July 22, 2010 - Hosting Publicity

InstaCarma Launches New Website Featuring Enterprise Class and Innovative Solutions for the Hosting Industry

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InstaCarma (http://www.instacarma.com) launched its revamped website complete with its new and innovative solutions for the Hosting industry today. The website gives a whole new insight on the latest technologies that the company has embraced.

InstaCarma, with its 8 years expertise in Hosting technologies has carved itself from a premium webhosting support provider to an enterprise class solutions provider for the Hosting industry. Their portfolio of services is in line with the changing trends in the industry and encompasses the latest technologies and best of talent, proven by its launch of cloud services for the industry. Apart from cloud solutions, they have come up with services which cater to specific sections of the industry. Some of them are Datacenter Consulting, Automation, Managed Services, SaaS Implementations, Hosting Business Management Systems and other development services.

In an attempt to provide prompt solutions for its customers, InstaCarma has incorporated a 24/7 LiveChat feature in the website. The company launched its blog (instacarma.com/blog) last year, which has grown fairly well in popularity and hits, and has a presence on Twitter (twitter.com/instacarma) as well.

The Managing Director of the company, Mr. Aromal Rajagopal, is going to unveil the new services at HostingCon which is being held in Austin, Texas. The company, which has been in operation since 2003, is exhibiting for the second time at HostingCon. The new website serves well to stoke industry curiosity about the company’s services and offerings which will be showcased at the event.

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Kaltura Launches Version 2.0 of Its On-Prem Community Edition Open Source Video Platform

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Kaltura, Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source online video platform, announced at the OSCON 2010 Open Source Convention, that it has released version 2.0 of the Kaltura On-Prem Community Edition Video Platform — the company’s free, community-supported video platform. Community Edition version 2.0 is a full-featured video platform that is installed on-premise behind the publisher’s firewall. It includes the full range of Kaltura’s online-video tools and capabilities — from ingestion, transcoding, management, metadata extraction, SEO, publishing, monetization and analytics, as well as Enterprise-grade tools for monitoring and administrating the system and tools for OEMs and service providers to support multiple sites and publisher accounts.

This release comes exactly one year after the initial release of Kaltura’s Community Edition in July 2009. Since then, Comunity Edition and its supportive widgets, applications, and plug-ins have been downloaded more than 120,000 times by developers, publishers, universities and enterprises around the world. The new version incorporates a wide range of changes and enhancements based on feedback, and code contributions coming from the Kaltura developer community and its several thousand members. The new version of Kaltura Community Edition is available for free download here: http://www.kaltura.org/project/community_edition_video_platform.

“Kaltura is disrupting the online-video marketplace by solving the ‘Build versus Buy’ dilemma with the introduction of a third open-source alternative that is the best of both worlds,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman & CEO. “The Community Edition and its components have been downloaded 30 times more than all the proprietary platforms combined over the course of the past year! The reason for this is that it not only eliminates platform costs, but it also provides unparalleled flexibility, ease of integration and control, ensuring freedom from vendor lock-in and an unmatched pace of innovation that is fueled by thousands of developers across the world.”

Kaltura Community Edition version 2.0 is a cross-platform and device solution, supporting delivery to all video enabled mobile phones using all formats including Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and HTML5 video. The platform can be installed as an on-premise solution on both Windows and Linux environments. The platform is pre-integrated with all leading CMS and LMS platforms, including Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Elgg, TikiWiki, Alfresco, Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle and more.
“Following the overwhelmingly positive response from the open source community to the initial version of the Kaltura Community Edition, we are extremely excited to now offer the second version with great enhancements and additional tools,” said Dr. Shay David, Kaltura VP of Business and Community Development. “We invite the community to continue to download Community Edition and our other open source video widgets and applications, join the discussion in our forums, and contribute their own code to the ever-growing Kaltura framework.”

About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world’s first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 70,000 web publishers, service providers, developers, and educational institutions use Kaltura’s flexible platform to enhance their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with advanced customized video, photo and audio functionalities, including publishing, management, syndication, monetization and analysis, as well as content uploading and remixing. The free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available for download at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Founded in 2006, New York-based Kaltura is also a founding member of the ‘Open Video Alliance’ (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video. For more information: www.kaltura.com and www.kaltura.org.

1&1 Announces .CO Domains

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1&1 Internet Ltd., has announced that it is now offering .CO domain name registrations. The company claims that as one of only 11 exclusive Registrars worldwide, it has official certification to sell the new domain suffix.

A variety of user-groups can now benefit from securing their relevant .CO domains for just GBP 29.99/year+VAT. It adds that businesses are advised to secure their domains early, as the granting of domain names is on a ‘first-come, first-served’ basis.

Easyspace Announce 3 Months Free Web Hosting Offer

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Easyspace, one of the leading providers of Web Hosting and Domain Names in the UK, has announced the launch of a free web hosting promotion designed to provide customers with an increased benefit from their new hosting packages.
Web Hosting is a natural add on to any domain name purchase and is often the first stop for people looking for somewhere to host their website, particularly when a Dedicated or Virtual Server option is deemed too expensive.

Having provided high quality Web Hosting solutions for 10 years, Easyspace is now offering 3 months free on all Web Hosting packages sold until the end of August 2010. Unlike similar offers by other providers in recent times, Easyspace are not simply discounting the price to be the equivalent of giving away 3 months free. Rather, all Web Hosting packages purchased up until the end of August will be provisioned for 15 months rather than 12, meaning you really do get 3 months free.

“A lot of our attention in recent times has been on providing fantastic value for money offers across our range of domain name extensions. We now want customers, who want to add web hosting to their account, to benefit from a similar value for money option.” comments Sarah Haran, Managing Director at Easyspace.

“The free 3 months is added to all web hosting packages by default, meaning there is no opting in required. New and existing customers simply have to purchase hosting as they normally would and they’ll find they receive a 15 month contract rather than 12 month at no extra cost.”

Easyspace web hosting is perhaps best known in recent times for its highly innovative and cheap web hosting solution, Pic N Mix, launched to make the process of buying web hosting far more simple and flexible.

Rather than the standard process of choosing a static pre-built package, Pic N Mix Web Hosting allows customers to choose volumes on a variety of features including number of mailboxes and disk space, as well as having the option of choosing Operating System and number of databases. Pic N Mix customers can also choose from seven popular domain extensions for the free domain included in each package.

Sarah continued, “Pic N Mix is revolutionary, yet simple, in its purpose and usability. Allowing customers to choose the features of their hosting package allows them full control over the price they pay. Essentially it allows customers to pay only for what they need and not for features they won’t use. Now, with the 3 month free offer, Pic N Mix customers would benefit from 15 months of hosting for an equivalent price of under GBP 2 per month.”

The 3 Months Free offer launched by Easyspace is available on all Shared Web Hosting packages and runs until the end of August. It is open to both new and existing customers looking to purchase a new Web Hosting package.