Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - Managed hosting and colocation solutions provider, Hosting.com, is expanding by opening a 30,000 square foot datacenter and 13,000 square foot corporate complex in the Denver metro area in late August.

Joel Daly, COO of Hosting.com remarked, ''By operating five datacenters from coast to coast, we provide our clients with unparalleled solution and service options. Our business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) enhancements will provide clients with cost-effective means to achieve and test true disaster recovery and fault tolerance.''

Company owners Art Zeile and Joel Daly have operated three successful high-tech firms, all headquartered in Denver, including InFlow, Inc., sold to Sungard in 2005.

The demand for secure, reliable colocation space in Denver continues to outpace availability. Art Zeile, Hosting.com CEO, commented, ''We are excited to serve a very large need in Denver with this new datacenter. Colocation space with our high level of service and support is absent from downtown. We will grow aggressively over the next 24 months through a national platform of managed and secure services; we are excited that Denver is at the center of our growth.''

Hosting.com will occupy a historic Ford Model T factory retrofitted to their specifications for the expansion. The location takes advantage of a strong network topology, multiple power grids, and close proximity to fully redundant fiber feeds from Tier 1 providers. The datacenter will incorporate Hosting.com Smart Design Standards and provide up to 10 Gb/sec of redundant connectivity for bandwidth routing optimization as well as 200 watts/sq ft of power and cooling. It will be the only datacenter of its kind in downtown Denver.

In addition to hosting and colocation services, the new facility will support Hosting.com's new cloud hosting platforms, Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Private. Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; and San Francisco, CA. Hosting.com's cloud and virtualization solutions coupled with a geographically dispersed datacenter network allows their clients to take full advantage of their services for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery solutions for their web enabled businesses and technology infrastructure.

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.

For more information on colocation space for custom-build or suite-arrangement options, please visit: https://secure.hosting.com/platform/data-centers/tour.aspx.

To learn more about Hosting.com, please visit: www.hosting.com.

Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - Provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, Layered Technologies, Inc., has made Microsoft Windows Server 2008 available for rapid server deployments via Astro, the company's proprietary automated web hosting platform.

In addition to Windows Server 2008, Layered Tech offers the broadest range of high-performance, secure Linux and Unix operating systems in the industry, so customers leveraging the speed and flexibility of Astro can choose the OS that best meets their needs and provision the server almost instantaneously.

Terrance Bush, COO and CIO of Layered Tech remarked, ''By adding Windows Server 2008 to our rapid deployment server offerings, customers can stay current with the latest offerings from Microsoft, explore new features with the .NET product offering and leverage a rich web server environment that is more robust and feature-driven than previous versions of IIS. We continue to evaluate the latest and greatest server technologies to determine what will best meet our customers' needs and support their business goals. We're excited to make Windows Server 2008 available within our rapid deployment service offering, provide our customers a wide variety of robust operating system options, and deliver powerful servers in less than two hours after selection.''

With Windows Server 2008, customers can develop, deliver and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within their organizations. Astro displays server inventory in real-time and enables near instantaneous server provisioning so Layered Tech customers can easily configure their server, complete the purchase and have it available for use within 90 minutes.

The Windows Server 2008 editions currently available via Astro include:

• Data Center Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications on medium and large servers;
• Standard Edition: the most robust Windows Server operating system to date due to its increased reliability, flexibility and control;
• Enterprise Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications.

Through Astro, customers can quickly customize their rapid deployment servers with a wide range of offerings, including the option to deploy IIS, Plesk Control Panel, Virtual Firewall Solutions and DEFCON bundled managed services. And with Encompass, Layered Tech's centralized client management portal, customers can manage their account, request support, reboot servers and access other critical information such as bandwidth graphs, alerts and notifications.

Layered Tech launched Astro in January 2009 in its DataBank data center located in Dallas and continues to broaden the autonomous platform so customers can take advantage of additional services within minutes, not hours or even days. It plans to expand Astro into its Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Chicago facilities in the near future. Customers can access Astro and buy servers directly through Layered Tech's web site and with an open API created by Layered Tech, partners can display inventory and coordinate sales in real-time from their own Web sites.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - The NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.7 has been released by web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the NetBeans developer community.

