Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - January 22, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has debuted the launch of its savings promotion for new server orders, whereby customers are eligible for a variety of server performance and backup upgrades, at no additional cost.

Each new server order includes free setup, valued at $25; two free Rapid SSL Certificates; and 2GB of free DiskSync backup, are being offered through March 31, 2008 — or while limited promotional supplies last. For servers priced at more than $200 per month, the special also includes an additional 8GB of DiskSync backup and free control panel software from a broad array of industry-leading vendors, including cPanel, Plesk, Helm and Ensim.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management with The Planet noted, ”This new promotion provides customers with affordable access to features that ensure their site traffic and data are always secure. The promotion is available on our industry-leading breadth of servers, which are priced from as little as $69 per month to more than $1,000 per month, so customers reap cost-saving benefits while choosing servers to meet their performance requirements.”

In addition, through Jan. 28, 2008, the Celeron 2.4 is available at $92 per month, a cost savings of 16%. In addition, the company now offers the Dual Xeon 2.4 priced at $143 per month, a savings of 32%. The offer is good while limited supplies last.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors 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 a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting over 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 3.1 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by enhanced facilities and network connectivity.

To learn more about the sale, please visit: www.theplanet.com/free-for-all.

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

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - (The Hosting News) - January 7, 2008 - Web hosting company specializing in small and medium business support, Hostopia, has developed and launched the release of its newest wireless mobility data synchronization application, SyncJe for Palm OS.

Developed by Nexthaus, Hostopia’s wireless mobility technology unit, the Palm OS client further extends Nexthaus’s line of SyncSuite applications that include SyncJe for Blackberry, iPhone, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Lotus Notes. SyncJe for Palm OS allows users to wirelessly synchronize data between their Palm OS devices, desktop or mobile computers, and Internet applications such as web-based email.

The application installs directly onto Palm OS devices, enabling centrally stored Personal Information Management (PIM) data to be exchanged wirelessly. Users can ‘’sync” contacts, calendars, notes and tasks free from any device cradles or wires and can even set an automatic synchronization scheduler. SyncJe is compatible with any SyncML server and comes with one year of maintenance and support.

Paul D. Engels, Chief Marketing Officer at Hostopia remarked, ”Businesses and consumers are increasingly demanding greater functionality and productivity from their email services and mobility devices. SyncJe for Palm OS helps link otherwise unconnected devices with the ease and power of wireless connectivity. Critical data to every user such as contacts and calendar entries can now update wherever you are, in real time.”

Hostopia will market the new service through three channels: direct retail at http://www.nexthaus.com, through Hostopia’s wholesale channel of leading global telecommunication and mobility service providers, and an all-new channel for Hostopia, Nexthaus Resellers. The introduction of the Nexthaus Reseller Program allows VARs, systems integrators and telecommunication/mobility services professionals to directly market SyncJe software from their websites and receive referral commissions from Nexthaus.

All Nexthaus Resellers get secure access to a reseller program administration interface allowing them to track their sales and program earnings. SyncJe products can be purchased individually for $29.95, or bundled with SyncJe for Outlook, for $59.95.

Dirk Bhagat, Chief Technology Officer at Hostopia added, ”SyncJe for Palm OS adds another significant component to our comprehensive line-up of data synchronization applications: Nexthaus SyncSuite. Full compatibility with Oracle’s Collaboration Suite has made these client applications very attractive to large enterprises. We believe that the ability to fully sync one’s PIM data across multiple devices and platforms at a low client software price represents compelling value to business people, or consumers, looking to get more from their mobility device. Combined with our other SyncJe clients for Blackberry, iPhone, and Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express, we believe we now cover the most popular devices and email clients on the market.”

Hostopia is a provider of web services that enable small and medium-sized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. The company’s customers are communication services providers, including telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting service providers. Hostopia’s customers purchase web services on a wholesale basis and resell these services under their own brands to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company provides customers with the technology, infrastructure, and support services to enable them to offer web services, while saving them research and development as well as capital and operating costs typically associated with the design, development, and delivery of web services. Nexthaus, Hostopia’s wireless mobility technology unit, is a global leader in data and device synchronization and has developed industry-recognized SyncML solutions that feature wireless interoperability between PC’s, handheld devices and mobile phones.

