Las Vegas, Nevada - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 17, 2008 - Concentric web hosting service provider, debuted a new hosted e-mail service offerings for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with Microsoft Corp., at the NXTcomm08.

As a large-scale e-mail service provider, Concentric, is deploying Microsoft Hosted Exchange to combine the productivity benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook with its enterprise-class applications hosting platform. Concentric will market the new services to its existing customers as an additional e-mail option as well as to new customers as a stand-alone or packaged Exchange solution. Concentric’s business customers will be able to add Hosted Exchange mailboxes to their Concentric account and easily manage all Hosted Exchange services and add-ons via a single convenient online control panel and have access to Concentric Customer Support and Professional Services.

Barbara Branaman, President at Concentric noted, ”Our long history of providing security-enhanced and reliable e-mail solutions enables us to deliver Microsoft’s industry-leading messaging and collaboration software on one of the most secure and reliable applications hosting platforms available today. SMEs can now enjoy the same level of functionality that large enterprises have, with the added productivity gains from the robust collaboration tools in Hosted Exchange. And if an SME needs additional assistance, our Professional Services team serves as a ”pay-as-you-go” IT department.”

Many SMEs have not yet been able to benefit from the productivity gains offered through Microsoft Exchange and Outlook because of high startup costs for purchasing hardware and software, as well as the need to hire technical staff to manage and operate e-mail servers. Concentric’s Hosted Exchange service enables productivity gains, platform reliability and security features, and support at affordable prices with no startup costs. With Outlook Web Access also available, the solution fits closely with Concentric’s target market of online, mobile businesses. In addition, access to e-mail via Windows Mobile-based devices using built-in Microsoft ActiveSync makes this service a rich enhancement to Concentric’s product suite.

Martha Bejar, Corporate Vice President for the Communications Sector at Microsoft remarked, ”There are more than 30 million SMEs in the U.S., according to the U.S. Small Business Administration and Internal Revenue Service. The SME market is moving toward hosted IT solutions to decrease costs and increase security, reliability and employee productivity. With more than 10 years as a reliable provider of e-mail and Web hosting services, the addition of Microsoft Hosted Exchange is a natural fit for Concentric as it helps round out the company’s offerings for SMEs.”

Concentric is offering four Hosted Exchange mailbox types, and customers can mix and match mailbox types depending on their specific requirements.

Web Exchange. Web Exchange is an affordable offering that provides Microsoft Exchange features via the browser-based Outlook

Web Access for $7.95 per user, per month. Other features include global address list, group calendars, tasks and task delegation, public folders, junk e-mail and virus filtering, and e-mail aliases.

Exchange Value. Exchange Value includes all the features listed above plus a full Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) Exchange mailbox with Microsoft Outlook integration and offline address book for $9.95 per user, per month.

Exchange Professional. Exchange Professional includes all the features in Exchange Value with 1 GB of mail storage space per user for $13.95 per user, per month.

Exchange Executive. Exchange Executive includes all the features in Exchange Professional plus free premium junk e-mail filter and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and Outlook Mobile Access, and 2 GB of mail storage space per user for $19.95 per user, per month (a savings of $2.95 per month).

Concentric, founded in 1997, is a business unit of XO Communications. Concentric provides enterprise-class hosted applications, including Web site hosting, business email, corporate domain management and perimeter email protection. Concentric delivers superior performance, reliability, and security and is the only Web hosting service to hold a patent for its Clustered Hosting architecture. Concentric accounts are backed by a three month Satisfaction Guarantee, 24×7 customer support, and a 99.9% SLA. F

XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: XOHO), is a provider of 21st century communications services for businesses and communications services providers, including 50 percent of the Fortune 500 and leading cable companies, carriers, content providers, and mobile operators. Utilizing its unique and powerful nationwide IP network and extensive local metro networks and broadband wireless facilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services in 75 metropolitan markets across the United States.

For more information about XO, please visit: www.xo.com.

To learn more about Concentric Hosted Exchange e-mail packages, please visit: www.concentric.com/hosted_exchange.php.

