(The Hosting News) - Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) officially announced that it is now  the exclusive provider of voice and high-bandwidth services for Multi-Point Communications, a global provider of customized audio and Web conferencing services.

Under the contract, Level 3 will provide dedicated Internet access, toll-free, voice-termination, private line and colocation services for Multi-Point’s offices in Birmingham and Atlanta, which will allow the company to unify all of its communications services on Level 3’s fiber-optic network.

“Our business is delivering highly reliable, cost-effective conferencing solutions and our communications services provider must meet our stringent demands,” said Barbara Allen, president & CEO of Multi-Point. “We turned to Level 3 for its network performance, reliability and reach, which is extensive here in the Southeast.”

Multi-Point Communications, based in Birmingham, Ala., is a certified “Woman-Owned Company” as acknowledged by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.

“We strive to understand the needs of customers like Multi-Point and are committed to delivering a network solution that exceeds their expectations,” said Brian Dolan, Southeast regional vice president for Level 3’s Business Markets Group. “By delivering outstanding services supported by a local sales and customer support team, we are demonstrating to customers throughout the country that we are the proven competitive alternative to the incumbents.”

Level 3’s Business Markets Group leverages the power of the company’s extensive fiber-optic network, metro assets, and locally focused sales and sales support organization to deliver world-class services to enterprise customers and service providers throughout the United States.

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(The Hosting News) – DNS provider Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.), today announces the formalization of its partner program. This already well received program is designed to provide companies with unique ways to expand their market share and build strategic business relationships to boost their own service offerings.

“Many companies who come to us looking for a trusted DNS provider are focusing on one specialized technology. When we form this new partnership with them, it then creates the opportunity for companies to use services such as the Dynect Platform, our premier managed DNS enterprise solution as a value-add to their current offering which they then pass along to their customers,” said Brian Brady, Dyn Inc.’s Strategic Partner Manager. “Additionally, as a Dyn partner, companies can share information as part of an exclusive community of business collaborators, and leverage new growth opportunities.”
There are three main categories for these partnerships: Referral Partners, Reseller Partners, and Solution Partners. While these three setups have worked well to date, Dyn Inc. is open to new and creative ways to align with other companies.

“Each partner is unique. Some integrate the Dynect API with their own solution and provide it to their customers on a large scale. Some offer the Dynect Platform as an added premium DNS service to create a more robust solution. And other partners work with us by providing referrals to their clients that need a premium DNS offering. In all cases, the end result is a comprehensive and more solid infrastructure solution for the customer,” Brady explained. “Everyone we work with shares the common goal of providing superior service and support. If a partnership makes sense for both, we are open to exploring it and making it work. Flexibility is key to our partner approach.”

Current partners taking advantage of this partner program include: Digitaria, a full-service digital agency focusing on best of brand digital technology; Edgecast Networks, a high performance CDN provider; Excedo, a leading European IT-Security, Networks and Data Communication solution provider; WhippleHill Communications, who provide targeted communication solutions for Independent Schools; and Speedyrails, a Ruby on Rails Managed Hosting Provider.

“A friendly and motivated team, outstanding platform and proven record of reliability made it very easy for us to choose Dynect as our partner to integrate a best in class DNS service with our CDN and VPS hosting,” said Maykel Rodriguez, co-founder and CEO of Speedyrails.

Today, Dyn Inc. is seeing tremendous revenue growth on both the Dynect Platform and DynDNS.com. While the Dyn Inc. team continues to roll out more proactive direct sales and marketing efforts, it’s the perfect time to re-emphasize the importance of a solid channel strategy and program that will take the entire organization to the next level.

“People might be surprised that there is a relatively small sales force behind the Dynect Platform. We’ve been fortunate enough to receive great referrals and partnership opportunities that have been mutually beneficial. The formalization of the partner program is the perfect way to acknowledge those partners and put the emphasis back on this initiative,” added Brady. “We pride ourselves on being a relationship-centric company, so the partnerships we’ve been developing have created a great ecosystem of collaboration that we look forward to building on in the future.”

If you would like more information on Dyn Inc. please visit www.dyn.com.

