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News: Dedicated Server, Data Center Firm, Rack-Soft, Debuts Backup, for Paral
Wilmington, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - April 29, 2008 - Server management and data center administration facilitator, Rack-Soft, has launched its latest version of the backup solution for Parallels Plesk.
4PSA Total Backup 2 is a Parallels Plesk add-on that automates the server backup processes and maximizes hosting server availability. This release of the popular 4PSA backup solution comes with new features and design enhancements oriented to improve usability, flexibility, and server performance during the backup job.
4PSA Total Backup handles the entire backup lifecycle: backup, storage, alerting, restore. The software is also able to encrypt backups, a very important feature targeted to customers that save backups on third party infrastructures. To minimize transfer times and backup overhead, 4PSA Total Backup saves only differences occurred from the last backup. Enhancements introduced by the new version include improved backup cycle storage that allows keeping locally and remotely multiple backup cycles, selective restore, the possibility to cap archives storage bandwidth, and compressed file transfers.
Bogdan Carstoiu, General Manager at Rack-Soft noted, ''Hosting providers have quite special backup and disaster recovery requirements. The backup operation should not affect production services, should optimize disk space, minimize bandwidth consumption, and guarantee information security. 4PSA Total Backup has been available for almost five years, saving thousands of Plesk server administrators from disaster. In the new version we simply incorporate the experience accumulated during these years.''
4PSA Total Backup 2 is a Unix/Linux software add-on for Parallels Plesk, the industry leading hosting control panel. Licensing prices start from 69 USD and include 12 months of maintenance and technical support.
Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Rack-Soft is a specialized developer and integrator of server and Data Center software that supports major operating systems and platforms. The company delivers solutions designed to help service providers and enterprises control infrastructure, automate processes, and improve communications. The core of Rack-Soft's business philosophy is based on an ISO 9001 certified quality management system certified by TUV CERT.
For more information about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.
To learn more, please visit: www.4psa.com.
Posted by editor on Tuesday, April 29 @ 08:22:44 EDT (103 reads)
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News: Rackspace Dedicated Web Hosting Firm, Engaged by Pro-Teck Risk Management
Waltham, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2008 - Managed web hosting and IT services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has entered into an agreement with residential property valuation and risk management firm, Pro-Teck Services.
Under the terms of the agreement, Pro-Teck will utilize Rackspace's Intensive Hosting to support the company's ProValue platform that requires 24x7 availability to service today's rapidly evolving financial markets.
Luc Levensohn, Vice President Security and Infrastructure, Pro-Teck Services noted, ''We did a lot of due diligence and determined Rackspace could provide us with the highest level of disaster recovery and system redundancy to protect our clients information while providing the scalability and capacity to support our growth.''
Pro-Teck's ProValue connects many of the world's largest financial institutions with the real estate data, modeling and expertise they need to effectively manage their real estate collateral. The system requires robust performance to support a large number of simultaneous connections as vendor and client partners throughout the United States process thousands of daily transactions in real time. The platform also provides extensive archiving, retrieval and data stream capabilities critical to its client's business operations.
Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales, Rackspace remarked, ''Because Pro-Teck's IT infrastructure was Microsoft-based, they found Rackspace's Windows expertise and Microsoft Gold Certification a true advantage. Intensive Hosting takes a consultative approach with our enterprise customers. Through our dedicated team of experts, we are able to build a deep working relationship, effectively becoming an integral component of customers' IT departments. We work alongside Pro-Teck as an extension of its IT department and work diligently for our customer's success.''
Rackspace's Intensive Hosting provides Pro-Teck with a fully-managed hosting solution. With primary and failover server locations, advanced custom monitoring services, managed backup and storage, and Windows 2003 Enterprise database services, Pro-Teck relies on Rackspace's 24/7/365 Fanatical Support(TM) demanded by today's financial markets.
