Thank you from the WHT booth at HostingCon 2010
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! The WHT booth was a buzz, with members meeting moderators and other members. All of you at HostingCon 2010 made for a great event. I love meeting members in person. We just need to make that easier by maybe sponsoring some local WHT Meetups. More about that will be posted on the forum soon… (Read More…)
(The Hosting News) – Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source e-mail and collaboration software, announced today an agreement with LinuxMagic, the developers of MagicMail, which supplies e-mail, messaging and spam protection products to ISPs, telcos and enterprises across North America, as well as protecting and servicing millions of e-mail accounts worldwide.
LinuxMagic will incorporate the Open-Xchange software in its MagicMail offering that is designed as a turn-key solution for ISPs and telcos with 2,000 to 200,000 users. MagicMail comes with integrated anti-spam protection and support from LinuxMagic, one of the foremost experts in e-mail and spam security, as well as a stable redundant infrastructure built on Linux technology.
“Our customers have trusted us to provide the best-of-breed e-mail and anti-spam solutions, and Open Xchange will be a terrific value-add to our MagicMail and other e-mail solutions,“ said Michael Peddemors, president and CEO, LinuxMagic. “The Open Xchange collaboration software and support for mobile devices is the perfect complement to our LinuxMagic carrier-grade e-mail and anti-spam offering. We’re giving our clients the best combination of features to, in turn, offer their customers.”
“Our collaboration software and support for mobiles are a natural extension of features that LinuxMagic can add to its portfolio,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “Together, we’re delivering additional value to ISP and telco users who now have these new features as an integrated offering with the same high level of support.”
Open-Xchange software integrates e-mail, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Productivity is enhanced through unique teamwork features, like team view, single-password document sharing, and shared calendars, contacts, tasks and documents. With mobility support, users can have access to their data anywhere, anytime and with virtually any device.
LinuxMagic uses Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, the only groupware specifically designed to meet the needs of SaaS (Software as a Service) providers. Open-Xchange can be easily integrated into existing infrastructures without changing the existing authentication, user setup, system administration, provisioning and billing tools.
About LinuxMagic, makers of MagicMail
LinuxMagic is a market leader in messaging, e-mail and anti-spam, focused on the ISP, telco and hosting markets. The company leverages its status as a premier Linux development company to provide technology and products specifically targeted towards customers looking for simpler integrated solutions for e-mail and messaging servers. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the company is also recognized for its contributions and reputation in spam protection, IP reputation and other related technologies. For more information, visit www.linuxmagic.com.
About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. The company provides on-premises versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS).
Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, visit www.open-xchange.com.
LinuxMagic and MagicMail are both registered trademarks of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd.
(The Hosting News) – Hosting Metro, Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement with long-time Drupal web host company Drupal Value Hosting. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro will migrate existing services and marketing to its own operations. In doing so, Hosting Metro will be able to offer expanded customer support through a dedicated 24/7 support line, as well as additional hosting features previously unavailable to Drupal Value Hosting customers including VPS, Dedicated Servers and shared web hosting.
Tony Chu, CEO of Hosting Metro stated, “By acquiring Drupal Value Hosting, we looked increase our support of Drupal and its corresponding community by integrating the knowledge and brain share of Drupal Value Hosting’s development team into our already reliable infrastructure. As a hosting company who specializes in application support, this is something that our customers have been asking for and with more than 1% of the web running on Drupal there is a still a lot of room for growth.”
Amit Ghupta, former CEO of Drupal Value Hosting has agreed to stay on with the new company and will continue to provide development and consultation services dedicated to the Drupal community. “Hosting Metro is a great company, and I am very confident that they will exceed the needs of their customers by delivering outstanding support and I have been especially impressed with their solid infrastructure that is focused on delivering the most reliable uptime in the industry.”
About Hosting Metro
Hosting Metro is dedicated to developing innovative services and providing exceptional technical support to meet the Web hosting needs of its customers. As an independent company, they have 13 years of experience in the web hosting industry, and work to integrate emerging technologies and provide comprehensive, integrated solutions to their hosting clients. With their innovative Campfire Support system, Hosting Metro moves beyond standard domain hosting to provide leading technical support and a range of hosting solutions that are focused on improving productivity, increasing profitability, and empowering their clients’ to achieve their goals. For more information go to: www.hostingmetro.com or visit their forum for the latest news.
Top Google executives will join the highest profile line-up ever at the 2010 European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications (ECOC) Market Focus.