For more information about Nexthaus, please visit: www.nexthaus.com.

To learn more about Hostopia, please visit: www.hostopia.com.

Aliso Viejo, California - (The Hosting News) - November 9, 2007 - Utility and grid computing solutions firm, 3Tera, Inc., has released the alpha version of a new concept in data center operations. Dynamic Appliances was developed to extend the firm’s simplification mandate of operations, so that elements can be configured for self-management.

Dynamic Appliances are packaged data center operations like backup, migration or SLAs that users can add to their applications to provide functionality. Unlike traditional data center management systems that require months to deploy and numerous system administrators to maintain, Dynamic Appliances allow data center operations to be easily and directly embedded into distributed applications simply by dragging and dropping them into the application, where the decision rules for operation are simplest to define and maintain. The application thereby gains the ability to perform that operation for itself, even when moved to another data center.

Peter Nickolov, President and CTO, 3Tera noted, ”Dynamic Appliances make complex data center operations like backups, SLAs, disaster recovery, that till now were performed only for mission critical applications, available and affordable to all applications. Because they are so easy to adopt and maintain by any AppLogic user, Dynamic Appliances provide a very efficient way to cut time consuming and expensive operations for many Web 2.0 or SaaS providers.”

Dynamic Appliances work by leveraging the ability of 3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system to package distributed applications into manageable entities. For instance, the Backup Dynamic Appliance, which is used to backup an application to an offsite service, doesn’t require configuration with lists of files or firewall rules because it can simply issue commands to AppLogic to perform operations on entire distributed applications.

Bert Armijo, Senior Vice President, Sales and Product Management, 3Tera offered, ”One of the biggest advantages of utility computing is the reduction in labor required to deploy, maintain and scale applications. To accomplish this, we focus on driving manageability down into the applications, making them self-manageable. This is a very powerful way to deal with operations, because at the application level, most management issues are small and can be handled with just a few properties.”

3Tera’s Dynamic Appliances are now available as alpha release to all AppLogic users at no additional cost. Initially Backup and Migration Dynamic Appliances be available. The SLA, Disaster Recovery, Patch Management and Power Saver appliances will be rolled out during the alpha. Prospective users can find more information at www.3tera.com/dynamic-appliances.html.

Earlier this year, 3Tera’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.

3Tera, Inc. is a grid and utility computing firm for the deployment and scaling of web applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by NetworkWorld magazine, 3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system enables the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. The operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate deploy and scale transactional web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers may obtain new online services, to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning using only a browser.

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

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - June 19, 2007 - Webhosting company, and subsidiary of United Internet, 1 and 1 Internet, has implemented SWsoft’s new Application Packaging Standard (APS), designed to enable software vendors to integrate applications into hosting environments, to deliver software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.

1 and 1 assisted SWsoft with the design requirements for hosting providers, and is the first service provider to implement support for the APS standard in its Click-n-Build web hosting platform. SWsoft introduced the APS standard to the software development community in March. The standard will help hosting providers take advantage of SaaS and offer customers a greater variety of services. It will also help open the hosting channel for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) by allowing them to deliver hosted applications to more end users.

SWsoft also announced an APS certification program for ISVs and will soon be announcing a certification program for hosting providers. By advancing a certification program and an APS-compliant hosting platform, SWsoft and 1 and 1 hope to grow the emerging market for hosted SaaS applications. Industry analyst IDC predicts SaaS software revenues will reach $10.7 billion by 2009. (a)

Andreas Gauger, Chairman of the Board, 1 and 1 Internet Inc. remarked, ”APS will provide a sizeable new business opportunity for 1 and 1 and for the entire web hosting and software industries worldwide. The standard is open to everyone and will provide exciting new sales channels for hosting providers as well as other Internet service providers (ISPs). Our customers and ISVs will benefit from the expected growth of new APS-compliant applications.”

The APS standard defines a packaging format that provides software vendors with a specification to create ”pluggable” applications that require no additional integration by service providers utilizing an APS-compliant control panel, such as 1 and 1 Click-n-Build, SWsoft Plesk and SWsoft PEM.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft commented, ”Hosting providers are an ideal delivery channel for SaaS with ISVs as another essential ingredient. We developed an open, flexible, easy to implement standard to help advance the adoption of SaaS solutions for the benefit of end users.”