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(The Hosting News) – PubCon has officially announced the opening of registration for its PubCon South conference, to be held at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center, Dallas, Texas, April 13- 15, 2010. PubCon South is a multi-track technology conference with an extensive program of educational, highly topical sessions, where cutting-edge Internet marketing knowledge, hot topics and trends are shared with attendees.

Brett Tabke, PubCon’s organizer, said, “Opening registration this early means that attendees can take full advantage of the special discounted rates. These early rates make PubCon South one of the most affordable, and highly productive Internet, search and social media marketing conferences on the circuit. We have a great line-up of speakers and hot topics devised to deliver a highly educational, topical and exciting event. I encourage you to register early while the entry-level price lasts.”

PubCon South at Dallas Conference registration and more information is available at www.pubcon.com.

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Delivery of hosted virtualized desktops is seeing increasing up take by organizations that want to reduce the cost of deployment and management of end user systems. While desktop virtualization offers many advantages, there are benefits to be gained in areas including performance, scaling and security that can be addressed by choosing the right hosting platform and networking components. By optimizing the network architecture organizations can host and deliver the highest number of view images and users sessions while keeping down the total cost of ownership.

Working together in an end-to-end architecture the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Application Control Engine (ACE) and Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provide a solution for increasing the scale, availability and performance of hosted virtual desktops.

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(The Hosting News) SunGard Availability Services has officially announces the establishment of a data center facility in the Sacramento, California area. The new data center will provide managed IT services ranging from virtualized data centers for Silicon Valley startups to fully managed disaster recovery and business continuity services for Fortune 500 companies. The new facility addresses the growing demand from independent software vendors that provide Software-as-a-Service, and for IT services ranging from cost-effective colocation services to innovative, private cloud computing environments.

Located in Rancho Cordova, one of the most stable geographic locations in California that lies outside fault zones and flood plains, the new facility is set to open in May 2010. It provides Bay Area companies with the proven resources of a trusted leader in providing managed IT services that are scalable, reliable and flexible.

“This new facility demonstrates SunGard’s sustained investment in expanding its infrastructure in California, to deliver services scalability and process expertise to customers,” said Lance Hanchey, vice president operations at SunGard Availability Services. “It also reflects our commitment to helping Sacramento and Bay Area companies meet information availability requirements by keeping their people, systems and data connected.”

The facility will be home to SunGard’s enterprise-class managed IT services including: hosting services, applications services (such as SAP and Oracle EBS), messaging services, network services, managed security services, storage services and replication services.

The SunGard facility is 69,000 square feet of which 28,000 square feet of conditioned raised floor will be available in phase one. The raised floor is divisible into caged areas and private suites. The facility has two electrical feeds totaling close to six megawatts of power and is carrier neutral with nine fiber providers having access to the fiber vaults entering the data center.

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(The Hosting News) – Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net)  has announced that is preparing for a  multi-year agreement with Thoughts.com. This partnership’s purpose is to provide a new social media networking platform that requires a fully redundant and highly scalable server colocation solution. Under the terms of the agreement, Atlantic.Net will power Thoughts.com’s social networking engine with its fully redundant and robust infrastructure backed by its World Class Data Center operations.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to partner with a new breed of social media networking company like Thoughts.com,” says Neal Hiscock, Chief Operating Officer of Atlantic.Net. “Thoughts.com not only has a unique concept but they also utilize cutting edge technology. Atlantic.Net is honored to help facilitate this extremely high traffic network to keep the discussions flowing on Thoughts.com.”

“Our Social Media platform requires 100% uptime and we feel that Atlantic.Net provides the best solution to host our server colocation platform” says Ben Ogden, Founder and CEO of Thoughts.com. “Atlantic.Net’s dedication to 100% network uptime, to their customers, and their long standing reputation in Florida are all key factors in our decision. As Thoughts.com grows we are confident that Atlantic.Net’s superior infrastructure will continue to provide a scalable and robust solution. We also strongly believe that doing business locally helps support our local community staying true to our mission to engage our community.”

About Atlantic.Net

Established in 1994, Atlantic.Net is a market-leading business data services provider known for exceptional service, simplifying complex technologies and building a brand that people trust. Atlantic.Net operates a 25,000-square-foot colocation Data Center in Central Florida and helps businesses around the globe with their advanced online needs through services including dedicated servers, server colocation, managed Servers, Internet connectivity, business continuity, and managed services such as data backup, security and private networks.

