So I love being an evangelist, which is probably why its good that I am doing what I am. Back when we initially launched Data Center 3.0 we spent a lot of time preaching the virtues of “consolidation, virtualization and automation” and there are times I was certainly felt like I was wandering in the wilderness, but regardless, it was a lot of fun.

Fast forward a couple of years…I was working on an AR/PR deck and I was stuck by how much of what we talked about has turned into shipping product and implementable solutions.  While that is cool, what I find even cooler is that  that these solutions are not just Cisco-only efforts, but encompass technologies from a broad cross-section of partners.  Here are a couple of examples of the kinds of things we are doing with folks that are probably already in your data center.  First off, here is a recap of  what we are dong with VMware and NetApp on workload mobility.

Similarly, here is another doc on Integrating Cisco UCS with vSphere Distributed Power Management.

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(The Hosting News) – Web hosting provider SingleHop, Inc.  officially released information stating that it will offer free high-performance, disk-to-disk R1Soft CDP backups to all Windows and Linux server clients.

By offering R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) software for free, SingleHop enhances the customer experience with reliable backups, MySQL table-level restoration, and an overall higher value of service. Customers will also benefit from the convenience of simple backup management provided by R1Soft’s easy-to-use interface.

“We are continually looking for ways to improve the value of our products and services, and offering a world-class backup solution, like R1Soft’s CDP software, to all our dedicated server clients does just that,” commented Dan Salcedo, SingleHop VP of Communications. “Being thoroughly protected against data loss is of the utmost importance in this industry and to our clients, and R1Soft allows us to provide that peace of mind.”

R1Soft’s disk-to-disk CDP software works by reading data at the sector level and only recording data that has changed since the last backup. This type of backup will allow SingleHop clients to backup their data as often as every 15 minutes without seeing a harmful impact on server performance.

“CDP backups offer many convenient and innovative features that will boost the hosting experience for current customers. Adding free premium backups to their hosting services helps distinguish SingleHop as a web hosting company that offers the best of many services at an affordable price,” said David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies.

SingleHop Offers Free High-Performance R1Soft CDP Backups for All Clients

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(The Hosting News) – Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) and MXSweep have officially announced that MXSweep has further enhanced its email security as a service (SaaS) platform with the addition of Commtouch’s GlobalView™ Mail Reputation Service and Outbound Spam Protection solutions. This news finally completes MXSweep’s adoption of the full suite of Commtouch email security products, which already includes Commtouch Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection.

“We selected Commtouch because its real-time security technologies give us an even greater edge in our market space,” said Edward Grant, CEO of MXSweep. “We tested various messaging security solutions, and Commtouch was by far the most robust. The company is also easy to do business with and provides fantastic marketing support, creating a true partnership.”

MXSweep is using GlobalView Mail Reputation Service and Outbound Spam Protection as integral parts of its managed services for email. MXSweep provides reseller partners with the flexibility to offer their customers full email security protection, based on Commtouch’s complete solution.

With Commtouch, MXSweep’s email protection combines effective anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-phishing coverage with uniquely low false positives while it protects against external email threats.

Together, these services help end-customers achieve a smoothly working IT infrastructure that drives efficiency and productivity. In addition, MXSweep’s vision is built around its SaaS model and the company will continually be enhancing and adding services for its customers.

“We have tested MXSweep for a number of weeks and are very satisfied. The service, enhanced by Commtouch technologies, is exactly what we were looking for – a perfect solution to handle spam and other threats from the Internet,” said Olli Rikala, CEO of Deferon OY, a customer of MXSweep’s.

“We have been working with MXSweep since 2006, and its addition of GlobalView Mail Reputation Service and Outbound Spam Protection to its full email security offering further validates our technology as the ideal solution for service providers looking to strengthen their email protection and reduce operational costs,” stated Ofer Tal, VP, international sales and business development at Commtouch. “With Commtouch’s technology, MXSweep’s customers ensure their end-users are protected against spam, phishing and malware outbreaks.”

