Centennial, Colorado - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 12, 2008 - Web hosting and managed services online business solutions firm, Verio, has launched new low-cost VPS Starter Plans, designed specifically for growing businesses.

Businesses that have outgrown their current shared hosting solution due to experienced or expected growth, are the focus of Verio’s new VPS Starter Plans, for small and medium sized businesses and resellers that require more dedicated space and enhanced scalability than standard entry-level shared hosting plans can provide.

Available on both Linux and FreeBSD platforms, the plans include multiple domain names for hosting multiple web sites, deliver increased disk space, memory and process limits to drive high-capacity functionality for growing businesses.

Toshiyuki Yamasaki, SVP, Global Development and Products at Verio noted, ”Verio continuously looks for ways to improve our product offerings, and these enhancements are just the latest of our regular efforts to provide improved services to our partners and our customers. We have noticed that increasingly, small businesses are growing at a rate where they cannot rely on shared servers to get the dedicated resources and space they need. Now, small businesses can gain the benefits of dedicated hosting - such as reliability and scalability - without the associated costs.”

The VPS Starter Plans allow solutions providers, business leaders, and small enterprises to hand off backend IT management such as data backups, server security, and software updates to Verio - enabling companies to spend more time focusing on core businesses functions rather than on IT management. Customers will also benefit from the dedicated-like performance of the VPS solutions, which is made possible through Verio’s FairShare technology - a unique technology that offers individual, fully-isolated space on Verio servers.

Linux and FreeBSD VPS, include the ability to:

• Host an e-commerce Website and/or host multiple Websites
• Support a corporate intranet
• Build a custom development environment
• Run web-based calendaring
• Run multimedia applications
• Manage an email system
• Create a customer support tracking system
• Back up important data
• Deploy podcasts and/or host a blog
• Create a customer support tracking system

VPS technology was pioneered by Verio over 10 years ago, based on the concept of a ‘virtual machine.’ Despite sharing server resources, each VPS is fully isolated with its own file system, processes, users, applications, and resource allocations. Verio VPS allows businesses to maintain complete control with the flexibility to install software and configure the server to meet individual needs including hosting multiple Websites with separate domains and unlimited email accounts. Verio’s Linux and FreeBSD VPS Starter Plans are backed by Verio’s technology management team, managing the data center, the network, the hardware, core software applications, security updates, and data backups.

Verio’s Linux and FreeBSD Virtual Private Servers are available immediately to businesses, resellers, developers and wholesale partners worldwide. Pricing begins at $59.95 for 10 GB disk space.

It is Verio’s unique, state-of-the-art technology that distinguishes the VPS from typical shared-server hosting and allows the VPS to look and behave like a dedicated server. Verio invented this technology in 1996 and continues to refine and improve it. The Verio VPS delivers dedicated server functionality without bandwidth overage fees, absolute reliability and guaranteed uptime. Verio manages data backups, server security, and software updates, with experts available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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 the new offerings, please visit: www.verio.com/virtual-server.

For more information about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

Centennial, Colorado - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - January 18, 2008 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, has been awarded by the Small Business Computing’s Excellence in Technology Awards, named as a Finalist for the E-commerce Hosting Provider Award. Winners of the award will be announced Jan. 22, 2008.

The company was recognized for its eStorefront Hosting Plans in the ”E-commerce Web Hosting Provider” category. Highlighting companies that have helped small businesses gain access to the right growth tools, the Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Awards allows readers to vote for companies that have driven their purchases and provided superior resolutions to their business challenges.

Dennis Boyle, Chief Operating Officer at Verio noted, ”Verio is honored to be selected as a finalist for the Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Award. This acknowledgement is particularly important because it is the readers of Small Business Computing and business users themselves who have endorsed the technologies and solutions that Verio offers to enable online business. This recognition validates our efforts to help customers more effectively and affordably build and grow their business without having to scale IT resources or infrastructure.”

Verio’s finalist position in the Excellence in Technology Awards is based on the company’s industry leading eStorefront Hosting Plans. Designed to help small and mid-size businesses get their online stores up and running quickly with the ShopSite shopping cart, the eStorefront Hosting solutions meet the needs of a wide range of online businesses.

