(The Hosting News) – Customer focused website hosting provider 34SP.com has announced a special promotion for the month of September. The U.K. based hosting company is currently offering a ”Back to School” promotion to reward both students and businesses during this month. 34SP.com was originally founded a decade ago by entrepreneurs Daniel Foster and Stuart Melling directly after their graduation from University. As a result, the earliest customers of 34SP.com were college students who needed a reliable web hosting plan with solid service and support at a fair price. The Back to School promotion recognizes the company’s roots by offering the first month of hosting free on Professional hosting accounts.

Company co-founder Daniel Foster explained the genesis of the special offer, ”As 34SP.com gets ready to celebrate our 10th anniversary in business, we were reminded of how our company began and the great early customers that put their trust in us. As a way of giving back to all the students and businesses that have supported us since then we created an offer to make it really easy to get started with one of our Professional hosting accounts. This first month free offer is open to all – both students and businesses. We hope that everyone will take advantage of this offer and experience the world class service and support that 34SP.com delivers.”

The Back to School special offer is valid during the month of September and gives customers the opportunity to use a Professional hosting account from 34SP.com at no charge for the first 30 days. Details of the offer are available at: http://www.34sp.com/backtoschool-promo.

The special September promotion comes on the heels of the creation of a new resource for those investigating web hosting and related topics. The new website resource section created by 34SP.com is entitled the ‘Web Hosting Library’ and features articles and tutorials designed to be of help to both academics and consumers alike. The company also recently announced the launch of its third data center buildout in partnership with UK Grid, a customer focused provider of quality data centre space and network services based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

To learn more about 34SP.com and its web hosting products please visit: http://www.34sp.com/hosting.

About 34SP.com
34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for cost conscious web developers, designers and small businesses. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers industry leading support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Website hosting services offered include: business hosting, vps hosting and dedicated servers. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Source: Free Web Hosting from 34SP.com

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(The Hosting News) - Intermedia today announced that the Intermedia Affiliate Program is being expanded to the UK and Europe.  Intermedia has continued to cement its position as the global distributor of choice for hosted Exchange, with over 5,000 partners across the world. The UK affiliate program is managed from Intermedia’s London office, and new partners in the region can take advantage of local hosting at our UK-based datacentre.

“Intermedia is continuing to invest in the UK and Europe, and we are confident our new affiliate program in the region will be a big success,” says Tony Cohen, senior business development manager in the UK. “The Radicati Group is predicting the number of hosted Exchange mailboxes in Europe to increase by an average of 19 percent per year to 28 million by 2014, so this is a market with a great deal of growth potential. Our affiliate program is a simple and low-risk way for resellers to use the global strength of our brand to make money from this exciting market.”

The Intermedia Affiliate Program is ideal for smaller IT resellers looking for a straight-forward way to provide hosted Exchange and Intermedia services to their clients. Key features include:

Simplicity: Intermedia manages customer support and billing.
Free: There are no fees to join and no minimum sales requirements.
Flexibility: Option to receive recurring or upfront commission on new business.
Sales support: Access to relevant marketing information and tools.
Industry credibility: Affiliates can build on Intermedia’s position as the world’s top-selling hosted Exchange service.
For more information on becoming an Intermedia affiliate in Europe, contact the Intermedia UK office on +44 (0)20-7828-6722, visit the Intermedia UK website at www.intermedia.co.uk, or email affiliates@intermedia.co.uk.

Source: Intermedia Launches Affiliate Program in Europe

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(The Hosting News) – HP has filed a lawsuit against its ex-CEO Mark Hurd, who was recently named the new President at Oracle.

HP claims that Hurd puts “HP’s most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril,” by accepting the position at Oracle.

HP’s blog also says, “Mark Hurd agreed to and signed agreements designed to protect HP’s trade secrets and confidential information. HP intends to enforce those agreements.”

Although Hurd never signed a non-compete agreement, but he did however sign confidentiality agreements. HP claims that this makes his job at Oracle impossible. “By working at Oracle, he cannot help but utilize and disclose HP’s trade secrets and confidential information,” HP claims in its lawsuit.

Source: HP Suing Former CEO for Violating Severance Agreement

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(The Hosting News) – According to a study released on Wednesday, close to two-thirds of global internet users and nearly three-quarters of american internet users have fallen victim to online online crime.

The “Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact” used more than 7,000 people in 14 countries to conduct the study.

The study also found that while one-quarter of participants said they would expect to become online crime victims, only half said they would change their web surfing habits after becoming a victim. Of those victims, only 44 percent actually reported the crime to authorities.

The findings also show that computer viruses and malware are the most common types  of attacks with 51 percent reporting they had been impacted by them. Online scams was second with 10 percent reporting, followed by phishing with 9 percent and a tie at 7 percent reporting social network profile hacking, online credit card fraud and sexual predation.

