Archive for October, 2009

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Hosting is now available from IT Solutions Now. This hosted service offers organizations fully integrated customer relationship management software that creates and maintains a clear view of customers from first contact through post-sales.

“Now clients can easily track all of the stages of planning and executing marketing campaigns, including planning, tactics and follow-up,” says Billy Forte, CEO of IT Solutions Now, a leading Microsoft Exchange Hosting organization. “Most importantly, managers can manage leads better to convert them into sales.”

CRM hosting enables clients to assign, schedule and track marketing campaign activities, as well as easily measure campaign performance, creating a more efficient way to market both new and existing products and services. CRM 4.0 hosting is integrated with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, allowing a minimal learning curve and quick return on investment.

CRM 4. 0 hosting offers many benefits to organizations and businesses. With a hosted service, organizations can customize a CRM solution to the needs of each customer, and can integrate sales marketing and service processes, creating a professional image to present to clients. An organization can used CRM 4.0 hosting to automate task planning, cost tracking and many other tasks involved in complex marketing campaigns, saving staff time and reducing room for error. A hosted service also allows for quicker follow-up on leads and makes it easier to connect with prospects and customers.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Hosting users can also track responses to mailings and e-mail marketing to stay in constant contact. The service also features full synchronicity with Outlook e-mail, tasks, contacts and calendars, and makes it easy to export data into Excel for fast analysis and reporting.

Overall, CRM 4.0 hosting leads to increased brand awareness, more efficient lead generation and better management of existing customer data to grow market share.

Posted by Admin on October 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Rochen announced that today it has signed an agreement with Ksplice, a start-up that provides a new technology called Uptrack for keeping operating systems up-to-date without needing to reboot.

The use of the new Uptrack technology removes the need to deploy kernel updates manually as well as the need to reboot servers to initialize an update, meaning updates are deployed faster and without downtime. Now, when kernel updates are distributed by an operating system vendor, the wait time for them to be deployed is almost eliminated.

“Deploying Kpslice’s Uptrack technology across all of our servers will allow Linux Kernel security updates to be rolled out faster to our customers than ever before, without any downtime or disruption in service due to reboots,” says Chris Adams, CEO, Rochen Ltd.

The technology will be used across all of Rochen’s servers, including shared and reseller, as well as Managed Virtual Servers, Rochen’s proactively managed VPS service. There will be no additional charge for Rochen customers.

“Now that Rochen’s servers are protected with Ksplice Uptrack, their customers can get the critical security benefits of the latest OS updates without the disruption of rebooting. Hosting companies that aren’t constantly innovating like Rochen simply can’t serve their customers as well,” says Waseem Daher, COO, Ksplice Inc.

This is especially beneficial for customers looking to host Joomla powered websites. Rochen is the official web hosting provider for the Joomla open source content management system. Rochen also announced today that they will be one of the lead sponsors of Joomla’s Developer Conference on December 5th and 6th 2009 in New York City.

Rochen announced that today it has signed an agreement with Ksplice, a start-up that provides a new technology called Uptrack for keeping operating systems up-to-date without needing to reboot.

The use of the new Uptrack technology removes the need to deploy kernel updates manually as well as the need to reboot servers to initialize an update, meaning updates are deployed faster and without downtime. Now, when kernel updates are distributed by an operating system vendor, the wait time for them to be deployed is almost eliminated.

“Deploying Kpslice’s Uptrack technology across all of our servers will allow Linux Kernel security updates to be rolled out faster to our customers than ever before, without any downtime or disruption in service due to reboots,” says Chris Adams, CEO, Rochen Ltd.

The technology will be used across all of Rochen’s servers, including shared and reseller, as well as Managed Virtual Servers, Rochen’s proactively managed VPS service. There will be no additional charge for Rochen customers.

