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Web Hosting Provider, Rackspace Cloud Hosting Division, Names General Manager

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:46:41 +0000

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Clustered hosting provider, and Rackspace Hosting's cloud division, Mosso, has expanded its leadership team, naming Emil Sayegh as general manager, previously the vice president of the product group at Rackspace.

Mr. Sayegh's responsibilities at Rackspace included the development, marketing and management of new products and services for the company's managed hosting product line.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Mr. Sayegh spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product development and marketing roles. Most recently, Mr. Sayegh was the services marketing and development director at Dell Inc. where he oversaw the global services roadmap. Additionally, Mr. Sayegh served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents in the fields of electronics and telecommunication.

Lanham Napier, CEO, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ''As the VP of our product group, Emil directed the launches of multiple, successful products including the company's Hosted Microsoft Exchange and our virtualization product set. Our cloud hosting initiatives are extremely important to the company's future, which is why we've selected someone with a winning track record to run that business.''

Rackspace's cloud hosting division is currently hosting more than 80,000 websites and applications on Cloud Sites, reflecting a 175 percent increase over this time last year. Last month the company unveiled its cloud hosting strategy, including the announcement of two acquisitions and a suite of cloud solutions at the Rackspace Cloud Event. The two newest additions to the product suite, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, will leverage technology acquired through the acquisitions of Jungle Disk.

Mr. Sayegh remarked, ''I am honored to be joining the cloud division. This is a great opportunity to lead what could be one of the biggest technology evolutions the market has seen - cloud computing. Cloud technologies delivered by Rackspace will provide the cost and scalability advantages of the cloud with Rackspace's world-leading service approach, making the cloud both affordable and easy to use.''

Mr. Sayegh holds a bachelor of science in Engineering and a master of science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.

A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company's award-winning Fanatical Support. Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers' IT departments, by handling infrastructure maintenance and management. Rackspace's portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust, a provider of business-class hosted email solutions. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.

Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud, providing enterprise-grade hosting through an easily managed interface so that developers, designers and IT managers can deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily. Founded by two former Rackspace employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture.

To learn more about Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

For more information, please visit: www.mosso.com.

LeaseWeb, Web Hosting Provider, Doubles Bandwidth Hosting Network

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:37:32 +0000

Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Web hosting provider, LeaseWeb, in order to facilitate the exponential growth in bandwidth demand from existing and new clients, has more than doubled the capacity of its hosting network, from 210 Gbps to 500 Gbps, or half a Terabit.

Pieter Dijkhuis, Finance Director of LeaseWeb says, ''Our client database has expanded to approximately 10,000 this year. We are pleased with the trust that our clients have given us. Doubling the number of clients was also a logical step for us. Until last year, we primarily focused on developing a stable structure for our hosting network and our support organization. The current structure of our organization allows us to easily facilitate further growth. Growth is a key requirement for LeaseWeb to be able to maintain competitive prices and an attractive price-quality ratio.''

LeaseWeb expanded its capacity to 500 Gbps by purchasing additional port capacity from telecom carriers (transit) and Internet exchanges (peering). Since June 2008, actual bandwidth usage by LeaseWeb's clients has increased from 100 to 240 Gigabits per second (Gbps).

The available capacity of 500 Gbps is intentionally twice the actual use of bandwidth because of LeaseWeb's ongoing commitment to providing quickly scalable hosting solutions.

Mr. Dijkhuis explained, ''Bandwidth availability is a key requirement for many clients to be able to expand their Web environment. This is equally important as the available datacenter space and inventories of network and server equipment. Our proposition is designed to meet those requirements. We have ample space available in our CO2-neutral EvoSwitch datacenter, among other facilities, and we maintain large inventories of equipment for clients such as HP, Dell and Cisco.''

LeaseWeb's hosting network bandwidth capacity of half a Terabit is exceptional. Bastiaan Spandaw, network architect at LeaseWeb confirmed, ''I know of virtually no other hosting providers in Europe that have this amount of bandwidth in their networks. LeaseWeb is one of the few hosting providers in Europe that have this much bandwidth available.''

The total capacity of LeaseWeb's hosting network was already increased from 160 to 210 Gbps in late May 2008. And now another 290 Gbps have been added.