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Tax Technology Services Awards Contract to Hosted Solutions
Raleigh-based sales tax compliance service provider cites stellar reputation, newly acquired resources and SAS 70 compliance as key factors in selection of Hosted Solutions

RALEIGH, N.C. – May 5, 2008 – Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier data center and managed services provider, announced today that Tax Technology Services, LLC (TTS), a national application service provider of sales tax compliance services, has awarded them a multiyear contract.

TTS, based in Raleigh, NC, provides an online-based service, dubbed CertCapture, to many Fortune 1,000 companies that pay taxes in multiple states. The application allows them to manage and track their Sales Tax Exemption Certificates by scanning and mapping them to a specialized online database for review and analysis, protecting them in the event of an audit.

“Our clients depend on us to fulfill their stringent specifications. To meet the demanding requirements of current and future enterprise-level clients it was essential that we selected a SAS-70 compliant hosting partner,” said Silvia Aguirre, TTS President and Co-founder. “Furthermore, it is critical for CertCapture to be available, scalable, and perform at a high level and with the latest security protections built in. With Hosted Solutions, we’ve found a partner who maximizes our IT infrastructure so we can focus on our core competency of helping organizations comply with State Tax Regulations.”

Hosted Solutions provides TTS with a comprehensive solution, including dedicated servers, managed firewall, monitoring and redundant internet services which are maintained by Hosted Solutions at its SAS 70 Type II certified Data Center facility.

Brian Baker, Vice President of Sales with Hosted Solutions is excited by the addition of TTS to the company’s deep roster of emerging Triangle based technology companies. He says, “TTS has truly developed an industry changing solution that enables large enterprises with multi state operations to easily digitize and store tax related certificates that have been fully vetted by qualified tax professionals without investing in software, hardware or IT support. We are proud to play a critical role in their success and growth by providing a secure, reliable and robust online environment for their customers to store and report critical information to state tax professionals around the country.”

Hosted Solutions, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, announced recently that they had been acquired by a Boston-based private equity firm, ABRY Partners, for $140 million dollars.

Hosted Solutions’ full suite of services includes Colocation, Fully-Managed Servers, Dedicated Servers, Business Continuity Services, Managed Storage, Enterprise Backup, Managed Firewall, Intrusion and Vulnerability Detection, Load Balancing, High Availability Clustering and comprehensive 24/7 Monitoring and for mission critical applications .

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About Hosted Solutions:

Hosted Solutions’ high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting services maintain and protect customers’ mission-critical IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. Acquired in April 2008 by Boston-based ABRY Partners, Hosted Solutions operates SAS 70 Certified facilities in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio. For more information please visit www.hostedsolutions.comwww.hostedsolutions.com.

About Tax Technology Services

Located in Raleigh, NC, Tax Technology Services, LLC (TTS) is a rapidly growing sales tax Exemption Certificate Management service provider to companies throughout the United States with a concentration on large, complex situations and a commitment to quality customer service. TTS offers CertCaptureTM, a leading solution for the automation of compliance in Exemption Certificate Management without regard to client’s computing platform. The CertCapture Website is: www.certcapture.com.

Hosted Solutions Acquired by Private Equity Firm for $140 Million

Raleigh, NC – April 8, 2008 – Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier data center and managed services provider, announced today that the company has been acquired by ABRY Partners, a Boston, Massachusetts private equity firm for $140 million.

The Hosted Solutions management team will continue to lead the company from the Raleigh, NC headquarters.

“This is an incredible milestone for our business,” says Rich Lee, Founder and CEO of Hosted Solutions.  “Partnering with ABRY Partners provides us with the capital to fulfill our vision and accelerates our strategic growth plans.”

Investor ABRY Partners is one of the most experienced and successful media and business focused private equity investment firms in North America. Since 1989, ABRY has completed over $21 billion of transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 500 media and business properties.

“Over the last seven years, we’ve built a business that we’re incredibly proud of, growing in a controlled, strategic way to become a profitable company with five state-of-the-art data centers and a reputation for providing world class service,” says Lee.  “Our employees and customers will see great benefit from this transaction as ABRY is a long-term partner that shares in our commitment to continue to grow the business and set the standard in the industry for service and innovation.”