Last month, Rackspace announced two high-level appointments - Florian Schiebl as European Business Director, and Tarquin Bellinger as Sales Director, to reinforce its European operations. Prior to joining Rackspace, Schiebl was Managing Director of iPass, being responsible for the Central and Eastern European regions. He has also held positions at Bertelsmann, Compaq, Siemens, COLT Telecom and MFN.
Mr. Bellinger has joined Rackspace to lead the Sales and Solutions Engineering team. His previous position was at BT, where he led the company's 21st Century Network business development programme. Prior to that, he led Cable and Wireless' global services business division focusing on financial markets, based in New York.
Established in 1977, Pro-Teck Services works with Mortgage Lenders, Mortgage Servicers, Secondary Market Investors, Capital Markets and Property and Casualty Insurers to improve risk management through superior real estate collateral information. Pro-Teck provides a comprehensive suite of services including on-line real estate data, fraud scoring, value modeling, inspections, valuations and appraisals.
Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers' IT departments. Rackspace's portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.
For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, April 28 @ 09:01:04 EDT (203 reads)
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News: Colocation Hosting Provider, Level 3, Expands with Adobe Flash Media Server
Broomfileld, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2008 - Colocation, VoIP, and Internet backbone company, Level 3 Communications' Content Markets Group, has deployed Adobe Flash Media Server 3 across its infrastructure.
In its expanded strategic collaboration with Adobe, Level 3, as an Adobe Premier Authorized Flash Video Streaming Service Partner, will further expand the options available for delivering video in the Adobe Flash format for content publishers. The integration of Adobe Flash Media Server 3 technology into Level 3's CDN services will make it possible for customers to deliver true HD streams, leveraging Level 3's large IP network to effectively deliver video in the Flash format, around the world.
Bill Rusitzky, Director of global strategic alliances for Dynamic Media at Adobe noted, ''We are pleased to expand our relationship with Level 3, which includes the integration of Adobe Flash Media Server 3 into their infrastructure. With this announcement, Level 3 is proving its commitment to upgrade its infrastructure with the latest technological developments. We believe customers will benefit from the combination of Level 3's global CDN platform and Adobe Flash Media Server 3.''
With this deployment, Level 3's CDN service offering will mark one of the first major content delivery platforms to be fully enabled with Flash Media Server 3, and will help customers deliver an improved online experience with HD streaming capabilities and improved functionality for encoding, protecting and monetizing their content. Additionally Flash Media Server 3 enables more concurrent streams to be delivered by the same server, offering improved efficiencies and economics for the customer.
Grant van Rooyen, President of Level 3's Content Markets Group remarked, ''Level 3 continues to invest in core features and functionality demanded by today's streaming customers. This rollout is the latest step in building a world-class streaming platform. Level 3 is committed to pushing technology platforms such as Adobe Flash Media Server 3 to market to help drive adoption of rich media content.''
Level 3 continues to offer customers diverse options for distributing content with the combination of both its CDN and Streaming services, and its Vyvx services portfolio; the company offers all aspects of the content delivery value chain for traditional and non-traditional distribution. Level 3 will begin offering its HD streaming service integrated with Adobe's Flash Media Server 3 at the end of April.
Level 3 Communications, Inc., an international communications company, operates one of the largest Internet backbones in the world. Through its customers, Level 3 is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers. The company provides a comprehensive suite of services over its broadband fiber optic network including Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport and infrastructure services, colocation services, voice services and voice over IP services. The services are designed to provide building blocks that enable Level 3's customers to meet growing demands for advanced communications solutions.The principal components offered by Level 3's VoIP Enhanced Local service include network trunking, local telephone numbers, local number portability, the safety of E-911, operator assistance, caller ID, directory listings, and directory assistance. The service is designed to allow Level 3 customers to retain the flexibility to manage and control end-user features without the difficulties of implementing complex interconnection arrangements.
