On-demand data center services provider, SoftLayer Technologies, has received the 2009 One-Year Fast Tech Award at the 9th Annual Tech Titans Awards and Fast Tech, presented by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC).

The award recognizes the company with the highest percentage of revenue growth in 2008 over 2007 in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area. Both private and public companies from any technology industry segment are eligible for the award, as long as they own proprietary technology. SoftLayer received the same award in 2008 for its growth in 2007 over 2006.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer noted, ”We are very proud to win this prestigious award two years in a row. It is an honor being recognized among DFW’s technology leaders – there are many innovative companies doing great things here. Our continuing growth can be directly attributed to our unique approach to hosting and data center services. We’re bringing new ideas and practical advantages to our customers and the market.”

MTBC is the largest technology trade organization in Texas. Its annual Tech Titans Awards and Fast Tech rankings showcase the industry’s most talented individuals and the companies with the most advanced technologies in North Texas. The region is a leading center for technology and innovation in the U.S. and globally. The American Electronics Association Cybercities 2008 report ranked DFW fifth among U.S. cities in high-tech employment, with approximately 176,000 high-tech workers. DFW ranked second nationwide for employment in both the telecommunications services and Internet services sectors.

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.

The Mimecast email management specialist delivering SaaS email archiving, continuity, security and control, has made a significant upgrade to its flagship Unified Email Management platform.

With the launch of new functionality to expand the scope of its cloud-based services. The new offering provides the advanced features and capabilities of on-premise email solutions in the flexible, cost-effective SaaS delivery model.

The new functionality helps businesses address increasing industry regulations and concerns around data retention and e-Discovery. The company’s archiving, mailbox management and data protection features allow companies to control their inboxes while preventing data leaks.
Nancy Stagg, Principal at Fish and Richardson explained, ”E-discovery and document retention requirements, combined with increasing volume, make email management difficult for legal practitioners and their IT staffs. Law firms and corporate law departments must contend with many related compliance issues, including the storage of email evidence, review of large user personal storage files (PST), documenting email keyword search queries and maintaining and authenticating proper chain of custody.

Additionally, these issues, and the time and expense that can be associated with managing e-discovery, can cause tension between corporate organizations and their outside counsel. Mimecast empowers companies and their counsel by providing a comprehensive solution that addresses these e-discovery needs, using an intuitive user interface in a simple, SaaS-delivered package.” Mimecast is the first vendor to bridge the gap between SaaS email archiving and the sophistication of on-premise solutions through the introduction of MSE (Mimecast Services for Exchange). This is a lightweight software component which binds Exchange directly with the Mimecast SaaS environment. Neil Murray, CTO at Mimecast added, ”Most organizations are demanding more out of their email management software. This is largely due to the need to integrate email archives directly with Exchange environments for compliance and mailbox management. Mimecast focuses on ensuring that by moving to SaaS, IT managers will not have to give up sophistication of applications or control.”

Mimecast also introduced a range of new capabilities to its Unified Email Management platform such as granular, Ediscovery Case Management, and Message Retention.

Litigation Hold prevents emails that relate to any current or anticipated legal action from being deleted while E-discovery Case Management allows multiple searches to be aggregated together alongside forward collection to provide a complete, legally admissible log of each case. Metadata Removal helps prevent information being leaked by stripping background data such as tracked changes or previously inserted comments out of attachments before it is allowed outside the firewall.

The company also announced several new features to improve the user experience. Folder-based replication enables users to retain a consistent view of their email whether accessing it direct through the server or through Mimecast webmail. Flexible Email stubbing enables companies to set up policies that facilitate greater control of mailbox size. It leaves a link in a user’s inbox yet the full email or attachment remains in the cloud until the user needs to access it. The addition of folder based retention provides the central enforcement of policies that pinpoint the types and categories of information and determines where and for how long the information is maintained. Additionally, users can apply granular corporate policy based around retention folders and associated retention periods.

Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, remarked, ”According to our research, eighty percent of electronic discovery events involve e-mails and messaging applications – when compared to other business productivity software – messaging is expected to have the greatest impact on server and storage spending over the next twenty four months.The recent additions to Mimecast’s portfolio directly address these challenges leading to benefits that are largely only available via on-premise e-mail management offerings. ESG is very excited to see the parity between all message management offerings regardless of how they are delivered (SaaS versus on-premise) as it gives customers more choices and opportunities to lower e-mail capital and operating expenses.”

Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast added, ”With these enhancements, customers now have access to a set of cloud computing services that match if not exceed the capabilities of in-house solutions. IT decision makers can feel confident in transitioning to cloud based email services from Mimecast knowing that they will have functional parity as well as all the other benefits of cloud based services. This is particularly important with critical services such as email which are a fundamental part of the way an organization operates.”

Mimecast delivers SaaS-based enterprise email management for archiving, discovery, continuity, security and policy. By unifying disparate and fragmented email environments into one holistic solution that is always available from the cloud, Mimecast minimises risk and reduces cost and complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of email. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2002, Mimecast serves more than 2,000 customers worldwide and has offices in Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East and the Channel Islands.

Cloud enabled enterprise hosting and application management services firm, NaviSite’s VMware-based SaaS Hosting Solution is assisting insurance industry software company, Insurance ISV with application delivery.

Founded in 1984, Input 1 provides business process outsourcing and software solutions for the insurance premium finance industry, offering both a complete outsourced model, as well as a licensed, on-premise version of its software. NaviSite’s SaaS hosting, a multi-tenant solution that cost-effectively addresses requirements of small and medium-sized businesses, allows Input 1 to deliver its applications to a larger customer base.

NaviSite’s comprehensive solution includes several virtualized servers, shared high-availability load balancers, firewalls, and backup solutions. NaviSite’s hosting platform is built on best-of-breed enterprise grade infrastructure, including HP blade technology and IBM storage area networking (SAN) – providing high reliability, security, and guaranteed performance that scales as the customer grows and requires additional resources.

Jeff Greenbaum, Senior Vice President and CIO of Input 1 remarked, ”NaviSite’s VMware-based SaaS hosting solution is uniquely suited to our needs – enabling us to scale our business with an infrastructure provider that is respected and highly regarded by our customers. NaviSite’s rapid implementation and flexible solution was the perfect platform for us to go to market with.”

Sumeet Sabharwal, SVP, SMB Hosting, NaviSite remarked, ”ISVs are rapidly embracing the SaaS model, enabling them to deploy their software solutions to more customers, with better reliability and performance than on-premise or traditional colocation deployments. NaviSite’s comprehensive suite of solutions for ISVs includes consulting services, ranging from initial architectural planning for SaaS deployments to the development and testing of SaaS application changes required to deploy secure, reliable solutions on our virtualized VMware server platforms or managed dedicated hosting solutions.”

NaviSite’s hosting solutions for SMBs are defined by their use of VMware as a virtualization technology, with flexible options for virtual Intel-based CPUs; virtual RAM;
SAN storage; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2003; and Red Hat Linux and CENTOS. NaviSite also offers a comprehensive set of options, including firewalls, load balancers, and disk-based backup (Page 1 of 2) Corporate Headquarters: 400 Minuteman Road Andover MA, 01810 USA solutions. With NaviSite’s NaviView portal, customers can easily monitor and manage their hosted environments.

Additionally, NaviSite has numerous programs and partnerships, including NaviSite’s membership as a BizSpark Network Partner, to assist ISVs in their transition to SaaS models. About Input 1 Input 1, LLC is a leading provider of products and services to the insurance industry. Its focus is on insurance premium financing and installment billing for property and casualty insurance premiums. Input 1′s offerings are divided into three primary categories: (1) business process outsourcing; (2) Internet (ASP) Services; (3) consulting. Input 1 provides complete or a la carte billing services to companies located throughout the United States, Canada and the Virgin Islands.

These services include the complete administration of premium finance and installment billing programs for insurance companies, managing general agents, retail agents and banks. Input 1 has approximately $400 million in annual premiums under management. Input 1′s ASP services provide online account access, point-of-sale quoting, management reporting and electronic payment services to more than one million insurance brokers and policyholders throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.input1.com.

NaviSite is a leading provider of cloud enabled enterprise hosting and application management services. It provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its industry leading hosting infrastructure; full suite of managed services; and custom and packaged application life cycle management expertise. Over 1,500 customers depend on NaviSite for customized solutions delivered through its global footprint, comprising 16 state-of-the-art data centers supported by approximately 650 professionals. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com.