As part of Verio’s small business solutions, the eStorefront Hosting Plans offer a flexible range of shopping cart options and features customers can choose from. The hosting plans are easily customizable for users of all expertise levels gives, giving customers improved usability and added functionality for their online commerce. Verio’s eStorefront plans support Google Checkout and accept payments with PayPal, enabling easy integration and use of two popular online payment options. The commerce services also feature online marketing tools to help businesses increase site traffic and reach new customers, and include easy-to-use site traffic reporting tools to help measure that traffic.

SmallBusinessComputing.com’s online content is completely dedicated to small business owners’ technology needs. The site was created to help small business owners evaluate, acquire and upgrade computing technology, create and enhance online businesses, and stay current with the latest terminology.

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 SmallBusinessComputing.com, please visit: www.smallbusinesscomputing.com.

For more information about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

Manhasset, New York - (The Hosting News) - August 23, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, was recently recognized by CMP Technology’’s VARBusiness magazine, as one of North America’s top technology integrators. The 500 companies are the leading revenue producers among solution provider organizations in North America.

The list’s ranking is based on companies’ gross worldwide revenue of hardware and software sales, as well as earning from professional and managed IT services.

Dennis Boyle, Chief Operating Officer for Verio remarked, ”Solution providers and service providers are a driving force in not only the U.S., but worldwide economies, and Verio is honored to be included among such a list of distinguished technology businesses. As this year’s VAR500 indicates, the midmarket continues to grow in importance, and Verio remains committed to delivering high-value, functional services that enable small and midmarket businesses, including our solution provider partners.”

Robert C. DeMarzo, Editorial Director at CMP Channel added, ”The companies on the VARBusiness 500 list play critical roles in providing the proper IT strategies and systems to corporations and institutions to help drive business forward. We congratulate them on their success.”

To complete the 2007 ranking of the 500 largest North American solution providers, system integrators, VARs and IT consultants, companies were asked to complete an online questionnaire to determine prequalification. Between February and April 2007, VARBusiness conducted extensive research and analyzed the data. Independent data sourcing (e.g., SEC filings, annual reports, etc.) also was conducted. Finalists were ranked according to their fiscal year 2006 revenue, based only on their reseller-related services business.

The complete listing of the VARBusiness 500 was published in the June 11 issue of the monthly business magazine that provides strategic insight for technology integrators. Verio placed number 204 in the current VARBusiness 500 ranking.

In addition, Verio has scheduled its inaugural viaVerio Partner Summit at The Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada, 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.

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.

For the past 20 years, VARBusiness’ strategic resources have served the commercial and public sector (or government) solution provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic solution providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design.

CMP Technology is a marketing-solutions company serving the technology industry. Through its portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP provides access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.

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 CMP Technology and United Business Media, please visit: www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.

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

Rochester, New York - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 22, 2007 -
Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, along with Xerox Corporation, is providing a program, designed to offer the public with a free and easy way, to send postcards of encouragement and thanks to U.S. servicemen and women overseas.

The LetsSayThanks.com website, is hosted by Verio gratis, utilizing custom hosting solutions. Kiyoshi Maeda, President and Chief Executive Officer for Verio offered, ”Reliability, flexibility and a high quality of service are hosting ‘must-haves’ for any organization. By providing this service to www.letssaythanks.com, we’re putting the focus on the well-wishes, rather than the technology behind the program.”

Verio’s solution was custom-designed to meet the needs of the popular web site, ensuring site visitors uninterrupted access to www.letssaythanks.com and providing Xerox with an efficient way to manage the site. The scalable, fully-managed hosting solution includes a dedicated, multi-server hardware configuration and associated Microsoft SQL Server database. Housed in a data center, the site benefits from Verio’s 24/7/365 support, including management of all hardware and software upgrades, security patch deployment and data backups.

Mike Brannigan, President of Xerox’s United States Solutions Group remarked, ”The public’s response to LetsSayThanks.com has been amazing with nearly 11 million messages of support submitted to date. Working with Verio ensures that our Web presence can continue to handle the growing number of visitors from across the nation and around the world.”

All cards submitted at www.letssaythanks.com are printed on Xerox iGen3 Digital Production Presses, then sent to military support organization Give2TheTroops for inclusion in care packages for U.S. forces deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.

