Web Hosting Application, Ensim Unify 4.5 Shared Edition, Supports Microsoft HMC (Try Hosted Groupware for iPhone)

Web Hosting Application, Ensim Unify 4.5 Shared Edition, Supports Microsoft HMC

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - August 19, 2008 - Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application, Ensim Corporation, will support the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Version 4.5 (HMC 4.5).

Francois Depayras, Vice President of marketing and alliances at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”We remain committed to giving our customers the tools that keep them ahead of the curve by supporting a variety of the latest applications. With Unify, service provider customers can focus on delivering their hosted services as opposed to developing them, and are afforded the convenience of deploying these services over any type of infrastructure, whether it be the new HMC 4.5 or a homegrown platform.”

As a participant in Microsoft’s Technical Adoption Program (TAP), Ensim extends Microsoft’s technology with its Ensim Unify Shared Edition, a single, centralized software application that simplifies the day-to-day burden of activating, configuring and managing a service provider’s hosted infrastructure. The latest edition of Unify Shared Edition, Version 4.5, can be installed in a wide range of deployment scenarios, including the new HMC 4.5, HMC 4.0, and homegrown infrastructures.

Some of the features available in Ensim Unify 4.5 are:

Support for Microsoft HMC 4.5: Ensim is pleased to announce that Unify Platform 4.5 is compatible with the latest release of Microsoft’s HMC product

Control Panel Customization Using Role Management: With Unify’s role management feature set, service providers and reseller administrators gain granular control over all operations performed by the system administrators.

Support for Ensim Migration Tool: Service providers can now use the Ensim’s Migration Tool (EMT) to connect to existing organizations, resellers, and users that were created using Microsoft’s HMC solution. This feature can also be used to migrate organizations (OUs) and users (created using a legacy solution) to Ensim Unify without having to re-create them.

New Password Management Enhancements: Service providers can now configure Unify to accept more than one password hint question.

Support for Microsoft .NET 3.0: In Unify platform 4.5.0, the Unify provisioning engine and control panel servers use Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.

New Web Services Methods: Unify platform 4.5.0 includes 50+ new web service methods.

Confirmation for Organization and Reseller Removal: As an added safety precaution, when enabled, this feature requires administrators to enter an authentication password before being able to delete any organization or reseller. Ensim Unify Shared Edition, including support for HMC 4.5, is available for purchase immediately.

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.

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

Web Hosting Managed Services Provider Performance, Powered by SevOne

Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - August 19, 2008 - Network and Application Performance Management tools and solutions developer, SevOne, Inc., was recently selected by disaster recovery, managed hosting and data center services firm, DBSi.

SevOne’s network and application performance management solution, PAS (Performance Appliance Solution), is expected to enable DBSi to monitor, poll and provide critical application performance management data on hundreds of individual devices and interfaces at a fraction of the cost of legacy framework solutions.

Using SevOne’s embedded statistics to provide performance polling for individual devices/components or individual metrics within devices, DBSi IT staff provides clients with past trending history, bandwidth utilization, packet loss and more. This valuable capability enables DBSi to improve their level of visibility into circuit connectivity performance and adjust bandwidth needs on-the-fly.

Christopher Black, Director of IT and Service Delivery Organization at DBSi noted, ”We’ve traditionally relied on open source solutions for monitoring individual devices and client applications. As our data center and client volume increased, we saw the need to migrate to a commercially supported monitoring application. With SevOne’s turnkey management solution, we can monitor all of our clients simultaneously, consolidating information into a single pane of glass, enabling us to quickly respond to issues that arise.”

Mr. Black added, ”As we dynamically increase the number of nodes being monitored during the normal course of business, SevOne has always been able to keep pace with our business. SevOne has freed up our staff allowing us to work strategically versus tactically, improving internal efficiencies and external reporting.”

Michael Phelan, CEO of SevOne remarked, ”DBSi had a clear vision for migrating away from open source applications - often the lynchpin in hosting managed services - towards a solution that fostered improved device polling and reporting efficiencies. We’re grateful for the opportunity to help DBSi fulfill this vision and we look forward to working closely with them in the future in areas such as synthetic application management.”

SevOne is a comprehensive application and network performance monitoring appliance providing network managers with the real-time information they need to keep today’s dynamic networks and applications functioning at peak capacity. PAS is a highly affordable alternative to existing legacy framework solutions.

DBSi, headquartered in Bethlehem, PA, is the leading provider of disaster recovery, managed hosting, and data center services in the Mid-Atlantic. DBSI is firmly focused on being the most technically agile and client-focused provider in the region with a client base that extends across the entire country. DBSi merges over 25 years of expertise in enterprise-level infrastructure with a common-sense approach to business relationships.

SevOne, Inc. is a network performance management company dedicated to providing next-generation tools and services that enable enterprises to keep increasingly-complex networks and applications functioning at peak performance levels. Based on a scalable and flexible modern software architecture incorporating open web-services API, Web 2.0 GUI and peer-to-peer clustering, the SevOne solution provides managers, architects and engineers with the most accurate and timely data available to ensure enterprise-wise network performance and reliability.

To learn more about DBSi, please visit: www.dbsintl.com.

For more information about SevOne, Inc., please visit: www.sevone.com.

