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(Gawkwire.com) – EvoSwitch, a data center emphasizing sustainable hosting, will treat several major clients to a seminar with the English polar adventurer Robert Swan today. EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com), the Amsterdam data center with CO2-neutral operations, in collaboration with the Bolster Group management consulting firm wants to inspire its clients to design their data infrastructures as environmentally friendly as possible.

“The energy-efficient environment of EvoSwitch gives clients the freedom to make their own choices with regard to purchasing equipment and designing datacenter solutions,” says Eric Boonstra, managing director of EvoSwitch.  “But we like to see clients follow our example of deploying green technologies, because only then will you utilize the full advantage of the cost-effective, energy-efficient framework that we have created.  Clients locating their data infrastructure at EvoSwitch are able to take advantage of the most technically advanced, secure, environmentally friendly datacenter in the world.”

EvoSwitch delivers the energy-efficient “green” framework within which clients can design their own green data infrastructures.  The data center is approximately 50% more energy-efficient than traditional data centers, uses green power and invests in CO2-compensation projects worldwide in collaboration with the Climate Neutral Group.

The “green” seminar to be held today, June 23, at the Cedars restaurant in Amsterdam with world-famous polar adventurer Robert Swan. The purpose is to educate the public of the importance of sustainability in data hosting.  The seminar with Robert Swan is part of the Bolster Group’s Leadership for Antarctica management program, including a road show in May and June 2010, which targeted organizations that are leaders in sustainable business operations.

The promotional tour visiting the organizations by means of a sustainable sailing yacht on a trailer was initiated by the Bolster Group and EvoSwitch.  Siemens, BMW and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs are among the organizations that support the initiative by the Bolster Group and EvoSwitch, and these organizations have been visited by the yacht.  Board members of the organizations were invited on board to receive information on concrete ways to realize sustainable business operations.

The seminar with Robert Swan fits within EvoSwitch’s overall program to inspire its clients to strive for an energy-efficient approach.  “Additional methods to achieve this include measuring energy use by the rack,” says Stijn Grove, sales manager of EvoSwitch.  “We also have a client portal to give them insight into individual energy use and to potentially charge them for what they use to encourage energy conservation.  For many companies, this alone is enough of an incentive to take energy-efficiency measures.  Many data centers charge fees that include power and therefore do not visualize individual energy use.”

Corporate inspiration for sustainability
Grove notes: “We also talk to clients to encourage them to purchase energy-efficient hardware.  We have convinced many of our clients to embrace good energy saving practices.  Investments in virtualization or cloud computing can also be worthwhile.  Several of our clients have achieved significant savings by virtualizing their environments.  In short, we not only want to sell colocation, but also participate in our clients’ strategic decision-making processes with regard to growth objectives, data protection, compliance, connectivity and the sustainable design of data-center racks.”

Polar adventurer Robert Swan (53) is a gifted story-teller with a very inspiring personality. Swan was the first person ever to invite corporate executives to witness the deterioration of Antarctica in 2003.  Upon return, he urged them to become “leaders in sustainable business operations.”

Robert Swan, with his organization 2041 (www.2041.com), works to preserve Antarctica and the environment.  He named his organization 2041 because the treaty that protects the untamed nature of Antarctica will expire in 2041.  In that year, the treaty may be subject to changes that could endanger Antarctica’s natural environment.  Swan’s fight has earned him several major awards, including the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.

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There are many different elements that go into a managed hosting company’s email efforts. If you are looking for managed hosting with the additional benefit of a mail server, you’re going to need to know whether or not the hosting company can handle it. Because companies come in all different sizes, no one managed hosting companies resources are going to be suitable for everyone. Different strokes for different folks, as they say. So what do you do to remedy your inexperience in email delivery? Consider the following critical elements of every company you have in mind. It will help you make an informed purchasing decision and line you up with the right company.

A hosting company’s track record is a very important. The ability to efficiently deliver your email is dependant on the company’s ability to perform as a fine tuned machine. If critical processes are malfunctioning in their day to day business operations, you can be certain that these shortcomings will prevent your company from operating at its peak efficiency. You can get a good idea of a company’s abilities and strong points by looking at their past history. Do customers report a beneficial relationship between the services paid for and services received? Has there been any negative feedback and bad reviews surrounding the companies overall throughput?

