San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Clustered hosting provider, and Rackspace Hosting’s cloud division, Mosso, has expanded its leadership team, naming Emil Sayegh as general manager, previously the vice president of the product group at Rackspace.

Mr. Sayegh’s responsibilities at Rackspace included the development, marketing and management of new products and services for the company’s managed hosting product line.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Mr. Sayegh spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various product development and marketing roles. Most recently, Mr. Sayegh was the services marketing and development director at Dell Inc. where he oversaw the global services roadmap. Additionally, Mr. Sayegh served in leadership positions at several notable IT companies including RLX Technologies, Compaq Computers and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents in the fields of electronics and telecommunication.

Lanham Napier, CEO, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ”As the VP of our product group, Emil directed the launches of multiple, successful products including the company’s Hosted Microsoft Exchange and our virtualization product set. Our cloud hosting initiatives are extremely important to the company’s future, which is why we’ve selected someone with a winning track record to run that business.”

Rackspace’s cloud hosting division is currently hosting more than 80,000 websites and applications on Cloud Sites, reflecting a 175 percent increase over this time last year. Last month the company unveiled its cloud hosting strategy, including the announcement of two acquisitions and a suite of cloud solutions at the Rackspace Cloud Event. The two newest additions to the product suite, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, will leverage technology acquired through the acquisitions of Jungle Disk.

Mr. Sayegh remarked, ”I am honored to be joining the cloud division. This is a great opportunity to lead what could be one of the biggest technology evolutions the market has seen - cloud computing. Cloud technologies delivered by Rackspace will provide the cost and scalability advantages of the cloud with Rackspace’s world-leading service approach, making the cloud both affordable and easy to use.”

Mr. Sayegh holds a bachelor of science in Engineering and a master of science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.

A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization and expertise, backed by the company’s award-winning Fanatical Support. Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments, by handling infrastructure maintenance and management. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust, a provider of business-class hosted email solutions. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting and cloud hosting.

Mosso, LLC is the home of The Hosting Cloud, providing enterprise-grade hosting through an easily managed interface so that developers, designers and IT managers can deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily. Founded by two former Rackspace employees, The Hosting Cloud is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture.

To learn more about Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

For more information, please visit: www.mosso.com.

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Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - (The Hosting News) - November 18, 2008 - Web hosting provider, LeaseWeb, in order to facilitate the exponential growth in bandwidth demand from existing and new clients, has more than doubled the capacity of its hosting network, from 210 Gbps to 500 Gbps, or half a Terabit.

Pieter Dijkhuis, Finance Director of LeaseWeb says, ”Our client database has expanded to approximately 10,000 this year. We are pleased with the trust that our clients have given us. Doubling the number of clients was also a logical step for us. Until last year, we primarily focused on developing a stable structure for our hosting network and our support organization. The current structure of our organization allows us to easily facilitate further growth. Growth is a key requirement for LeaseWeb to be able to maintain competitive prices and an attractive price-quality ratio.”

LeaseWeb expanded its capacity to 500 Gbps by purchasing additional port capacity from telecom carriers (transit) and Internet exchanges (peering). Since June 2008, actual bandwidth usage by LeaseWeb’s clients has increased from 100 to 240 Gigabits per second (Gbps).

The available capacity of 500 Gbps is intentionally twice the actual use of bandwidth because of LeaseWeb’s ongoing commitment to providing quickly scalable hosting solutions.

Mr. Dijkhuis explained, ”Bandwidth availability is a key requirement for many clients to be able to expand their Web environment. This is equally important as the available datacenter space and inventories of network and server equipment. Our proposition is designed to meet those requirements. We have ample space available in our CO2-neutral EvoSwitch datacenter, among other facilities, and we maintain large inventories of equipment for clients such as HP, Dell and Cisco.”

LeaseWeb’s hosting network bandwidth capacity of half a Terabit is exceptional. Bastiaan Spandaw, network architect at LeaseWeb confirmed, ”I know of virtually no other hosting providers in Europe that have this amount of bandwidth in their networks. LeaseWeb is one of the few hosting providers in Europe that have this much bandwidth available.”

The total capacity of LeaseWeb’s hosting network was already increased from 160 to 210 Gbps in late May 2008. And now another 290 Gbps have been added.

Mr. Spandaw added, ”The extremely rapid growth of the past few months is not that surprising. If you have ample bandwidth capacity, you are bound to attract clients that use much bandwidth. And this makes our network grow even faster.”

Mr. Dijkhuis added, ”October in particular showed a rapid increase in new clients and bandwidth usage. In that respect, October was definitely not a recession month for us. We expect continued strong growth going forward.”

The strong growth of LeaseWeb’s network is due to existing and new bulk users of bandwidth. These are clients who distribute their streaming audio and video data through the LeaseWeb network, such as 123Video.nl (www.123video.nl), the Danish company Octoshape (www.octoshape.com), product comparison site Twenga (www.twenga.com), Garage TV from Belgium (www.garagetv.be), Turkish media giant Haber7 (www.haber7.com), and the German broadcasting company WIGE Media AG.

LeaseWeb is an international provider of hosting solutions that is primarily geared towards the professional market. The company is among the top-20 hosting providers worldwide and its services include collocation, dedicated servers, webhosting, server virtualization, streaming, and domain name registration. LeaseWeb is the proprietor of a first-class network that offers a bandwidth of more than 210 Gbps, spanning four datacenters in the Amsterdam region. LeaseWeb is also present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid.

To learn more, please visit: www.leaseweb.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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Santa Clara , California - (The Hosting News) - November 17, 2008 - Technology firm and web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc., has introduced the new GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 Prelude solution, as well as a preview of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 application.

