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Atlantic.Net Slashes Cloud Hosting Prices

September 11, 2012 | Author: admin

Cloud servers are now discounted up to 43%

Orlando, FL (PRWEB) September 10, 2012 Atlantic.Net (http://www.atlantic.net/), a privately held leading cloud hosting solutions provider, is pleased to announce a sharp price reduction for its cloud hosting services for both new and existing customers that utilize its industrial-grade cloud infrastructure. Effective immediately, Atlantic.Net cloud servers are now discounted up to 43% due to efficiencies gained by leveraging new technologies and a business model based on providing the best possible value, while maintaining the highest level of service.

Accommodating high-traffic websites is a specialty of Atlantic.Net. Therefore, the company is reducing its outbound bandwidth pricing to only 11 cents per Gigabyte. In addition, Atlantic.Net has lowered its in-bound cloud server bandwidth price to zero (FREE), effective immediately. Atlantic.Nets Cloud Servers now start as low as 1.3 cents per hour or $9.49 per month.

This is one more way of saying that we appreciate our clients, as we give them more for less while continuing to provide speed, quality, reliability, and value. said Josh Simon, Director of Data Center Services for Atlantic.Net. The efficiencies and cost savings we have gained from adopting the latest technologies have allowed us to continue to provide the best value at affordable prices for our customers.

As a hosting solutions provider that owns and operates its own network, Atlantic.Net prides itself in being able to provide clients with world-class infrastructure at a competitive price. The efficiencies gained from utilizing new technologies have enabled Atlantic.Net to offer even more benefits to its cloud server customers, which will be announced in the coming weeks.

For more information about the cloud hosting services offered by Atlantic.Net, including a risk-free trial, please visit http://www.atlantic.net/ or call 1-800-422-2936.

About Atlantic.Net

Atlantic.Net is a market-leading Cloud Hosting Solutions Provider recognized for providing exceptional business hosting service, simplifying complex technologies, and building a brand that businesses trust since 1994. Atlantic.Net specializes in providing Cloud Servers, Colocation, Dedicated Servers and Virtualization Hosting Services. Atlantic.Net owns and operates a SSAE 16 (SOC 1) TYPE II (Formerly SAS 70) audited and certified data center infrastructure and is dedicated to implementing tailored hosting solutions that enable clients to enjoy the benefits of cost savings

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KineticD Supports Microsoft Cloud OS Vision with KineticCloud Backup for Servers

September 11, 2012 | Author: admin

TORONTO, Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --KineticD, known for its cloud backup and data recovery services for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that KineticCloud Backup for Servers has been certified by Microsoft to run on Microsoft Server 2012, delivering enhanced security, as well as innovative user interface features and reliability improvements. KineticCloud Backup for Servers offers leading edge online backup technology to protect SMBs and Value Added Resellers (VARs) securely, reliably and economically.

"Our Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community is alive with innovation and we're committed to helping our partners drive the next generation of software experiences," said Ross Brown, vice president of ISV and Solutions Partners for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. "Adding compatibility for the latest Microsoft technologies helps ISVs stay ahead of the competition and provide their customers with access to cutting-edge technologies."

By developing its products to support Microsoft's Cloud OS vision, KineticD provides its customers with the assurance that KineticCloud Backup for Servers meets customer expectations for ongoing service and support of the latest technologies.

"KineticD is excited to support Microsoft's Cloud OS strategy through our KineticCloud Backup for Servers," said Jamie Brenzel, CEO of KineticD. "By delivering applications that are compatible with Microsoft Server 2012, we are able to offer our customers compelling benefits that include improved security and reliability features, full support for multi-core processing, sophisticated management features and intelligent power management."

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About KineticDKineticD, an early pioneer of cloud backup technology, has set a new industry standard by providing small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with the same level of security and protection that is available to large enterprises. KineticD's patented KineticCloud Backup technology, known for its scalability, advanced data reduction capabilities and ease-of-use, has won prestigious industry awards and has been featured in many key industry publications. Founded in 2002, KineticD technologies and solutions are currently used daily by over 60,000 customers, 1,000 resellers, 100 MSPs and private label partners for online backup and recovery, archiving, disaster readiness, secure file sharing and remote access.For a free trial or to requestmore information, visitwww.kineticd.com/

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45% of Companies Running Transactional Websites are Unsure Whether Data is Hosted in the UK, According to New Research …

September 7, 2012 | Author: admin

BIRMINGHAM, England, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

- Q3 Internet is a reseller of shared web hosting and Linux cloud servers and a GlobalSign SSL provider -

New independent market research by industry analyst, Redshift Research, on behalf of GlobalSign SSL provider and Linux cloud server reseller Q3 Internet Services, has found that 45% of companies running transactional websites don't actually know where their data and website files are stored, raising concerns about the security of sensitive customer information for both web hosting and shared web hosting.

