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Web Hosting and Management Services Group, TriZetto, Signs Agreement with Syntel

Newport Beach, California - (The Hosting News) - August 1, 2008 - Enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services firm, The TriZetto Group Inc., has extended its three-year, renewable contract with Syntel, Inc.

To become a key TriZetto multisourcing partner, the Syntel relationship provides greater flexibility and capacity in TriZetto’s new product development, professional services delivery and hosted services for its payer customers and strengthens 24×7 operations and services.

Tim Hascall, Executive Vice President of professional services at TriZetto remarked, ”In building our multisourcing model, we selected a highly synergistic partner and created strong controls to help improve quality and augment our on-shore professionals. By integrating off-shore and near-shore resources with on-shore team members, and providing our partner full access to our proprietary training and tools, we’re confident that we can accelerate time to results and strengthen service for our payer customers.”

TriZetto’s multisourcing approach combines on-shore, near-shore and off-shore resources to provide IT services for payers. Syntel replaces former partners including Cognizant Technology Solutions, whose relationship was terminated in early 2007.

A provider of IT and business process outsourcing services, Syntel assists core product and custom development, functional and performance testing, operations support for hosted customers, process workflow modeling and report development. Syntel resources are being trained and certified on the latest versions of TriZetto’s product line. Syntel personnel also participate in a TriZetto-led mentoring program, and use TriZetto’s development and product implementation accelerators. This approach augments TriZetto certified professionals in the United States, Mexico and India and strengthens the follow-the-sun model for TriZetto’s development and hosting centers, as well as professional services.

Mr. Hascall added that the selection of Syntel was based on its Six Sigma process quality perspective, healthcare industry experience and willingness to work as a truly integrated partner: certifying their employees and adopting process models, quality metrics and tool sets.

Mr. Hascall added, ”The partnership is demonstrating results with cost and quality improvements achieved in the work we’ve already done to build customized extensions, interfaces, test scripts and reports and take what has traditionally been the swing shifts to provide 24-hour environment management of our hosting operations.”

Keshav Murugesh, President and Chief Operating Officer of Syntel explained, ”TriZetto is a leader in providing integrated core administration, care management, network and constituent Web systems for health plans and benefits administrators. In extending our quality and development centers, we are enthused to partner with TriZetto and believe jointly we will drive increased, measurable value to the leading health plans in the United States. We are committed to this partnership through our investments we make, such as TriZetto University’s at Syntel, where our staff receives product and business process training that leads to full TriZetto certification.”

Syntel is a provider of integrated information technology and knowledge process outsourcing solutions. The company’s mission is to create new opportunities for its clients by harnessing the passion, talent and innovation of Syntel employees worldwide. It leverages dedicated and vertical service Centers of Excellence along with its flexible Global Delivery Model to deliver solutions that drive innovation, improve quality and reduce costs for Global 2000 customers in the financial services, insurance healthcare/life sciences, telecom, retail, aerospace, manufacturing and automotive industries. In addition to vertical focused units, the company has established Centers of Excellence for testing, migration and demand management. Recognized by customers to be Small enough to listen, Big enough to deliverTM for its responsiveness and ability to build collaborative partnerships, the company is known for solutions that deliver sustainable business advantage. Recently named to The Black Book of Outsourcing’s ‘50 Best Managed Global Outsourcing Vendors’ list, Syntel has more than 11,700 employees worldwide, is assessed at Level 5 of the SEI’s CMMI, ISO 27001 as well as ISO 9001:2000 certified.

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 learn information about Syntel, please visit: www.syntelinc.com.

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

Dedicated Server Colocation Provider, HostingPanama, Debuts Marketing Demo

Panama City, Panama - (The Hosting News) - July 30, 2008 - Offshore web hosting, dedicated servers, and colocation provider, Hosting Panama, will promote its services at HostingCon 2008, with a new marketing strategy.

The annual conference and exhibition, currently being held in Chicago, Ill., is offering a key venue to reach decision makers and leaders in the Web hosting industry.

