Apple details cursor-based QuickLook and advanced functions (- InftekHosting.Com - Hosted Kerio Email)

Apple is exploring new ways to use the Mac OS cursor to provide users with additional information and usability options for files residing on their hard drive or linked via the internet before they're triggered or activated.

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire - (The Hosting News) - October 2, 2008 - Website hosting, design, development, e-commerce and content management systems firm, Port City Web, has extended its relationship with Shawmut Property Management.

Erik Crago, President and CEO of Port City Web, LLC noted, ”Ranking customer websites is one of our specialties, and has been since we founded Port City Web. In today’s competitive HOA, Condominium and Property Management industry in MA and NH, it will be a challenging task to have Shawmut outrank the competition, but we can do it.”

The program is expected to run through the remainder of the calendar year. Shawmut Property Management has selected Port City Web to create and implement an online marketing plan to increase Shawmut’s natural search engine rankings. The plan will include re-writing copy on the Shawmut website, minor code changes to their website, extensive online directory submissions, and regular search engine submission programs using Port City Web’s in-house technology. Port City Web will also implement other non-disclosed trade secrets for improving Shawmut’s ranking among Massachusetts and New Hampshire property management company websites.

Shawmut Property Management is a full service management firm offering comprehensive and responsible management to communities throughout Massachusetts. Shawmut’s principal owners are Real Estate professionals with more than 25 years of combined experience. Shawmut’s in-house maintenance and management team is complemented by an extensive network of industry professionals, developed over years in the business. Shawmut and its staff have been involved in the management of properties ranging from 10 to 500 units. Our commitment to you is fair and balanced management.

Port City Web is a full-service website hosting, design, development, and marketing company. Specializing in online commerce, also known as ecommerce, Port City Web provides cost effective electronic marketing tools that are built to work with current systems, including web 2.0 business solutions. Past and present clients include The University of New Hampshire, Born and Bicknell, Columbia University, Service Credit Union, NAPS, K2, Lonza Biologics and Smith and Wesson.

To learn more about Port City Web, please visit: www.portcityweb.com.

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Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 2, 2008 - Colocation and managed service provider, Colo4Dallas, has been honored by Inc. Magazine, as it garners placement among America’s fastest growing private companies listing.

Ranking at #590 on the magazine’s annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country, the company realized a 551% three-year growth rate from 2004 to 2007. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy - America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.

Jim Melloan, Project Manager at Inc. 5000 noted, ”Our second annual Inc. 5000 continues the most ambitious project in business journalism. The Inc. 5000 gives an unrivaled portrait of young, underreported companies across all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models, as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth.”

In addition to its overall standing, Colo4Dallas ranked #27 in the Top Businesses in Dallas-Fort-Worth-Arlington category and #65 in the Top Business Services category.

Paul VanMeter, President and Chief Technology Officer at Colo4Dallas noted, ”We are honored to be ranked among the most dynamic companies in the country. We owe our tremendous growth to the loyalty of our customers and the tireless efforts of our great team of technicians who support them.”

With customers’ mission-critical data and computing applications housed at Colo4Dallas data centers, the company provides around the clock on-site staffing.

Mr. VanMeter also points to the increasing demand for dependable, high quality data center space as the driving force behind the company’s success, remarking, ”Over the years, we’ve continued to invest in our facilities to ensure they are top notch in every way, from high density power, climate control, and security as well as plenty of space for our enterprise customers to grow as their businesses expand. We’ve always focused on quality, and it has paid off.”

In May 2008, Colo4Dallas completed the purchase of both its current headquarters at 3000 Irving Boulevard and the property situated immediately adjacent to it, 3004 Irving Boulevard, bringing the company’s total colocation space to approximately 106,000 square feet.

The 5000 companies that made Inc.’s list reported aggregate revenue of $185 billion and median three-year growth of 147 percent. Most important, the 2008 Inc. 5000 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 826,033 jobs since those companies were founded. The 2008 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, for profit, independent not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies as of December 31, 2007, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004, and $2 million in 2007.

Founded in 2000, Colo4Dallas is a SAS70 certified provider that serves a diverse customer base including enterprise customers, businesses in the financial, health care and technology sectors as well as Web hosting providers. The company‘s robust growth has prompted expansion of its data center space, which now includes over 106,000 square feet of secure, climate-controlled space at three facilities.

