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ATLANTA, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --EarthLink, Inc. (ELNK), a leading IT services and communications provider, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named EarthLink BusinessCloud Hosting as a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner presented by Cloud Computing Magazine. The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognize companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.

"Recognizing leaders in the advancement of cloud computing, TMC is proud to announce EarthLink as a recipient of the second annual Cloud Computing Excellence Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC. "EarthLink's Cloud Hosting solution has demonstrated innovation as well as the ability to improve the cloud."

For this award, EarthLink spotlighted its cloud hosting solution for independenceIT (iIT). A full case study and press release outlining this solution are available online.

"We are pleased to be selected for this award, based on the cloud computing solution we deliver to independenceIT, " said Michael Toplisek, EarthLink Executive Vice President of Products and Marketing. "With EarthLink Cloud Hosting providing customized, virtualized data center services, iIT now delivers its Cloud Workspace and application platforms to its clients with faster platform delivery. iIT also lowered its data center costs by 16% with the EarthLink solution, and now enjoys the scalability to add new servers and storage on-demand as their business needs dictate."

EarthLink delivers a Cloud Hosting service that is VMware vCloud powered, with the ability to reduce IT operating costs by consolidating resources, simplify IT complexity, and enable more flexible, agile service delivery through virtualization. EarthLink's Cloud Hosting service provides a user-friendly vCloud Director Portal for creation of custom Virtual Machines (VM) and on-demand applications. The EarthLink Cloud architecture leverages highly available firewalls, multiple connectivity options and Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure to deliver highly redundant on-demand computing power.

Winners of the Cloud Computing Excellence Award are published in the October 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine.

About EarthLinkEarthLink, Inc. (ELNK) is a leading IT services, network and communications provider to more than 150,000 businesses and over one million consumers nationwide. EarthLink empowers customers with managed IT services including cloud computing, data centers, virtualization, security, applications and support services, in addition to nationwide data and voice IP services. The company operates an extensive network including 28,000 route fiber miles, 90 metro fiber rings and 4 secure data centers providing ubiquitous IP coverage across more than 90 percent of the country. Founded in 1994, the company's award-winning reputation for both outstanding service and product innovation is supported by an experienced team of professionals focused on best-in-class customer care. For more information, visit EarthLink's website http://www.earthlink.net.

About TMCTMC is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes the TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine (formerly Customer Interaction Solutions), INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud Computing magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by 1.5 million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world's leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference & Expo and more.

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CHELMSFORD, MA--(Marketwire - Oct 23, 2012) - Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of network security and management solutions for enterprise and service provider networks, today announced that DreamHost, a global web and cloud hosting company, has selected Arbor's Peakflow SP platform, the industry's leading network-wide infrastructure security and traffic-monitoring platform.

World Leader in DDoS Mitigation Arbor Networks' 450 customers include the vast majority of the world's service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today. According to a recent report from Infonetics Research titled, DDoS Prevention Appliance Market Outlook, Arbor Networks was cited as top supplier of DDoS prevention solutions overall as well as in the Carrier, Enterprise, Government and Mobile market segments.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, DreamHost is a leading global web hosting and cloud services provider with over 330,000 customers and 1.2 million websites, blogs and applications hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of web hosting and cloud solutions including traditional Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing services.

"At DreamHost we're obsessively focused on providing authentic and personal customer experiences combined with the absolute best value web and cloud hosting services in the industry.For us, that all begins with high service availability.Our commitment to our entrepreneurs and developer customers requires us to work with infrastructure and solution providers who offer world-class technology that enables us to deliver on our promises. There's no question that Arbor Networks is the best company in the world to work with when it comes to DDoS mitigation and protecting our infrastructure from availability threats," said DreamHost Chief Executive Officer Simon Anderson.

Anderson's sentiments were echoed by DreamHost's Senior Network Engineer, Kenneth McRae."Peakflow works, period.What I like most about the solution is it does not require a lot of tuning to get it up and operational.DDoS is now automatically handled, as opposed to 'Ken-matically' handled at 3:00am or some other ungodly hour.Arbor's Jim Meehan provides excellent ongoing support as needed and often checks in to see how things are going.Now you cannot beat that!"

"Hosting providers often have a higher risk of DDoS attacks than other online businesses because they aggregate the risk of all their customers," said Arbor Networks President Colin Doherty. "Planning and mitigation strategies are essential because the impact of an availability attack is directly related to preparedness, the time it takes to identify and mitigate it. Unprepared organizations will see extended downtime and all the associated costs, from lost revenue to broken SLAs to brand damage. DreamHost has gone the other direction, taking an aggressive and proactive approach. They understand the threat DDoS represents to their business and we are very pleased that they have chosen to work with Arbor Networks."

