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The Planet Web Hosting Provider, to Participate in 2008 Affiliate Summit East

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 8, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, will participate at the 2008 Affiliate Summit East, to be held August 10-12 at the Boston Seaport Hotel.

The company will showcase its partner program at Table 70 during the Affiliate Meet Market. The Planet affiliate program provides a 100 percent commission to registered affiliates who refer new customers to the company. The one-time commission, based on the referred customer’s total monthly recurring order value, is paid to affiliates 45 days after a new order is placed. There is no cap on the size of the order or the resulting commission paid.

James P. Treuting, Vice President of sales and operations at The Planet noted, ”At the request of our customers, we introduced our affiliate program seven months ago. We’ve seen outstanding success so far, which has led to enhancements including increases in affiliate commissions and a shortened payout-waiting period. At the conference, we expect to forge new partnerships, and we invite prospects to stop by our table to learn how they can make money simply by referring customers to The Planet.”

The Affiliate Summit, held several times a year, offers an educational showcase for affiliates, vendors and merchants. The conference agenda includes sessions on affiliate marketing strategies, trends and best practices.

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 is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting over 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by enhanced facilities and network connectivity.

To learn more, please visit: www.theplanet.com/news/events.

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

IBM Hosting Provider, Expands Cloud Computing Data Center Mandate

Armonk, New York - (The Hosting News) - August 11, 2008 - Hosted application solutions provider, IBM, plans to expand its cloud computing capabilities, through an investment of nearly $400m, with the opening of data centers in the US and Japan.

Willy Chiu, Vice President, IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions remarked, ”Cloud computing is fundamentally about re-engineering the world’s computing infrastructure, to enable game-changing — even life-changing — applications. To IBM, cloud computing is much more than the normal evolution of a data center.”

The centers are part of IBM’s Project Big Green initiative aimed at increasing energy efficiency in the data center. IBM plans to employ 200 full-time researchers and invest more than $100m in cloud computing over the next three years. In March, it launched its first European cloud computing center in Dublin, Ireland, and in June it established centers in Beijing, China and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bob Greenberg, General Manager of IT optimization at IBM noted, ”The new data center in North Carolina is part of IBM’s commitment to construct the world’s most advanced data centers. This is the latest example of IBM’s deep history of innovation in North Carolina. When we open for business in late 2009, the IBM data center in Research Triangle Park will be a strategic location for our outsourcing business for years to come.”

Cloud computing lets organizations remotely access a vast network of computers that can be tapped on-demand. In the U.S., IBM will spend $360 million to build a state-of-the-art data center at its facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The company will renovate a building on its campus, aiming to reuse 95 percent of the original building’s shell and recycle 90 percent of the materials from the original building.

The new cloud computing center in Tokyo will provide large companies, universities and government agencies immediate access to experts who can help them deploy cloud computing environments. Both new centers will link to seven other IBM cloud centers around the world.

Data centers are the backbone of information technology (IT) infrastructure for businesses and other organizations, with powerful servers and storage systems running technology including software applications, email and web sites. IBM owns and operates more than 8 million square feet of data center space — more than any other company in the world.

For more information about IBM, please visit: www.ibm.com.

Web Hosting Provider, FLV Hosting, Premieres Hi Def Video Compression Solution

Santa Rosa Beach, Florida - (The Hosting News) - August 8, 2008 - Streaming video web host, FLV Hosting, has released its Hi Def Encoder V1, a PC based application compressor for large Hi Definition videos.

Reduding files into tiny, more manageable sizes, the solution maintains the quality of the original picture, enabling website owners to display Hi Def videos instantly, a problem previously encountered due to the size and dimensions of Hi Def video.

Paul Vizard, CEO of FLV Hosting noted, ”The Hi Def Encoder V1 will be a valuable tool for website owners. We are excited at the results, and our clients are telling us how well the compression is working for them.”

The proliferation of Hi Def HD camcorders and cameras has created the scenario where users can view the videos on their PC, but when it comes to the internet it’s just not been practical. The Hi Def Encoder V1 is revolutionary with the ability to resize HD video for playback on websites, along with a large reduction in physical file size. Tests have reduced video file sizes as much as seven times smaller than the original, yet maintains video viewing quality.

The Hi Def Encoder V1 will be showcased at the upcoming New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Thursday August 14, 2008, and is available for purchase for $99. Free Hi Def website players are also available.

FLV Hosting is a provider of Flash Streaming Hosting and flash FLV video delivery systems, with a team of Flash experts and server administrators. With a customer retention above 90%, the company has been online since 1999. As a profitable privately held company, the company has no debt or investor shareholders. FLV currently handles over 50,000 TB of data per month and more than 1.5 million videos a day.

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

Web Hosting Application, Ensim Unify, Garners Windows IT Pro Magazine Award

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - August 11, 2008 - Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application, Ensim Corporation’s Unify Enterprise Edition, has received a bronze medal, by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine’s Editor’s Choice Awards.

Ensim received the award in the messaging category. Jeff Lewis, group publisher noted, ”The 2008 Editor’s Best Awards utilize our editors’ product knowledge and subject matter expertise to identify exceptional products that benefit the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine reader communities. Our editors selected winners based on the product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages and its value to the customer. Our editors are tough, in-the-trenches critics. They demand solid value and performance from the products they select. Editor’s Best Award winners can feel proud that the products and services they developed have earned the respect and recognition of the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine editorial staff.”