Atlantic.Net’s services enable companies to focus on their core business and forgo the expense of capital equipment purchases and ongoing IT management costs. Atlantic.Net’s technological savvy and strategic acumen have been the foundation for its reputation and profitability since 1994.

About Thoughts.com

Thoughts.com is a growing, one-of-a-kind blog community that drives social conversation and connects like-minded people through its community forums and live discussions. The site is host to personal and engaging blogs and provides unlimited bandwidth for photo and video hosting, all 100% free. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Benjamin Ogden launched the website in June 2007. Through a dedicated following and word of mouth, the site now has over 200,000 members. The website began as a place for people to share their thoughts, but has quickly developed into a worldwide community of passionate individuals. Whereas other social networking sites seem designed to help members meet people and collect “friends,” Thoughts.com is more interested in facilitating engaging discussions.

In addition to becoming one of the up and coming free blogging and discussion communities, Thoughts.com endeavors for social progress and unity, while promoting charitable giving and passionate debate. Thoughts.com “One Love Philosophy”, acts as vehicle for making positive changes in the world by supporting groups such as UNICEF, Habit for Humanity and Mission Make it Right.

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Kristina-davis@atlantic.net

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(The Hosting News) – In an effort to support the American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti, Codero (www.codero.com) has joined with others in the hosting community to support and promote Hosting for Haiti (www.HostingForHaiti.com).

Partnering with the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org), Hosting for Haiti was created to promote and encourage relief efforts to Haitians who are in need of relief. Following the devastating 7.0 earthquake that occurred January 12, 2010, an estimated 1.5 million people have been left without a home. As a result, organizations such as the American Red Cross are critical in providing aid, shelter and other supplies such as food and water to these survivors.

“In times of need, we recognize the importance of banding together with others in our industry,” stated Ryan Elledge, Chief Operations Officer at Codero. “While our donation is a small step in repairing Haiti, we hope it encourages our employees, customers and other friends in the industry to participate.”

For those interested in donating, a direct link to the American Red Cross can be found at HostingForHaiti.com. 100% of donations will go directly to the Haiti Relief and Development Fund.

In an effort to spread the word to increase relief efforts, Codero has posted information about Hosting for Haiti on its blog (www.codero.com/blog/hosting-for-haiti) and encourages others to follow the progress on Twitter by following @hostingforhaiti or use the hash tag #hostingforhaiti in related posts. Industry partners who would like to participate should email info@hostingforhaiti.com for details.

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(The Hosting News) — Cisco, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced that they are expanding their long-standing collaboration to deliver new design architectures that help customers evolve virtualized data centers to be more efficient, dynamic and secure. The partnership these three companies have introduced will provide an end-to-end Secure Multi-tenancy Design Architecture that provides enhanced security in cloud environments by isolating the information technology (IT) resources and applications of different clients, business units or departments that share a common IT infrastructure. As part of their collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware will also offer a cooperative support model for these pretested and validated design architectures to help customers quickly build a unified, virtualized infrastructure.

“It’s clear that a tremendous opportunity exists for Cisco, NetApp and VMware to enable real change in the data center,” said Tom Georgens, president and CEO of NetApp. “Our visions are aligned around the concept of a dynamic data center that will be the foundation of cloud computing and that will enable enterprises, integrators and service providers to deliver IT as a service [ITaaS]. In this scenario, IT becomes a dynamic asset that is more efficient and can better adapt to changing business needs. This new era of IT has stringent infrastructure requirements that our companies are ready to meet today—together.”

“Virtualization of the network, server and storage infrastructure is radically reshaping today’s data center,” said Paul Maritz, president and CEO, VMware. “The dynamic data center built on VMware® vSphere™, along with Cisco and NetApp® technologies, will provide the foundation for both private and public clouds and the ability to move data and applications between these clouds. A shared virtual infrastructure requires that resources for different tenants are isolated while delivering on promised service levels. We have integrated our technology with Cisco and NetApp not only to accelerate our customers’ journey through their data center transition, but also to deliver an outstanding customer experience.”

“A unified architecture approach is more important than ever before,” said Tony Bates, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business at Cisco. “Our joint vision with NetApp and VMware centers on delivering a unified architecture for customers to design and build a complete, virtualized data center that will streamline operations and improve their business resilience.”

