Hosting Security Services Firm, SAVVIS, Develops Application Transport Services (Shared Web Hosting by Inftek Hosting)

Hosting Security Services Firm, SAVVIS, Develops Application Transport Services

St. Louis, Missouri - (The Hosting News) - December 12, 2007 - Virtualized and managed IP network services firm, SAVVIS, Inc., has released its Application Transport Services (ATS), a global, integrated, applications delivery service, designed to provide end-to end visibility and control of enterprise hosting, networking and security infrastructure.

SAVVIS’ ATS services are enabled by SAVVIS’ new Application Transport Network (ATN), a Tier 1 Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network serving approximately 20% of the world’s Internet routes (announced separately today). The new ATN is the culmination of a major network and data center upgrade for which SAVVIS has worked closely with Cisco to enhance SAVVIS’ global wide area network (WAN) and integrate it with SAVVIS’ datacenter hosting area network (HAN) and its metropolitan area network (MAN), with a singular focus on optimizing the delivery of enterprise applications.

Bryan Doerr, CTO of SAVVIS offered, ”ATS extends our virtualization vision for the market, as customers can leverage as many of these managed services as they need without having to invest in any additional physical equipment. We continue to offer state of the art VPN services to our customers and, with our new ATN platform, are positioned to offer even greater ATS performance and visibility features in the future. When customers combine ATS with our server and storage management services, they experience the benefits of next generation managed application infrastructure.”

Key ATN performance enhancements include new Cisco core and edge routers that enable MPLS, high-speed Metro-Ethernet access, and enhanced end-to-end customer controlled QoS, which, when combined with SAVVIS’ monitoring and management, enables high performance ATS services for public and private network enterprise needs.

New ATS features include network-based virtualized firewalls, distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation, network-based intrusion detection systems, virtualized load balancing and SSL acceleration, all delivered as high performance, flexible, managed services. Future plans call for additional connectivity services focused on application performance management and optimization, and enhanced visibility tools via SAVVIS‘ customer portal.

SAVVIS has designed ATS to deliver customer applications to their users over a broad range of connectivity options. Traffic may move from the hosted application, across a SAVVIS Metropolitan Ethernet Ring, to the corporate headquarters connected by low latency Metropolitan Ethernet. Additionally, end user connectivity is supported with options ranging from DSL up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

Melanie Posey, Research Director at IDC noted, ”The industry is embracing the concept of low latency, application aware networks with customer-defined QoS levels and unique network embedded security services as the best way to serve enterprises’ increasingly complex networking and application transport requirements. To achieve this, vendors must deliver highly reliable, global solutions that leverage an array of secure access methods ranging from DSL to Metropolitan Ethernet and offer the flexibility of managed and unmanaged services with 24/7 network monitoring.”

Operating a global network and 30 data centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia encompassing approximately 1.3 million square feet of raised floor, SAVVIS offers customers a variety of flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure services that can easily be mixed and interchanged. These include a broad portfolio of hosting services, enterprise network solutions, and managed security services. SAVVIS pioneered the industry’s first virtualized IT utility services platform which delivers on-demand access to server cycles, storage capacity, network bandwidth, traffic management and load balancing.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., SAVVIS operates a global network and 25 data centers in the United States, Europe and Asia encompassing approximately 1.4 million square feet. From its IT infrastructure platform, SAVVIS delivers a variety of flexible and cost-effective managed services to business and government enterprises, designed to be easily mixed and interchanged. The solutions include a broad portfolio of hosting, network managed security services. According to the company, SAVVIS pioneered the industry’s first virtualized IT utility services platform, which delivers on-demand access to server cycles, storage capacity, network bandwidth, security traffic management and load balancing. SAVVIS, Inc. spans North America, Europe, and Asia, with over 5,000 enterprise customers.

For more information about SAVVIS, please visit: www.savvis.net.

Earthlink’s New Edge Networks, Unveils Savings, from Backup Networks

Vancouver, Washington - (The Hosting News) - December 17, 2007 - According to businesses and communications network provider, Eartthlink’s New Edge Networks, as businesses increasingly install backup disaster recovery networks, they are gleaning cost savings from switching to wide area networks based on new, lower-cost technology.

Greg Griffiths, Vice President of marketing for New Edge Networks explained, ”Businesses that migrate from legacy networks based on frame relay technology generally can double or triple circuit capacity and lower their monthly costs, all at the same time.”