Inc.com, the daily resource for entrepreneurs, delivers how-to guides, advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses. Inc.com offers dynamic marketing solutions to help advertisers effectively reach Inc.com’s audience of business leaders.

Colo4Dallas is a provider of colocation services located in Dallas, Texas. Colo4Dallas operates three environmentally controlled and secure data centers totaling 106,000 square feet, and offers multi-homed connectivity from Level3, Internap, Time Warner Telecom, XO Communications and other quality providers. The company provides colocation services backed by high density power in a carrier neutral setting for an array of customers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as well as businesses across the country and around the globe. SAS70 certified, Colo4Dallas offers customers a 100% service level agreement and around the clock support from trained, on-site technicians. In 2007, Colo4Dallas was named a winner of the Dallas 100 Award by the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship at the SMU Cox School of Business. The award identifies and honors the 100 fastest growing privately held companies in the Dallas area.

To learn more, please visit: www.colo4dallas.com.

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Plano, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 2, 2008 - Self-managed, dedicated server products and utility services firm, Layered Technologies, Inc., has recently completed network upgrades in order to handle the complex requirements of enterprise-class customers for traditional and virtualization platforms.

With an eye toward simultaneously positioning Layered Tech to effectively manage its rapid growth, the network investments include expanding its number of carriers so that customers have a superior blend of Internet pathways. Level 3 Communications, Global Crossing and Sprint give Layered Tech’s customers strong overseas access, while SAVVIS, Internap and Time Warner provide U.S. Internet access. Layered Tech also enhanced access between its data centers with 10-gigabit circuits, while hardware upgrades include new Cisco switches in VSS configuration. The upgrades and improvements have resulted in faster, more reliable access for Layered Tech customers.

Jack Finlayson, CEO of Layered Tech noted, ”Our rapidly expanding customer base is fueling Layered Tech’s network investments whose benefits are particularly attractive to enterprise customers looking for advanced virtualization technologies. The network upgrade has been a major initiative since our acquisition of FastServers.Net earlier this year. We will continue to evolve our network to meet our customers’ needs, but we already know that Layered Tech offers the services, capacity, security and redundancy that other data centers and dedicated hosting providers just can’t match.”

The value of Layered Tech’s upgraded network was recently showcased when an enterprise customer, which provides an open-source blog publishing application, wanted to expand its presence into a second Layered Tech data center. Layered Tech was able to deploy 150 servers for the customer in less than a week at its Chicago data center, which was best-suited to handle the significant increase because of its enterprise-grade security and redundancy.

From its upgraded data centers, Layered Tech can now offer its DEFCON managed services to customers of Layered Tech’s Grid Layer virtual machines; previously the DEFCON services, which mitigate challenges commonly associated with the operations of hosted infrastructure, were available only to dedicated-server clients.

In addition, Layered Tech’s growing international presence resulted in the company adding data centers in Tokyo and Amsterdam, providing overseas customers important local points of presence. This overseas expansion gives Layered Tech the global reach to address hosting requirements of the largest multinational companies.

Jeremy Suo-Anttila, CTO at Layered Tech explained, ”The network upgrades have solidified Layered Tech’s leadership position in both enterprise-class services and virtualization technologies. With our virtual private data centers, Layered Tech can provide customers with private switches, firewalls and load-balancing devices that aren’t available from most data centers or dedicated hosting providers. Layered Tech can build out the infrastructure required by enterprise-class customers, who have highly complex designs. We deliver the platform customers need, whether it’s dedicated servers or a virtual computing environment, and we wrap our flexible and customized managed services around those configurations. These capabilities are uncommon, and Layered Tech is proud to offer them.”

Layered Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and web services. By providing high quality technology, infrastructure and support we enable customers to forego capital expenses and save on operating costs while focusing on core business issues. Layered Technologies’ scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service (”SaaS”), content distribution and more. Its clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

For more information about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.layeredtech.com.

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St. Louis, Missouri - (The Hosting News) - October 2, 2008 - IT infrastructure services for business applications, Savvis, is preparing to launch a new solution, designed to assist independent software vendors (ISVs) in meeting the growing demand for service-based licensing and delivery applications.

Bill McNee, Founder and CEO, Saugatuck Technology remarked, ”Undoubtedly, SaaS has made it easier and more cost-effective to create, distribute and manage software; however, ISVs looking to adopt a SaaS delivery model have to address a number of key challenges to ensure their application is scalable, secure and multi-tenant. The reality is that successful ISVs and enterprise buyers not only need world-class managed hosting support, but an end-to-end software development ecosystem and cloud-based platform as they SaaS-ify their offerings, and create new value for end-users.”

