SoftLayer® Offers VMware® ESX

SoftLayer® today announced it had added VMware® ESX for server virtualization to its comprehensive portfolio of software services. The new service can be added to any dedicated server and is available through SoftLayer’s fully-automated Customer Portal.

VMware ESX is a bare-metal hypervisor that abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources to create multiple virtual machines (VM) from a single physical machine. Each VM can run separate operating systems and applications. This provides companies of all sizes with a powerful foundation for building a high-performance, cost-efficient, and reliable IT infrastructure by:

•Pooling resources, decreasing power, cooling, and floor space requirements
•Increasing server utilization rates
•Running multiple operating systems on a single physical server

“At SoftLayer we offer our customers the latest in software and services,” said Nathan Day, SoftLayer Chief Technology Officer. “VMware ESX offers industry-leading virtualization. Anyone with an IT infrastructure that includes servers and that has to support multiple OS’s will benefit from its increased server utilization capabilities and the related cost advantages.”

With hypervisor-based virtualization, a level of software (which is the hypervisor) sits on top of the physical server. The hypervisor allocates portions of the physical server’s hardware resources to create multiple virtual servers that are fully independent and secure. Unlike with hosted virtualization, hypervisor-managed virtual servers can all run different operating systems.

Posted by Admin on February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
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.co.uk Domains at Half Price

Following the time honoured tradition of January Sales in the United Kingdom, UK domain name and website hosting firm 34SP.com has announced a special promotional sale to run for the month of January which offers all new domain names at 50 percent off the normal retail price.

According to information released by 34SP.com, the company will offer .co.uk domain names for just £2.50 per year for the first 2 years during the promotional period. Recently conducted market research indicates that this is the lowest price currently available for UK domains. Additionally, the company said that this is the lowest .co.uk domain name price it has ever offered. The special January Sale pricing covers all top level domains offered by the company including, .com, .net, .org, .eu and .mobi to name just a few. There is no limit on the number of domains that may be ordered at the discounted price. 34SP.com is a Nominet certified domain registrar.

Stuart Melling, co-founder of 34SP.com commented on the half price domain name sale, ”We are happy to offer these historically low domain name prices during this time of economic uncertainty. Any time you can save half off a purchase that you really need, it helps out. Of course we also expect that customers will discover our service oriented web hosting products, and take advantage of our great values in hosting as well.”

34SP.com offers a wide variety of the most popular domain name types including UK domain names. The prices for these domains during the special January Sale is 50% off standard retail prices. The 50% off pricing is available on new domain purchases only (excludes renewals or transfers) and will revert to standard pricing upon renewal. The 34SP.com January Sale is for a limited time only – and will conclude at the end of January 2010.

34SP.com has solidified its reputation based on great customer service. The company recently upgraded to to the latest version of the SmarterTrack help desk application software created by SmarterTools. According to information released by 34SP.com, the company is continuing its efforts to provide the highest possible levels of technical support to web hosting clients. The company was also recently among the first web hosts to offer a new VPS template, pre-installed with the Google Go development language, ready for rapid development testing. Go is a proprietary programming language that Google has been using internally for a quite some time, and has now been released under an open source license.

Posted by Admin on January 5th, 2010 | No Comments
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How to start your programming career?

So you want to become a software developer or a programmer or may be a visual user interface designer? The Information Technology field is fantastic; there are many advantages you get for working as a software developer, just to list some examples: They are clean jobs, you just deal with computers! They don’t need any physical strength and they are highly rewarded jobs.

The bad is that not anyone can become a programmer. Not any student in school succeeds to write code that runs, not any student succeed to debug it… It’s a good point too! There is less competitors that any other field. If you can write good code and you feel you love coding, IT field is for you.

Starting your programming carrier begins from your home, you computer and not from universities and college. Many developers fail in their jobs because they lack practice. Those who started early will have an advantage of being more expert than those who studied in the best universities. Things like code debugging and bugs tracking don’t need theory knowledge but lots of trials and failures.

Programming can be easy and interesting for some, but boring and hard for some others. If you love writing code, if you like complex loops and algorithms, you’ll succeed your programming carrier. Software development in the present (and very luckily in the future), don’t need a lot of intelligence, but just concentration.

I met with many people who are not “genius”, but good software developers. Software development doesn’t require a lot of intelligence, just a minimal understanding of the general concept and that’s enough. By the time you begin university studies, you’ll understand that programming intelligence is only needed to create small kind of applications that do some complex special work; that’s generally known as hacking and the person is a hacker.

Anyone can develop a web application in few moments; he just needs some basic skills. The truth is that not anyone can have those skills. Spending time with friend, I noticed that they are not able to focus on code, understand it quickly and edit it. That’s point two: It needs lot of concentration on the given task you are doing, and not anyone can do that.

