February 18, 2011 - Hosting Publicity

CDNs vs Cloud Computing at the CDN World Forum

Hosting News

Two of computing’s hottest topics, Cloud Computing and Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will be brought together in a shared discussion at the CDN World Forum taking place on the 21st and 22nd of June at Olympia, London.

With much being made about the impact Cloud Computing could have on organisations across the world, Content Delivery Networks is often left as an afterthought by many businesses. However, in session three of the CDN World Forum’s second day, the discussions ‘Cloud Computing vs. CDNs- Grudge match or match made in heaven?’ and ‘Cloud Computing – Is this CDN or a completely new service’ will focus on the effect cloud computing and CDN could have on one another in the near future and be debated by a panel of speakers from the industry.

The event is co-located with the Cloud Computing World Forum, now in its 3rd year and with over 2500 attendees expected.

Key speakers confirmed include:

– Ian Rosarius, Managing Director – TV and Content, BT
– Bo Harris, CTO, Channel 4
– Mosiri Cabezas, Global CDN Director, Telefonica
– Masaaki Moribayashi, Managing Director, NTT Europe Limited
– Xavier Perret, Service Partnership Vice President, Orange FT Group, France
– Eugenio Pettazzi, Head of Difital Terrestrial Operations, Mediasat
– Catherine Powell, SVP/GM, Media Distribution, The Walt Disney Company EMEA
– Miroslaw Suszek, Chief Operating Officer, UPC Poland
– Giuseppe Valentino, Director, Marketing, Telecom Italia Sparkle
– Mattias Fridstrom, Director, Portfolio Management, TeliaSonera
– Inga Alika, Director, Television Business Division, Lattelecom
– Marc Lellouche, Head of Belgacom TV, Belgacom
– James Strickland, Director of Product and Technology Development, Freesat
– Erik Jenson, Head of Section, Content & Acquisition, Telenor Nordic
– Markus Gisi, Head of TV Services, Swisscom
– Tim Wright, Vice-President, Worldwide New Media and Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment
– M. Oskar van Deventer, TNO, Netherlands
– Raj Khalia, Business Development Director, TalkTalk Technology
– Cesar Bachelet, Senior Analyst, Analysys Mason

The CDN World Forum features a free-to-attend exhibition. All attendees will have access to the Cloud Computing World Forum and CDN World Forum exhibitors, workshops and seminars. To register your place at the forum please visit the website, or call the team on +44 (0)845 519 1230.

For further information on speaking opportunities, sponsorship and exhibition options, please contact the Keynote team on +44 (0)845 519 1230 or email [email protected]

Fresh Software releases X-NetStat 5.57

Internet

Fresh Software, has released an update to its network monitoring software, X-NetStat version 5.57. The program now has a stealth mode, which allows it to operate and log connections while completely hidden.

Additionally, the program can now integrate itself with the WipPcap 4.0 packet sniffer, and the Wireshark packet capture and analysis tool. A one-click Google search feature was also implemented, along with performance improvements.

Fresh Software LLC, a Wisconsin-based shareware and freeware vendor, was founded in 1998. Fresh’s other programs include Port Magic, FreshFind, Sentry, and Warden .htaccess manager for Apache.

Fresh Software is on the web at http://www.freshsoftware.com/

RAD ETX-203A Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Unit Wins Award

Internet

RAD Data Communications’ ETX-203A Carrier Ethernet network termination unit has been recognized with the 2010 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Price Performance Value Leadership. The award endorses the ETX-203A as a feature-rich, comprehensive solution at an extremely competitive price.

RAD is showing the ETX-203A and other members of its extensive line of Carrier Ethernet products for mobile backhaul and network access applications at the Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona this week. RAD is in Stand 1D01 in Hall 1.0.

The Frost & Sullivan award is given annually to a company whose product is judged by the analyst organization to best suit market and its clients’ needs based upon price competitiveness, features, ease of use of the product, and the service effectiveness of the company.

Frost & Sullivan declared that the ETX-203A has “reset the average selling price of Carrier Ethernet demarcation devices without compromising on features” and is “one of the most feature-rich products on the market” Frost & Sullivan went on to say that the ETX-203A comprehensively addresses service provider requirements in the areas of traffic management, service creation, SLA assurance, device management, and lifecycle cost optimization.

