Daily Archives: August 8, 2011

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Fasthosts announce hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010 email packages

Fasthosts Internet Ltd, has launched a brand new range of high quality email packages based on Microsoft Exchange 2010. The solutions offer businesses and private users alike the very latest functionality for email, including mobile emailing and can improve productivity with shared calendars, tasks and contacts accessible from any computer. The feature-packed and robust email platform is ideal for small or medium sized businesses to equip their staff with varying levels of mailbox functionality for different types of user. In addition, Fasthosts new email packages deliver an efficient mobile email system which can lead to increased productivity and better response times for businesses in handling customer enquiries.

Fasthosts is a long-standing expert in delivering hosted Microsoft Exchange email solutions. The high quality features and reliability of the platform make it a popular choice for many UK firms. Fasthosts’ new Microsoft Exchange 2010 based packages provide ways to handle email more speedily and professionally. Free inclusive Microsoft Outlook software for PC or Mac enables users to synchronize email from multiple mailboxes, track email conversations, share calendar availability within groups, and manage work schedules with ease. Auto responders can be used to automatically respond to incoming emails. Forwarders and Catch-all Email can be used to distribute incoming emails effectively and manage which addresses are used as public-facing.

Remote access to email is now an important issue for many firms. All Fasthosts email packages now benefit from Microsoft Outlook 2010 Web App, a webmail solution for working flexibly from any computer. Email, contacts and calendars are updated in real-time so users always have the latest data to hand. Fasthosts Business email packages feature Microsoft ActiveSync, a simple to set up software that makes it easy to use the platform from a mobile device or tablet. The solution provides email, calendar, contacts and tasks synchronized directly to a mobile device.

For personal users, the Fasthosts Personal Email package is a highly affordable way to send professional, personalised email from a domain name. The 2 x 1GB virus and spam protected mailboxes are ideal for handling large attachments, an additional 5 x 100MB mailboxes included, and 10 email forwarders. For users whose mobile devices do not support full Exchange, IMAP Access enables users to access email in a slimmed down format on most handsets.

The Fasthosts Business email range now starts with the Business Standard package, which features 1 highest specification Professional mailbox, 5 Starter mailboxes and 20 email forwarders. The Business Premium package includes 3 Professional mailboxes, 2 Starter Plus mailboxes, a further unlimited Starter mailbox and unlimited email forwarders. Especially important for business users, all email data is hosted in Fasthosts’ highly secure state-of-the-art UK data centres, and benefits from industry-leading virus scanning and multi-level spam filtering. Fasthosts also provides the reassurance of a dedicated technical support team on hand 24/7.

Steve Holford, marketing director, Fasthosts Internet Ltd, said: “Firms of all sizes are learning that how email is handled can affect customer spend and loyalty. Our latest Exchange-powered packages enable a business to handle email and calendars more effectively across teams, and access important materials 24/7 from outside the workplace. The newest functionality can further help drive efficiencies and ensure that maximum value is had from every email sent and received”.

About Fasthosts:
Fasthosts is a leading web hosting provider. Based in the UK and operating 24×7 from their dedicated UK data centres, Fasthosts keeps over 1 million domain names running smoothly and ensures over 42 million emails are delivered safely each day. All Fasthosts services can be self-managed through the award winning Fasthosts web-based control panel. Services include domain registrations, shared web hosting, business-class email, virtual private servers, dedicated server hosting, software-as-a-service, online back-up, secure online storage and unlimited broadband.

Rackspace Launches Critical Sites in Europe

Rackspace Strengthens Enterprise Services for EMEA Customers With Launch of Critical Sites for Extreme Mission-Critical Deployments

Rackspace, the service leader in the cloud, today announces the European launch of its Critical Sites service. Designed to serve customers whose online presence is ‘extremely mission-critical’, Critical Sites delivers enterprise-level web hosting solutions and customer-facing applications and web services.

The Critical Sites offering drills into the application layer to deliver mission-critical support for clients’ most important websites and applications. Critical Sites customers receive access to a suite of performance management tools built to gain real-time visibility of the end user experience. The tools are designed to increase peak application performance and availability so that the customer’s infrastructure functions at the optimal level to support the business.

One of the initial Rackspace clients to utilize the Critical Sites service is BlackLine Systems, a provider of enterprise-class financial ‘close process’ applications delivered through an On Demand SaaS platform. Founded in 2001, BlackLine provides applications that automate the entire financial close process to help improve financial controls for companies.

“BlackLine is responsible for confidential financial data for some of the largest companies in the world,” said Mario Spanicciati, executive vice president of operations, BlackLine. “The Rackspace Critical Sites Service helps BlackLine deliver a reliable, high performance application to our global client base. The Critical Sites service has successfully extended our team’s capabilities and helped us to ensure that our SLAs are met.”

Critical Sites differs from Rackspace’s existing services in several ways. A team of web-scale engineers delivers service designed to give deep insights into application performance with scheduled analysis reviews for applications, infrastructure and architectures. In addition, Critical Sites provides customers with a sophisticated set of tools for advanced application and website monitoring and simulated load testing. This mission critical service also features a separate service level agreement (SLA), which includes a five-minute notification of events guarantee and a 100% Production Platform uptime guarantee.

“We are witnessing a revolution in how businesses choose to buy and consume IT. Where in the past, organisations ran their own entire IT operation; increasingly they are choosing to buy IT as a service from firms like Rackspace,” said Rackspace SVP David Kelly. “Today, customers like Mazda and Hawaiian Airlines are asking us to help with their most critical IT infrastructures – including those sites and applications that they have traditionally regarded as too precious to outsource. To address that need, we have created our Critical Sites service offering mission-critical, enterprise-grade hosting.”

The Critical Sites service has been available to US-based customers since October last year and we’ve welcomed customers including Mazda, Blackline Systems and Hawaiian Airlines who all rely on Critical Sites to keep their mission critical sites up and running. Demand for the Critical Sites service continues to grow, reflecting the importance of having great tools and engineers available to help deliver a superior user experience to customers.

With over 10 years of experience managing mission-critical websites and applications backed by Rackspace’s renowned Fanatical Support(R), the new European Critical Sites service is specifically designed for customers focused on optimising end-user experience and online transactions; the need to avoid site/application issues related to break & fix times; and also companies that need to decrease customer resources required for developing and maintaining their website or application.

About Rackspace Hosting

Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack, an open source cloud hosting platform. Rackspace provides Fanatical Support (R) to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognised by the Sunday Times Best Places to Work and Financial Times Top 50 Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom for the sixth year in a row. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the “2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. For more information, visit www.rackspace.co.uk

Qualtu.com Announces Affordable Web Hosting Plans with Free Domain Names

Qualtu.com, the fastest provider of affordable web hosting services, announced today that it has enhanced its product offering to include larger storage space and bandwidth (which is un-metered), followed by a more than 50% price slash.

Priced from €1.99 to €4.99 monthly, Qualtu.com’s web hosting services enable any individual or organization to put their web on internet without the need of technical know-how as its cPanel offers 1-Click installation and friendly 24×7 customer support.

The significant part of Qualtu.com’s web hosting service is that it offers more than 30 TLDs for free (free domain names).

Qualtu.com also offers VPS hosting for high-traffic Web sites. Moreover, it is also offering cost-effective e-commerce solutions at really amazing rates. The core purpose of Qualtu.com is to provide quality and cost-effective services on internet to everyone.

For more information, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.qualtu.com/