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Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 5, 2009 – SoftLayer Technologies has launched CloudLayer, a new line of cloud services that brings individuals and enterprises powerful options for dynamically scaling their IT resources, maximizing data accessibility, and optimizing their total cost of IT.

Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer remarked, ”The capabilities and vision that it takes to do cloud right is where SoftLayer has long proven its expertise. We aren’t jumping on the cloud bandwagon. We didn’t create CloudLayer to leverage our excess data center capacity. We developed CloudLayer because it’s a natural evolution of what we do. It gives customers the IT they need, when they need it, with all of the flexibility and efficiency of on-demand IT resources without any compromise in performance, security, or control.”

The launch introduces CloudLayer Storage and CloudLayer CDN, with CloudLayer Computing to follow. Built on SoftLayer’s core advantages and longtime leadership in automated services, the CloudLayer family provides advantages and capabilities not found with other cloud service providers. Besides operating as stand-alone solutions, every CloudLayer service can seamlessly interface with SoftLayer’s dedicated servers and automated services to create a fully integrated computing environment controlled through the SoftLayer Customer Portal or API. This provides unprecedented opportunities for interoperability and efficiency.

Additional CloudLayer features include:

Pay As You Go or Monthly Packages: Monthly billing is based on hourly usage or monthly plans with no long-term commitment, letting customers optimize their return on technology investment by paying only for the resources they need and use. Hourly billing will be offered in the near future.
Immediate Scalability: Services are added in real time to accommodate unexpected or temporary changes in demand, providing exactly the level of IT power and capacity as needed, when needed.
Ease of Use and Control: Full control via SoftLayer’s Customer Portal and API provides streamlined, simplified management, as well as direct access to all SoftLayer services and tools.

CloudLayer CDN is designed to enable online service providers to deliver content to their end users faster and more efficiently via a network of 21 cloud-connected nodes running advanced software for organizing, storing, and streaming data. Rather than serving content directly from a host server, content is served from the node that is geographically closest to the end user. This minimizes the distance the data has to travel, mitigates network traffic jams, and decreases latency. CloudLayer CDN is available with Origin Pull or POP Pull delivery strategies, letting customers optimize their costs and end user experience.

Additional CloudLayer CDN benefits include:

Content Management and Monetization Tools: Protects content access and digital rights to maximize return.
Performance-Neutral Growth: Minimizes the impact that increased content demand makes on delivery speed.
Broader Geographic Reach: Optimizes the speed and reliability of content delivery regardless of destination.
High Quality Content and Rich-Media: Allows robust and richer web content without performance sacrifices.

CloudLayer Storage provides cloud-based data storage for storing, managing, and sharing data in any file format, with full access and control. It can be accessed through WebDAV or a Web 2.0 browser interface, as well as through native clients that SoftLayer has developed for Windows, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile devices. Data is stored to SoftLayer’s advanced StorageLayer solution, which integrates industry-leading technologies including FTP/NAS, iSCSI, EVault, and others into a unified storage environment for the ultimate level of security and reliability.

Additional CloudLayer Storage benefits include:

Support for All File Formats: Upload, store, and share files of any type or size.
Advanced Security Technologies: 256-bit AES encryption, SSL encryption, role-based permissions, share expiration, and more protect data during transmission and while stored.
Streamlined Sharing and Linking: Collaboration tools allow users to securely share file access with vendors, customers, family, and friends without moving files from their stored locations.

Nathan Day, CTO of SoftLayer noted, ”We worked very hard to design CloudLayer so that it provides capabilities that aren’t found anywhere else, with the ease-of-use and reliability that cloud services must have in order to be viable for enterprises. With the extensive infrastructure and proprietary solutions that SoftLayer has built, and with modern virtualization technologies, CloudLayer truly delivers the cloud experience that the industry has been promising. We can’t wait to see what our customers accomplish with it.”

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers world-class, on-demand virtual data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates all facets of IT to innovate industry-leading solutions that are fully automated. This empowers customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT environment.

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Jacksonville, Florida – (The Hosting News) – May 5, 2009 – Provider of online marketing and hosting for small businesses, Web.com, has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets and select liabilities of privately-held Solid Cactus, an eCommerce site builder and solutions provider.