SAVVIS’ comprehensive new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution will provide a secure, scalable, global, and function rich hosting platform that will enable fast, economical, and reliable deployment of SaaS applications. The offering is targeted at both ISVs entering the SaaS market and existing SaaS providers wanting to outsource their IT infrastructure so they can focus on their core business.

SAVVIS’ new SaaS solution is organized into three service categories that provide an expanded and highly differentiated suite of SaaS enablement capabilities.

• Core Infrastructure Services - These are SAVVIS’ core managed hosting and security elements tailored to SaaS vendor needs. New services include multi-tenancy enablement, application fire-walling, and holistic application-centered service level agreements.
• Lifecycle Services - This new category of services assists ISVs through all the tasks involved in development, integration, delivery and operation of their applications.
• SAVVIS Marketplace - These services create connectivity and commercial opportunities between SAVVIS customers by lowering integration barriers. Local and global high speed connectivity optimized for SaaS delivery will increase potential for provider to provider and customer integration. Additionally SAVVIS will be creating marketplace awareness tools for use within SAVVIS’ customer base.

The result will be a centralized, scalable path that allows customers to develop, integrate, operate, and deliver their software to the Web to meet growing demand for virtualized applications.

SAVVIS’ new SaaS enablement services are being built upon SAVVIS’ existing global IT services platform that features a hosting footprint encompassing 29 data centers integrated with SAVVIS’ Tier 1 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. SAVVIS already serves dozens of ISVs and SaaS customers who have chosen SAVVIS’ IT infrastructure services to underpin their SaaS business models.

Key new SAVVIS SaaS services available now or in the near future across the three service categories outlined above include:

• End-User Service Delivery and Multi-tenancy - Through an alliance with Parallels (announced separately today) SAVVIS is offering an additional option for achieving the scalability and efficiencies of multi-tenancy. This enables vendors to convert their software to operate in a SaaS environment quickly without re-architecting the application. In addition to speed-of-implementation, Parallels also supports ISVs in managing end user accounts. This includes expanded provisioning and billing capabilities as well as development of back office reports and utilization statistics for their end users. These features reduce costs to acquire, manage and support end users and further reduce the IT resources that ISVs need to support a SaaS software model.

• Virtual Lab Automation and Management SAVVIS has contracted with Skytap, Inc., a leader in cloud-based virtual labs, to provide customers with on demand, IT infrastructure optimized for dynamic environments. These capabilities make it possible to rapidly build and configure application development and QA, training and IT prototyping environments using just a Web browser. This allows customers to accelerate time to market and reduce infrastructure costs typically associated with internal IT lab environments.
• Application Monitoring - SAVVIS will offer key application performance monitoring features that will provide a real time view of their end users’ experience, as well as to establish service level agreements (SLAs) and 100% uptime performance metrics.
• Comprehensive Security Portfolio - SAVVIS provides a comprehensive, multi-layered portfolio of security capabilities necessary for SaaS enablement including: data center physical security, network and application level firewalls, application authentication, intrusion detection, and DDoS mitigation. Each capability is backed by industry leading 24×7 monitoring and support.
• Portal Features - The SAVVISStation portal provides ISVs with a wealth of monitors and operational statistics in a clean dash-board style interface. ISVs will be able to customize the SAVVIS portal to reflect their brand, eliminating the need for them to build their own portal. SAVVIS is also working with a variety of SaaS enablement providers to provide additional extensions to the platform. Plans call for customers to access these providers through a single web page on the SAVVIS portal.

SAVVIS, Inc. is a global IT infrastructure services firm for business applications. With an IT services platform spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS is an industry leader in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services. These solutions enable customers to focus on their core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT systems and operations. SAVVIS’ strategic approach combines virtualization technology, a global network and multiple data centers, and automated management and provisioning systems.

To learn more, please visit: www.savvis.net.

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Apple has agreed, without admitting fault, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that power adapters sold with certain Power PC-based iBook and PowerBook notebooks were defective in that they could dangerously fray, sparks and prematurely fail to work.

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Apple's exclusive iPhone wireless carrier AT&T said this week it's in no hurry to begin deploying a fourth-generation wireless network, as it believes there's two to three years of "runway" left in its current and future 3G technologies.

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