Mr. Spandaw added, ''The extremely rapid growth of the past few months is not that surprising. If you have ample bandwidth capacity, you are bound to attract clients that use much bandwidth. And this makes our network grow even faster.''

Mr. Dijkhuis added, ''October in particular showed a rapid increase in new clients and bandwidth usage. In that respect, October was definitely not a recession month for us. We expect continued strong growth going forward.''

The strong growth of LeaseWeb's network is due to existing and new bulk users of bandwidth. These are clients who distribute their streaming audio and video data through the LeaseWeb network, such as 123Video.nl (www.123video.nl), the Danish company Octoshape (www.octoshape.com), product comparison site Twenga (www.twenga.com), Garage TV from Belgium (www.garagetv.be), Turkish media giant Haber7 (www.haber7.com), and the German broadcasting company WIGE Media AG.

LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that is primarily geared towards the professional market. The company is among the top-20 hosting providers worldwide and its services include collocation, dedicated servers, webhosting, server virtualization, streaming, and domain name registration. LeaseWeb is the proprietor of a first-class network that offers a bandwidth of more than 210 Gbps, spanning four datacenters in the Amsterdam region. LeaseWeb is also present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid.

To learn more, please visit: www.leaseweb.com.

Web Hosting Application Reseller Partnership, for Ensim, Norseman Defense

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:23:20 +0000

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application firm, Ensim Corporation, has partnered with solutions integrator, Norseman Defense Technologies, to offer the Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to government agencies.

Under the terms of the agreement, Norseman Defense Technologies will sell and support Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to its nation-wide customer base of public sector organizations.

Ensim Unify allows organizations to meet security and compliance requirements by enabling access control, identity management, change management, automated provisioning, reporting and auditing, password and role management, along with delegated administration and device/client configuration. Available as tools or a complete suite, Ensim Unify delivers instant savings - reducing the number of help desk calls by as much as forty percent - and by eliminating repetitive IT administrative tasks, helping improve workforce effectiveness and enabling IT departments in medium and large-sized organizations to focus on more strategic tasks.

Justin Bonner, Vice-President, Norseman Defense Technologies remarked, ''In today's economy of speed and of choices, possessing the tools necessary to identify a client's needs and deliver a solution is paramount. Norseman prides itself on our ability to exceed client expectations. Being able to choose a single partner allows our clients the ability to make choices with ease and flexibility, and we're confident that by partnering will Ensim we will only improve upon our ability to meet our clients' needs.''

Norseman Defense serves numerous government agencies, including The National Institute of Health, FBI, FEMA, Navy and the US General Services Administration. Norseman provides clients with an array of computer hardware and software solutions, adding a compliment of services such as network and custom system design, consultation, installation and management support to create a complete go-to-market offering. Norseman will sell and support the complete Ensim Unify Enterprise Suite, as well as its individual modules, including:

Microsoft Active Directory Manager Provides greater control over Active Directory and facilitates the administration of complex tasks, while reducing the number of privileged accounts and preventing unauthorized changes.

Microsoft Exchange Manager
Prevents misconfiguration of Exchange server, increases uptime and automates key tasks.

Mobility Manager Enables easy configuration and wipe of smart phones Over The Air. Self-Service and User Manager
Lets employees easily self-manage, from distribution lists to email profiles, reducing helpdesk and IT time by half.

Password Manager allows employees to reset their own passwords via a web-based portal.

Scott Young, Vice President of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation remarked, ''Norseman Defense Technologies provides high quality services to many of the most critical government agencies. Norseman will play an integral role in extending our reach into new verticals and enabling us to deliver greater value to our customers.''

Norseman Defense Technologies, a small, woman-owned businesses, is an information technology solutions integrator based in Elkridge, MD. Norseman has over fifteen years of experience in delivering value to Federal Government entities and provides premier quality computer technology products and services at the most competitive prices possible. Norseman is driven to meet the information technology needs of its clients with a focus on exceeding expectations.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access control software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft.

For more information about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Hosting Providers Offered Wowza Flash Streaming Friction-Free Service

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:09:57 +0000

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Server software provider, Wowza Media Systems, has made available its Media Server Pro Subscription Edition, featuring friction-free monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength solution.

The media server is designed to make it both ''painless'' and cost-effective for any CDN, streaming service or hosting provider to offer lucrative Flash media streaming services to customers.