For more information about Level 3, please visit: www.level3.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, April 28 @ 08:51:49 EDT (619 reads)
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News: Dedicated Server Web Hosting by Cirrus Tech, Includes Virtualization
Ontario, Canada - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2008 -
Web hosting provider, Cirrus Tech, has officially unveiled the availability of virtualization technology on its dedicated server hosting plans, as a growing number of VPS clients engage upgrades.
For a minimal monthly charge, clients can enjoy the benefits of the same virtualization technology used in Cirrus’ Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting plans in a standalone dedicated server. Although a VPS has dedicated resources and is isolated within the server, it still exists in a physical server that hosts other VPS instances. A dedicated server with virtualization utilizes all the resources available in the dedicated server with a layer of virtualization for added benefits.
The major advantage of a dedicated server with virtualization technology that cannot be realized on a dedicated server without it is fast scaling time. By saving your server instance in an image file that can be uploaded to another server with more resources, upgrading time is significantly reduced. Virtualization eliminates the need to manually recreate an instance of a server, which can be a time consuming process. This is especially useful for clients on a VPS hosting plan that wants to upgrade to a dedicated server.
For example, say a website that is hosted on a VPS is experiencing a huge spike in traffic and requires the resources of a dedicated server ASAP. By upgrading to a dedicated server with virtualization technology, it's a matter of uploading the saved VPS instance onto the new dedicated server and some minimal configuration. By offering virtualization technology in its dedicated server hosting plans, Cirrus Tech hopes to help VPS clients make the transition to a dedicated server quickly and with minimal hassle.
Cirrus Tech uses industry leading virtualization software, Virtuozzo by Parallels, for its VPS and dedicated server with virtualization technology hosting solutions.
Cirrus Tech Ltd. is one of Canada's largest web hosting companies and is a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services. Cirrus provides locally based sales and engineering support for its Internet services in Toronto, Canada, and offers web hosting services to customers in many countries.
To learn more, please visit: www.cirrushosting.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, April 28 @ 08:42:43 EDT (146 reads)
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News: Reseller Partnership for Website CRM Applications Firm, SugarCRM, BT
Cupertino, California - (The Hosting News) - April 28, 2008 - Commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software firm, SugarCRM, has entered into a new reseller partnership with communications provider, BT.
As part of this new alliance, BTwill offer its 1.2 million business customers SugarCRM's commercial software solutions. SugarCRM offers a robust, web-based interaction management platform, well suited for companies of all sizes in any industry. Matched with BT's industry-leading telephony and other communications solutions, businesses gain a number of competitive advantages, including:
- Visibility into their sales pipeline, with deep reporting and forecasting features.
- A closed loop between sales and marketing teams with strong, yet simple to use marketing automation tools.
- The ability to increase customer satisfaction through industry-leading customer service and support tools.
Bill Murphy, Managing Director at BT Business noted, ''We have looked across the market and developed this partnership to meet the needs we know our customers have. This partnership builds on the work we've done to date and allows us to deliver a tailored approach for customers, so they get exactly what they need to manage their customer relationships, examine processes, deliver efficiencies and ultimately drive their business - all from a single supplier they trust.''
BT will be offering its customers the full array of SugarCRM software solutions. The offerings include Sugar Professional as well as Sugar Enterprise. Both of these software solutions are available as traditional On-Site deployments, or delivered over the web via the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.
Mr. Murphy added, ''With this announcement we really are changing the way small and medium-sized businesses can think about and buy their business applications, delivering them the benefits of services previously available only to larger companies.''
John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM remarked, ''The combination of BT's incredible reach in the UK market and SugarCRM’s industry-leading CRM solutions makes this a perfect partnership for the UK market. This alliance strengthens our global reach and further exhibits SugarCRM's momentum as a global provider of business applications.''
BT is a provider of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.
SugarCRM is a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. SugarCRM's open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships. SugarCRM offers several deployment options, including on-demand, on-site and appliance-based solutions to suit customers' security, integration and configuration needs.
For more information, please visit: www.sugarcrm.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, April 28 @ 08:35:10 EDT (172 reads)
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