The APS certification program provides ISVs with basic and advanced certification criteria. The program offers two levels of certification: ”Silver” (works with APS) and ”Gold” (designed for APS).

1 and 1 is offering Click-n-Build — a certified APS control panel — bundled with its U.S. web hosting packages. APS platforms from 1 and 1 will be available in Europe in the second half of 2007. APS is available for free at www.apsstandard.com.

The APS standard will be supported in upcoming releases of SWsoft Plesk control panel, as well as SWsoft PEM data center automation software.

1 and 1 Internet’s global community includes 5.87 million users. 1 and 1 features an array of services, from instant domain packages to all-inclusive shared hosting plans, dedicated servers and ready-to-run eShops. Combining over 37,000 fully-tuned servers with the performance of Juniper and Cisco routers, 1 and 1 endeavors to utilize the most superior products from the leading technology manufacturers and service providers. 1 and 1 is a Microsoft Joint Development Partner, and works with other paramount companies such as Google, Plesk, Symantec, and HP/Compaq.

SWsoft’s automation software lineup has expanded, with new product introductions, extending the company’s data center automation presence. PEM, the company’s data center automation solution for service providers added support for Blackberry and Good Technologies that gives service providers the ability to offer hosted e-mail solutions to their customers. Also, the company partnered with MIVA Small Business Solutions, Inc. to deliver easy e-commerce capabilities as part of the SWsoft Plesk control panel solution for service providers.

Founded in 1999, SWsoft is a recognized leader in server automation and virtualization software. With more than 10,000 customers in over 100 countries, SWsoft’s suite of products delivers proven performance, reliability, manageability and value. With offices around the world; SWsoft is a high growth company, funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners and Intel Capital, offering comprehensive solutions – transparently integrated through the OPEN FUSION Initiative - including Virtuozzo, Plesk, SiteBuilder, HSPcomplete and PEM.

For more information about the certification program and a complete list of certified applications, please visit: www.apsstandard.com.

To learn more about SWsoft, please visit: www.swsoft.com.

For more information about 1 and 1 Internet, please visit: www.1and1.com.

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Crystal Lake, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - June 8, 2007 - Professionals in the hosted services industry are preparing to gather at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois, for HostingCon 2007, scheduled for July 23-25, 2007. HostingCon 2007 is the only conference and tradeshow focused on the hosted services industry.

As companies and individuals continue to expand their use of hosted services and software as a service, hosted services providers have new opportunities to provide valuable services to their customers. HostingCon 2007 will feature three keynotes that will expose the trends in the industry, what successful providers are doing to succeed, and next generation technologies making an impact on hosted services. In addition, a full three days of conference sessions will allow hosting professionals to expand their knowledge in the areas of marketing, growing their business, related technologies, leader case studies, and more.

George A. Roberts IV, the Executive Director of HostingCon remarked, ”I’m really looking forward to the keynote addresses this year. Monday’s keynote by Richard Rosenblatt will offer an exciting view into domain registration and user generated content. Tuesday’s keynote panel will bring together control panel vendor representatives and hosting industry players to discuss the future of service enablement. The keynote on Wednesday will feature a new format for us: several short presentations of new technologies that are impacting the hosting industry, including presentations from Amazon Web Services, Cleversafe, and Kontiki.”

The HostingCon 2007 exhibit hall will be larger than ever, with over 70 vendors displaying products and services related to the hosted services industry. With exciting demonstrations and activities, attendees can network with the top vendors in the industry.

Evenings will be filled with fun and excitement at HostingCon 2007. Monday evening will feature a networking reception in the Lakeview Terrace at Navy Pier, an excellent opportunity to mingle with the movers and shakers in the industry. Wednesday evening will feature a rooftop barbecue with music, drinks and great food. Following the barbecue there will be an awesome fireworks display over Navy Pier. In addition to the official networking events there will be several vendor-sponsored parties for attendees to enjoy.

Early registration discounts to attend HostingCon 2007 are available through Friday, June 15, 2007. Discounted hotel rooms at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers and the W Lakeshore are available until June 29, 2007.