“Hosted Solutions operates an incredibly strong business,” says C.J. Brucato, Partner of ABRY Partners.  “They’ve built a leading company in a market with great growth prospects.  What impressed us most about Hosted Solutions is the quality of operations, the focus on customers and the controlled manner in which they’ve grown.  They’re a profitable business generating strong revenue today and we see tremendous potential for the business to continue to grow and expand.”

Industry analysts agree.  “The managed hosting sector is an incredible standout in the midst of the current economic downturn, with strong growth and amazing prospects looking ahead,” says Dan Golding, Vice President and Research Director for Tier 1 Research, a firm that analyzes the technology marketplace.  “Enterprises demand managed hosting providers that are technically adept, as well as capable of scaling with business requirements. Managed hosting providers that can pull off this combination are very much in the driver’s seat.”

Hosted Solutions was exclusively represented by DH Capital, LLC, a leading investment banking partnership serving the data center and managed hosting industries. 

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About Hosted Solutions:

Hosted Solutions’ high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting services maintain and protect customers’ mission-critical IT systems and applications, enabling them to reduce operating costs, lower the risk of downtime, focus on core competencies, and achieve their top business objectives. The company operates SAS 70 Certified facilities in Boston MA, Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, and Cary NC providing best-of-breed data center operations with hardened physical infrastructure, the highest level of security, and a complete managed services portfolio. For more information please visit www.hostedsolutions.com.

About ABRY Partners:
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, ABRY Partners enjoys a position amongst the most experienced and successful media, communications and information sector-focused private equity investment firms in North America.  Since 1989, ABRY has completed over $21 billion of transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 500 media, communications and information companies.  Extensive and long-standing relationships with many different stakeholders and financing partners in its focus sectors allow ABRY to contribute significant value to operating partners and portfolio companies.  More information about ABRY is available at www.abry.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 11, 2007 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet’s sponsored research, has confirmed that significant revenue increases have occurred, for integrators offering its hosted Microsoft SBS solution, through staff productivity with no upfront investments.

The new white paper details wide-ranging economic benefits and business value for system integrators (SI’s) and their SMB customers who use the company’s Microsoft SBS solution. More specifically, the paper clearly outlines how integrators who partner with The Planet can increase their profits by more than 20 percent per customer, without incurring upfront costs.

The research titled ” The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS Service: Delivers More Customers, Revenue and Profits to System Integrators” - was conducted by analyst Michael Suby with Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners.

The Planet offers 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 with The Planet remarked, ”System integrators are the trusted advisors for their customers, and they are tasked with providing IT solutions that enable their clients to focus on running their businesses. By partnering with The Planet, system integrators can expand their product portfolios. They can offer many of the same services they provide on-site, all hosted in our world-class datacenters. This allows SI’s to move toward a richer, service-based model versus one based expressly on hardware purchases and billable hours. Even better, their clients gain access to enterprise-class service without the burden of having to manage or finance the infrastructure.”

In his evaluation, Mr. Suby notes that integrators can not only make more money per customer, the support time per customer is reduced, which enables them to increase their customer engagement ratio. The service provides a broad range of benefits for SI’s interested in offering their clients a hosted solution from a world-class provider:

• Increases top-line revenues and profit: With no capital investments, SI’s can increase their profit by more than 20 percent per customer, compared with traditional on-site time and materials deployments.
• Boosts staff productivity: No longer is it necessary to waste time ordering server hardware, configuring systems, scheduling customer visits, driving to the customer’s site to install a server or refining configurations. Using The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS service, SI’s gain an on-demand, at-your-desk operation that consumes less than one week.
• Eliminates server disruptions: The Planet’s six world-class data centers provide redundant power sources and Internet connections that are designed to withstand extreme weather conditions. Servers are monitored and secured 7×24x365, which allows SI’s peace of mind so they can focus on more critical, business-building activities.
• Enables deeper customer relationships: The dependability and value of The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS service deepens the professional relationships between SI’s and their customers, a financial benefit that creates longer-term relationships and adds to the trusted-advisor role.
• Retain complete client ownership: Relationships are hard won and valuable, which The Planet values and understands. SI’s retain the primary point of contact for their customers, while The Planet supports the SI customer and his staff.