Integrated DDoS Detection & Mitigation DreamHost's deployment of the Peakflow SP platform helps ensure that DDoS attacks are identified and mitigated before they get to customer premises. DreamHost is using Arbor's Peakflow SP platform to monitor customer access points at the edge of their infrastructure, in addition to constantly monitoring the entire Internet, looking for attacks that could disrupt or impact the availability of customer services. When Peakflow SP identifies an attack, customer traffic is diverted to the Arbor Threat Management System, where it is scrubbed and attack traffic surgically removed, while legitimate business traffic is passed through to the customer. Arbor is delivering an integrated solution that identifies and surgically removes network and application-layer attacks without interrupting the flow of legitimate traffic. This means that customer-facing services remain available while DreamHost actively mitigates attacks.

Botnet protection via the ATLAS Intelligence Feed An important feature within the Peakflow platform is the ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF) which delivers deep DDoS signatures in real-time to keep networks protected against hundreds of botnet-fueled DDoS attack toolsets and their variants. This unique feed includes geo-location data and automates the identification of attacks against infrastructure and services from known botnets while ensuring that updates for new threats are automatically delivered without software upgrades. The ATLAS Intelligence Feed enables DreamHost to directly benefit from the depth and breadth of Arbor's research team.

The Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) is a recognized industry expert when it comes to Internet threat analysis. ASERT's primary focus is on botnets, which account for a majority of the DDoS attacks on the Internet today. ASERT has unique visibility into DDoS botnets because of its ATLAS infrastructure, which combines a darknet sensor network with traffic data from more than 100 service provider customers around the world. This enormous dataset enables ASERT to develop a unique, globally-scoped view of malicious traffic traversing backbone networks that form the Internet's core. This insight is critical, as botnets are constantly changing and updating to thwart detection.

For more information on Arbor Networks DDoS Detection & Mitigation Solutions, please go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/ArborNetworks

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NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FCM360 has just launched a global financial cloud hosting solution for traders, sell-side software vendors (ISVs) and exchanges to meet global trading infrastructure requirements by connecting the world's major financial hubs.

"FCM360 created its new low-latency financial cloud to meet the needs of financial traders, brokers and matching technology providers that need global high-speed, low-latency trading infrastructure located in the world's major financial centers. The core of the backbone that provides colocation and managed hosting that spans from New York, Aurora and Chicago, Illinois, London and Frankfurt to Hong Kong and Tokyo. The FCM360 financial cloud is based on having super pops and hosting facilities in sought-after locations such as NY4 New York, LD4 London, FR2 Frankfurt and hosting facilities in Hong Kong and Tokyo," according to Jubin Pejman, Managing Director of FCM360 (http://www.fcm360.com).

NY4 and LD4 have become the most sought-after locations to trade and distribute data in the financial industry and are the two most appropriate locations for FCM360 to offer its financial cloud service. This is unlike competing cloud products that do not offer comprehensive solution because they rarely disclose their locations or provide clients with full service offerings for their infrastructure needs.

"FCM360's low-latency network provides the fastest routes between all of its hosting hubs including 32.5 millisecond latency between New York and London and 4.29 milliseconds between London and Frankfurt the fastest latencies available between these routes. With these speeds, trading houses that replace existing and more expensive infrastructure with our financial cloud are assured that the networking and processing latency will meet or exceed their existing deployment," notes FCM360's Pejman.

Market makers, hedge funds, low-latency trading platforms, funds with less than $100 million under management, liquidity aggregators and proprietary traders rely on FCM360 for trading infrastructure. FCM360 also provides connectivity to over 50 exchanges, Electronic Crossing Networks (ECNS) and brokers worldwide.

"We deliver a single point of contact to manage every facet of trading infrastructure," says Pejman.

FCM360's financial cloud solution solves four common problems:

1. Location Disclosure Full location disclosure and proximity to exchanges, liquidity venues and low-latency market data and news feeds are essential. With FCM360, traders know the actual latency offered by our financial cloud-trading infrastructure. "This has been one of the key tenets of building FCM360's trading infrastructure and a major shortcoming of competing financial cloud models," says Pejman.

2. Low Latency If a trading house completely replaces its larger and more expensive bare-metal trading infrastructure, FCM360 ensures that the networking and processing latency meets or exceeds their existing deployment.

3. Multiple Connectivity Options The FCM360 financial cloud offers an array of connectivity options to exchanges, ECNs, banks and market data/news providers. Pejman adds, "With our investment in infrastructure, traders can be confident that the network cost-effectively connects seamlessly to trading counterparties around the world."

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