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November 18, 2008 – 9:00 pmSan Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Clustered hosting provider, and Rackspace Hosting’s cloud division, Mosso, has expanded its leadership team, naming Emil Sayegh as general manager, previously the vice president of the product group at Rackspace.
Mr. Sayegh’s responsibilities at Rackspace included the development, marketing and management of new products and services for the company’s managed hosting product line.
Prior to joining Rackspace, Mr. Sayegh spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product development and marketing roles. Most recently, Mr. Sayegh was the services marketing and development director at Dell Inc. where he oversaw the global services roadmap. Additionally, Mr. Sayegh served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents in the fields of electronics and telecommunication.
Lanham Napier, CEO, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ”As the VP of our product group, Emil directed the launches of multiple, successful products including the company’s Hosted Microsoft Exchange and our virtualization product set. Our cloud hosting initiatives are extremely important to the company’s future, which is why we’ve selected someone with a winning track record to run that business.”
Rackspace’s cloud hosting division is currently hosting more than 80,000 websites and applications on Cloud Sites, reflecting a 175 percent increase over this time last year. Last month the company unveiled its cloud hosting strategy, including the announcement of two acquisitions and a suite of cloud solutions at the Rackspace Cloud Event. The two newest additions to the product suite, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, will leverage technology acquired through the acquisitions of Jungle Disk.
Mr. Sayegh remarked, ”I am honored to be joining the cloud division. This is a great opportunity to lead what could be one of the biggest technology evolutions the market has seen - cloud computing. Cloud technologies delivered by Rackspace will provide the cost and scalability advantages of the cloud with Rackspace’s world-leading service approach, making the cloud both affordable and easy to use.”
Mr. Sayegh holds a bachelor of science in Engineering and a master of science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.
A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments, by handling infrastructure maintenance and management. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust, a provider of business-class hosted email solutions. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.
Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud, providing enterprise-grade hosting through an easily managed interface so that developers, designers and IT managers can deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily. Founded by two former Rackspace employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture.
To learn more about Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.com.
For more information, please visit: www.mosso.com.
San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Server software provider, Wowza Media Systems, has made available its Media Server Pro Subscription Edition, featuring friction-free monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength solution.
The media server is designed to make it both ”painless” and cost-effective for any CDN, streaming service or hosting provider to offer lucrative Flash media streaming services to customers.
Phil Koblence, VP, Operations, New York Internet, a Data Center services firm remarked, ”We chose Wowza Pro Subscription Edition because it enabled us to increase our capacity in nearly real time and offer clients the ability to host their streaming solutions without a large initial licensing fee. Additionally, this new model allows us to benefit from Wowza’s superb software and efficiently roll it into our existing hosting offerings.”
Wowza Media Server Pro, recently declared the #1 media server choice by the readers of Streaming Media Magazine, now counts more than 14,000 global licensees worldwide, including a rapidly growing number of service providers such as T-Systems (Deutsche Telecom), Interoute, Avacast, SimpleCDN, StreamUK, Nacamar, and StreamZilla, among others.
Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition offers service providers the most full-featured version of Wowza Pro and a risk-free, flexible model for managing their licensing costs according to their customers’ streaming demands.
Key Benefits include:
- No upfront financial commitment
- No long-term contracts
- No minimum number of server instances
- No per-GB fees - just low fixed per-server monthly fee that declines in volume
- No cost for future software upgrades
- Flexible capacity and cost management - add/delete servers as needed and only pay for servers used
In a recent daily briefing, Jim Davis, Senior Analyst, Tier1 Research, wrote that Wowza’s subscription model ”is going to help streaming service providers and hosting companies by enabling them to keep a lid on capital expenditures. They can pass these cost savings on, enabling them to compete for customers that might not otherwise bother to buy CDN services.”
Other Wowza Pro licensees offer similar perspectives:
Michael Terretta, CEO, Advection.NET, a global CDN added, ”When serving media clients in broadcast and entertainment, it is imperative for a CDN to have flexible licensing for media server infrastructure that lets us adapt to clients’ needs in an economical, competitive and growth-oriented way without taking an up-front hit to the bottom line. Wowza’s friction-free licensing model along with Wowza Pro’s industrial strength performance and functionality gives us precisely that.”
