(The Hosting News) - 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) officially announced that Miercom’s H3C® S12508 data center core switch and its H3C® S5820X top-of-rack switch the industry’s first data center class products to receive the Miercom “Certified Green™” designation. The Miercom testing confirmed that the H3C switches are designed to provide enterprise customers superior performance, scale and resiliency while using up to 50 percent less energy than competitive solutions, helping to dramatically lower the cost of data center operations.

“By the end of 2010, more than 50 percent of large data centers will reach maximum power consumption levels, leaving consumers in a major energy crisis as these organizations will be unable to scale data operations to support their business needs,” says Andreas Antonopoulos, senior vice president for research-advisory firm Nemertes Research. “This means power efficiency and accurate data on power consumption is absolutely vital for the future. To avert this crisis, organizations need to not only measure their own data on power consumption, but also, they need to begin demanding that vendors disclose all product efficiency data in order to serve as a key criterion for customers who are choosing the tools that will best provide them with sustainable next-generation data centers.”

The Miercom certification detailed several factors that provided 3Com’s H3C solutions with a distinct advantage over other products including: a modern design that leverages the latest full feature/low power ASIC technology, highly efficient modular I/O components and power supplies and a set of power saving features that can be configured through management.

In addition, the report highlighted H3C’s Intelligent Resilient Framework® (IRF) technology as another 3Com “green” innovation that further reduces energy consumption by helping customers to simplify and collapse network architectures into flatter, two tier network designs, requiring fewer discrete platforms and network layers, and further reducing power and cooling requirements.

“I would like to congratulate 3Com on being the first networking company to receive recognition for its design of green data center switches,” said Rob Smithers, CEO of Miercom. “We are proud to recognize solutions such as the H3C S12508 and S5820X as they are leading the industry in bringing environmental awareness further into in the data center by helping enterprises improve the efficiency of their data center operations in 2010 and beyond. The switches were proven in testing to offer maximum throughput while consuming less than half of the power for 10GE modules compared to the published specification for competing vendors’ modules.”

“Lowering power consumption while maximizing capacity are top concerns among enterprise CIOs. This is especially true in the data center where energy costs are rapidly escalating and where power limitations can inhibit the scale out of IT capacity to support business operations,” said Saar Gillai, 3Com senior vice president, worldwide products and solutions. “This certification validates our commitment to deliver the highest performing networking solutions that are also highly energy efficiency, affording customers the flexibly to design and build a new generation of highly scalable and sustainable data centers.”

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(The Hosting News) - Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora Core 11 are Canadian VPS firm Cirrus’s latest Linux operating system distributions. Now firmly established itself as a leader in VPS hosting, Cirrus Tech continues to offer both new and existing clients with the latest Linux operating systems supported on their Virtuozzo VPS hosting platform.

With the aim of providing clients with the freedom to choose exactly the web hosting solution they require, Cirrus Tech is constantly updating their hosting plans to achieve this goal. Currently, Cirrus Tech offers a range of VPS hosting plans in both Windows and Linux operating systems. Clients are able to purchase multiple VPS with different operating systems under a single account. “We’ve seen many of our clients subscribe to more than one VPS, and it is often the case that they opt for different operating systems among their VPS subscriptions,” says Cirrus Tech CEO, Mr. Ehsan Mirdamadi.

With the addition of Debian 5, openSUSE 11.1, and Fedora Core 11, Cirrus Tech adds to their already extensive Linux offerings, which includes Ubuntu 8.04, CentOS 4 & 5, Debian 4, and Fedora Core 8. Clients don’t have to compromise when choosing the OS of their choice. Cirrus Tech clients not only have the ability to choose between a wide range of operating systems, but they can choose from a number of VPS hosting plans that include dedicated resources, Canadian IPs, and optional Plesk Control Panel.

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(The Hosting News) – Open source provider Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), announced today that investment product firm Millennium Global Investments (MGI),has selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) for its mission-critical business rules repository.