Phil Koblence, VP, Operations, New York Internet, a Data Center services firm remarked, ''We chose Wowza Pro Subscription Edition because it enabled us to increase our capacity in nearly real time and offer clients the ability to host their streaming solutions without a large initial licensing fee. Additionally, this new model allows us to benefit from Wowza's superb software and efficiently roll it into our existing hosting offerings.''

Wowza Media Server Pro, recently declared the #1 media server choice by the readers of Streaming Media Magazine, now counts more than 14,000 global licensees worldwide, including a rapidly growing number of service providers such as T-Systems (Deutsche Telecom), Interoute, Avacast, SimpleCDN, StreamUK, Nacamar, and StreamZilla, among others.

Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition offers service providers the most full-featured version of Wowza Pro and a risk-free, flexible model for managing their licensing costs according to their customers' streaming demands.

Key Benefits include:
- No upfront financial commitment
- No long-term contracts
- No minimum number of server instances
- No per-GB fees - just low fixed per-server monthly fee that declines in volume
- No cost for future software upgrades
- Flexible capacity and cost management - add/delete servers as needed and only pay for servers used

In a recent daily briefing, Jim Davis, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research, wrote that Wowza's subscription model ''is going to help streaming service providers and hosting companies by enabling them to keep a lid on capital expenditures. They can pass these cost savings on, enabling them to compete for customers that might not otherwise bother to buy CDN services.''

Other Wowza Pro licensees offer similar perspectives:

Michael Terretta, CEO, Advection.NET, a global CDN added, ''When serving media clients in broadcast and entertainment, it is imperative for a CDN to have flexible licensing for media server infrastructure that lets us adapt to clients' needs in an economical, competitive and growth-oriented way without taking an up-front hit to the bottom line. Wowza's friction-free licensing model along with Wowza Pro's industrial strength performance and functionality gives us precisely that.''

Troy Leaver, Systems Administrator, Mediaserve, a family-owned hosting provider noted, ''Having served our customers with Windows Media streaming services for several years, as Flash streaming grew ever more popular, we knew we were going to have to look into providing Flash streaming. We chose Wowza Media Server Pro based on features and reputation, but it was Wowza's approachable subscription licensing that made it possible for us to roll out Flash streaming services.''

Brad Mitchell, CEO, MojoHost, offering first-class hosting solutions since 1999 remarked, ''Our decision to make Wowza Pro our streaming platform of choice has allowed us to deliver robust, highly scalable Flash streaming to the global marketplace. Wowza's subscription licensing enables us to deliver services at a price that lets our customers of all sizes achieve a substantial return on their investment.''

Wowza's friction-free philosophy extends beyond just offering its customers irresistible economics. The full-featured Wowza Pro Subscription Edition includes exclusive functionality that enables service providers to offer Flash services that eliminate friction for their customers as well.

Wowza Pro's exclusive SHOUTcast-to-Flash streaming capability is a no-barrier way to offer services to Web radio netcasters who wish to reach larger audiences without having to invest in Flash-compatible technologies.

Frank Wilson, Chief Engineer, SimpleCDN, a premier CDN provider commented, ''SimpleCDN chose Wowza Pro Subscription Edition, because it allows us to instantly scale our server infrastructure, without the need to constantly track licensing agreements. Overall the choice to go with Wowza vs. FMIS/FMSS was easy - Wowza allows us to fully utilize our 64-bit infrastructure, adds valuable features such as RTP, RTSP and MPEG-TS support, not to mention its rich Java plug-in capabilities. Wowza was a perfect fit for us, allowing SimpleCDN to provide the exact services our customers were looking for.''

By offering numerous free tools, such as the Centralized Management Utility, a Live Stream Monitoring Tool, and a fully Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Wowza also reduces friction for creating, operating and growing services efficiently.

Available immediately, Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition starts at $65/month for the first Wowza Media Server Pro server instance and lower pricing for subsequent instances.

Wowza Media Systems is a software company solely focused on making industrial-strength media servers. With the February 2007 introduction of its award-winning product, Wowza Media Server Pro, Wowza has taken a leadership position in redefining Flash streaming. Wowza has not only radically changed Flash streaming economics, it has also revolutionized online media by introducing innovative and exclusive capabilities that make live, on-demand, and interactive Flash media streaming feasible for a broad range of customers. Deployed by thousands of global licensees in entertainment, social media, advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet commerce, Wowza customers include such well-known companies as Sun Microsystems, Interoute, RAINet, Astral Media, and T-Systems.