A hosting company’s resources will dictate whether or not they will be able to serve as an effective hosting option for you. Even if they have the best customer service agents, the most efficient workers and the know how to get the job done, it doesn’t matter. If the hardware capacity and capability isn’t there, then you should move on. There are certain standards and hardware arrangements that make their hosting services the very best. Knowing what these hardware capacities are and what they can do for your business will give you the upper hand when choosing the most effective option.

Certain hosting companies will have advantages over others, at least individually. Just as your email service needs are unique, so are hosting companies. They usually aim to serve a specific demographic or market niche that brings in the most customers. Certain genres of business are more prone to hosting services than others and vice versa. Just because a hosting company has email sending and receiving abilities that are far more than you need, doesn’t mean you should rule them out as a possible service provider. Instead, look at what these larger companies can do for your email sending needs. If they offer more than enough, great! As long as the price is right, too much of a good thing is, well, a good thing.

Weigh a hosting company’s email features and their drawbacks as well. If there are any missing features or things that will disrupt your businesses needs, don’t hesitate to move on. Signing a contract that could end up holding your business back will just end up costing you more money in the long run. If you ever do obligate your business to a contractual agreement, be sure it offers everything you could possibly need. Six months from now, your business needs may not be the same as they are now.

A hosting company’s mail server management features are also very important. If you don’t have access to the features you need in an email server, then you’re not going to get the most out of your hosting package. What can you do? Examining all the features available to your business, as well as planning ahead, will allow you to make the right choice. For example, a year from now your company will expand to include the need for a mailing list. Right now you don’t need it but by planning ahead you’ll realize your future requirements. In the contract you signed, you paid for a year of service. The ability to use the mailing list features of the hosting companies email server will allow you to save money on the cost of a separate service agreement.

Remote POP connections are a common inclusion in mail server arrangements. Having a mobile WebMail Interface can allow you to perform mail sending and receiving functions away from your home PC. Personal organizers, rules and filters, account aliases, personalized signature files, overquota notifications and more should all be looked at for how they can benefit your business. There are many more features to choose from but every hosting company has a different mail server configuration. Because hosting companies are designed with varying degrees of mail sending/receiving/configuration options, you have to be very selective with which hosting companies you choose. Does the mail server have every option for what you need it to do? How about bandwidth quotas and overall server access times? Considering every possible avenue of catastrophe can save you business from having to experience it in the first place.

Mailing It – Is Your Managed Hosting Company Capable of Delivering Your E-Mail?

(The Hosting News) – The 6th annual Data Centres Europe conference will take place next week in Sophia Antipolis, France and will feature representatives of more than 30 countries in what will be the largest international sector event in the region (www.datacentres.com/dce). The event patron is APC by Schneider Electric.
 
Attended by 500 executives from the data centre sector, the conference which will be opened by M Christian Estrosi, Minister for Industry, France, will include a special focus on environmental sustainability, security, and operational excellence,  enterprise customers of data centres and their evolving outsourcing needs, emerging private clouds, new technologies and market shift impact across the sector.
 
“In two days packed with content, this outstanding international event will help to set the green agenda for the year ahead, and will be addressed by some of the world’s leading experts in data centre business operations, technologies, and energy efficiency solutions,” commented Philip Low, managing director of BroadGroup, the event researchers and organizers.
 
The event will also see the launch of a new report by the France for Datacenters group, the findings of which reveal many indicators that point to France as being the most advantageous country for IT hosting.
 
Highlights of a new BroadGroup report that assesses Private Cloud and the impact on data centres will also be presented at the conference.
 
It will also feature special workshops including a Data Centre Clinic conducted by global consulting firm Arup, Data Centres and the implementation of the European Code of Conduct, and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) by the newly launched Data Centre Institute.
 
In addition the prestigious Data Centres Europe Annual Awards will be announced at a gala dinner. With an international judging panel, the awards continue to define best in breed benchmarks for service quality, management excellence and technical achievement for the European Data Centre industry. The Best European Green Initiative Award will be presented by Mr John Trucillo, Chairman of the Board and President, The Green Grid, and the Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Industry Innovation and Education will be presented by Mr Jonathan Heap, managing director of Data Centre News Search.
 
The event is supported by more than 30 sponsors, and will host an industry exhibition, gala reception, annual Awards gala dinner, specialist workshops and provide a unique platform for data centre executives to network profitably with international peers.