HostingCon is the definitive conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. HostingCon 2007 will be held July 23-25, 2007 at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted services professionals around the world gather to learn more about the industry, network with their peers and vendors, and help grow their business. HostingCon is produced by Interjuncture Corp., a Crystal Lake, Illinois-based technology conference and tradeshow producer.

To learn more about HostingCon 2007, please visit: www.hostingcon.com.

Hannover, Germany - (The Hosting News) - June 4, 2007 - Network server solution firm, HELIOS Software GmbH, has developed a simplified Linux distribution for Sony PLAYSTATION 3, with its Yellow Dog Linux v5.0, utilizing the IBM 64-bit 3.2 GHz Cell processor.

HELIOS is a developer of cross-platform networking, PDF, and image server solutions for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and web clients. Under a basic agreement with Terra Soft Solutions, a free download of its modified Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) distribution optimized to use Sony’s PlayStation 3 as a test-drive server. The PS3 GameOS offers entertainment features such as video games, movies, and photos, and HELIOS’ simplified Yellow Dog Linux adds a powerful server OS. Together they endeavor to provide a unique combination of entertainment and server system. HELIOS Software has prepared a stripped down version of Yellow Dog Linux for the purpose of providing a lightweight, low overhead server environment on the PS3, while offering a test-drive platform for its file, print, PDF and image server software.

The HELIOS simplified YDL distribution comes on a CD disk image that installs in less than 6 minutes, and provides a high performance Linux server OS complete with DHCP network settings, support for Java 1.5 and AppleTalk enhanced kernel.

Helmut Tschemernjak, CEO and President of HELIOS Software remarked, ”Our Linux distribution for PS3 is another milestone in our support for the Open Source Community. And bringing our software to the PS3 underlines in the most obvious way, that HELIOS Software runs everywhere: Beginning with UNIX and Intel Linux to Mac OS X, Windows, and now the PS3 Entertainment Center.”

Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the developer of Yellow Dog Linux added, ”I am pleased HELIOS chose to bring its enterprise client server solutions to the PS3 running Yellow Dog Linux. With HELIOS’ modified Yellow Dog Linux distribution it is simple to use the PS3 as an efficient light duty server.”

The PS3 uses a 64-bit Cell processor which runs at 3.2 GHz, is PowerPC (PPC) compatible with 256 MB of main memory, and has performance comparable to a G5 single CPU. The PS3 comes with the NVIDIA RSX Graphics Processing Unit, has a 60 GB 2.5″ swappable serial ATA disk and offers WLAN and Gigabit Ethernet for network connectivity. Terra Soft’s Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 is binary compatible with its release for the former Apple PowerPC product line and concurrent support for the Mercury Cell products and IBM Cell and pSeries servers.

Advantages of the HELIOS PS3 Linux installation include:

• Free download from HELIOS web site
• Easy installation, ready to run in a few minutes
• Excellent Linux on PS3 documentation from HELIOS
• Dedicated server operating system with optimized performance (40% more memory available)
• Java 1.5 runtime is pre-installed
• Easy maintenance shell from CD
• HELIOS services are pre-installed as a test-drive

HELIOS UB Unbreakable Server Solutions deliver mission critical server solutions to enterprise, government, university, and prepress sites. WebShare, EtherShare, and PCShare provide integrated cross-platform networking for Mac, Windows and Web clients, with advanced file and print server services, and easy remote server administration. HELIOS ImageServer, PDF HandShake and PrintPreview bring high efficiency and advanced capabilities to design, prepress and printing operations. HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, and Windows systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Mac, Windows, web and UNIX-based clients. Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third party archive, asset management and workflow solutions.

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

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 24, 2007 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, has launched an Application Programmer Interface (API) add-on for its line of backup restore and disaster recovery products.

The add-on, which can be used with all R1Soft products, is based on XML-RPC standards, and is supported by most major programming languages, including Perl, Java, PHP, C/C++, and Python. R1Soft has been developing the API for the past year.

Developers can use the API to create automated processes, such as automatic billing and provisioning of Continuous Data Protection services for dedicated servers or shared hosting. It also allows for the management of quotas, users, and hosts in any hosting environment. The API additionally enables developers to integrate R1Soft products into existing billing and provisioning applications or interfaces.