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 the Let’s Say Thanks program, please visit: www.letssaythanks.com.

For more information about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

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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.

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - August 10, 2007 -
Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, recently supported the open source and Linux communities with its Linux Test Drive program. Designed with businesses and developers in mind, all show attendees were invited to register for a free Verio Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS) trial account.

The free offering was designed to allow for new clients to observe first-hand, how they could leverage the VPS for an e-commerce solution, a custom development environment, a corporate intranet, an email management system or a hosted blog or podcast. Trial account users could also benefit from the VPS’s vinstall tool and software library for fast deployment of multiple preconfigured applications: Apache 2.2.3 comes installed on Linux VPS for faster performance, PHP 5.1.5 provides support for popular technologies such as XML, SOAP and MySQL and others, support for object oriented programming is also provided.

Verio’s Linux hosting offerings were showcased at LinuxWorld, where attendees received information on how to sign up for free Linux VPS web hosting accounts, as well as observe live demos of the Verio Linux VPS. Company executives and technical experts were on hand to discuss how Linux hosting and managed services provide cost savings to small and midsize businesses, web developers and resellers through improved security, data protection and management of IT web infrastructure.

IDG World Expo, a producer of tradeshows and events, sponsored the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo at Moscone Center. Linux and open source users from around the globe, arrived at San Francisco’s Moscone Center to examine the latest products and solutions, hear about emerging trends in the industry, and experience new content focusing on key themes including virtualization, mobile and embedded Linux, and Linux on the desktop, among other topics.

LinuxWorld Conference and Expo featured the key companies that are driving the future of Linux and open source, including AMD, Astaro Corp., Barracuda Networks, Centrify, Dell, Fujitsu, Gentoo Linux, HP, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Motorola, Novell, Oracle, Palm Inc., Scalix Corporation, Splunk, SugarCRM, ubuntu, and VMware, among many other entities. The exhibitors consider LinuxWorld the perfect stage to announce their latest product and service offerings, or other breaking news relevant to the Linux and open source industry.

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.

Centennial, Colorado - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - August 2, 2007 -
Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, has debuted new hosting packages, designed to empower small businesses to build and manage professional online stores, with the ShopSite solution.

The new eStorefront e-commerce web hosting packages, were created to help small and midsize businesses get online stores up and running quickly with ShopSite shopping cart. Designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of online businesses, the new functional e-commerce hosting plans are part of Verio’s award-winning Signature line of hosted solutions.

Verio’s packaged e-commerce solutions are based on ShopSite 8.3, the latest version of the shopping cart solution, which offers customers improved usability and additional functionality, giving smaller shops everything they need to enable their business online. More experienced administrators can use the advanced interface to further customize the way their store looks and works. ShopSite also offers volume pricing options, product search and customer registration.

Verio ShopSite-enabled plans give small and midsize businesses an intuitive and easy-to-use shopping cart to run a successful online store. ShopSite features the latest innovations in online transactions and security, including integration with Google Checkout, Visa CISP/PABP validation, PayPal’s and eBay’s auction integration, as well as Fedex shipping integration.

Dennis Boyle, Chief Operating Officer for Verio explained, ”Just as no two fingerprints are the same, our small business customers have completely different requirements when it comes to building and managing online e-commerce presences. With these new e-commerce packages, we have combined our intimate knowledge of small business hosting needs with our unparalleled e-commerce solutions. The result is a range of excellent e-commerce businesses services that are scalable, easy-to-use and can be matched to virtually any size small or medium business customer.”

Verio’s variety of new e-commerce packages cater to varying knowledge levels, online shop sizes and feature requirements. For example, eStorefront Starter was designed with the novice in mind, and is geared toward small businesses just getting started with selling online. The web hosting plan comes with online marketing capabilities to help increase site traffic. eStorefront Business is aimed at businesses that sell less than 15 products on their website, and offers the ability to commerce-enable an existing website. At the higher-end, eStorefront Developer is one of the most complete start to finish shopping carts available on the market, and can handle a wide variety of products, produce detailed sales and traffic statistics and offers many more features.