According to the company, GlassFish has surpassed 14 Million downloads and 225,000 registrations worldwidem becoming one of the most popular open source application servers. The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, was developed as a lightweight web application server based on a modular OSGi architecture. A new preview of the upcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE) features, is also available.

Karen Tegan Padir, Vice President of engineering, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems remarked, ”GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude is a great example of the innovations that a dynamic, open source community can create as well as an interesting view into the future of web application development and production environments. This release, which is fully supported by Sun and targeted at web-tier production environments, will be the basis for the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 — a complete application server based on the OSGi standard and the upcoming Java EE 6 platform.”

GlassFish is one of the leading open source application servers in the industry today with more than 14 million downloads since its first release in May 2005, more than 225,000 registrations in 2008 and hundreds of production deployments around the globe. With features such as: ease of installation and management, modularity and extensibility and enhanced JRuby support, GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude allows developers to easily scale their projects from small Web-tier deployments to large-scale mission critical architectures, simplify complex development and production tasks and increase productivity.

Customers will benefit from GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude’s more efficient and simplified development and management environments. The new release delivers major productivity features such as:

• Java EE 6 Preview Features - Offers access to the latest functionality in the upcoming Java EE 6 platform, such as: EJB 3.1 Lite and Java Server Faces 2.0. In addition, JAX-RS 1.0 is fully supported for building RESTful Web Services. Users can receive add-ons when new features become available.
• Production Support for Lightweight Web Tier - Provides a lightweight web-tier deployment platform with full production support. In addition, users can match GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude in the web tier with GlassFish Enterprise Server v2 in the application tier for an enterprise-wide architecture.
• Dynamic Language Support with Reliable Performance - Allows users to run development languages like Java, Groovy on Grails and JRuby on Rails at the same time without sacrificing performance. Also, JRuby applications can run without the Java technology-based servlet container, improving productivity by eliminating the need to bundle and deploy JRuby applications as web archive.
• Easy-to-use Administration Console - Offers a simple user interface with point-and-click configuration, application deployment and installation of additional components from the update center. Also, a feature-parity command line interface (CLI) is also available for automated tasks.
• Rapid Deployment Technology - Simplifies the web development cycle of Java-based applications to edit code, save and immediately refresh browser with no loss of application state. Developers can expect to be more productive when GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude is combined with the upcoming release of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.5.

More than 100 companies have joined the Sun Partner Advantage Program, which connects solution providers for the GlassFish application server to the GlassFish user and developer community. New additions include companies like: CloudAPPy Drag and Drop Cloud Hosting, ehCache, Imixs, JasperSoft, Nuxeo, and planConnect.

Jose Morales, Vice President, Business Development, Jaspersoft commented, ”The GlassFish application server is showing extraordinary feature and performance maturity in a very competitive space and is growing to become a major new force in the market. Jaspersoft is pleased to add GlassFish Enterprise Server support to our family of supported Sun products, including the Solaris Operating System, NetBeans IDE and MySQL database.”

Eric Barroca, Executive Vice President, Operations, Nuxeo noted, ”We have been impressed by the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude. We have selected it to power Nuxeo WebEngine standalone server, our content-centric web framework for building Web 2.0 applications, thanks to its OSGi support and great ability to be embedded. We are looking forward to the full Java EE 6 support and plan to use it as our main application server for the open source ECM platform: Nuxeo EP.”

Sun Microsystems develops technologies utilized in more than 100 countries and on the web.

To download and sign up for an annual subscription of the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude, visit: www.sun.com/glassfishv3.

To find out more about the Sun Partner Advantage Program for the GlassFish application server, visit: www.sun.com/software/products/appsrvr/gf-isv.jsp.

For more about Sun’s Startup Essentials program, visit: www.sun.com/startups.

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Dublin, Ireland - (The Hosting News) - November 14, 2008 - Research and Markets’ new report, detailing the future of data center network equipment, describes how related vulnerabilities and regulatory requirements can be engaged to ensure availability of data.

”Data Center Network Equipment and Data Center Automation Solutions Market 2007-2010 - Bundled Report” includes information on how the increase in web hosting services and other web services has significantly driven the sales of Data Center Network Equipment. Further, there are many industry specific needs such as digital imaging, Picture Archive Systems (PACS) in multimedia companies, which drive the sales for efficient Data Center Network Equipment.

Secondly, the adoption of data center automation solutions is becoming increasingly critical for IT departments, driven by the need for high availability, need to reduce management costs, need to improve regulatory compliance, increasing technology consumption, adoption of virtualization etc. In addition, exponential growth in number of servers, storage devices and network equipment has significantly increased the infrastructure complexity. Further, while the price of servers has declined by over 50 percent in the last decade, the cost of managing a server over its lifetime has increased significantly. Currently, most organizations either manually administer their servers or use stand-alone solutions, which are incapable of managing its entire data center portfolio. However, with the rapid increase in cost and complexity of managing data centers, the adoption of data center automation solutions is expected to increase significantly over the period 2008-2010. Open source and policy-based form factors of data center automation solutions are expected to gain momentum in the market. In addition, server automation and configuration and change management are expected to account for a significant share of the DCA market.

This is a bundle of two technology market assessment reports: Data Center Network Equipment Market 2007-2010; and Data Center Automation Solutions Market 2007-2010. Bundled reports are available at an attractive discount over the individual reports.

Key topics covered include:

1. Data Center Network Equipment - Market Size and Forecast

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3. Data Center Network Equipment - Vertical Segmentation

4. Data Center Network Equipment - Sales Drivers by Verticals

5. Data Center Automation Solutions - Market Size and Forecast

6. Data Center Automation Solutions - Geographic Segmentation

7. Data Center Automation Solutions - Vertical Segmentation

8. Data Center Automation Solutions - Sales Drivers by Verticals

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