Mr. Suby explained, ”If customers have their SBS servers hosted in a world-class data center, such as The Planet’s, they can expect to experience significantly higher service levels compared with on-site hosting. This represents a significant increase in value. For IT integrators who are their clients’ trusted advisors, this high-demand solution is more affordable and enables greater profitability. A partnership with The Planet is worthwhile.”

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, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

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

Louisville, Kentucky - (The Hosting News) - November 2, 2007 - Managed hosting and colocation company, Hosting.com, is offering holiday promotions, to donate laptop computers to children in developing countries, through non-profit group, OLPC, with one laptop per child during November and December.

On behalf of its clients for every hosted web server sold, Hosting.com, will donate the funds necessary for delivery of the laptops. Every $200 donation to OLPC pays for and delivers one XO Laptop. Through this holiday promotion, Hosting.com anticipates donating at a minimum $10,000 or 50 XO Laptops.

Guided by the mission to ”ensure all school-aged children in the developing world are able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop networked to the world,” OLPC provides children specially designed XO Laptops. The XO Laptop contains a wireless router, can be re-charged by human power, is the size of a textbook, weighs less than a lunch box, and was designed to be highly durable. Current countries participating in the program include Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Central America, Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Pakistan, and Thailand.

Darren King, President and CEO of Hosting.com offered, ”As a high-tech company with clients all over the world we realize the value of ensuring all parts of the world have access to the latest in technological advancements. It is through efforts like OLPC that we can help spread the culture of learning through technology to even the most remote corners of the world.”

Since 1996, Hosting.com has provided managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer with a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service providers (SaaS), content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco, California; and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please call 800-446-7627.

For more information about Hosting.com, please visit: www.hosting.com.

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.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 31, 2007 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has added the new hosted Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) solution to its portfolio. The company plans to deliver the new hosted solution in September.

Through this new offering, The Planet aims to combine the quality of its world-class data centers, networks and support, with the expertise of IT integrators, providing hosted e-mail and collaboration for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The Planet offers a complete enterprise-class ”IT portfolio-in-a-box” that includes Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office SharePoint’s Server and Microsoft SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup solution.

In a recent white paper from Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners. ”The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS Service: An Attractive IT Outsourcing Solution for Small Businesses,” analyst Michael Suby offers an evaluation of the new solution. According to the report: ”The bottom-line conclusion is that a three-year cost of the The Planet’s hosted Microsoft SBS service is available at less than half the cost a small business would incur in a do-it-yourself approach, and exceeds in features and capabilities.”

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at The Planet offered, ”System integrators play a unique trusted-advisor role with their customers, who increasingly look to outsource management of their IT infrastructure. Customers are looking to reduce complexity and focus instead on their core businesses. Working through this specialized channel, The Planet provides the great equalizer. IT integrators can customize hosted solutions for their clients and provide rapid deployment in days, not weeks, using our world-class data centers. This powerful combination of products and services enables them to increase revenues by turning one-time projects into more profitable recurring revenue relationships, while providing more options to their SMB customers for e-mail and collaboration.”

John Zanni, Managing Director of Worldwide Hosting in the Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. added, ”Hosted Microsoft Small Business Server provides SMB customers with the core IT functions they require, in a cost-effective model designed expressly to meet their business needs. Backed by The Planet’s data centers and around-the-clock support, customers gain access to powerful Microsoft solutions through their trusted IT advisors in a hosted environment, allowing them to focus on their core business requirements.”

Leads for the new solution will be passed along to The Planet’s integrator community, since their core competency is in providing these specialized, on-site services. The combination of The Planet and the expertise of the integrator channel provides an extraordinary opportunity for customers, who get the best of both technology and service.

Perry Berryhill, President of Panacore Corporation commented, ”Our customers range from small businesses to large enterprises, and in every case we work as trusted advisors in building quality and accountability into our customized solutions. The majority of our business targets the medical, petroleum, legal and entertainment industries, and in every case they each work against enormous deadlines to meet the demands of their own businesses. The Planet provides us with the infrastructure we require to meet their needs, along with a 100 percent uptime guarantee. We put the same trust and accountability in The Planet that our customers place with us.”