David Wartell, Founder and CEO of R1Soft remarked, ”Our API vastly increases the scalability and flexibility of our software. Developers can now easily capitalize on the enormous built-in data protection feature set that is available in all of our products. The API is completely documented and we even provide easy to follow and fully functional example programs written in Perl that use the API.”

The API introduces extensive capabilities for resellers, who can use the API to provide Continuous Data Protection to clients as an optional extra service.

Mr. Wartell continued, ”The possibilities are endless. We are effectively opening up our platform to developers, who we are confident will utilize the capabilities of CDP to their fullest.”

Included in the API package is an easy to use Linux command line interface to basic functions on the CDP Server.

Righteous Software currently produces Continuous Data Protection solutions designed for data centers, web hosting providers, and other firms using Linux servers. Founded in 2003, Righteous Software is a provider of disk-based backup solutions, with low cost, scalable and integrated products, featuring products designed to integrate with Linux-based systems.

To learn more about the API and Linux command line interface, please visit: http://download.r1soft.com.

For more information about R1Soft, please visit: www.r1soft.com.

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - May 22, 2007 - Web host and national provider of integrated voice and data communications firm, Covad Communications Group, Inc., has unveiled its new Bonded T1 Service for Small Businesses and Distributed Enterprises, including mission critical bandwidth and advanced applications.

The new service combines two 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps) T1 lines together to serve businesses with fast, symmetrical 3.0 Mbps data speeds. The service is available nationwide throughout the same footprint as Covad’s standard T1 service.

Eric Weiss, Covad Chief Marketing Officer remarked, ”With the launch of Bonded T1, Covad enhances its ability to provide mission critical bandwidth to meet the demands of businesses running new and advanced applications. With Bonded T1, Covad customers enjoy lower costs, faster data speeds, and simpler installation and maintenance than they do with separate T1 lines. We also provide 24×7, dedicated support to ensure a superior customer experience.”

Atlanta-based Post Properties is a current Covad T1 customer requiring more bandwidth to conduct its business. Bill Nesmith, IT Manager for Post Properties commented, ”We have been a Covad customer for six years and wanted to augment our T1 service in order to run more complex applications. These applications support essential business functions, such as: forecasting and budgeting, accounts payable, lease tracking, and running virtual tours of properties over our website. We are upgrading our service to Bonded T1 and look forward to continuing our relationship with Covad.”

In addition to providing increased bandwidth performance, Covad Bonded T1 also offers small businesses the opportunity to save money by reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their data communications. For example, a typical small business customer with 40 employees working in a single location can reduce its TCO by over 20 percent by purchasing a Covad Bonded T1 instead of just adding another single T1. With the introduction of Bonded T1, Covad also continues to be the easy to do business with provider, enabling customers to reduce administrative and technical expenses, and retain a simple infrastructure with one set of IP addresses, one Internet access point, and one network firewall.

Companies are increasingly turning to higher bandwidth services to meet their business needs, according to industry research firm In-Stat. Covad’s launch of Bonded T1 demonstrates its understanding of the evolving needs of the small business communications market, where the company is among the leaders in competitive solutions, said David Lemelin, In-Stat senior analyst. The trends behind this adoption include:

• Applications increasingly require higher bandwidth. These include: videoconferencing, e-learning, telemedicine, corporate intranet/extranet, premium CRM, and others. These more powerful mission-critical applications help businesses make fast intelligent decisions on virtually every aspect of their operations, including forecasting, manufacturing, inventory control, distribution, customer service, and more.
• More applications are being centralized with the growth of software as a service. Remote and branch offices need bandwidth to ensure adequate application performance to maintain productivity.
• More applications are being designed for web access and encrypted to reduce client software support cost. The web browser is now the standardized interface to a new generation of business applications. Browser based applications can utilize up to 5 times the bandwidth of typical client-server applications. More encryption is adding traffic overhead.
• Outsourcing (i.e. data storage, HR, IT support) via the Internet.
• Compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and Basel II increases the amount and rate of data transfers.