After exhibiting at HostingCon for the past three years, HostingPanama will use this year’s event to target Web hosts who are losing customers to other offshore hosts but are afraid of high costs and complicated startup procedures. HostingPanama will showcase its Panama-based Web hosting , Dedicated Servers and colocation services, offering low startup costs and access to technical support from an English-speaking support department and network operations center.

Eduardo Vila, Chief Sales Officer of HostingPanama noted, ”As the only Offshore Hosting provider exhibiting at HostingCon, we are emphasizing how we are ‘Different’ in every respect from the mainstream hosting community. Traditional Web hosting has become a commodity, and most providers are suffering from the effects of a hyper-competitive marketplace. Offshore hosting, however, adds a new dimension and introduces a slew of selling points that enable providers to build their customer base in a new, fast-growing area. We are enabling Web hosts to offer a service full of key features that no new software upgrade will ever match - privacy, security, and confidentiality.”

The benefits of offshore hosting are far reaching for businesses of all sizes. From a technical standpoint, HostingPanama’s multiple datacenter nodes offer access to major fiberoptic continental backbones, ensuring especially low latency to the United States and Canada. The datacenter nodes also feature round-the-clock physical access security, advanced automation, and of course redundancy interlaced throughout every infrastructure system.

But the advantages go beyond the infrastructure: the country of Panama provides businesses with an array of incentives, including robust business privacy protected by strict secrecy laws; lack of an income tax for foreign businesses; and anonymity of business operations.

HostingPanama will exhibit at booth #310 in the exhibit hall of HostingCon. It is offering a variety of promotions to encourage Web hosts to sign on during the conference.

Based in Panama City, Panama, HostingPanama is an industry leader in outsourced web hosting and colocation services. Emphasizing privacy, security and reliability, the company provides services to over 7,000 businesses worldwide in its nearly 14,000 square feet of datacenter space. HostingPanama was founded in 1999.

For more about HostingPanama, please visit: www.hosting.com.pa.

HostingCon is the largest conference and trade show for the hosted services industry, this year to be spread over 56,000 square feet reserved specifically for the event, with approximately 20,000 net square feet of booth space in an easy to navigate floorplan. The exhibit hall will feature over 70 vendors displaying products and services, offering demonstrations and activities related to the hosted services industry.

To learn more about HostingCon 2008, please visit: www.HostingCon.com.

Editor’s note: TechPad Agency (parent company of The Hosting News) returns as a HostingCon 2008 media partner, and will be exhibiting in booth #418.

AT&T Keeps iPhone Exclusivity through 2010
“USA Today has an interview with AT&T head Randall Stephenson in which he discusses the success of the iPhone for the wireless carrier. He notes that in the original deal back on 2005 they were “betting on Jobs” — and it’s now clear that that bet paid off: “It’s everything we hoped it would be,” [...]

“USA Today has an interview with AT&T head Randall Stephenson in which he discusses the success of the iPhone for the wireless carrier. He notes that in the original deal back on 2005 they were “betting on Jobs” — and it’s now clear that that bet paid off: “It’s everything we hoped it would be,” according to Stephenson,” reports Mat Lu for TUAW.

“In fact the Apple/AT&T partnership is going so well that AT&T managed to wrangle another year of exclusivity out of Apple, extending its US monopoly on the iPhone at least until 2010. This extension is part of the iPhone 3G deal that eliminated revenue sharing with Apple, but has AT&T paying about $300 per phone up front. The numbers continue to look good for both parties, with the iPhone generating almost twice the revenue as the average AT&T wireless customer. Then again, it’s hardly a surprise. It’s not like betting on Steve Jobs’ tech business savvy is that much a risk these last few years,” Lu continues.