For more information, please visit: www.wowzamedia.com.

Web Hosting Firm, C I Host, Expands Datacenter Operations Facility

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:18:01 +0000

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Web hosting and solutions company, C I Host, has unveiled plans to open a new datacenter facility which is scheduled to open in 2009 in Dallas, Texas.

The new facility is being developed to maximize best practices from the company's 11 years in business, along with providing improved technology.

Erin Bullock, Executive Director of Business Development for C I Host remarked, ''C I Host is a pioneer in the Web hosting industry and we have the opportunity to use more than a decade of experiences to build a customer's ideal datacenter from the ground up - and then deliver it to them.''

The company continues to offer services for the same low prices. The new datacenter facilities expand the company's capabilities while consolidating operations to more efficiently serve customers worldwide. The new datacenter facilities represent a transformation for the company, as the datacenter is built out for maximum performance, efficiency and availability for the customer - all before customers are ever moved in.

The new facilities, which will open in February 2009, boast 60,000 square feet of space with diverse electrical feeds and fiber entrances, while a 1.5-megawatt power transformer and 750-kilowatt transformer will ably handle electrical loads. On-site fuel storage and a generator with Automatic Transfer Switches will help ensure consistent power availability.

Nicholas Giancola, Chief Network Architect at C I Host added, ''We're using the new facilities as a blank slate opportunity to provide the kind of technology and service our customers demand.''

The new buildings are located in the Dallas Love Field Corridor, 6 miles from downtown Dallas, 2.5 miles from Love Field Airport, and 10 miles from DFW International Airport. New customers will be added to the new facility in early 2009, while current CI Host customers will be migrated during the following six to twelve months.

C I Host, based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is a web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) hosting hundreds of thousands of domains around the world. C I Host creates business-class web hosting solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market, with the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names. C I Host operates three data centers across the United States, with its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles and Chicago.

C I Host has been ranked among the 5,000 fastest growing companies in the United States by Inc. magazine, with over 250,000 clients and a growth rate of 85 percent, placing it at #3488 in the list. C I Host has also been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web Hosting Guide. C I Host has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by cnet's Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.

To learn more, please visit: www.cihost.com.

Managed Hosting Platform at The Planet, Includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:10:34 +0000

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, announced the addition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, to its Planet Northstar Managed Hosting business line of offerings.

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at The Planet noted, ''With our rigorous Anticipation Advantage best-practices methodology, Planet Northstar Managed Hosting becomes a proactive extension of your IT team. CIOs require proactive planning, preparation and prevention, which is precisely what Planet Northstar provides. Backed by a team of certified professionals, our enterprise-class network and SAS 70 Type II world-class data centers, customers gain access to infrastructure that would otherwise be unaffordable for most companies.''

Customers with Linux, Microsoft or blended environments can now take advantage of premium managed hosting services. As one of just two Red Hat Premier Hosting Partners, the Planet Northstar engineering team will have direct access to the company's product roadmaps and new platform features, creating a technically superior hosted environment for its customers.

Planet Northstar Managed Hosting provides small- and medium-sized customers with the advantage of enterprise-class IT managed hosting services, backed by a dedicated team of seasoned IT professionals who are personally accountable for their success. Web 2.0 and SaaS (Software as a Service) companies building innovative and cutting-edge applications use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a foundational component of the LAMP stack -- Linux, Apache, MySQL and PhP -- or J2EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition).

Databases provide the foundation for today's advanced, multi-tier applications. To provide the support required by customers in managing these complex applications, Planet Northstar customers are assigned a dedicated MySQL cluster-certified database administrator as part of their core team.

Red Hat Certified Engineers: Every customer is assigned a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), who has passed rigorous testing requirements to earn the designation.

MySQL Management: A senior database administrator (DBA) specifically certified on MySQL is assigned to every customer account. Each customer account also has access to exclusive MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBAs who are responsible for reviewing the performance and future scalability of every database platform.

