Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting application firm, Ensim Corporation, has partnered with solutions integrator, Norseman Defense Technologies, to offer the Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to government agencies.

Under the terms of the agreement, Norseman Defense Technologies will sell and support Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to its nation-wide customer base of public sector organizations.

Ensim Unify allows organizations to meet security and compliance requirements by enabling access control, identity management, change management, automated provisioning, reporting and auditing, password and role management, along with delegated administration and device/client configuration. Available as tools or a complete suite, Ensim Unify delivers instant savings - reducing the number of help desk calls by as much as forty percent - and by eliminating repetitive IT administrative tasks, helping improve workforce effectiveness and enabling IT departments in medium and large-sized organizations to focus on more strategic tasks.

Justin Bonner, Vice-President, Norseman Defense Technologies remarked, ”In today’s economy of speed and of choices, possessing the tools necessary to identify a client’s needs and deliver a solution is paramount. Norseman prides itself on our ability to exceed client expectations. Being able to choose a single partner allows our clients the ability to make choices with ease and flexibility, and we’re confident that by partnering will Ensim we will only improve upon our ability to meet our clients’ needs.”

Norseman Defense serves numerous government agencies, including The National Institute of Health, FBI, FEMA, Navy and the US General Services Administration. Norseman provides clients with an array of computer hardware and software solutions, adding a compliment of services such as network and custom system design, consultation, installation and management support to create a complete go-to-market offering. Norseman will sell and support the complete Ensim Unify Enterprise Suite, as well as its individual modules, including:

Microsoft Active Directory Manager
Provides greater control over Active Directory and facilitates the administration of complex tasks, while reducing the number of privileged accounts and preventing unauthorized changes.

Microsoft Exchange Manager

Prevents misconfiguration of Exchange server, increases uptime and automates key tasks.

Mobility Manager
Enables easy configuration and wipe of smart phones Over The Air.
Self-Service and User Manager
Lets employees easily self-manage, from distribution lists to email profiles, reducing helpdesk and IT time by half.

Password Manager
allows employees to reset their own passwords via a web-based portal.

Scott Young, Vice President of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”Norseman Defense Technologies provides high quality services to many of the most critical government agencies. Norseman will play an integral role in extending our reach into new verticals and enabling us to deliver greater value to our customers.”

Norseman Defense Technologies, a small, woman-owned businesses, is an information technology solutions integrator based in Elkridge, MD. Norseman has over fifteen years of experience in delivering value to Federal Government entities and provides premier quality computer technology products and services at the most competitive prices possible. Norseman is driven to meet the information technology needs of its clients with a focus on exceeding expectations.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access control software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft.

For more information about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

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Phoenix, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - November 17, 2008 - Subsidiary of Newtek Business Services and a provider of Windows-based web hosting, CrystalTech Web Hosting, will be attending the Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco, California, being held through November 19th.

CrystalTech, a long time Adobe partner and ColdFusion hosting provider’s representatives will attend many of the conference’s hands-on labs and sessions, covering design and development topics relating to Adobe products such as Creative Suite and ColdFusion.

Robert Cichon, President and Chief Operating Officer of Newtek Technology Services noted, ”As a web hosting company that specifically caters to designers and developers, it was important that we attended this year’s Adobe MAX conference. With a large segment of our customers using products such as Photoshop, Flash, or ColdFusion to deploy websites and applications in our hosting environment, the knowledge and techniques our staff acquires through the conference’s hands-on labs and sessions gives us the opportunity to better support the ever-evolving needs of our customers.”

As a renowned ColdFusion hosting provider, CrystalTech has acquired a portfolio of customers over the years that includes one of the largest ColdFusion developer communities in the industry. The company has also taken steps over the past year to further expand on its ColdFusion offering by introducing one of the most affordable leasing options for ColdFusion 8 Enterprise licenses on dedicated servers.

Mr. Cichon added, ”We’ve been providing reliable ColdFusion hosting for nearly a decade, even before it was a product of Adobe or Macromedia. Adobe MAX is a wonderful opportunity for us to put some faces to names, and to meet many of the developers who have stuck with us over the years, as well as reach out to ColdFusion enthusiast not familiar with the great service we provide.”

Newtek’s Technology service lines include:

· CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.: An industry leading provider of Microsoft Windows web hosting since 1997, CrystalTech offers shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting plans, along with domain registrations, SSL certificates, and online shopping cart tools.

· Web Services: Customized web design and development services.

· Data Backup, Storage, and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory and compliance needs of any business.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT), Newtek Technology Services is a premier provider of web technology solutions to the small- to medium-sized business market, providing services to customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations.

Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor to the small to medium-sized business market under the Newtek brand. According to the SBA, there are over 25.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7% of all employer firms, generate 60 to 80% of all new jobs annually and create more than 50% of non-farm private GDP. Since 1999, Newtek has helped these business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses. Newtek focuses on providing its 75,000 customers with access to financial, management and technological resources that enable them to better grow and compete in the marketplace.