Green Data Centres Centre Stage at Data Centres Europe

(The Hosting News) –  The ‘Leadership for Antarctica’ road show, which targets organizations that want to be leaders in sustainable business operations, will be held in the Netherlands from 1 May to 30 June 2010. The promotional tour visits the organizations with the aid of a sustainable sailing yacht on a trailer and was initiated by the Dutch company Bolster Group (http://english.teambolster.com/) with support from EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com), the CO2 neutral data center for ICT infrastructures based in Amsterdam.

In the course of the tour, the sailing yacht – a Dehler 22 – drops anchor at a different big Dutch organization every day. Siemens, BMW and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs are among the organizations that support the initiative by Bolster Group and EvoSwitch and will be visited by the yacht. Board members of the organizations are then invited on board to receive information on concrete ways to realize sustainable business operations.

Green ICT
Bolster Group’s international operations serve companies like Shell, TNT, PricewaterhouseCoopers, T-mobile and the Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management. In collaboration with EvoSwitch, the company expects to reach most of the management boards of top 500 companies.

‘We contacted EvoSwitch as a sponsoring partner because it is the first CO2 neutral data center in the Netherlands,’ explains Rogier ‘t Hooft, Managing Director of Bolster Group. ‘ICT infrastructures tend to consume a lot of power. With their extensive knowledge of sustainable ICT infrastructures, EvoSwitch can make a significant contribution to the promotional tour.’

The management board of EvoSwitch will discuss the options for a sustainable, energy saving setup of ICT infrastructures during the tour. In addition, a secure space outside the heavily secured EvoSwitch ICT data center will serve as a daily refuge for the sailing yacht in 2010.

‘The Green Fan’ label
A green ICT infrastructure setup results in an energy saving and therefore cost benefit but is often invisible to the outside world. Publicizing a green ICT setup may help companies invest in environmentally friendly solutions. For this reason EvoSwitch will link The Green Fan label (www.thegreenfan.com) to the promotional tour by featuring its logo and discussing it in the knowledge sessions with executives.

‘The Green Fan is a logo reserved for EvoSwitch customers,’ says Eric Boonstra, the Managing Director of EvoSwitch. ‘By featuring the green label on their websites, they can show to the world that they have a green ICT infrastructure thanks to a significant energy saving and investments in CO2 compensation. As such it may stimulate the organization to put green ICT on the management agenda as an important theme. Such a label can act as an eye opener for top managers, regardless of whether they are using this specific green label. It enables us to demonstrate that green ICT can absolutely become a tangible asset for stakeholders.’

Leadership program with a trip to Antarctica
The road show precedes a more in-depth substantial program relating to leadership and sustainability to be kicked off by Bolster Group towards the end of 2010. The program, in which several managers visited during the road show will participate, has a practice driven setup and embraces concrete, suitably sustainable projects for the participating organizations. The program is based on 4 pillars and focuses on the positive impact of sustainability on cost reduction, customer image, attracting talent, and a proactive approach to legislation.

In the program, Bolster Group is collaborating with the US based organization 2041. The year refers to the ideology and activities of the polar adventurer Robert Swan (53). His organization ‘2041’ works to preserve Antarctica and the environment in general. He chose this remarkable name for his organization because the treaty that protects the untamed nature of Antarctica will expire in 2014. In that year, the treaty may be subject to changes that may endanger nature in the Antarctic region.

An expedition to Antarctica is part of the sustainability leadership program in the Netherlands. Together with Robert Swan, several top managers will experience the overwhelming beauty of untouched nature and the impact of deterioration.

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About Bolster Group
Bolster Group (www.teambolster.com) assists organizations, departments and individual leaders with evolution and leadership. The company deploys intensive programs and processes to help (management) teams or departments set a new course within a short space of time. It implements unorthodox methods to achieve this, accelerating the decision making process and ensuring that steps are taken to achieve goals. Bolster Group’s international clients include Shell, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management, T-mobile and HEMA.

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About EvoSwitch
EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) is a green, carrier neutral data center (CO2 neutral). Its operations consume 50 percent less energy than conventional data centers and uses green energy (Zeeuws Groen). The data center has ample space with its floor surface of more than 9,000 square meters. Its considerable power capacity amounts to 20 Megawatts. In collaboration with the Climate Neutral Group, the data center also invests in international projects to restore the CO2 balance in the atmosphere (www.climateneutralgroup.com). EvoSwitch is described as one of the world’s eleven most energy efficient data centers in a report published by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment. EvoSwitch’s customer base includes companies like Hyves, Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Codemasters, Logica, and Parnassia Bavo Groep.