Nexus Media Events, the organizer of the exhibition, confirmed that Google will hold two industry market seminars at the event and will add to the widening range of organizations involved as popularity increases year-on-year.
Google Senior Manager of Production Network Engineering and Architecture Vijay Gill will present a session on the role of packet-optical in interconnecting Warehouse-Scale Computers (WSCs) while Senior Network Architect Bikash Koley will discuss 100GbE and beyond for WSC.
Both seminars fit into five key topic areas agreed by the ECOC 2010 Advisory Committee for this year’s Market Focus, which is sponsored by Oclaro and held during the exhibition at the Lingotto Congress and Exhibition Centre in Torino, Italy, from September 20 to 22. The session topics are: 40 and 10Gbit/s systems; mass-market broadband fibre access; optical backhaul for 3G and 4G mobile networks; optical network agility and packet optical transport.
“We are thrilled to welcome Google as industry speakers as part of what we feel is our most prestigious line-up to date,” said Nexus Media Events Group Event Manager Beverley Lucas.
“Their involvement demonstrates the convergence and importance of the Market Focus, which is increasingly seen to be a key part of the ECOC exhibition and enables a dedicated discussion platform for trends and emerging technologies in optical communications.”
FTTH Council Europe, JDSU, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Verizon, Cisco, Oclaro and Huawei are among other leading names confirmed to hold technical and business-driven presentations at this year’s Market Focus.
The ECOC Market Focus is now in its fifth year and broke all records in 2009, with nearly 900 leading industry executives taking part. It has previously featured speakers from the Broadband Forum, ADVA, Ciena, Tellabs and Ovum.
Visitors wishing to attend the Market Focus and ECOC 2010 can register at www.ecocexhibition.com.
(The Hosting News) – Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, is pleased to announce that it will be adding a 10Gb port from XO Communications to the already robust Peak 10 network. This circuit addition will further enhance Peak 10’s expansive Internet presence and will be added to Peak 10’s redundant Internet network. XO Communications, one of the nation’s largest communications service providers, will be installing the port in Peak 10 Atlanta, which will provide Peak 10 customers additional large-scale bandwidth across the company’s 10 markets.
“As our customer base expands, we continually upgrade our high-performance and fully-redundant network infrastructure,” said Jeff Biggs, the senior vice president of operations and engineering at Peak 10. “This strategy includes upgrading the capacity of our network backbone and further positioning our data centers for peering directly with each other. This peering design provides additional bandwidth to both customers and Peak 10 and allows for rapid implementations of our customers’ network requirements.”
Peak 10’s network infrastructure provides customers with reliable connectivity, high performance, and includes around-the-clock monitoring, notification and reporting. In addition, each data center facility deploys multiple carrier-agnostic connections for maximum dependability and redundancy.
“Our network enhancements allow for an increase in the number of external peering relationships available to each Peak 10 market, as well as the flexibility for Peak 10 to assimilate and add data centers in both existing and future markets,” said Ronnie Frames, the director of network services for Peak 10. “They also bolster Peak 10’s already unprecedented level of customer service and allow our expert engineering team to respond to high volume Internet service requests quickly and efficiently out of our high-bandwidth peering centers. We will continue to enhance the performance and resilience of our network infrastructure.”
Peak 10’s managed IT and data center services improve performance, reliability, lower costs and maximize internal resources for customers while keeping their valuable information technology assets close to the business. The company combines its secure, private network and enterprise-class data centers with world-class engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide. As a managed services leader, Peak 10 offers a wide range of technology services, including virtualization, managed hosting, and cloud-based services in a cost-efficient and reliable platform for its customers. The company owns and operates data centers in 10 key markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va.
About XO Communications
XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO), is a leading nationwide provider of advanced broadband communications services and solutions for businesses, enterprises, government, carriers and service providers. Its customers include more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, in addition to leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile network operators. Utilizing its unique combination of high-capacity nationwide and metro networks and broadband wireless capabilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services with proven performance, scalability and value in more than 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more information, visit www.xo.com.
About Peak 10 Inc.
Peak 10 is a managed services company with world-class data centers. It delivers scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure. The company’s expert team embraces the industry’s evolving technologies by adopting and tailoring solutions such as virtualization and cloud-based services as part of its robust managed services offering. Its strong customer focus, financial stability, geographic diversity and technical strength attracts market-leading companies such as LendingTree, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Healthways, Churchill Downs and The Fresh Market. Peak 10 is SAS70 Type II compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA). For more information on data center solutions from Peak 10, visit www.peak10.com.
