Dedicated Server Provider, Superb Internet, Premieres Managed Hosting Services.

Dedicated server web hosting company, Superb Internet, has officially launched its managed hosting division, having had a long history of offering high-end custom dedicated server solutions.

The new suite of managed services will officially be available to all new and existing clients.

Dale Bunten, Dir. Sales and Marketing noted, ”This marks a natural evolution for Superb Internet, as companies become increasingly dependent on the Internet to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. As a result, we are seeing heavy demand for our outsourced IT services despite the economic downturn.”

William Song, Senior Product Manager added, ”The new managed dedicated server line provides clients with enhanced security, disaster recovery, proactive monitoring, and managed firewall options. Each customer is assigned to a certified Technical Account Manager (TAM), who is responsible for understanding and maintaining the client’s infrastructure; including: identification of problem areas and pro-actively resolving them before an incident occurs. We are confident we have one of the strongest managed hosting offerings on the market.”

All Managed servers come with a 100% network uptime guarantee, 1 hour hardware replacement SLA, and Gold Level managed support by default. The services are provisioned by certified network and systems engineers 24×7, at all three company-owned datacenters.

Patrick Ahler, Dir of Business Development added, ”Working closely with such a great group of dedicated professionals has been a rewarding experience and we are confident that our clients will benefit from our rigorous attention to detail, and strict quality control and change management procedures. Our key objective is to ease the day-to-day pain associated with managing IT infrastructure, so our clients can focus on developing their business and applications.”

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ”Ahead of the Rest.” Superb Internet has its own data centers staffed 24×7x365 in McLean, VA, Springfield, VA, and Seattle, WA, and its headquarters office in Honolulu, HI.

Posted by Admin on August 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments
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Reseller Web Hosting Services, Focus of Parallels EMEA Partner Roadshow.

Server virtualization, automation and software provider, Parallels, will conduct a seven-country partner roadshow targeting Parallels’ partners and other hosters, cloud services providers and ISVs.

The EMEA Partner Roadshow will provide attendees with insights and best practices to deploy applications and services in a hosted environment. The roadshow will also provide practical examples of how hosters can use white-label reselling to create a lucrative indirect sales channel with a wider portfolio of applications, while maintaining brand independence and client loyalty.

Johan Vansimpsen, CTO and co-founder at Network Group Europe remarked, ”Network Group is using Parallels to balance a fine-tuned approach for delivering IT resellers the best possible technology to ‘grow with the cloud’ from the start. We are committed to delivering a full-blown hosted communications platform reseller solution and with Parallels, we are now able to deploy new services five times faster, so logically we are anticipating five times more revenue. Parallels also allows Network Group systems integrators (SIs) and value added resellers (VARs) a speedy entry to market option that gives them the fastest route to customers who trust them to deliver the most flexible software and services packages at the best price points.”

White-label reselling enables hosters to resell and deliver SaaS applications including Microsoft Exchange, Windows SharePoint, Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), etc. in a hosted environment. In the SaaS model, end user customers subscribe to applications instead of purchasing them, typically on a monthly basis. In this pay-as-you go approach, SMBs are afforded an easy-to-use low-cost service.

An April 2009, study by IDC finds that growth in the SaaS market will be strong in Europe despite – and in some cases because of – the weak economic conditions. The overall SaaS market will grow from 237 million in 2004 to 6,005 million in 2013 (1). From this and other recent IDC studies, it is clear that SaaS has become accepted by the mainstream of user organizations around Europe. This will result in continued strong growth, making SaaS a rising star in a very largely depressed European software market.

Dan Germain, CTO at Cobweb Solutions remarked, ”Leveraging Parallels we were able to increase our average revenue per user, deploy new services faster and reduce operating costs. It was critical for us to find a provider able to properly support white-label services at a modular and infrastructure level, so that our partners can resell Cobweb services under their own brand. Parallels allows Cobweb and its resellers to provide multiple-vendor solutions and flexible billing and administration across its different service offerings. Parallels enables Cobweb to increase revenue from each and every customer, both now and in the future.”

White-Label Reselling lets hosters delegate service plans to their customers to resell and offer a wider array of applications, without the extended cost of infrastructure involved in creating and distributing the applications themselves. White-label resale also offers an indirect sales channel and lets resellers maintain their unique brand independence, as well as retaining client loyalty. With white-label web hosting, it is possible for anyone to run their own web hosting business, while they rent or buy the actual web server space and services from an established hosting provider. Resellers do not have to take on the huge investment that make-up a web hosting service such as web servers, network connections, data center staff, server administrators, server support technicians and web server software and system licenses.

The 2009 Parallels Partner Roadshow will be take place in: Stockholm, September 1; Amsterdam, September 3; Warsaw, September 7; Cologne, September 10; Paris, September 14; Madrid, September 17 and London, September 21. To register for any of the events, or for more information, please visit www.parallels.com/emea2009.

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 650 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Web Hosting Firm, IPOWER, Develops Green Practices Site

Web hosting services for individuals and small businesses, IPOWER, has unveiled a 100% carbon neutral web site featuring a newly designed layout, in order to provide easier access to its tools, services and offerings.

IPOWER has streamlined site navigation, with a single row, hover-over menu at the top of the screen, and a mini-sitemap in the expanded footer section.

Jen Merry, Marketing Manager at IPOWER remarked, ”We wanted to improve the customer experience and provide our Web hosting customers and site visitors with the most efficient site possible, so, we’ve removed the clutter and simplified the navigation. Not only is our staff environmentally conscious, but many of our customers are, as well. We wanted to give them an opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint by hosting their sites on servers powered completely by wind energy.”