Verio was recently awarded a top spot in the “E-commerce Web Hosting Provider” category for the 2007 Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Awards by readers of the news site, which is part of the JupiterWeb network. More information is available at www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/news/article.php/3655761.

Verio e-commerce hosting packages are available immediately to customers and partners worldwide, with pricing starting at US $20.95 per month.

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 e-commerce hosting solutions, please visit: www.verio.com/ecommerce-hosting-solutions/

For more information about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

Denver, Colorado - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 25, 2007 -
Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, recently debuted its new, free educational hosting services at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, to show attendees how businesses may utilize Windows for web hosting.

The Windows-based web hosting solutions host, offered a suite of new Educational Hosting Services (EHS). The EHS offering includes instructive webcasts on how to host websites and development environments on the Windows platform, as well as free Windows hosting services. Based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Windows Server 2003, Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0, and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, EHS provides developers and designers a highly efficient way to learn Windows-based hosting techniques, share code and related information and learn new tips and tricks.

Verio’s EHS offering and Windows services were showcased at the Microsoft Partners event, where David Kidd, senior product manager for Windows Hosting at Verio, discussed with attendees, the new platform. Mr. Kidd demonstrated Verio’s Windows-based business management tools and managed services, all designed to meet the needs of web developers and designers, as well as small and midsize solution provider partners and other business customers.

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 the educational program, please visit: www.revertoself.com.

For more information about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

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Englewood, Colorado - (Website Hosting Directory) - July 2, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, has been recognized by CMP Media’s VARBusiness magazine, as one of North America’s top technology service providers, placing in the top 25 percent of the list.

Iimproving its position this year to #113 in the 10th annual VARBusiness 500 ranking, Verio provides many of the services and high growth technologies increasing in importance to solution providers and the customers they serve, including managed security solutions and storage network infrastructure.

The 500 companies are the leading revenue producers among approximately 90,000 solution provider organizations and account for $324 billion in sales of information-technology services and products. The complete listing of the VARBusiness 500 was published in a recent issue of the biweekly business magazine that provides strategic insight for technology integrators.

Robert C. DeMarzo, Editorial Director of VARBusiness remarked, ”Companies such as Verio are an integral part of the decision-making process for implementing technological innovations for business and government.”

James Treuting, President of global sales for Verio added, ”Verio’s placement on the VARBusiness 500 is a strong indication of our growing base of channel partners. By giving our partners complete access to a variety of higher value hosting services and a range of Internet services unavailable from many other hosting vendors, our channel program has seen tremendous success over the past year and we intend to continue to this trend throughout the year.”

To complete the 2004 ranking of the 500 largest North American solution providers, VARBusiness partnered with research firms Bernett Research and Answers Research to help collect and analyze the data. VARBusiness designed the survey which was administered on its Web site from early February through mid-April, as a means to collect the data. Finalists were ranked according to their fiscal year 2003 revenue. The viaVerio Partner Program was also recognized earlier this year with a five-star rating awarded from VARBusiness Magazine. This program assessment reviewed more than 280 partner programs for the coveted five-star rating in the magazine’s 10th annual Partner Programs Guide survey.

The combined recognition for viaVerio Partner Program reiterates the breadth and depth of the channel program offerings and benefits to viaVerio partners, and the importance of the partner channel to Verio’s strategic long-term goals. The viaVerio Partner Program is designed to provide small to medium enterprise resellers and larger channel partners with access to a variety of high-value hosting services, including hosting on a dedicated, shared, virtual private server or managed private server platform, in addition to a range of Internet services such as managed services and network access. In addition, viaVerio resellers receive volume discounts, private label opportunities, and technical, sales and marketing support based on program participation.

For the past 17 years, VARBusiness has endeavored to provide strategic business and technology insight for Solution Providers through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design.

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 VARBusiness products, events and services, please visit: www.varbusiness.com.

For more information about the viaVerio Partner Program, please visit: http://www.verio.com/partners.

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

Orlando, Florida - (The Hosting News) - May 25, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, hosted a panel at the ISPCON Spring, focusing on how to exploit the hottest web hosting trends and technologies, to discuss how businesses may accelerate product offerings.