Source: Peak 10 Enhances Network with Added Capacity and Connectivity
Increasing opportunities to self-distribute on the Internet allow established producers like Beverly Peterson a new venue to explore topics like Workplace Bullying that are not ordinarily on a programmer or funder’s radar. “The hardest part of this project,” says the award-winning documentary filmmaker, “has been to make others understand that these heart-wrenching stories are credible and deserve to be heard.” Bullying bosses are rarely held accountable for indiscriminately targeting one employee after another to destroy careers and lives and it’s hoped a law will change that. Almost three years ago Peterson began filming the grassroots activists in their struggle to pass broader harassment legislation and in 2009 launched her video blog, THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW: NoJobIsWorthThis.com. “The site evolves constantly with new chances to tell people’s stories through YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress etc,” says Peterson. “If I had to stop and raise the funding to do this project for broadcast I never would have been able to accomplish all that I have so quickly.” Last month she presented her website and videos at the prestigious 7th International Conference on Workplace Bullying & Harassment in Cardiff, Wales. “I told them that normally I premiere my work at a film festival, museum or on television – but for this topic I was delighted that their venue would serve that purpose.”
For Peterson, this New Media exhibition format has changed the way she looks at producing videos. Site visitors can click the RESOURCES page to find updated links to free HR Policy Templates, Gov’t & Non-Profit Orgs offering counseling and help, a News Archive, Research papers, Books on this topic and more. New videos are uploaded regularly throughout the site and users can click FEATURED VIDEOS to witness victims stories from all across the country. Unlike traditional documentaries, this cutting edge approach lets viewers hit the pause button while watching a video and just “click” on a link to get important information and answers whenever they want. “It’s an editor’s dream – immediate, intimate and powerful,” says Peterson. The DEFINITION page can help victims put words to what they or a loved one may be going through and the BLOG contains alternative commentary and updates on this topic. A newly added feature is a “take action link” to the International Educational Coalition on Workplace Bullying that Peterson helped form. The coalition brings together Researchers, Practitioners, and Victims to share free resources, ideas and global dialogue.
**Beverly Peterson’s documentaries have been broadcast internationally, and screened at major festivals including; HBO, PBS The Sundance Channel,The Sundance Film Festival, Human Rights Watch, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art,The Walker Art Center, The Warhol Museum, The Kitchen. 71 West Broadway: Ground Zero, New York, NY was selected as part of the memorial presentation at the Library of Congress, which has included it in the national 9/11 film archive. Portions of Invisible Revolution, were featured on ABC’s 20/20, Dateline, and HBO specials on domestic terrorism.
Source: YouTube Video Features Effort to Pass Workplace Bullying Law
(The Hosting News) – Great Lakes Computer, a 24-year-old billion dollar Elite Juniper Networks reseller, published its results from a side by side comparison between Juniper’s EX4200 switch and Cisco’s 3750 series Catalyst switches.
Juniper University is a monthly series of side by side comparisons of Juniper products to their Cisco counterparts. This is Great Lakes Computer’s third installment of their Juniper University series.
2010 Juniper University Course Schedule:
May 19th – Juniper SRX vs Cisco ASA
June 15th – Juniper EX2200 vs Cisco Catalyst 2960G
July 20th – Juniper EX4200 vs Cisco Catalyst 3750G
August 17th – Juniper EX3200 vs Cisco Catalyst 3560G
September 21st – Juniper EX8200 vs Cisco Catalyst 6500
October 19th – Juniper SRX for the branch vs Legacy Cisco 3 box architecture
November 16th – Juniper JUNOS vs Cisco IOS
December 14th – Juniper J-Care vs Cisco SmartNET
GRAND FINALE – A case study of a 100% Juniper network
Juniper University: EX4200 vs. Catalyst 3750 – The results
Layer 3 stackable switch comparison
The findings are nothing less than remarkable. With prices starting at under $4,000, Juniper’s EX4200 line is available in 24 and 48 port 10/100/1000 densities, both PoE and non-PoE. They also include either 1Gb or 10Gb modular uplink connectivity. Another cool feature is the standard hot swap power supplies, while most of Cisco’s 3750 switches come with a single non field serviceable power supply.
