Bling On: Diamond Earbud Covers (- InftekHosting.Com - Hosted Kerio Email)

For those of you who thought the Diamond Shuffle was a bit much, Swiss luxury accessories brand DEOS launched these diamond-encrusted covers designed for iPod and iPhone earbuds. Prices for these handcrafted covers, which slip on earbuds, start at $4,500, for black and white diamond versions, climbing to $60,000 for earbuds dripping with pink, [...]

For those of you who thought the Diamond Shuffle was a bit much, Swiss luxury accessories brand DEOS launched these diamond-encrusted covers designed for iPod and iPhone earbuds.

Prices for these handcrafted covers, which slip on earbuds, start at $4,500, for black and white diamond versions, climbing to $60,000 for earbuds dripping with pink, yellow or black diamonds.

Sure, they cost more than the actual device. Which is why some of the models, like the DEOS 32W, which has a full carat of diamonds and costs $5,000, comes with a complimentary Shuffle.

If you’d like to add a little splash to your morning run but don’t have the cash, Swarovski crystal versions run from $110 (demi-dipped) to $200 for the Full Monty.

Steve Goldstein, founder of the Geveva-based DEOS (Defining Expressions of Sounds), said the idea is one whose time has come:

“Today there are more than 152 million earphones in the world. [It’s] a marvellous way of making a fashion statement. When you meet someone the person sees first your face and then looks at your ears…”

Don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that bling.

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San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2008 - Clustered hosting provider, and Rackspace Hosting’s cloud division, Mosso, has been chosen to power a website in the 2008 US Presidential Race, to meet traffic spikes with its hosted computing application.

Operators of high traffic political websites have discovered how scalable, on-demand hosting provided by Mosso’s flagship offering, The Hosting Cloud, is well suited to support their sites and backend applications which are subject to unpredictable demand increases during the election season. Currently home to numerous election-oriented websites, including a presidential candidate and political national committee, Mosso also provides the hosted computing power for YouDecide2008.com, a bi-partisan website and blog supporting lively discussions and information about this year’s election, which experiences great spikes in demand.

In January 2008, information was posted about the presidential debates on YouDecide2008.com, resulting in an increase from 25,000 visitors to more than 300,000 in one day. When a shared hosting provider was not able to scale to support the spike and the site crashed, the site was migrated to Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud.

Nathan Ashworth, Founder of YouDecide2008.com noted, ”Since making the switch, Mosso has helped YouDecide2008.com stay up and running with usage numbers spiking more than 600 percent during pivotal points of this year’s election. They’ve given us the freedom to grow and not be punished by our own success. Additionally, their customer service has been phenomenal - it really feels like our business matters to them.”

YouDecide2008.com was created by political information junkie and IT industry professional Nathan Ashworth. Since 2006, he has been populating the site with commentary, speeches, surveys, video, general information and news from both the Republican and Democratic parties. YouDecide2008.com’s growth demanded a solution that would scale seamlessly without compromising speed or end-user experience in any way. Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud provides cost-effective clustered processing, load-balancing, and redundant storage specifically designed to support high performance sites subject to frequent and unexpected traffic surges.

Nathan’s sentiments are echoed in a recently published review by Bitsource, a blog that promotes and evangelizes various trends, opinions, and practical use cases in the technology and enterprise computing community.

Matthew Sachs, systems administrator and owner of Bitsource added, ”Mosso’s cloud scales extremely well and with absolutely no user intervention, which allows it to claim the title of a true cloud computing platform.”

Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of Mosso explained, ”YouDecide2008.com shows exactly why Bitsource rated us so highly and why flexibility is needed in this sort of landscape. As this election year continues to unfold, there will be millions of people looking to the Internet for information - especially as we get closer to November 4th. Our core strength is the ability to quickly scale and adapt to changing circumstances, including huge traffic surges as visitors hit these popular sites looking for up-to-the-minute information on the elections. It also explains why customers are counting on Mosso to host important sites such as those related to the presidential race.”

In August, Mosso named technology industry and operations veteran, Bruce Runyan, as its new Chief Uptime Officer. Mr. Runyan is responsible for ensuring that Mosso continues to provide a reliable and consistent customer experience as the cloud scales, and creating an environment that allows Mosso to introduce new capabilities and capacity without impacting the experience.

A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments, by handling infrastructure maintenance and management. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust, a provider of business-class hosted email solutions. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.

Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud, providing enterprise-grade hosting through an easily managed interface so that developers, designers and IT managers can deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily. Founded by two former Rackspace employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture.

To learn more about Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

For more information, please visit: www.mosso.com.

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2008 - Web hosting control panel facilitator, Installatron, has released a new global importer tool, designed for installs created with Fantastico, Application Vault and CPAddon Scripts.

In addition, by extension, the tool installs applications created with CPSkins Auto-Installer Pro, and CPSkins PSA-Installer Pro.

Rowan Crawford, co-founder of Installatron noted, ”This tool will allow web-hosting providers to quickly and easily migrate to Installatron without interrupting their user’s existing installed software.”

According to Mr. Rowan, the release of the converter tool coincides with the public availability of a free ’single-domain,’ edition of Installatron, which ”provides full functionality on the first domain Installatron installs a script on, and replaces the old three-day demonstration license we used to have for testing. This free edition is installed in a minute, and can be upgraded to the unlimited-domains edition seamlessly with the simple purchase of a license.”

