Walldorf, Germany - (The Hosting News) - February 9, 2009 - Hosting services and application management provider, SAP AG’s offerings, have been deployed for solution implementation and operations in connection with clients using the SAP methodology.

EDS, an HP company is the first company to be certified by SAP in that regard. By achieving these certifications, EDS will help clients use SAP best practices and tools to enhance efficiencies, reduce downtime and, ultimately, reduce costs. Additionally, it will help clients significantly mitigate operational risks by applying end-to-end solution operation standards for managing SAP applications.

Dr. Uwe Hommel, Executive Vice President, Active Global Support, SAP AG noted, ”The Run SAP methodology, along with the new solution implementation and solution operations certifications available to SAP services and support partners, enables customers to improve operational efficiencies and lower costs by creating standards and unification of processes to realize more transparency in operations, mitigate risk and reduce costly downtimes. As an early adopter and first SAP services and SAP support partner to be certified in the Run SAP methodology, EDS is playing a key role in choosing the direction of the next-generation applications management offerings for customers using SAP solutions.”

Technology managers face the challenges of ensuring availability of distributed business processes, reacting quickly to issues and process changes, and establishing an efficient network of experts to work on increasingly complex technical solutions.

The Run SAP methodology is ASAP methodology for operations. A phased methodology based on world-class knowledge, it provides best-practices procedures, content, services, training and tools for end-to-end solution operations, along with a standardized and proven implementation method. Focused on application management, business process operations and administration of SAP solutions, the methodology describes how support creates business value across the lifecycle design, set-up, operations and optimization.

In May 2008, EDS announced that it would be one of the first SAP partners to adopt the Run SAP methodology for use in its application management and hosting services. Since then, EDS has integrated the Run SAP methodology into its own delivery processes, trained 90 percent of its applications management professionals in North America and is expanding the certification program to its Best Shore global delivery centers. EDS has also leveraged the Run SAP methodology with several clients who expect to realize benefits such as improved performance of core business processes and quicker time to resolution on critical issues.

Andy Mattes, Senior Vice President of Applications Services at EDS, an HP company remarked, ”To succeed in today’s complex environment and grow business, it is imperative for companies to successfully implement SAP solutions and then efficiently manage the operation of the business processes after going ‘live’ with the software. With a high level of involvement in the Run SAP methodology, EDS uses its industry innovation, high availability, global delivery and scalability to help clients achieve increased business value from their SAP applications.”

These benefits may also be leveraged by customers of the newly launched SAP Business Suite 7 software (see related announcement, ”SAP Helps Customers Respond Quickly to Economic Downturn With Introduction of New Modular Business Suite”). The SAP Solution Manager application management solution, a key component of the Run SAP methodology, provides content that accelerates implementation of the new flexible and modular SAP Business Suite. Partners such as EDS that are certified in the Run SAP methodology are well prepared to help customers derive the maximum benefit from their investments in SAP solutions.

As an SAP services partner certified in solution implementation based on the Run SAP methodology, EDS offers clients high-value, strategic services to implement SAP end-to-end solution operation standards. When using the Run SAP methodology, SAP support is implemented across the lifecycle design, set-up, operations and optimization to increase efficiency and lower costs. To achieve this certification, EDS trained and certified its applications management professionals and global delivery resources on the end-to-end solution operation standards and adopted the Run SAP methodology within its implementation processes.

As an SAP support partner certified in solution operations based on the Run SAP methodology, EDS integrates SAP best practices, content, training and tools into its own proven methodologies, helping clients mitigate costly downtime and escalations. To achieve this certification, EDS certified its Americas region delivery organization on the end-to-end solution operations standards and adopted the Run SAP methodology within its own IT operation procedures. Additional requirements included business development, client implementations and a governance model.

SAP has been an EDS partner since 1990 and is a member of the EDS Agility Alliance. EDS and SAP work together to deliver business software solutions that reduce time to market and lower clients’ total cost of ownership. Supporting more than 1.7 million users of SAP solutions, EDS is one of the world’s largest service providers supporting SAP solutions and is a certified SAP global hosting partner and an SAP services partner. EDS offers a comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio of implementation, upgrade, applications management and hosting services in support of SAP software.

SAP provides business software, offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 82,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol ”SAP.” SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning and related applications.

EDS, an HP company, is a leading global technology services provider, delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 46 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology, applications and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries, and to governments around the world.

HP, the world’s largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.

To learn more information about the EDS portfolio of services for SAP solutions, please visit: www.eds.com/services/sapservices.

For more information about SAP, please visit: www.sap.com.