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About 2041/Robert Swan
The British adventurer founded his organization 2041 (www.2041.com) in 2003 in order to preserve the unspoilt wilderness of Antarctica. He has walked to the North and South Poles, covering a distance of 3,000 kilometers. During his walks he ensured that the waste of earlier polar visitors was cleaned up. Currently, through lectures and Antarctica journeys, Swan is using 2041 to inspire business managers and world leaders to respect the environment and encourage energy saving operations.

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Media contact:

EvoSwitch
Koen Stegeman
+31 (0)6 304 914 07
press.nl@evoswitch.com

Bolster Group
Rogier ’t Hooft
+31 (0)6 146 944 12
rogier@teambolster.com

EvoSwitch Sponsors Dutch Road Show for Preservation Antarctica

(The Hosting News) – The 6th annual Data Centres Europe conference will take place next week in Sophia Antipolis, France and will feature representatives of more than 30 countries in what will be the largest international sector event in the region (www.datacentres.com/dce). The event patron is APC by Schneider Electric.
 
Attended by 500 executives from the data centre sector, the conference which will be opened by M Christian Estrosi, Minister for Industry, France, will include a special focus on environmental sustainability, security, and operational excellence,  enterprise customers of data centres and their evolving outsourcing needs, emerging private clouds, new technologies and market shift impact across the sector.
 
“In two days packed with content, this outstanding international event will help to set the green agenda for the year ahead, and will be addressed by some of the world’s leading experts in data centre business operations, technologies, and energy efficiency solutions,” commented Philip Low, managing director of BroadGroup, the event researchers and organizers.
 
The event will also see the launch of a new report by the France for Datacenters group, the findings of which reveal many indicators that point to France as being the most advantageous country for IT hosting.
 
Highlights of a new BroadGroup report that assesses Private Cloud and the impact on data centres will also be presented at the conference.
 
It will also feature special workshops including a Data Centre Clinic conducted by global consulting firm Arup, Data Centres and the implementation of the European Code of Conduct, and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) by the newly launched Data Centre Institute.
 
In addition the prestigious Data Centres Europe Annual Awards will be announced at a gala dinner. With an international judging panel, the awards continue to define best in breed benchmarks for service quality, management excellence and technical achievement for the European Data Centre industry. The Best European Green Initiative Award will be presented by Mr John Trucillo, Chairman of the Board and President, The Green Grid, and the Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Industry Innovation and Education will be presented by Mr Jonathan Heap, managing director of Data Centre News Search.
 
The event is supported by more than 30 sponsors, and will host an industry exhibition, gala reception, annual Awards gala dinner, specialist workshops and provide a unique platform for data centre executives to network profitably with international peers.

Green Data Centres Centre Stage at Data Centres Europe

(The Hosting News) –  The ‘Leadership for Antarctica’ road show, which targets organizations that want to be leaders in sustainable business operations, will be held in the Netherlands from 1 May to 30 June 2010. The promotional tour visits the organizations with the aid of a sustainable sailing yacht on a trailer and was initiated by the Dutch company Bolster Group (http://english.teambolster.com/) with support from EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com), the CO2 neutral data center for ICT infrastructures based in Amsterdam.

In the course of the tour, the sailing yacht – a Dehler 22 – drops anchor at a different big Dutch organization every day. Siemens, BMW and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs are among the organizations that support the initiative by Bolster Group and EvoSwitch and will be visited by the yacht. Board members of the organizations are then invited on board to receive information on concrete ways to realize sustainable business operations.

Green ICT
Bolster Group’s international operations serve companies like Shell, TNT, PricewaterhouseCoopers, T-mobile and the Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management. In collaboration with EvoSwitch, the company expects to reach most of the management boards of top 500 companies.

‘We contacted EvoSwitch as a sponsoring partner because it is the first CO2 neutral data center in the Netherlands,’ explains Rogier ‘t Hooft, Managing Director of Bolster Group. ‘ICT infrastructures tend to consume a lot of power. With their extensive knowledge of sustainable ICT infrastructures, EvoSwitch can make a significant contribution to the promotional tour.’

The management board of EvoSwitch will discuss the options for a sustainable, energy saving setup of ICT infrastructures during the tour. In addition, a secure space outside the heavily secured EvoSwitch ICT data center will serve as a daily refuge for the sailing yacht in 2010.