Additional thoughts: Great for AT&T (and Apple, kinda). Bad for everyone else.

via TUAW via Engadget

Dedicated Server Web Hosting Firm, The Planet, Reports Record Second Quarter

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 1, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has revealed its results for the quarter ending June 30, 2008, as part of its update to customers, business partners and prospects, with information relative to new initiatives and progress.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Douglas J. Erwin noted, ”We had another significant quarter of annualized double-digit growth, accented by continued operational improvements, and again exceeding our plan. From our product portfolio, private racks continue to accelerate and contribute significantly to our revenue growth. Concurrently, our largest customers continue to grow with us at double the company’s overall growth rate, which underscores their satisfaction with the depth of our products, services and support. This quarter we made our first acquisition, with the purchase of Indiana-based Touch Support. We have already begun incorporating these services, which provide additional capabilities for our dedicated server customers. We will continue to build-out our infrastructure and services, providing customers with the power to choose precisely what they require from the broadest range of products and services in the industry.

Mr. Erwin added, ”The outage we experienced this quarter was clearly serious and difficult, and we recognize the negative impact to our customers. We have conducted an exhaustive internal review and have concluded this was an isolated incident. We also have taken additional precautionary steps to examine all of our data centers, and we are confident that they are all in excellent working order. Despite this temporary setback, we continue to exceed the market growth rate estimates, and our outlook is positive.”

Chief Financial Officer Kevin Klausmeyer added, ”The Planet again produced a record quarter, with the highest year-over-year growth rate in more than a year-and-a-half. While our outage was challenging, we took every measure to minimize customer impact and believe there will be little customer loss. The majority of the financial impact is fully covered by property and business interruption insurance. Finally, we continue to invest in people and infrastructure to accommodate our growth.”

Second Quarter Financial Highlights Include:

Strong Customer Activity: In the second quarter, the company added more than 1,700 customers. The greatest portion of growth in the second quarter came from the company’s current customers, as they continued to upgrade and expand their server portfolios.

Touch Support Acquisition: The company acquired Indiana-based Touch Support, with the goal of introducing a new portfolio of advanced services aimed at its self-managed dedicated server customers under the Planet Alpha brand. Customers currently can select from either a bundled or modular suite of services, including server administration, monitoring and security. Additional services will be added during the balance of the year.

SAS 70 Type II Compliance: The Planet successfully completed the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit. Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the widely recognized auditing standard represents that The Planet has been through a rigorous evaluation of its internal processes and controls through an independent third-party auditor.

Dallas Data Center Expansion: Based on popular demand for its products and services, the company began construction on an additional 12,000 square feet in its Dallas D6 data center, bringing the total data center footprint to 167,000 square feet.

New Virtual Racks: Adding to its popular, fast-growing private rack portfolio, the company introduced new virtual racks for customers who require advanced solutions that are both cost-effective and offer a smaller footprint with as few as two servers.

Executive Appointment: In a newly created role, the company appointed Robert Walters to lead its newly formed storage and backup business unit, with responsibilities for leading strategy and developing new products to extend the company’s portfolio. Walters joins the company from Rackspace, with previous experience at EMC.

Data Center Award: TechTarget’s SearchDataCenter.com awarded Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg its prestigious Data Center Manager of the Year award. Mr. Lowenberg was recognized for his work that will save the company more than $1 million on energy costs in 2008 alone.

Headquarters Award: Sponsored by the Houston Business Journal, The Planet won the Landmark 08 award for Best Corporate Headquarters Relocation.

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.

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

Web Hosting Provider, EveryCity, Chosen by CrowdDNA Research Agency

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - July 31, 2008 - Managed hosting company, EveryCity, has been chosen by research based marketing agency, CrowdDNA, to support its online projects and campaigns, as well as to provide advice and consultancy services.

Duncan Malcolm, Sales Director at EveryCity commented, ”CrowdDNA are a perfect client for us, they want a very tailored and reactive service for their busy online projects, to be able deliver the sort of results their clients demand.”

EveryCity will be managing all of CrowdDNA’s server hosting, including domain names, websites, databases and development environments. They will be ensuring that daily fully managed off-site backups are performed, as well as ensuring that the servers hosting CrowdDNA’s websites and applications are optimised to deliver the best possible performance.