Solid Cactus will continue to operate as a separate brand of Web.com and will retain its offices in Shavertown and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

The acquisition of Solid Cactus is hoped to enhance Web.com’s strategic position as a comprehensive, “one-stop” resource for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking online marketing and eCommerce solutions.
David Brown, Chairman and CEO of Web.com remarked, ”The acquisition of Solid Cactus demonstrates our commitment to providing SMBs with a broad range of online marketing solutions and eCommerce expertise to help them convert website traffic to sales. As more consumers make their buying decisions online, small businesses see the increasing importance of having a professionally built e-store. This is further reinforced by recent studies that show that online shoppers are less sensitive to adverse economic conditions than the average U.S. consumer. Solid Cactus’ eCommerce site building capabilities and suite of solutions are an excellent complement to Web.com’s 1ShoppingCart.com eCommerce platform and our recent partnerships in small business payment processing.”
Solid Cactus provides a full-range of solutions for new and existing online businesses, including website and eCommerce store design and programming, pay-per-click advertising management, search engine optimization, affiliate program and e-mail marketing management, call center and virtual office services, and Software as a Service (SaaS) products (FeedPerfect and Cactus Complete Commerce).
Scott Sanfilippo, co-founder and President of Solid Cactus added, ”Joining Web.com provides Solid Cactus with the resources to enhance our specialized eCommerce and online marketing product offerings. We look forward to working with our new colleagues at Web.com in expanding our presence in the eCommerce market.”
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Web.com does not expect the transaction to have a material impact to its 2009 non-GAAP diluted earnings per share, which excludes the non-cash expense associated with amortization of intangibles associated with acquisitions. Management has not yet determined the impact on its 2009 GAAP earnings per share, as it has not completed its valuation analysis.
In conjunction with the acquisition, Web.com will grant inducement awards to 125 new employees from Solid Cactus under Web.com’s 2009 Inducement Award Plan, adopted in anticipation of the acquisition. The inducement awards consist of options to purchase an aggregate of 146,900 shares of Web.com’s common stock. The options have a ten year term and an exercise price equal to the closing price of Web.com’s common stock on the date of grant. The options vest each month ratably over four years.
Solid Cactus, Inc., headquartered in Shavertown, PA, has designed or redesigned more than 3,500 eCommerce websites. Solid Cactus was recognized as one of the country’s fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine in 2007 and 2008 and was named one of the “Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania” in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The company provides its clients with a full array of Web design and eCommerce solutions, including search engine marketing (SEM), pay-per-click (PPC) management, affiliate program management, call center services, back-end order management, print design and consulting.
Web.com Group, Inc. is a leading provider of online marketing for small businesses. Web.com offers a full range of online services, including Internet marketing and advertising, local search, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, lead generation, home contractor specific leads, website design and publishing, logo and brand development and eCommerce solutions, meeting the needs of small businesses anywhere along their lifecycle.

To learn more about Solid Cactus, please visit: www.solidcactus.com.

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Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 4, 2009 – Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has reported its first quarter 2009 financials, ending March 31, 2009, for its customary update to customers, business partners and prospects with information relative to new initiatives and its progress.

Kevin Klausmeyer, Chief Financial Officer of The Planet noted, ”We ended the first quarter with the highest EBITDA in our history, and one of the best quarters in terms of free cash flow. Our cash position and balance sheet remain healthy, and we continue to make long-term investments.”

Douglas J. Erwin , Chairman and CEO of The Planet added, ”Our largest accounts fueled our growth this quarter, with virtual and private rack solutions making significant contributions to our revenue. Of note is that one-third of our sales this quarter were derived from products and services that didn’t exist in our portfolio just one year ago. Customer satisfaction remains at record-high levels in both our call center and in our data centers. Despite the challenging economic environment faced by companies around the world, including our own, we continued our strong year-over-year double-digit revenue growth. We are financially stable and well-positioned to sustain our business model, backed by our $45 million credit facility secured last fall. Our new colocation facility in North Dallas is scheduled to open this quarter, and leasing has begun on our new London data center. We are continuing our strategic direction, putting into place the infrastructure that will maximize our returns as the economy rebounds. More than any company in our business, we provide our customers with the best and broadest range of cost-effective hosting options in the industry.”