New software development platforms help developers concentrates and remember important parts of their software. This helps a lot of developers who can’t store in mind the application scheme. Using such software; more people with less ability will become able to enter the programming world. Even though, loving programming and coding is crucial to succeed in this career.

Posted by Admin on December 30th, 2009 | No Comments
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Molina Healthcare Deploys dataguise To Protect Personal Health Information And Help Comply with HIPAA

Fremont, CA – dataguise, a leading innovator of security solutions for protecting sensitive data across the enterprise, has announced that Molina Healthcare  deployed dataguise dgmasker™ and dgdiscover™ in more than 100 training, development and testing environments. dataguise security products identify and mask the Personal Health Information (PHI) of Molina Healthcare’s members and providers, thus protecting sensitive data and enabling the managed care organization to meet HIPAA compliance requirements.

Molina Healthcare, Inc. is a multi-state managed care organization that arranges for the delivery of healthcare services to persons eligible for Medicaid, Medicare, and other government-sponsored programs for low-income families and individuals. Altogether, Molina Healthcare’s licensed health plan subsidiaries in California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Washington currently serve approximately 1.3 million members.

Prior to dataguise, Molina Healthcare was relying on an internally developed solution, which proved to be unreliable, difficult to maintain and required frequent adjustments. Since implementing the dataguise solutions, Molina Healthcare has eliminated the risk of exposure and access to its sensitive data while reducing the overhead needed for dedicated resources to manage and maintain the integrity of its database environments by 300 percent.

“As a healthcare organization that supports government programs, we are constantly receiving and storing highly sensitive data; a data breach would not only have a negative impact on customer satisfaction, but would also jeopardize our fulfilling HIPAA compliance standards,” said Nitin Gotmare, director of IT for Molina Healthcare. “The dataguise technology desensitizes information so that a breach is not possible. With dgmasker and dgdiscover in place, we can provide our customers and members with peace of mind that their personal health information is safe and secure.”

dataguise dgdiscover and dgmasker are designed to find structured database repositories across the network, search and discover sensitive data in structured databases, and then mask or de-identify to protect sensitive data. With dataguise, organizations have access to a single product that finds, searches and masks sensitive data across all databases throughout the enterprise. This allows organizations to create corporate masking policies for faster adherence to compliance regulations, lower risk of a data breach, and reduce reliance on cumbersome single database masking solutions. While most organizations have measures in place to control access to critical data in their production environments, this protection does not always extend to non-production data – an area addressed by dataguise.

“With dataguise, organizations are mitigating the risk of exposure that privacy data presents when moved outside the walls of a secure network environment and replacing manual or home-grown solutions that drain internal resources and endanger its compliance status,” said Allan Thompson, Executive Vice President, Operations for dataguise. “By using our cross-platform sensitive data discovery and masking technology, organizations can implement a reliable, cost-effective solution that provides the highest level of data protection, satisfying the many compliance mandates currently in place surrounding privacy data.”

Posted by Admin on December 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
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SoftLayer™ Continues Data Center Expansion

SoftLayer Technologies™, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced the opening of three new data center pods in the company’s Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., data center facilities. The new pods add capacity for 20,000 additional servers, bringing SoftLayer’s total capacity to more than 45,000 physical machines.

“We continue gaining momentum every year. We broke more projections and records this year than last, and 2010 will bring even more of the same,” said Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer. “These three new pods meet the customer demand increases that we expect in the very near future. And they are only preliminary measures in our growth strategy for 2010. We have some big plans which we can’t wait to share with everyone.”

“We’re extremely excited to introduce Private Cloud services to our customers. Private Cloud gives Softlayer customers yet another dynamic, scalable infrastructure option,” said Nathan Day, CTO, SoftLayer. “This will provide a service with segregated physical computing hardware giving customers security and peace of mind with the benefits of unlimited, on-demand scalability.”

SoftLayer’s milestones in 2009 included:

  • More than 5,700 active customers across 110+ countries
  • More than 23,000 deployed servers
  • Placement in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services
  • Introduction of CloudLayer™ line of cloud services, including CloudLayer Storage, CloudLayer CDN, CloudLayer Computing, and Bare Metal Cloud™
  • Industry’s first deployment of Intel® Nehalem microarchitecture
  • IPv6 support across all data centers
  • Multiple carrier additions across all data centers for a total of 290Gbps

The new pods are part of SoftLayer’s unique approach to data center design. Each of the company’s geographically diverse data centers consists of multiple pods built to identical specifications with the same bestin- class methodologies. This level of standardization across all its geographic locations enables SoftLayer to optimize key data center performance variables, including space, power, network, personnel, and internal infrastructure.