Located in the Permian Basin of Texas, Panacore deals in the areas of custom software, custom system design, hardware sales, digital video, interactive Web sites and search engine optimization.

The Planet provides IT integrators with choices to meet the needs of their specific customers, including a base offering with service upgrades as required. For each system integrator partner, The Planet provides a dedicated account manager to support the business, backed by Microsoft Certified Technology Specialists. The Planet’s Partner Enablement Kit offers product brochures, sales tools and training materials to support business development.

The Planet’s hosted Microsoft SBS solutions provide customers with the following features for IT infrastructure:

• All-in-one practical solution: With a complete SMB IT portfolio-in-a-box, customers gain immediate access to Microsoft Exchange Server, Outlook, SharePoint Server and SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup service.
• Low upfront investment and predictable monthly costs: Customers can control their costs and reduce capital costs, which frees funds to grow their businesses. Using The Planet’s world-class data centers, there’s no need to purchase hardware, software and networking equipment, and no requirement to hire additional support staff.
• Anytime, anywhere access: Using any PC, customers can connect to critical e-mail, calendar and contact information through the Internet.
• Always up and running: All hosted Microsoft SBS servers are backed by an ironclad SLA that guarantees continuous availability.
• Dedicated infrastructure provides security and customizable solutions: With a dedicated hosted SBS server, critical e-mail and business data are stored on a system that’s not shared with other companies. Users can configure and customize solutions to meet their unique business needs, all managed by their trusted IT advisor and integrator.
• Do more with less: Using Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint technologies enables customers to share e-mail, calendar contact information and critical documents, improve productivity and reduce costs.

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, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

To learn more about Panacore, please visit: www.panacore.com.

For more information about The Planet’s hosted Microsoft SBS solutions, please visit: www.theplanet.com/partners/system_integrator.asp.

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

Charlotte, North Carolina - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 17, 2007 - Data center and managed web hosting services firm, Hosting Solutions, has been chosen by business promotion and enhancement firm, Charlotte Center City Partners, in a multi-year dedicated services contract.

Robert Krumbine, Senior Vice President of Events remarked, ”We chose to work with Hosted Solutions because of our shared attitudes towards customer service and because reliability of service is crucial to the services we provide. Like us, Hosted Solutions places its customers first and consistently strives to go above and beyond service expectations. When it comes to hosting our eight highly informational websites, we can’t take any risks and downtime is not an option. With Hosted Solutions we have a host that will provide the enterprises level environment we need, as well as be available day or night to resolve any issues, ensuring our customers receive an excellent online experience.”

Hosted Solutions is providing Charlotte Center City Partners with an environment consisting of dedicated server hardware and managed services including Windows OS Management, Managed Firewalls, and redundant internet connectivity to accommodate their core applications running their mission critical web applications.These services are all being delivered from Hosted Solutions highly secure SAS 70 Type II certified Charlotte data center facility.

Rich Lee, CEO of Hosted Solutions responded, ”We are delighted to be working with Charlotte City Partners, a company that shares our attitude on outstanding customer service, and that is as keen as we are to maximize the Internet experience. Businesses are catching on to the fact that merely having a website is no longer enough to draw traffic and are looking to add a competitive edge to their online presence. Charlotte Center City Partners was looking for an enterprise class hosting facility to support the deployment of their websites, a provider that can guarantee availability, and support for their systems Our infrastructure service level agreements are unsurpassed in the industry thus allowing us to deliver Charlotte Center City Partners a world class environment for their applications and business.”

Charlotte Center City Partners support existing businesses in the Center City and Historic SouthEnd by connecting them with the people and services that will ensure a smooth transition into the central business district. Charlotte Center City Partners also ensures that the heart of Charlotte is lively, vital, and growing by producing such events as Charlotte South, Noon Year’s Eve, the Meineke Car Care Bowl Street Party and Rally, and rallies for the Bobcats and Panthers.

Headquartered in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, Overture Networks is focused on providing solutions that decrease costs and ensure smooth migrations to next generation networking. Overture Networks’ ISG 180 was recently named a recipient of the 2006 Internet Telephony Excellence Award. The ISG 140 and 180 products were named as finalists for the InfoVision 2006 Awards in the Access Network Technologies and Services category. With its patent protected and award winning ISG family of products, Overture Networks combines the packet-switched and circuit-switched worlds into a single architecture - at cost points that make it extremely attractive for offering Ethernet and legacy services to any size location, over copper or fiber.

