Louisville, Kentucky - (The Hosting News) - September 24, 2009 - Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a provider of Windows-based hosting and managed IT services, MaximumASP, will soon release a new shared windows hosting platform.

According to the company, MaxESP will be the first highly available completely PCI compliant (web + data) Microsoft ASP.NET shared web hosting platform. The MaxESP core focus is to cater to all aspects of the application life cycle. Customers can quickly upgrade the standard plan and make their application load balanced and more robust with 1 mouse click. Introductory accounts will be available in October free of charge for 30 days and just $49 a month after the trial period.

Besides the usual features of a hosting solution like email, SQL databases, SAN-supported storage, free backups, etc., the MaxESP elastic shared platform adds an SSL VPN service free of charge, PCI compliance at a shared price point, and on-demand application-aware load balancing and simultaneous application instances without forcing customers to rewrite their code.

As a leading Windows-based hosting provider, MaximumASP keeps up with the latest developments in Microsoft technologies while continually seeking customer feedback.

Matt Griffin, product manager at MaxESP explained, ”Windows Server 2008 R2, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and Application Request Routing, which is an IIS extension, offers tremendous benefits to both our company and our customers in our new shared hosting platform.”

MaxESP is a highly scalable, cost-effective hosting solution that makes it easier for customers to manage their applications. In a shared-hosting architecture, multiple customers use the same physical server. These environments have traditionally been difficult to manage as they grow to include thousands of customers and applications, the MaxESP solution makes it easier for MaximumASP to support a rapidly expanding customer base.

With both its current offerings and MaxESP, MaximumASP simplified the administration of shared hosting for its IT staff. Dominic Foster, CTO of MaximumASP added, ”With Application Request Routing on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, we’ve created a rock-solid platform that’s scalable to any level and takes care of all the headaches normally associated with shared hosting.”

John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software plus Services Industry in the Microsoft Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. offered, ”With Application Request Routing from Microsoft, hosting providers can offer elastic scalability, optimized resource utilization and reduced management costs to their customers in a simple process. MaximumASP, as our Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year, continues to innovate and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies with its MaxESP platform.”

Additionally, MaximumASP takes advantage of the ability of ARR to manage multiple server farms and to manage and monitor all configuration settings through easy-to-use tools including IIS Remote Management.

Mr. Griffin added, ”ARR sits on top of a common, or shared, configuration system provided by IIS, which makes it very easy for us to develop custom modules or apply custom provisioning that plugs into the rest of our IT pipeline. We can use this to support billing, track customers, scale up or down, or add capacity for on-demand products that we want to roll out.”

MaximumASP can quickly provision highly available and scalable server farms and expand customers’ self-service options. Multiple layers of load balancing, enterprise SAN storage and redundant server farms will support high-performance requirements. The result will be better service for hosting customers and savings of up to U.S. $166,000 a year for MaximumASP in labor and hardware costs.

Mr. Foster continued, ”We are very excited about MaxESP as well as the IIS 7.5 architecture and anxious for more customer feedback on how it simplifies management of hosted sites and Web applications. MaximumASP continues to lead the hosting industry by giving our customers a competitive edge and enabling them to be first-to-market with new solutions.”

Created in IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 MaxESP has many exciting new features:

• Easily create and control your applications in IIS 7.5 using IIS Remote Management
• Highly available shared hosting with application aware load balancing
• Need more power? No problem. Add instances of your application to seamlessly scale capacity
• Decrease the number of nodes when not operating at peak times - or allocate to other website(s)
• Customizable scalability right at your fingertips

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Windows-based hosting services. MaximumASP was named by Microsoft as its 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 120 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications.

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

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Nova Scotia, Canada - (The Hosting News) - September 24, 2009 - Web hosting industry tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has initiated an overhaul of its pricing structure. Tutorials of all kind are being offered at substantially reduced rates, discounted at up to 80 percent from former costs.

DemoWolf has gone through its entire inventory of tutorials and lowered regular and sale prices on all of its offerings. Not only have they continued its ”50% off” sale pricing, but they have lowered all of their regular prices.

The company has also updated its Savings Bundles to reflect all the new tutorials released in the last several months. In the last year, DemoWolf has doubled the number of tutorials available in its inventory, from 1,900 in August 2008, to over 3,600 as of now. New savings bundles are available at: http://www.demowolf.com/bundle-and-save.php. Voice tutorials are available at 75% discounts at http://www.demowolf.com/bundle-and-save.php.

The main changes include:
- New tab system for Standard vs Voice tutorials - the list only includes either voice or non-voice tutorials, rather than both. Tab back and forth between them to see what is needed.