The new version of NetBeans features tight integration with Project Kenai, Sun's collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects. Developers can download the free, full-featured NetBeans IDE 6.7 at www.netbeans.org.

Jim Parkinson, vice president of Developer Products and Programs at Sun remarked, ''The advances in the latest version of NetBeans will have a huge impact in the productivity of developers. The integration between NetBeans and Kenai allows developers to stay in their IDE and quickly navigate between Kenai.com, local code, bug reports, IM chats and project wikis. Instead of interruptions, interactions with code, or looking for project information, team members become a natural part of the developers' workflow.''

The tight integration of the new NetBeans IDE will enable millions of developers to discuss, edit, debug and commit code through one easy-to-use interface. Other key features of NetBeans IDE 6.7 include:

• Support for Maven, a community software project management and comprehension tool;
• New Team menu provides access to projects on Kenai.com;
• Automated continuous integration system with Hudson, an extensible Java-based solution to which makes it easier for developers to integrate changes to their project, and makes it easier for users to obtain a fresh build;
• Improved PHP support allowing developers to connect with each other and the latest technologies;
• Support for Zembly, a single registry and repository of popular Web APIs. The Zembly Client Library NetBeans plug-in enables developers to discover popular APIs and with a simple Drag and Drop functionality, create the necessary code to consume the APIs from Java and JavaFX applications.

The integration with Kenai.com will allow developers to stay in the IDE to create projects in the cloud, get sources from Kenai projects, query, open and edit issues for them using Bugzilla. NetBeans IDE users can also quickly navigate between Kenai.com hosted projects and local sources while developers can easily stay connected with other team members with an integrated chat, Kenai's user profiles, wikis, and mailing lists. Learn more about Project Kenai at www.kenai.com.

Other highlights of the NetBeans IDE 6.7 release includes improved PHP and GlassFish software support. The NetBeans IDE provides a rich set of features for Ruby, Groovy, and JavaScript and other technologies. Support for JavaFX 1.2 technology is currently available for NetBeans IDE 6.5.1 and will soon be available for NetBeans IDE 6.7. Learn more at www.netbeans.org/features.

Sun also offers a tiered set of developer support services for its software offerings, ranging from single incident to comprehensive developer plans. In addition, with a broad portfolio of training and certification offerings, developers can enhance their skill sets to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies.

Sun's Start-Up Program is designed for members to work with Sun partners, Joyent and NaviSite, to rent discounted web hosting infrastructure based on Sun technologies. In addition to offering products and services to eligible PRC- and India-based startup companies, Sun is also offering free technical advice via email and access to free software, such as Apache, MySQL and Perl (AMP), optimized to run on the Solaris 10 OS. More information on the program, is available at www.sun.com/startupessentials.

Mountain View, California - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2009 - The next version of Gear6 Web Cache, specifically targeting the needs of cloud providers, has been released by provider of scalable Memcached solutions, Gear6.

Joaquin Ruiz, Executive Vice President of Products noted, ''As more applications move to the cloud, hosting providers are challenged to simultaneously augment their infrastructure, differentiate their services, provide data security and scale economically. Today, Memcached is already a fundamental pillar in horizontally scaling web applications within all top origin sites. Gear6 Web Cache 2.3 delivers the integration, security, performance and scalability that cloud providers require in order to easily and effectively deliver advanced Memcached functionality to all their hosted customers, enabling those customers to virtually scale like the big guys.''

Gear6 Web Cache version 2.3 includes multi-tenancy capabilities with secured Memcached zones that enable managed hosting (MHP) and cloud service providers to deliver Memcached as a service to their customers. With Gear6 Web Cache, hosted web sites can scale out more effectively for improved performance and continuous data availability.