Red Hat LVM Expertise: Planet Northstar uses Red Hat's Logical Volume Management snapshots to perform online and reliable database backups with virtually no performance impact. Customer databases are expertly managed to ensure maximum processing power.

Advanced Linux Platform Features: Linux engineers help customers leverage advanced platform features, including centralized authentication over LDAP; cluster suite failover; shared storage over high-performance SANs; or Apache Web server load balancing.

OS Management: Every Planet Northstar customer gains access to proactive OS management, including hardening procedures, performance monitoring, security patching, managed backups and scalability reviews to be certain systems grow with their business.

Planet Northstar is backed by The Planet's core infrastructure, including six SAS 70 Type II world-class data centers, enterprise-class network, data center operations, customer provisioning systems, physical and environmental security, and problem management and resolution through its customer portal. Coupled with its powerful and industry-leading Service Level Agreement, Planet Northstar guarantees 100 percent power and network uptime, along with one-hour hardware replacement and 15-minute response times.

Using its Anticipation Advantage methodology, Planet Northstar utilizes a four-step proactive process throughout every client's hosted IT lifecycle:
every client's hosted IT lifecycle:

Assess: For every customer, the Planet Northstar team begins with in-depth business and technology planning to gain a thorough understanding of business and technology goals. Together they examine current and future expectations, and how each will impact the customer's technology requirements. The result is a recommended IT implementation plan that delivers on business requirements, along with alternate configurations should the environment or goals change.

Design: Based on the customer's business and technology goals, the team designs and develops a comprehensive, customized systems architecture plan from the ground up to satisfy specific needs now and into the future. It provides scalability foresight - not just insight - so customers are prepared for each business cycle. The plan also defines how the Planet Northstar team will work as an extension of the customer's team.

Maintain: The dedicated team of certified and seasoned IT experts applies years of experience to proactively manage and maintain each customer's IT performance. For example, protection of IT assets is secured by design. Customized change-control procedures are built into the plan to ensure high-availability and security for customers. These processes enable the Planet Northstar team to anticipate and mitigate risks, and prevent breaches, outages or compliance violations.

Metrics are a key component of Planet Northstar Managed Hosting. By integrating metrics and reporting best practices, the dedicated account team establishes benchmarks to report the status of IT systems and to identify critical trends. Quarterly interactive meetings are held to review systems health and discover new ways to improve operating procedures and technology performance, at the same time integrating these metrics with the Anticipation Advantage methodology.

White papers that provide additional details are available for download: The Anticipation Advantage of Proactive Managed Hosting; and Leveraging Capex-Free Managed Hosting by the Yankee Group, an industry-leading research company.

Ultimately, The Planet's goal is to provide:

High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24x7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution, with the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network.

To learn more about Planet Northstar, please visit: www.planetnorthstar.com.

For more about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

Colocation and Network Services Firm, Terremark, Issues Revenue Report

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:58:48 +0000

Miami, Florida - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Integrated Tier-1 Internet exchange and managed IT infrastructure solutions provider, Terremark, has reported its results for the quarter ending September 30, 2008, including $59.6 million, representing a 31% year-over-year increase.

Revenues generated during the second quarter were at the high end of previously announced guidance, with more than 91 percent of the $59.6 million in revenues recurring in nature.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. is a leading operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet exchanges and a global provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions for government and private sectors. Terremark delivers its portfolio of services from seven locations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and from four service aggregation and distribution locations, which aggregate network traffic and distribute network-based services in Europe and Asia to meet specific customer needs. Terremark's flagship facility, the NAP of the Americas, is the model for the carrier-neutral Internet exchanges the company has in Santa Clara, California (NAP of the Americas/West), in Sao Paulo, Brazil (NAP do Brasil) and in Madrid, Spain (NAP de las Americas - Madrid). The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is a state-of-the-art facility that provides exchange point, colocation and managed services. Terremark is headquartered at 2601 S. Bayshore Drive, 9th Floor, Miami, Florida USA, (305) 856-3200.

Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark remarked, ''We executed well and reached the high-end of our revenue guidance despite a tough macro-economic environment. Demand for IT infrastructure services, and particularly Terremark's full suite of offerings, remains strong driven by the compelling value proposition we offer to today's CIOs who are under pressure to produce more effectively and efficiently with smaller budgets.''

