Freehostingcoupons.com Web Hosting News

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 27, 2008 - The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company, has initiated expansion of its Dallas D6 data center, for an additional 12,000 square feet added to the company’s operations.

Jeff Lowenberg, Vice President of Facilities at The Planet noted, ”As energy costs continue to climb, operating our data centers at peak performance is absolutely critical, both to our company and to our customers. Our goal is to use best practices and a practical approach to optimize our operations.”

Bringing The Planet’s total data center footprint to 167,000 square feet, the company expects the new data center to open in November. The company operates six data centers, with four located in Dallas and two in Houston. The new space will feature an enhanced energy-efficient design that utilizes improved measures to completely separate hot and cold air. The company expects to improve the data center ‘coefficient of efficiency’ to approximately 1.5. The coefficient of efficiency is an EPA- and Uptime Institute-recognized measurement of the total power necessary to operate a data center divided by its critical power, which is the energy required to operate its computers. An ‘ideal’ ranking is 1.6.

The enhanced energy-efficient measures include extending the returns of the computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units through the ceiling and utilizing the space above the ceiling as a return air path. By using CPI (Chatsworth Products Inc.) ducted exhaust cabinets in the new phase, The Planet is taking the next steps beyond traditional ‘hot aisle-cold aisle’ setups to completely isolate the hot and cold air in the data center.

Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:

• High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.

For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - June 27, 2008 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, is a Silver Sponsor of this year’s Layered Technologies event, LT Pact event, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Web hosting industry three day event, is designed to provide an opportunity for R1Soft to showcase its products to key industry decision makers, including analysts and business leaders from the United States, as well as on an international level.

David Wartell, Vice President, R1Soft division, BBS Technologies noted, ”The Web hosting industry has overwhelmingly embraced our solution as the next generation of data protection technology. This year’s LT Pact is an opportunity to connect with leaders and decision makers who are interested in learning more about how our solution works and how it can benefit their businesses and clients.”

R1Soft will promote its CDP Server for Linux and Windows, the leading near-Continuous data protection technology available for the industry. Near-Continuous backup means efficient backup windows — usually as short as 15 minutes, even on large, heavily loaded servers. The technology even protects active MySQL databases and offers granular restoration of data.

On Friday, June 27, R1Soft will host ‘The Future of Server Backup: near-Continuous Data Protection,’ an education session at 3:15 pm. The company will discuss serious challenges posed to system administrators due to rapid data growth. The session will provide an overview of backup techniques for Linux servers and demonstrate how Continuous Data Protection technology (CDP) is the future of Linux server backup and restore.

R1Soft also will have a presence in the show’s exhibit hall, where it will offer product information, special promotions and incentives.

Layered Technologies, Inc. is a global provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and Web services, including technology, infrastructure and support. Layered Technologies’ scalable infrastructure powers millions of web sites and Internet enabled applications including e-Commerce, Software as a Service (”SaaS”), content distribution and more. Its clients range from leading-edge Web 2.0 startups, successful mid-sized enterprises and some the world’s largest consultancy and integration firms.

Founded in 2003, R1Soft is a provider of disk-based backup solutions. The company’s customer list includes some of the world’s largest hosting providers. R1soft products provide Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for over 85,000 mission-critical Linux and Windows servers worldwide. In November, 2007 R1Soft was acquired by BBS Technologies, Inc.

For more information about R1Soft and Continuous Data Protection, please visit: www.r1soft.com.

To learn more about Layered Technologies, please visit: www.layeredtech.com.

Armonk, New York - (The Hosting News) - June 27, 2008 - An agreement has been engaged, to help build a $ CDN 75 million, 150,000 square foot ‘green’ data center in the heart of British Columbia with gigaCENTER Services Corporation, in partnership with RackForce Networks and IBM.

Tim Dufour, CEO of both RackForce and gigaCENTER noted. ”We are building a data center with IBM in a safe and secure location to respond to growing issues about natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. This center will support the latest technologies using ‘green’ hydro-generated power and the most efficient, environmentally friendly design. The IBM design is calculated at a Power Usage Effectiveness rating of 1.38, which will mean our facility will be among the most efficient in the industry.”

The new facility called gigaCENTER Services Corp will be among the most efficient and “greenest” large-scale data centers in Canada. It is being developed using IBM’s modular approach and will include power and cooling capabilities to support a variety of technologies from high-density blade servers to mainframes.

IBM products and services will be delivered over the three-year construction, with the first phase scheduled to open in December 2008. When completed, the facility will support 70,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space and create jobs for up to 100 employees.

Steve Sams, IBM vice president, Global Site and Facilities Services remarked, ”A year ago when IBM launched Project Big Green, one of its goals was to help identify ways to optimize data center usage and reduce energy consumption needs. This new data center is an example of this initiative. By offering ‘green’ colocation and data center services, gigaCENTER and IBM will enable enterprises to meet their corporate and IT environmental goals.”

Customers of the new center will be able to rent space in increments as small as one cabinet, up to dedicated cages and private rooms. The center will provide facilities to support on demand server capacity services and Business Continuity and Resiliency Services, delivered through RackForce and IBM Global Services.

RackForce is a leading provider of green data center infrastructure and network services from its strategically located facilities in the heart of British Columbia, Canada. Through its superior data center design, automated systems and virtualization expertise it provides highly reliable On Demand servers, colocation and connectivity to a worldwide customer base.

gigaCenter Services Corporation is a leader in the design, construction and operation of premium green data centers engineered to support the rigorous computing demands of today and the future. gigaCENTER will provide power and cooling capabilities to support a variety of technologies including high density blade servers, virtualized server clusters and mainframes.

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

June 27, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider SharePoint360 announced on Friday it has launched SharePoint360 Web, a hosted solution using the SharePoint web-based collaboration and document management platform.

June 27, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A group of Turkish hackers calling themselves “NetDevilz” defaced on Thursday the official sites of Internet governing bodies IANA and ICANN, according to researchers.

June 27, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecom equipment and solutions provider NEC Corp. announced a definitive agreement to acquire US-based operations support systems provider NetCracker Technology Corp. for about $300 million.

June 27, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — On-demand, website test and measurement firm Keynote Systems has announced KITE 2.0, a new, web application performance testing environment that includes testing of web 2.0 and cloud applications to be released in August.

June 27, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Webair announced on Thursday it is now offering its global content delivery network services, enabling users to deliver content with “unparalleled throughput and responsiveness.”

June 27, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — An online security researcher has found a drive-by malware download that exploits an Internet Explorer feature to launch cross-site scripting attacks, according to a report by ZDNet.

June 27, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hong Kong-based web host PacHosting has launched a BlackBerry email hosting service, allowing a BlackBerry to stay synchronized with via Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.