First Quarter Highlights include:

New Customers: The company added more than 1,300 new customers in the first quarter, for a total of approximately 20,000. New data also reveals that The Planet now hosts 16.9 million Web sites.
Storage Cloud: The company announced the industry’s only globally dispersed Storage Cloud solution. Customers can choose from an on-premise local node in the Dallas D2 data center, or from locations on the East or West Coasts, Europe or Asia, through its partnership with Nirvanix.
Alpha Professional Services: The company added new advanced services, expressly designed for its private and virtual rack customers, the fastest-growing products in its portfolio. Services include around-the-clock direct contact with a dedicated team of certified systems administrators, one-hour hardware replacement, server monitoring and daily backups.
Online Hosting Requirements Tool: For customers evaluating hosting options, the new online survey helps companies determine the precise requirements and appropriate budget for their business. The survey offers recommendations based on IT infrastructure size; server choices based on price vs. performance; platform preferences; management needs; SLA options; and budget.
Panacore Corporation: The company added Panacore Corporation (www.panacore.com) to its list of Northstar Managed Hosting customers. Based in Odessa, Texas, Panacore provides Internet services, software development and interactive communications to its clients in the petroleum, medical, legal and entertainment industries.
Q Point Technology: Based in Mountain View, Calif., Q Point Technology (www.truesafe.net) announced it has added The Planet Storage Cloud solution to its portfolio. Q Point is the developer of TrueSafe software, which enables services providers, such as IT Managed Services Providers, to offer their own online backup services through a Software-as-a-Service subscription model.
ITEI Industry Consortium: The Planet launched the Information Technology Effectiveness Index (ITEI) in conjunction with a number of companies that are focused on small- and medium-sized business. In a 12-question survey, the ITEI provides business owners and IT executives with a free online benchmarking tool that uses a methods-based framework to compare the effectiveness of their IT systems with companies in the same industries and peer groups (www.iteffectivenessindex.com). In addition to The Planet, ITEI sponsors include HostSearch (www.hostsearch.com); Kennesaw State University (www.kennesaw.edu); Microsoft (www.microsoft.com); Nine Lives Media Inc. (www.ninelivesmediainc.com); SmallBizTechnology (www.smallbiztechnology.com); Small Business Trends (www.smallbiztrends.com); SMB Nation (www.smbnaton.com); and Yankee Group (www.yankeegoup.com).
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is a provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 25,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 14.5 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Alpha Professional Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support.