EveryCity provide bespoke managed web hosting solutions to Web 2.0s, Digital Agencies, eCommerce companies and corporates. Their approach to managed hosting is one which is personalised and focussed on working closely with their clients during planning, implementation and on an ongoing basis through projects.

CrowdDNA is an audience behaviour agency that is both brand new and blessed with good history. Previously, it was Ramp Industry. Now CrowdDNA focuses on helping brands to harness innovation and authenticity; to square up to 21st Century challenges; to be relevant, useful, entertaining, part of the conversation.

Crowd DNA offers clients robust and dynamic research, strategy and planning. It brings audience understanding to life through content and comms that trigger conversations and acknowledge the soaring value of social currency.

For more information about Crowd DNA, please visit: www.crowddna.com.

To learn more about EveryCity Managed Hosting, please visit: www.everycity.co.uk.

Apple Set to Launch “iPhone nano” in Time for Christmas?
Dailymail.co.uk (a site out of the UK) reports to have spoken with an industry source, who is claiming that Apple will unveil an “iPhone nano” in time for the holiday shopping season. “Apple is about to launch a ‘nano’ version of the hugely successful iPhone. It is expected to be in the shops in time for [...]

Dailymail.co.uk (a site out of the UK) reports to have spoken with an industry source, who is claiming that Apple will unveil an “iPhone nano” in time for the holiday shopping season.

“Apple is about to launch a ‘nano’ version of the hugely successful iPhone. It is expected to be in the shops in time for Christmas. The product will be launched in the UK at up to £150 for pay-as-you-go customers by O2, the mobile phone group owned by Spain’s Telefonica. ‘This will be a big one,’ said an industry source,” Simon Fluendy writes for dailymail.co.uk.

Not many details have been released about the supposed iPhone nano. However, Apple has clearly made it a goal to get the iPhone into as many people around the world’s hands as possible. Our iPhone World Map shows all the countries, carriers, rates and iPhone prices around the world.

The iPhone nano is expected to be targeted at the pay-as-you-go market, giving everyone the opportunity to enjoy the revolutionary user experience the iPhone delivers. “‘The iPhone 3G has been the fastest-selling phone ever in the UK, but it is too expensive to be a realistic proposition in the pay-as-you-go market,” reports Fluendy. Because the pay-as-you-go mobile market does not get subsidized iPhone prices, the release of a genuinely less-expensive device could generate even more staggering sales numbers for Apple.

No details regarding the iPhone nano’s storage capabilities, the inclusion of GPS, 3G, or any other technology that is used in the current iPhone have been given. Although we’d expect the iPhone nano to at least match the current 4GB/8GB storage options the current iPod nano’s offer. Additionally, the inclusion of wi-fi makes much more sense than the GPS chip we now have in the iPhone 3G. And seeing as how global penetration has made it to the top of Apple’s priority list, the iPhone nano would be expected to run on 3G networks. If rumors prove true, it will be interesting to see how Apple markets the new lower-end device.

One expert claims the iPhone nano “would have a touch wheel on the back and display on the front so that numbers would be dialed from behind.”

Although the release of both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G have proven major successes, Apple’s product diversification can become rather tricky with cannibalization (think iPhone taking sales away from the iPod touch). The iPhone nano could prove to be another major success by directly appealing to a completely different market. A large part of Microsoft’s successful monopoly approach, is their ability to globally get their products into as many people’s hands as possible. With lower-end products such as this rumored iPhone nano, Apple may be well on its way to achieving the same market share success.

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Web Hosting Company, IPO Auction Commences, at Rackspace Managed Hosting

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - August 1, 2008 - Web hosting company, Rackspace Managed Hosting, has revealed that the auction for its proposed initial public offering of its common stock has begun.

Rackspace’s auction website also contains information about how to contact the underwriters to open a brokerage account with one of the underwriters.