”Exploiting the Hottest Hosting Trends and Technologies” addressed web developers, designers and ISVs who want to gain more control over their hosting offerings, but often cannot spare the manpower or resources required for management and ongoing maintenance. This conflict has been resolved by the rise of Virtual Private Servers (VPS). As the creator of VPS technology, Verio can provide insight on the latest advances in virtual hosting and related technologies and their impact and benefits to small and midsized businesses.

Verio’s Senior Director of Virtual Technology, Bill Davis led session S4 - ”Exploiting the Hottest Virtualization Trends and Technologies” where he will share information on how users can significantly expand their portfolio of offerings and broaden their client base by taking advantage of the dedicated-like features of a VPS, such as privacy and managed services to generate solid business growth opportunities.

Verio also hosted session VS3, ”The Managed Hosting Challenge! Verio and 360-degree Managed Servers,” which detailed the managed hosting landscape and where offerings will compete for a Verio Managed Private Server (MPS). The session will include live demos of the MPS and showcase how Verio’s 360-degree Managed Servers family of hosting solutions offers customers access to a diverse portfolio of hosting technologies to help them maintain and grow their IT infrastructures. Andrea Lewis, senior product manager, will address solutions that help businesses eliminate the recurring costs associated with owning their own server and keeping up with hardware and applications that can quickly become outdated.

Verio’s services are being showcased at ISPCON, booth #515, with demonstrations of new business management tools, hosting and managed services designed to meet the needs of small and midsize solution provider partners, hosting providers, telecoms and other business customers.

As the senior director of virtual technology for Verio, Bill Davis leads the strategy and delivery of Verio’s 360-degree Managed Servers suite of virtual and managed dedicated hosting solutions that provide value to small and midsized businesses, developers and reseller partners spanning the globe. He oversees the product development and management, as well as quality assurance for these innovative offerings.

As Senior Product Manager for Verio, Andrea Lewis manages Verio’s portfolio of managed dedicated products based on both FreeBSD and Linux, including the integration of customer and market feedback into product enhancements and deployment of managed dedicated web hosting solutions. Prior to her current position, Ms. Lewis was quality assurance software engineer for Verio, leading the testing of products for the company.

Details: Spring ISPCON, Booth #515 Session S4: Exploiting the Hottest Virtualization Trends and Technologies Session VS3: The Managed Hosting Challenge! Verio and 360-degree Managed Servers through May 25, 2007 at the Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida.

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.

Now in its thirteenth year, ISPCON is the Internet Industry Event where thousands of the true innovators and pioneers who build, host and deliver Internet services and applications converge. Alongside a world-class conference, faculty and networking program, attendees such as ISPs, Web hosts, MSPs, ASPs, WISPs, ITSPs, CLECs, developers, technologists, entrepreneurs, VCs and press get the first look at the industry’s hottest Internet services, applications, strategies and technologies during the event before they reach the enterprise or consumer markets. The massive exhibit hall highlights the very best of VoIP and IP-PBXs, Hosting and Web 2.0, AJAX email, collaboration, security and e-commerce tools, SaaS, Managed Services, Municipal Broadband and Mesh networks, datacenters, open source solutions, blade, virtualization, utility and grid computing platforms and leading-edge content and connectivity systems from unlicensed wireless, WiMAX and DSL to Metro Ethernet, CDNs, IP Video and other innovations.

To learn more about ISPCON, please visit: www.ispcon.com

For more information about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

Centennial, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - May 18, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, has 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.

Dennis Boyle, Chief Operating Officer for Verio remarked, ”Our goal with viaVerio.com is to provide a one-stop resource for our partner community - one of the largest in the industry - with the tools and information they need to help grow their business operations. The new viaVerio website is wholly reflective of what partners were telling us mattered most to their business.”

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.

For new partners there is a new viaVerio welcome area that includes a wealth of information on getting started. Designed to empower new partners with the tools and basic knowledge to get going, the welcome area provides an intuitive, un-intimidating environment to discover how the viaVerio program can help jumpstart their web services business.

In the welcome area, new partners will find all the information they need to get started, such as help for logging into their account for the first time, instructions on installing applications, and links and detailed explanations of how new partners can access their backroom - a control panel interface that allows partners to manage accounts.