“Now that Rochen’s servers are protected with Ksplice Uptrack, their customers can get the critical security benefits of the latest OS updates without the disruption of rebooting. Hosting companies that aren’t constantly innovating like Rochen simply can’t serve their customers as well,” says Waseem Daher, COO, Ksplice Inc.

This is especially beneficial for customers looking to host Joomla powered websites. Rochen is the official web hosting provider for the Joomla open source content management system. Rochen also announced today that they will be one of the lead sponsors of Joomla’s Developer Conference on December 5th and 6th 2009 in New York City.

Posted by Admin on October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

UnitedLayer, LLC, a privately held company Managed Colocation Services firm, named No. 25 on S.F. Business Times’ 100 Fastest Growing Private Company List.

Today, UnitedLayer has 30 employees and 175 customers. The company is headquartered at 200 Paul Ave. in San Francisco, where it has over 32,000 square feet of Class A conditioned data center space and it runs a second 5,000-square-foot data center in Los Angeles, as well as Internet exchanges in Palo Alto, San Jose, Los Angeles and Ashburn in Virginia. The San Francisco based company offers managed data center solutions that allow customers to locate their IT equipment in one place where they can connect to numerous telecommunications providers and it offers dedicated and managed servers and very high speed Internet Connectivity.  

The San Francisco Business Times partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct the research and produce the Top 100 and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Lists. All companies had to have been headquartered in the Bay Area, privately held between 2006 and 2008, and must have had revenues of more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2006. Fast 100 and Fast 50 Companies were ranked on percentage of revenue growth from 2006 to 2008.
 
“We are thrilled and honored to be part of the fastest growing private companies in the Bay Area and would like to thank all of our customers” said Arman Khalili, founder and CEO, UnitedLayer. The founder states with a smile, “I am lucky to have hired coworkers who are smarter than I am.” It is apparent that Mr. Khalili is proud of his staff; however he goes on to state that, “While, the UnitedLayer team is crucial to the momentum of our business, our customers come first. End of story.”
 
This year’s recognition follows the 2008 Top 100 list where UnitedLayer was named 82nd fastest growing Bay Area Company. “At UnitedLayer, we attribute our growth to our most important assets namely our clients and our co-workers” said Albert Ahdoot, Director of Business Development and Marketing. Mr. Ahdoot further acknowledges that “UnitedLayer’s success can be traced from the result of Class A services, coupled with its superior 24/7 customer support.”

UnitedLayer, LLC, a privately held company Managed Colocation Services firm, named No. 25 on S.F. Business Times’ 100 Fastest Growing Private Company List.

Today, UnitedLayer has 30 employees and 175 customers. The company is headquartered at 200 Paul Ave. in San Francisco, where it has over 32,000 square feet of Class A conditioned data center space and it runs a second 5,000-square-foot data center in Los Angeles, as well as Internet exchanges in Palo Alto, San Jose, Los Angeles and Ashburn in Virginia. The San Francisco based company offers managed data center solutions that allow customers to locate their IT equipment in one place where they can connect to numerous telecommunications providers and it offers dedicated and managed servers and very high speed Internet Connectivity.  

The San Francisco Business Times partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct the research and produce the Top 100 and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Lists. All companies had to have been headquartered in the Bay Area, privately held between 2006 and 2008, and must have had revenues of more than $200,000 in fiscal year 2006. Fast 100 and Fast 50 Companies were ranked on percentage of revenue growth from 2006 to 2008.
 
“We are thrilled and honored to be part of the fastest growing private companies in the Bay Area and would like to thank all of our customers” said Arman Khalili, founder and CEO, UnitedLayer. The founder states with a smile, “I am lucky to have hired coworkers who are smarter than I am.” It is apparent that Mr. Khalili is proud of his staff; however he goes on to state that, “While, the UnitedLayer team is crucial to the momentum of our business, our customers come first. End of story.”
 