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(The Hosting News) – If fans of SingleHop recall, the full-service managed hosting provider marked the success of its third quarter by doing a sky-dive at an altitude of 14,000 feet. We haven’t decided yet how to mark the success of our fourth quarter and full-year progress for 2009, but we are working on it. Once the first signs of spring emerge here in the windy city, we will find a fun and crazy way to celebrate. And cause for celebration there is. For the fourth quarter ended December 31^st, SingleHop generated revenues of $1.88 million, representing a 16% increase over the third quarter of 2009. Revenues increased 99% over the fourth quarter of 2008, yielding an annualized run rate of $8.4 million. For the full-year, the company-generated revenues of $6.1 million, a 185% increase over 2008. Other achievements for the full-year include:

• An increase in EBITDA over 2008 of 1,222%.
• Over $300,000 investment in network upgrades
• Release of on-demand firewall, SnapShield
• Release of dedicated server rescue system, Server bailout mode

Among the highlights for 2009 were the opening of SingleHop’s second data center and the release of SingleHop.mobi. The data center facility has top of the line specifications in redundancy, security, connectivity, and cooling systems. The facilities’ power, UPS system, and HVAC systems are rated at a minimum of N+2, which means that for each system there are two independent backups that ensure ongoing functionality were the original system to fail. The data center is located at DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc’s (NYSE:DFT) facility in Elk Grove Village, IL — one of the most technologically advanced facilities anywhere in the world. SingleHop.mobi, specifically for the iPhone, is the market’s most robust, feature-rich remote webhosting control panel. This application allows SingleHop’s customers to reboot servers, view bandwidth graphics, submit standard and priority tickets, manage billing, view server details and more – all from their iPhones.

The year 2009 also brought a number of industry honors and recognition for SingleHop, from such leading sources as HostReview and Netcraft.  These include:

• #1 Fastest-Growing WebHosting Company, September 2009 (HostReview)
• Top 10 Managed Hosting Provider, August 2009 (HostReview)
• Top 10 Managed Hosting Provider, September 2009 (HostReview)
• #1 Most Reliable Webhost, October 2009 (Netcraft)
• Top 10 Managed Hosting Provider of the Year (HostReview)

“SingleHop had an incredible 2009 and we are especially proud that a focus on efficiency and innovation drove our positive EBIDTA and cash flow positions without having to sell equity or increase our debt. Quarter after quarter in 2009, the firm showed consistently strong and stable growth, and invested heavily on behalf of its customers and its continued future growth”, says Zak Boca, President and CEO of SingleHop.

About SingleHop, Inc.

SingleHop, Inc., is a full-service managed dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. SingleHop competitors include: SoftLayer, ThePlanet, FastServers, and RackSpace. The cornerstone of SingleHop’s managed hosting is the à la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise. www.singlehop.com

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(The Hosting News) – It was announced today that the founder and CEO of CloudLinux Igor Seletskiy will deliver his first public address at the popular hosting industry conference, the Parallels Summit, on February 23 in Miami, FL. Mr. Seletskiy will debut CloudLinux, the only Linux–based, commercially supported operating system (OS) optimized for shared hosting providers and datacenters. Mr. Seletskiy will address how hosting service providers can squeeze more efficiency from their infrastructure while simultaneously increase profit margins and new revenue opportunities.

In his address, Mr. Seletskiy will discuss how to strike the perfect balance between number of users per server and the load the server can carry, especially when resource hogs and load spikes remain a constant challenge. This challenge is compounded by the foggy visibility administrators have into servers, making it harder for providers to respond efficiently to ever-changing needs. The new CloudLinux OS solves these issues by leveraging its proprietary LVEâ„¢ technology.

“I created CloudLinux OS based my previous work developing the H-Sphere Control Panel. I could see the need to give providers a way to control the CPU and IO demands of individual users to achieve high level of server stability,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO of Cloud Linux Inc. “This work is based on a lot of research that has been done over the years. We went deep into Linux kernel to achieve high level of resource isolation. We also wanted to be able to offer the OS with a professionally staffed, 24/7 support operation and at a low cost for providers. So on behalf of my team and after these many months of hard work, I am proud to be introducing this new technology here at the Parallel’s Summit.”

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