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Manchester, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - January 7, 2009 - Service focused UK VPS hosting brand, 34SP.com, has announced a new promotion for virtual server clients that aims to ease the first time transition from shared hosting or a dedicated server to VPS hosting.

The company will offer the first month on any VPS hosting account for just 10 cents. This is also in addition to free setup on all VPS accounts.

According to information released by the company, demand for its virtual servers has grown exponentially over the past year as developers and designers discover the convenience and price advantages of virtual servers. 34SP.com offers a range of VPS hosting options from 10 GB to 50 GB in standard configurations. 34SP.com VPS hosting comes with a choice operating systems including: CentOS, Debian, Fedora Core, Suse and Ubuntu. Each VPS server is guaranteed a certain amount of the server's RAM at all times. In times of low server load, users will find they can burst above this limit.

Stuart Melling, 34SP.com's business director described the motivation for the new offer, ''Our clients have told us many times that one of the biggest barriers to trying out VPS hosting is the initial cost, so we created this special offer to help them adopt a virtual server for the first time. They already know that virtual servers permit quick scaling and testing of online applications and can host unlimited websites. 34SP.com also can be supply VPS with the Plesk interface installed, and you then have full root access to both the server and Plesk. Alternatively, you can have a plain VPS without any control panel software for maximum flexibility. Often a virtual server can do everything that a dedicated server can do for a fraction of the cost, and the upgrade path to a full server is very simple with no downtime.''

The company has stated that there is no long term commitment on this offer, just the same great service and support that 34SP.com delivers consistently. The 10 cent offer is for a limited time only. International clients will receive the first month for just 10 pence or 10 euros.

For more information on the 34SP.com or to learn more about the VPS hosting special offer, please visit: http://www.34sp.com.

34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for cost conscious web developers and designers. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers award winning support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Website hosting services offered include: discount domain name registration and business web hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Details on the special VPS offer can be viewed at: www.34sp.com/vps-hosting.

Oslo, Norway - (The Hosting News) - January 7, 2009 - Recently formed support company Cfengine AS, has released a major upgrade of the Open Source, self-repairing software cfengine based on its innovative Promise Theory technology.

Following 5 years of research and development under the technical direction of its long time author Mark Burgess (a professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College), cfengine is not about producing alarms and reports to notify about errors and misalignments in the Data Center: it is a fully self-repairing maintenance engine capable of fixing them without human intervention. Cfengine users know that systems are compliant and maintained even when humans are unavailable, because they have made all the important decisions in advance.

Thomas Ryd, CEO of Cfengine remarked, ''With probably a million existing cfengine installations already worldwide, this major upgrade will have a big impact in improving data center operations at some of the largest data centers in the world.''

Cfengine has always been at the leading edge of research in its field and one of the important innovations in the new release is integrated knowledge management. As a tool that separates human decisions from machine implementation, cfengine historically freed humans from manual labour to indulge in proactive decision-making and strategic planning - something that relies on clear enterprise knowledge. Cfengine 3 now integrates a knowledge engine based on ISO standard Topic Maps making it easier than ever to follow the strategic intentions behind data centers operations. Cfengine ties IT and business-processes together in a way many companies and compliance-auditors are hoped to find powerful and appealing.

Cfengine is not a quaint dashboard for users - it is a powerful engine for datacenter engineers. Version 3 introduces an innovative new language to the trusted technology, with a simpler syntax and sophisticated pattern description features. It brings technology to manage the essential large scale infrastructure and resource clouds of the next decade.

Cfengine 3 will work side-by-side with existing versions of cfengine to provide a minimum-disruption, incremental upgrade path to existing users. Gradual adoption has always been the cornerstone of cfengine's success, setting it apart from alternative disruptive roll-out systems. While other solutions require weeks or months of training with downtime and a major impact on existing infrastructure and applications, Cfengine works unobtrusively behind the scenes, according to Mark Burgess.

Cfengine AS added support and consulting services to the mix this year, with a strong business management team to complement Burgess's well known research credentials. CEO Thomas Ryd summarizes the main reasons for using cfengine 3 in Data Center Automation:

1) It is the only truly scalable self-repairing solution.
2) Its open source code base is broadly tested by a community of expert users.
3) Its state of the art technology for voluntary cooperation delivers scalability and security and users set their own pace for change.

Cfengine was founded June 2008 in Oslo, Norway. Its software solution, Cfengine, is the standalone, open-source datacenter management platform run by leading enterprises since 1993. The company is committed to reducing costs for its customers, improving efficiency and delivering higher return on investment for the lowest cost of adoption in the industry.

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

Redmond, Washington - (The Hosting News) - January 7, 2009 - Microsoft's Web strategy appears to be headed toward offering hosted business productivity services. It is well known that the company earns most of its revenue from selling software licenses to enterprises - which seem to be assessing a value in using web hosted software (in the cloud).