For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

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Fayetteville, North Carolina – (The Hosting News) – April 30, 2009 – Web hosting company, AIT, has launched its Enterprise Dedicated Server Hosting Plan at extremely cost effective prices, to assist businesses in a challenging economy.
Sean McCoy, SVP-Sales and Marketing for AIT remarked, ”It is the best deal in the industry boasting state-of-the-art features and service and coupled with thousands of dollars in savings.”
The current recession requires creative marketing solutions and a reality check on the core costs incurred in operating a business. From now until May 15, 2009 AIT is cuttings its price by $1,400.00 annually for a 60% reduction over its monthly Enterprise I Hosting payment plan. Clients receive a Production Class Server that uses 50% less power than most dedicated servers and it comes with a 250GB Hard Drive, 2 GB of Ram, and a 2.4 GHz Processor. Customers must call 1-800-878-4084 to take advantage of this special offer located at AIT-Promotions. If used properly, clients may be eligible for tax credits under the current stimulus plan with respect to green initiatives and technology.
Mary White in her American Small Business Blog: 3 Cost Cutting Tips for Frugal Small Business Owners noted, ”No matter what kind of business you operate, it’s a good idea to take stock of your spending practices to see if there are some areas you can easily cut costs from your operating expenses. After all, when you own your own business, saving money on expenses is just as important as continuing to identify and secure new sources of revenue. Even the most frugal entrepreneur may find some areas where he or she can trim a few dollars from the budget here and there when evaluating spending practices closely enough.”
The AIT Enterprise Hosting platform not only saves businesses money, it helps them make money with a free scalable web store called M-Cartfree scalable web store called M-Cart that is included with the plan. The robust processing horsepower of the Enterprise plan also supports the email marketing tools that are needed most by traditional brick and mortar retailers in this tough economic climate.
A market research study conducted by Epsilon, found that the benefits of permission-based email marketing campaigns have a significant impact on purchasing behavior and consumer loyalty in the bricks and mortar world. The reports says that 57% of consumers feel they have a more positive impression of companies when they receive email from them, and 50% said they’re more likely to buy products from companies who send them email, whether their purchases are online or at a place of business.
AIT is also bundling its Email Marketer PRO with web hosting. This powerful marketing platform is browser-based email marketing with built-in auto-responders, list management, receive and read receipts along with lots of other features that businesses can use every day to create, send and track profitable email campaigns – either for themselves or for their clients. Businesses that sign up for an annual plan save 40% on the monthly software subscription price.
Robert Timmons from Timmons Interactive Advertising commented, ”I’ve tried it and love it. The GUI management interfaces is second to none and allows me to see what works and what does not. I know who, when and from where my prospects come with this application.”
Cross-channel marketing is essential, given the mobility of consumers and the variety of platforms they use to gather product information and connect with businesses; via voice, and Internet advertising networks. The tyBit Unified search engine an AIT affiliated company, offers both web and mobile web based search engine advertising that delivers text, audio and video content to mobile web enabled devices. This click fraud free interactive advertising platform increases an advertiser’s ROI by eliminating artificial traffic and delivering real visitors interested in the business owners products and services regardless of their location. tyBit recently received a Tucows’ 5 star rating.
Automated telemarketing services were once the province of large corporations but now tyVoice auto-telemarketing delivers this powerful customer relationship management vehicle to any business. It is simple, inexpensive and efficient allowing businesses to upload phone numbers and deliver a pre-recorded message with options to press to connect to an operator or sales rep. When used in conjunction with online advertising and email marketing efforts this fully private labeled delivery system is yet another low cost, high return marketing option. tyVoice is perfect for businesses, schools, non-profit organizations, political campaigns, event planners, and of course direct marketers.
AIT offers; Web Hosting, Domain Name Registration, Web Design, Email Services, Technical Training, Enterprise Network Solutions, AIT has Managed Dedicated Servers, for both Windows and Linux Server Environments. AIT is customer-centric and committed to providing excellent, ongoing service to help your business grow, improve and profit. We exist to deliver value and performance to our customers – everything else is secondary. Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc., home to over 210,000 customers that include Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. Founded in 1996 AIT has grown into a multimillion-dollar web hosting and technology company, from its humble beginnings in a garage to its current 93,000 SF headquarters. Small businesses to larger clients like Time Warner, Microsoft, Newsweek, U.S. Federal Government, PC World, United Nations, Business Week, the State of North Carolina, Department of Defense, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Pizza Hut, GOODYEAR, Smart Money, Discover Radio, and many more have benefited from AIT’s products and services.

AIT has achieved 13 straight years of sustained profitability and been named 2 times to The Inc. 500 list of fast growing firms, 3 times to the Deloitte Touch Fast 500 list, and NC Entrepreneur Firm of the Year. AIT enables businesses and empowers entrepreneurs through powerful technical and marketing solutions, which are unique, user friendly, and unmatched in performance throughout the industry.

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London, United Kindgom – (The Hosting News) – April 24, 2009 – The 5th Data Centres Europe Conference and Awards has indicated that attendance figures have been sustained from last year, with more than 300 executives, 25% at CXO level, converging on the two-day event in London.