‘The Green Fan’ label
A green ICT infrastructure setup results in an energy saving and therefore cost benefit but is often invisible to the outside world. Publicizing a green ICT setup may help companies invest in environmentally friendly solutions. For this reason EvoSwitch will link The Green Fan label (www.thegreenfan.com) to the promotional tour by featuring its logo and discussing it in the knowledge sessions with executives.

‘The Green Fan is a logo reserved for EvoSwitch customers,’ says Eric Boonstra, the Managing Director of EvoSwitch. ‘By featuring the green label on their websites, they can show to the world that they have a green ICT infrastructure thanks to a significant energy saving and investments in CO2 compensation. As such it may stimulate the organization to put green ICT on the management agenda as an important theme. Such a label can act as an eye opener for top managers, regardless of whether they are using this specific green label. It enables us to demonstrate that green ICT can absolutely become a tangible asset for stakeholders.’

Leadership program with a trip to Antarctica
The road show precedes a more in-depth substantial program relating to leadership and sustainability to be kicked off by Bolster Group towards the end of 2010. The program, in which several managers visited during the road show will participate, has a practice driven setup and embraces concrete, suitably sustainable projects for the participating organizations. The program is based on 4 pillars and focuses on the positive impact of sustainability on cost reduction, customer image, attracting talent, and a proactive approach to legislation.

In the program, Bolster Group is collaborating with the US based organization 2041. The year refers to the ideology and activities of the polar adventurer Robert Swan (53). His organization ‘2041’ works to preserve Antarctica and the environment in general. He chose this remarkable name for his organization because the treaty that protects the untamed nature of Antarctica will expire in 2014. In that year, the treaty may be subject to changes that may endanger nature in the Antarctic region.

An expedition to Antarctica is part of the sustainability leadership program in the Netherlands. Together with Robert Swan, several top managers will experience the overwhelming beauty of untouched nature and the impact of deterioration.

———————————
About Bolster Group
Bolster Group (www.teambolster.com) assists organizations, departments and individual leaders with evolution and leadership. The company deploys intensive programs and processes to help (management) teams or departments set a new course within a short space of time. It implements unorthodox methods to achieve this, accelerating the decision making process and ensuring that steps are taken to achieve goals. Bolster Group’s international clients include Shell, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management, T-mobile and HEMA.

———————————
About EvoSwitch
EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) is a green, carrier neutral data center (CO2 neutral). Its operations consume 50 percent less energy than conventional data centers and uses green energy (Zeeuws Groen). The data center has ample space with its floor surface of more than 9,000 square meters. Its considerable power capacity amounts to 20 Megawatts. In collaboration with the Climate Neutral Group, the data center also invests in international projects to restore the CO2 balance in the atmosphere (www.climateneutralgroup.com). EvoSwitch is described as one of the world’s eleven most energy efficient data centers in a report published by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment. EvoSwitch’s customer base includes companies like Hyves, Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Codemasters, Logica, and Parnassia Bavo Groep.

———————————
About 2041/Robert Swan
The British adventurer founded his organization 2041 (www.2041.com) in 2003 in order to preserve the unspoilt wilderness of Antarctica. He has walked to the North and South Poles, covering a distance of 3,000 kilometers. During his walks he ensured that the waste of earlier polar visitors was cleaned up. Currently, through lectures and Antarctica journeys, Swan is using 2041 to inspire business managers and world leaders to respect the environment and encourage energy saving operations.

———————————
Media contact:

EvoSwitch
Koen Stegeman
+31 (0)6 304 914 07
press.nl@evoswitch.com

Bolster Group
Rogier ’t Hooft
+31 (0)6 146 944 12
rogier@teambolster.com

EvoSwitch Sponsors Dutch Road Show for Preservation Antarctica

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 21, 2009 – Provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting, HostGator.com LLC, has entered into a partnership with SmarterTools Inc., to provide a new line of web hosting software for its Windows dedicated server portfolio.

The software includes SmarterMail 5.x, a cost-effective Windows mail server; SmarterStats 4.x, a robust and comprehensive Web log analytics tool; and SmarterTrack 4.x, a complete customer service software solution. This bundle of three applications is valued at approximately $750 and will be included with every Windows dedicated server at no extra cost.