Covad’s Bonded T1 is made possible through recent upgrades to Covad’s next-generation broadband network and is available through Covad and its network of distribution partners. Call 1-888-GO-COVAD or contact your Covad channel partner to take advantage of introductory pricing on Bonded T1 services.

A nationwide provider of integrated voice and data communications, Covad offers DSL, Voice Over IP, T1, web hosting, managed security, IP and dial-up, wireless broadband, and bundled voice and data services directly through Covad’s network and through Internet Service Providers, value-added resellers, telecommunications carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized businesses and home users. According to the company, as the first company to commercially deploy DSL in the United States, Covad has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a network that passes more than 57 million homes and businesses in 44 states - the largest nationwide footprint of any DSL company. Covad broadband services are currently available across the nation in 235 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) which represent over 50 percent of all US homes and businesses. Corporate headquarters is located at 110 Rio Robles, San Jose, California 95134. Telephone: 1-888-GO-COVAD.

For more information about Covad Wireless services, please visit: www.covadwireless.com.

To learn more Covad, please visit: www.covad.com.

Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 22, 2007 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River, has been selected to power the global operations for the PTC Product Development Company, through management of its online sales.

In addition, Digital River will handle the delivery of several PTC product lines, including its Mathcad engineering calculation software and PTC University training software products. Don Peterson, Senior Vice President of global client development at Digital River explained, ”Our end-to-end e-commerce services continue to attract companies seeking to efficiently and effectively capitalize on the power of the online sales channel. By leveraging our e-commerce best practices, we can not only reduce the risks and complexities of running an online business for companies like PTC, but also help it achieve its overall business goals through the contributions of a successful global e-commerce operation.”

Digital River is powering the PTC-branded online software stores, which display in English, German and French languages and local currencies. For the sites, Digital River also is processing order transactions using multiple preferred payment methods, including credit cards, wire transfers and checks as well as delivering physical products using its automated Physical-on-Demand (POD) service. The company is providing fraud screening and online store support as well.

PTC’s online store features its Mathcad software, which performs and documents technical calculations and applied mathematics. The store also features PTC University training subscriptions for PTC’s complete product line, including Pro/ENGINEER, PTC’s software for CAD/CAM/CAE product design.

Ed Jennings, Vice President of desktop marketing at PTC added, ”We selected Digital River because of the company’s e-commerce expertise. As a software publisher, it is important that we partner with a provider that is able to remove the operational, logistical and technical complexities of selling online. By taking advantage of the e-commerce operations that Digital River provides, we can focus on our core competency of developing leading software while Digital River concentrates on helping us build and grow a profitable online business.”

Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.

For more information about PTC’s online stores, please visit: http://store.ptc.com.

To learn more about Digital River, please visit: www.digitalriver.com.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - May 21, 2007 - Service enablement and automation software for hosted IP and application services, Ensim Corporation, has developed a new version of its Unify for Enterprises. In addition, the company’s Communication and Collaboration Management Center facilitates the simplification, automation, and security of the deployment and management of applications, users, and devices.

Designed to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity through a centralized system, the new edition of Unify eases the challenges of creating, activating, and configuring services throughout the enterprise.

Based on the company;s Unify technology, in use by many of the world’s largest telecommunications and hosting service providers, the enterprise edition is designed to enable automated provisioning, delegated administration, device and client configuration, and provides a simplified web portal for managing applications, users, and devices, thereby ensuring that organizations are able to meet the growing demands of unified communications and collaboration service requirements.

Edward Voermans, Technical Specialist at InfoSupport remarked, ”As long-time users of the Unify service provider edition, we are excited at the prospect of using the enterprise edition internally as this will allow us to provision new employees and their attributed applications quickly and easily. Furthermore, our support costs will decrease thanks to Unify’s delegated administration capabilities, allowing employees to self manage several task such as automatically configuring Outlook clients and their Smartphones, saving our IT and support organization many hours per user going from desk to desk to manually perform these task.”

Unify benefits from over 350 man years of development in the service provider industry and is currently utilized by tens of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses worldwide via its 60 plus service provider customers. The enterprise edition includes a connector to Microsoft Exchange 2003 along with its beta version.