Troy Leaver, Systems Administrator, Mediaserve, a family-owned hosting provider noted, ”Having served our customers with Windows Media streaming services for several years, as Flash streaming grew ever more popular, we knew we were going to have to look into providing Flash streaming. We chose Wowza Media Server Pro based on features and reputation, but it was Wowza’s approachable subscription licensing that made it possible for us to roll out Flash streaming services.”
Brad Mitchell, CEO, MojoHost, offering first-class hosting solutions since 1999 remarked, ”Our decision to make Wowza Pro our streaming platform of choice has allowed us to deliver robust, highly scalable Flash streaming to the global marketplace. Wowza’s subscription licensing enables us to deliver services at a price that lets our customers of all sizes achieve a substantial return on their investment.”
Wowza’s friction-free philosophy extends beyond just offering its customers irresistible economics. The full-featured Wowza Pro Subscription Edition includes exclusive functionality that enables service providers to offer Flash services that eliminate friction for their customers as well.
Wowza Pro’s exclusive SHOUTcast-to-Flash streaming capability is a no-barrier way to offer services to Web radio netcasters who wish to reach larger audiences without having to invest in Flash-compatible technologies.
Frank Wilson, Chief Engineer, SimpleCDN, a premier CDN provider commented, ”SimpleCDN chose Wowza Pro Subscription Edition, because it allows us to instantly scale our server infrastructure, without the need to constantly track licensing agreements. Overall the choice to go with Wowza vs. FMIS/FMSS was easy - Wowza allows us to fully utilize our 64-bit infrastructure, adds valuable features such as RTP, RTSP and MPEG-TS support, not to mention its rich Java plug-in capabilities. Wowza was a perfect fit for us, allowing SimpleCDN to provide the exact services our customers were looking for.”
By offering numerous free tools, such as the Centralized Management Utility, a Live Stream Monitoring Tool, and a fully Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Wowza also reduces friction for creating, operating and growing services efficiently.
Available immediately, Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition starts at $65/month for the first Wowza Media Server Pro server instance and lower pricing for subsequent instances.
Wowza Media Systems is a software company solely focused on making industrial-strength media servers. With the February 2007 introduction of its award-winning product, Wowza Media Server Pro, Wowza has taken a leadership position in redefining Flash streaming. Wowza has not only radically changed Flash streaming economics, it has also revolutionized online media by introducing innovative and exclusive capabilities that make live, on-demand, and interactive Flash media streaming feasible for a broad range of customers. Deployed by thousands of global licensees in entertainment, social media, advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet commerce, Wowza customers include such well-known companies as Sun Microsystems, Interoute, RAINet, Astral Media, and T-Systems.
For more information, please visit: www.wowzamedia.com.
Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Web hosting provider, LeaseWeb, in order to facilitate the exponential growth in bandwidth demand from existing and new clients, has more than doubled the capacity of its hosting network, from 210 Gbps to 500 Gbps, or half a Terabit.
Pieter Dijkhuis, Finance Director of LeaseWeb says, ”Our client database has expanded to approximately 10,000 this year. We are pleased with the trust that our clients have given us. Doubling the number of clients was also a logical step for us. Until last year, we primarily focused on developing a stable structure for our hosting network and our support organization. The current structure of our organization allows us to easily facilitate further growth. Growth is a key requirement for LeaseWeb to be able to maintain competitive prices and an attractive price-quality ratio.”
LeaseWeb expanded its capacity to 500 Gbps by purchasing additional port capacity from telecom carriers (transit) and Internet exchanges (peering). Since June 2008, actual bandwidth usage by LeaseWeb’s clients has increased from 100 to 240 Gigabits per second (Gbps).
The available capacity of 500 Gbps is intentionally twice the actual use of bandwidth because of LeaseWeb’s ongoing commitment to providing quickly scalable hosting solutions.
Mr. Dijkhuis explained, ”Bandwidth availability is a key requirement for many clients to be able to expand their Web environment. This is equally important as the available datacenter space and inventories of network and server equipment. Our proposition is designed to meet those requirements. We have ample space available in our CO2-neutral EvoSwitch datacenter, among other facilities, and we maintain large inventories of equipment for clients such as HP, Dell and Cisco.”