In so doing, there is less overall IT expenditure, as in-house IT systems become more cost-prohibitive in today's economy. In 2008, Microsoft released products unveiled years ago, with its first hosted versions of key software infrastructure, including Office Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.

Accordingly, in early 2009, the company plans to produce hosted versions of Office Communications Server and Live Meeting. With the advent of these services, it apperas that Microsoft is indeed, looking forward to the web as an overall business model.

Matt Rosoff, Analyst with Directions on Microsoft commented, ''When Microsoft says, 'We are willing to make a change in how we do our core business,' that's a pretty big deal. From Microsoft's perspective, that's much more significant than the whole search thing.''

A recent omScore Network report has indicated Microsoft's Live Search in November at 8.3 percent, which matches a low for the year from August. Not surprisingly, Google was listed at a 63.5 percent share of online searches. Meanwhile, the proposed Microsoft purchase deal for Yahoo's search business or the company, lingers.

Microsoft could surpass Google when it comes to hosted business services, since Microsoft has so many existing enterprise customers. Microsoft is selling hosted Exchange Online for $10 per user, per month and SharePoint Online for $7.25 per user, per month. When available, Office Communications Online is expected to cost $2.50 per user, per month; and Office Live Meeting Online will cost $4.50 per user, per month. A suite of the services is expected to cost around $15 per user, per month.

All in all, it appears that Microsoft is getting set to embark upon an important phase of enterprise IT, software as a service, or SaaS, referring to its 'software plus services.'

Ray Wang, a vice president at Forrester Research, commented, ''There are so many customers that don't want to move to services. What Microsoft is doing is providing another option, another delivery option.''

Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia, a Microsoft hosting partner, offered, ''Partners will benefit from the market awareness that Microsoft can generate for the software-as-a-service delivery model.''

To learn more, please visit: www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/hostingproviders.mspx.

Andover, Massachusetts - (The Hosting News) - January 7, 2009 - Application solutions, hosting, infrastructure and content delivery services firm, NaviSite, has been chosen by Leading Indicator Systems (LIS), LLC of Bedford, MA, for its expanded line of dedicated servers.

NaviSite has been engaged to host the complex, Software as a Service (SaaS) application and associated web interfaces and databasesv of LIS solutions. enable its customers to assess and track key indicators that impact organizational performance. Their state-of-the-art assessment solutions bridge the significant gap between the collection of data and the ability of businesses to rapidly analyze, understand, interpret, act, and realize tangible results from survey findings. NaviSite's powerful servers, server management, and network services create a strong foundation that Leading Indicator Systems will leverage to deliver its mission of rapidly transforming data into meaningful and actionable information. NaviSite's managed dedicated servers are hosted in a SAS70 Type II facility, and provide best-in-class solutions that will enable LIS to reliably provide a broad array of web-based assessment and survey solutions to its global customers.

Carl Nergararian, Director of IT at LIS remarked, ''Customers have well-defined requirements when they come to us. Beyond their obvious interest in details of assessment models, survey instrumentation, and our analytic/reporting tools, everyone wants to know where our servers are located and how their security and performance needs are assured. We selected NaviSite as our partner based on its outstanding level of highly-reliable services, excellent reputation, and ability to deliver at a terrific price point.''

Sumeet Sabharwal, SVP of Dedicated Hosting noted, ''By selecting NaviSite, firms like Leading Indicator Systems are assured that their SaaS hosting needs are being handled by one of the leading providers of SaaS Hosting Solutions. NaviSite has a long history of helping Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) as they move their applications to a professionally hosted solution and ensuring that they run at optimum levels of performance.''

NaviSite's Dedicated Hosting solution for LIS is configured around the latest technology, including dedicated blade servers with Intel Quad-Core CPUs, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL 2008, and additional advanced services such as dedicated Cisco firewalls and shared Citrix load balancers.

Leading Indicator Systems designs, develops, and implements state-of-the-art assessment solutions which track key leading indicators -- from employees, customers, suppliers, and markets -- that directly impact organizational performance. LIS off-the-shelf and customized solutions are leading-edge, web-based products used globally to collect, rapidly analyze, and dynamically present findings in ways previously unattainable. The methodology, processes, and tools provide a wealth of precise and meaningful information in highly actionable formats. By deploying these solutions, leaders are able to know sooner, act faster, and implement more effectively. And in today's climate, the rapid transformation of actionable knowledge into tangible results spells richer insight, greater competitive advantage, higher value, and increased performance.

NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. Over 1,500 customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 17 state-of-the-art data centers supported by more than 650 professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies, and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options.

To learn more information on features, pricing, and special offers for our dedicated hosting offerings, please visit: www.navisite.com/dedicatedhosting.

For more information about NaviSite, please visit: www.navisite.com.