The survey, which samples the views of 164 IT buyers in retail, leisure & hospitality, entertainment, financial services and public sector, also found that 27% of respondents do not know who their web hosting provider is, whilst 53% of companies could not give a reason why they had chosen their current provider. 16% of respondents said that the company's web hosting provider was recommended by their web design agency, whilst 11% took a recommendation from a colleague.

Furthermore, the research highlighted that system downtime and speed of performance are still issues affecting businesses. Indeed, 18% of respondents had experienced a major outage in the last 12 months, whilst 33% had found their website to be too slow.

Only 11% of companies had actually changed their shared web hosting provider in the last two years, yet significantly only 35% of companies said that they are happy with the service from their existing provider. Respondents cited a whole host of reasons as to why they had decided to not change provider in the last two years, such as: provider reduced the cost (4%); fear of downtime whilst migrating (5%); fear of permanent data loss (4%); provider made it too difficult to move (5%); better the devil you know (6%); didn't have time to investigate other providers (6%). When asked what would be the most important factor if they were considering a change of provider, 62% of respondents said security of data, 26% cited cost, whilst 10% said fast, reactive customer service.

Commenting on the research results, Raj Sukkersudha, Managing Director at GlobalSign SSL provider and Linux cloud server reseller, Q3 Internet Services, says, "The research results demonstrate that the average organisation is surprisingly blas about their choice of web hosting provider - until there is a problem. A significant percentage of companies running transactional websites don't even know where their data is hosted. Given the sensitivity of much of that data, this is quite alarming."

Sukkersudha continues, "Often the selection process when choosing a hosting partner, particularly for small businesses, comes down to cost; little thought is given to whether the resulting service is appropriate and geared to the company's specific needs. Alternatively the web hosting service may have been recommended or even brokered by the company's web design agency, lulling the organisation into a sense of security that may not be warranted."

According to Sukkersudha, the risk is that a poorly thought-out web hosting decision can cause all sorts of problems down the line, as a business becomes more reliant on its online presence for new leads, or to provide support to its customers. He explains, "If the website doesn't function well, is plagued with performance issues and/or is difficult to update readily, this will reflect badly on the business and have an impact on the customer experience, harming sales. A company's web presence today is no longer a nice-to-have, it is core to an organisation's brand and as a result companies cannot leave their web hosting choices to chance."

Sukkersudha suggests that companies need to consider which qualities of the service are most important to them, and ensure these are adequately provided for. He explains, "There is a reason that hosting services can range from several pounds to several hundred pounds a month - you get what you pay for. At one end of the spectrum, the service will be pared back to the bare essentials much like a no-frills airline; at the other extreme will be an all-you-can-eat proposition including comprehensive managed ICT services."

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Cloud Host Media3 Supports New Windows Server 2012

September 6, 2012 | Author: admin

BOSTON, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ Cloud Hosting company Media3 Technologies announced today that in tandem with the official launch by Microsoft, they are now fully supporting Windows Server 2012 for all of its cloud products.

These cloud products include their complete line of cloud servers, cloud sites, and hybrid-cloud options.

The enhancements that Microsoft has delivered with this release are nothing less than astounding, said Media3 CEO Bob Hayes. We couldnt be more excited about the cloud solutions now available to our clients worldwide.

By rapidly supporting this latest edition, Media3 is keeping with its commitment to provide the most up to date stable editions of new products as they are released.

These new Windows 2012 based accounts, available immediately, include Media3s instant provisioning and unprecedented control with their proprietary web and mobile app.

About Media3

Headquartered in Pembroke, MA, Media3 Technologies, LLC is one of the largest private cloud and application hosting providers in the world. Recognized as an industry leader, they are widely acclaimed for innovative technology and exceptional customer service.

Media3s World Wide Web address is http://www.Media3.net.

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DreamHost Introduces DreamObjects Cloud Storage Service

September 5, 2012 | Author: admin

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire -09/05/12)- DreamHost, a global web and cloud hosting company, today announced DreamObjects, an inexpensive, scalable object storage service that was developed from the ground up to provide a reliable, flexible cloud storage solution for entrepreneurs and developers.

DreamObjects is fully compatible with APIs of other popular object storage services, making it ideal for application developers looking for faster performance and better reliability. Individuals and businesses looking to backup or store their files, media, and data online can do so simply and quickly, paying for the storage they use.