- New sub-tab system for languages - Now only the English tutorials are displayed initially, with all other languages available by clicking the appropriate language tabs, for easy navigation between English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek, Brazilian, Russian, Czech or Bahasia tutorials.
- New ”Watch Now” buttons for every series, tied into a Nested-Floatbox system of viewing tutorials.
- Quick indicators letting you know if a tutorial series is also available in a Voice version, or in other languages.
- Regular and Sale pricing is more clearly labeled, as are the ”Buy Now” buttons.
- New sub-categories of tutorials to make tutorial series easier to locate.

Following is a list of the new tutorials released just in the last 2 months. All tutorials can be viewed from the new Hosting Tutorials page:

WHM 11 Setup series (29 demos)
WHM 11 Services series (33 demos)
WHM 11 Accounts series (35 demos)
WHM 11 Management series (24 demos)
Joomla New Setup VOICE series (20 demos)
Joomla New Admin VOICE series (17 demos)
Joomla New CMS VOICE series (17 demos)
Joomla New Extensions VOICE series (18 demos)
Joomla New End-user VOICE series (12 demos)
cPanel 11 x3 end-user FRENCH series (31 demos)
Horde FRENCH series (11 demos)
SquirrelMail FRENCH series (10 demos)
RoundCube FRENCH series (10 demos)
Fantastico FRENCH series (47 demos)
Drupal FRENCH series (14 demos)
Gallery FRENCH series (11 demos)
WHMCS 4 End-user series (10 demos)
WHMCS 4 Setup series (22 demos)
WHMCS 4 Management series (14 demos)

DemoWolf produces tutorials for the web hosting industry. The tutorials included for CPanel, feature 5 different skins, Direct Admin, Email, FTP, H-Sphere, Helm, phpMyAdmin, Plesk 8 for Linux, Plesk for Windows, SeverCP, SmarterMail, Virtuozzo, WebHost Manager,and several DNS domain name tutorials.and several DNS and domain name tutorial series. DemoWolf also has several tutorial series with voice and audio narration, including different voices and accents to choose from. DemoWolf is an Internet services company based in Halifax, NS, Canada. Specializing in providing ”professional quality” branded tutorials for the web hosting industry, DemoWolf also provides custom tutorials for many other online applications.

For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.

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Santa Monica, California - (The Hosting News) - September 23, 2009 - The Green Geeks firm has purchased green power and will join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership.

Green Geeks, LLC is purchasing more than 48,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, which is enough green power to meet 300 percent of the organizations purchased electricity use. Green Geeks, LLC is buying renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a leading national supplier of green power products.

Trey Gardner, CEO of Green Geeks explained, ”This is a huge honor and we are proud to be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We’ve always been diligent and we’ve worked hard to make Green Geeks the most eco friendly company we could be. When the EPA contacted us we were pleased to find out that companies like ours could get the support of the EPA through their Green Power Partner Program. We look forward to working with the EPA and their Program to further the cause for more companies to go green.”

Green power is electricity that is generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro. These resources generate electricity with a net zero increase in carbon dioxide emissions, while offering a superior environmental profile compared to traditional power generation sources. Green power purchases also support the development of new renewable energy generation sources nationwide.

Kathleen Hogan, Director of the Climate Protection Partnerships Division at EPA noted, ”EPA is pleased to welcome Green Geeks to the Green Power Partnership. We applaud their commitment to using green power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

According to the U.S. EPA, Green Geek’s green power purchase of more than 48,000 (kWh) is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of more than 6 passenger vehicles per year, or is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 5 average American homes annually.

Green Geeks LLC provides shared, reseller and dedicated server web hosting as well as domain name registration and domain management. Green Geeks has offices in Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles and they service customers in over 40 countries World Wide. Since the start of operations Green Geeks has been an eco-friendly web host with 300% green energy purchases.

Founded in 1998 and based in Portland, Ore., Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit that engages market forces and ingenuity to help people address our most pressing energy and water issues. Through sales of carbon offsets, BEF supports renewable energy development and education and long-term watershed restoration. Bonneville Environmental Foundation recently established a subsidiary, BEF Renewable Incorporated, to initiate innovative renewable energy projects and partner with tax-exempt entities, such as schools, cities, tribal governments and other nonprofits, to help them develop renewable energy projects.

The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. The Partnership currently has more than 1,100 Partner organizations voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt-hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, small and medium sized businesses, local, state, and federal governments, and colleges and universities.

To learn more about the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, please visit: b-e-f.org.

For additional information about The Green Power Partnership, please visit: www.epa.gov/greenpower.

To learn more about Green Geeks, please visit: www.GreenGeeks.com.

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San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - September 23, 2009 - Web hosting sponsors have been confirmed for commercial Hadoop company, Cloudera, for the inaugural Hadoop World conference, which will take place Friday, October 2 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

The 12 confirmed sponsors for Hadoop World: NYC 2009 are Facebook, Rackspace, Yahoo!, Intel, IBM, Amazon.com, Supermicro, Softlayer, and eHarmony. Confirmed media sponsors include GigaOm, High Scalability, ReadWriteWeb and The Register.

