SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 3, 2012) - Gandi, a leading domain name registrar and cloud-hosting provider, today announced that the rapidly growing social news site reddit has selected its corporate services to manage their portfolio of domains. With Gandi Corporate Services, reddit can count on domain name management that alleviates the administrative burden of tracking registrations in a time of proliferating ccTLDs and gTLDs.reddit's selection of Gandi reflects the growing popularity of Gandi's corporate services among organizations seekingenhanced levels of service from trusted partners.

Gandi's corporate services are a strong fit for organizations like reddit with high profiles and large domain portfolios, and which can benefit from technical and administrative scaling and management of arcane registration requirements. Gandi reports on and monitors similar registrations and can proactively capture newly available domains to maintain the brand reputation of the organization. In the increasingly global domain market, these tasks can require the valuable time of an expert. Gandi can free up that time by cost-effectively handling the tasks needed to maintain ownership of multiple business-critical domains. Gandi follows strict (no-harassment) procedures which prohibit unrelatedoutbound marketing offers, advertisements, or other communications in delivery of their services, with the goal of providing customers with a focused, trusted, and reliable partnership.

The Gandi and reddit teams also are aligned in their vision of the Internet; both organizations were strongly in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) when it was proposed last year.

"We consider customer rights and privacy to be a cornerstone of civilization," said Ricky Ramirez, systems administrator, reddit. "To us, Gandi is the new clear leader among domain name registrars with whom we enjoy a successful and productive alliance."

"We are proud to win the trust of reddit, an organization that feels as strongly about freedom of expression as we do," said Thomas Stocking, COO, Gandi. "With 3.4 billion page views last month, reddit represents the most high profile of many organizations who have recently moved to Gandi's corporate services."

About Gandi Corporate Services Gandi Corporate Services (GCS) unburden companies from the management of domain registration, transfer, and renewal. In addition to raising the bar on the type and quality of services available from registrars, GCS help to minimize brand dilution and reputation damage from phishing sites, typo squatting, and other damaging practices. Gandi Corporate Services are offered on a subscription, a-la-carte basis, providing more flexibility than "all in one" pricing models.

About Gandi Founded in 1999, Gandi is a major international domain name registrar and cloud hosting provider. Gandi manages more than 1.3 million domain names and 163 extensions. Offering a world-class alternative to purely commercial registrars, and a low-cost, innovative, cloud hosting platform, Gandi provides hosting for a community of people working on technology that enables the Internet for business, while also advocating for the free and unrestricted sharing of information and the promotion of the respect of individual rights. Organizations that Gandi.net supports include Creative Commons, EFF, and Students for Free Culture, among others. You can follow Gandi on Twitter @gandibar. For more information, please visit: http://www.gandi.net or call 410 429-7402.

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Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) Web Services platform is the longtime leader in outsourced cloud computing. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure has barely made a dent in the market despite repeated assaults, but Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is gaining ground thanks to lower pricing and fanatical customer support.

That established trio of leaders had better make space for another big dog. Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) just announceda pair of cloud-computing services that will compete head-to-head with Amazon's AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace Cloud Hosting.

An AWS-like hosted solution will join a private cloud platform where the hardware is installed in the customer's data centers. Either way, Oracle is responsible for managing and operating the hardware while customers simply treat the platform as a blob of additional computing resources. This is in every way similar to what the current incumbents offer, except Oracle will prefer its own Sun Solaris-based equipment over the Linux and Windows solutions popular elsewhere.

These services may be the final payoff for Oracle's $7.4 billion Sun buyout. I'm still not convinced that the acquisition was a good idea. Sun's hardware is more of a distraction from Oracle's software core than a value-added expansion. But if CEO Larry Ellison plays his cards right, at least he found a ticket to ride around a host of hardware partners into the cloud-computing future.

If Oracle wants to copy somebody else's business model, the database expert could certainly pick far worse role models than Amazon. To help you understand why the leading e-tailer and budding IT giant garners recommendations from four separate Fool services, we've compiled a premium report on Amazon. In it, you'll see every rocket booster at Amazon's tail and every potential road block that lies ahead. Click here to get started.

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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (MLNX) (MLNX.TA), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its end-to-end InfiniBand solutions have been selected to connect Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net) cloud infrastructures. Atlantic.Net is a leading cloud hosting provider that operates a massively scalable and secure cloud hosting platform. Utilizing Mellanoxs InfiniBand cost-effectiveness and scalability advantages, Atlantic.Nets cloud servers deliver performance optimized application services at lower costs.