Hosting Services and Application Management Provider, SAP, Deployed by EDS

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - February 9, 2009 - British web hosting company, and high bandwidth dedicated hosting provider, UK-2 Group’s new addition, VPS.NET, has completed the launch of its Beta Trial, designed to simplify the virtual private server cloud hosting process.

Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of UK2 Group commented, ”VPS.NET has been such an exciting project for the UK2 Group, and will be a valuable addition to many of our brands as the ideal solution between shared and dedicated hosting. With its attractive monthly pricing and no need for a long term commitment, we believe VPS.NET will be extremely appealing, making VPS.NET the VPS Cloud for the masses.”

In the Beta Trial phase, the VPS.NET virtual private server cloud is offering lucky trialists the chance to experience and test the self healing, high availability and instant upgrade / downgrade features, as well as end to end provisioning and usability testing.

All the trial spots are currently taken, but VPS.NET will soon be opening their doors to a wider Beta Trial. Demand for places has been exceptionally high, but the company has indicated it is advisable to go to http://vps.net/beta2 to ensre placement, as places are strictly limited. VPS.NET is scheduled for a full launch across the UK2 Group during March 2009.

VPS.NET is a redundant cloud system, which utilizes a RAID 10 SAN backend and node based VPS architecture. It also has immediate scalability with pre set up stacks, a simple billing process and a user friendly management portal.

VPS.NET is a recent addition to the UK2 Group, and will offer affordable virtual private server cloud hosting.  UK2 Group provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many global customers through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, midPhase, WestHost, 10TB.com, AN Hosting, Autica, Resell.biz, US2.net, WingSix, Supreme Support, Dotable, VI.net and the most recent addition VPS.NET. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centres in the UK and US, and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.

UK-2 Group, a British hosting firm, provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many customers through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, US2.net and Resell.biz. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centers and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support. UK2-Group is also a major shareholder in the merged Redbus Interhouse and Telecity Group, the leading European data centre provider.

For more information about VPS.NET, please visit: http://vps.net.

To learn more about UK.Net, please visit: www.uk2.net.

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Scottsdale, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - February 9, 2009 - Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, was recently the presenting sponsor of the ‘Doorway of Hope’ Dinner, to benefit HomeBase Youth Services, an Arizona non-profit dedicated to reaching out to at-risk and homeless teens.

The event took place at the Arizona Biltmore.

The mission of HomeBase Youth Services is teaching at-risk and homeless youth how to live healthy and independent lives through outreach, mobile medical services, transitional housing, employment and education opportunities, as well as mental health and substance abuse services.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy explained, ”There are thousands of young people - ”aged out” of foster care and far too young to be on their own - trying to survive on the streets of Arizona. As a business and community leader, our company feels a responsibility to reach out and support organizations trying to do all they can to give these young people a decent chance at a decent life.”

Friday’s event provided an opportunity for HomeBase to share life stories of young survivors, as well as honor supporters, staff and volunteers who work diligently on behalf of homeless youth. Nima Kelly, Go Daddy’s Vice President of Corporate Administration is set to speak at the event.

Mr. Parsons added, ”I can attribute much of my success to what I learned in the Marine Corps, and after Vietnam, to the University of Baltimore, which I was able to attend thanks to the GI Bill. A little guidance and support can sometimes put a life with no direction on a path of never-ending possibilities.”

In 2008, Go Daddy donated more than $1.7MM in contributions to support a wide variety of charitable and community organizations whose missions range from domestic violence, child abuse and teenage homelessness to searching for cures for Parkinson’s disease and breast cancer.

In addition, according to TiVo, Inc., has earned the coveted crown of ‘Most Watched’ Super Bowl commercial this year. Go Daddy’s fourth-quarter spot had far more viewership than any other commercial in the most-watched Super Bowl of all time. Remarkable when you consider Go Daddy purchased NBC’s final ad slot two days before the broadcast.

The eleventh-hour ad buy was a tremendous risk because had the game been a blow out, fewer people might have been watching. An estimated 98.7 million average viewers, in the U.S. alone, watched this year’s Super Bowl, according to Nielsen data.

Go Daddy’s ‘Baseball’ ad, also called ‘Enhancement,’ aired in the two-minute warning break, which came just after Arizona took over the lead, and right before Pittsburgh came from behind to win what’s being called one of the greatest Super Bowl games in history.

The GoDaddy-esque commercial features Danica Patrick and her ‘enhanced’ Go Daddy Web site, along with a variety of buxom women showing off their own ‘enhancements’ in a spoof of baseball’s steroids scandal.