NaviSite’s SMB Hosting Business focuses on providing managed hosting solutions to small and mid-sized businesses leveraging NaviSite’s extensive experience and global foot-print of data centers. These solutions span the entire spectrum of IT needs for SMB customers across both infrastructure and the applications stack. This includes powerful managed dedicated servers and virtual servers optimized for the needs and budget of SMBs, as well as a robust suite of hosted email and productivity applications. For more information on features and pricing, as well as online ordering, please visit www.navisite.com/smb. All logos, company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has ranked second on the 2009 Tech Titans Fast Tech Five-Year Listing by the Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC), the largest technology trade organization in Texas. The Tech Titans Fast Tech Award annually recognizes the fastest-growing technology companies in the DFW Metroplex, based on percentage of revenue growth during five-year or one-year periods.

Layered Tech ranked ahead of several other leading technology companies in North Texas, a result of the company’s explosive growth since 2004. To qualify for the ranking, companies must own proprietary technology; Layered Tech possesses a fully automated Web hosting platform called Astro that dramatically accelerates the availability and provisioning of servers for customers and channel partners alike.

“Layered Tech is proud to achieve such a high ranking on this prestigious annual list, which features many prominent DFW-area technology providers. The entire Layered Tech team has worked tirelessly to advance our services and offerings and become a leading global Web hosting provider, and being ranked second on the Tech Titan Fast Tech Five-Year List is a testament to our success,” said Layered Tech Founder and President Todd Abrams. “Layered Tech strives to meet and exceed customer needs, and our strategic business decisions and technological advancements have allowed us to achieve this goal. Our double-digit growth rate reflects the value that customers receive from Layered Tech and the flexible solutions we provide.”

The ranking of the 2009 five-year and one-year list was announced at the annual Tech Titans/Fast Tech Awards Gala Event on Aug. 28, 2009 at the Renaissance Hotel Dallas-Richardson in Richardson, Texas. As a winner in the five-year growth category, Layered Tech is eligible for the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, which recognizes the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the U.S. and Canada.

“The Tech Titans/Fast Tech Awards provide the premier recognition of fast-growing, highly innovative companies that contribute to the vibrancy of the North Texas economy and make our region an exciting place to live and work,” said Cindi Keith, partner/technology marketing industry leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and co-chair of the MTBC’s Tech Titans steering committee. “We look forward to showcasing the true leaders in our industry and celebrating their hard work and creativity.”

Web hosting firm specializing in business and dedicated server hosting, Lunarpages, is offering up to $100 of free Google AdWords credit for all new and existing customers.

Amy Armitage, Director of Business Development at Lunarpages Web Hosting remarked, ”This incredible offer from Google will allow small and large businesses alike to gain greater exposure through their target markets. Search engine marketing is one of the best ways to increase business, because you are able to contact potential customers at the exact moment they are searching for your products and services. Google AdWords bridges the gap between the customers and the businesses that need them, through Pay-Per-Click sponsored results.”

Ms. Armitage went on to provide details of the offer for all Lunarpages customers, explaining, ”Customers who purchase our Basic, Windows, or LPQuicksite Hosting Plans will receive $25; Business Hosting clients will get $35; VPS customers receive $50; and Dedicated Server customers receive a whopping $100 in free Google AdWords credits.”

This promotion is in addition to the already low-priced website hosting packages that Lunarpages provides, and expires December 3, 2009, so new and existing customers should act fast to take advantage of this limited time promotion.

Lunarpages hosts over 160,000 customers worldwide out of three state-of-the-art data centers. They are best known for their web hosting services, which start at $2.95 per month.

Managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions provider, Hosting.com, has debuted its new VMware (NYSE: VMW) vCloud Express solution, offering instant provisioning, consumption-based pricing (pay by the hour) and unlimited, dynamic compute resources.

Hosting.com will be among the first to offer this new class of VMware Virtualized service that that can be purchased, consumed and adjusted in a pay-as-you-go model. Hosting.com vCloud Express will be available as a beta service beginning September 1, 2009.

Craig McLellan, CTO of Hosting.com noted, ”vCloud Express delivers control directly to customers. They can setup new accounts, adjust virtual machine resources, turn additional machines on or off and deploy and execute virtual machine commands with no human interaction – if so desired. We will continue to innovate to deliver on the promises of capacity and infrastructure on-demand, utility-based pricing, and cloud interconnectivity.”