Source: Two-Thirds of Web Surfers Have Been Victims of Online Crime

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(The Hosting News) – Cloud Linux Inc. and Ksplice Inc. are pleased to announce the world’s first rebootless Linux distribution aimed at serving the needs of hosting service providers: CloudLinux with Ksplice Uptrack. Incorporating both CloudLinux – the leading Linux distribution for service providers that increases security, stability and control of the server environment for more efficient and profitable operations – and Ksplice Uptrack – the revolutionary “rebootless” update service – CloudLinux with Ksplice Uptrack constitutes a game-changing development for hosting service providers. The new combined offering will install CloudLinux kernel updates without the need to reboot your server.

Hundreds of the world’s cloud-computing providers, Web hosting firms and enterprise Linux installations use Ksplice Uptrack to update their kernels seamlessly, without disruption to customers. Linux distributions require a reboot about once a month to stay up to date with important kernel security updates that not only demand maintenance time from staff but also cause downtime for customers. Today’s launch brings the Ksplice instant update technology to the world’s leading Linux distribution for shared service providers: CloudLinux.

“We see a lot of interest and demand for CloudLinux from the hosting community because it has demonstrated a unique ability to add stability to hosting platforms which delivers important reliability to customers” said Jeff Arnold, CEO of Ksplice Inc. “This focus on stability and performance is very much in tune with our vision. This is why we are delighted to be adding support for CloudLinux”

Major Linux distributions ask their users to install a kernel update roughly once each month, which requires a reboot. Until a system can be updated, it can be vulnerable to security flaws. By allowing users to install kernel updates without downtime, Uptrack slashes the cost of system administration and bolsters security. In real-world tests, Uptrack dramatically increases the actual rate of compliance with security updates.

Cloud Linux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™, a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a specific process or customer. LVE isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight environment and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant. Some key benefits of CloudLinux are:

Increased server density and capability without increasing risk
Better reliability and performance from each server
Protection from hackers and poorly written scripts that drain resources and cause downtime
Reduced operational costs related to hardware, electricity, datacenter space and management costs
Better utilization of exiting infrastructure
Increase uptime since no one account can take down or slow down an entire server

“We are extremely excited to be supported by Ksplice, since it is such a revolutionary and innovative service,” said Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of CloudLinux. “Web hosting companies dread server reboots, and anything that helps them avoid downtime is a great improvement. Many of our customers already use Ksplice, and having full support for CloudLinux gives our customers the ability to benefit from this innovative solution.”

CloudLinux with Ksplice Uptrack can be purchased from Cloud Linux. Ksplice Uptrack is also available for existing CloudLinux customers from the Ksplice Web site, at www.ksplice.com. The monthly subscription fee is $3.95 a system for the first 20 systems, and $2.95 for each system thereafter.

About Cloud Linux Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source. CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn.

For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.

About Ksplice Inc.

Ksplice is an enterprise software company making reboots a thing of the past. More than 200 companies and tens of thousands of production systems use Ksplice Uptrack, the company’s first product, to make their Linux systems more secure, reliable and maintainable through seamless updates. Ksplice was founded in 2008, based on research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is based in Cambridge, Mass.
For more information, please visit http://www.ksplice.com.

CONTACT:

Judy Shapiro
CloudLinux
Chief Brand Strategist
(917) 617-3917
judy.shapiro@cloudlinux.com

Austin Rachlin
VP of Marketing
Ksplice
(765) 577-5423
arachlin@ksplice.com

Source: Cloud Linux and Ksplice Launch First Ever Rebootless Linux Distribution for Hosting Service Providers

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(The Hosting News) – Nashik,India,Host.co.in, a privately held web hosting company announced ERP solution and services for companies of all sizes who requiring flexible business process automation in order to set up impressive growth in user productivity.

In order to make production planning more cost-effective and management of inventory more accurate to sort out it in categories. Deploying ERP solution in an organization is the best practice which reduces all the manual business processes turn into automation through computerized system.

The great advantage of ERP is that it is fully web-enabled ERP solution. Its resource capacity allows software to be easily connected and reused, making it faster and cost-effective to set up, deploy and maintain enterprise-level technology. With this kind of resource, any organizations can more quickly accommodate to changing business processes. Several companies have already put ERP solution in their business process and began to enjoying its benefits.

Mr. Piyush Somani, CEO of Host.co.in, said that our company repeatedly gives priority to the objectives of e-commerce ERP. The main business goal of organization is to provide large, medium, and small sized companies a cost-effective business solution which, after the ERP execution to measure the performance of business more flexible than ever. Further, he added this kind of system gives real time visibility into all business processes, allowing them to make better important decisions. Concisely, ERP system solution is a requirement of company who wants to compete in the latest business trend more aggressively. As an advice he said that one should be careful about choosing a ERP system for their organization, before they opt any ERP system, one must check the system, like what their organizational needs and wants to accomplish its ERP strategy. The results of this calculation will help them to find out which kind of application is more suitable for their organization and what type of functionality their organization requires.