Jose Segrera, CFO of Terremark commented, ''With a fully funded growth strategy and diverse, blue-chip customer base, we anticipate that our company will continue to produce strong results despite the tough macro-economic environment. Given our strong revenue growth this past quarter, we feel confident that the recurring nature of our business model enhances our ability to continue our strong performance in the coming quarters.''

Mr. Medina added, ''We are excited about the long-term prospects for our business. While our results this quarter were impacted by a strategic process that is now complete, our Company remains ideally positioned to meet the needs of CIOs, as demonstrated by our healthy bookings and pipeline.''

Q209 Financial Highlights include:

Total revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 were $59.6 million, which is in-line with the high-end of previously announced guidance and representing a 31% year-over-year increase.
EBITDA, as adjusted, for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 was $9.9 million, which represents a 27% year-over-year increase. Income from operations for the six months ended September 30, 2008 was $3.5 million. A significant impact on our results of operations and EBITDA, as adjusted, during the September 2008 quarter was related to the evaluation of strategic alternatives by the Company's Board of Directors. This evaluation began in April 2008 upon receipt by the Company of an unsolicited expression of interest regarding a potential acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Company stock at a premium to the then current trading price. The Board of Directors formed a strategic committee to conduct a market check and to authorize and oversee management's preliminary exploratory process to identify transaction alternatives to maximize stockholder value. No definitive transaction with any third party ensued as a result of the process in light of global economic conditions and credit market illiquidity. Therefore, the Board of Directors determined that it was in the shareholders' best interest to continue executing the Company's business plan.
Cross connects billed to customers increased to 7,459 as of September 30, 2008 from 7,232 the previous quarter and 6,119 a year earlier, representing increases of 3% and 22%, respectively. This increase continues to highlight the strong demand for Terremark's network-neutral model.

Sales and Marketing

During the quarter ended September 30, 2008, Terremark added 80 new customers, for a total of 1,068 customers at the end of the period.
Terremark booked $27.6 million of new annual contract value, which represents the fourteenth straight quarter of strong bookings.

Operations

Total built-out colocation space increased to 187,671 as a result of additional space coming online in the NAP of the Capital Region and the NAP of the Americas. The Company is currently deploying customers into the new space and is seeing a robust pipeline for services in both facilities.
Total colocation space utilization was 23.3% as of September 30, 2008 compared to 23.7% as of June 30, 2008. Utilization of built-out colocation space was 55.0% as of September 30, 2008. The utilization rates both decreased due to the activation of additional space in the NAP of the Capital Region and Terremark's facility in Miami.
Following the launch of the Enterprise Cloud in June, Terremark has continued to promote its innovative cloud computing platform. The Company presented at a number of the leading industry conferences and hosted a series of customer webinars, which have resulted in a number of customer contracts.

Business Outlook

For the third quarter of fiscal 2009, the Company expects revenues to range from $65.0 million to $67.0 million and EBITDA, as adjusted, to range from $15.0 million to $16.0 million.
For the 2009 fiscal year, guidance remains between $255 million to $260 million of revenues and EBITDA, as adjusted, to range between $58 million and $60 million.

Additional information regarding the Company's financial performance as of and for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 and a comparison to the quarter ended September 30, 2007 can be found on the balance sheet and statement of operations and in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security and cloud computing services. Terremark's acclaimed Infinistructure utility computing architecture has redefined industry standards for scalable and flexible computing infrastructure and its DigitalOps service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal.

To learn more, please visit: www.terremark.com.

Data Center Network Research Study Released

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:46:42 +0000

Dublin, Ireland - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Research and Markets' new report, detailing the future of data center network equipment, describes how related vulnerabilities and regulatory requirements can be engaged to ensure availability of data.

''Data Center Network Equipment and Data Center Automation Solutions Market 2007-2010 - Bundled Report'' includes information on how the increase in web hosting services and other web services has significantly driven the sales of Data Center Network Equipment. Further, there are many industry specific needs such as digital imaging, Picture Archive Systems (PACS) in multimedia companies, which drive the sales for efficient Data Center Network Equipment.

