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Deliver Enterprise Apps with Improved Performance, Speed

'Net Features : wm-webhosting — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:56:00 GMT

Performance is everything for enterprise organizations, particularly when it comes to delivering applications to thousands of users at once. In order to improve application delivery performance, Array Networks has announced four new enterprise-class application delivery controllers: APV2600 for small-to-medium-sized businesses, APV5600 for enterprise’s with ‘larger traffic demands,” APV10600 for global organizations and service providers and Array’s top-shelf application delivery controller, the APV10650. Each of these new appliances places a particular emphasis on providing enhanced price performance for 2048-bit SSL acceleration, which is currently the most common “advanced” feature for customers that are buying a load balancer or application delivery controller, as it helps ensure secure applications, content and transactions over the Internet. In addition, these new delivery controllers provide server and link load balancing, global server load balancing (GSLB), connection multiplexing, SSL acceleration, compression, caching, traffic shaping and application security. It also comes with a number of “next generation features” at no extra cost, such as: - ePolicy scripting that allows administrators to create custom logic to control application traffic - IPv6 Ready Forum Gold Certification that supports feature parity and the ability to operate in IPv6 networks - Support for migration from IPv4 to IPv6, along with a means for both...(read more)

Percona Offered by Big Hosting Companies

'Net Features : wm-webhosting — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:30:00 GMT

High performance is, obviously, the ultimate goal of any Web hosting company worth its salt. Perhaps that is why so many notable names in the hosting industry have been turning to Percona , the enterprise-level MySQL support, consulting, training and development services provider. Basically, Percona works to make MySQL faster and more reliable for its clients, and as of late, it’s being seeing “rapid and increasing adoption” by hosting providers, some of which are pretty huge names, including RackSpace, Blue Host, HP, Joyent, Crucial Web Hosting and SpeedySparrow. These providers are all making available to their customers the latest release of Percona’s enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL, known as Percona Server version 5.5.28-29.1. In fact, Percona Server is actually one of the top three most deployed MySQL alternatives around, according to a report from 451 Research. And it’s no surprise why, as Percona Server offers hosting providers advanced features that can speed up their searches and increase security, as well as giving administrators more control over their server environments. Plus, it’s a free, open source solution that provides breakthrough performance, scalability, features and instrumentation, in addition to self-tuning algorithms and support for high-performance hardware. Not too shabby....(read more)

Do Business in the Cloud with New VMware-based Service

Michael Garrity — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:40:00 GMT

If you’ve been thinking about moving your business to the cloud, Web hosting provider American Internet Services (AIS) may have just the solution for you with its new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering AIS BusinessCloud1.

Designed with a keen eye on security, performance and redundancy, BusinessCloud1 is based on the popular VMware software suite, which features computing and storage technology from Cisco, Dell, Arista and NetApp. VMware offers AIS extensive functionality and a robust ecosystem of both support and product development, as well as a widespread adoption rate around the industry.

Users will have access to integrated VMware network and storage quality of features that are set to production service standards, meaning network storage will be redundant, diversified and optimized for performance. It also comes with self-healing systems architecture and an automated failover operating system; the AIS regional optical and transit networks provide high-speed network access.

Perhaps the best part of this new service is the variety of ways that a business can employ it. Companies can use BusinessCloud1 as an IT extension to give a direct connection to their current VMware infrastructure to be managed using vCenter. Or, they can use it as a hybrid cloud solution with instant IT scalability, built-in firewalling, a single management console and complete public and private network isolation.

Last, but not least, BusinessCloud1 can be used as a disaster recovery site that mirrors data between sites with full infrastructure duplication.

The AIS BusinessCloud1 IaaS is available as either a pay-as-you-go service or allocated resources basis, and both options come with real-time support and access to the self-provisioning VMware vCloudDirector portal and API.

Monitoring changes in the modern data center

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:07:00 GMT

Configuration management solution provider Evolven this week released its software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based Change Monitoring service.

The Evolven solution monitors, analyzes and delivers information on changes and configurations in the data center and on the cloud, giving those in IT an opportunity to reduce the risk of potentially risky changes and improve overall stability.

“IT Operations needs to take a new approach,” says Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven, “Evolven’s Change Monitoring solution was specifically designed to meet the demanding dynamics and complexity requirements driving today’s IT environments. It will allow IT operations to know exactly what has changed in their environments, eliminate configuration drift, maintain environment consistency, validate changes, and investigate incident root-cause.”

A recent survey found that of IT professionals, 69% held that their current configuration management approach was ineffective for running modern data centers and cloud.

Cloud Hosting Launched By DomainPeople

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:51:00 GMT

DomainPeople, one of the earliest official domain name registrars, today announced the launch of its cloud-based web hosting services.

The company's hosting is powered by FlexCloud, a scalable hosting infrastructure. The company's first level of hosting, CloudHost Primer, is intended for indiviauls and small businesses.

“We are very pleased to enter the hosting marketplace with our scalable platform powered by the FlexCloud back end system,” said Chris Kruk, product manager at DomainPeople. “By using a cloud computing infrastructure, we are able to protect our customer’s site performance from any spikes in traffic. Our cloud-based solution gives us a clear competitive advantage and the ability to flexibly adapt to customer demand. We also have the right mix of additional tools that businesses need for success, including database management, enhanced security options, and advanced site building applications.”