RAD introduced the ETX-203A in September 2010 as a “game changing” solution that lowers the CapEx barrier for service providers in the business services market. The network termination unit is based on RAD’s in-house developed EtherAccess™ Carrier Ethernet ASIC, which enables RAD to offer the ETX-203A at a highly competitive price and on a licensing-based pay-as-you-grow basis.

“Receiving a prestigious award such as this is not only an honor, but a validation of RAD’s approach to the Carrier Ethernet market,” said Ron Agam, Director of Product Line Management for RAD Data Communications. “We brought the ETX-203A to market specifically to deliver the benefits of RAD’s EtherAccess technology at a price point that removes financial obstacles for service providers who want to offer Ethernet business services. Frost & Sullivan’s recognition of the ETX-203A confirms our strategy.”

About RAD Data Communications
Founded in 1981, RAD Data Communications has achieved international recognition as a major manufacturer of high quality access and backhaul equipment for data communications and telecommunications applications. These solutions serve the data and voice access requirements of service providers, carriers, and enterprise networks. The company’s installed base exceeds 11,000,000 units and includes more than 150 carriers and operators around the world, including AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Hutchison, Orange, Telekom Austria, TeliaSonera, Telstra, T-Mobile, and Verizon. RAD is an active participant in industry organizations such as the IETF, Broadband Forum, ITU, and MEF. Its customers are supported by 28 offices and more than 300 channel partners in 165 countries. RAD’s environmental management system is ISO 14001 certified. Its operations facilities and processes comply with the industry’s most stringent standards and are completely non-polluting. RAD is a member of the RAD Group of companies, a world leader in networking and internetworking product solutions. RAD Data Communications site: www.rad.com.

About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company’s Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO’s Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.awards.frost.com

Hostirian Launches New Line of Cloud Services

Cloud

Hostirian, L.L.C., a leading provider of business-class shared, VPS, dedicated servers, collocation and cloud-based blogging platforms, today launched a new line of Cloud Packages (powered by Citrix XenServer), offering cloud-based services for those customers with requirements that extend beyond a normal hosting environment.

Citing a growing trend toward cloud hosting, Hostirian has begun offering five new cloud services, which are supported by multiple state-of-the-art servers. Each server/node features 74GB of high speed RAM and Dual Intel X5650 Hexacore processors on an N+1 architecture. All of the packages are hosted on 15,000 RPM SCSI drives in a RAID10 configuration, giving our customers outstanding disk performance while maintaining a high level of redundancy. Those servers are backed by a multi-homed 10Gbps Cisco network. Plus, high availability (HA)/Self Healing technology is standard on all of their Cloud Services.

High availability (HA) eliminates the need for dedicated standby hardware and software in a virtualized environment. Self healing has the ability to perceive that it is not operating correctly and, without human intervention, make the necessary adjustments to restore itself to normal operation. This means that cost is minimized for our clients, while speed and redundancy is maximized.

“We recognized the need for a cost-effective 100% uptime solution for cloud services, to address our customers’ growing requirements,” said Ken Cox, Vice President of Operations. “This new line of cloud packages offers them the best range of cloud services available industry-wide. Our customers can feel comfortable that their data is safe and their website will be online 100% of the time.”

The new cloud packages are the Standard, Business, Advanced, Extreme and Elite, ranging from $175/month to $1249/month.

About Hostirian:

Hostirian, a division of River City Internet Group (www.rcig.net) was founded to meet the needs of regional businesses seeking a local web hosting partner capable of providing state-of-the-art and cost-effective hosting facilities, superb customer service and assistance in marketing and managing their business’s web presence. Hostirian offers shared and managed web hosting services to businesses operating mission critical, multi-functional websites. In addition, Hostirian offers web hosting services to a rapidly growing number of application service providers, enabling them to more efficiently deliver application services to their customers over the Internet. Hostirian also offers value-added services, such as firewall management, stress testing and consulting services, including capacity and migration planning. Our services give the customer the option to use their own hardware and software or we can provide the hardware, software, network technology and systems management necessary. Hostirian’s core focus is to offer our customers comprehensive outsourced website and application hosting solutions.

Learn more about Hostirian’s web hosting solutions at www.hostirian.com or call us at (800) 615-9349.