The commercial was condemned as being lower than Go Daddy’s usual low, by AdWeek critic Barb Lippert. Two television networks refused to air ‘Baseball’ last month, saying it was ‘too racy for morning television.’ Some of the nation’s largest newspapers even elected to ignore the ad in their post-game reviews. Still, viewers and potential customers clearly wanted to see the commercial, again and again.

Go Daddy, unofficially, has two commercial winners. For the first time in five years, Go Daddy aired two different commercials in the Super Bowl. The other also starred Danica Patrick and featured her in a shower with another woman. Both ‘Shower’ and ‘Baseball’ invited viewers to see the continued stories online at GoDaddy.com.

The ads each recorded dramatic spikes in the Super Bowl’s Internet traffic, as documented by Akamai.

On Super Bowl Sunday, Go Daddy set company records for new customers and total orders.

GoDaddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. GoDaddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The GoDaddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 million domain names under management. GoDaddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The GoDaddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn more about Bob Parsons’ 16 Rules of Success, please visit: www.BobParsons.me.

For more about HomeBase Youth Services, please visit: www.hbys.org.

To learn more about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

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Newark, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - February 6, 2009 - Managed dedicated server hosting company, HostMySite, Inc., has unveiled a new support service, developed as a new approach to personal customer service, offering direct access to a specialized team of IT experts.

The new Entourage Support service is free to dedicated and colocated customers, and is designed to enhance their support and service experience with HostMySite.

Erik Landsness, Director of Support Services for HostMySite.com remarked, ”Entourage Support helps us greatly expand our trusted partnership with HostMySite.com customers. Our customers, no matter what their size, look to us as a full technology partner for their business. Now, they have an entire team who is familiar with their business and applications available to them at no extra cost.”

Each HostMySite.com dedicated customer is assigned to an Entourage Support team, which is comprised of seasoned server engineers. The Entourage Support teams are familiar with every dedicated customer’s hosting architecture to give customers quick, in-depth, and personalized support and service.

Don Schindhelm, Senior Vice President of Applied Information Technologies, Inc. added, ”The team approach to providing technical support is very important to the critical operations of my company. HostMySite.com not only has real people answering the phone 24/7, they staff each shift with people we know by name; technical people who are familiar with our operations.”

Applied Information Technologies hosts seven managed dedicated servers at HostMySite.com with varied OS, web, database and email platforms.

Mr. Schindhelm noted, ”Our Entourage Team at HostMySite.com has provided us with an extended staff of technical experts who have the depth and breadth of specialized technical knowledge essential for our survival and growth as a software company.”

Founded on the principle of Service Defined, HostMySite.com provides individuals, small businesses, and large corporations with dedicated servers, VPS hosting, and ASP.NET hosting. These hosting services are supported by 24×7x365 live support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat. HostMySite.com has been building and growing hosting expertise in Newark, Delaware, since 1997.

To learn more about Entourage Support, please visit: www.hostmysite.com/managedservices.

For more information about HostMySite.com, please visit: www.hostmysite.com.

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Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - February 6, 2009 - Colocation, outsourced managed and unmanaged server provider, and owner of Atlanta NAP and NetDepot, Global Net Access, LLC (GNAX), has completed its Level3 circuit upgrade, from a 1 gig circuit to a 10 gig circuit.

Jeff Hinkle, President of GNAX remarked that the upgrade is ‘’significant for disaster planning for GNAX customers since it was implemented as a different Level3 location than the current gig connection.”

GNAX acquired another dark fiber pair from AGL Networks of Atlanta and worked with the engineering team to engineer a solution that traverses a different path than GNAX’s current fiber to its providers.

Mr. Hinkle added, ”The new path completely avoids Telx at 56 Marietta Street, which is the current termination point of the GNAX metro Ethernet networks. The new fiber terminates at Level3’s 345 Courtland Street facility and gives GNAX both increased redundancy and capacity. This is unique to most of the data centers in the region - especially in the city of Atlanta. Many have a ring or multiple paths, but like we were constructed in the past - they all come back to one single point of failure facility.”

The upgrade brings the total GNAX backbone capacity to 31 gigs and the total Metro E capacity to 30 gigs, which de-bottle necks any metro e constraints and positions GNAX for continued growth in its Atlanta market.

With more than fourteen years in the industry, GNAX and AtlantaNAP are trusted by thousands of customers that span almost every country in the world. It primarily operates out of its sister company AtlantaNAP, which owns and operates a state of the art data center centrally located in the historic West End area of Atlanta. NetDepot is a premier global brand of dedicated servers operating under the GNAX umbrella of companies.

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

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