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Company to house email archives and manage all technical details for its clients.

The company says that the brand will continue to be marketed and positioned as a hosting provider focused on customer service.

Integrates LiteSpeed for SQL Server as a supplemental support package upgrade.

Adds support For Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access And Sharepoint Applications

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - July 31, 2008 - Managed hosting company, EveryCity, has been chosen by research based marketing agency, CrowdDNA, to support its online projects and campaigns, as well as to provide advice and consultancy services.

Duncan Malcolm, Sales Director at EveryCity commented, ”CrowdDNA are a perfect client for us, they want a very tailored and reactive service for their busy online projects, to be able deliver the sort of results their clients demand.”

EveryCity will be managing all of CrowdDNA’s server hosting, including domain names, websites, databases and development environments. They will be ensuring that daily fully managed off-site backups are performed, as well as ensuring that the servers hosting CrowdDNA’s websites and applications are optimised to deliver the best possible performance.

EveryCity provide bespoke managed web hosting solutions to Web 2.0s, Digital Agencies, eCommerce companies and corporates. Their approach to managed hosting is one which is personalised and focussed on working closely with their clients during planning, implementation and on an ongoing basis through projects.

CrowdDNA is an audience behaviour agency that is both brand new and blessed with good history. Previously, it was Ramp Industry. Now CrowdDNA focuses on helping brands to harness innovation and authenticity; to square up to 21st Century challenges; to be relevant, useful, entertaining, part of the conversation.

Crowd DNA offers clients robust and dynamic research, strategy and planning. It brings audience understanding to life through content and comms that trigger conversations and acknowledge the soaring value of social currency.

For more information about Crowd DNA, please visit: www.crowddna.com.

To learn more about EveryCity Managed Hosting, please visit: www.everycity.co.uk.

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - July 31, 2008 - British web hosting company, and high bandwidth dedicated hosting provider, UK-2 Group, has completed its acquisition of managed datacenter solutions firm, ServerCentral’s WingSix web hosting brand.

The transfer will be immediate and transparent to WingSix customers. The WingSix brand will continue to be marketed and positioned as a high-end hosting service focused on customer service.

Marc Bollinger, General Manager for WingSix, commented, ”WingSix customers have intense loyalty to the brand, due to the excellent service they consistently received. We’re excited for the opportunity to continue the outstanding service and support and further develop the WingSix brand.”

Jordan Lowe, President of ServerCentral, noted, ”After reviewing all of our options, UK-2 was the best fit for our customers, offering a high standard of care in customer service, and a local Chicago-based team.”

Having provided hosting under the ServerCentral name since 2000, ServerCentral consolidated its hosting assets under the WingSix brand in 2005. WingSix supports thousands of web hosting, reseller, and virtual private server customers in 50 countries worldwide.

ServerCentral is a managed datacenter solutions provider specializing in bandwidth-intensive colocation applications. With datacenters strategically located worldwide, the company serves a diverse roster of clients, including content delivery companies, web hosting and application service providers, hardware vendors and enterprise-level clients.

UK-2 Group, a British hosting firm, provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many customers through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, US2.net and Resell.biz. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centers and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support. UK2-Group is also a major shareholder in the merged Redbus Interhouse and Telecity Group, the leading European data centre provider.

To learn more about UK.Net, please visit: www.uk2.net.

Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - July 31, 2008 - Web operations firm, OpSource, will provide online collaboration services for businesses, eXpresso Corporation’s scalable Web delivery of secure collaborate services.

The company selected OpSource On-Demand because of its ability to manage its infrastructure while keeping pace with the volume of eXpresso users and their concurrent sessions.

eXpresso provides a complete and immediately usable Excel collaboration tool that requires no installation, support or training. However, with no in-house IT resources, eXpresso required a hosting solution that provided the technical aspects of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, while also providing complete scalability to address the needs of its rapidly growing customer base.

George Langan, CEO of eXpresso, noted, ”In theory, the volume of eXpresso users can grow exponentially at any given moment, so we need an infrastructure that is dynamic, scalable and can stay ahead of our overall growth. We put OpSource On-Demand through a three-month pilot, during which time they not only provided us with the infrastructure and scalability we needed, but also demonstrated both a personal touch and an in-depth understanding of our needs and applications. We’re now also evaluating OpSource Analytics to dissect data in a way that should enhance how it can be used by our sales team.”