Jeff Hardy, vice president of business operations for SmarterTools noted, ”SmarterTools is excited by our partnership with HostGator. HostGator has a reputation for providing reliable Web hosting and quality service, and we are proud that they trust our products to continue to deliver value to their Windows hosting customers.”

SmarerMail is the cost-effective Microsoft Exchange alternative, bringing enterprise-level functionality to businesses, ISPs, and Web hosting environments. With features like detailed reporting, events/notifications, throttling, email archiving, intrusion detection/prevention, advanced synchronization, and out-of-the-box antispam and antivirus, HostGator customers will be able to enjoy an effective and user-friendly mail server application.

SmarterStats is a complete Web log analytics solution that supports various log file types, including Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache, on Windows and Linux operating systems. In addition, SmarterStats provides detailed Web site statistics for both small and enterprise-level businesses while reducing disk space utilization by 85%.

Brent Oxley, CEO and founder of HostGator added, ”At HostGator, we’ve always prided ourselves on giving our customers additional value for their money. Our partnership with SmarterTools is going to give our Windows hosting customers just that – a wide variety of high quality features and services that they would have a much more difficult time getting elsewhere.”

SmarterTrack is a powerful help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Features include a Ticket system, Live Chat, WhosOn, branding and language support, cost analysis, data mining, reporting, surveys, and a Knowledge Base.

Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona.  SmarterTools builds a Windows mail server, customer service software, and a web log analytics reporting tool that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in over 100 countries.

HostGator.com, LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated Web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 5,000 servers under management. The over one million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic.

For additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line, please visit: www.smartertools.com.

To learn more about HostGator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 21, 2009 – Provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting, HostGator.com LLC, has entered into a partnership with SmarterTools Inc., to provide a new line of web hosting software for its Windows dedicated server portfolio.

The software includes SmarterMail 5.x, a cost-effective Windows mail server; SmarterStats 4.x, a robust and comprehensive Web log analytics tool; and SmarterTrack 4.x, a complete customer service software solution. This bundle of three applications is valued at approximately $750 and will be included with every Windows dedicated server at no extra cost.

Jeff Hardy, vice president of business operations for SmarterTools noted, ”SmarterTools is excited by our partnership with HostGator. HostGator has a reputation for providing reliable Web hosting and quality service, and we are proud that they trust our products to continue to deliver value to their Windows hosting customers.”

SmarerMail is the cost-effective Microsoft Exchange alternative, bringing enterprise-level functionality to businesses, ISPs, and Web hosting environments. With features like detailed reporting, events/notifications, throttling, email archiving, intrusion detection/prevention, advanced synchronization, and out-of-the-box antispam and antivirus, HostGator customers will be able to enjoy an effective and user-friendly mail server application.

SmarterStats is a complete Web log analytics solution that supports various log file types, including Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache, on Windows and Linux operating systems. In addition, SmarterStats provides detailed Web site statistics for both small and enterprise-level businesses while reducing disk space utilization by 85%.

Brent Oxley, CEO and founder of HostGator added, ”At HostGator, we’ve always prided ourselves on giving our customers additional value for their money. Our partnership with SmarterTools is going to give our Windows hosting customers just that – a wide variety of high quality features and services that they would have a much more difficult time getting elsewhere.”

SmarterTrack is a powerful help desk application built for tracking, managing, and reporting on customer service and communications, including sales and support issues. Features include a Ticket system, Live Chat, WhosOn, branding and language support, cost analysis, data mining, reporting, surveys, and a Knowledge Base.

Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology-management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona.  SmarterTools builds a Windows mail server, customer service software, and a web log analytics reporting tool that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in over 100 countries.

HostGator.com, LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated Web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 5,000 servers under management. The over one million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world’s Internet traffic.

For additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line, please visit: www.smartertools.com.

To learn more about HostGator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – May 12, 2009 – Email, collaboration and productivity SaaS solutions firm, Intermedia.Net, has unveiled new solutions designed to provide on-premise Exchange deployments with higher security and availability.

Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia explained, ”Email is a critical part of doing business and for SMBs who are running in-house mail servers, there is a high risk of downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. Intermedia’s new offerings are designed to address some of the biggest pain points that small businesses face today. Our goal is to provide solutions that enable users to continue their business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets without risking lost productivity.”

Also called ‘RAS’ (reliability, availability, serviceability) or ‘fault resilient,’ it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue.