MXSweep Reinforces Email Security by Providing Additional Messaging Security Technology

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(The Hosting News)- Certificate Authorities firm GlobalSign will meet with security professionals from the San Francisco area at the upcoming 10th annual CSO Council Bay Area Round Table event. CSO Council Bay Area members and invited guests will gather together for a round table event to discuss the merits of electronic signatures versus digital signatures from a legal perspective in the federal court system. As a participant, GlobalSign will provide firsthand insight into the legal validity of digital signatures and participate in the discussion to support the expansion of digital signatures within the legal arena.

As a leading digital certificate provider, GlobalSign supports the expansion of digital signatures into the U.S. court system and will convey the benefits and opportunities of implementing reliable and legally binding digital signatures by demonstrating its digital signature and document signing solution, branded as DocumentSign. Solutions like DocumentSign can provide the federal court system the opportunity to eliminate the use of easily forge-able handwritten judges’ signatures on various juridical orders and implement trusted digital signatures which are highly resistant to tampering and can be verified at any time unlike a traditional handwritten signature.

GlobalSign’s DocumentSign Digital ID solution allows individuals and departmental entities to digitally sign, certify and approve Adobe PDF documents. As an authorized participant in Adobe’s Certified Document Services (CDS) program, GlobalSign must operate under a stringent set of policies and standards developed by Adobe and audited by WebTrust, to allow GlobalSign to issue Adobe recognized CDS Certificates. GlobalSign’s DocumentSign for Adobe PDF offers long-term, legally admissible, easily accepted, and legally compliant digital signatures.

Applying a GlobalSign Digital Signature to an electronic document allows the recipient of the document to know:

- Who signed the document – proving the document has come from a valid source
- That the document has not been tampered with – providing assurance that can be verified at any time
- What time the document was signed – reliably showing when the document was issued.

Providing strong authentication, data integrity, and non repudiation. DocumentSign users can add Certifying and Approval Signatures to PDFs using the free Adobe Reader 6.0+ without installing any new plug-ins, or confusing configurations for a secure and cost-effective solution.

“Since launching DocumentSign for Adobe Secure PDF, GlobalSign has seen various companies and industries implement the solution into their workflow to take advantage of the improved workflow processes, as well as meet various compliance regulations among healthcare, government, and financial industries,” says Lila Kee, Director of Product Marketing, GlobalSign, Inc. “We are delighted to be part of the CSO Council’s round table event to discuss the opportunities available for digital signature solutions in the federal court systems, highlighting the legally equivalent benefits DocumentSign has to offer.”

“This milestone sends a strong message of confidence to judges and most importantly to general counsels and lawyers throughout the United States: it is acceptable — in fact, desirable — to use digital signatures, so long as they are highly reliable and persistently verifiable,” said Jacques Francoeur, Sr. Director, Identity and Information Assurance at SAIC Commercial Business Services, who is credited for orchestrating this event.

The 10th annual CSO Council Bay Area Round Table event will be held March 1 in San Francisco, California at Adobe’s corporate office.

GlobalSign’s Digital Signature Solutions to be Revealed at CSO Council Bay Area Round Table Event

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(The Hosting News) – This years’ 2010 New Jersey Technology Council CIO Conference on Cloud Computing will feature Managed Hosting provider Datapipe as a panel speaker. The Conference will be held Friday, February 26th at the Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. Following the keynote address by Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, Datapipe will be part of an expert panel discussing “Transforming IT with Cloud Computing – Where do you start?”.

“For many CIOs the challenge is to take advantage of the efficiencies and economics of cloud computing while maintaining security and compliance,” said Robb Allen, CEO of Datapipe. “We are pleased to be part of a conference that gives decision makers the information necessary to implement an enterprise ready cloud platform,” Allen said.