Posted by Admin on December 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment
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How to install ffmpeg, ffmpeg-PHP, Mplayer, Mencoder, flv2tool, LAME MP3 Encoder, and Libog

The following article will show you how to install “step by step”  ffmpeg, ffmpeg-PHP, Mplayer, Mencoder, flv2tool, LAME MP3 Encoder, and Libog from the source. Make sure you have root shell access to your server.

cd /usr/local/src

Download the packages from its source:

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2

Extracting the packages we just downloaded:

tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar jxvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz


Creating a directory to store all the codecs:

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/


Now we install the packages:

yum install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran
yum install subversion ruby ncurses-devel

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
cd /usr/local/src

Lets copy the codecs for mplayer:

mv /usr/local/src/essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

Installing Lame:

cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install

Installing Libogg:

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install

Installing libvorbis:

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.1.2
./configure && make && make install

Installing flvtool2:

cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure && make && make install

Installing ffmpeg:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libogg –enable-libvorbis –disable-mmx –enable-shared
make && make install

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51

Installing ffmpeg-php:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Finally we restart apache server:

service httpd restart

Posted by Admin on December 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment
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How to install ionCube loader.

The Loader is a .dll file or .so file (depending on the server’s operating system) which PHP uses to decode scripts encoded with the ionCube Encoder. PHP has the ability to open .dll (or .so) files at the moment a script is run. The dl function in PHP is used for this purpose. This mechanism, when used to launch the ionCube Loader, is called run-time loading.

Please note that the following steps will explain how to install ioncube loader on a linux server. Also keep in mind that you will need root shell access to the server.

1 – Download ionCube from the source to your server. Make note that the following link is for Linux 64 Bit.

wget http://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

2 – Now we extract the  downloaded file.

tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

3 – Lets move the ioncube folder to a new permanent location.

mv ioncube /usr/local

4 – Its time to edit your php.ini file.

pico /usr/local/lib/php.ini or nano /usr/local/lib/php.ini

5 – Add the following to your php.ini file below [ZEND]

zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

6 – Now you need to restart your apache server and your done.

service httpd restart

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The Planet Extends High-Performance SAN to Dedicated Hosting Customers

The Planet, a global leader in IT hosting, today announced the availability of the Dell PowerVault MD3000i, a high-performance storage area network (SAN) disk array. Ideal for multi-server environments such as virtual and private racks, the MD3000i offers a cost-effective and scalable storage solution.

The MD3000i uses iSCSI Ethernet technology to enable shared storage across multiple servers, eliminating the need to build out a costly fiber channel infrastructure. Up to 16 servers can share the MD3000i, which has 15 internal drive slots for a total storage capacity up to 15 terabytes (TB). In the event more capacity is required, companies can add up to two MD1000 storage arrays to the MD3000i for an additional 45TB.
“One of the most critical business challenges customers face today is data storage, and all too often it’s also one of the most costly,” said Rob Walters, director of product management for The Planet. “The MD3000i lowers the barrier to entry for high-performance, consolidated storage, and also provides a clear path for expansion for companies that expect to see their storage requirements grow.”

About the Dell PowerVault MD3000i
The iSCSI SAN array provides a scalable and low-cost storage solution, which continually protects daily operations and enables an easy path for expansion:
Cost-effective: The MD3000i, The Planet’s lowest-priced SAN, can be shared by as many as 16 servers, which eliminates the high cost of buying individual storage devices for each server.

Scalable: In addition to its 15 internal drive slots, customers can add up to two 15-drive MD1000 disk arrays to the MD3000i, for up to 45TB of storage.

Capable: With its large capacity and high availability, the MD3000i is ideal for businesses running performance-intensive applications, databases, and file or archive storage.

The Planet, a global leader in IT hosting, today announced the availability of the Dell PowerVault MD3000i, a high-performance storage area network (SAN) disk array. Ideal for multi-server environments such as virtual and private racks, the MD3000i offers a cost-effective and scalable storage solution.

The MD3000i uses iSCSI Ethernet technology to enable shared storage across multiple servers, eliminating the need to build out a costly fiber channel infrastructure. Up to 16 servers can share the MD3000i, which has 15 internal drive slots for a total storage capacity up to 15 terabytes (TB). In the event more capacity is required, companies can add up to two MD1000 storage arrays to the MD3000i for an additional 45TB.
“One of the most critical business challenges customers face today is data storage, and all too often it’s also one of the most costly,” said Rob Walters, director of product management for The Planet. “The MD3000i lowers the barrier to entry for high-performance, consolidated storage, and also provides a clear path for expansion for companies that expect to see their storage requirements grow.”

