Daily Archives: November 29, 2011

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GlowHost Announces Upgrades To Reseller Hosting Program

Hosting News

GlowHost, announced today a selection of new upgrades to its website reseller hosting solutions. The company has introduced new tools and content including video tutorials and a website template, all of which can be branded to match the needs of hosting resellers. These new features are designed to make it easier to start generating money online quicker.

“One of our ongoing goals at GlowHost is to offer the world’s best web hosting reseller program,” says Matt Lundstrom, President at GlowHost. “We already offer instant account setup and competitive resource allocations, but if our resellers are to make money online, they need help getting their web presence, marketing, and branding together as quickly as possible. Every one of our new reseller hosting features makes the process of launching your own hosting company faster.”

In order to help users get the best results from their reseller web hosting plans, GlowHost has introduced a number of new features to help with advertising and promotion. Perhaps the most impressive of these new tools is the launch of over 1000 video tutorials, covering a range of subjects that may be useful to end-users who sign up for a hosting account with resellers. Available in 10 languages, the impact of these tutorials is two-fold – they not only reduce customer support calls by educating end-users fully, but also help to build customer confidence with professional video content. These videos can be branded with a reseller’s own name and logo, helping to ensure continuity throughout each individual reseller web hosting account. Of course, web hosting resellers need somewhere to display these videos. GlowHost has also made available a professional pre-built website template, dramatically reducing the time to market.

“By using our new reseller web hosting plan tools, our resellers have the chance to get their business online with an authoritative, trustworthy presence,” says Lundstrom. “With just a few clicks, our customers can have a cPanel reseller account ready to go and the web presence they need to start drawing visitors. But we haven’t stopped there. We have also made it easier for reseller hosting users to offer better quality of service, by combining our video tutorials with some ‘behind the scenes changes’ that make administering your hosting company more streamlined. By offering better services, our web hosting resellers attract more customers and earn more money.”

To increase the efficiency of managing a reseller hosting account, GlowHost has introduced new features providing more flexibility in terms of billing. Resellers can now choose between ClientExec or WHMCS billing software, and also receive a special merchant account with free Authorize.net gateway setup and special discounted pricing for the hosting industry. These billing-specific features are largely invisible to the end users who purchase hosting from resellers, but help to reduce the time spent on managing accounts and to provide consistently better service throughout. In addition to the new range of features announced today, GlowHost still provides branded cPanel reseller account software, a free domain reseller account, and a free branded private name server.

“Before now, we offered everything you could need to set up a web hosting company of your own,” says Lundstrom. “We provided a quality reseller web hosting service with incredible network reliability, guaranteed uptime and a price-point that leaves plenty of room for resellers to make a profit. We have always been proud of our commitment to reseller hosting, but it wasn’t enough. Today, we don’t just give reseller hosting customers the chance to set up their company – we give them what they need to set it up today.”

Since the company was first formed in 2002, GlowHost has grown to become a leading provider of web hosting services, with reseller hosting services that give customers an opportunity to sell high quality hosting to their own clients. Now, with the launch of these powerful new reseller web hosting tools, it is easier and quicker than ever to start a web hosting company of your own.

Customers who are interested in finding out more about GlowHost’s cPanel reseller hosting program are encouraged to visit glowhost.com for more details.

About GlowHost
Founded in 2002, GlowHost is an award-winning host that aims to provide highly reliable web hosting services at a highly competitive price, and has grown to become one of the world’s foremost web hosts for individuals and businesses alike. GlowHost currently supplies tens of thousands of customers worldwide with shared web hosting, cloud virtual dedicated server hosting, dedicated server hosting, and cloud hosting solutions, all available on a network designed for stability and the security of mission-critical data. GlowHost also offers a popular reseller web hosting solution. Across each of these distinct service types, GlowHost is committed to customer satisfaction, offering three Iron-Clad guarantees – a 60-day money back promise, 100% network uptime agreement, and up to 99.999% uptime hosting depending on your chosen solution.

nlyte Announces v6.2 of Data Center Infrastructure Management Software

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nlyte Software, the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider founded by data center professionals for data center professionals, today launched nlyte 6.2, the first DCIM solution to provide large scale data center project lifecycle management.

nlyte DCIM project lifecycle management allows customers to auto-allocate hundreds of assets, easily create what-if models for any number and size of data center projects, automatically convert those models into actionable project plans with associated work orders, and predict the impact those projects have on the availability of power, space, cooling and connectivity. Each model can support moves for hundreds of assets tracked through Gantt charts to an on-time project completion. nlyte DCIM project lifecycle management makes it easy to simulate and manage large scale moves, adds and changes, technology refreshes, migrations, consolidations and other complex data center projects.