Released in April and already deployed in a number of top 500 websites, Gear6 Web Cache helps fast growing media, social networking, content aggregation, and other dynamic websites to cost effectively scale their Memcached infrastructure. The results are improved site performance, increased visibility into application and infrastructure tiers, and more than a 60% reduction in typical capital and operational expenses.

The new multi-tenancy support in Gear6 Web Cache 2.3 includes IP address sharing, higher levels of security with IP-based access control list and filtering, and rich programmatic access of Gear6 Web Cache. Managed hosting and cloud providers can easily offload Memcached workloads onto Gear6 Web Cache and federate the service to many customers.

Other key new features in Gear6 Web Cache 2.3 include: -- A web services interface for programmatic management of the Gear6 platform. This makes it easier to integrate with interfaces used by managed hosting and cloud providers. -- Reporting of Memcached statistics via SNMP, which lets customers plug into their existing alerting and reporting infrastructure. -- New advanced reporter providing in-depth detail on cache usage, cache health, items, storage, clients and keys; and a new mobile version of the advanced reporter that enables users to view cache statistics on mobile devices. -- Support for up to 384GB of Memcached memory space per rack unit of data center space.

Gear6 Web Cache 2.3: Availability and Early Access for Cloud Providers

This new version of Gear6 Web Cache will be available as part of an early access program for MHP and cloud providers by 30 July 2009. Gear6 is currently accepting applications from MHP and cloud providers interested in evaluating Gear6 Web Cache 2.3.

Gear6 is the first and leading provider of scalable Memcached solutions, enabling high-growth media, social networking and content aggregation web sites to deliver and scale dynamic applications and content. By focusing on the emerging need for a dedicated web caching tier, Gear6 solutions dramatically improve the scalability of web applications and databases, improving quality of service and reducing infrastructure cost. Gear6's flagship offering is Gear6 Web Cache, a Memcached protocol-compliant solution that enables web site developers and operators to scale web services and applications, to save money, rack space, power and time, to protect users and sites from failures and traffic spikes, and to manage all aspects of caching operations. Gear6 corporate headquarters are in Mountain View, California.

To learn more, please visit: www.gear6.com.

Las Vegas, Nevada - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2009 - Tier 3 provider of colocation and disaster recovery solutions, CoreLink Data Centers, has been chosen by provider of web hosting services, Lunarpages, as its datacenter provider in Las Vegas.

CoreLink is providing Lunarpages with high density power and cooling facilities to support the mission-critical web hosting applications that are requiring more processing power to meet the demand of their end-users.

George Natzic, Chief Operating Officer of Lunarpages remarked, ''We selected CoreLink Datacenters because of their high level of expertise in the area of high density datacenter and disaster recovery solutions. Our ability to create and deliver secure, reliable and available solutions is the cornerstone of our offering. We sought a partner that has extensive experience and understands the importance of the volume and depth of services we provide for our clients.''

Geoff Hampson, CEO of CoreLink added, ''Lunarpages provides a high level of service to their end-users, requiring power densities at a minimum of 200 wsf. Working with Lunarpages we developed a strategy to provide a solution that met Lunarpages' needs, including modular scalability and flexibility to maximize efficiency. Their position as a premier provider of web hosting services is fully supported by CoreLink Datacenters with absolute security and guaranteed availability. We are excited to be working with Lunarpages. This contract demonstrates our commitment to building relationships with our customers based on their needs today and into the future.''

Founded in 1998, Lunarpages is a leading provider of affordable, shared and dedicated Web hosting services worldwide. The privately held company is recognized for its unparalleled customer service, reliability, and quality that helps meet the diverse needs of its more than 150,000 sites. Lunarpages also gives back to the community by offering free web hosting for qualified schools.

Founded in 2007 CoreLink Data Centers offer state-of-the-art facilities, colocation services and the management of mission-critical business applications for high bandwidth networks. The company brings together the best in colocation and reliable network solutions to provide a high quality service for day-to-day network requirements, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. CoreLink's datacenters are located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Phoenix, Arizona, and Seattle, Washington.