Cisco’s 3750G, E, and X Catalyst switches come in over 70 different models, and it can be overwhelming figuring out exactly what model to order without having to go through a myriad of technical, feature and pricing comparisons. Juniper makes it easy, offering one model with the same or better performance in several categories than all of Cisco’s 3750 series switches. Better yet, Juniper’s J-Care support can be as much as 75% less than Cisco’s Smartnet.
One of the most important factors in choosing a Layer 3 stackable switch is the actual performance of the stack. An independent study found Juniper’s EX4200 Latency is always lower when the switches are in a Virtual Chassis configuration. Coincidently enough, Cisco doesn’t publish latency rates of their stackable solution. Virtual Chassis configurations recover from hardware and software failures in milliseconds and operate at 30-Gbit/s rates in each direction between switches.
So in a side by side comparison between the Juniper EX4200 and the Cisco 3750G, E and X, it was no contest. We chose the Juniper EX4200. The savings offered by Juniper Networks are just the beginning. From now through September 30, you can get great discounts due to promotions being offered on the EX4200. Refer to the attached documents for product comparisons and promotional details.
People interested in learning more about Juniper Networks can visit Juniper University, where you can request remote virtual product demos in our “Juniper Lab”, or request hands on Juniper demo units. To sign up for the Juniper University series, visit the Great Lakes Computer or call 1-800-488-2587.
Source: Juniper EX4200 or Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series Switch Compared
Toshiba of Canada Limited and TELoIP Inc. today announced the certification of interoperability of TELoIP Inc. SIP Trunking services with Toshiba’s Strata® CIX™ 40/100/200/670/1200 IP business communication systems. TELoIP SIP Trunking services are now available nationwide from Authorized Toshiba Dealers.
TELoIP’s high-availability Internet solutions combine diverse carrier connectivity, allowing VoIP calls to survive network outages. This gives TOSHIBA’s VoIP system users greater reliability and higher call uptime SLA’s over the Internet.
TELoIP has a technology advantage in the telecom industry which creates a robust and reliable SIP Trunking product over diverse carrier connections providing a “No Dropped VoIP Calls” on network failover SLA up to 99.999%. Together, Toshiba and TELoIP customers can say good bye to voice quality issues and dropped VoIP calls over the Internet.
Benefits of TELoIP’s SIP Trunking services include:
North American DIDs available.
Competitive local and international long distance rates.
SIP turn ups within 24-48 hours.
True convergence and optimal use of bandwidth by delivering both data and voice over the same connection.
Industry leading Bi-Directional IPQoS for VoIP call quality assurance.
Built-in network diversity, which provides a high level of network security and protection from outages with a “No Dropped VoIP Call” SLA on network failover.
About TELoIP
Headquartered in Toronto Canada, TELoIP Inc. is a wholly owned Canadian Technology Company.
TELoIP has created unique technology, Autonomous Network Aggregation (Ana™) that improves voice & data convergence. We offer a fully managed, aggregated solution with superior quality & service.
TELoIP delivers:
Increased Reliability of Diverse Carriers
Seamless Failover with No Dropped VoIP Calls
Quality Assurance through Bi-Directional IPQoS
More Speed Using Aggregation + Acceleration
Ability to Combine Any Speed Connections
Solution Monitoring & Management
To find product information, rates, becoming a reseller, or a list of authorized ISPs, please visit www.teloip.com or contact Sales at 1.877.783.5647
About Toshiba’s Strata® CIX™ IP Business Communications Systems
Toshiba’s award-winning Strata® CIX™ IP business communication systems deliver Voice over IP, networking, mobility, and the ability to customize applications. Supporting up to 1200 ports, the Strata® CIX™ family can be TDM-enabled to support digital telephones, and provides a smooth migration path from Toshiba Strata® CTX™ and Strata® DK digital business communication systems. Compatible with the Strata® CIX™ systems are Toshiba’s Stratagy® Voice Processing solutions, and Toshiba IP telephones, SoftIPT™ soft phones, and digital telephones. Toshiba gives enterprises the ability to grow, change and migrate their systems as their businesses grow, while retaining their initial investment. Toshiba delivers complete business communication solutions, including Toshiba notebooks and tablet PCs, and more, helping enterprises maximize their business efficiency in communications and mobility.
About Toshiba of Canada Limited
Toshiba of Canada Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturers of electronic products and semiconductors. Toshiba of Canada Limited serves the Canadian business, consumer, and medical markets with traditional and IP telephone systems, notebook computers, copiers,facsimiles, DVDs, televisions and medical diagnostic equipment. Headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Toshiba has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Dartmouth.