“Using predictive intelligence and analytics to automatically create actionable outputs is extremely useful to operators who need to make moves, adds and changes in the data center. I would expect data center professionals involved with planning and executing large scale initiatives who use the capabilities in nlyte 6.2 to generate substantial time and cost savings,” said Andy Lawrence, Research Director for Datacenter Technologies at The 451 Group.

Additional capabilities available in the nlyte 6.2 release include expanded browser support for Safari on the Mac, ongoing support for French and enhanced cable visualization. The cable visualization features allow users to selectively show one or many levels of connectivity so they can rapidly navigate even the largest networks to trace connections and identify potential redundancy issues at a glance.

“The DCIM Project Lifecycle Management functionality allows us to easily orchestrate the end-to-end process for deploying new assets in the data center. It handles prototyping the deployment, verifying the capacity, projecting the impact, reserving the space, generating the work orders and tracking the project to a successful completion. With nlyte 6.2, Nomura gains extended control of our data center projects and decreases the time and cost to deploy hundreds of assets in our data center,” explained Mark Andrews, Data Centre Manager, Nomura.

“DCIM needs to become simpler to adopt and use. In August of this year, nlyte introduced an entry level solution, nlyte Express Edition that makes it easy for companies to get started quickly with DCIM. DCIM project lifecycle management makes it easy for customers interested in enterprise class capabilities to move rapidly up the DCIM maturity curve and take advantage of advanced features that more effectively optimize the user of power, cooling and space,” said Jon Temple, president & CEO, nlyte Software.

About nlyte Software
nlyte Software was founded by data center professionals for data center professionals and is the independent provider of DCIM solutions. The nlyte DCIM suite provides the predictive intelligence and management controls needed to achieve smarter, more efficient and highly available data centers. nlyte Software is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. http://www.nlyte.com.

Myhosting.com Re-Launches Custom VPS Builder Plan

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myhosting.com has re-launched their “Build Your Own” Custom VPS Tool. The newly re-launched VPS Plan builder includes an entirely redesigned user interface providing the tool with a full facelift and more dynamic options, displaying features that are available to the user based on selections already made. Also included are options for displaying pre-configured plans for Developers, Businesses and Resellers with pre-selected options and optimized settings.

Also newly added are additional Plesk VPS add-on options including Plesk Premium Anti-Virus and Additional Language packs, as well as the Plesk Hosting Suite license, which includes Plesk Web Presence Builder and Plesk Billing, for users who have chosen Parallels Plesk Panel with their VPS server.

The newly released Build Your Own VPS tool also includes support for domain name lookup within the interface. When users fill in the domain lookup field, their requested domain is checked on the following step of the checkout process, displaying availability and alternate domain name options. If no domain name is entered, the checkout process has been fully streamlined to provide an optimized and quick checkout experience.

“It’s awesome”, said Jeremy Adams, Product Manager at myhosting.com. “Why limit yourself to a plan that your host thinks is ideal when nobody knows better than yourself exactly what you want. And by cutting out the features that you don’t need, you can save even more money!”

myhosting.com offers a full range of VPS Hosting options based on Hyper-V and Virtuozzo, including Windows 2008 R2 VPS, Debian and CentOS Linux VPS, as well as control panel options including Parallels Plesk Panel, cPanel/WHM and WHMCS.

For more information, please visit http://myhosting.com/virtual-server-hosting/custom-vps.aspx.

About myhosting.com
myhosting.com is owned and managed by SoftCom Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1997, SoftCom provides reliable and cost effective Email and Web Hosting services to more than 10 million customers with support of 26 languages in 140 countries worldwide. The myhosting.com name and the logo are registered trademarks of SoftCom Inc.

AllTrust Networks Launches New Cloud Platform

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AllTrust Cloud Delivers Underbanked Financial Products via Web Services

AllTrust Networks announced development of its new web service-based platform, AllTrust Cloud. The AllTrust Cloud provides retailers and financial service networks more flexibility and efficiencies in managing their financial service offerings.