Available as snap-in tools or a full suite, Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition allows organizations to decrease operating costs, improve workforce effectiveness, and meet security and compliance goals. Unify Enterprise Edition redefines user provisioning and access control software for Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and mobility applications such as BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Windows Mobile. It provides change management, automated provisioning, mobile and client device configuration, delegated administration, and resource optimization, all via an easy to use role-based Web portal.

Francois Depayras, Vice President of marketing and alliances at Ensim added, ”Receiving this honor from Windows IT Pro validates the quality of our product. We hope that when selecting user provisioning software, enterprises keep in mind that Ensim’s products are distinguished for their superior quality and performance.”

Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Pro is the world’s leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company’s market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein and Co., LP, and its co-investors.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access control software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft.

To learn more about Penton Media, Inc., please visit: www.penton.com.

For more information about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Web Hosting and Management Services Group, TriZetto, Closes Apax Partners Merger

Newport Beach, California - (The Hosting News) - August 11, 2008 - Enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services firm, The TriZetto Group Inc., and Apax Partners, have closed its merger deal.

The merger agreement was first announced on April 11, 2008. Funds advised by Apax Partners, together with minority investors BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee and The Regence Group, acquired all of TriZetto’s common stock for $22 cash per share. Payment instructions will be mailed or delivered electronically to stockholders and convertible note holders.

Jeff Margolis, Chairman and CEO of the TriZetto Group remarked, ”I am proud of the outstanding work by many people at TriZetto and at Apax who completed this transaction so quickly while minimizing distractions to our customers. TriZetto remains singularly focused on developing high-return software and services for payers and their constituents in the healthcare supply chain. We look forward to more strongly partnering with our customers, while leveraging Apax’s resources and international reach to further accelerate our solutions development and growth.”

Apax Partners is a private equity investment groups. It operates across the United States, Europe and Asia and has more than 30 years of investing experience. Funds under the advice of Apax Partners total $40 billion around the world. These Funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. Apax Partners Funds invest in companies across its global sectors of Tech and Telecom, Retail and Consumer, Media, Healthcare and Financial and Business Services. Significant recent investments by funds advised by the Apax Partners Healthcare and Tech and Telecom teams include: General Healthcare Group, Capio, Apollo Hospitals, Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, Spectrum Laboratories, Weather Investments, SMART Technologies and TDC.

Common stock holders with questions may contact Computershare Trust Company, N.A. at 800-962-4284 or 303-262-0600. Convertible note holders with questions may contact Wells Fargo Bank at 213-614-2588.

Buddy Gumina, partner and head of U.S. healthcare at Apax Partners who joins a new Board of Directors at TriZetto noted ”Apax shares Jeff’s vision for Integrated Healthcare Management, which holds so much promise to improve our healthcare system, and we are excited to add TriZetto to our portfolio of industry leading companies.”

Mr. Margolis added, ”It is clear from the broad discussion on Capitol Hill that healthcare reform in coming years will include significant investments in information technology. TriZetto and its 350 payer customers are well positioned to help enable and accelerate many of these transformative technology solutions that can optimize benefits and care for healthcare consumers.”

With its technology touching nearly half of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto is positioned to drive the convergence of health benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. The company provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers. Healthcare payers include national and regional health insurance plans, and benefits administrators that provide transaction services to self-insured employer groups. The company’s payer-focused information technology offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting.

For more information about Apax Partners, please visit: www.apax.com.

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

Web Hosting Company, Server Intellect, Premieres Upgraded Website

Orlando, Florida - (The Hosting News) - August 13, 2008 - Advanced Windows-based Shared, Virtual Private Server (VPS), Dedicated and Enterprise web hosting solutions firm, Server Intellect, has unveiled its new and improved website, including many new features.

The new site is the result of months of development by a team of dedicated developers at Server Intellect. The website was designed with a new clean look and feel. The layout and functionality was designed after deep analysis of customer website interaction and feedback. One of the most touted features of the new site is the Dedicated Server Configuration Tool. This option gives clients and prospective clients the ability to custom configure their new dedicated server online by selecting from over 40 base server configurations and customizing the memory, hard drives, and ports, among other features.

Eric Pratt, CEO of Server Intellect noted, ”This new website better reflects our long-term goals of providing enterprise class solutions to small and medium sized businesses worldwide. I am confident that customers will find this new site to be a great asset in their quest for a true IT Solutions Partner.”

Clients will receive an instant PDF quote which can be viewed or emailed to one or more people. Additionally, the quote is stored online and can be retrieved from the Server Intellect website for up to thirty days making the ordering process simple for those that need to align logistics before ordering. Along with the new Dedicated Server Configuration Tool, one of the biggest new benefits is the site search feature which allows clients and prospective clients to search for information with ease. The new search functionality will enable visitors to quickly narrow down and access specific information.

Server Intellect provides a wide array of options for small to medium sized businesses. The options range from basic web hosting services and dedicated server packages to sophisticated enterprise solutions encompassing multi-server load balanced configurations. All of the options are explained in detail on the site, allowing visitors to make better informed decisions.

For more information about Server Intellect, please visit: www.serverintellect.com.