Amsterdam, The Netherlands - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - International business hosting services firm, LeaseWeb, has appointed the co-founder of INHOPE, the European Association of Internet Hotlines,
Alex de Joode, as its Security Officer.

As Security Officer, Mr. de Joode will engage in combating cybercrime as well as monitoring the extensive hosting network of LeaseWeb. In this role he will report directly to the Management Team of LeaseWeb.

As Security Officer De Joode will be responsible for Abuse Handling, Information Security, Business Continuity Management and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. De Joode noted, ”I have a lot of experience in abuse policy and handling abuse. But security is also a real hobby of mine. I am delighted that LeaseWeb offers me the opportunity to be involved in security in the widest sense of the word.”

The new Security Officer will also maintain contact with all the authorities involved, such as the police, Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and organizations for the protection of intellectual property. He will also supervise ISO 27001 and SAS70 certifications.

When Mr. De Joode saw the vacancy of Security Officer at LeaseWeb, he responded immediately, noting, ”The international working environment at LeaseWeb appealed to me particularly. LeaseWeb is growing fast worldwide, so chances are that I can do something for LeaseWeb in the field of hosting outside of Amsterdam one day.”

The IT technical and legal knowledge and experience De Joode brings to LeaseWeb provide him with a proper basis for his new duties. Mr. De Joode explained, ”I am familiar with UNIX, Linux, Open BSD, network and system management, for instance, and I studied law at the University of Amsterdam. Obviously, I am particularly interested in the interface between technology and law and I expect to be able to indulge in this extensively at LeaseWeb.”

Before joining LeaseWeb Alex De Joode worked as a Senior Systems Administrator with Proteon VIS, a web developer from Delft. He also worked for seven years as a Senior Network Architect with the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (Terena). Mr. De Joode describes his involvement in founding INHOPE as a contribution in the Internet industry to the balance between combating cybercrime and protecting freedom of speech. Alex de Joode started his career as an Electronic Banking Specialist with ABN AMRO Bank.

LeaseWeb is an international supplier of hosting products and services that specializes in both Microsoft and Linux, and focuses primarily on the professional market. The company is among the top 20 hosting providers in the world and provides services such as web hosting, dedicated hosting, colocated hosting, VPS and streaming, as well as technical support. LeaseWeb owns a Cisco-powered network offering a bandwidth of over 210 Gbps, which extends across five data centers in the Amsterdam region via the major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present on Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna , Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb now manages 11,000 servers. Its customers include Starbucks, Hyves, Telegraaf Media Groep, Koninklijke Joh. Ensched, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AVRO, Direct Wonen, and University.

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

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Winston, Salem - (The Hosting News) - October 6, 2008 - SolidSpace today announced its enhanced core service offering and unveils a new website to reflect its shift toward providing Managed Services and other IT services via the Internet.

Jim Capps, President and CEO, SolidSpace, LLC remarked, ”SolidSpace has always focused on offering scalable IT solutions backed by unwavering technical support. By enhancing our core service offering we can meet the needs of an every changing IT services industry more quickly and efficiently. Remote IT services make data center level expertise available to businesses of all sizes, allowing them to optimize IT budgets and become more competitive.”

SolidSpace’s new website showcases the recent additions to their Managed Services line, along with a fresh clean style, user-friendly navigation and enhanced customer center. The website’s redesign puts critical decision making information at visitor’s figure tips, such as a new Frequently Asked Questions section, site search field and case studies.

As more businesses begin to develop operating strategies around hosted applications and Software as a Service models, SolidSpace’s new line of Availability Monitoring, Server Health Check and Remote Managed Services provides small to mid-size businesses the tools to affordably maintain these networks and applications.

Andrea Rice, Chief Operating Officer, SolidSpace, LLC remarked, ”The new website not only shares our expanded focus on innovative hosted and remote IT solutions but it also gives visitors a sense of the people who make SolidSpace an awarding winning company for its technical support and mid-size business IT solutions. Our customer center upgrades make a busy system administrator’s daily tasks easier by providing online support request and remote server access, which is just the beginning of many more advances to come.”

With further IT service innovations already in the planning, SolidSpace will continue aligning itself as a partner to technology driven businesses, making unwavering technical support and scalable, cost effective IT solutions its paramount focus.

SolidSpace, LLC is a provider of IT hosting and network solutions, enabling small to mid-size businesses to benefit from Enterprise Level IT services economically. SolidSpace’s solutions provide onsite and remote IT services, website, application, and database hosting, managed services, collocation and broadband services. SolidSpace, LLC is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC and is a portfolio company of SilkRoad Equity LLC.

SilkRoad Equity is a private investment firm founded by Andrew J. ”Flip” Filipowski and Matthew Roszak. SilkRoad Equity targets investments in the areas of technology, life sciences, media and entertainment and real estate, and is comprised of a portfolio of companies that includes: Cryo-Cell International, House of Blues, InterAct911, Mastro Auctions, MissionMode Solutions, onramp Branding, Pendulab, Primo Water, Rakote, SilkRoad technology, SolidSpace, TrueSystems and Vion Mobile.

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

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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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Vancouver, British Columbia - (The Hosting News) - October 3, 2008 - Global web hosting, managed dedicated server, shared and e-commerce hosting solutions provider, SuperbHosting.net, subsidiary of Superb Internet Corp., is offering Nemedia’s new RankSense SEO Management Suite.

(Curtis) R. Curtis, Sr. VP, Sales and Marketing at Superb Internet noted, ”As one of the oldest hosting providers and as someone who has been doing Internet marketing since the early 90s, I understand that one of the greatest obstacles to keeping long-term hosting clients is their success online. While most hosting companies focus on ensuring their hosting services are successful for their clients, we are taking our clients to the next level; ensuring their complete success online. Much of their success is directly tied to their ability to effectively market themselves in the search engines, which is critical to any online company driving visitors to their website. Using RankSense, our hosting clients can now easily and affordably get to the top of the search engines and succeed online.”

According to the company, with over 85% of all website traffic coming from search engines, better rankings can make or break any site. In order to be successful, it only makes sense for website owners to develop their sites to rank better - yet many sites are not optimized for search engines. With RankSense’s easy-to-use, step-by-step search engine optimization software featuring more than 12 highly integrated tools, it is easier than ever to increase the quantity and quality of traffic from search engines.

Hamlet Batista, Founder and President of RankSense remarked, ”We are pleased to welcome SuperbHosting.net to our partner program and are extremely confident that SuperbHosting.net will find that when their hosting clients use our SEO management software, their success online will improve drastically, thereby increasing their revenues by improving customer retention and adding additional hosting requirements.”

RankSense SEO Management software was developed by Nemedia, S.A. and designed by developers with an internet marketing background. RankSense offers a fully featured, integrated suite of SEO tools that simplify the process of organically ranking web pages within the major search engines easier than ever before for the keywords most relevant and profitable to the user. RankSense navigates the user through the necessary steps needed to improve natural search engine rankings in an ethical way.

Since 1996, Superb Internet has been consistently rated as one of the very best web hosts by all web host rating agencies, such as Web Hosting Magazine, in all areas, especially customer support and reseller services. Superb Internet provides a complete range of managed web hosting solutions, from virtual shared web hosting through to high-volume, mission-critical dedicated server solutions. SuperbHosting.net’s core focus is customer service, and continuous service improvement, with offices and 24-hour/365-day operations in McLean, VA, Tukwila, WA, and Vancouver, BC, serving customers in over 150 countries worldwide.

To learn more about RankSense, please visit: www.ranksense.com.

For more information about Superb Internet, please visit: www.superbhosting.net.

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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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