PEER 1 offering Managed Hosting for Magento Enterprise

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:49:00 GMT

IT hosting specialist PEER 1 Hosting has partned with retail eCommerce platform provider and eBay darling Magento to provide the Magento Optimized Managed Hosting offering, an infrastructure solution designed to improve performance and reliability of Magento-based storefronts.

"PEER 1 Hosting has been a long and trusted partner with Magento. They understand our business and the needs of our merchants and have continued to develop solutions that have helped us grow our business," said Bob Schwartz, President, Magento Inc. "With this new hosting offering, our merchants will be able to focus on their businesses and know there is a robust supporting infrastructure in place that will make the shopping experience better for their customers. More importantly as a merchant's business continues to grow, they can scale the solution to suit their needs."

Features of the hosting offering include optimized RHEL 5 and 6, deployments of Varnish and Nginx for content delivery, a Magento-tuned Apache/PHP app server with memcache for performance, and a lot more. Couple that with PEER 1's 10GB FastFiber Network and yuo must just have a winner for e-commerce merchants on the Magento platform.

LunarPages Boost Reseller Hosting Specs, Reduces Prices

Pete Prestipino — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:30:00 GMT

Reseller web hosting is one of the most competitive environments on the business web. While vendors could compete on the quality of customer service, it often codes down to storage bandwidth, and price. Web hosting service provider LunarPages has made several modifications to its reseller hosting program which will hopefully make the company more competitive.

LunarPages hosting plans now include 200GB of storage (up from 50GB), 1400 GB of bandwidth (up from 500GB), and has reduced its price to $19.95 per month.

“We recognize that, in our saturated market, we can easily offer relief to webmasters by enhancing our Reseller Plan and reducing their financial investment. We also believe that offering 50 GB - 200 GB Storage and 500 GB - 1400 GB Bandwidth per month proves our commitment to providing the very best web hosting service to these resellers and ensuring their satisfaction with Lunarpages,” said George Natzic, CEO of Lunarpages.

NaviSite Adds Features to Cloud Platform

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:40:00 GMT

Web host NaviSite added new management and control features to its cloud hosting platform NaviCloud.

Features include Role Based Access Control (used to assign and match user access privileges to individual roles and responsibilities), Airlock (which allows developer to lock down IT environments and impoting virtual machines for test workloads) and Dynamic Resource Instrumention (for control and creation of rules and policies over computing resources).

The features are available through NaviSite's Web-based platform console dubbed Appcenter.

"Enterprises require a robust set of management tools to customize and secure their cloud environments," says Denis Martin, executive vice president and CTO at NaviSite. "These new features are part of our unceasing commitment to innovation, as we provide customers with a state-of-the-art cloud environment that mitigates risk, lowers cost, and maximizes the value of their business applications."

DiscountASP.NET & VevoCart Partner for Customer Discounts

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:33:00 GMT

Windows hosting provider DiscountASP.net and VevoCart (shopping cart) have formed a partnership where DiscountASP customers can receive a 15% discount on the VevoCart application. VevoCart Storefront customers can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET web hosting annual plan.

”We wanted to partner with a reputable ASP.NET web hosting company.” said John Panyavorachart, General Manager, VevoCart.“After thoroughly testing out their ASP.NET web hosting platform, we confirm that DiscountASP.NET provides a quality hosting service that complements VevoCart.”

Codero Meets SAS 70 Type II Standards

Administrator — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:44:00 GMT

Codero successfully completed the Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 audit which is used in evaluating information security processes and control procedures. The certification process was created by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and allows infrastructure-as-a-service providers to remain transparent with customers in proving a secure system of internal controls is utilized.

SAS 70 Type II certification is an in-depth follow-up to Type I to verify and validate that a company is actually adhering to the procedures outlined in Type I and that they are operating effectively. Codero completed Type I certification for its data center and corporate-wide operations March 4, 2010 and followed up with the Type II certification which will now be conducted annually. The SAS Type II report may be used as a substitute for performing first-hand testing in conjunction with financial statement preparation or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

According to Shawn Hashmi, Director, Operations at Codero, “A SAS 70 audit offers proof of our security expertise. It allows us to disclose our control activities and processes to our customers in a uniform reporting format that is widely recognized internationally and gives our customers confidence that Codero has the safeguards in place to meet their needs for the highest type of security.”

Eco-Friendly Hosting Plans at Domain.com

Administrator — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:11:00 GMT

Domain.com is hoping the trends towards green computing is here to stay.

The Web services company unveiled an eco-friendly web hosting plans, featuring a 150% wind power offset for hosting servers, tree planting for each new account, and computer equipment donations for reuse and recycling.

“Domain.com’s updated hosting plans reflect an aggressive commitment to do what we can to help the planet be more environmentally sustainable,” said David Andrews, Brand Manager for Domain.com. “Our customers can also show their commitment by displaying wind-powered hosting badges on their websites to let visitors know their websites are eco-friendly.”

It's not easy being green. Domain.com's environmentally-friendly initiatives include wind power offset for all web hosting servers through Bonneville Environmental Foundation, used computer and server donations to a Basel Action network certified e-recycler, a tree planted for each new web hosting account via Trees for the Future, and several other steps including recognizing and supporting employee efforts in the areas of composting, vegetable gardening, and alternative transportation.