Another notable feature is the revamped FileManager tool, which allows customers to upload and manage site files and directories in a more user-friendly interface. A number of FileManager features have been revised for improved usability.

Not only is the new site design more efficient, but the energy powering the site is more efficient; IPOWER announced that all offices and data centers are now powered by 100% wind energy! IPOWER is offsetting all electricity use with wind-generated Renewable Energy Certificates, which prevent the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.

IPOWER is celebrating these exciting improvements and changes with the entire IPOWER community.

Jen Merry added, ”To show our customers, the force behind our success, how much we appreciate their continued support, we are offering additional hosting plans at a discounted price.” The Member Loyalty Plan includes all of the features of the IPOWER Pro Plan, at a savings of over 15%.

Founded in 2001, IPOWER has established itself as a leader in the Web hosting industry, providing a comprehensive suite of online services for individuals and small businesses worldwide. IPOWER’s custom control panel, vDeck, offers access to more than 200 tools and services, providing customers the widest selection of Web-hosting applications available.

Posted by Admin on August 9th, 2009 | No Comments
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Web Hosting Services Provider, Applied Innovations, Deploys Raxco PerfectDisk 10

Applied Innovations Corporation has chosen Raxco Software’s PerfectDisk 10 for the disk defragmentation needs of its critical server infrastructure and its clients.

Applied Innovations provides ASP.Net hosting and web hosting services on the Windows Server platform to thousands of small- and medium-size businesses worldwide.

Jess Coburn, chief executive officer at Applied Innovations explained, “High availability for our managed infrastructure of Web, email, SQL and application servers that are used by our clients is critical, and PerfectDisk 10 helps us provide it. It’s imperative that all of our services have low latency and high performance, in addition to high availability, and in all our testing, PerfectDisk excelled. I/O was reduced on all servers, particularly on our SQL and email servers, where query times and email processing and delivery, respectfully, improved dramatically. These improvements allowed us to better utilize our existing infrastructure before having to deploy additional resources. We are also providing PerfectDisk as a managed option for our dedicated and Virtual Private Server (VPS) clients.”

Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Applied Innovations is a Microsoft Gold Certified Web hosting provider specializing in ASP.Net Hosting and Windows Web hosting. Since 1999, Applied Innovations has hosted thousands of domains for small to medium sized businesses internationally, offering world-class service and support at affordable and competitive prices.

Joe Abusamra, vice president of operations at Raxco Software noted, “We’re extremely happy to be partnering with Applied Innovations for the defragmentation needs of its infrastructure and its clients. Applied Innovations’ dedication to the highest quality, standards and customer service match those of PerfectDisk, and we are excited to enter into this mutually beneficial partnership.”

Raxco Software has been helping large enterprises, small businesses, and consumers with their PC and computer performance and resource management needs for over 30 years. Its PerfectDisk 10 is certified by Microsoft for Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. PerfectDisk products have a long history of winning the industry’s highest awards, most notably its perfect 5-star review from CNET Download, winner of the Windows IT Pro Readers’ Choice Awards for Defragmentation Utility and Storage Management Tools, Redmond Magazine’s Best of the Best Award, and PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award. Raxco’s PerfectSpeed is the industry’s first all-in-one automated PC performance suite for Windows. Raxco also produces optimization software, for HP’s OpenVMS operating system.

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GoDaddy Web Hosting and Domain Services Provider, at NASCAR Las Vegas.

Go Daddy spokesman, Dale Earnhardt Jr., raced the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet at the car’s season debut in the Sam’s Town 300 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Nationwide Series race took place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and was broadcast on ESPN2.

In early January, Go Daddy anounced its return to NASCAR for the 2009 season with an expanded sponsorship of Earnhardt Jr., JR Motorsports and Hendrick Motorsports. This season’s Go Daddy sponsorship features Dale Jr. and prot�g� Brad Keselowski in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series.

Go Daddy is the primary sponsor for 20 Nationwide Series races with Earnhardt driving the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets and Keselowski driving the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets.

Go Daddy also sponsors Keselowski in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets for seven Sprint Cup Series races this season. This first race in that car could come this Sunday. Keselowski will attempt to qualify for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet tomorrow at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who helped design the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets, became a Go Daddy spokesman after first being a Go Daddy customer. Earnhardt visited Go Daddy’s Scottsdale, Ariz. corporate campus last fall. Afterward, he remarked on his impressions of both the technology and the people.

Mr. Earnhardt Jr. noted, ”I consider myself quite knowledgeable when it comes to computers and the web. It’s fun to be able to bounce ideas off each other in making this partnership really click.”

This has been a tough year for NASCAR drivers in terms of sponsorships. Economic struggles have forced many longtime sponsors to pull out. Go Daddy, however, experienced unprecedented success in 2008 and, in turn, expanded this year’s NASCAR sponsorship.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy remarked, ”When we talked about sponsoring Dale Jr., it was a no-brainer. He’s a great driver, NASCAR is non-stop action and it has the most fun-loving, loyal fans out there.”

Go Daddy’s foray into racing sponsorships started in 2006 with the company’s support of IndyCar’s Danica Patrick. That sponsorship continues this year as well. Patrick, a Go Daddy Girl and IndyCar’s most popular driver, made history last season as the first woman ever to win in the IndyCar Series.

Go Daddy offers a wide array of services far beyond domain name registration. The company is a world leader in web site hosting, new SSL certificates, as well as offering web site design, Quick Shopping Cart for online vendors and – new in 2009 – Go Daddy Marketplace, an online shopping mall where Go Daddy leverages the draw of its popular global Web site to showcase customer products.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 33 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

Posted by Admin on March 5th, 2009 | 3 Comments
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