About the Dell PowerVault MD3000i
The iSCSI SAN array provides a scalable and low-cost storage solution, which continually protects daily operations and enables an easy path for expansion:
Cost-effective: The MD3000i, The Planet’s lowest-priced SAN, can be shared by as many as 16 servers, which eliminates the high cost of buying individual storage devices for each server.

Scalable: In addition to its 15 internal drive slots, customers can add up to two 15-drive MD1000 disk arrays to the MD3000i, for up to 45TB of storage.

Capable: With its large capacity and high availability, the MD3000i is ideal for businesses running performance-intensive applications, databases, and file or archive storage.

Posted by Admin on December 1st, 2009 | No Comments
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LimeLabs Launches Free Hosting and Domain Registration Service

LimeLabs today announced the launch of its new hosting and domain registration service, LimeDomains. An ICANN accredited domain registrar, LimeDomains offers a wide range of hosting solutions, ranging from completely free full-featured websites, to competitively priced premium hosting plans that include more space, bandwidth and the ability to manage several domains and websites from a single account.

“LimeDomains makes it easy for people to get powerful websites running quickly and easily,” said Mark Gorton, Founder of LimeLabs. “LimeDomains offers free hosting and free application installation, and we are finding that many people appreciate the great value we are offering.”

All LimeDomains accounts come with access to an extensive catalog of open source web applications ranging from popular blogs such as Wordpress, to full-featured content management systems such as Drupal and Joomla. Users can also upload their own files or transfer their existing websites — such as their Geocities pages — to LimeDomains via a built-in file manager, or any popular FTP client. Most popular web design applications, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, are also supported.

Unlike other free hosting services, there are no strings attached to the free hosting offer on LimeDomains. Users do not have to sign-up for any third party services, or submit themselves to a barrage of solicitations (e-mail, or otherwise), or place mandatory ads on their website. Most importantly, the free accounts are not crippled in any way — and receive the same quality of service, performance and reliability that most other hosting services charge a premium for.

“We are excited to be first to market with a credible, full-featured free website solution,” said John Enright, VP Marketing & Business Development at LimeLabs. “Our feature set and customer experience is already well ahead of any other hosting service — free or otherwise — and this is just the beginning.”

About Lime Labs, LLC
Lime Labs is an innovative web services company focused on facilitating the exchange of ideas and information through technology. Its portfolio of services includes LimeExchange, a global services marketplace; LimeDomains, a web hosting and domain registration service; and LimeBits, an open source code sharing community.

Posted by Admin on November 13th, 2009 | 2 Comments
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Host4Yourself Acquires iWebFusion Technologies and Datacenter Space at USSHC

H4Y Technologies LLC, an established leader in web hosting and internet services, today announced its acquisition of iWebFusion Technologies LLC of Oregon (iWebFusion.net).  iWebFusion will continue to operate as a separate brand under H4Y Technologies LLC.  iWebFusion brings an entirely new customer base to H4Y Technologies LLC.  Host4Yourself.com, the primary brand of H4Y Technologies, focuses on development, enterprise class and mission critical managed hosting, dedicated servers, and colocation, while iWebFusion.net has made a successful name for itself based on its economical shared, reseller, and VPS product lines. 

Evan Kamlet, LLC Member of H4Y Technologies, said, “As if Host4Yourself.com didn’t already offer a huge range of options to our clients, the purchase of iWebFusion.net should make us attractive to just about every conceivable consumer and business.  With the resources and capital on tap at H4Y, we foresee a very rosy picture for iWebFusion.net in the coming months and years.  It is very exciting for all of us”. 

iWebFusion.net’s staff, billing, and structure will not change.  Existing customers will encounter no ill effects as no equipment will be moved.  A portion of iWebFusion.net’s equipment was already under the ownership of H4Y Technologies LLC before the acquisition.  It is still up for debate whether the pricing model will remain unchanged, but clients have been guaranteed that existing accounts will never increase in price, nor will future sign-ups for clients with existing accounts. 

H4Y also worked out a partnership arrangement with USSHC (United States Secure Hosting Center) in Monticello, IA.  The underground bomb and EMP resistant datacenter boasts its status as “the most secure datacenter in the United States”.  iWebFusion VPS nodes and dedicated servers currently occupy a small portion of datacenter space at this facility.  The existing infrastructure will not change, but H4Y Technologies will add to it and offer Host4Yourself.com customers a new line of mission-critical hosting products based on this new partnership.

Host4Yourself.com already offered a linear upgrade path for its clientele.  With this acquisition, the entry level for prospective clients is lower than ever before and the scalability options are nearly unlimited with products and plans at nearly every imaginable price point.

Posted by Admin on November 1st, 2009 | No Comments
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