Key features and benefits include:

Increased Productivity
· Rapid and easy deployment of next generation applications
· Self-configuration of complex application clients and devices, such as Outlook, IP phones and mobile devices
· Provisioning of multiple features and applications via a single automated command

Increased Control
· Secure delegated administration allowing IT staff to safely manage complex systems
· Complete change management and audit logs for all operations
· Roll back capabilities to restore previous state of the infrastructure upon error detection

Increased Security
· Role management based on customizable access rights
· Data consistency of employees across all applications
· Implementation of organization’s existing processes and policies

Ease of Use and Installation
· Simple download with single click installation
· Automated detection and deployment leaving existing infrastructure untouched
· Customizable and extensible to third party front-end and back-end applications via web services and web portal

David Wippich, CEO of Ensim added, ”With tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises using Unify through our service provider partners, developing a solution for larger organizations was a natural strategy for Ensim. We are very excited to provide our flagship product and proven capabilities to enterprises so they too can benefit from our unique ability to unify unified communications.”

Since 1998, Ensim has provided automation software solution services, to enable the delivery of hosted services. The company offers an array of solutions designed to accelerate the creation, control and delivery of messaging, collaboration, web and data hosting, VoIP and other hosted services. Ensim serves more than 200 leading hosting providers, ISPs and carriers worldwide, including EarthLink, NTT America, Telus, Belgacom, SunRocket, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, EV1 and Affinity, to deliver mission-critical hosted services to their customers. Ensim has formed key partnerships with leading infrastructure vendors including Microsoft, BroadSoft and Research In Motion.

To learn more about the Unify Enterprise Edition, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/unify/enterprise/.

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

Las Vegas, Nevada - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 13, 2007 - E-commerce company, eBay, has been commissioned to auction what is reportedly the world’s largest portfolio of ”Wi” prefix domain names for wireless, WiFi and WiMax, including names such as WiCommerce.com, WiShopping.com, WiBanking.com, WiTelephone.com, and WiPayment.com.

Jacob Anderson, Marketing Director for NameRSS.com remarekd, ”There are 73 domains in the portfolio, and each one could be the cornerstone of an entire business model that makes this portfolio extremely valuable for anyone in the Wireless, WiFi, or WiMax industries. Whoever gets this portfolio will be getting a bargain.”

The domains in the portfolio had been acquired over a period of many years by a Venture firm, and are being auctioned on eBay by broker NameRSS.com. The auction may be found on eBay by searching for: Wi Domains.

Founded in 1995, eBay created communities built on commerce, sustained by trust, and inspired by opportunity. eBay enables ecommerce on a local, national and international basis with an array of websites, including the eBay Marketplaces, PayPal, Skype, Kijiji, Rent.com and Shopping.com.

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LaFayette, Indiana - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 5, 2007 - Web hosting industry outsourced technical support and server administration services firm, Touch Support, has expanded its services to incorporate support for Windows hosting products, including the Helm and Plesk control panel software run on Windows Server 2000 and 2003.

The new Windows support department was created to fulfill the outsourced support needs of Windows web hosts, as well as an increasing number of web hosts who are now choosing to provide Windows hosting solutions alongside traditional Linux hosting plans.

David Lindahl, General Manager, Co-Founder of Touch Support remarked, “In the past year, we noticed a trend of mainstream hosting companies expanding into areas previously occupied by specialty providers. This shift ultimately resulted in an increase in the number of companies providing Windows-based hosting services. Naturally, this increase created stronger demand for Windows support services, a sector of the hosting support industry we look forward to serving.”

Touch Support will operate its new Windows support department under the same guiding principles as its highly successful Linux support department, including the same commitment to rigorous performance metrics, efficiency techniques, and quality-control. The company provides its outsourced support solutions through a variety of mediums, including Ticket/Helpdesk Support, Live Chat Support, and Phone Support. All support solutions are fully brandable, meaning end users are not aware they are working with an outsourced provider when contacting the technical support department.

Founded in 2003, Touch Support, LLC is an outsourced technical support and server administration services for the web hosting industry, offering a 24/7, US-based team, to service hundreds of web hosting companies internationally, supporting well over 300,000 domain names.

To learn more about Touch Support’s Windows outsourced technical support services, please visit: www.touchsupport.com/windows.

For more information about Touch Support, please visit: www.touchsupport.com.