Secondly, the adoption of data center automation solutions is becoming increasingly critical for IT departments, driven by the need for high availability, need to reduce management costs, need to improve regulatory compliance, increasing technology consumption, adoption of virtualization etc. In addition, exponential growth in number of servers, storage devices and network equipment has significantly increased the infrastructure complexity. Further, while the price of servers has declined by over 50 percent in the last decade, the cost of managing a server over its lifetime has increased significantly. Currently, most organizations either manually administer their servers or use stand-alone solutions, which are incapable of managing its entire data center portfolio. However, with the rapid increase in cost and complexity of managing data centers, the adoption of data center automation solutions is expected to increase significantly over the period 2008-2010. Open source and policy-based form factors of data center automation solutions are expected to gain momentum in the market. In addition, server automation and configuration and change management are expected to account for a significant share of the DCA market.

This is a bundle of two technology market assessment reports: Data Center Network Equipment Market 2007-2010; and Data Center Automation Solutions Market 2007-2010. Bundled reports are available at an attractive discount over the individual reports.

Key topics covered include:

1. Data Center Network Equipment - Market Size and Forecast

2. Data Center Network Equipment - Geographic Segmentation

3. Data Center Network Equipment - Vertical Segmentation

4. Data Center Network Equipment - Sales Drivers by Verticals

5. Data Center Automation Solutions - Market Size and Forecast

6. Data Center Automation Solutions - Geographic Segmentation

7. Data Center Automation Solutions - Vertical Segmentation

8. Data Center Automation Solutions - Sales Drivers by Verticals

Research and Markets is an international market research and market data resource, with major research publications from most of the leading publishers, consultants and analysts, concerning key industries, top companies, new products and the latest trends. The market research reports and industry newsletters from specialist research firms and niche market analysts, are listed at the same price as the specialist research firms.

To learn more about the report, please visit: www.researchandmarkets.com/research/242d04/data_center_networ.

Gearworx Web Hosting Solutions, Debuts Adobe ColdFusion Virtual Private Servers

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:51:52 +0000

Fremont, California - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider, Gearworx, building on its six-year support and hosting of intensive ColdFusion applications, has launched its new line of Adobe ColdFusion 8 enabled Virtual Private Servers (VPS).

William Gregorian, CEO of Gearworx remarked, ''With more than eight years experience in Web hosting and six years specializing in ColdFusion, we are experts in creating world-class, affordable, and reliable web hosting solutions. We built our ColdFusion VPS plans to compete aggressively on price and features and meet the requirements of businesses and individual developers.''

ColdFusion Virtual Private Servers, hosted on robust Dell PowerEdge 2900 series powered by Intel Quad Core Xeon hardware, are designed to offer developers with the tools and resources they need to run powerful and scalable applications for their clients. VPS plans start at just $60 per month for 50GB of storage space and 500GB of short-path data transfer.

All ColdFusion VPS plans from Gearworx provide full privileges to the ColdFusion 8 administration interface so developers can make configuration changes as needed. Plans are hosted on the Windows 2003 Enterprise operating system, powered by Parallels Virtuozzo.

Gearworx's network features a gigabit ethernet backbone, built on redundant routing architecture with hardware failover and the Cisco HSRP (Hot Spare Router Protocol). All server hardware is owned and operated by Gearworx, and not outsourced or leased from a third party.
Since 2000, Gearworx has provided managed and unmanaged hosting services for individuals and small businesses. Gearworx offers a variety of shared, private label, and VPS hosting solutions. It also offers merchant accounts, hosted mailing lists, and SSL certificates.

To learn more about ColdFusion Virtual Private Servers from Gearworx, please visit: http://gearworx.net/vps/coldfusion.

For more information about Gearworx, please visit: www.gearworx.net.

Web Hosting Solution SoftLayer Partner, i365, Expands Data Protection Services

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:43:33 +0000

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - November 13, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer partner, i365, A Seagate Company, has expanded its EVault data protection portfolio, with new recovery products and services.

Justin Scott, technical assurance specialist with SoftLayer remarked, ''Our customers entrust their important data and servers with our on-demand data center and web hosting services. We cannot afford to lose data. i365's flexible recovery solutions, such as EVault Real-Time Protection, give us near continuous backups of mission critical systems while providing fast, flexible and comprehensive restores without disrupting our existing EVault Software nightly backup.''

The solutions address different needs for file, application, server and site recovery, and offer customers the choice of attached, virtual, onsite or remote solutions with the flexibility to choose software, Software as a Service (SaaS) or a managed service deployment.