Source: Host.co.in Announced Their Latest Release of World Class ERP Solutions

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(The Hosting News) – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Dallas Data Center (http://www.DallasDataCenter.com), a provider of Colo By The U, is the company’s newest referral partner, and joins its growing portfolio of referral agents within the Partner Plus program. Through the partnership, The Planet provides colocation services from its wholly owned Plano, Texas, D7 data center to Dallas Data Center customers who require less than a full server cabinet.
Dallas Data Center specializes in colocation, managed hosting, virtualization, disaster recovery and cloud computing. Its Colo By The U line of business is flexible and scalable, and allows customers to house their equipment in a secure data center without minimum cabinet-size constraints. Customers can start small and expand their technology footprint as they grow, while paying only for the cabinet space required.
“Many businesses want to manage their own IT environments, and recognize that office closets or servers under desks are no place for critical company data,” said Tim Freeze, CEO of Dallas Data Center. “Colo By The U caters to customers who are tech-savvy enough to manage their own servers, but may not have enough hardware to fill an entire cabinet. We chose The Planet as our partner to deliver our services, and our customers reap the benefits of a world-class data center that provides 100 percent uptime and a robust network, all within a cost-effective model.”
“Company data, from customer and financial information to strategic databases, is the lifeblood of any business,” said Drew Jenkins, channel sales manager for The Planet. “As more companies worry about how to secure that data, they look to providers like The Planet that offer data centers with 24/7 protection and redundant power. By partnering with Dallas Data Center, we’re able to offer these benefits to an even broader set of customers.”
For more information on The Planet Partner Plus Referral Program, visit http://www.theplanet.com/partners.

About Dallas Data Center
Dallas Data Center (DDC) specializes in Colo By The U, managed hosting, virtualization, business continuity and cloud computing. DDC’s Colo By The U facility operated by The Planet was opened in 2009 in north Dallas and has 106,000 square feet available for colocation services. The new facility offers a world-class SAS 70 Type II-audited colocation environment with unmatched network speed and bandwidth capacity, local and remote Network Operations Centers, expert support services, and high power-density. To learn more about Dallas Data Center and its colocation services, visit http://www.ColoByTheU.com.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 18,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Essential Managed Services, Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7×365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit http://www.theplanet.com.
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Source: Dallas Data Center Partners With The Planet to Deliver ‘Colo By The U’

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In talking to our customers, one of the things that I hear consistently is that customers appreciate our open solution stack.  What does that mean?  Well, a couple of things—first of all, it means that our innovations are individually available—you can connect a UCS to any upstream Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch, you can connect the server of your choice to a Nexus switch and still take advantage of OTV, FabricPath or unified fabric and you can run the Nexus 1000V in pretty much any hardware environment supported by vSphere.

The other thing this means is that we build solutions stacks with insertion points for our partners so our customers can take advantage our our solutions while still working with their favorite data center vendors.  Both vBlocks (Cisco, EMC, VMware) and SMT (Cisco, NetApp, VMWare) were initial examples of this approach.

Today, we are adding to the list with a newly announced desktop virtualization solution developed in partnership with Citrix.   Desktop virtualization is taking off with our customer for a number of reasons from reducing costs, to faster app deployment, to improving regulatory compliance and we have been listening to what our customers have been asking for.

The new solution with Citrix XenDesktop combines Cisco UCS and Citrix desktop virtualization technologies including FlexCast™ and HDX™, to deliver a cost-effective, scalable and high-performance solution for hosting, securing and optimizing the delivery of virtual desktops and applications.  

In this video Ben Gibson of Cisco and Gordon Payne of Citrix discuss the announcement:

Of course, we are not going to roll out a me-too solution….  

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(The Hosting News) – In the crowded arena of web development and consulting, the most successful service providers often utilize their own pre-built software platforms and frameworks when building social websites for their customers. This competitive advantage makes it difficult for smaller design consultants and hosting providers to attract customers that want their own online communities, as they often have to build them from scratch or use non-optimal open source alternatives.

Webligo, a Los Angeles-based social software publisher, has announced a new reseller program that lets these developers and consultants build their customers’ social networks using the SocialEngine platform. The program enables resellers to utilize the SocialEngine source code and re-brand it before utilizing it for their clients’ projects, making them more competitive with larger providers that have their own proprietary platforms.

Hosting providers will also benefit from the program. With the demand for custom, branded social communities on the rise, providers can now offer hosting accounts with social networks pre-installed.

For further information about SocialEngine: http://www.socialengine.net/

For information about the reseller program: http://www.socialengine.net/resellers/

Source: SocialEngine Opens To Service Providers

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(The Hosting News) – Oracle today announced that Mark V. Hurd has joined Oracle as President and has been named to Oracle’s Board of Directors.  Mr. Hurd will report to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

“Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he’ll do even better at Oracle,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “There is no executive in the IT world with more relevant experience than Mark. Oracle’s future is engineering complete and integrated hardware and software systems for the enterprise. Mark pioneered the integration of hardware with software when Teradata was a part of NCR.”

“Mark is an outstanding executive and a proven winner,” said Oracle President Safra Catz. “I look forward to working with him for years to come. As Oracle continues to grow we need people experienced in operating a $100 billion business.”

“I believe Oracle’s strategy of combining software with hardware will enable Oracle to beat IBM in both enterprise servers and storage,” said Mark Hurd. “Exadata is just the beginning. We have some exciting new systems we are going to announce later this month at Oracle OpenWorld. I’m excited to be a part of the most innovative technology team in the IT industry.”

Source: Oracle Hires Former HP CEO

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