Datapipe recently launched Stratosphere – a high performance, fully managed, private and secure virtualized platform. Representatives from Datapipe will be available in the exhibit hall throughout the day to interact with conference attendees.

Datapipe Sponsors NJTC Conference on Cloud Computing

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Organizations are changing how they use the network to access applications and managed service providers are changing their network services to meet the challenge. As they centralize applications and access them across the WAN organizations need a network that delivers their applications with high performance and they need to see how their applications are performing. Managed service providers are meeting customer’s requirements by moving away from offering standard low feature WAN links and creating new innovative application performance management (APM) services that accelerate applications and provide customers with real-time information on the results that are being delivered.

In this video Steve Horwath, Product Manager at Cable & Wireless, talks with Stephen Makayi, Marketing Manager at Cisco, about the growing demand for application performance and the Cable & Wireless managed WAN optimization service, which provides customers with optimized application performance with advanced reporting, which in turn give customers information they can use to drive their business. Steve discusses how APM enables managed service providers to deliver an application-aware network with uptime guarantees for applications that changes the conversation MSPs can have with customers, from selling plain WAN links to providing application performance assurances, and putting the MSP in the role of a trusted advisor.

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(The Hosting News) - ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. Since its founding in 1995 as one of the world’s original providers of enterprise managed hosting, ServInt has achieved 15 years of growth as a company. During that period, thousands of web-hosting providers have come and gone.

ServInt Founder and Chief Executive Officer Reed Caldwell said ServInt has built a loyal, global customer base by continually introducing innovative, scalable hosting solutions to solve the most complex technological challenges of web-based businesses. Those innovations include industry-leading Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Managed Dedicated Server solutions.

“We’ve been able to prosper for 15 years, which is much longer than most companies in our industry,” Caldwell said. “We have established our impressive track record by maintaining consistently high levels of customer satisfaction. We earn customer loyalty by addressing evolving client needs, and by providing personal support from a Managed Services Team of experienced professionals.”

ServInt’s Commitment to Climate-Positive Hosting

ServInt’s focus on innovation, longevity and sustainability is also reflected in its ongoing commitment to climate-positive hosting. Since 2008, ServInt’s Green Initiative has deployed multiple green methodologies to help customers operate with minimal environmental impact.

Through use of its efficient virtualization and cloud technologies – integrated with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers – ServInt’s hosting solutions feature optimally low per-capita energy consumption. ServInt solutions achieve this industry-leading energy efficiency while making exclusive use of Dell low-wattage server hardware, which provides high-performance while operating with a much smaller carbon footprint.

A recent Parallels study noted that ServInt’s virtualized servers require only 15 percent of the power footprint of a traditional server farm that is not optimized with virtualization and low-wattage technologies.

By implementing efficient technologies and participating in a large-scale reforestation campaign operated by American Forests, ServInt has offset the total carbon footprint of its entire line of VPS hosting solutions by at least 110 percent in each of the past two years. In 2010, ServInt is increasing its commitment to environmental sustainability by offsetting the carbon footprint of its standard product line, as well as its entire cloud infrastructure.

ServInt Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson said, “The successful ongoing implementation of our Green Initiative has resulted in greater company-wide energy efficiency. By expanding this commitment, and exploring new ways to decrease waste and increase efficiency, we will continue to help our customers operate with minimal environmental impact.”

ServInt Commemorates it’s 15 Anniversary

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(The Hosting News) – Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov outlined the company’s vision for the Cloud in his keynote presentation at Parallels Summit 2010. In his address at the Parallels Summit Beloussov advised more than 1100 service provider, telco, VAR and ISV attendees to recognize the huge opportunity presented by the small business need for Cloud services, a market which he predicted will grow to nearly $19 billion by 2013. To meet this considerable opportunity and “Profit from the Cloud”, Beloussov explained Cloud services providers and ISVs must innovate, optimize and grow to develop full-service offerings. He pledged Parallels’ ongoing and increased support for this through the company’s investment in partnerships and complete realignment to a Cloud services-oriented company structure.