DreamHost is notorious for packing as much value as possible into complex services hidden behind easy-to-use interfaces and plain-english messaging, and DreamObjects is no exception. The price per GB of storage is just 7 cents per month for usage-based billing, and monthly prepaid plans go below 5 cents per GB to store 50 TB or more of data from your truly awesome digital life or social media startup venture. Data transfer out of the service is a low 7 cents per GB, and there are no nickel and dime charges for API requests or other bothersome fees.

"DreamHost is on a mission to give every content creator, entrepreneur and developer the freedom to create on the Internet. We do this by launching and supporting awesomely-engineered, super-flexible, and uber-value web and cloud services, and DreamObjects is definitely in this illustrious category," explained Simon Anderson, CEO of DreamHost. "In fact, the software we're using to run DreamObjects is so high-voltage and super-secret that I can't even say the name of it... without lisping at least."

DreamObjects is powered by Ceph, the revolutionary open source, massively scalable, distributed storage system. Ceph's architecture delivers true storage virtualization and advanced redundancy, as the one-of-a-kind CRUSH algorithm intelligently replicates data across the storage cluster and continuously rebalances that distributed data to maintain the highest level of reliability. As an open source project, Ceph frees DreamObjects users from the restrictions of vendor lock-in, and because it runs on top of inexpensive server hardware, Ceph drives down DreamHost's cost per gigabyte, which translates to big savings for their customers.

"Inktank is very excited to support DreamHost's industry-transforming object storage service," said Bryan Bogensberger, President & COO of Inktank. "By leveraging the massively scalable open source Ceph storage technology, DreamHost is able to innovate cloud storage and compete with the industry giants and, longer term, enable true hybrid cloud storage to those standing up Ceph in their own private data centers!"

Canonical Ltd's Ubuntu Linux 12.4 powers DreamObjects and was selected for its performance and scalability. Kyle MacDonald, VP Cloud at Canonical commented; "Canonical is pleased to see another leading cloud provider building their cloud infrastructure on Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to build cloud infrastructures and it's the reference operating system for both Openstack and the Ceph file system. With scalability and openness built in, Ubuntu is the best choice for delivering Dreamhost's high performance cloud storage service."

DreamHost has also selected the Opscode Private Chef framework to automate the provisioning and configuration of the technology powering DreamObjects.

"DreamHost is answering the enterprise appetite for massive storage capacity with a unique service combining cloud scale and data center reliability," said Jay Wampold, VP of Marketing, Opscode. "By using Opscode Private Chef to automate its Ceph-powered platform, DreamHost is enabling businesses to store limitless amounts of data with the security of traditional storage offerings."

API-compatible with Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files, DreamObjects also enables access to a vast third-party app ecosystem that provides additional functionality to DreamHost's storage service. Users who already have data stored in S3 or Cloud Files can use DreamHost's easy-to-use migration tool to automatically transfer data into DreamObjects.

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Jelastic Java Cloud Hosting Platform: New Market Opportunities for Web Hosts

September 4, 2012 | Author: admin

September 4, 2012 Jelastic has announced the launch of version 1.8.2 of its new generation platform for Java cloud hosting (www.jelastic.com). Jelastic Java PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) can run and automatically scale any Java application without any code changes. Being a highly competitive platform, Jelastic gives hosting service providers an opportunity to enter the fast-growing market segment of PaaS, attract new customers and effectively compete with Google, Amazon, Heroku and other leaders.

Platform-as-a-Service is a new and fast-growing market segment: according to Forester projections, it will reach 9.8 billion USD by 2015. Jelastic is a competitive platform that enables any hosting provider to enter this market and occupy a decent market share. What makes it different from other cloud Java hosting platforms?

Jelastic offers a fundamentally new approach to Java cloud hosting: the end users do not need to learn extra things and recode their applications in order to adapt to certain requirements. Jelastic is a really convenient and easy-to-deploy cloud platform that can run and scale any Java application without any code changes. However, Jelastic team took the needs of hosting providers into account, too: the platform automatically allocates physical resources and automatically moves applications between host servers to optimize the load. Unused environments can be hibernated for the same purpose Jelastic will awake them as soon as they start sending requests.

The freshly-launched Jelastic 1.8.2 is remarkable for a good number of new features and improvements. First, it provides an opportunity to upgrade the system without downtime at all. How is it possible? This platform is running on two physical servers for stability purposes: they are independent but identical copies of Jelastic infrastructure. Only one of them is active at a certain moment (the other is in standby mode). It means that the currently active server can receive requests, while the standby one can be upgraded. After that they switch the modes: the active server goes standby and becomes available for upgrading, too.

Second, bandwidth limitations for different types of accounts (beta, trial and billing) are now supported: the network quota can range from 1 to 4000. This feature ensures that customers of one and the same hosting provider would not affect each other in a negative way.