Newtek’s Technology service lines include:

CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.: An industry leading provider of Microsoft Windows web hosting since 1997, CrystalTech offers shared, dedicated, and VPS hosting plans, along with domain registrations, SSL certificates, and online shopping cart tools.

Web Services: Customized web design and development services.

Data Backup, Storage, and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval solutions designed to meet the specific regulatory and compliance needs of any business.

Founded in 1992, CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows-based web hosting companies in the world, hosting customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. CrystalTech uses a data center that includes redundancy throughout core systems such as, power, air conditioning, network connectivity, network transportation, as well as a secured environment for their network operations center. CrystalTech is a subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc., a provider of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses. For more information about CrystalTech, please contact 877-323-4678.

To learn more about Newtek, please visit: www.newtekbusinessservices.com.

To learn more about CrystalTech, please visit: www.crystaltech.com.

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Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 17, 2008 - Dedicated server solutions for small, medium and enterprise-scale businesses, Limestone Networks, has opened a new dedicated hosting facility and data center in the DataBank building in downtown Dallas.

The facility features all-fiber connectivity, multiple connections to the power grid, redundant power and cooling systems, and multiple security layers. The new Limestone Networks facility features all-fiber connectivity to the Internet and the latest in power, cooling and security systems.

Gary Kendall, CEO of Limestone Networks noted, ”This is probably the most secure data center in commercial use. The DataBank building used to house the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In 2000, it was thoroughly renovated to take advantage of its inherent security features, creating one of the most desirable facilities in the US for the server hosting industry.”

Limestone Networks has applied the most rigorous standards of design, testing and maintenance to their new facility to ensure maximum security and uptime for the critical data and applications of their clients. The facility enjoys:

· Six utility feeds from the Dallas Central Business District power grid, featuring reliable N+3 transformers with ATS switches, plus secure, concrete encased building feeds.

· UPS and Generator Backup Power using true A+B power configurations

· All UPS and Generator deployments provide N+1 redundancy provided by

* four 800 KVA MGE UPS systems

* two 1200 KVA CAT UPS Systems

* four 2.0 megawatt generators

* three 1.5 megawatt generators

Security for the new facility is maintained through:

· on site security, 24/7/365

· card access required to enter parking and building lobby

· biometric hand scanner required for data center entry

· annual SAS 70 Audits

A consistent data center environment is maintained by an HVAC Cooling System designed with N+1 redundancy and featuring

· 3500 Ton cooling tower capacity

· a multiplicity of 30 Ton Liebert CRAC Units.

· 80,000 gallon reserve make-up water tank

· Liebert Leak Detect System

Mr. Kendall added, ”We believe that our customers should never have any concerns whatsoever about the security, reliability and integrity of their hosted data and applications. That’s the reason we built this new facility.”

Limestone Networks, Inc. is a dedicated hosting provider, headquartered in the central business district of Dallas, TX. The company offers affordable, customizable, self-managed, dedicated server solutions to Web hosting companies and hosting resellers. The Limestone Private Tunnel is a proprietary platform that securely links all dedicated servers together through a fully-routed, private back-end network, providing full security and unlimited on-demand scalability.

For more information about Limestone Networks, please visit: www.limestonenetworks.com.

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Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Web hosting and solutions company, C I Host, has unveiled plans to open a new datacenter facility which is scheduled to open in 2009 in Dallas, Texas.

The new facility is being developed to maximize best practices from the company’s 11 years in business, along with providing improved technology.

Erin Bullock, Executive Director of Business Development for C I Host remarked, ”C I Host is a pioneer in the Web hosting industry and we have the opportunity to use more than a decade of experiences to build a customer’s ideal datacenter from the ground up - and then deliver it to them.”

The company continues to offer services for the same low prices. The new datacenter facilities expand the company’s capabilities while consolidating operations to more efficiently serve customers worldwide. The new datacenter facilities represent a transformation for the company, as the datacenter is built out for maximum performance, efficiency and availability for the customer - all before customers are ever moved in.

The new facilities, which will open in February 2009, boast 60,000 square feet of space with diverse electrical feeds and fiber entrances, while a 1.5-megawatt power transformer and 750-kilowatt transformer will ably handle electrical loads. On-site fuel storage and a generator with Automatic Transfer Switches will help ensure consistent power availability.

Nicholas Giancola, Chief Network Architect at C I Host added, ”We’re using the new facilities as a blank slate opportunity to provide the kind of technology and service our customers demand.”

The new buildings are located in the Dallas Love Field Corridor, 6 miles from downtown Dallas, 2.5 miles from Love Field Airport, and 10 miles from DFW International Airport. New customers will be added to the new facility in early 2009, while current CI Host customers will be migrated during the following six to twelve months.

C I Host, based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is a web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) hosting hundreds of thousands of domains around the world. C I Host creates business-class web hosting solutions for the small- and medium-enterprise (SME) market, with the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names. C I Host operates three data centers across the United States, with its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles and Chicago.

C I Host has been ranked among the 5,000 fastest growing companies in the United States by Inc. magazine, with over 250,000 clients and a growth rate of 85 percent, placing it at #3488 in the list. C I Host has also been ranked #1 in speed by the Adoloma Web Hosting Guide. C I Host has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by cnet’s Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. C I Host was named among the Top 25 Web hosting companies by HostIndex.com.

