Amsterdam, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - International business hosting services firm, LeaseWeb, has appointed the co-founder of INHOPE, the European Association of Internet Hotlines,
Alex de Joode, as its Security Officer.

As Security Officer, Mr. de Joode will engage in combating cybercrime as well as monitoring the extensive hosting network of LeaseWeb. In this role he will report directly to the Management Team of LeaseWeb.

As Security Officer De Joode will be responsible for Abuse Handling, Information Security, Business Continuity Management and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. De Joode noted, ”I have a lot of experience in abuse policy and handling abuse. But security is also a real hobby of mine. I am delighted that LeaseWeb offers me the opportunity to be involved in security in the widest sense of the word.”

The new Security Officer will also maintain contact with all the authorities involved, such as the police, Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and organizations for the protection of intellectual property. He will also supervise ISO 27001 and SAS70 certifications.

When Mr. De Joode saw the vacancy of Security Officer at LeaseWeb, he responded immediately, noting, ”The international working environment at LeaseWeb appealed to me particularly. LeaseWeb is growing fast worldwide, so chances are that I can do something for LeaseWeb in the field of hosting outside of Amsterdam one day.”

The IT technical and legal knowledge and experience De Joode brings to LeaseWeb provide him with a proper basis for his new duties. Mr. De Joode explained, ”I am familiar with UNIX, Linux, Open BSD, network and system management, for instance, and I studied law at the University of Amsterdam. Obviously, I am particularly interested in the interface between technology and law and I expect to be able to indulge in this extensively at LeaseWeb.”

Before joining LeaseWeb Alex De Joode worked as a Senior Systems Administrator with Proteon VIS, a web developer from Delft. He also worked for seven years as a Senior Network Architect with the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (Terena). Mr. De Joode describes his involvement in founding INHOPE as a contribution in the Internet industry to the balance between combating cybercrime and protecting freedom of speech. Alex de Joode started his career as an Electronic Banking Specialist with ABN AMRO Bank.

LeaseWeb is an international supplier of hosting products and services that specializes in both Microsoft and Linux, and focuses primarily on the professional market. The company is among the top 20 hosting providers in the world and provides services such as web hosting, dedicated hosting, colocated hosting, VPS and streaming, as well as technical support. LeaseWeb owns a Cisco-powered network offering a bandwidth of over 210 Gbps, which extends across five data centers in the Amsterdam region via the major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present on Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna , Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb now manages 11,000 servers. Its customers include Starbucks, Hyves, Telegraaf Media Groep, Koninklijke Joh. Ensched, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AVRO, Direct Wonen, and University.

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

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Reading, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - Managed dedicated hosting provider, DediPower, celebrates its 10th anniversary, with customers ranging in size from growing Internet businesses to large, well-established multinational organizations.

Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower noted, ”It is exciting to see DediPower the strength and size it is today. Throughout the years many people have played a part in the success of DediPower, we would not be the company we are today without their contributions. We believe that DediPower has set the standard against which hosting providers are measured. What sets us apart from the rest is our people and how the customer is at the heart of everything we do.”

With origins in web development, founders, its founders, Craig Martin, Spencer Tarring and Russell Champion, identified the growing need for reliable and effective web hosting solutions for their clients in the late 90’s. This exciting market opportunity changed the direction of the company that today is focused on delivering dedicated hosting solutions in its two UK enterprise class data centers.

Hosting is a dynamic and ever changing sector in IT upon which DediPower has had a significant impact through delivering consistently high levels of customer satisfaction combined with a deep understanding of the underlying technology as it has evolved. Awarded ‘best managed host honors by Top Hosts, DediPower has grown organically through its customer centric approach to business.

DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting Partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self-funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.

For further information, please visit: www.dedipower.com.

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Vancouver, British Columbia - (The Hosting News) - October 3, 2008 - Global web hosting, managed dedicated server, shared and e-commerce hosting solutions provider, SuperbHosting.net, subsidiary of Superb Internet Corp., is offering Nemedia’s new RankSense SEO Management Suite.

(Curtis) R. Curtis, Sr. VP, Sales and Marketing at Superb Internet noted, ”As one of the oldest hosting providers and as someone who has been doing Internet marketing since the early 90s, I understand that one of the greatest obstacles to keeping long-term hosting clients is their success online. While most hosting companies focus on ensuring their hosting services are successful for their clients, we are taking our clients to the next level; ensuring their complete success online. Much of their success is directly tied to their ability to effectively market themselves in the search engines, which is critical to any online company driving visitors to their website. Using RankSense, our hosting clients can now easily and affordably get to the top of the search engines and succeed online.”

According to the company, with over 85% of all website traffic coming from search engines, better rankings can make or break any site. In order to be successful, it only makes sense for website owners to develop their sites to rank better - yet many sites are not optimized for search engines. With RankSense’s easy-to-use, step-by-step search engine optimization software featuring more than 12 highly integrated tools, it is easier than ever to increase the quantity and quality of traffic from search engines.

Hamlet Batista, Founder and President of RankSense remarked, ”We are pleased to welcome SuperbHosting.net to our partner program and are extremely confident that SuperbHosting.net will find that when their hosting clients use our SEO management software, their success online will improve drastically, thereby increasing their revenues by improving customer retention and adding additional hosting requirements.”