“Considerable growth is predicted in Cloud services for small businesses as they provide a low cost, easy solution for these organizations, who need an increasing range of IT services, but have very little IT knowledge and limited budgets,” said Beloussov. “The complexity of IT requirements can easily become an expensive and time-consuming distraction from the core business. Buying services through the Cloud removes both the significant initial expense of buying in-house IT operations, and simplifies decision-making as small businesses can get a range of business IT services from a single provider at a

“For Cloud services providers, this represents a significant opportunity; however, it is essential for businesses to innovate, optimize and grow if they are going to compete successfully and increase profitability. Innovation is critical in order to keep meeting evolving customer needs: Cloud services providers need to drive better bundled services and develop new “sticky” offerings, while ISVs need to refine their technology. This will help them open new revenue streams and attract new customers,” added Beloussov. “To grow and be successful, Cloud services providers need to offer a complete range of services for small businesses. Improving the quality of existing services and offering customer loyalty programs are critical steps in building customer confidence and growing the loyal customer base,” said Beloussov.

During the keynote, Beloussov announced that Parallels will continue to invest in supporting its partners achieve these goals, providing support for marketing, training, certification and in other areas of the business beyond the technology itself. In addition, the company is realigning its business and engineering functions to focus on the service areas that are important to its partners and customers. The company will focus on four key services areas spanning and encompassing Parallels’ product portfolio: Shared Web Hosting Services; Messaging and Collaboration; Virtualized Infrastructure Services (VPS); and SaaS and Other Applications. Each of these services groups will be led by a senior Parallels’ executive championing the space and working closely with Parallels’ partners to identify and meet their needs.

The Shared Web Hosting Services group will be led by Craig Bartholomew, VP of Panels at Parallels, who brings considerable expertise from over 20 years as a business leader at Microsoft. Craig’s group will be working with partners to help them develop their Shared Web Hosting Services offering, encouraging the innovation and optimization that will enable them to grow and retain their customer base. The service area will be supported by a range of Parallels products, including Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5, Parallels Hosting Panel 10 (to be launched later this year) and Parallels Automation High Efficiency Shared Hosting.

The Messaging and Collaboration group will be led by Oleg Melnikov, one of the founders and VP of Automation at Parallels. As a veteran of the service provider space, he has a strong understanding of the opportunities and challenges that face them and will be working closely with Parallels’ partners and customers to help them take advantage of the trend towards unified communications and increased levels of collaboration so they can grow their service offerings for greater up-sell and cross-sell opportunities. In 2010, this service area will be supported by Parallels Automation developments providing support for Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2010, MS OCS and VOIP services.

The Virtual Infrastructure Services group will be led by Amir Sharif, VP of Virtualization at Parallels, who bring considerable product management experience, most recently from VMware. Amir’s group will be helping Parallels’ partners and customers innovate and grow by offering profitable virtualized services; predicted to be the biggest area of growth in Cloud services in the next five years. This service area will see developments across Parallels’ virtualization products in 2010, including the launch of Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition at Parallels Summit 2010, an update for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (version 4.6) and the launch of Cloud Utility Computing later in the year.

The SaaS and Other Applications group will be led by Matt Domo, CTO at Parallels, who brings considerable expertise as a former general manager at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft veteran.  This group will focus on helping new ISVs find new channels to market, enabling Cloud services providers to innovate new bundled services offerings and grow their up-sell and cross-sell opportunities. To support this service area, Parallels is introducing Parallels Partner Marketplace v2 and Application Packaging Standard 1.2 at Parallels Summit 2010.



Parallels Summit 2010 Keynote: The CEO of Parallel Offers Support to Cloud Services Providers

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(The Hosting News) – Pokemon.com has announced today that it has chosen INetU Managed Hosting to launch their newly redesigned website using private cloud technology.