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

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Miami, Florida - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Integrated Tier-1 Internet exchange and managed IT infrastructure solutions provider, Terremark, has reported its results for the quarter ending September 30, 2008, including $59.6 million, representing a 31% year-over-year increase.

Revenues generated during the second quarter were at the high end of previously announced guidance, with more than 91 percent of the $59.6 million in revenues recurring in nature.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. is a leading operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet exchanges and a global provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions for government and private sectors. Terremark delivers its portfolio of services from seven locations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and from four service aggregation and distribution locations, which aggregate network traffic and distribute network-based services in Europe and Asia to meet specific customer needs. Terremark’s flagship facility, the NAP of the Americas, is the model for the carrier-neutral Internet exchanges the company has in Santa Clara, California (NAP of the Americas/West), in Sao Paulo, Brazil (NAP do Brasil) and in Madrid, Spain (NAP de las Americas - Madrid). The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is a state-of-the-art facility that provides exchange point, colocation and managed services. Terremark is headquartered at 2601 S. Bayshore Drive, 9th Floor, Miami, Florida USA, (305) 856-3200.

Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark remarked, ”We executed well and reached the high-end of our revenue guidance despite a tough macro-economic environment. Demand for IT infrastructure services, and particularly Terremark’s full suite of offerings, remains strong driven by the compelling value proposition we offer to today’s CIOs who are under pressure to produce more effectively and efficiently with smaller budgets.”

Jose Segrera, CFO of Terremark commented, ”With a fully funded growth strategy and diverse, blue-chip customer base, we anticipate that our company will continue to produce strong results despite the tough macro-economic environment. Given our strong revenue growth this past quarter, we feel confident that the recurring nature of our business model enhances our ability to continue our strong performance in the coming quarters.”

Mr. Medina added, ”We are excited about the long-term prospects for our business. While our results this quarter were impacted by a strategic process that is now complete, our Company remains ideally positioned to meet the needs of CIOs, as demonstrated by our healthy bookings and pipeline.”

Q209 Financial Highlights include:

• Total revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 were $59.6 million, which is in-line with the high-end of previously announced guidance and representing a 31% year-over-year increase.
• EBITDA, as adjusted, for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 was $9.9 million, which represents a 27% year-over-year increase. Income from operations for the six months ended September 30, 2008 was $3.5 million. A significant impact on our results of operations and EBITDA, as adjusted, during the September 2008 quarter was related to the evaluation of strategic alternatives by the Company’s Board of Directors. This evaluation began in April 2008 upon receipt by the Company of an unsolicited expression of interest regarding a potential acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Company stock at a premium to the then current trading price. The Board of Directors formed a strategic committee to conduct a market check and to authorize and oversee management’s preliminary exploratory process to identify transaction alternatives to maximize stockholder value. No definitive transaction with any third party ensued as a result of the process in light of global economic conditions and credit market illiquidity. Therefore, the Board of Directors determined that it was in the shareholders’ best interest to continue executing the Company’s business plan.
• Cross connects billed to customers increased to 7,459 as of September 30, 2008 from 7,232 the previous quarter and 6,119 a year earlier, representing increases of 3% and 22%, respectively. This increase continues to highlight the strong demand for Terremark’s network-neutral model.

Sales and Marketing

• During the quarter ended September 30, 2008, Terremark added 80 new customers, for a total of 1,068 customers at the end of the period.
• Terremark booked $27.6 million of new annual contract value, which represents the fourteenth straight quarter of strong bookings.

Operations

• Total built-out colocation space increased to 187,671 as a result of additional space coming online in the NAP of the Capital Region and the NAP of the Americas. The Company is currently deploying customers into the new space and is seeing a robust pipeline for services in both facilities.
• Total colocation space utilization was 23.3% as of September 30, 2008 compared to 23.7% as of June 30, 2008. Utilization of built-out colocation space was 55.0% as of September 30, 2008. The utilization rates both decreased due to the activation of additional space in the NAP of the Capital Region and Terremark’s facility in Miami.
• Following the launch of the Enterprise Cloud in June, Terremark has continued to promote its innovative cloud computing platform. The Company presented at a number of the leading industry conferences and hosted a series of customer webinars, which have resulted in a number of customer contracts.

Business Outlook

• For the third quarter of fiscal 2009, the Company expects revenues to range from $65.0 million to $67.0 million and EBITDA, as adjusted, to range from $15.0 million to $16.0 million.
• For the 2009 fiscal year, guidance remains between $255 million to $260 million of revenues and EBITDA, as adjusted, to range between $58 million and $60 million.

Additional information regarding the Company’s financial performance as of and for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 and a comparison to the quarter ended September 30, 2007 can be found on the balance sheet and statement of operations and in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry’s most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security and cloud computing services. Terremark’s acclaimed Infinistructure utility computing architecture has redefined industry standards for scalable and flexible computing infrastructure and its DigitalOps service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal.

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

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