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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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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San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - October 3, 2008 - Web host and Internet hardware networking firm, Cisco Systems, has been chosen by Telecom Italia, along with Adobe, to handle the delivery of next-generation Web TV services.

The Cisco Content Delivery System will be integrated with Adobe Flash Streaming Technology, to bring multimedia content to multiple screens. Live television channels and on-demand content will be delivered through web portal, Yalp!. With the CDS-IS platform and Adobe Flash technology, Telecom Italia can deliver high-quality, rich streaming media content to its viewers enabling them to watch TV shows on their laptops and PCs, accelerating the fusion of TV and the Internet. And because the CDS-IS system supports all major streaming and download formats, including the integrated native Adobe Flash Player, Telecom Italia now has the platform foundation to deliver ‘any stream to any screen’ in any format.

Sandro Dionisi, Vice President of Network Development and Innovation at Telecom Italia noted, ”We are constantly striving to improve our customer services and experiences. The Cisco CDS-IS with Adobe Flash technology will provide us with the flexibility and scalability we needed to elevate our services to the next level, enabling us to scale Flash streaming while providing resiliency and high-quality services that our customers expect from us. CDS-IS offers us greater control of our delivery infrastructure so that we can cost-effectively create differentiated services that span across multiple screens.”

Consumers are accessing content across PCs, PDAs, mobile phones and other devices on an accelerated basis. Through the deployment of the Cisco CDS-IS and the integration of Adobe Flash technology, Telecom Italia subscribers can view interactive video online with a hassle-free, instant-on Web video experience.

Kip Compton, Director and General Manager, Video and Content Platforms business unit, Cisco noted, ”The visual networking era is under way, and the Cisco CDS-IS platform is helping Telecom Italia go beyond traditional television. Consumers are no longer satisfied with linear programming delivered through the television screen. They want choice and personalized experiences, and they want them on their time across a myriad of devices. The combination of the CDS-IS and Adobe streaming technologies in a single high-performance solution enables service providers to deploy next-generation multimedia services across both traditional as well as converged IP infrastructures.”

Jim Guerard, General Manager and Vice President for Dynamic Media at Adobe remarked, ”The combination of the Cisco CDS-IS with the Adobe Flash Media Server 3 expands deployment options and business opportunities for our customers and brings a new level of interactivity and rich experiences to consumers. The collaboration between Cisco and Adobe to create an integrated solution provides content distributors with more delivery options and is major step toward the shared vision of delivering content, anywhere, anytime, to any device.”

With the Cisco CDS, service providers can offer a variety of services to subscribers now, including streaming intensive Web services, video-on-demand, time-shifted television, video ad insertion, user-generated content and next-generation content delivery network (CDN) services. The Cisco CDS-IS supports all leading Web formats.

The CDS implementation of Adobe Flash Media Server 3 software offers the full benefits of Adobe Flash technology, including improved performance for faster user response and increased streaming protection to help ensure that valuable content is better protected as it is delivered to viewers. The CDS platform provides additional benefits for the hosting and distribution of streaming video with Adobe Flash technology, including content and service routing, dynamic hierarchical caching, load balancing, failover protection, IP multicast extensions, unified management tools and end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) support.

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information — anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Cisco Systems, Inc. was founded in 1984, by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University and provides Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions. Cisco employs over 47,000 staff worldwide. The company’s core development areas include routing and switching, as well as dvanced technologies such as: IP Communications, Network Security, Wireless LAN, Storage Area Networking, Home Networking, Video Systems, and Application Networking Services.

To learn more about Cisco, please visit: www.cisco.com.

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St. Louis, Missouri - (The Hosting News) - October 2, 2008 - IT infrastructure services for business applications, Savvis, is preparing to launch a new solution, designed to assist independent software vendors (ISVs) in meeting the growing demand for service-based licensing and delivery applications.

Bill McNee, Founder and CEO, Saugatuck Technology remarked, ”Undoubtedly, SaaS has made it easier and more cost-effective to create, distribute and manage software; however, ISVs looking to adopt a SaaS delivery model have to address a number of key challenges to ensure their application is scalable, secure and multi-tenant. The reality is that successful ISVs and enterprise buyers not only need world-class managed hosting support, but an end-to-end software development ecosystem and cloud-based platform as they SaaS-ify their offerings, and create new value for end-users.”