A comprehensive, award-winning Web Operations solution, OpSource On-Demand enables Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web companies to quickly and securely deliver their applications and services over the Web to consumers and businesses alike. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, it includes the application management, compliance and business services that are necessary for on-demand business success. OpSource On-Demand includes:

Technical Operations

• Best-in-class, scalable software, hardware and network infrastructure
• World-class data center facilities
• Redundant carrier class load balancing architecture
• In-depth 24×7 monitoring, security, and management procedures backed by SAS-70 Type II audits
• Built-in high availability solutions from simple clustering to wide-area Disaster Recovery

Application Operations

• Data management
• Performance management, including multipoint user-experience monitoring
• Application Roll Out and Change Management
• Application optimization
• Compliant infrastructure, processes and procedures including: SAS 70 Type II audited, HIPAA and PCI DSS compliance and salesforce.com and WebEx certifications

Business Operations

• OpSource Billing - An end-to-end subscription management, metering and payment stand-alone solution, or as part of OpSource On-Demand
• OpSource Connect - A Web services infrastructure and integration toolset, for application integration in the “Cloud” and behind the corporate fire-wall
• OpSource End-User Support - 24×7 customer branded end-user support
• OpSource Analytics - A real-time application and customer usage information, and health of business analysis and reporting tool

Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource, added, ”SaaS has been readily adopted by consumers and is now going mainstream for the enterprise. This is opening up new markets for SaaS providers such as eXpresso who are adding value including collaboration and file sharing to ubiquitous enterprise-wide applications like Excel. SaaS success in the enterprise requires reliability, scalability and security and we’re honored to have earned eXpresso’s trust as its Web operations partner.”

OpSource delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web applications for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource Connect companies can leverage Web services such as OpSource Billing, OpSource Analytics and OpSource End-User Support and integrate applications with other SaaS applications over the Internet, as well as with enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall. OpSource On-Demand is suitable for companies at any stage of growth, with any type of on-demand application. OpSource is the only company to offer Success-Based PricingSM, a unit-based pricing model that allows businesses to begin with a modest minimum commitment and scale expenses as revenues increase. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, OpSource has Web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore.

eXpresso is a provider of managed business community solutions. The company offers secure, hosted online workspaces suitable for business collaboration, beginning with the Excel spreadsheet environment. eXpresso’s unique capabilities leverage multiple homegrown, patent-pending technologies, enabling users to access, share, compare and collaborate on business information from any location. The privately-owned company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

To learn more, visit: www.expressocorp.com.

For more information about OpSource, please visit: www.opsource.net.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 31, 2008 - Internet website security provider, Alert Logic, has surpassed its 500th customer in the first half of 2008, ast one of several significant business and product milestones for company in the past six months.

Michael Turner, President and CEO of Alert Logic noted, ”Today businesses face complex compliance and security challenges that can easily overwhelm the most seasoned IT staff. Alert Logic is focused on reducing that complexity by providing SaaS-based solutions that are easy to buy, own and use. Our growth in the first half of 2008 demonstrates the need for IT compliance and security solutions like ours and we look forward to providing our customers with these innovative technologies in the second half of the year.”

Adoption of Alert Logic’s IT compliance and security solutions was driven largely by industry and government regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Many organizations struggling to comply with these and other mandates chose Alert Logic because its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform delivers log management, intrusion protection and vulnerability management solutions that are the easiest to implement and use.

Other important milestones achieved in the first half of 2008 include:

• Alert Logic raised $8.25 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Updata Partners and included existing investors Hunt Ventures, OCA Ventures, DFJ Mercury and Access Venture Partners.
• The company released an upgrade to Alert Logic Log Manager, its flagship log management product. Log Manager 1.1 now fully leverages the power of grid computing and virtualization technologies.
• Alert Logic won a Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America.
• Alert Logic announced alliances with two web hosting companies, Hostway and Logicworks, and an IT distributor, Ingram Micro. The agreement with Ingram Micro is especially significant since Alert Logic’s solutions are being offered to Ingram Micro’s more than 40,000 solution providers and managed service providers throughout North America.
• Demonstrating its commitment to protect its customers’s data, Alert Logic received a Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) Type II audit report. Alert Logic was also re-certified to perform assessments for organizations that must comply with the PCI DSS.
• To accommodate its growth, Alert Logic moved its Houston, TX-based headquarters from a 6,800 square foot office to one that is more than 21,000 square feet.

Alert Logic is a provider of on-demand compliance and security solutions. By enabling its customers to detect threats, eliminate vulnerabilities, and manage log data, Alert Logic provides the easiest way to secure networks and comply with policies and regulations. Alert Logic’s on-demand platform utilizes software-as-a-service to deliver the benefits of rapid deployment, zero maintenance, and no upfront capital costs. As a result, Alert Logic customers benefit from easy and affordable compliance and security. The company is based in Houston, Texas and founded in 2002.

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

July 31, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage system provider Tilana Systems announced on Tuesday it is offering a system that enables hosts to use Linux or Windows servers to immediately offer cloud storage directly to end-users or through a sales channel.

July 31, 2008 — ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet hosting provider BizCom Web Services announced two new services this week, adding its Hosted Email Archiving Library and hosted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 services.