This solution introduces true cross-platform functionality to the marketplace that is compatible with technology the industry embraces and utilizes. vCloud Express is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution that will run on Hosting.com’s Cloud Enterprise infrastructure and is the latest announcement on Hosting.com’s portfolio of cloud hosting solutions. Consumers currently utilizing VMware internally will have compatibility between their internal infrastructure and external infrastructure resources used for application development and testing, capacity on demand, and general outsourced infrastructure needs.

Dan Chu, VP of Emerging Markets, VMware added, ”Hosting.com continues to provide cloud solutions and market insights that help define and evolve this quickly growing industry. Their commitment to providing exemplary service and rapid product development made them a natural fit as a vCloud Express service provider.”

Hosting.com will offer vCloud Express through its Cloud Enterprise solution. Cloud Enterprise leverages the latest in virtualization platform technology with VMware vSphere 4, and is highly available on both the computing and disk infrastructures. Hosting.com has made significant investments in enterprise-class technologies such as EMC, Dell, Juniper, F5, and Intel to deliver a robust, standards-based cloud infrastructure to clients demanding unparalleled performance and security.

Jason Waxman, General Manager, High Density Computing Division, Intel remarked, ”Hosting.com has made a promise to deliver Enterprise-Class cloud hosting services to their customers. The Intel Xeon 5500 processor family delivers outstanding benefits to enterprises in performance, energy efficiency and virtualization. Investments in products like Intel’s Xeon 5500 processor family help Hosting.com to deliver this promise to their clients via cloud services.”

Hosting.com has a portfolio of Cloud Hosting solutions including Cloud Enterprise, Cloud Dedicated and Cloud VPS – and now vCloud Express – that reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide extreme flexibility to businesses of all sizes. The vCloud Express launch is one of many product announcements Hosting.com will make over the next several months to provide more flexibility and control to hosting customers.

Hosting.com’s vCloud Express pricing starts at $.042 per hour and is available immediately.

Hosting.com’s portfolio of Cloud Hosting products are being featured at VMworld 2009, expected to draw more than 12,000 attendees. Hosting.com activities at VMworld include: CTO, Craig McLellan’s Super Session discussion on cloud hosting with VMware’s Dan Chu, VP of Emerging Markets; ideaLaunch.com, a Hosting.com Cloud Enterprise client, will present on a Client Panel; and Hosting.com will demo its cloud solutions multiple times on the tradeshow floor in the Hosting.com and Intel exhibits, as well as in the VMware vCloud Pavilion.

Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.

Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and Denver, CO.

Creativity is never lacking with respect to website hosting contests, and one recent example of this is the Pub Mashup Competition sponsored by Manchester website hosting firm, 34SP.com.

The company, which is known for superior customer service, launched the contest with simple entry criteria: create a mashup that has anything at all to do with pubs. Any entry could win, just so long as the mashup involved a pub in some way. The term ‘mashup’ is used in web development to denote a web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application. A mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data.

The winner of the 34SP.com Pub Mashup Competition was Mr. Phil Ronan for his program named ”PubStop”. This mashup will find the location of Britain’s best pubs close to a motor route of your choosing – and even divert you for a quick pint. Mr. Ronan’s winning entry will also re-route your driving directions and include a stop at the pub with a click of the ”Recalculate route with a stopover at this pub” button. The pubs included in the stopovers were selected by the guardian.co.uk as Britain’s 200 best pubs. The winner received cash and the use of a virtual server for a year as described here: http://www.34sp.com/vps-hosting.

Mr. Ronan’s entry was selected from a large field of entries including runner’s up Keane Ingram and Ollie O’Brien. Their programs were respectively: The Sam Smith’s Challenge (”A map showing all of the Sam Smith’s pubs in London, all of which we visited as part of a challenge to ourselves”) and a Map of UK Scenicness…and Pubs (New UK scenicness data released by MySociety, with OpenStreetMap’s road network and its known pubs).

According to information released by the company, 34SP.com created the Pub Mashup Competition to appeal to a technical audience. This core technology demographic composes much of the company’s client base. The contest provided clever programmers with a way to mix business with pleasure. Business: as in their business is programming applications and pleasure: as in the well known national pastime in the UK, going to pubs.