Nicola Hayes, vice president at BroadGroup remarked, ”Once again we are delighted that our flagship event has sustained its lead in providing content, value and networking opportunities which this year will be unparalleled given the high percentage of CXOs attending. In addition to the conference and exhibition, this year’s awards ceremony will be held in Trinity House, an historic but relaxed backdrop to network effectively at the supper and party complemented by a jazz quartet and the awards ceremony.”
5th Data Centre Europe is the leading regional forum for data centre, managed services, outsourcing and cloud computing businesses. The conference brings together Data centre operators, service providers, telcos, network infrastructure providers, managed services specialists, systems integrators, enterprise and government IT directors, property and investment firms, law firms, professional intermediaries, consulting firms, regulatory bodies, and supplier organizations to inform and update, provide critical insight and offer top level networking opportunities.
This year the fifth annual forum is dedicated to the Enterprise and to discuss their key concerns. The conference will be hearing from some of the leading information officers across the European region, drawing lessons from the North America experience, and creating frameworks for enterprises to rationalise their most critical decisions in the year ahead.
Speakers included the CEOs of Digital Realty Trust, Equinix Europe, Interxion, TelecityGroup, with experts and speakers including Akamia, Arup, BroadGroup Consulting, BNB Developments Ltd, BSRIA, Cisco, Cloud Data, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, e-Shelter, EBRD, eircom, Financial Times Recruitment Solutions, FVC, the Green Grid, IBM, Lamda Hellix, Macfarlanes LLP, Michael Page International, Migration Solutions, Prism Power Ltd, RabbitMQ, Reed Managed Services, Sungard Availability Services, Tech Mahindra ,VocaLink, Wipro Technologies.
The conference was followed by the Awards Reception and Party which was held at the prestigious Trinity House, at Tower Hill in London.
Sponsors included APC by Schneider Electric, Global Insulation, TelecityGroup, Sungard Availability Services, e-Shelter, Interxion, Equinix, IVI, eBRC, P and T Luxembourg, eCooling Solutions, Globeron, Migration Solutions, Lamda Hellix Data Centers, ARUP, CBRE, the Colocation Exchange, Rackwise, TDB Networks, DentonWildeSapte LLP, Sentrum, Uptime Institute, BSRIA, BCS, BIFM, WebHosting Info, DCS, IXNewsSearch, SE10, Datacenter Journal, and Data Centre News.

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San Francisco, California – (The Hosting News) – April 24, 2009 – A commercial version of its provisionless web hosting service, has been unveiled by Heroku, Inc., designed to provide developers with an agile platform for development, testing and production deployment of web apps of any scope, with effortless, instant deployment.

Josh Stephenson, director of technology at RightSprite remarked, ”We’ve used Heroku to launch the backend of almost a dozen iPhone sites. They make the system administration headache disappear for our deployments. According to Mr. Stephenson, RightSprite’s application portfolio now exceeds two million iPhone users, and the Heroku platform scaled right along with their needs. ”This has allowed us to own the tradeoff of development budget versus hosting power, with Heroku’s hosting power being the frequent winner.”

Heroku’s multi-tenant platform is designed for applications written in the increasingly popular Ruby programming language, and running on any Rack-compatible framework such as Rails, Merb, Sinatra and others. The hard work commonly involved in deploying web apps is a thing of the past, as deploying to Heroku’s run-time cloud environment is provisionless; the platform provides automated end-to-end management and instant scaling.
According to Jonathan Siegel, founder, ELC Technologies, ”Heroku’s platform has been in our sights for some time, and we’ve been amazed at the growth of business-level features on the platform. We initially started using Heroku for a staging server pool and quickly realized that the ease of scalable provisionless deployment was a great fit for many of our clients’ growing production apps.”
Mr. Siegel says that today, ELC uses Heroku for most of their internal projects, including a massively multiplayer online game called Farlanders.com, noting, ”To get the same quality of deployment and maintained infrastructure, we would expect to allocate $5,000 per month for sysadmin and deployment infrastructure. Heroku provides the same value for a fraction of the cost of doing it ourselves.”