To find an Authorized Toshiba Dealer in your area, visit the Toshiba website at www.toshiba.ca/telecom
Source: Toshiba of Canada Limited Announces New Partner, TELoIP
COIMBATORE, India (July 26, 2010) – AssistanZ, a leading provider of outsourced server management solutions, today unveiled the latest iteration of its corporate website, a new standards-based hub for customers to access the company’s latest line of server management solutions.
The new website has been in development for more than three months, and was built to allow the company to easily add new management services as they become available. Bearing AssistanZ’s distinctive white-and-red color scheme, the Web 2.0-style site focuses on the company’s five areas of expertise, including Linux, Windows, Server Administration Tasks, Server Security, and Software.
With the new site launch, AssistanZ now offers Unlimited Linux Plesk Server Management & Monitoring for just $49 per month, and Unlimited DirectAdmin Server Management & Monitoring for $35 per month. Earlier this year, AssistanZ released its unlimited cPanel management service. All unlimited plans include unlimited server administration requests via ticket support, 24×7 availability, 24x7x365 Non-Stop Server Monitoring with email alerts, reboot requests to datacenters, and monitoring at AssistanZ’s global monitoring locations. Customers can choose up to two ports for monitoring, and enjoy a 30-day money back guarantee if they are not satisfied with the service.
“The server management sector of the hosting industry remains one of the fastest growing areas in hosting, as providers look for ways to improve quality and uptime of their servers. We are able to reduce cost and improve efficiency in a way that has created a real competitive advantage for our firm. The old negative conceptions about outsourced management and support are simply not true anymore,” said Amal Ranjith, managing director of AssistanZ.
AssistanZ is also providing a free license of Softaculous, an auto-installer for the cPanel control panel, for customers who utilize the company’s cPanel management service. AssistanZ is a NOC partner of Softaculous.
AssistanZ also provides a variety of specialty services, including optimizing for server upload/download speed increases, website performance increases, and security hardening. The company hopes to add additional notification features, including SMS alerts, in the coming months.
To learn more about AssistanZ, please visit http://www.assistanz.com.
About AssistanZ
Based in Coimbatore, India, AssistanZ is a leading provider of outsourced server management services. AssistanZ manages both Windows and Linux servers and offers a wide variety of ancillary services, including outsourced Web Hosting support, professional multimedia & Web design, customer management, software management, and much more. Learn more about AssistanZ by visiting http://www.assistanz.com or calling 1-888-500-1070.
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(Gawkwire)—Site5, a leader in shared, reseller, VPS, dedicated, and cloud hosting, today introduced Xen-based Virtual Private Servers, offering 100 percent dedicated system resources to each account, unlike other virtualization alternatives which share resources between user accounts.
Because each Site5 Virtual Private Server offers guaranteed server resources, customers are able to expect a sustained high level of performance. When sever resources are shared between user accounts – as is an industry norm – customers can unexpectedly experience significant, periodic performance drops.
“We treat our hosting solutions as mission-critical for our customers, and we take every step possible to guarantee performance and uptime. By utilizing Xen in our Virtual Private Servers and guaranteeing system resources, we are able to create a tangible differentiator between Site5 and our imitators. When uptime and performance are a factor in the consumer buying process, Site5 wins every time. We’ve quite literally built our business on it,” said Site5 Chief Operating Officer Tom Sepper.
Site5 Xen-based Virtual Private Servers are widely customizable. Virtual Private Servers start at $50 per month for 40GB of disk space, 600GB of monthly bandwidth, and at least 756MB of RAM on the node. All plans include Site5’s exclusive "No Worry" Full Management, a control panel, at least two dedicated IP addresses, and a wide-variety of other value-added features.
In the coming months, Site5 plans to introduce additional Virtual Private Server hosting solutions, including an unmanaged alternative to its existing fully-managed services.
Earlier this month, Site5 introduced Shared Cloud Hosting and Cloud Virtual Private Serves. The cloud hosting solutions offer unprecedented reliability, speed, and scalability by virtualizing entire clusters of servers and creating a fully redundant hosting environment.
About Site5
Based in Denver, Colorado, Site5 is an international leader in affordable web hosting solutions for individuals and businesses. For more than a decade, Site5 has provided award-winning customer support and aggressively-priced hosting solutions to customers on six continents. Today, Site5 offers a variety of shared, reseller, VPS, dedicated, and cloud hosting solutions.
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