The Cloud platform leverages AllTrust’s expertise in biometrics, check processing and risk management. Designed to be customizable and modular, the Cloud platform aids retailers in their battle against fraud; addresses the inefficiency of multiple hardware solutions, and improves complicated reconciliations.

Companies can now perform check cashing transactions on their preferred front-end and have the option to combine it with a risk-reducing biometric or guarantee service. Additional services, such as bill payment and money transfer, are available on the platform and leverage AllTrust’s common identity management for faster transactions and better compliance programs.

The AllTrust Cloud provides flexible solutions for retailers and partners. The AllTrust front-end called Retail Connect, offers a customizable web-based POS interface that can also be private labeled. For companies interested in integration, AllTrust offers API’s (Application Programming Interface). AllTrust’s APIs are a framework of messages which provide access to our Cloud Financial Services.

• Retail Connect provides retailers a front-end point-of-sale system that is also integrated with AllTrust’s existing check cashing service, Paycheck Secure. The initial release enables retailers to process both check cashing and POS purchases in one combined transaction. Bill payment, money transfer, money orders, and prepaid services providers can also be tied into the platform.

• APIs are available for businesses that want to offer AllTrust specific services on their own platforms. Services available for integration include Check Cashing, Check Guarantee, Bill Payment, Prepaid Services and Identity Management with optional biometric ID. Businesses will be able to easily integrate these services onto their own platforms; be those terminals, POS-based systems, or kiosk solutions.

“We are thrilled to bring the AllTrust Cloud to the market” says AllTrust CEO Jon Dorsey. “We can now better serve our retail customers through the efficient management of all their financial services offerings. Additionally, the flexibility of our new architecture allows us to open new markets in areas where AllTrust has historically excelled; managing check cashing risks and performing biometric identification on large databases.”

About AllTrust Networks
AllTrust Networks is the leading software and services provider for businesses providing check cashing and alternative financial services to their customers. Thousands of retailers nationwide use AllTrust’s check cashing solution, Paycheck Secure, for risk management and check processing, and benefit from AllTrust’s exclusive check casher and maker networks. AllTrust manages the country’s largest commercial biometric database, with over 7 million enrolled customers and has processed $39 billion through its network. For more information visit www.alltrustnetworks.com/cloud or our industry blog at www.unbankedtrends.com.

Cloud computing growth doubles iomart Group pre-tax profits

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iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), the cloud computing and managed hosting services company, has reported a rise in both revenue and pre-tax profits in its half yearly results.

The Group announced a 36% growth in revenue to £15.4m (H1 2011: £11.4m) and an increase of 106% in pre-tax profits to £2.4m (H1 2011: £1.2m), in its consolidated half yearly results for the period ended 30 September 2011.

Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart Group plc, said: “The market opportunities available to us continue to grow as more and more organisations take advantage of the benefits of outsourcing their IT infrastructure needs to a strong and trusted supplier such as iomart. We continue to expand our skills, product sets and infrastructure to deliver an increasing range of cloud services and expect to continue the growth we have recently enjoyed.”

Adjusted EBITDA¹ showed growth of 85% to £5.0m (H1 £2.7m) with basic earnings per share more than doubling to 2.23p, a rise of 112% (H1 2011: 1.05p). Cashflow from operations was £4.1m (H1 2011: £3.1m) while net cash at the end of period was £3.5m (H1 2011: £5.3m).

The continuing growth in the uptake of cloud services has contributed to iomart’s continuing success. Among the companies that have moved into the cloud with iomart this year are Skyscanner and Nova International.

Angus MacSween continued: “We are continuing to deliver on our strategy of focusing on managed hosting and the growing demand for complex hosting in the cloud. Revenues are strong and we continue to make acquisitions as well as growing organically.”

iomart Group has made three acquisitions in the past 12 months, including the addition of a premium customer base through the purchase of Scottish infrastructure service provider EQSN for £2.5m last week.

iomart Group plc is Scottish Digital IT Company of the Year 2011 and is ranked as one of the top 25 cloud services providers in the world by Talkin’ Cloud 50.

1 Adjusted EBITDA means earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation charges, share based payment charges, acquisition related costs and non-recurring acquisition integration costs.