Christophe Bisciglia, founder of Cloudera remarked, ”To have such a large number of industry leaders sponsor a first-time event speaks volumes about the importance of Hadoop and its future. As traditional enterprises around the world are turning to Hadoop to solve data-intensive computing challenges, Hadoop World will provide compelling use cases along with the introduction and instruction needed for enterprise users to get started.”

At Hadoop World, more than 30 of the world’s most experienced Apache Hadoop practitioners — including project creator Doug Cutting — will gather to discuss Hadoop-related best practices and use cases.

Eric Baldeschwieler, Vice President, Hadoop Software Development, Yahoo! explained, ”Yahoo! is the largest supporter and contributor to the Hadoop project, and we run the largest Hadoop installations in the world to support complex data analysis and mining, display advertising, our content platforms, personalization, filtering email spam, research, and more. We are excited about the growth we’re seeing in the Hadoop ecosystem, including more uses of Hadoop for mission critical activity across the industry. At Hadoop World, we look forward to discussing the exciting prospects and challenges for continuing to make Hadoop faster, more scalable, more reliable and more secure.”

Rod Smith, vp of Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group noted, ”We see that applications based on Hadoop have the potential to revolutionize business analytics in the same way PC spreadsheets did in the 80s. Using Hadoop to tap the power of ‘Big Data’ sets the stage for a new class of Web applications– enabling more business professionals across industries to gain insight from today’s massive amount of information.”

John Engates, CTO at Rackspace noted, ”At Rackspace, we generate terabytes upon terabytes of log files and event level data operating our cloud services. Hadoop has proven to be a scalable and reliable system for storing and processing our ever increasing volumes of data, and we’re excited to share details with the community at Hadoop World: NYC 2009.”

Nathan Day, CTO, Softlayer noted, ”We see a lot of our customers taking advantage of Softlayer’s bare metal cloud offering to achieve better performance for Hadoop. It’s exciting to see how many companies are turning to Hadoop and we’re pleased to be a part of this growing community.”

Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company, delivers the scalable platform for a new generation of data-intensive applications. Founded by leading experts on big data from Facebook, Google, Oracle and Yahoo, Cloudera helps traditional enterprises tap into the power of Hadoop. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Cloudera has financial backing from Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and angel investors who include Diane Greene (former CEO of VMware), Marten Mickos (former CEO of MySQL), and Jeff Weiner (CEO of LinkedIn).

To learn more about Cloudera, please visit: www.cloudera.com.

For more information on Hadoop World, please visit: www.cloudera.com/hadoop-world-nyc.

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Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - September 22, 2009 - Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Unify, is providing provisioning and management for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), accelerating the deployment for customers of over 150,000 seats.

Described as currently the largest single OCS installation in North America, in less than 90 days, Ensim’s OCS Manager solved all the major provisioning and management requirements that had delayed the deployment of over 150,000 seats of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.

Scott Young, vice president of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation noted, ”Deployment of OCS 2007 often proves challenging for regulated organizations due to complex user entitlement policies. By deploying Ensim Unify, our customer was able to solve its OCS provisioning and management challenges in less than 90 days, while enforcing the security and compliance policies required for its users. The effectiveness and scalability of Ensim Unify speaks for itself in this case, given the size of the OCS deployment it enabled.”

A number of provisioning obstacles had stopped the customer from gaining the benefits of OCS. These obstacles included support for complex IT security and compliance policies, such as multiple provisioning workflows for different types of employees, multi-level help desk support, and minimizing the burden on IT caused by the manual update process. Ensim delivered a provisioning and management solution that integrated with the customer’s existing directory infrastructure and provisioning policies and supported different provisioning workflows, while automating the hundreds of daily manual updates. It also enabled delegated administration to support multi-level help desk operations, while offering full audit and reporting for these processes.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition is a complete, role-based access management solution that can be deployed just for OCS or across the entire unified communications (UC) infrastructure including email, VoIP, conferencing, collaboration, and instant messaging. Ensim’s OCS Manager enables businesses to realize the promise of unified communications without the pain of manual user provisioning and burdensome management. OCS Manager works with existing ID management solutions to allow organizations to take full advantage of all the new OCS 2007 features without imposing a burden on IT.

Key features of Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition OCS Manager include:

• Ability to Integrate with Complex Provisioning Policies
• Support for Multiple Provisioning Workflows
• Automated Maintenance of Daily Manual Updates
• Full Multi-level Help Desk Support
• Detailed System Activity and Transaction Logging

David J. Wippich, chairman and CEO at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”The ROI associated with deploying unified communications is significant, but many organizations are stuck at deployment or take on burdensome management tasks after deployment. Ensim Unify enables quick deployment, automation of maintenance tasks, and interoperability that leverages existing investments and policies that can be extended to UC apps like OCS.”

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management 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 has over two million users under management and is Microsoft Gold Certified.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

For more information on Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition OCS Manager, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/ensim_unify/OCS.

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