Rackspace announced that it expects the offering to price after the stock market closes on or about Thursday, August 7, 2008. Goldman, Sachs and Co., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Merrill Lynch and Co. are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. W.R. Hambrecht and Co., LLC, Jefferies and Company, Inc., Cowen and Company, LLC, RBC Capital Markets Corporation, JMP Securities LLC, Signal Hill Capital Group LLC, and E*TRADE Securities LLC are the co-managers for the offering. Rackspace will offer 12,700,000 shares of its common stock in the offering.

The selling stockholders will offer an additional 2,300,000 shares of common stock in the offering. Rackspace and the selling stockholders have also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,250,000 additional shares. Rackspace is conducting the offering as a modified Dutch auction. The preliminary prospectus, which is available at Rackspace’s auction website www.rackspaceipo.com, contains further information about Rackspace, the offering and the structure of the auction. In addition, the site also provides a link to a recording of the management presentation to prospective investors.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time that the registration statement becomes effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. No offer to buy securities can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time until the notice of its acceptance has is given after the effective date.

Copies of the preliminary prospectus for the offering may be obtained from Goldman, Sachs and Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, by facsimile at 212-902-9316 or by e-mail at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; from Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

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. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure maintenance and management, customers can focus on their core business. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust (www.mailtrust.com) a provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

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

Surprise, Surprise; Mobile Me Still Considered a Disaster
Apple had tremendously grand plans for the launch of Mobile Me. However, being a little too ambitious is not something the company considers a fault. Until now. “I have no kind words for .Mac, Apple’s online service that had its identity erased and replaced with the MobileMe brand on July 11. The .Mac service never worked [...]

Apple had tremendously grand plans for the launch of Mobile Me. However, being a little too ambitious is not something the company considers a fault. Until now.

“I have no kind words for .Mac, Apple’s online service that had its identity erased and replaced with the MobileMe brand on July 11. The .Mac service never worked quite right for me, and I was looking forward to its successor,” Glenn Fleisman reports for the Seattle Times.

So were we.

“MobileMe offers a reduced set of services for the same $99 per year but promised Microsoft Exchange-like synchronization for contacts, e-mail and events, as well as snappy and modern Web applications for a far better experience when away from your desktop or iPhone/iPod touch applications.” Fleisman continues to explain that “Instead of a clean launch, I and reportedly hundreds of thousands of .Mac subscribers had days of problems. And even when resolved, the problems left what Apple describes as 1 percent of its e-mail users adrift from e-mail for 10 days.”

Fleisman isn’t the only one who’s dealt with these disastrous issues. The non-official Apple slogan “It Just Works” simply can’t be applied to this past July 9th. Launching the App Store, iPhone 3G, Mobile Me and the iPhone 2.0 Software might have just been a little too much for the company to handle.

Fleisman continues to corrolate last year’s Leopard launch to this year’s shotty launch, claiming that Apple is simply too busy to focus on any one thing. “Leopard wasn’t the only stutter. In February, the company released its Time Capsule backup and Wi-Fi gateway appliance that works directly with Leopard’s Time Machine backup system. The bugs in that first release had to be patched through a massive set of updates three weeks later, indicating the device was released prematurely.”

While this may seem true and easy to believe, Apple’ closed and secretive environment denies them the ability to ask partners for help, (think Google ladies and gentlemen).

“The .Mac Web site was nearly or completely unusable from the night of July 9 until the early morning of July 12, although most independent parts, like iDisk disk sharing, kept functioning. Existing iPhone owners who upgraded to the 2.0 software and new iPhone 3G purchasers all needed to authorize the new software through Apple servers. Despite predictions that AT&T would have problems with this, Apple was the one that buckled. Some users found their old or new phones unusable for several hours July 11.”

“Apple said a few days ago in an e-mail to its MobileMe members — e-mail that 1 percent of members couldn’t receive, of course — that nearly all trial and paid subscriptions as of mid-July would have 30 days tacked on to their expiration to make up in part for the glitches. But for a company that has been long focused on what its customers need, Apple needs to take a long, hard look at how hard it’s pushing its employees — and how little polish seems to be left on the company’s image right now.”