LeaseWeb’s hosting network bandwidth capacity of half a Terabit is exceptional. Bastiaan Spandaw, network architect at LeaseWeb confirmed, ”I know of virtually no other hosting providers in Europe that have this amount of bandwidth in their networks. LeaseWeb is one of the few hosting providers in Europe that have this much bandwidth available.”
The total capacity of LeaseWeb’s hosting network was already increased from 160 to 210 Gbps in late May 2008. And now another 290 Gbps have been added.
Mr. Spandaw added, ”The extremely rapid growth of the past few months is not that surprising. If you have ample bandwidth capacity, you are bound to attract clients that use much bandwidth. And this makes our network grow even faster.”
Mr. Dijkhuis added, ”October in particular showed a rapid increase in new clients and bandwidth usage. In that respect, October was definitely not a recession month for us. We expect continued strong growth going forward.”
The strong growth of LeaseWeb’s network is due to existing and new bulk users of bandwidth. These are clients who distribute their streaming audio and video data through the LeaseWeb network, such as 123Video.nl (www.123video.nl), the Danish company Octoshape (www.octoshape.com), product comparison site Twenga (www.twenga.com), Garage TV from Belgium (www.garagetv.be), Turkish media giant Haber7 (www.haber7.com), and the German broadcasting company WIGE Media AG.
LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that is primarily geared towards the professional market. The company is among the top-20 hosting providers worldwide and its services include collocation, dedicated servers, webhosting, server virtualization, streaming, and domain name registration. LeaseWeb is the proprietor of a first-class network that offers a bandwidth of more than 210 Gbps, spanning four datacenters in the Amsterdam region. LeaseWeb is also present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid.
To learn more, please visit: www.leaseweb.com.
Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application firm, Ensim Corporation, has partnered with solutions integrator, Norseman Defense Technologies, to offer the Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to government agencies.
Under the terms of the agreement, Norseman Defense Technologies will sell and support Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to its nation-wide customer base of public sector organizations.
Ensim Unify allows organizations to meet security and compliance requirements by enabling access control, identity management, change management, automated provisioning, reporting and auditing, password and role management, along with delegated administration and device/client configuration. Available as tools or a complete suite, Ensim Unify delivers instant savings - reducing the number of help desk calls by as much as forty percent - and by eliminating repetitive IT administrative tasks, helping improve workforce effectiveness and enabling IT departments in medium and large-sized organizations to focus on more strategic tasks.
Justin Bonner, Vice-President, Norseman Defense Technologies remarked, ”In today’s economy of speed and of choices, possessing the tools necessary to identify a client’s needs and deliver a solution is paramount. Norseman prides itself on our ability to exceed client expectations. Being able to choose a single partner allows our clients the ability to make choices with ease and flexibility, and we’re confident that by partnering will Ensim we will only improve upon our ability to meet our clients’ needs.”
Norseman Defense serves numerous government agencies, including The National Institute of Health, FBI, FEMA, Navy and the US General Services Administration. Norseman provides clients with an array of computer hardware and software solutions, adding a compliment of services such as network and custom system design, consultation, installation and management support to create a complete go-to-market offering. Norseman will sell and support the complete Ensim Unify Enterprise Suite, as well as its individual modules, including:
Microsoft Active Directory Manager Provides greater control over Active Directory and facilitates the administration of complex tasks, while reducing the number of privileged accounts and preventing unauthorized changes.
Microsoft Exchange Manager
Prevents misconfiguration of Exchange server, increases uptime and automates key tasks.
Mobility Manager Enables easy configuration and wipe of smart phones Over The Air. Self-Service and User Manager
Lets employees easily self-manage, from distribution lists to email profiles, reducing helpdesk and IT time by half.
Password Manager allows employees to reset their own passwords via a web-based portal.
Scott Young, Vice President of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”Norseman Defense Technologies provides high quality services to many of the most critical government agencies. Norseman will play an integral role in extending our reach into new verticals and enabling us to deliver greater value to our customers.”
Norseman Defense Technologies, a small, woman-owned businesses, is an information technology solutions integrator based in Elkridge, MD. Norseman has over fifteen years of experience in delivering value to Federal Government entities and provides premier quality computer technology products and services at the most competitive prices possible. Norseman is driven to meet the information technology needs of its clients with a focus on exceeding expectations.
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.
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