August 31, 2006 — Data center automation is cited as a key recommendation for bringing down the cost of managing large numbers of physical and virtual servers, according to a report titled “Pragmatic Approaches to Server Virtualization.”

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August 31, 2006 — Web hosting provider Intermedia announced on Thursday it has boosted the mailbox size of its entry-level Exchange hosting plan from 200MB up to 500MB per mailbox, without an increase its price.

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August 31, 2006 — Web hosting provider Layered Technologies announced on Wednesday it is upgrading its Web site with a range of new services.

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Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 30, 2006 - Website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com, is offering customers the opportunity to pre-register .MOBI domain names before the two-week landrush registration period, open on Sept. 26.

.MOBI is a top-level domain (TLD) accredited by ICANN and created specifically for mobile devices by leading mobile operators, network device manufacturers and Internet content providers, designed to make accessing the Internet from mobile devices easier and faster. In the past, long download times, low content quality and excessive scrolling were what mobile users encountered.

With .MOBI, users can expect a more seamless, content-appropriate experience. All customers who register .MOBI domain names through GoDaddy.com, get free hosting and a web site builder. The offer is designed to provide creation tools customers can use to make .MOBI-compliant web sites and host them through GoDaddy.com. For customers not ready to build a web site, a .MOBI domain name can still be pre-registered and parked with a placeholder page, to hold until they are ready.

Also included is a free .MOBI email account that features immediate mobile access through GoDaddy.com’s MobileMail. The mobile Internet is growing, with more than 34.6 million users in June; that’s according to the U.S. Device Census Report for Q2 2006 from Telephia (www.telephia.com).

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of The Go Daddy Group offered, ”This is an Internet browsing revolution and we’ve worked to make the mobile ‘Net experience easier and more reliable for our customers.”

The .MOBI TLD launched in May with a two-phased Sunrise registration period. During the Limited Industry Sunrise, members of the mobile industry had the opportunity to register their trademarks as .MOBI domain names. During Trademark Sunrise, which began in June and runs until Sept. 22, all other trademark holders are eligible to register their trademarks as .MOBI domain names.

GoDaddy is a leading provider of services developed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group is the world’s largest domain name registrar, with approximately 14.6 million domain names under management as of June 30, 2006 and North America’s largest shared web site hosting provider. During the final six months of 2005, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top five generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info.

To learn more about .MOBI at GoDaddy.com, please visit: www.godaddy.com/gdshop/tlds/mobi.asp.

For more information about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

Ogden, Utah - (The Hosting News) - August 30, 2006 - Web hosting company, CFDynamics, has unvelied its new Content Manager, as well as ColdFusion web hosting, free of charge for ColdFusion user group web sites.

Jason Egan, Vice President of Customer Relations for CFDynamics explained, ”We strongly support ColdFusion user groups and have shown this in the past by offering free web hosting. We are now excited to more fully support user group sites by offering Savvy’s Content Manager. We hope that user groups will find added benefits from this partnership.”

According to the company, the Savvy Content Manager is a powerful, yet easy to install web CMS that normally retails for $1,350. Joshua Cyr, Chief Technology Officer for Savvy Software, Inc. added, ”Providing our software for ColdFusion user groups is a great way for us to support the already vibrant CF community. We are especially appreciative that CFDynamics is offering hosting free of charge as well.”

Recently, CF Dynamics hosted the 2006 CFUNITED conference, with over 1,000 attendees and 40 industry-related speakers, in Washington, DC. CFUNITED, started by TeraTech in 1999, is a conference that unites the ColdFusion and web development communities. The conference was the only one of its kind run by developers, for developers, and featured well-known ColdFusion experts such as Ben Forta, Sandra Clark, Simon Horwith, Nate Nelson and Jeff Peters.

CFDynamics is a ColdFusion provider, with years of development and Macromedia Certified Developers on staff. CFDynamics’ servers are designed to be balanced to provide ideal efficiency, reliability, and performance. CFDynamics’ services feature:

-Balanced Shared Servers
-100% Dedicated Servers
-No Long Term Commitments
- Knowledgeable phone support
- A focus on your individual needs
- Comprehensive online support
- A variety of hosting plans to suit individual needs.
- 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
- State-of-the-art data center
- 24/7 network monitoring
- 99.5% uptime

To learn more about the free CMS software, please visit: www.besavvy.com.

For more information about CFDynamics, please visit: www.cfdynamics.com.

Irvine, California - (The Hosting News) - August 30, 2006 - Integrated web hosting and audio and video streaming provider, VitalStream Holdings, Inc., has been chosen by ABC Radio, a division of ABC, Inc. and the largest radio network in the US, as its exclusive provider of online ad-insertion and streaming media solutions. In addition, VitalStream will represent ABC Radio’s streaming inventory for advertising sales.

VitalStream will power the majority of ABC Radio’s stations and network properties, by supplying its Windows Media Streaming Service as the core technology. In addition, the solution will utilize VitalStream’s proprietary ad-insertion technology for highly targeted ad delivery and FastAim custom reporting and advertising system, providing multiple advertising formats, including audio/video and media.

Jack Waterman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VitalStream explained, ”We are extremely excited to provide our full-service advertising service to ABC Radio. Since acquiring our ad-insertion technology from Eonstreams in May, this implementation is the most concrete example of VitalStream’s ability to deliver a powerful combination of feature-rich, fully-integrated ad delivery and streaming technology. Our relationship with ABC Radio is validation of our strategy to capitalize on the rapidly-growing online advertising market as we help content owners leverage their digital assets through the generation of new revenue streams.”

Stephen Newman, Executive Vice President of Advertising Solutions for VitalStream added, ”I am thrilled that ABC Radio has chosen FastAim from VitalStream as their ad serving platform. Advertisers and listening audiences will see a great benefit to having ads served to them that are relevant to their personal needs and desires.”

VitalStream’s advertising software solution inserts in-stream advertisements into ‘live’ and ‘on-demand’ Internet streaming broadcasts to target specific listener demographics, enabling advertisers to reach the most engaged opt-in audio and video audiences with a seamless, in-stream advertising experience. Campaign management and ad-results reporting complete the comprehensive solution.

Robert Shiflet, Marketing and Internet Director of ABC Radio offered, ”ABC Radio believes the FastAim ad insertion product from VitalStream Ad Services will enable us to move to the next level in precision targeting of streaming ad delivery. We have long realized the value of ABC audio streams and are continually looking for the best way to monetize those assets.”

ABC Radio includes ABC Radio Network, Inc., its syndicated radio programming network, and owned and operated stations located in leading markets throughout the United States. Those markets include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. ABC Radio Networks has more than 4,600 affiliate radio stations reaching 117 million people age 12 and over each week. Programs and services include ABC News Radio, Paul Harvey News and Comment, The Sean Hannity Show, Satellite Sisters, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, The Doug Banks Morning Show, MoneyTalk with Bob Brinker, The Larry Elder Show, American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks, The Dan Patrick Show, The Michael Baisden Show, Dick Bartley’s Rock and Roll’s Greatest Hits, The John Batchelor Show, Saturday Night at the 80s, Renan Almendarez Coello-El Cucuy de la Manana, El Vacilon de la Manana with Luis Jimenez and Moonshadow and El Vacilon de la Manana with Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero. Other ABC broadcast services include ABC Sports Radio, syndicated music and talk programs including Flashback, format-specific ePREP and production libraries, and eleven 24-Hour Formats, including Scott Shannon’s True Oldies Channel.

VitalStream, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of VitalStream Holdings, Inc., is a global provider of integrated content delivery services that endeavors to enable businesses to broadcast digital media and communications to worldwide audiences via the Internet. The company provides complete solutions, including video and audio streaming, advertising placement, delivery, reporting and analysis, live event broadcasting, media asset management, integrated web hosting and consulting services, designed to seamlessly integrate with leading streaming media technologies. VitalStream engineered its content delivery network certified for quality delivery in the United States, Europe and Asia. VitalStream’s customer base includes many of the largest and fastest growing streamers of audio and video content, including Disney and Myspace.com. Notable new customers added during the second quarter of 2006 include Greyhound, the United Nations, Microsoft Prodigy, Buy.com, QuePasa, Home Depot and Gillette.

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

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - August 30, 2006 - Web hosting, marketing and publishing firm, RealBiz360 Inc, a subsidiary of iseemedia Inc., is displaying virtual tours created using IPIX technology, of its business portfolio platform.

Steve Marques, President of RealBiz360 explained, ”With IPIX’s bankruptcy, thousands of real estate agents, brokers, and photographers have been left to fend for themselves. IPIX pioneered virtual tour creation for real estate and our release today continues that tradition by offering an easy and painless migration path to all IPIX users.”

According to the company, many real estate agents have IPIX panoramas they need to host immediately, or they have run out of keys to create new virtual tours, or simply they have purchased IPIX hardware and have to think about starting over. RealBiz360 has the solution for them. IPIX hardware and software users can take advantage of the patented RealBiz360 imageserver, which provides HDVT, the ability to provide resolution on demand zooming. They can automatically post to your local MLS, Realtor.com, Picture Path and other websites including your own, use high quality tour templates with branding and feature sheet creation, and they can save the tours to a CD complete with tour statistics. The Company’s soon-to-be-released PhotoVistatm TourBuilder software will allow IPIX users to prepare and upload their images as multi-shot panoramas or 360 degree hemispherical panoramas using a single application integrated with realbiz360.com.

RealBiz360 Inc. provides a self-service model for real estate professionals that endeavors to seamlessly combine web marketing with virtual tour creation. Through its PicturePath Partner program, real estate agents are provided imaging and web services designed to quickly and easily create and manage a professional online marketing presence. The Company is a subsidiary of iseemedia Inc. in Toronto.

iseemedia Inc. is a software company focused on the commercialization of advanced content adaptation and delivery solutions for web and wireless applications. The Company has a global patent portfolio of 39 issued and pending wireless and imaging patents. iseemedia is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol:IEE).

To learn more iseemedia Inc., please visit: www.iseemedia.com.

For more information about RealBiz360 Inc., please visit: www.realbiz360.com.

Costa Mesa, California - (The Hosting News) - August 30, 2006 - Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions and managed IP services company, MegaPath Inc., has made a strategic investment in DSL.net, Inc., in an effort to acquire substantially all of DSL.net’s equity, upon receiving regulatory and shareholder approval.

The acquisition involves additional funding from existing MegaPath investors, and is expected to further the Company’s market position and enable it to deliver a wider selection of managed IP (Internet Protocol) data, voice and security services. The addition of DSL.net’s broadband and Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure, is also anticipated to give MegaPath greater control over the performance and reliability of its services, and improve its margins and profitability.

Craig Young, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MegaPath explained, ”This strategic investment gives us the opportunity to accelerate MegaPath’s growth and improve its profitability, while also providing us with greater control over the quality of service we offer our customers. We are eager to help DSL.net customers grow their businesses by leveraging our wide array of managed IP services, expanded network reach, and additional operational and engineering resources. Moreover, the combined company would offer the financial strength and market leadership that enterprise customers look for when selecting a service provider to manage their business-critical communications.”

The associated round of funding includes certain of MegaPath’s existing investors, including Fidelity Ventures, Rho Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Trident Capital and Boston Millennia Partners. MegaPath will use this funding to accelerate the growth of its managed IP service business and expand its portfolio of value-added services organically and through strategic acquisitions. The acquisition is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval; final closing is expected by the end of 2006, however, this date is subject to change.

As an IP Managed Service Provider (MSP), MegaPath offers DSL.net customers expanded broadband coverage throughout the U.S. and Canada. MegaPath can also provide a full range of integrated security, IP Telephony, remote access and site-to-site IP VPN services to augment the DSL.net services. The acquisition is anticipated to give MegaPath the broadband facilities and field technicians to deliver services throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, which have the highest concentration of businesses in the United States.

David Struwas, Chief Executive Officer of DSL.net added, ”DSL.net is known for offering its broadband customers among the highest performance and reliability in the industry, combined with highly innovative service offerings that increase productivity and business profitability. By combining the companies’ infrastructure and service offerings, we will be providing customers one of the best networks and the most comprehensive set of managed IP services available anywhere. This is great news for both companies and our customers.”

DSL.net currently offers services via its own facilities in over 350 collocations in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

MegaPath is the leading provider of managed IP communications services in North America. MegaPath leverages its wide selection of broadband connectivity, Virtual Private Networks, Voice over IP (VoIP) and security technologies to enable businesses to lower costs, increase security and enhance productivity. Businesses of all sizes can easily and securely communicate between their headquarters, branch offices, retail locations, mobile workers, and business partners.

DSL.net, Inc. is a leading nationwide provider of broadband communications services to businesses. The Company combines its own facilities, nationwide network infrastructure and Internet Service Provider (ISP) capabilities to provide high-speed Internet access, private network solutions and value-added services directly to small- and medium-sized businesses or larger enterprises looking to connect multiple locations. DSL.net product offerings include T1, DS3 and business-class DSL services, virtual private networks (VPNs), frame relay, Web hosting, DNS management, enhanced e-mail, online data backup and recovery services, firewalls and nationwide dial-up services, as well as integrated voice and data offerings in select markets.

To learn more about DSL.net, please visit: www.dsl.net.

For more information about MegaPath, please visit: www.megapath.com.

Atlanta, Georgia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 30, 2006 - Reseller hosting company, Cpwebhosting.net, has advanced its hosting platform by increasing specifications on all of its reseller hosting packages, along with a number of new tools added to its control panel.

While maintaining low priced hosting plans, Cpwebhosting.net has increased the amount of disk space by up to 100%. The new specs include:

Starter Reseller Hosting ($24.95/mo)
* 10000 MB (10GB) Disk space

Beginner Reseller ($39.95/mo)
* 20000MB (20GB) Disk space

Professional Reseller ($69.95/mo)
* 30000 MB (30 GB) Disk space

Premium Reseller Plan ($99.95/mo)
* 40000 MB (40 GB) Disk space

Easyapps includes feature-rich shopping carts, photo galleries, and upgraded web space to support the growing demand, of discussion boards, and blogs, Jim Partner, President of Sales at cpwebhosting explained, ”Our unique load-balanced, clustered hosting platform lets us guarantee these incredible specs to all of our customers at such low prices, and we won’t pack too many customers per server.”

CPWebHosting operates a single, secure, Internet Data Center (IDC), located on the 4th floor of the 56 Marietta Street facility, in the heart of the technology sector in downtown Atlanta Georgia. The building is strictly a carrier hotel and is the largest POP in the Southeast providing access to most of the IP network providers operating contenential United States, basically serving as the NAP for the Southeast, without carrying that official title. Locating the IDC in this facility has allowed CPWebHosting to take advantage of the infrastructure already available in the building. Since 2002, Cpwebhosting.net (an hsphere reseller) is serving customers in over 120 countries. Its core product offerings include reseller hosting, SSL certificates, e-mail service, and site-builder services.

To learn more about the Reseller hosting Program, please visit: www.cpwebhosting.net/reseller/.

For more information about cpwebhosting.net, please visit: www.cpwebhosting.net.

Berlin, Germany - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 30, 2006 - Web hosting company, STRATO EnterpriseWeb, is offering a sophisticated web hosting package, including 20.000 MB of storage and 100 GB of traffic. The package also includes STRATO Communicator 3.0, its homepage communication tool, as well as branded software at no extra cost.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO commented, ”As part of our commitment to the UK, we have listened to the needs of UK’s businesses and are delighted to deliver a complete package which provides great performance at an unbeatable price. EnterpriseWeb represents our best value web hosting and comes with free branded professional software to get users started. It is backed by our professional customer service and free customer helpline. Personal and business users can really benefit from the numerous email accounts included in the EnterpriseWeb package - enabling each employee to be set up with their own personal email account from any location. We are currently offering one of the UK’s best web hosting services.”

STRATO EnterpriseWeb also includes several MySQL 4 databases, back-up and free professional customer support. An extensive selection of interactive elements provides homepage dynamics. With the CGI 2005, users can incorporate modules like newsletters, guest books and a visitor counter into pages. The programming scripts, PHP 5 and Perl, are also available to those users who choose to program web applications or implement finished scripts from online collections. Unique security performance is also included with the STRATO EnterpriseWeb package. All customer website data is automatically saved with STRATO BackupControl. In case of an emergency, users can access up to ten backup copies that are respectively hours, days and weeks old. Data transmission may also be encoded with SSL, ensuring that sensitive entries in web forms are sent over the web with effective protection. The new plans begin at £14.99/month.

Besides complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce, and has one hundred per cent subsidiary of freenet.de, a listed Internet and telecommunications company with over ten million customers. STRATO offers products including a .eu domain, at no extra charge and for a low monthly flat rate. EnterpriseWeb also offers five individual domains that can be either in .eu or .co.uk format. In June 2006, STRATO was recognized as Germany’s number one web host provider by the eco Association of the German Internet industry, for its focus on excellent quality and customer service. STRATO is based in Berlin and currently has two million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands. STRATO was the first major European web host to receive the internationally coveted German Technical Control Board seal ”BS7799” which is now ISO 27001:2005. The British standard certification was awarded by the independent German testing organisation TÜV SÜD, for the reliability of its computing centres, security and data availability. Partners of STRATO include Sun Microsystems, Cisco, AMD, Adobe and Microsoft.

To learn more, please visit: www.strato-hosting.co.uk.

August 30, 2006 — nternet service provider Bulletproof Networks, announced on Wednesday it will launch what it calls Australia’s first fully managed dedicated virtual hosting service later this week.

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August 30, 2006 — Telecommunications provider AT&T announced on Tuesday it has signed a new data hosting and networking contract with mortgage lender Homefield Financial.

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