This year’s recognition follows the 2008 Top 100 list where UnitedLayer was named 82nd fastest growing Bay Area Company. “At UnitedLayer, we attribute our growth to our most important assets namely our clients and our co-workers” said Albert Ahdoot, Director of Business Development and Marketing. Mr. Ahdoot further acknowledges that “UnitedLayer’s success can be traced from the result of Class A services, coupled with its superior 24/7 customer support.”

Posted by Admin on October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) now supports Windows 7 data and system state backups; users can migrate data from XP and Vista to Windows 7 using ZCB.

Zmanda™, today announced support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with its Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) product. Users can backup file servers, SQL servers, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Oracle and MySQL based on Windows Server 2008 R2 to off-site cloud storage. Support is available immediately.

ZCB is a simple GUI-based backup solution that allows Windows users to easily automate their backup and recovery process. This robust and simple-to-use solution provides ongoing protection against disaster, user error and theft. Once ZCB is installed and the backup process is set using its simple scheduler, ZCB automatically backs up files, applications, databases, and networked devices to a storage cloud. The management console allows system administrators to schedule the extraction of backup data from live applications and the upload of backup archives to the storage cloud as independently scheduled operations, reducing the burden of backup operations on production applications and WAN bandwidth. ZCB can also be used to protect either physical or virtual machines.

ZCB uses open format (ZIP64) for storing backup archives. The ZIP64 format enables users to migrate from previous Windows versions to Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 using ZCB. Data from a Windows XP based laptop or desktop can be migrated to a Windows 7 based system without needing an external hard disk or a USB flash drive.

“Today’s Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server R2 releases by Microsoft represent major upgrades for IT managers,” said Chander Kant, chief executive officer, Zmanda. “ZCB eases this migration by enabling these two platforms to quickly and easily backup to storage clouds.”

The price for ZCB 2.0 consists of a flexible pay-as-you-go cost of $0.20/GB/month ($0.25/GB/month for EU) for data transfer and storage on the cloud, with an additional monthly charge of $4.95 per account for the protection of an unlimited number of Windows desktops and servers. This low subscription based pricing makes ZCB ideal for one-time data migration projects. ZCB is immediately available for purchase and download from http://www.zmanda.com/cloud-backup.html

Posted by Admin on October 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Nimsoft, the first provider of Unified Monitoring™ solutions, today announced that Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet has selected the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) to monitor its entire server infrastructure.

With about EUR 1.2 billion in revenues, 8 million customers, and 10 million domains being managed, 1&1 is the largest Web hosting provider in the world. In order to deliver its portfolio of shared and dedicated hosting, ISP, and new cloud computing services, 1&1 needs to manage a vast infrastructure that includes more than 65,000 servers.

The IT staff at 1&1 realised it needed to replace the existing open source monitoring solution in order to most effectively optimise the performance and reliability of its servers. After evaluating solutions from IBM, Hyperic and Nimsoft, the staff found that only NMS offered the combination of scalability, ease of deployment, and security they required.

“In the end, we found that Nimsoft was the only solution that met our requirements for scalability, ease, and off-the-shelf capabilities, while at the same time delivering the flexibility we’d need to adapt to our evolving requirements,” said Henning Kettler, CTO 1&1. “As a result, we’re able to deploy quickly and get immediate benefits and have confidence that the solution will deliver value in the long term.”

Its distributed architecture and security model makes NMS an ideal solution for large and geographically diverse businesses such as 1&1. The solution’s secure model for gathering and distributing monitoring data helps 1&1 optimise the security of its infrastructure while offering the scalability required to effectively aggregate the massive amounts of monitoring data being generated by the company’s server infrastructure.

“1&1’s selection of Nimsoft is a tremendous testament to the scalability of our solution,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “With NMS, 1&1 gains the ability to efficiently monitor its vast infrastructure, and so reduce administrative time and expense, while at the same time boosting the availability and performance of its services.”