I would definitely like to end this post with a sentence like, “Don’t worry, they’ll work it out.” However, as days pass, I am beginning to wonder when the magical solution or avalanche of bug fixes is going to be released.

Full article here.

Hosting Facilitator, Juniper Networks, Devises Centralized Routing Security

Sunnyvale, California - (The Hosting News) - August 4, 2008 - Expansion of network and security management capabilities with Juniper Networks, is taking place with a unified management function, across its routing, switching and security infrastructure.

Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst, Information Security, Enterprise Strategy Group noted, ”IT organizations supporting high-performance businesses are under continuous pressure to provide lower cost of ownership, improve management efficiency and more effectively leverage their network and security investment. Network administrators need a cost-effective, comprehensive solution that can easily and effectively manage the evolving network and security infrastructure with centralized management rather than using multiple management tools to control each device on the network.”

The new NSM offers centralized management for Juniper Networks J-series services routers, EX-series Ethernet switches, Secure Access SSL VPN and firewall/VPN and Intrusion Detection and Prevention appliances, and today’s newly announced Unified Access Control (UAC) solution. NSM enables high-performance businesses to consolidate and simplify the management of their network infrastructure to increase security, reduce cost and realize operational gains.

Glenn Hudler, an Information Officer for the International Finance Corporation, a Member of the World Bank Group added, ”Since our network is critical to our success we require a fast, reliable and secure high-performance infrastructure to support our growing operations. The Juniper Networks NSM delivers enhanced functions in a single application to manage our Juniper products, allowing us to significantly improve responsiveness to threats while simultaneously reducing operational costs and maintaining investment protection without compromises in performance and functionality.”

Juniper Networks NSM, with comprehensive, secure centralized device and policy management, provides unparalleled capability for device and security policy configuration, comprehensive monitoring, reporting tools, and tools for investigating potential security threats in the network - all from a single user interface. NSM enables large scale deployments and the ability to do global policy enforcement via a hierarchical distribution of the Juniper Networks NSMXpress and the NSM Central Manager. In addition to centralized management for Juniper Networks J-series services routers, EX-series Ethernet switches, Secure Access SSL VPN and firewall/VPN and Intrusion Detection and Prevention appliances, and UAC solution, new features and benefits include:

• Consistent monitoring across Juniper network and security products
• Implementation of policy changes network-wide to mitigate threats
• Policy versioning with rollback capabilities
• Efficient network-wide control with centralized management
• XML schema-based management architecture for extensibility
• Open, standard northbound SOAP/XML API for ease of integration
• Role-based administration

The latest NSM capabilities enable innovative businesses to also centrally manage their comprehensive Juniper Networks Adaptive Threat Management and Access Control Solutions. Juniper Networks Adaptive Threat Management Solution is a dynamic and high-performance security solution that leverages interoperability between security components to provide network-wide visibility and control in order to adapt to changing risks. Juniper Networks Access Control Solution delivers a comprehensive network access control (NAC) security solution that protects vital network resources and applications by provisioning secure local access across the distributed enterprise.

Mike Harding, Vice President of Network Management, Juniper Networks remarked, ”Juniper is committed to delivering fast, reliable and secure high-performance network and security solutions that provide operational efficiency so that customers can concentrate on their business objectives instead of their network. With our latest capabilities in NSM, device technicians, network administrators, and security administrators can now work together to improve management efficiency and security, reduce overhead, and lower operating costs.”

The new Juniper Networks Network and Security Manager (NSM) 2008.1 is available today. For more information about Juniper’s management software for secure, high-performance networking, please visit Juniper Networks Management Software Product and Services.

Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses.

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

Web Hosting For Facebook, OpenSocial Developers, from Sun Microsystems

Santa Clara , California - (The Hosting News) - August 4, 2008 - Technology firm and web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc., recently collaborated with Joyent, to accelerate the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments.