To learn more about Charlotte Center City Partners, please visit: www.charlottecentercity.org.

For more information about Hosted Solutions, please visit: www.hostedsolutions.com.

Herndon, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - July 18, 2007 - Server virtualization firm, SWsoft, has developed a management system to provide a single login and password application, with its Single Sign-On (SSO) technology. Designed to make it easier for customers to use and manage applications, the new solution addresses reduction of the administrative costs associated with password management for hosting providers.

The SSO technology includes:

• Open protocol specifications that can be implemented by all Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in their applications, available for free on SWsoft Developer Network (SWDN), at http://swdn.swsoft.com/en/openfusion/.
• An SSO server that will ship in upcoming releases of SWsoft Plesk, HSPcomplete and PEM products. Service providers can implement their own SSO server using the SSO specifications available on SWDN.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of SWsoft remarked, ”Modern software-as-a-service offerings can consist of hundreds of components that need to be well integrated. SSO provides unified user credentials to streamline the integration required. SSO advances our OPEN FUSION initiative by simplifying application development, and by making it easier and less costly for hosters to offer new services that provide a better user experience for their customers.”

Features of SSO technology include:

• Single Sign-On Capability - Without SSO, a customer using multiple applications has to enter a separate login and password for each. With SSO, the user needs to enter their credentials only once for the duration of the session, regardless of how many applications will be used.
• Open protocol - The SSO protocol and developer documentation is available to all ISVs who wish to implement SSO in their applications or SSO service.
• Integration with external directories - In future releases, the SSO server will support authentication against external directories (LDAP, AD/ADAM).

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.

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

Austin, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 13, 2007 - Web hosting provider, Apollo Hosting, has announced that it is developing Hosted Exchange products. In response to customer demand, Apollo Hosting’s full featured Hosted Microsoft Exchange solution, is targeted for release in the third or fourth quarter of 2007.

Don McLeman, Director of Operations at Apollo Hosting remarked, ”We’re excited to provide this advanced control panel, and we’re one of the first hosting companies to provide its unique functionality in a Hosted Exchange environment. Development is proceeding at a rapid pace, and we’re all pleased to be a part of creating powerful but accessible product.”

The expected deployment will come in Q3 or Q4 of 2007, when Apollo Hosting customers will be able to enjoy the power and functionality of Microsoft Exchange for a fraction of the price of running their own Exchange server.

Expected to be included in the offer is Blackberry functionality and SharePoint services, making it a great value for businesses on the go that rely heavily on the ability to stay connected anywhere, not just at the office. Industrious companies are using Exchange and Blackberry technology with increasing regularity to facilitate their growth by staying on top of their communications.

Apollo Hosting is partnering with an established development firm to provide customer administrators with the latest management and provisioning system for hosted Exchange accounts. The chosen control panel system brings together services and applications and presents them with one common user interface providing ease of administration to novice and advanced alike.

Apollo Hosting has been in business since 1999 serving over 30,000 customers worldwide. With corporate offices in Austin, Texas, it is a privately owned company that has shown a profit since inception. Apollo Hosting was one of the first companies to offer 24/7/365 Live Technical Support Chat and toll-free phone support. Technical Support is completely local and not outsourced. Its Total Solutions Hosting is designed to afford all of the tools necessary to create a strong Internet presence. The company is a member of the Better Business Bureau Online and has strategic alliances with companies such as Microsoft, RedHat Linux, MIVA Small Business, SWSoft, Yahoo Search Marketing, Cisco and Genuity.

For more information about Apollo Hosting, please visit: www.apollohosting.com.

Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - July 10, 2007 - Management software for unified communications and collaborative infrastructure firm, Ensim Corporation, will present the beta version of its Unify Shared Edition 4.0 at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference scheduled to occur in Denver, Colorado.