New Edge builds primary and backup networks that use different routing for redundancy and network availability. American AgCredit, a lending cooperative for farmers and ranchers in California and Nevada, installed a backup network powered by New Edge from savings it realized by migrating from a legacy frame relay WAN to one based on MPLS technology, short for Multi-Protocol Label Switching.

Mr. Griffths added, ”They are increasingly reinvesting the savings to improve network reliability and business continuity, especially at a time when more business applications are riding on the network. This is a smart trend we are seeing among our customers.”

American AgCredit’s new MPLS primary network and its redundant private backup network link 17 branch locations in California and Nevada with the company’s headquarters in Santa Rosa, Calif. Data traffic automatically switches to the DSL-based backup network if there is an outage on the T1-based primary wide area network. Both networks were independently installed and successfully tested earlier this month.

Floyd Ridenhour, Senior Vice President of IT for American AgCredit, the nation’s 7th largest agricultural lending cooperative noted, ”Having a backup network is quite an advantage to our business. IT flexibility gives us business agility.”

Mr. Ridenhour continued, ”When people talk about disaster recovery they talk about big disasters. Most of the time, our disasters are little disasters like a circuit down here or there. There is always something down. Sometimes they take time to isolate and repair. We’ve been tracking these over the last year or two and they are relatively significant. Our backup system will keep us functioning — keep information flowing. We view our backup network as an insurance policy for protecting business continuity. We try to keep things up so we can deliver money to our customers when they need it. If you want money, you want it now.”

Petaluma, Calif.-based Top Speed Data Communications, a telecom consultancy, advised American AgCredit and helped analyze its circuit needs. Top Speed is an authorized sales agent for New Edge Networks.

Founded in 1916, American AgCredit is part of the cooperative nationwide Farm Credit System. American AgCredit specializes in providing financial services to agriculture and rural customers in California and Nevada as well as to capital markets customers in 27 states across the nation. Financial services provided by American AgCredit include: production financing, short and long term loans, real estate loans, equipment and vehicle leasing, lines of credit and the Young, Beginning and Small farmer program. For more information about American AgCredit’s Cash Dividend Program and financial services, call 1-800-800-4865.

New Edge Networks, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK). New Edge Networks builds and manages private networks for businesses and communications providers. Through its nationwide backbone network with almost 900 switches and Internet routers, New Edge Networks uses any blend of network and access technologies (MPLS, frame relay, ATM, xDSL, cable, wireless, and satellite) for providing high-speed connections at any business address in the United States. Network options include any combination of access, network management functions, and on-site installation services. For more information visit www.newedgenetworks.com or call 1-360-693-9009.

To learn more about American AgCredit, please visit: www.agloan.com.

For more information about New Edge Networks, please visit: www.newedgenetworks.com.

Aplus.Net Web Hosting Company Awards, Include FindMyHost.com, TopHosts.com

Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - December 14, 2007 - Web host and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, is the recipient of the December 2007 FindMyHost.com Editors’ Choice Award for Best E-Commerce Web Host. In addition, the company is ranked once again among TopHosts.com’s Top 5 Web Hosts, and took second place in Topseos.com’s Top 5 Best Search Engine Marketing Hosts.

Gabriel Murphy, President and CEO at Aplus.Net noted, ”We couldn’t be more proud to receive this level of recognition from some of the hosting industry’s most respected nams. We work hard to provide our customers with the best possible shared web hosting services at the best possible value, and it’s really gratifying to see that the industry is taking note. This isn’t the first time that Aplus.Net has received these distinguished awards, and we’re going to continue to work hard to make sure it isn’t the last.”

Aplus.Net has had a continuous presence on the TopHosts Top 5 list for the past four years, scoring the number one position twice in 2007 alone (in March and July). The company had also previously ranked in the Topseos.com Top 5 Best SEM Hosting Companies list (in April and February 2006), which are based upon quality of services, pricing, innovation, customer and technical support, and overall efficiency and performance, according to the Topseos.com website.

This month’s FindMyHost Editors’ Choice Award represents Aplus.Net’s twelfth since 2005, and its second win for Best E-Commerce Host this year, also having won in April. In addition to these honors, Aplus.Net has previously been acknowledged by wide variety of organizations for excellence in a number of Internet services, particularly web hosting and web design. Past recipient of the CNET Editors’ Choice Award, as well as multiple awards from the San Diego Business Journal, RealMetrics, American Electronics Association, and various popular industry review websites, such as TopHosts, HostReview, and the Web Host Directory.

Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet’s commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers award-winning services that include web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and much more. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors’ Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.

To learn more about Aplus,Net, please visit: www.aplus.net.

Rackspace Managed Hosting, Selected by Cypress, to Support Infrastructure

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 12, 2007 - Rackspace Managed Hosting, has entered into an agreement with Cypress Semiconductor Corp., to host its website infrastructure, to facilitate Cypress’ recently redesigned website, designed to provide faster access to product information and software downloads.

Nick Wemyss, Director of Web Marketing and Development at Cypress noted, ”There is a large and growing global demand for Cypress technical information and software downloads, and the driving distribution platform is our website. As we look to use cypress.com for more e-commerce applications, uptime is becoming increasingly more important. Rackspace offers a solid infrastructure and flexibility that will solidify our online presence and extend our ability to deliver solutions to our growing customer base.”

The redesigned website puts a more prominent focus on Cypress’s PSoC(R) mixed-signal arrays and other programmable products, mirroring the company’s transformation into a provider of programmable solutions. The new Cypress.com includes dynamic drop-down menus that enable users, without clicking, to navigate two- and three-levels for faster access to information on software, technical documentation, samples, kits, training, etc. The site has been designed to improve usability by eliminating browser scrolling on the home page and by having personalized search terms remembered automatically in the search tool. In addition, customers are now able to log in to their customized “MyCypress” extranet and view their shopping cart for the online store without having to leave their current location on the site.

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales, Rackspace Managed Hosting remarked, ”Companies like Cypress rely on Rackspace because running a website is our core competency, leaving their IT staff to focus more on software integration and delivery. Intensive Hosting takes a consultative approach with our enterprise customers and we take pride in building a deep working relationship, effectively becoming an integral component of a customer’s IT department.”

With 25 servers and devices, including advanced custom monitoring services, managed backup and storage, and a cluster of three Google search servers, which Wemyss says will improve their search engine, Cypress relies on Rackspace’s 24/7/365 Fanatical Support(R) demanded by a global service provider.

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC Programmable System-on-Chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge and EZ-USB FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY.

A recognized global managed hosting firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 15,000 customers across eight data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company’s inception.

To learn more about Cypress, please visit: www.cypress.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Reseller Web Hosting Firm, AYKsolutions, Debuts Customer Support Portal Upgrades

Schenectady, New York - (The Hosting News) - December 12, 2007 - Shared, Reseller and Dedicated hosting solutions firm, AYKsolutions, has debuted the launch of a new version of its corporate web site, which represents the largest major website adjustment change in the company’s four year history.

Artyom Khmelnitsky, President of AYKsolutions noted, ”It was time to take our site to the next level. Launching a new corporate Web site provided our team with the opportunity to refine elements of our brand and improve the interactive experience for existing and prospective clients. Through months of strategic planning and active development, we have been able to create a presence we hope will best represent our company for the foreseeable future.”

The new design also allows the company to more quickly and easily introduce special offers and other promotions for customers. The company will use the added flexibility to implement a series of promotions planned for early 2008.

With the new design, AYKsolutions has made aesthetic changes to its brand, and has improved the usability and flexibility of the site. The company will also be able to more effectively market and sell products and services on the new site, through a series of backend and frontend design improvements.

AYKsolutions has also introduced a series of service enhancements along with the new site launch. Namely, the company has upgraded its business and customer support management software to Ubersmith, increasing efficiency and allowing customers to more easily manage their hosting account through a single portal.

Incorporated in 2004, AYKsolutions, LLC currently serves thousands of personal and business clients, located in the United States and abroad. AYKsolutions provides professional, efficient and quick technical support 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year.

To learn more about AYKsolutions, please visit: www.ayksolutions.com.

Dedicated Server Range Expands Intel CP, at WebHosting.UK.com

Nottingham, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - December 14, 2007 - Web hosting provider, WebHosting UK, has enhanced its range of dedicated servers, with CPU’s such as Core 2 Duo Quad Core Xeon Q6600 and branded Dell Servers with Intel CPU’s Quad Core Intel Xeon X3210 and Intel Dual Core Xeon 3050.