Heroku has achieved provisionless deployment by inventing a new, dynamic architecture for hosting web applications that operates and scales automatically, without any system administration. Developers and IT staff normally have to make a huge number of decisions as part of the deployment process, such as how many servers to use, how to allocate compute capacity, memory, and storage on those servers, how load will be balanced, and how data will be replicated. When conditions change, such as a significant increase in traffic, these decisions must repeatedly be revisited, and the applications re-provisioned and re-deployed.
By contrast, because of the automatic nature of Heroku’s platform, no provisioning or configuration information is ever required; the developer and IT staff are completely freed from the time and effort required to make and implement such decisions.
When an application is deployed to Heroku – with a single command – it is compiled into a self-contained, read-only instance Heroku calls a ‘slug’ – named after the movable type molds used to cast hot-metal type in printing. The slug is automatically tested to assure that it can actually start.
Then, the slug is instantiated in one or more slots in a specially-designed grid computing environment, where it is given access to its database and cache information, and brought to life.
Once activated, it becomes a fully-functioning web application called a ‘dyno’. Each dyno is a process running on a server in the grid, and contains a unique copy of the application code, framework, middleware, Rack, application server, Ruby virtual machine, and POSIX environment.
In response to changing demand, Heroku’s intelligent infrastructure can launch additional, fully-independent dynos at new locations in the grid, or shut down existing idle ones. Startup time for a new dyno is less than 2 seconds, a fact that gives Heroku’s platform an unprecedented level of dynamism only possible with utility computing. Four dynos give the equivalent compute performance as one server instance in conventional environments.
The grid itself is built on a robust cloud computing infrastructure which allows it to expand and contract as required to accommodate as many dynos from as many different applications as necessary. Above the grid is a sophisticated and highly concurrent routing mesh that allocates requests among the dynos. Additional elements, such as an HTTP cache and a memory cache, reduce the requests to the dynos and database, respectively.
The entire architecture can be viewed with examples and explanations, at http://heroku.com/how.
Heroku’s commercial service offers a frictionless workflow to developers building fully-featured web apps for commercial or enterprise purposes. The rapid coding and prototyping that Ruby and its frameworks offer fit naturally with Heroku’s provisionless, scale-free, instant staging and deployment process to create an extremely high velocity development environment.
Whether entrepreneurs, members of dedicated Ruby development teams, or part of the growing Ruby underground in major organizations, Heroku developers achieve a development speed and a deployment agility that has simply never been available for commercial web apps before.
Heroku’s pricing model is designed to charge users for only the resources they consume, and to meet the needs of users of all levels. There are a variety of tiers to accommodate everyone, from enterprises with large applications and millions of unique hits per month, down to entry-level users. Prices range from thousands of dollars a month down to less than a hundred, and the platform includes a free offering great for testing the service and rapid prototyping.
Heroku’s service has been battle tested during an extended beta period in which over 25,000 Ruby apps have been deployed to the platform by more than 23,000 different developers. By conservative estimates, this makes Heroku’s platform 10 times larger than the next most popular Ruby deployment provider.
James Lindenbaum, co-founder and CEO of Heroku added, ”We set out to fundamentally change the economics of application development, and it appears to be working. Heroku is hands-down the most agile deployment environment available to web app developers today.”
The Heroku commercial service is fully operational today.
Heroku was founded by a team of entrepreneurs who are committed to making the development and deployment of applications of any scope to the cloud fast and easy. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, and is privately funded by Y Combinator, Redpoint Ventures, and several prominent individual investors.

