Streamline, Ulster Bank, Elavon, PBS, Amex and Diners). In addition, YESpay’s EMBOSS service is fully end to end certified to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Level 1 as mandated by Visa and MasterCard. The YESpay EasyV-Suite of card payment products is innovative and cost-effective for EPOS, Kiosk, Hospitality, Mobile and Internet environments. In combination with the YESpay hosted EMBOSS payment service, merchants can perform card payments in both card-present and card-not-present environments.
http://www.yes-pay.com