Installatron is a web script auto-installer and auto-upgrader plugin for the cPanel/WHM, DirectAdmin, and Plesk Linux web-hosting control panels. It was launched in 2004, and is the only true multi-platform auto-installer system.

For more information, please visit: www.installatron.com.

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Honolulu, Hawaii - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2008 - Data center provider, PHASE 2 International, has appointed a new Vice President of Sales. Mike Peterson comes to PHASE 2 with nearly 25 years of sales executive experience in Fortune 100 companies, including IBM and Cisco Systems.

Kevin Doherty, CEO of PHASE 2 noted, ”We’ve been expanding our sales team in an effort to service the continuing demand for - and success of - our SaaS offerings. Mike is charged with building and managing a global sales presence. It’s truly a testament to our continuing success that we are able to recruit executives with his pedigree.”

Mr. Peterson joins PHASE 2 with a wealth of experience gained over the past 24 years in technology sales. He has built and managed sales organizations in excess of $150M. A high-achieving sales, channel management and marketing leader, his talents in opening markets, managing a geographically dispersed sales force and closing business are well-demonstrated. His experience-building years took him from technical consultative account management to executive management with three Fortune 100 tech companies and a leading privately held tech company.

Mr. Peterson added, ”Having worked in large, Fortune 100 company environments as well as in smaller technology startups, I have built a good overall understanding of what works and doesn’t work - both for a sales team and for the customer. I am thrilled to join a company with the energy and innovation that PHASE 2 demonstrates. It’s going to be great to move this company to the next level as we expand markets and cross borders.”

PHASE 2’s SaaS application solutions include its ShareCAD Pro, a powerful centralized platform based on Microsoft SharePoint for contractors, architects and manufacturers; and a host of other applications that it provides to customers on a central server-based ‘pay as you go’ basis. Offering use of Microsoft’s SharePoint, Exchange, Project Server, CRM, Office Communicator and Team Foundation Server, as well as PHASE 2’s own ShareMeeting, the low total cost of ownership incorporated in PHASE 2’s SaaS model allows customers to benefit from a broader range of products than they could otherwise consider.

PHASE 2 International delivers affordable and scalable access to high-end business software applications via a Software as a Service - SaaS - model. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, and especially practical for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the hosted applications available through PHASE 2 currently include Microsoft SharePoint, ‘Exchange,’ Project Server, CRM and Office Communicator along with PHASE2’s ShareMeeting and award-winning ShareCAD Pro. All of PHASE 2’s business applications are delivered across the web to enable on-demand access to corporate information whenever and wherever in the world the user happens to be. PHASE 2’s SaaS solutions ensure a scalable and secure IT foundation that provides scalability for future requirements, automatic data back-up, along with the most reliable, state-of-the-art infrastructure that removes the burden and risks of hosting solutions internally.

PHASE 2, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, and operates a secure, state-of-the-art data center.

To learn more, please visit: www.Phase2.com.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has launched significant improvements to its enterprise-class network, to consolidate its Houston and Dallas network, into a single global operation.

The consolidation is intended to provide increased reliability, better scalability and a more consistent experience for the company’s 22,000 customers. It also provides a common network policy across the company’s six world-class data centers in the two cities. new promotions that offer discounts on a selection of dedicated servers and new technologies.

In preparation for next-generation technologies, The Planet’s network is now IPv6-ready and is running MPLS for greater traffic engineering and management, as well as enhanced IP services.

Will Charnock, Vice President of technology at The Planet explained, ”In survey-after-survey, customers tell us they choose The Planet based on the quality and reliability of our network and data centers. Both comprise the central nervous system operations for our customers, who rely on us to operate their mission-critical IT infrastructures around the clock. During the past two years, we’ve performed significant upgrades to deliver even better quality network capabilities. As we prepare for future technologies that will be important to our customers, these upgrades represent strategic investments that provide them with access to the highest-quality network in our industry.”

Over the past two years, the company has continued to advance the quality of its network to provide an even better customer experience and to improve its operational efficiencies. Following is an overview of the key improvements:

Interconnection Upgrades: The company upgraded all of its major carriers to 10Gbps connections, providing industry-leading network speeds.
Port Upgrades: 10Gbps port upgrades were added in the Houston data centers to AboveNet, NTT, Level3 and AT&T, expanding total capacity and enhancing performance.
Redundant Links: The company installed redundant 10Gbps links between its Dallas network and Houston’s H1 and H2 data centers, as well as between these two data center locations.
Router Upgrades: All core network routers have been upgraded to Foundry XMRs, while all customer-facing routers are now Cisco 4500 Series routers.

Increased Capacity: The company increased its Internet capacity in Houston to 65Gbps, which offers greater network speed and performance.

Private Peering: The Houston network can now leverage the company’s direct peering connections, reducing latency and providing faster performance to end-users.

IPv6-Ready: IPv6 provides an almost infinite number of addresses. Customers can rest assured The Planet is prepared to deal with the threat of IPv4 address exhaustion.
MPLS Ready: MPLS provides higher network performance for customers and more granular traffic management across the company’s network. In addition, it lays the foundation for offering advanced IP services in the future.

Ultimately, The Planet’s goal is to provide:

• High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet hosts over 22,000 small and medium-size businesses and 7.7 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

For more information about the promotion, please visit: www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/server-specials.

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

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