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Sydney, Australia – (The Hosting News) – April 23, 2009 – Macquarie Telecom subsidiary, Macquarie Hosting, has signed a three year, half million dollar deal with one of Australia’s leading electronic payment gateway providers eWAY.

Matt Bullock, CEO and founder of eWAY remarked, ”Merchants and consumers quite rightly demand that an online payment system be hosted in the most secure environment and keep pace with the latest trends in payment preferences and e-commerce transactions. Customer expectations around ease of use, guaranteed security and one hundred per cent availability of applications continue to rise, increasing pressure on the provision of online payment services. In turn, we are looking to partner with professionals like Macquarie Hosting to meet these standards and expectations without being distracted from our primary focus – growing the business.”
Under the deal, Macquarie Hosting will host eWAY’s online payment system, mission critical transaction applications and encrypted customer data. All applications will be hosted on a mix of dedicated Sun Microsystems and HP servers with high-availability firewalls, dual-redundant server load balancing and secure, high-throughput Internet connectivity.
eWAY partners with Australia’s major banks including the Commonwealth Bank (CBA), Westpac, National Australia Bank (NAB) and St George. eWAY also has connections to Barclays in the United Kingdom and ANZ in New Zealand, highlighting the growth in international business for eWAY.
The company has won more than five awards in the past 18 months including the ACT Business of the Year Award, the MYOB Small Business of the Year Award and the CeBIT Platinum Award for Export Excellence and Excellence in Technology Services.
The Macquarie Hosting solution will support further expansion of the eWAY business both locally and globally as it capitalises on increased consumer confidence in e-commerce transactions and online spending.
eWAY’s customer base has grown significantly in the past ten years, with growth of more than 65 per cent in the last year alone. eWAY is the only payment gateway provider in Australia with direct wholesale agreements with American Express and CBA. These agreements recognise eWAY’s adherence to the highest levels of data capture and security standards.
eWAY offers a range of methods to link merchant sites to the payment gateway, including integration with more than 100 shopping carts and billing systems, making scalability paramount to enable simple, high speed integration with the customer’s online business.
The high-availability, fully managed dedicated server solution from Macquarie Hosting will enable eWAY to confidently meet the security standards required of it and manage peaks in traffic to the site as demand for its services grows, both domestically and internationally.
Following a comprehensive assessment of hosting providers, eWAY selected Macquarie Hosting for its proven experience with transactional web-facing companies and its ability to provide 24/7, secure availability of mission critical applications.
The eWAY payment gateway will be hosted in Macquarie Hosting’s ISO and DSD Gateway certified data center, the Intellicentre. While eWAY’s payment gateway does not require a DSD-certified solution, it will be hosted within the same facility as sites for Federal and State government, national security agencies and major blue-chip businesses.
Macquarie Hosting is the first telecommunications carrier and hosting provider to be certified to International Security Management Standard, ISO 27001 which provides a level of assurance that hosted databases, networks and operating systems meet global best-practice standards, for PCI Compliance, risk assessment, policy, training, audits, controls, information and communication.
Mr. Bullock added, ”Macquarie Hosting is now a key business partner for eWAY. eWAY and Macquarie Hosting have a natural synergy as we both support critical online transactional business, so the Macquarie Hosting focus on this market segment is a real asset for us as we grow our business.”
Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Hosting for Macquarie Telecom added, ”For high-transaction websites such as eWAY that deal with confidential customer information and tens of thousands of requests daily, security and uptime is critical. By hosting with a local provider such as Macquarie Hosting, eWAY can be confident that all our solutions – from security through to network access – meet best-practice requirements for both local and international organisations.”
Macquarie Hosting is an Australian provider of mission critical application hosting for business. It is responsible for managing and delivering the guaranteed service levels, scalable, ‘always-on’ and secure solutions that online, digital media and high-availability transaction-based companies need to meet demand for their services. Macquarie Hosting’s purpose is to help its customers focus on growing their business, instead of focusing on the day-to-day operations of their IT infrastructure. Macquarie Hosting’s managed services are delivered through its managed hosting and security facility, the Intellicentre.
The Intellicentre is the most highly certified data centre in Australia. Certifications include ISO 27001, ASIO T4 and DSD Gateway. This helps organisations confidently address security concerns associated with corporate governance, privacy regulations and audit requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
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Newark, Delaware – (The Hosting News) – April 20, 2009 – Managed dedicated server hosting company, HostMySite, Inc., has been awarded a United States General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 contract; contract number GS-35F-0208V.

Timothy Kaufman, Director of Compliance at HostMySite remarked, ”As a GSA Schedule Contractor, HostMySite enables the government buyer a great variety of hosting services to help them meet their mandates to reduce costs while still providing quality service and performance.”
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Andover, Massachusetts – (The Hosting News) – April 17, 2009 – Enterprise Hosting and Application Services firm, NaviSite, Inc., has appointed R. Brooks Borcherding as its Senior Vice President of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer.

Arthur Becker, CEO, NaviSite, Inc. remarked, ”Brooks brings to NaviSite extremely relevant experience in driving top line growth and sales productivity. His extensive expertise and proven track record in developing strategies and managing teams selling compelling IT solutions to large enterprises will help us significantly to increase market penetration and growth.”

Mr. Borcherding earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Mr.
Borcherding joins NaviSite from Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for strategy, planning, business development and sales operations for the Enterprise East division with a focus on driving revenue from large enterprise customers. Previously, he held leadership positions in sales, sales management, general management, product management and information technology at Avaya, Lucent and AT&T. He began his career as a senior consultant at Andersen Consulting.
Mr. Borcherding will also work closely with other NaviSite executives to design and execute a multi-channel sales approach that, in addition to selling to new enterprises, is designed to grow install base sales and leverage inside sales, on-line sales, partnerships and off-shore sales capabilities to drive aggressive revenue growth.
Mr. Borcherding commented, “NaviSite is an industry leader offering comprehensive and compelling IT solutions for enterprises. I am very excited to be part of NaviSite at a time when the market opportunity continues to grow and the company is uniquely positioned to accelerate sales growth. I look forward to driving growth and helping customers take advantage of the world class solutions and capabilities that NaviSite offers.”
NaviSite is a provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. It provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its industry leading hosting and enterprise cloud infrastructure, and custom and packaged application life cycle management expertise. Over 1,500 customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 16 state-of-the-art data centers supported by approximately 650 professionals.

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