According to the company, Ensim’s demonstration will show how Unify simplifies the day-to-day burden of activating, configuring and managing a service provider’s unified communications and collaboration infrastructure, as well as showcase Unify’s over-the-air client and device configuration capabilities, delegated administration and infrastructure optimization features.

Francois Depayras, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”We are excited to show our latest version of Unify Shared Edition and demonstrate its support and compatibility with multiple setups. Ensim offers tremendous flexibility to service providers by letting them deploy Exchange 2007 and Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 on their existing HMC 3.5 solution or on a new HMC 4.0 infrastructure.”

Co-developed with Microsoft, Ensim Unify Shared Edition delivers a complete solution for the management and automation of hosted services under a hosted infrastructure. Ensim Unify Shared Edition 4.0 allows service providers to centrally provision and manage Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a wide range of deployment scenarios, such as on Microsoft Solution for HMC 3.5, Microsoft Solution for HMC 4.0, and homegrown infrastructures.

The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 will take place through Thursday, July 12, 2007 at the Colorado Convention Center on 700 14th Street in Denver, Colorado, USA. Ensim will demonstrate its Unify Shared Edition, which will be available for purchase later this month, in the hosting pod within the Microsoft booth.

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.

To learn more about Ensim and Ensim Unify, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/unify.

For more information on the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, please visit: www.microsoft.com/partner/events/wwpartnerconference/default.htm.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - June 27, 2007 - Service enablement and automation software for hosted IP and application services, Ensim Corporation, has released a new upgrade for its Ensim Pro X, Version 10.3, including support for 64-bit architecture on the Windows and Linux platforms, as well as increased control panel functionality.

In addition, the new upgrade includes installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Ensim Pro for Linux). Ensim Pro X, one of the industry’s premier server management and automation control panels, is certified for both Linux and Windows. Ensim Pro was developed to allow hosting providers, resellers and web site owners, to centrally control and automate shared hosting tasks.

Important features of the 10.3 release include:

Ensim Pro for Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)/ Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS 5. The Ensim Control Panel can now be installed on the RHEL5 and CentOS 5 operating systems.

Support for 64-bit architecture - With the latest version, 64-bit architecture is supported on the following operating systems; FC 6 (Fedora and trade; Core 6), CentOS 5.0 (Community Enterprise Operating System 5.0), CentOS 4.4, RHEL 5 (Red Hat® Enterprise Linux ES Release 5), and RHEL 4.

WebDAV support - WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol, which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote Web servers. Ensim Pro for Linux now provides WebDAV or FrontPage Server Extensions to publish sites to the Ensim Pro server.

Ensim Pro for Windows - Support for 64-bit architecture - Ensim Pro for Windows now supports 64-bit architecture on the Windows 2003 64-bit OS. This helps ISPs push the performance limits of their existing web sites facing memory and IO bottlenecks, and .NET recycles on the Win32 platform.

Support for creating and managing skins - Service providers, resellers and site administrators can now add new skins, edit skin information, preview, change, and remove skins for Ensim Pro.

Support for new versions of Power Tools - Ensim Pro now supports the new versions of Community Server 2.1 and DotNetNuke 4.4.1.

The upgraded version will also be offered as part of Ensim’s successful Ensim Pro X for Windows Promotion, that has had over 5000 downloads since January. The program held in collaboration with Microsoft, offers Ensim Pro for Windows free to use through 2007.

Dilip Khandekar, Director of Products at Ensim offered, ”With the 10.3 release, Ensim Pro is able to serve a much wider audience of hosting service providers. Support for 64-bit architecture on Linux and Windows represents a significant improvement. We’re also delighted to offer the Windows version of the upgrade free for the remaining weeks of the promotional program.”

Mark Erskine, President and CEO of Host Depot added, ”We’re really pleased about the support for a 64-bit architecture on both the Windows and Linux operating systems. Our 40,000 plus customers worldwide rely on us to provide secure, reliable and value-rich hosting services for their Web operations and Ensim Pro X provides us with many of the necessary tools to make that happen.”

Ensim Pro X, version 10.3 is available for purchase immediately.

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.

To learn more about the Ensim Pro X for Windows Promotion, please visit: www.ensim.com/proxwin/mspromo07/index.html.

For more information about Ensim Pro X, version 10.3, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/pro.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.