Third, the support for tiered pricing has been added: hosting providers can set certain tariffs for different categories of users depending on their traffic usage in the previous month. Jelastics tariff scale shows the minimum, maximum and free amount of traffic for each user category. In a nutshell, the more traffic the user consumes, the lower price for each GB he pays (and the more free traffic gets!).

It should be also noted that Jelastics quality assurance monitoring system has been improved: now it includes a subsystem for notifying publishers and subscribers about monitoring events, a single subscriber that collects information to MySQL database and the Pentaho BI system with reports and analysis charts. All these improvements guarantee that providers will be able to detect and report troubles before they get complaints from angry customers.

In addition to the aforesaid, there are a lot of new features for end users. They include an Elastic VDS with root access for each user, a Memcached node that ensures optimal memory use, the ability to create environments without application logic nodes, a system of balloon prompts that facilitates work with Jelastics dashboard interface, and many more.

The following hosting providers have already chosen Jelastic: dogado (Germany), Tsukaeru (Japan), Rusonyx (Russia), ServInt (US) and Layershift (UK). They have already got more than 25,000 signed-up users, though the platform was launched only in October 2011.

More information is available at http://www.jelastic.com.

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Cloud Provider Media3 Supports New Windows Server 2012

September 4, 2012 | Author: admin

BOSTON, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cloud Hosting company Media3 Technologies announced today that in tandem with the official launch by Microsoft, they are now fully supporting Windows Server 2012 for all of its cloud products.

These cloud products include their complete line of cloud servers, cloud sites, and hybrid-cloud options.

"The enhancements that Microsoft has delivered with this release are nothing less than astounding," said Media3 CEO Bob Hayes. "We couldn't be more excited about the cloud solutions now available to our clients worldwide."

By rapidly supporting this latest edition, Media3 is keeping with its commitment to provide the most up to date stable editions of new products as they are released.

These new Windows 2012 based accounts, available immediately, include Media3's instant provisioning and unprecedented control with their proprietary web and mobile app.

About Media3

Headquartered in Pembroke, MA, Media3 Technologies, LLC is one of the largest private cloud and application hosting providers in the world. Recognized as an industry leader, they are widely acclaimed for innovative technology and exceptional customer service.

Media3's World Wide Web address is http://www.Media3.net.

CONTACT: Bob Caldwell Corporate Media 781-826-1213

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Squiz cloud expands into Melbourne

August 29, 2012 | Author: admin

Squiz announced plans to expand its cloud hosting service with a new data centre opening in Melbourne this November.

The expansion lets Squiz provide locally hosted cloud services for enterprises in Victoria, the company said. The service includes replication and disaster recovery by tapping Squizs Sydney cloud platform and Canberra backup facility, it said.

Squiz began work on the expansion in late June, the company said. The company has 30 staff in Melbourne and more than 150 across the country.

The cloud business is growing exponentially because of the cost efficiencies and ease of mind it offers an organisation, Squiz national hosting manager, Jacob Gardiner, said in a statement.

When faced with making a decision about a new platform, we're seeing 85 to 90 per cent of our clients choosing to go onto the Squiz Cloud. The new data centre will be essential in helping us to meet demand for high quality, secure cloud services over the next few years.

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Rackspace Open Cloud Offers Easily Scalable Computing

August 27, 2012 | Author: admin

Rackspace has announced the unlimited availability of cloud databases and cloud servers powered by OpenStack, along with a powerful and streamlined new control panel.

These solutions further expand Rackspace's broad cloud hosting portfolio, used today by more than 180,000 customers worldwide.

These products mark the first time a company deployed a large-scale, open source public cloud powered by OpenStack. Customers can now select from private, public or hybrid offerings and have the flexibility to deploy their solutions in a Rackspace data center or another data center of their choice.

Rackspace's open cloud products also give application developers and IT organizations in businesses large and small the ability to build, test and deploy applications in the cloud for the first time without being locked-in.

The new Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack deliver increased efficiency, scalability and agility to customers, who can launch as many as 200 reliable cloud servers in 20 minutes.

Rackspace recently announced a celebration of the second anniversary of the OpenStack open-source cloud computing platform for building public or private clouds, according to an article on eWEEK.com.

Why Cloud Computing Needs to - and Will - Go Open Source Three words: agility, flexibility and customization.

They're the "big three" buzzwords companies cite to justify their investments in cloud computing. But while today's leading cloud players have the best technological interests in mind, financial interests are prohibiting them from delivering an open environment for cloud computing, according to an article at Forbes

Open source, particularly Linux, has based itself upon these three benefits since its inception. And after 20 years of Linux success, an historical inflection point has been reached where openness is not only accepted, it is demanded.

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