SAVVIS’ comprehensive new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution will provide a secure, scalable, global, and function rich hosting platform that will enable fast, economical, and reliable deployment of SaaS applications. The offering is targeted at both ISVs entering the SaaS market and existing SaaS providers wanting to outsource their IT infrastructure so they can focus on their core business.

SAVVIS’ new SaaS solution is organized into three service categories that provide an expanded and highly differentiated suite of SaaS enablement capabilities.

• Core Infrastructure Services - These are SAVVIS’ core managed hosting and security elements tailored to SaaS vendor needs. New services include multi-tenancy enablement, application fire-walling, and holistic application-centered service level agreements.
• Lifecycle Services - This new category of services assists ISVs through all the tasks involved in development, integration, delivery and operation of their applications.
• SAVVIS Marketplace - These services create connectivity and commercial opportunities between SAVVIS customers by lowering integration barriers. Local and global high speed connectivity optimized for SaaS delivery will increase potential for provider to provider and customer integration. Additionally SAVVIS will be creating marketplace awareness tools for use within SAVVIS’ customer base.

The result will be a centralized, scalable path that allows customers to develop, integrate, operate, and deliver their software to the Web to meet growing demand for virtualized applications.


SAVVIS’ new SaaS enablement services are being built upon SAVVIS’ existing global IT services platform that features a hosting footprint encompassing 29 data centers integrated with SAVVIS’ Tier 1 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. SAVVIS already serves dozens of ISVs and SaaS customers who have chosen SAVVIS’ IT infrastructure services to underpin their SaaS business models.


Key new SAVVIS SaaS services available now or in the near future across the three service categories outlined above include:

• End-User Service Delivery and Multi-tenancy - Through an alliance with Parallels (announced separately today) SAVVIS is offering an additional option for achieving the scalability and efficiencies of multi-tenancy. This enables vendors to convert their software to operate in a SaaS environment quickly without re-architecting the application. In addition to speed-of-implementation, Parallels also supports ISVs in managing end user accounts. This includes expanded provisioning and billing capabilities as well as development of back office reports and utilization statistics for their end users. These features reduce costs to acquire, manage and support end users and further reduce the IT resources that ISVs need to support a SaaS software model.

• Virtual Lab Automation and Management SAVVIS has contracted with Skytap, Inc., a leader in cloud-based virtual labs, to provide customers with on demand, IT infrastructure optimized for dynamic environments. These capabilities make it possible to rapidly build and configure application development and QA, training and IT prototyping environments using just a Web browser. This allows customers to accelerate time to market and reduce infrastructure costs typically associated with internal IT lab environments.
• Application Monitoring - SAVVIS will offer key application performance monitoring features that will provide a real time view of their end users’ experience, as well as to establish service level agreements (SLAs) and 100% uptime performance metrics.
• Comprehensive Security Portfolio - SAVVIS provides a comprehensive, multi-layered portfolio of security capabilities necessary for SaaS enablement including: data center physical security, network and application level firewalls, application authentication, intrusion detection, and DDoS mitigation. Each capability is backed by industry leading 24×7 monitoring and support.
• Portal Features - The SAVVISStation portal provides ISVs with a wealth of monitors and operational statistics in a clean dash-board style interface. ISVs will be able to customize the SAVVIS portal to reflect their brand, eliminating the need for them to build their own portal. SAVVIS is also working with a variety of SaaS enablement providers to provide additional extensions to the platform. Plans call for customers to access these providers through a single web page on the SAVVIS portal.

SAVVIS, Inc. is a global IT infrastructure services firm for business applications. With an IT services platform spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS is an industry leader in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services. These solutions enable customers to focus on their core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT systems and operations. SAVVIS’ strategic approach combines virtualization technology, a global network and multiple data centers, and automated management and provisioning systems.

To learn more, please visit: www.savvis.net.

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