Posted by Admin on October 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment

ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announces driver support for its complete line of host adapters for Microsoft Windows 7. ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel Host Adapters, ExpressSAS SAS/SATA RAID and Host Adapters and ExpressPCI SCSI Host Adapters, are PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 and PCIe) and PCI-X adapters that provide high-performance storage connectivity.

“ATTO reinforces its commitment to the Windows market by being the first host adapter vendor to deliver support for the newest Microsoft operating system, Windows 7. Windows users can now choose from a full spectrum of high-performance adapters for Fibre Channel, SAS/SATA and SCSI environments,” states Tom Kolniak, director of products for ATTO.

ATTO Technology Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has built and tested their host adapters and drivers for interoperability and performance with the latest Windows architecture. Windows users can rely on ATTO to deliver comprehensive lines of HBAs that are tailored to the performance demands of video and IT professionals.

ATTO offers storage connectivity solutions for both Storage Area Network (SAN) and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) environments. With a wide range of features, port configurations and performance levels, Celerity 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s Fibre Channel, ExpressSAS 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID and Host Adapters and ExpressPCI SCSI HBAs are the premier choice for data-intensive IT and digital media applications such as tape backup, data warehousing, high-definition video post-production and digital film production.

Windows 7 is also supported by ATTO’s Power Center software – a unique Windows-based software utility that maximizes productivity by delivering exceptional striping performance across single and multiple RAID arrays for attached storage applications. With ATTO’s Smooth Data Optimization (SDO™) Technology and other built-in intelligence, data can be efficiently striped across RAID arrays without interruption. By using the intuitive easy-to-use GUI users can quickly and efficiently manage their RAID groups.

ATTO’s Fibre Channel, SAS/SATA and SCSI host adapters are used worldwide to support Microsoft hardware systems running Windows 7. The latest drivers are available for download at www.attotech.com.

Posted by Admin on October 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Superb Internet announced today the extension of its existing industry-leading lease-to-own program to all of its dedicated servers. The existing lease-to-own program, until now only offered on the Superb Enterprise high-end/custom dedicated line of servers, allows – as of today, all — dedicated server customers to pay a small lease to own fee for a year and then at the end of one year they own the hardware outright while the monthly fee is reduced to a minimal colocation fee, saving the customers thousands of dollars over the life-time of the server.

This program is particularly well-suited to large partners and resellers who often have hundreds (or thousands) of servers representing huge ongoing monthly costs. Resellers can own all their servers after one year of service, significantly reducing their costs, which they can use to grow their businesses.

“We understand that in tough economic times customers are looking for more and more value, and we believe this is one of the best deals out there,” states William Song, Senior Product Manager. “This represents a paradigm shift in the relationship between customer and web host, offering much more transparency in the billing practices. At other web hosts customers are typically forced to pay outrageous ongoing monthly fees for hardware that is often 3-4 years old. With the Superb lease-to-own program customers always know that they have paid off their hardware after year 1, and the low ongoing fees simply represent, space, power, AC, support, and bandwidth among other costs. If customers wish to upgrade their server they can do so at wholesale rates, and if they decide to leave they can have the server shipped to them, because they own it! Compare that to most companies where customers end up paying thousands of dollars more (many times the cost of the server hardware) and end up with nothing when they cancel.”

Posted by Admin on October 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Dutch interactive and mobile solutions firm, mediaBunker, has announced the first iPhone application for the widely used Parallels Plesk Panel. The application, named ServerAdmin, has passed it’s pilot stage and is now available in the App Store worldwide.

ServerAdmin provides capabilities to administer your Plesk Panel as a server administrator. You can add new, edit, or remove clients and domains, or just make sure everything is running fine by checking your statistics. On the go, wherever you are, you have your Parallels Plesk Panel under control. More features, such as mail management and multiple login tiers, will become available in the near future.

ServerAdmin can be downloaded from the App Store, with a price tag of $ 3.99 in the US and € 2,99 in Europe. As more features are added, the price will increase. Buy it now and you will get all future updates for free!