Andrew King, CEO for UK Hosting Corporation Limited noted, ”WebHosting UK Dedicated Servers are an ideal choice for ambitious, growing companies to fully incorporate the benefits and opportunities offered by a Dedicated Server at an affordable cost within UK. We utilize the best hardware available in the market today for our servers along with one of the largest networks and bandwidth providers like Level 3, Tiscali, and Deutsche Telekom to provide fast speed, great network uptime and much more.”

All WebHosting UK dedicated servers are fully managed and include features such as 24×7 technical support, 24×7 server monitoring, 100% Power and Network Uptime guarantee as standard. The servers are located in the World-class Blue Square Datacenter based in Maidenhead, UK, powered with lightning fast speeds and uninterrupted connections to ensure smooth functioning of all the websites and applications hosted on those servers.

WebHosting UK special offer server “Core 2 Duo Quad Core Xeon Q6600″, 8MB cache (http://www.webhosting.uk.com/dedicated-servers-web-hosting.php) is available with 4GB DDR RAM, 2 x 250 GB SATA HDD, 3500 GB Monthly Bandwidth, 100 mbps Dedicated Network with upgrades Up to 8GB RAM, 2 x 500GB Drives with RAID 1 and 5000GB monthly bandwidth. Server is priced very attractively at £260 / Month and doesn’t involve any setup fee. Server setup for all the above configuration is FREE. Clients will have a choice of cPanel / WHM and Plesk Control panel for Linux servers and Windows Plesk control panel for Windows servers. Server OS choices includes CentOS 5.0, Fedora Core 6, Debian 4.0, Free BSD 6.2, RHEL 4, Windows 2003 Standard and Windows 2003 Enterprise.

Founded in 2001, WebHosting UK offers an array of managed hosting services which includes cPanel hosting, windows hosting, Linux and Windows Resellers, VPS Hosting, Semi-Dedicated Servers and Dedicated Hosting Servers with all important features such as 24×7 technical support, 99.9+ % Uptime Guarantee included as standard.

To learn more, please visit: www.webhosting.uk.com.

HostMySite Web Hosting Firm, Gains Former Disney, Affinity Executive

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - December 17, 2007 - Web hosting company and ColdFusion expert, HostMySite.com, has appointed former Walt Disney Company and Affinity Internet executive, Derek Vaughan, as its new Vice President of Marketing.

Mr. Vaughan formerly served at the Walt Disney Company during the dot com boom for such brands as ESPN.com and NASCAR.com. After successfully marketing team accessories during the first concurrent interactive television and Internet ecommerce broadcast for Super Bowl XXXIV, Mr. Vaughan was recruited by startup web hosting company, Affinity Internet, Inc. in 2000, as Senior Director of Marketing. During that time, Affinity grew from a startup of 12 employees to a major web hosting brand of over 250 employees and over 200,000 hosted accounts.

In addition, Mr. Vaughan was an owner and partner in web hosting marketing firm, TechPad Agency for the past 2 years. Mr. Vaughan has also been active in the web hosting press, acting as Editor of The Hosting News for the past two years, while producing feature articles for PingZine Magazine, The WHIR, sitepoint.com, tophosts.com, hostsearch.com, comparewebhosts.com.

Lou Honick, CEO of HostMySite.com remarked, ”Derek Vaughan is one of those rare individuals who combine classical business training, unbridled creativity, and hands-on web hosting industry knowledge. He is recognized by his peers in the web hosting profession as one of its thought leaders, and brings great passion to his marketing campaigns. The HostMySite.com team joins me in welcoming Derek — we know his arrival will be great for our current and future customers.”

Mr. Vaughan commented, ”The role of the customer in this business reminds me of the way that Walt Disney organized his company. If you are a customer of HostMySite.com, you will receive world class service and support driven by the vision of the owners, Lou Honick and Neil Heuer. That’s a company that I can believe in and work for.”

HostMySite.com was recently honored by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Business Journal and Wharton Small Business Development Center as a recipient of the ‘Philadelphia 100′, which tracks the fastest growing, privately held companies in the Greater Philadelphia area. HostMySite.com was ranked 38th out of the elite 100 companies. The company also celebrated 10 years in the web hosting and domain name business this year. HostMySite.com hosts websites from over 130 separate countries around the globe.

Founded in 1997, HostMySite.com is a privately-held provider of customer-focused web hosting services. With a combination of sophisticated hosting technology and applied business knowledge, HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with affordable managed dedicated servers, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and shared web hosting solutions, supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and live online chat. The company is based in Newark, Delaware.

For more information about HostMySite.com, please visit: www.hostmysite.com.

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