Mellanoxs InfiniBand server and storage interconnect solution is a great compliment to our industrial-grade cloud infrastructure to provide the fastest and most robust cloud on the market. Using QDR InfiniBand, we are able to perform server provisioning in just seconds and provide extremely fast disk performance at 40Gb/s, said Adnan Raja, director of business development at Atlantic.Net. Mellanox InfiniBand has enabled us to dramatically reduce our cloud infrastructure costs and therefore provide better services to our customers. We will continue to enhance our offerings with many new features in development to provide a unique cloud experience that offers speed, reliability and ease of use.

Mellanoxs InfiniBand solutions lead the industry with performance, reliability and high availability, improving cloud infrastructure return-on-investment while helping providers to reduce their capital and operational expenses, said David Barzilai, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. Leveraging InfiniBands performance, efficiency and scalability capabilities, Atlantic.Net is able to provide its customers with a high-performance, reliable and scalable on-demand public cloud hosting platform.

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Cloud hosting powerhouse utilizes Mellanoxs QDR 40Gb/s InfiniBand solution to build one of the most optimized, cost-effective clouds on the market.

Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) September 27, 2012 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its end-to-end InfiniBand solutions have been selected to interconnect Atlantic.Nets (http://www.atlantic.net) cloud infrastructure. Atlantic.Net is a leading cloud hosting provider that operates an industrial-grade, massively scalable, secure and robust cloud hosting platform. Utilizing the high performance, cost-effectiveness and scalability provided by Mellanoxs QDR 40Gb/s InfiniBand, Atlantic.Net cloud servers deliver performance-optimized application services at lower costs.

Mellanoxs InfiniBand server and storage interconnect solution is a great compliment to our industrial-grade cloud infrastructure to provide the fastest and most robust cloud on the market. Using QDR InfiniBand, we are able to perform server provisioning in just seconds and provide extremely fast disk performance at 40Gb/s, said Adnan Raja, Director of Business Development at Atlantic.Net. Mellanoxs InfiniBand has enabled us to dramatically reduce our cloud infrastructure costs and therefore provide better services to our customers. We will continue to enhance our offerings with many new features in development to provide a unique cloud experience that offers speed, reliability and ease of use.

Mellanoxs InfiniBand solutions lead the industry with performance, enterprise-class reliability and high availability, improving cloud infrastructure return-on-investment, while helping providers to reduce their capital and operational expenses, said Gilad Shainer, Vice President of Market Development at Mellanox Technologies. Leveraging InfiniBands performance, efficiency and scalability capabilities, Atlantic.Net is able to provide its customers with a high-performance, reliable and scalable on-demand public cloud hosting platform.

For a limited time, Atlantic.Net is offering a free trial of its public cloud platform to demonstrate the fastest server provisioning and data processing, along with all the benefits of moving to the cloud savings, simplicity, flexibility, security, speed and live expert support 24x7x365! Visit http://www.atlantic.net/cloud to learn more.

About Mellanox Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at http://www.mellanox.com.

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For many MSPs that have gone so far as to manage cloud backup services -- implementing and providing operational support -- the next step is to actually provide the cloud itself. Moving to the hosting model makes sense because it allows them to increase their involvement (value-add) and revenue potential with their customer bases. At one point this meant standing up a data center to support the cloud backup software, but now MSPs can host these backup clouds in a Software as a Service (SaaS) configuration with such companies as Amazon or Rackspace. And making the jump is now easier thanks to the backup cloud infrastructure vendors, many of which allow MSPs to transition their current customers into their own clouds transparently.

There is an increasing number of backup infrastructure vendors, hardware and/or software available to the MSP that wants to take this step. Some of these vendors' products are big in the private cloud space, providing backup infrastructure for large companies, but the products can also be used as the basis for a cloud backup service. Since this tip is focused on MSPs, many of which are moving up from selling and managing cloud services to hosting the infrastructure itself, our focal point here is in the area of hosted MSP backup solutions.

We'll use two vendors that were featured in the last article in this series, Asigra Inc. and Ctera Networks Ltd., as examples of the solutions in this space. Both have established a business with MSPs managing a cloud backup service for their customers and can support those MSPs that want to host their own clouds as well.

Resembling the managed services cloud backup model, in an MSP-hosted scenario, a hybrid cloud appliance (hardware or software) is installed at the customer's location with the MSP providing the same monitoring and management of backups from a central location. The only differences between the two models are where the data is actually stored and who runs that cloud.

The hybrid cloud model gives the end-user company local backups and restores and an efficient, cost-effective process for the transfer of backed-up data sets to the cloud. The MSP can still provide day-to-day operational support and troubleshooting, as well as expansion, updates and configuration management of the backup infrastructure.

Hosting allows MSPs to increase their margins, providing the same services as they did when they were reselling to their end-user customers.

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