Posted by Admin on October 21st, 2009 | No Comments

NTT America, today announced the company’s COO and CTO, Kazuhiro Gomi, will speak at SUPERCOMM 2009 on the topic of managing the convergence demand: navigating international trends in business and technology. His engagement will take place at 11 AM CDT on Friday, October 23rd at McCormick Place West Building Room W183b in Chicago, Illinois

Attendees will gain an understanding of which emerging applications and technologies will be at the forefront of this demand curve including IPTV, VoIP, cloud computing and video conferencing. In addition, Mr. Gomi will give an overview of the next-generation Internet protocol, IPv6, and how its deployment will eliminate the address limits of IPv4 and what benefits IPv6 provides.

Mr. Gomi will discuss challenges and opportunities surrounding the dramatic increase in worldwide demand for Internet access. Three key issues dominate the future landscape: the growing number of Internet-enabled devices, the changing variety of available web applications both for businesses and consumers, as well as the necessity of unifying communications across platforms. The talk will include the importance of an international point of view on business, what countries will have the most impact on demand creation and how network security will continue to play a critical role in growth.

Mr. Gomi leads NTT America as its COO and CTO. In his role as COO, Mr. Gomi oversees the Enterprise Solutions and the Global IP Network business units, which comprise the operations of NTT America, including all facets of finance, engineering, operations and customer relations. The Enterprise Solutions Business Unit (ESBU) is focused on providing private networking and datacenter/colocation solutions to enterprise customers and multinational corporations. The Global IP Network (GIN) Business Unit operates one of the leading Global Tier-1 Internet backbones and offers direct IP transit connections to telecommunications companies, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), content providers, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), enterprises and Web hosting companies.

Posted by Admin on October 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced that the public beta of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 will become available in November, and revealed some of the new SharePoint Server 2010 capabilities for the first time.
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“By taming the overflow of information across systems and technologies, SharePoint enables organizations to thrive,” Ballmer said. “SharePoint 2010 is the biggest and most important release of SharePoint to date. When paired with Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 will transform efficiency by connecting workers across a single collaboration platform for business.”

During his keynote address, Ballmer talked broadly about SharePoint Server as a business collaboration platform and highlighted three key areas. One was how organizations can respond quickly to business needs with an improved developer platform that makes it easier to build rich content and collaboration applications. Another topic was the enhanced Internet site capabilities that help businesses drive revenue and retain customers on a single platform. The third was the choice and flexibility between on-premises and cloud solutions. At the event, Microsoft showcased the breadth of SharePoint Server 2010 that ranges from wikis to workflows, while Ballmer’s keynote address highlighted features and capabilities such as these:

The addition of two new SharePoint SKUs for Internet-facing sites, including an on-premises and hosted offer
“In today’s economy, controlling costs and expenses is essential,” said David Glenn, director of Enterprise Operations at Del Monte Foods Co. “However, we still have the requirement to make sure our employees, customers and partners can get the information they need to be productive, no matter where they are. SharePoint 2010 is going to allow us to do that more effectively.”

New SharePoint tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, giving developers a premier experience with the tools they know and trust
Business Connectivity Services, which allow developers to connect capabilities to line-of-business data or Web services in SharePoint Server and the Office client
Rich APIs and support for Silverlight, representational state transfer (REST) and Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), to help developers rapidly build applications on the SharePoint platform

Enterprise features in SharePoint Online such as Excel Services and InfoPath Forms Services, which make it simple to use, share, secure and manage interactive forms across an organization

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is part of the next wave of Microsoft Office-related products, which includes Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010, that are designed to give people the best productivity experience across PCs, phones and browsers.

Availability
The public betas of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 will become available in November 2009; more information is available at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9689707.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in the first half of 2010. More information about Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

This information is about pre-release software and therefore is subject to change. It is provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

Posted by Admin on October 21st, 2009 | No Comments
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