There is also a general account maintenance area where partners have access to FAQ’s, getting started documentation, setting up email on VPS accounts, and other helpful material such as best practices in fighting spam and email marketing tips.

Existing partners will also benefit from this 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.

Centennial, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - April 19, 2007 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, has premiered its expansion of Linux Managed Hosting and Application Solutions, to facilitate business IT management, with new managed private servers.

The Verio 360-Degree Managed Servers Suite of Services (MPS) on the Linux platform, the newest part of Verio’s services enhancements, is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4. Designed to take advantage of the stability of the Linux platform by bundling it with dedicated, enterprise-level hardware, a highly secure managed hosting platform, and managed services for added power and performance. Coupled with Verio’s time-tested reliability, security and flexibility, the solution delivers cost-efficient Linux hosting to mid-market and small businesses, as well as solution provider partners, including independent software vendors, Web developers and IT professionals. All Verio MPS solutions include managed backup to protect business data; a raid array for greater redundancy, reliability and speed; managed security patches; and fully managed hardware and software updates.

The Linux MPS introduces added security for customers with new firewall functionality. This preinstalled, preconfigured firewall enables customers to take advantage of a firewall without requiring extensive technical knowledge. Customers have the ability to adjust their firewall settings to help protect their business from denial-of-service (DoS) attacks; to help protect their server from port scans, in which a hacker attempts to access and take over a server; and to process only certain Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet types, blocking unwanted or unknown traffic. Users can also configure settings to block certain ports that are not being used for added protection.

In addition, Verio has also launched the ability to utilize Multiple IPs on a single physical server. In addition to the IP address included with every MPS account, Linux MPS users may add up to 49 additional IP addresses to their server, depending on the Linux MPS hosting plan chosen. With this capability, a business can assign unique, dedicated SSL certificates to different ecommerce sites or intranets, which helps mitigate common concerns about privacy and security of online transactions.

Verio’s MPS was developed to give users full control of managed servers, complete with root access, FairShare technology, and 24×7x365 live support. Linux MPS also gives users access to Verio’s vinstall tool, as well as an extensive software library, enabling quick deployment of a number of preconfigured applications that have been optimized for their managed dedicated server. For example, users can choose to install applications ranging from blogging or podcasting applications, to antivirus and spam protection utilities to help block unwanted emails.

BMIGaming.com, a leading arcade games distributor and Internet retailer, previously experienced a string of ‘less than reliable’ hosting providers in a cost savings attempt, which ultimately resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars in revenues due to frequent service and performance issues, according to David Young, BMIGaming.com President and CEO.

Mr. Young commented, ”After switching over to Verio’s MPS solution, BMIGaming.com’s page load times improved dramatically, and outages and performance issues and server problems were a thing of the past. BMIGaming.com now considers Verio to be a strategic partner in enabling our company’s rapid growth rate and continuing success story.”

Kiyoshi Maeda, President and CEO for Verio added, ”Our Linux MPS delivers a robust and reliable open source managed Web hosting solution for businesses, including resellers and developers, who have more complex hosting requirements and need to do more than just host a simple web site, but don’t want the bother of managing hardware and software upgrades or security patch deployment. With this offering, Verio has worked to expand its popular MPS to the Linux platform, as well as to offer the latest applications and other technology enhancements. We’ve not only answered customer requests, but have continued to show support for the small to midsize business community who will benefit from this type of solution.”

Verio’s Linux MPS is a significant addition to the company’s recently-announced 360-degree Managed Servers suite of managed and dedicated hosting solutions. The suite consists of Managed Private Server solutions, as well as Verio’s Virtual Private Server product line, and is designed to help small and midsized businesses mitigate recurring IT expenses, such as hardware and software maintenance and upgrades. The 360-degree Managed Servers family consists of managed dedicated hosting solutions, as well as virtual hosting product lines based on Linux, UNIX and Windows. Verio’s Linux MPS is available immediately to businesses, resellers, developers and wholesale partners worldwide. Pricing begins at $349.95 per month for the Linux MPS Basic.

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’s 360° Managed Servers, please visit: www.verio.com/360-managed-servers.

For more information about Verio Managed Servers, please visit: www.verio.com/managed-private-server.

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

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