Web Hosting SMEStorage, Debuts Data Access Solution Integration

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - August 18, 2008 - Web hosting integration facilitator, TheSMESpace’s storage solution, has developed a public sharing file component, which integrates with Picnik, an inline image editing service.

The new Facebook component can also share Flickr, for easy image uploads. Ian Osborne, CEO, commented, ”We are committed to providing increased integration with other high value web application services so that our users can get the most from their data. We believe storage to be a commodity and that the true value of working data is what you can do with it, how you can access it, and how it integrates with others.”

Mr. Osborne added, ”We already provide our users the ability to use a rich web client, iGoogle, the iPhone or a light mobile client to access their data. We also provide email backup and business collaboration features that include business groups, revision control, firewall friendly file sharing, all of which we intend to augment over the next 3 months.

”Our Storage service is built on top of Amazon S3 and we will make an exciting announcement about new ways to access our service quite soon. We will also be announcing some exciting new collaboration integration to enable our users to do even more with their data.”

SMEStorage provides access to data using various channels such as a rich web client, iGoogle, IPhone, Mobile, Facebook and Joomla. It uses Amazon S3 as to store its data and provides new users with 250MB free. TheSMESpace provides online and mobile applications for businesses and individuals - TheSMESpace is your space for business.

To learn more, please visit: http://thesmespace.com.

Web Hosting Provider, Goldleaf, Reports Financial Results

Norcross, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - August 18, 2008 - Financial institution web hosting and design technology solutions firm, Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc., has reported financial results for the three and six months ending June 30, 2008.

Lynn Boggs, CEO of Goldleaf noted, ”We have had exceptional results in our payments processing segment, specifically in our teller capture and remote deposit automation products. As our product mix continues to shift to payments, data management, and hardware, we now generate more than two-thirds of our revenues from these rapidly growing business channels. While we cautiously watch the economy, our ongoing focus on these growth areas have allowed us to remain competitive, and we expect to leverage these elements for continued growth as we exit 2008 and into 2009.”
Revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 totaled $20.5 million, representing a 39.0% increase over the second quarter of 2007. Operating income totaled $1.0 million for the second quarter of 2008 compared to $0.3 million for the second quarter of 2007. Net income available to common stockholders totaled $0.3 million, or $0.02 per share, in the second quarter of 2008, versus net income available to common stockholders of $0.1 million, or $0.01 per share, in the second quarter of 2007.

Revenue for the first six months of 2008 totaled $39.7 million, compared to $27.8 million for the same period of 2007. Operating income totaled $1.0 million for the first six months of 2008 compared to an operating loss of $225,000 for the first six months of 2007. Net loss available to common stockholders totaled $(191,000), or $(0.01) per share, for the first six months of 2008, versus a net loss available to common stockholders of $(276,000), or $(0.02) per share, for the first six months of 2007.

EBITDAS is a non-GAAP financial measurement calculated as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and non-cash stock based compensation expense. EBITDAS totaled $3.3 million and $5.7 million, for the second quarter and first six months of 2008, respectively, as compared to $1.6 million and $2.1 million in the second quarter and first six months of 2007, respectively.

If the Company included the adjustments related to the CBS, Datatrade, and the Alogent acquisitions, which could not be recognized in the post acquisition financial statements, adjusted EBITDAS for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008 would have been $3.5 million and $6.9 million, respectively. (See Reconciliations of net income (loss) to EBITDAS and Adjusted EBITDAS.)

Goldleaf’s accomplishments in the first half of 2008 include:

• Relocated our corporate headquarters to Norcross, Georgia;
• Substantially completed the integration of Alogent, including the consolidation of Alogent’s Alpharetta offices into our Norcross facility; and
• Participated in three May investor conferences: JMP Securities Research Conference, FBR Growth Conference and DA Davidson and Co. Financial Services Conference.

On August 7, 2008, the company appointed Dan Owens as its chief financial officer. Most recently, Mr. Owens was Goldleaf’s chief accounting officer, with primary responsibilities over accounting, financial reporting and analysis. Mr. Owens replaces Scott Meyerhoff, who has served as acting CFO since November 2007. Mr. Meyerhoff will remain with the company’s executive management team as EVP of finance and strategy.

Mr. Boggs remarked, ”Dan’s strong financial management experience, financial industry insight and leadership qualities have played a key role in our success. Scott has been a tremendous asset to Goldleaf, and will continue to make an impact on our future strategic initiatives and overall business direction.”

The following is forward-looking and the actual results may differ materially. The Company’s outlook includes the effect of all acquisitions completed to date. Further, this outlook does not give effect to any additional potential mergers or acquisitions that may be consummated.

The Company anticipates achieving adjusted revenues for the full year 2008 of $87.0 million and adjusted EBITDAS for the full year 2008 of $15.0 million.

Goldleaf has a replay of its live conference call broadcast, available online under the Investor Relations tab and at www.earnings.com, for 30 days using the same links.

Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc. (GFSI) offers a product suite that provides core data processing, item processing and check imaging, ACH origination and processing, remote check capture and deposit processing, accounts receivable financing solutions, a teller automation system, turn-key leasing solutions, financial institution website design and hosting and retail inventory management services. Goldleaf believes its suite of products and services allows financial institutions and small to medium-sized business customers to compete more effectively.

To learn more about Goldleaf Financial Solutions, please visit: www.goldleaf.com.