RankSense SEO Management software was developed by Nemedia, S.A. and designed by developers with an internet marketing background. RankSense offers a fully featured, integrated suite of SEO tools that simplify the process of organically ranking web pages within the major search engines easier than ever before for the keywords most relevant and profitable to the user. RankSense navigates the user through the necessary steps needed to improve natural search engine rankings in an ethical way.

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the very best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. SuperbHosting.net’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, with offices and 24-hour/365-day operations in McLean, VA, Tukwila, WA, and Vancouver, BC, serving customers in over 150 countries worldwide.

To learn more about RankSense, please visit: www.ranksense.com.

For more information about Superb Internet, please visit: www.superbhosting.net.

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New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - October 3, 2008 - NTT America, Inc. (NTTA), a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and network integrator, hosting and web services firm, has debuted the launch of its newest U.S. network Point of Presence (PoP), in Dallas, Texas.

Yoshimasa Hashimoto, Vice President, Arcstar Business Unit, NTT America noted, ”This new investment demonstrates NTT Communications’ commitment to the U.S. telecommunications market. By placing our own network node in the high-growth Texas region, we enhance our ability to support both U.S. companies expanding to Asia-Pacific as well as international firms operating in the U.S market.”

The recent addition, which was made available on September 15, 2008, further supports NTT Communications’ growing global network coverage offering. The Dallas PoP will support Arcstar Managed Bandwidth and MPLS-based Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) services, the Company’s flagship managed network services for global enterprise customers. Extending NTT America’s dedicated network infrastructure to Dallas will enable NTT Communications to offer an increasing range of highly reliable and cost-effective services to companies operating in the South-Central U.S.

NTT America is North America’s natural gateway to the Asia-Pacific region, with strong capabilities in the U.S. market. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT America provides world-class Enterprise Hosting, managed network, and IP networking services for enterprise customers and service providers worldwide. For additional information on NTT America, visit us on the Web at www.nttamerica.com.

NTT Com delivers high-quality voice, data and IP services to customers around the world. The company is renowned for its diverse information and communication services, expertise in managed networks, hosting and IP networking services, and industry leadership in IPv6 transit technology. The company’s extensive global infrastructure includes Arcstar private networks and a Tier 1 IP backbone (connected with major ISPs worldwide), both reaching more than 150 countries, as well as secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe. NTT Com is the wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, one of the world’s largest telecoms with listings on the Tokyo, London and New York stock exchanges.

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

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 3, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has been chosen as the core platform for Stone Bond Technologies’ software test bed.

Stone Bond provides software integration, workflow automation and messaging solutions. Stone Bond provides mission-critical solutions that enable organizations to exchange, map, align and clean data across multiple software applications and hardware platforms so that information provides meaningful business data. Stone Bond’s customers span the energy and life sciences industries.

Pamela Szabo, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Stone Bond noted, ”Customers rely on Stone Bond to deliver enterprise-quality solutions. We serve industries that require rationalized critical data from multiple sources to make long-term business decisions. Before we introduced our newest messaging product, we used the vast resources of The Planet’s servers, data centers and network infrastructure to simulate the complexities of a trading room floor, where tens of thousands of messages are exchanged in the course of just a few hours. We were able to evaluate the performance of our solution across multiple data centers to be certain our customers are getting the results they expect.”

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for The Planet noted, ”Our world-class data centers and enterprise-quality network offer the best possible resources for testing new products and solutions. The cost of purchasing servers, software and bandwidth to test enterprise scalability can wreak havoc on budgets. A number of companies have turned to The Planet to create test beds to evaluate the scalability of their products and solutions before they’re released. With servers available in just one hour, coupled with the significant cost savings, we expect even more companies like Stone Bond Technologies to take advantage of our capabilities.”

Stone Bond’s founders established the company in 1993, armed with significant experience in the energy industry. Recognizing the massive numbers of applications that required cross-functional integration and collaboration - and the requirement to rationalize data interaction across multiple hardware and software platforms - they initially focused on creating software that could solve these difficult business requirements.

The result of this work was realized with the introduction of Enterprise Enabler, which provides capabilities that allow companies to access, manage and integrate data, regardless of where it resides in the enterprise. The software helps companies to dramatically reduce costs and improve business process productivity. Whether it’s integrated research environments in life sciences laboratories; complex business-to-business commercial transactions between services companies and oil and gas firms; or large-scale corporate integrations that support global enterprises, customers rely on Enterprise Enabler for data integration.

Stone Bond also offers an enterprise-level solution — EE-LIMS — which automates and captures best-practice workflows, and manages data capture and administrative activities for life sciences laboratories. The company entered the life sciences industry when approached by the Baylor College of Medicine to develop the application for their Microarray Core Facility. The company has since grown this single request into an entire line of business. Stone Bond works with medical colleges and their associated laboratories across the country, including the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Cornell’s Weill College of Medicine, among others.

Ms. Szabo added, ”Today virtually every organization requires software for making business and technical decisions. Our business has evolved and serves many more industries that also face the difficult requirement of actually integrating data from multiple sources, including Salesforce.com, SAP, and multiple databases and spreadsheets. We make it far easier for executives to bridge the gap between information technology, business analysts and data, so they’re equipped to make better-informed decisions for their organizations.”

To enable better collaboration between departments in large organizations, the company’s next-generation products will combine work flow with data integration to create new business process management capabilities that will include Software as a Service.

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 the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 12 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution, with the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network.

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

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