Providing up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent’s Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun’s ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost.

Akash Garg, CTO of Hi5 noted, ”We appreciate what Sun and Joyent are doing to accelerate development of OpenSocial. Our developers look forward to developing and deploying on Joyent Accelerators that provide a reference architecture that has proven to be successful across other platforms.”

Social applications are the cornerstone of social networking web sites. Recommendation-based growth can mean widespread and very rapid distribution so applications must be architected and built for a large user base. Developers using the new service from Sun and Joyent will now have this flexibility and scalability via access to the Sun-powered, OpenSolaris-based Sun Fire x4150 and Sun Fire x4500 Joyent Cloud. Cloud computing allows developers to start with a small set of resources capable of serving thousands of users and provision additional resources on-demand to scale to millions of users as required.

Jason Hoffman, Founder and CTO of Joyent remarked, ”Bumpersticker started on a Joyent Accelerator as an experimental Facebook application 11 months ago. Bumpersticker has now grown to over one billion page views a month. Sun’s OpenSolaris has helped Joyent meet our clients’ needs to scale quickly. The open-sourcing of Solaris has made a big difference to our business model. It allows us to scale virtually and keep up with the rapid growth in demand for Joyent’s Cloud computing service.”

Mark Otero, Founder and CEO of Klicknation.com offered, ”We have been using Joyent’s Cloud for eight months. Joyent and the OpenSolaris-based infrastructure they provide has helped us reliably scale to over four million users and over 22 million widget views a day at an extremely low cost.”

Adam Souzis, architect of the Glam Application Platform commented, ”Developers of Glam applications need more than a good idea. To succeed, you need to start small on a flexible platform that can rapidly scale from a few hundred users to several million users. That’s why Glam has chosen to partner with Joyent to offer infrastructure to developers building applications on Glam’s OpenSocial-based platform.”

Juan Carlos Soto, VP of Global Market Development and Engineering of Sun Microsystems added, ”Social applications are one of the fastest growing software categories and will continue momentum with the promise of monetization offered by Hi5, Facebook, Myspace, Google’s Orkut, LinkedIn Glam and other social networking sites with memberships that number in the millions. With this new program, Sun can provide social application developers access to Sun’s technology and expertise in building large-scale applications with Joyent helping them to deploy on a highly scalable and reliable platform.”

In conjunction with this offering, Sun and Joyent are organizing a multi-city Social App Tour to offer training on developing web-scale social applications on the Cloud. The tour will travel to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Boston, New York and Austin/Dallas between September and December. Training will cover architecting and designing social applications that are capable of scaling to deal with viral growth and will demonstrate how to use tools such as Dtrace to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and optimize code for maximum scalability

Joyent provides Cloud computing services. Joyent’s goal is to help developers go from idea to millions of customers served without the pain of large capital outlays and long-term vendor contracts. Our clients use Joyent Accelerators to power large scale web applications, including apps for Facebook and OpenSocial. Joyent Accelerators are virtualized servers coupled with the highest grade network and routing fabric available. Joyent’s cloud is open, scalable, and fast.

The Sun Startup Essentials program is designed to help eligible U.S. based startup companies get to market faster while conserving cash. The program offers its members a range of discounted Sun products and services, including its award-winning Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology, and Sun’s select StorageTek line of products, including modular disk arrays, NAS and tape storage products.

In addition to offering products and services to eligible U.S. based members, Sun also is offering free technical advice via email and access to free software such as Apache, MySQL and Perl (AMP) optimized to run on the Solaris 10 OS. Program members can also select the web hosting infrastructure from Sun partners based on Sun technologies along with services they need, in case they choose not to build and operate the infrastructure themselves. Sun develops technologies designed to power comprehensive markets, in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about Sun’s Startup Essentials program, visit: www.sun.com/startups.

For more information about the social application tour and free hosting offer, please visit: www.joyent.com/a/socialdev.