Small to Mid Size Businesses (SMB) and remote offices within large organizations are refining their data protection strategies to apply different recovery policies to different levels of data, which allows them to respond with more flexibility and greater cost efficiencies. The expanded portfolio of EVault(TM) Data Protection solutions enable customers to meet a wide range of Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) with flexible, integrated solutions that best suit their business requirements.

According to the ESG Research Report, Data Protection Market Trends, January 2008, 58 percent of midmarket organizations said they could only tolerate 4 hours or less downtime before experiencing significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact. An additional 31 percent had a tolerance window of between four and twenty four hours.

EVault Real Time Protection, for up to the minute protection of mission critical systems, and EVault System Restore, for fast and easy recovery of a failed system, are integrated to provide customers with a single pass server/data recovery. EVault Remote Disaster Recovery is a DR warm site for guided recovery and virtual access to mission critical servers in the event of a site disaster.

EVault Real Time Protection -- Available as an extension to the EVault online backup and recovery Software, EVault Real Time Protection provides up to the minute protection of mission critical systems by continuously tracking changes and generating recovery points as frequently as every five minutes -- minimizing potential data loss on Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and other high volume servers. Key features include:

-- Robust volume-level protection of Windows 2003, 2008, and XP

-- Fast, flexible restoration from a local data store

-- Ability to restore entire volumes or individual files

EVault System Restore -- Available as an extension to EVault online backup and recovery Software and EVault Real Time Protection, EVault System Restore can quickly recover a failed system in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure onto similar or dissimilar hardware, or a virtual machine within minutes. Compared to the traditional system recovery process that can take hours, days or weeks, EVault System Restore integrates directly with EVault backup products, and can recover system, applications and data in a single pass. Key features include:

-- Painless, guided, one stop recovery of Windows 2003, 2008, Vista and XP servers

-- Recovery to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments

-- Dynamic driver loading with ability to customize the recovery media

EVault Remote Disaster Recovery a^' EVault Remote Disaster Recovery is a hosted service to help companies remotely recover key servers and data after a site disaster quickly, and access in a secure virtual environment. Key operational systems/data can be recovered within 24-48 hours. EVault Remote Disaster Recovery is an imperative for SMBs looking for a fully integrated disaster recovery solution that was once much too costly to afford. Flexible packaging and pricing are specifically designed for the SMB.

Valerie Fawzi, senior director of product marketing at i365, A Seagate Company commented, ''All data is important, but from an operational efficiency standpoint we know that there is some data that is more mission-critical and requires immediate recovery. SMBs are looking for differentiated levels of recovery management solutions with the flexibility to choose between software, SaaS or a managed service. With the expansion of the EVault Data Protection portfolio customers can meet their recovery objectives with a portfolio of integrated recovery solutions that reduce costs, increase efficiencies and give them confidence in the event of a disaster.''

i365 EVault Data Protection solutions address the complexity of explosive data growth while solving regulatory compliance, disaster recovery, and protection for local and remote offices and mobile devices. Incorporating DeltaPro(TM) technology, patented Quick File Scanning, and patent-pending Adaptive Compression technologies, i365 EVault Data Protection solutions provide efficient backup and recovery across a broad range of operating systems and applications. Multiple delivery options and price points enable tailored solutions for small, mid-size, and enterprise organizations.

EVault Real Time Protection, EVault System Restore and the EVault Remote Recovery Service are available through i365, A Seagate Company, or one of our approved partners.

i365, A Seagate Company, provides proven solutions for the protection, retention management, and discovery of electronic information. Trusted by over 22,000 customers, our innovative technologies combined with flexible deployment options form solutions to solve organizations' most rigorous compliance and data management problems. Our solutions address the complexity of explosive data growth, the challenge of maintaining high availability of critical business systems, and the increasing demands of regulatory compliance and litigation. Our offerings include i365 EVault Data Protection software and SaaS for backup and recovery; i365 Retention Management solutions for data recovery, migration, restoration and data management solutions; and i365 MetaLINCS(R) E-Discovery solutions for first pass processing and advanced content analysis of electronic information.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA and Washington DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry's first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

For more information about i365, please visit: www.i365.com.

To learn more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.