Winning entries for the website hosting competition were selected by a panel made up of 34SP.com employees who enjoy going to pubs. Entries were judged on the following criteria: originality, functionality, robustness, betterment of the greater pub community, and being fun and engaging to use. The winner emerged, but not without some difficulties.

Stuart Melling, co-founder of 34SP.com described the difficult selection process for the winners, ”Deciding on the actual winner, wasn’t an easy decision to make, mainly due to the fact that we’d been in the pub all day, and our vision was a bit blurry. The next day though we tried again. It was still hard though given all the entries we received. In the end we feel that the best pub mashups won.”

34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for cost conscious web developers and designers. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers award winning support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Website hosting services offered include: dedicated servers and .co.uk domains. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Hosted colocation services firm, Colo4Dallas, has appointed Richard E. Mendoza as its Vice President of Business Development, bringing over ten years of experience in the telecommunications and IT security industries.

With expertise in sales, strategic planning, engineering, consulting, product marketing, and management, Mr. Mendoza will lead Colo4Dallas’ business development and strategic growth initiatives. His prior experience includes tenures with Level (3) Communications, VeriSign, and Borderware Technologies with responsibility for clients in the U.S., Canada, South America, and Europe.

Paul VanMeter, president and chief technology officer of Colo4Dallas, noted, Bringing Richard on board is an integral part of our continuing commitment to deliver the best possible products and services to our customers. His background is an ideal fit to help develop innovative service offerings, guide our long-term growth strategy, and ensure operational excellence.

Founded in 2000, Colo4Dallas has experienced rapid and steady growth over the last several years while significantly expanding its square footage, power supply and network. Mr. VanMeter added, ”With a track record of community leadership, Richard will also be instrumental in our charitable and civic outreach efforts.”

Mr. Mendoza responded, ”I’m thrilled to join a company that has always raised the bar for service and quality in our industry.  This is a particularly dynamic time at Colo4Dallas, with a recently completed data center expansion, the addition of a leading-edge DWDM network, and new customers moving in to the facility every day.”

An ex-officio member of the Dallas Opera Board of Directors, Mr. Mendoza is currently Chairman of the organization’s young professionals group, Amici di Opera. He also serves as the Public Relations Co-Chair for Marquee Circle, the membership group that supports the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.

Mr. Mendoza holds an M.B.A. from the University of Dallas with a degree concentration in Information Assurance certified by the NSA and Department of Homeland Security. He received his undergraduate degree from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Colo4Dallas is a leading provider of colocation services located in Dallas, Texas. Colo4Dallas operates 106,000,000 square feet of environmentally controlled and secure data center space and offers premium multi-homed connectivity from Level3, Internap, TW Telecom, and other quality providers. The company provides colocation services for high density power applications in a carrier neutral setting for an array of customers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as well as businesses across the country and around the globe. SAS70 type II audited, Colo4Dallas offers customers a 100% service level agreement and around the clock support from trained, on-site technicians. The company is a repeat winner of Dallas 100 Award was named in 2008 by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the country.

International Internet exchange in Frankfurt am Main, DE-CIX, has expanded its infrastructure at Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, by extending its Internet exchange infrastructure into Interxion’s latest Frankfurt data centre, Frankfurt5.

For the exchange DE-CIX, this means that they now have five infrastructure locations distributed across the city of Frankfurt. Moving into the new data centre will give DE-CIX and its customers more space to grow as well as access to some of the most advanced IT infrastructure currently available in Germany.

Frank P. Orlowski, Director of Business Development and Marketing at DE-CIX remarked, ”While many other exchanges are hitting their capacity limits, data traffic in Frankfurt is still growing significantly, driven by our international reach and the quality of the infrastructure we can offer. DE-CIX does not just offer fast, high-quality Internet connectivity in Germany; we work with Internet companies from over 40 countries for whom Frankfurt and Germany clearly have a location advantage. In addition, Interxion’s Frankfurt5 data centre offers state-of-the-art space including the most efficient and fail-safe infrastructure available today. Among other things, 2N emergency power supply, an energy-efficient cooling system, biometric access controls, multiple layers of physical security and a 24/7 security team ensure that the German Internet exchange in Frankfurt has the infrastructure it needs.”