To launch their new site, Pokemon knew that they’d need a hosting partner with the technical expertise to accommodate the new site, and the experience and dedication required to see the project through to completion. They turned to INetU.

“To ensure Pokemon.com became the immersive online destination that we envisioned for our fans, we knew we needed a technology partner like INetU to help us achieve our lofty goals,” said J.C. Smith, The Pokemon Company International’s Director of Consumer Marketing. “We would highly recommend INetU to anybody launching a mission-critical web project.”

INetU adopts a customized approach to working with its clients, producing a Tailored Hosting Solution engineered by a certified team of hosting experts. The company assigns each client a Chief Hosting Officer (CHO) who understands the hosting environment’s technical aspects and business goals. INetU’s CHO for the Pokemon.com project, Chad Mowery, describes Pokemon’s server environment as a combination of private cloud and dedicated resources.

“Pokemon has a number of servers running virtualization, producing a flexible cloud resource for the site. This is combined with a dedicated high availability database cluster and redundant network devices to ensure that the site is running at peak performance,” explains Mowery.

Pokemon has successfully launched their redesigned site with their private cloud resource at INetU.

Pokemon.com Formally Launches powered by Private Cloud Hosting at INetU

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(The Hosting News) -  McLean, Va. – ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. Since its founding in 1995 as one of the world’s original providers of enterprise managed hosting, ServInt has achieved 15 years of growth as a company. During that period, thousands of web-hosting providers have come and gone.

ServInt Founder and Chief Executive Officer Reed Caldwell said ServInt has built a loyal, global customer base by continually introducing innovative, scalable hosting solutions to solve the most complex technological challenges of web-based businesses. Those innovations include industry-leading Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Managed Dedicated Server solutions.

“We’ve been able to prosper for 15 years, which is much longer than most companies in our industry,” Caldwell said. “We have established our impressive track record by maintaining consistently high levels of customer satisfaction. We earn customer loyalty by addressing evolving client needs, and by providing personal support from a Managed Services Team of experienced professionals.”

ServInt’s Commitment to Climate-Positive Hosting

ServInt’s focus on innovation, longevity and sustainability is also reflected in its ongoing commitment to climate-positive hosting. Since 2008, ServInt’s Green Initiative has deployed multiple green methodologies to help customers operate with minimal environmental impact.

Through use of its efficient virtualization and cloud technologies – integrated with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers – ServInt’s hosting solutions feature optimally low per-capita energy consumption. ServInt solutions achieve this industry-leading energy efficiency while making exclusive use of Dell low-wattage server hardware, which provides high-performance while operating with a much smaller carbon footprint.

A recent Parallels study noted that ServInt’s virtualized servers require only 15 percent of the power footprint of a traditional server farm that is not optimized with virtualization and low-wattage technologies.

By implementing efficient technologies and participating in a large-scale reforestation campaign operated by American Forests, ServInt has offset the total carbon footprint of its entire line of VPS hosting solutions by at least 110 percent in each of the past two years. In 2010, ServInt is increasing its commitment to environmental sustainability by offsetting the carbon footprint of its standard product line, as well as its entire cloud infrastructure.

ServInt Chief Operating Officer Christian Dawson said, “The successful ongoing implementation of our Green Initiative has resulted in greater company-wide energy efficiency. By expanding this commitment, and exploring new ways to decrease waste and increase efficiency, we will continue to help our customers operate with minimal environmental impact.”

About ServInt

ServInt is a pioneering provider of high-reliability, managed web hosting for businesses worldwide. ServInt’s commitment to Green IT services is demonstrated by its award-winning Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions. ServInt was founded in Northern Virginia in 1995 as one of the first web-hosting companies to offer a Managed Dedicated Server solution. From multiple world-class data centers, ServInt now provides its scalable suite of VPS and Managed Enterprise Server packages to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. For more information, please visit www.servint.net.

Managed web hosting provider ServInt celebrates its 15th anniversary,

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