London-based MGI wanted to improve the flexibility of its compliance system so that its business and trade rules could be revised and adjusted rapidly within a managed environment. MGI selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS to bring business rules into a managed environment, standardise business rules and support the scalability of the business.
The transparency of the new repository enables MGI business users to gain access to detailed information about why certain rules may prevent trading. This access improves business users’ efficiency and reduces the number of queries sent to MGI’s IT organisation. The transparent business rules repository is also an essential part of MGI’s risk management strategy

“Red Hat’s flexible subscription terms for JBoss Enterprise Middleware allowed us to deploy only the components needed for the new platform and to avoid vendor lock-in. Unlike other vendors, Red Hat offers the ability to support other applications of the rules engine, be it market signal monitoring or algorithmic trading,” said Richard Macaskill, managing director, IT & Systems Development, MGI. “We were very pleased with the level of support Red Hat provided during the new business rules repository’s development. We are extremely satisfied to have deployed an integrated business rules platform that has improved our efficiency and ability to manage risk.”

JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) is an open source business rules solution that enables easy business policy and rules development, access, and management. JBoss Enterprise BRMS allows customers to reduce development time to update applications and processes with the latest business rules and policies.

“We are delighted with the positive feedback from MGI on its deployment of JBoss Enterprise BRMS. We are seeing further momentum of JBoss Enterprise BRMS as the enterprise continues to drive innovation through open source middleware,” said Pierre Fricke, Director, SOA Products, Red Hat. “Automating business decisions with JBoss Enterprise BRMS can help a business run faster and enable business process stakeholders to rapidly implement change. This is the kind of agility that enterprise deployments demand in today’s marketplace.”

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(The Hosting News) – NeoSpire, Inc. officially announced it’s renewed exception–free Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS–70) Type II certification, performed by independent auditors BKD, LLP, one of the 10 largest CPA and advisory firms in the U.S.

The SAS–70 Type II certification is an internationally recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. An exception–free SAS–70 Type II Certification report is well–known by organizations in the United States and Europe as a reliable indicator that a service provider has implemented an effective control environment. The report is also acknowledged as a critical component for companies due to the Sarbanes –Oxley Act of 2002.

Under Section 404 of Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX), most companies require a SAS–70 Type II certification report from their service providers to evaluate controls, data centers, security, backup and system availability. NeoSpire’s SAS–70 Type II certification permits the company to deliver confirmation of the controls required for compliance with the Sarbanes–Oxley Act.

“We understand the ever increasing importance of corporate governance and the impact our services have on our clients’ systems of internal control,” explained Mitch Gervis, CEO of NeoSpire. “Another year of attainment of an exception–free SAS–70 Type II certification validates our continued commitment to maintaining the highest level of internal control to deliver the most reliable, stable and secure compliance processes available.”

NeoSpire’s SAS–70 controls covers physical security of the facilities, environmental controls, network security, server security, backup and restore, problem management, and change management. Independent auditors BKD, LLP collected evidence and held detailed testing of NeoSpire’s controls over a six–month auditing period and found NeoSpire’s controls to be effective and implemented consistently without exception.

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(The Hosting News) — LogMeIn and mobile PC manufacturer UMID have announced that they are bringing the power of the desktop to mobile internet devices (MID). UMID will make LogMeIn products available to customers of its new mbook, allowing users to access their PC or Mac, including all of the applications and data on them, directly from their UMID device using a standard internet connection.

The new UMID mbook will come pre-loaded with LogMeIn Ignition, available for purchase in a discounted bundle with LogMeIn Pro². Ignition plus Pro² provides one-click remote access to all of a user’s remote computers from virtually anywhere with an internet connection, as well as the ability to quickly and easily transfer or synch files and folders between their primary computers and the UMID device. The new UMID mbook will launch in Korea in January 2010. Distribution and marketing plans for outside of Korea, including the US market, are still being finalized.
“Consumers want to take advantage of ultra-mobile platforms like UMID’s mbook without leaving data or applications behind,” said Michael Simon, President and CEO of LogMeIn, Inc. “LogMeIn remote access provides UMID customers the ability to easily connect back to their primary computing platforms, giving them access to their applications and files anytime, from wherever they are.”

Simon continued, “Our partnership with UMID is further evidence of our ongoing commitment to international markets and extending our LogMeIn products in markets outside of North America.”

“LogMeIn is a great addition to the UMID device because it makes it even more useful, and puts the power of a full sized computer into the hands of our customers,” said Andy Moon, CEO of UMID Co. “Our partnership with LogMein is about the ultimate in flexibility for users. With UMID and LogMeIn it’s now possible to stay connected and productive from virtually anywhere.”

The new UMID mbook with LogMeIn Ignition pre-loaded will be on display at the Intel MID Bar during CES 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. More information about the LogMeIn remote access services available on the UMID mbook is available at www.LogMeIn.com/UMID.

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