The newly extended relationship brings significant advantages for DE-CIX customers. Inter-continental Internet Service Providers and telcos in particular will find the one-stop-shop for peering and colocation opportunity very attractive. DE-CIX participants can peer at the Internet Exchange and secure the data centre space they need at the same time. Over the many years of cooperation between DE-CIX and Interxion, which have culminated in DE-CIX’s expansion into Frankfurt 5, the international importance of Frankfurt as Germany’s digital communication hub has grown steadily, to the extent that today no exchange in the world has more Internet traffic than DE-CIX.

Peter Knapp, Managing Director Interxion Germany added, ”There is more data exchanged at the Interxion data centre campus in Frankfurt than anywhere else in Germany. An exceptionally varied community of telecommunications companies has settled in our data centres and around DE-CIX. This means that even customers who are not connected to DE-CIX can easily benefit from improved connectivity. As this interconnected community continues to grow, the international significance of Frankfurt as a communication hub will also continue to rise.”

Interxion is a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 24 carrier-neutral data centres located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion’s data centres offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks.

Interxion is a Patron of Euro IX, the European Internet Exchange Association.

DE-CIX German Internet Exchange is the central, international Internet Exchange in Frankfurt am Main. DE-CIX enables the exchange of IP-traffic, the so called peering between Internet Service Providers through a failsafe switch infrastructure. Founded in 1995, DE-CIX today is the most important Internet exchange for Central and Eastern Europe and the largest Internet exchange worldwide for data throughput. Over 300 ISPs from over 40 countries carry out an essential part of their Internet traffic through DE-CIX. The independent carrier-neutral owner and operator of the Internet exchange is DE-CIX Management GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of eco e.V., the German Internet Industry Association.

Global managed hosting and colocation solutions firm, Hosting.com, is launching Cloud VPS, an enhanced version of its prior virtual private server (VPS) solutions.

Matt Ferrari, Director of Infrastructure Services at Hosting.com noted, ”Hosting.com made the decision to move away from a container-based VPS platform to provide more flexibility and control from our customers.Customer feedback and requests for a more dynamic offering that could easily scale or be migrated directly lead to the development of Cloud VPS.”

The new solution will provide customers with unprecedented elasticity and control of their VPS environments. Cloud VPS will be hypervisor-based, making the virtual machines independent from one another – a feature unavailable in most container-based VPS solutions.

Cloud VPS will provide customers with high availability, scalability and flexibility inherent to cloud infrastructures. Customers will have the ability to grow and easily migrate their Cloud VPS solutions to the more robust Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions offered by Hosting.com. The company selected the VMware vSphere software to build this new cloud infrastructure. Hosting.com is in the process of moving all existing VPS clients to the Cloud VPS infrastructure.

The transition to a cloud infrastructure allows Hosting.com to provide Cloud VPS at a reduced cost than traditional VPS solutions and provide clients with additional resources. The base package for the prior .Net VPS solution ($89.00/month) from Hosting.com provided 512 MB RAM, 10 GB of Virtual Disk Space, and 400 GB of monthly transfer. For $80.00/month, Cloud VPS will provide the same amount of RAM, 30 GB of Virtual Disk Space and 500 GB of monthly transfer.

Cloud VPS hosting plans are available for both Microsoft Windows and Linux at a fixed, monthly cost and can be customized based on a customer’s unique needs for space, bandwidth, and data management tools. Each plan includes preinstalled software, including ASP.NET, Adobe ColdFusion, and SQL Server on Windows and PHP, Perl, and MySQL on Linux. Additionally, Cloud VPS plans feature daily backups, 24x7x365 expert technical support, and a 100% network uptime guarantee.

Fred Strelzoff, Cloud Product Manager at Hosting.com remarked, ”Cloud VPS will introduce many companies to cloud hosting due to its performance, functionality and pricing. Cloud hosting has become a viable alternative to managed and dedicated hosting – similarly, we believe Cloud VPS will change the expectations of VPS consumers.”

Hosting.com has also changed the name of its Cloud Private solution to Cloud Dedicated to more accurately describe the solution provided to customers – a single-tenant, clustered hardware environment. Private solutions are available on both Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated.

Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.

Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and is opening a datacenter in Denver, CO in September 2009. All Hosting.com products and services are supported by 24x7x365 live expert technical support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat.