Seattle, Washington - (The Hosting News) - June 24, 2008 - Superb Internet Corp., gGlobal web hosting, managed dedicated server, shared web hosting and e-commerce hosting solutions provider, has awarded the winner of the Core 2 Duo Dedicated Server Hosting Solution giveaway prize, from the SMX Advanced 2008 event.

Worth over $3500, the prize was awarded in partnership with Seomoz.org, to SEO software suite developer, Ranksense, at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX Advanced) conference, held in Seattle. Featuring top search marketing industry professionals, the event included such notables as Matt Cutts from Google, Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand, Rand Fishkin from Seomoz and Kevin Johnson from Microsoft.

Curtis R. Curtis, SVP, Sales and Marketing, Superb Internet noted, ”We are especially pleased that a new rising star in the search marketing community, Ranksense, has won our dedicated server prize. Their revolutionary new Point and Click SEO software suite helps businesses and organizations alike drive their websites to the top of the search engines.”

As noted in a recent Superb blog, Seomoz was the "belle of the ball” with it’s SMX Whiteboard Friday interviews, especially ”STFU! with Brent Csutoras.”

Mr. Curtis added, ”Ranksense’s collaborative SEO tools, which include: an all-in-one fully integrated suite, break through keyword research capabilities and ‘Advanced SEO intelligence’ that identifies a single top-ranking site for those keywords you are seeking to target and makes recommendations based on the ensuing analysis are sure to be a hit with any company seeking to take its search marketing efforts to new heights. We are pleased to be able to help deliver their offering to the marketplace and will continue to support Ranksense and all its SEO partners in their online endeavours.”

Hamlet Batista, CEO of Ranksense remarked, ”Winning Superb’s Dedicated Server prize was definitely a major highlight for us; especially at this critical juncture in our development where we are now poised for runaway growth in the SEO marketplace. Having a reliable, rock solid hosting company like Superb managing our server and network infrastructure means we can focus on bringing our services to the SEO marketplace without having to worry about whether our server is online or not. Best of all, collaborating with Curtis, we hope to be able to partner with Superb to collectively bring our services to the hosting marketplace. We are very excited to have Superb as our hosting partner with its ongoing commitment to the SEO industry.”

Ranksense is owned by Nemedia, SA which is a full-service search engine marketing software firm. The company headquarters is located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - a fact that often meets with some surprise. But it’s true. The Dominican Republic is not just a country famous for harvesting phenomenal baseball players and other talented individuals. It is a nation committed to progress, employing the highest standards of excellence, intelligence, and integrity.

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the very best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. Superb’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, as a part of its commitment to staying ”Ahead of the Rest.” Superb Internet has offices and 24-hour/365-day operations in McLean, VA, Tukwila, WA, and Vancouver, BC, serving customers in over 150 countries worldwide.

For more information about Superb Internet, please visit: www.superbhosting.net.

Herndon, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 1, 2008 - Web hosting and small business applications company, Network Solutions, hosted an annual ”Take a Child to Work Day,” for children of employees to participate in an interactive day with a full schedule of learning based programs.

The event was open to children between the ages of eight and 14. Throughout the day, there were be seven different sessions lasting 45 minutes each, giving children an opportunity to better understand key functions of their parent’s company. The session topics ranged from creating a web page and talking through the interviewing process with the human resource department, to learning how to generate revenue from the Sales team. Other sessions will describe Network Solutions and the e-business industry.

Michele Krisanda, Senior Vice President of Network Solutions Corporate Communications noted, ”Learning more about the workplace can be a valuable experience at any age. We set out to create a fun agenda for our employees’ children and give them an opportunity to learn about Network Solutions and about their parent’s occupation.”

Many Network Solutions employees volunteered to spend a portion of their workday to host the children, which is a true testament to the community and work environment that is encouraged at Network Solutions.

Network Solutions is a provider of e-business solutions and domain name registration service, offering a full range of online services to small and medium enterprises, including web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions draws on more than 29 years of experience to make it simple and affordable for customers to build and manage an online presence through a one-stop web Solutions provider.

For more information about Network Solutions, please visit: www.networksolutions.com.

Bellevue, Washington - (The Hosting News) - April 9, 2008 -
Over 400 hosting industry executives, key decision-makers and leading analysts from around the world, have converged at the Microsoft Hosting Summit 2008.

Designed to explore and assist in developing the future of the hosting industry, the event is an exclusive invitation only event taking place at the Westin Hotel and Conference Center in Bellevue, Washington, through April 10, 2008. Topics include Software plus Service, mobility, small business hosting, and new hosted applications.

Industry leaders will exchange knowledge, share ideas and provide feedback to help shape the future of the SaaS market. All attendees will have the opportunity to join Microsoft hosting team executives to develop the next generation roadmap for hosted services.

The focus of the event this year is on how to assist the hosting business to increase value, while helping partners to identify new channels to increase business reach. The agenda includes a mix of MS execs and industry peers both from the analyst community and hosting providers.

In addition to key speakers from within the walls of Microsoft, the Hosting Summit will feature guest presenter, Erin TenWolde, IDC’s Software as a Service Research Manager. Ms. TenWolde will provide her perspective on the industry and thoughts on what actions hosting providers can do to thrive in this ecosystem.

According to information released by Pascal Walschots, Software+Services and ISV Enablement, Microsoft Communications Sector, one group to be showcased, is the partners from the SaaS Incubation Center program. Since its launch in 2006, the group has slowly expanded to help a significant number of ISVs in the move to a Software as a Service business model, especially on the sales and go-to marketing side of business. The experience has indicated that a fair share of the ISVs are particularly in need of resolving marketing and sales challenges of the new businesses entered.

The event is comprised of speaking sessions that cover important topics impacting the industry today, including software plus services, mobility, and marketing to SMBs. The breakout sessions will be organized into the following four tracks: small business hosting, hosting applications, Microsoft technology insights and ”hot topics” in the industry.

To learn more about Microsoft’s vision of Microsoft’s strategy for the world of S+S, products and programs that can help hosting providers evolve into S+S solution providers, visit: www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/hostingproviders.mspx.

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - October 3, 2007 - The Data Management Institute and Archive Management.org (AMO) have collaborated on a joint initiative to develop a strategic approach for Data Center greening, at the
Storage Decisions conference.

The new resource site is designed for corporate Planners seeking a strategic approach to greening their IT operations.

The Green Data Project is an international online community, resource site and web publication focused on managing electronic data in order to reduce electrical power demands in corporate IT.

Jon William Toigo, Founder of both Data Management Institute and AMO remarked, ”There are many Green initiatives within the industry today, but almost all of them are advancing tactical measures involving hardware technologies rather than strategic approaches focused on archive and data management. Green IT must begin with green data. Otherwise a company’s data center greening initiative amounts to little more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Mr. Toigo contends that servers will shortly be overtaken by storage arrays as the biggest power hogs in the corporate data center. Driving the acquisition of storage capacity, he says, is a general failure of companies to manage their data, which is stored on expansive storage infrastructure.

Citing statistics from extensive storage assessments performed by Sun Microsystems, Mr. Toigo offers that only about 30% of the space on any hard disk is actually hosting business relevant and frequently accessed information. An additional 40% of the data on disk may be important to retain for regulatory or historical reasons, but is so rarely accessed that it could be readily migrated into an archival repository preferably one constructed using near- or off-line media, like tape or optical, that consume little or no electricity. The balance of the capacity of a typical disk drive contains contraband or orphaned data, and wasted space that could be better managed to forestall the need to buy more power hungry data storage capacity.

The Green Data Project argues that throwing more disk arrays to achieve data center power efficiency, or adding the complexities of thin provisioning software, de-duplication software, or compression software, does not constitute a strategic or permanent solution to the twin problems of storage growth and burgeoning power demands.

Mr. Toigo added, ”The hardware vendors are reacting in a predictable way to capitalize on a popular trend: Green IT. They are leveraging concerns about power availability and cost, and the growing eco-consciousness of many firms, to sell more gear. They are joined by many software providers who want to wrap their wares in the green flag when, in fact, they contribute little more than a tactical and short-lived delay in 300% growth in disk storage analysts are expecting over the next three years.”

While there is nothing wrong with technologies like data compression and de-duplication, Toigo contends, it must be clearly understood that the value of these technologies is limited and tactical. They can buy time that companies can put to good use sorting out their storage junk drawers and putting archiving programs in place.

Mr. Toigo explained, ”Intelligent data management and archiving programs are business-savvy strategies that companies should be pursuing today for compliance, for data protection and for data center greening.”

The Green Data Project will advance this perspective through a web community approach. Toigo offers that Green Data Project is the first international collaboration between vendors and consumers and will develop meaningful guidelines and best practices for use by companies that are serious about data center operations greening.

Green Data Project is the first initiative of the recently launched Archive Management.Org and brings together vendor sponsors and technology consumers to expose the root causes of growing data center power demands so they can be addressed effectively. The Green Data Project is a completely free resource, providing easy access to information about archiving best practices and products. Visitors who register will also be able to comment on articles, ask questions and report on their own strategies for data management and archiving.

Early sponsors of the Green Data Project include FileTek (www.filetek.com), Clearview Software (www.clearviewecm.com), QStar Technologies (www.qstar.com), KOM Networks (www.komnetworks.com), Plasmon (www.plasmon.com), Caringo (www.caringo.com), C2C Systems (www.c2c.com), CA (www.ca.com), Data Islandia (www.dataislandia.com), and Zerowait (www.zerowait.com). Toigo Partners International (www.toigopartners.com), the Data Management Institute (www.datainstitute.org) and Archive Management.org (www.archivemgt.org) are co-founders of the initiative. TPI Technologies (www.tpitechnologies.com) is providing web services and technical support for the initiative.

To learn more about The Green Data Project, please visit: www.greendataproject.org.

Houston, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 28, 2007 - Privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, will participate at the SMB Nation 2007 conference, scheduled for Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, 2007, at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, WA.

The Planet will highlight its hosted Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) solution at Booth 17. The Planet’s SBS solution provides small business system integrators with a complete enterprise-class ”IT portfolio-in-a-box” that includes Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup solution.

Carl Meadows, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Solutions of The Planet offered, ”System integrators are trusted advisors for their customers, which makes their role critically important to the SMB communities they serve. We are showcasing our newly announced Microsoft Small Business Server solution at this conference to demonstrate how integrators can rapidly deploy customized hosted solutions for their customers in days - not weeks - using our world-class data centers. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we help IT integrators increase revenues by turning one-time projects into more profitable recurring revenue relationships with more options for e-mail and collaboration.”

SMB Nation 2007 operates one of the largest SMB channel partner-focused conferences. This gathering, which focuses on IT consultants who serve SMB customers, is the annual convention for small business specialists, registered partners, TS2 attendees, resellers, SMB consultants, VARs and VAPs.

In August, The Planet released a new white paper that reflects a more than 50 percent cost savings for customers, that use its hosted Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) solution. Prepared by Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners, the white paper compares hosted solutions with the do-it-yourself, in-house approach over the course of a three-year period. The company plans to deliver the new hosted solution in September.

”The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS Service: An Attractive IT Outsourcing Solution for Small Businesses,” — weighs the cost of an in-house, do-it-yourself approach compared with The Planet’s hosted Microsoft SBS solution. The study evaluates the three-year total cost of ownership based on server costs, software licensing fees, security, lease premiums, dedicated Internet access, utilities and in-house administration. For example, initial results show SMB customers with 20 employees spend approximately $35,600 with The Planet’s hosted SBS solution, while a do-it-yourself approach could average upwards of $87,400.

Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast practice directly assists clients in achieving their strategic objectives by providing critical and objective insights. Stratecast’s industry analysts and market experts provide the communications industry with market consulting and tactical strategic forecasting. This market information and industry research helps senior executives make critical business, technology, product, partnership and tactical strategy decisions. Our custom consulting, analyst availability and market subscriptions provide your firm with winning business growth strategies.

The Planet’s network is designed without single points of failure, which means the network operates with full redundancy for its core routers and distribution switches. The company also offers carrier diversity, with connections to seven Tier-1 telecommunications providers. As a result, customers never face obstacles or suffer from poor peering connections, sub-optimal routing paths, or congested or oversold networks that limit the power, speed and availability of their sites.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

• High level 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 a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium-size businesses and 2.8 million web sites worldwide. By offering servers, software tools and support, backed by its facilities and network connectivity, The Planet endeavors to turn information technology into a competitive advantage, to enable business growth.

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

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - September 18, 2007 - Utility and grid computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc.’s new AppLogic 2.1 release, was developed to add Application Monitoring and Multi-CPU scalability to the commercial platform designed to enable true utility computing for SaaS and Web 2.0 companies.

The availability of the new application, was announced at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, California. The new 2.1 release of the AppLogic grid operating system endeavors to provide greater scalability, improved resource utilization, visibility and control over application performance.

Peter Nickolov, President and COO of 3Tera offered, ”Utility Computing or Cloud Computing is quickly gaining popularity with online service companies. Our latest version provides unprecedented control of applications and virtual private data center management for production environments, allowing Web 2.0 and SaaS companies to grow and self manage their services using only a browser.”

Bert Armijo, VP of Marketing and Product Development at 3Tera added, ”The product we are announcing today has undergone more testing in beta then any previous release of AppLogic. AppLogic 2.1 allows for greater scalability and control of the infrastructure, assuring users of their ability to grow.”

Joost Schreve, Founder and CEO of EveryTrail, Inc. noted, ”We’ve been using the new AppLogic for a month. It had a huge impact on enhancing the manageability of our application, especially for scaling Apache and MySQL. Taking advantage of the monitoring capabilities in the new release helped us easily identify elements that needed more resources. We were able to increase the performance and scale our applications easily.”

3Tera showcased the AppLogic 2.1 release at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA. Office 2.0 is held at the St. Regis Hotel, recently. According to the company, the AppLogic grid operating system is the first commercial platform designed specifically to enable true utility computing. The system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually deploy, operate and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code. At the heart of the system is 3Tera’s disposable infrastructure technology that packages applications with the definition of the infrastructure required to run them into self-contained and portable entities, able to run on any grid anywhere in the world.

As a result, applications become completely separated from the hardware infrastructure traditionally needed to run them, allowing users to remotely manage their applications through a web browser and provision resources as needed. Availability AppLogic 2.1 grid operating system is available for existing customers. Prospective users can find more information at www.3tera.com. Customers can start building grids with just a few servers and can add more resources to the grid as they grow. Basic support, catalog updates and software upgrades are included.

3Tera, Inc. provides grid and utility computing solutions designed to simplify the deployment, operation and scaling of online services. The company’s AppLogic grid operating system was developed to allow web hosting providers to offer true utility computing that enables anyone with a browser and basic IT skills to operate dozens of servers, and hundreds of online applications, without owning and operating hardware infrastructure. 3Tera is a privately-held company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California with R and D facilities in Silicon Valley, Israel and Eastern Europe.

For more information about 3Tera, please visit: www.3tera.com.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - August 28, 2007 - Management software for unified communications and collaborative infrastructure firm, Ensim Corporation’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Francois Depayras, is scheduled to participate at TMC’s Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO West 2007.

Scheduled to take place on September 10th at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, Mr. Depayras will speak on the ”Unified Communications Overview” panel at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO, held September 10-12, 2007, is the world’s largest and best-attended IP Communications trade show. At the last ITEXPO, held January, 2007 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, the show drew over 7,100 buyers and sellers of IP Communications products and services. For the upcoming show in September, TMC projects an attendance of 7,500.

Mr. Depayras remarked, ”Ensim is excited to participate in this program at Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO, and address the topic of unified communications. Unified communications has tremendous benefits to businesses of all sizes. However, it requires a carefully considered strategy to successfully roll out multiple applications and then manage them after deployment. Ensim is delighted to share some of the new technologies and strategies that enable enterprises to take full advantage of what unified communications can deliver.”

Rich Tehrani, President of TMC and conference Chairman added, ”We are very pleased that Francois Depayras will be participating in this year’s show. Ensim is widely recognized and respected as an industry leader, and I am confident that our attendees will appreciate and value the opportunity to hear his perspective on unified communications. Over the past twelve months, widespread deployment of IP Communications services by global service providers, businesses and governments has reinforced that this exciting technology is a viable, cost-effective communications solution. As a result, we are seeing a significant number of senior-level executives attending Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO to learn more about the technology so they can make critical decisions affecting their own business.”

Registration for the show is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or at drodriguez@tmcnet.com.

Recently, Ensim won an Editor’s Choice Award by Hosting Week magazine, for its hosting automation and control panel solution, Ensim Pro X for Windows. Hosting Week, is an all-digital and largest-circulation weekly magazine for web hosting providers, chose Ensim Pro for its ability to let web hosters choose which vendors to use when starting up their own web hosting business as opposed to being limited by a specific vendor’s software applications or packages.

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, Internet Telephony, SIP Magazine, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 3,000 sites in the world by alexa.com, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces Internet Telephony Conference EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is a provider of management software for unified communications and collaboration infrastructure. 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, contact Ensim at 1-877-693-6746 or 1-408-496-3700 outside the United States.

For more information about TMC, please visit: www.tmcnet.com.

To learn more about the event, please visit: www.itexpo.com.

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

Centennial, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - August 16, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, will host its inaugural viaVerio Partner Summit at The Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada, scheduled to take place from September 20-21, 2007.

The theme of the two day conference, ”Welcome to the Services Evolution,” will address how solution provider partners can leverage online business enablement services for their customers, as well as for their own businesses. Attendees will be offered unparalleled exposure to top industry practitioners and thought leaders, and granted exclusive previews of key product developments and initiatives. Verio’s Partner Summit will take place immediately following Tier1 Research’s 2007 Hosting Transformation Summit, laying the foundation for industry trends and predictions.

At the first annual viaVerio Partner Summit, it is anticipated that solution provider attendees will gain unique perspectives on the latest online business trends from industry leaders. The event will also feature viaVerio partners who will discuss and share their individual paths to success. In addition, Verio will feature 16 unique breakout sessions across four different tracks to arm attendees with practical, actionable information that can be used to create and drive personal company roadmaps. Not to mention white-boarding sessions where attendee’s get to lead and participate in discussions with their peers.

Event keynote speakers include Jeff Kaplan, founder and managing director of strategic consulting firm THINKstrategies, who will speak to solution provider attendees on the progression of their businesses from providing web hosting to the business services that are increasingly required by their customers. Philbert Shih, research analyst with Tier1 Research will broach the topic of the evolution of the hosting industry to a business solutions model.

Additionally, Verio executives Kiyoshi Maeda, President and Chief Executive Officer; Dennis Boyle, Chief Operating Officer; Toshiyuki Yamasaki, Vice President of Products; and James Ciampaglio, Senior Director of the viaVerio Partner Program, will all address Summit attendees on various topics. For more information about the viaVerio Partner Summit, please visit: www.viaverio.com/index.cfm?page_id=829.

Recently, Verio improved the site structure of its viaVerio partner destination, viaVerio.com, to include greater community interaction and navigation, in response to the desires expressed by existing partners. The viaVerio partner program gives exclusive access to a variety of higher value online business services targeting the SMB market, including web hosting on a shared, virtual or managed dedicated server platform, online business services and applications, and e-commerce solutions. In addition, viaVerio partners receive volume discounts, private label opportunities, and technical sales and marketing support.

After several months of direct interviews with viaVerio partners, Verio garnered extensive qualitative and quantitative market research to help identify partners’ top needs related to the portal, and gather requests for future improvements. The resulting site delivers a product with simplified navigation and an expanded resource section, with private-label and co-brandable marketing and sales support materials, including whitepapers and sales sheets. Tutorials are more prominently displayed, and the site allows for increased online interaction among the partner community.

The new site addresses all solution provider audiences, ranging from those with little to no technical experience to tenured partners with advanced technical backgrounds and industry specific requirements. Verio will continue to expand on the viaVerio.com portal in future updates and enhancements.

Existing partners can benefit from the new password-protected area of viaVerio.com, which contains an array of resources including white-labeled PDFs and marketing materials that partners can procure and use with their own customers, helpful webinars and tutorials, as well as the latest discount information. Other features include RSS capabilities that enable existing partners to signup for customized RSS feeds alerting them when content has been updated on viaVerio.com. Partners can also take advantage of the RSS feeds to receive XML updates for use in updating their own sites. For example, when Verio updates new products, partners can copy the XML feeds and then upload and apply them to their own site’s product information.

Verio Inc. is a provider of hosting and managed services for small and midmarket companies and partners worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT America, US subsidiary of NTT Communications, which provides complementary global network access reaching over 200 countries worldwide. The company offers businesses a range of Internet services, including web hosting, managed services and value-added professional service offerings. Verio supports its operations with scalable global infrastructure and systems including the NTT Communications Global IP Network, and provides business solutions to customers and partners in more than 146 countries.

To learn more about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

Chicago, Illinois - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - July 30, 2007 - Web hosting and managed technology services company, Hostway Corporation,
recently exhibited at the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit 07, in Washington, D.C.

Attendees learned about Hostway’s private label hosting offering, as a fully integrated platform of basic and enhanced web services, including: web site design and hosting, email, ecommerce, online backup and storage, merchant services, hosted Microsoft Exchange, CRM and Microsoft SharePoint.

Billed as the ”Power to the People” event, the summit celebrated a seismic change in business and culture, in the digital revolution, focused on the democratization of media, and how cable can empower customers and viewers through innovative technologies, trusted services, and inspired content. Some of the speakers included:
Bernadette Aulestia,
SVP, Affiliate Marketing and Product Management,
HBO; Bob G. Benya, SVP VOD,
Time Warner Cable; George Bodenheimer, President, ESPN, Inc. and ABC Sports,
Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks
ESPN, Inc.; Francoise Bourdonnec,
Director, Domestic Designs and Technologies Research,
Intel Corporation; and Justin Connolly, SVP National Accounts, Disney and ESPN Media Networks.

CTAM, the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing, is dedicated to helping the cable business grow. As a non-profit professional association, CTAM provides marketing education and networking opportunities to more than 5,500 members, through conferences, consumer research, publications network of regional chapters, and the CTAM Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School. CTAM also facilitates unified, national cooperative marketing efforts on behalf of its corporate members,such as the Cable Movers Hotline, Business Services Initiative, On Demand Consortium.

Hostway has been recognized as a leading web hosting provider by online hosting resources. TopHosts has ranked Hostway as the number one hosting provider from 2000-2006. Hostway has also been rated the number one E-commerce Hosting Provider by Web Host Directory, the most reliable web hosting provider web site by Netcraft and the best web hosting company by HostReview. Hostway Corporation provides domain registration, web hosting, web design and online marketing services to more than 400,000 customers worldwide. Hostway helps individuals, small businesses and large enterprises achieve more value from web-based technologies by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the five largest web hosting companies in the world with offices in North America (Chicago (HQ), Austin, Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (Belgium, France, Frankfurt, Hannover, London and Netherlands), Asia (Korea) and Australia (Sydney).

To learn more about
CTAM, the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing, please visit: www.ctam.com.

For more information about Hostway Corporation, please visit: www.hostway.com.

Romoland, California - (The Hosting News) - July 9, 2007 - Environmentally friendly, solar-powered web hosting company, AISO.Net, was recently chosen by producers to host the Live Earth web site. In addition, the company custom designed a dedicated, reliable solution to power the web site, using energy efficient IBM BladeCenter servers, with Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors.

Live Earth was a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series that occurred on July 7, 2007 to combat climate change. The Live Earth partnership enabled AISO to join Live Earth in inspiring over two billion people worldwide to take simple steps to lead a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

Phil Nail, Technology Manager for AISO.Net remarked, ”AISO is proud to support Live Earth, a groundbreaking event to support a vital cause. We are doing everything we can do to be totally responsible and being the industry leader in environmental web hosting. We are very excited about Live Earth choosing AISO to host their Web site, showing the world that AISO.Net truly cares about our environment.”

Live Earth has recognized that AISO is the only truly green web hosting company and 100 percent solar powered data center that does not use green energy credits, proving their commitment to be the best, most reliable eco-friendly hosting company in the world. |

Live Earth’s web site is served from IBM BladeCenter servers with AMD Opteron processors. Blade computers - which integrate servers, storage, networking and applications into one system - offer a design point that helps reduce the proliferation of server ”farms,” large IT staffs to manage them and wasted energy resources. Companies like AISO.Net benefit from reduced power, cooling, and management costs by deploying the industry’s leading blade servers from IBM.

Mr. Nail continued, ”AISO.Net chose IBM and AMD over the other major vendors because of success with IBM’s hardware, the open and highly-available design of BladeCenter and excellent customer service. We can run the Live Earth web site on IBM BladeCenter and get great performance without having the power draw we would have had with rack servers.”

To better support the goals of Live Earth as well as its own company, AISO.Net is making additional green enhancements to its datacenter. AISO is installing new carpeting made from recycled content, replacing all of its Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs with LED lighting, repainting the building using only LEED certified paint and installing an underground grey water tank that will provide for outdoor landscaping.

Larry Vertal, Senior Strategist at AMD added, ”Our technology partnership with IBM and collaboration with customers like AISO.Net is helping AMD honor our commitment to lead the world to energy-efficient processing. The industry-leading performance-per-watt capabilities of the AMD Opteron processor running the energy-efficient IBM BladeCenter servers will help enable AISO.Net to efficiently power Live Earth’s web site while minimizing their own power and cooling requirements.”

Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2 billion people on July 7, 2007 to combat the climate crisis. Live Earth will stage official concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg, and will feature a mix of both legendary music acts like The Police, Genesis, Bon Jovi and Madonna with the latest headliners like Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas, Jack Johnson and more. Live Earth’s 24 hours of music across seven continents will deliver a worldwide call to action and the solutions necessary to answer that call. Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign to drive individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis. Live Earth is partnering with the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group, Stop Climate Chaos and other international organizations in this ongoing effort. Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall, the CEO of Control Room, the company producing the events globally, and is supported by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

AISO.Net is an environmentally friendly web hosting firm, with a solar powered data center that does not use green energy credits. According to the company, using solar panels to power its data center and network, AISO.Net is the first and only 100% completely solar powered web hosting company, and will become the first and only public data center in North America to add a green roof to its facility. Customers include those as far away as Kenya, East Africa. Since 1997, AISO has offered network and server hardware that is fully redundant with 24×7-automated systems monitoring.

For more information about Live Earth, please visit: www.liveearth.org.

To learn more about AISO.Net, please visit: www.aiso.net.

Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - June 21, 2007 - High-speed Internet, data, video and voice services firm, Qwest Communications International Inc.’s Executive Vice President, Dan Yost, presented a keynote address at the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) Communications Forums, sponsored by the NXTcomm 2007 event in Chicago.

The IEC presented its communications forums offering comprehensive educational programs at NXTcomm at Chicago’s McCormick Place, featuring service providers such as AT and T, BT Group, and Verizon. John Janowiak, President of IEC remarked, ”As always, we expect great opportunities for industry professionals to network, exchange information, generate business and learn from one another.”

The IEC Communications Forums presented at NXTcomm offered an educational program covering the changing communications environment. Focusing on IP infrastructure, the one-day program will present many applications, including wireless and wireline for service providers and enterprise users.

Topics featured included:

• Web hosting and outsourcing
• IPTV and ROADM
• Convergence and opening up IP networks to end users
• Optical networks, convergence and security
• ”Connected Space” debate
• IMS - challenges and lessons learned
• WiMAX Mesh and open networks

Mr. Janowiak continued, ”Keynoter Mr. Dan Yost owns 30 years of telecommunications experience. Attendees will definitely gain from his insight and expert understanding of the field.”

Other firms led discussions on issues surrounding network transformations, services and content evolution and managing the business. Mr. Yost is responsible for the product development and management of Qwest’s voice, data, and IP portfolio, including the development of new services and the deployment of VoIP. With more than 30 years of telecommunications experience, he joined Qwest from Allegiance Telecom, Inc., a facilities-based national local-exchange carrier, where he served as the company’s president and chief operating officer. While at Allegiance, Mr. Yost managed the company’s day-to-day operations, which included the delivery of local and long-distance communications, international calling, high-speed data transmission, and Internet services.

Qwest CyberCenters were developed for businesses seeking hosting solutions to manage and protect all critical data and systems. Businesses are hoped to maximize efficiencies and realize significant cost savings, by outsourcing hosting and application services. Qwest CyberCenters provide expert support for customers to conduct e-commerce, operate complex web sites, and manage entire IT environments including enterprise applications, databases and data storage.

Qwest offers a spectrum of CyberCentersolutions including colocation, operating systems, application and database monitoring and management, storage management and business protection services. The facilities offer 24-hour-a-day staffing, indoor and outdoor security monitoring and biometric access screening. CyberCenters are equipped to withstand disastrous conditions and protect customer systems and equipment with top-of-the-line fire-detection and fire-suppression systems. In addition, customers receive reliable connectivity to Qwest’s extensive, coast-to-coast network backbone.

Qwest CyberCenter facilities house more than three million feet of data cable and fiber optics, providing the extensive infrastructure features necessary to maintain a customer’s environment. Cooling towers, water pumps and chillers provide enough cooling capacity to air-condition the equivalent of approximately 1,820 private homes. With 19.5 mega-watts of emergency power to ensure network operations, Qwest CyberCenters generate enough power for approximately 5,000 households.

The 14 Qwest CyberCenters are located in 11 metropolitan areas, including Burbank, Calif.; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Minneapolis; Newark, N.J.; Sacramento, Calif.; Seattle; Sterling, Va.; Sunnyvale, Calif.; and Tampa, Fla. Qwest was voted ”Hosting Center of the Year” in an InfoWorld reader’s choice survey and was also ranked number one for providing application services in a recent America’s Network end-user survey. Business customers also ranked Qwest a top data provider in a recent issue of Spokane Business Catalyst magazine resulting in an award in the ”Best Web Hosting Business” category.

To learn more about NXTcomm, please visit: www.nxtcommshow.com.

For more information about Qwest, please visit: www.qwest.com.

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - June 14, 2007 - NTT Communications Corporation subsidiary, NTT America, recently served as a gold level sponsor of the Streaming Media - East Conference industry event for streaming content and media over the Internet, in New York City, at the New York Hilton Hotel.

In addition, senior executives, product managers and engineers from NTT Communications Group provided attendees with demonstrations of the company’s Smart Content Delivery (SCD) product, which delivers web content and transaction processing. The company showcased its work with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), which utilizes the SCD platform to stream live football matches over the Internet.

The SCD solution is designed to ensure customers’ consistent performance by leveraging NTT Communications Global IP Network, a highly reliable Tier 1 global Internet Backbone with the largest US-Japan connectivity. The service uses global load balancing and reserve-proxy caching to ensure faster download times, faster connections, steady video streams and reliable managed services.

Now in its 10th year, Streaming Media East covers both the business of video on the Internet and the technology of streaming, downloading, IPTV and mobile video delivery, covering both b2b and b2c business and technology issues in the enterprise, advertising, media and entertainment, broadcast and education markets.
Show hightlights included:

Attendance by more than 3,000 executives last year
More than 100 speakers from the media, broadcast, enterprise and education markets
Over 50 exhibitors featuring hands-on-demos with the latest digital media audio and video technology
Keynotes from the leading digital media business executives

Last year’s speakers included: Microsoft, TiVo, AOL, Sling Media, Accenture, ABC, CNET, Yahoo!, The Los Angeles Times, Adobe, BET, Brightcove, Avenue A / Razorfish, DoubleClick, Wachovia, 24/7 Real Media, Advertising.com, Pointroll, Google, Motionbox, Revver, Current TV, NBBC, CBS, Fox Interactive, Gallaudet University, Comcast, Target, Universal McCann, Akamai, MSN, University of California, Napster, MobiTV, University of Texas, Palm, The Associated Press, MovieBeam, and Limelight Networks, among other entities.

Business executives discussed the latest issues including Online Video Advertising, Successful Models for Consumer-Based Content, The Future for Portable Wireless Content, IPTV and Video On-Demand Cable Services, Broadband Video Advertising, The Business of Podcasting And Video Blogging, Using Video For Viral Marketing to Teenagers, and Rich Media and The Road to Convergence, plus others.

Technology executives focused on sessions such as: Selecting the Right Hardware Software For Webcasting, IP-Based Conferencing and Collaborative Applications, Protecting Digital Assets, Choosing the Best Video Codec, Using Streaming and Videoconferencing In Healthcare, Unique Challenges to Enterprise Streaming, Tools And Strategies For Content Creation and Encoding, IPTV Deployment, Best Practices For Windows Media Video Encoding, and Creating Content with Macromedia Flash Video, concerning the latest technical challenges and solutions.

NTT America provides world-class Enterprise Hosting, managed network, and IP networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide. NTT America is a gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, with strong capabilities in the US market. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).

To learn more about the SCD product, please visit: http://us.ntt.net/products/managed/content_delivery_network.cfm.

For more information about the event, please visit: www.streamingmedia.com/east.

To learn more about NTT America, please visit: www.nttamerica.com.

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