The rapid adoption of hosted Microsoft Exchange is primarily driven by SMBs’ need for secure and reliable email at a lower cost. However, a large portion of SMBs are unwilling or unable to migrate to hosted Exchange at this time and continue to use their in-house Exchange servers. Intermedia’s new Business Continuity and SpamStopper solutions address the needs of this segment.

Intermedia’s Business Continuity solution is designed to provide the high availability of Intermedia’s hosted Exchange solution to on-premise Exchange servers by allowing SMBs to use Intermedia’s servers to access their email when their Exchange server goes down. Unlike other basic ‘dial-tone’ solutions, Intermedia’s offering is Exchange-based and allows for full access to user mailboxes – including 14 days of email history, calendar appointments, contacts and more. In the event of a server outage.

ContentSync, a proprietary tool built by Intermedia, synchronizes Intermedia’s Business Continuity Exchange servers with its customers’ on-premise Exchange servers, providing customers with always up-to-date access to their data in the event of an outage. The solution requires no hardware or software to install, configure or manage, making it possible for SMBs to have a normally cost-prohibitive high-availability solution at a much more affordable price.

The second part of Intermedia’s new solution set is SpamStopper, a hosted service that provides email filtering, antivirus, antispam and anti-phishing for small businesses that have their own on-premise mail server. SpamStopper detects ‘bad’ emails with a greater than 99 percent rate of accuracy, offers near-perfect spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as ‘unsolicited commercial e-mail’ (UCE), ‘unsolicited bulk e-mail’ (UBE), ‘gray mail’ and just plain ‘junk mail,’ the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). SpamStopper also includes Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Detection to shield networks from new malware Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan.

Most anti-spam software requires administrators to access flagged emails in an external folder to determine if it they are spam messages. Intermedia lets administrators avoid this time-consuming process by managing the entire process on the back-end from its world-class secure datacenter facilities. All flagged messages are sent to the users’ trash folders where they can choose to sort through them or ignore them on their own time.

Sara Radicati, CEO of the Radicati Group offered, ”Downtime, spam, viruses and phishing, is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as brand spoofing, an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. Emails all take a toll on small businesses with huge cost implications. Comprehensive hosted solutions like Intermedia’s Business Continuity and SpamStopper offer a no upfront investment option for small businesses looking to protect their email infrastructure.”

Both of Intermedia’s new solutions are available immediately and are able to quickly and easily integrate with customers’ on-premise Exchange servers. Business continuity is available for $5 per user per month and SpamStopper is available for $50, a one-time fee for the first 50 users, plus 50 cents per user per month for each additional user.

In January, Intermedia released its Business Productivity Suite (BPS). BPS is the first hosted solution to include hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) and Microsoft Outlook 2007 as a bundled offering. The new solution helps businesses increase productivity and efficiency while allowing greater flexibility and lower risk, all for a lower price point than on-premise software or a la carte hosted services.

Intermedia.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, providing a comprehensive package of the highest uptime, 24×7 support, and technical knowledge. In the hosting business since 1995 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000, Intermedia.NET, offered the first Exchange hosting solution specifically for small and medium businesses with enterprise-strength technology for low monthly fees, with no up-front investment. Intermedia.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, with 24×7 support. The company offers a variety of Exchange hosting and web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses with three users and upwards, to substantial mid-sized organizations.

For more information about Intermedia.NET, please visit: www.intermedia.net.

New York, New York – (The Hosting News) – May 12, 2009 – Email, collaboration and productivity SaaS solutions firm, Intermedia.Net, has unveiled new solutions designed to provide on-premise Exchange deployments with higher security and availability.

Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia explained, ”Email is a critical part of doing business and for SMBs who are running in-house mail servers, there is a high risk of downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. Intermedia’s new offerings are designed to address some of the biggest pain points that small businesses face today. Our goal is to provide solutions that enable users to continue their business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets without risking lost productivity.”

Also called ‘RAS’ (reliability, availability, serviceability) or ‘fault resilient,’ it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue.

The rapid adoption of hosted Microsoft Exchange is primarily driven by SMBs’ need for secure and reliable email at a lower cost. However, a large portion of SMBs are unwilling or unable to migrate to hosted Exchange at this time and continue to use their in-house Exchange servers. Intermedia’s new Business Continuity and SpamStopper solutions address the needs of this segment.

Intermedia’s Business Continuity solution is designed to provide the high availability of Intermedia’s hosted Exchange solution to on-premise Exchange servers by allowing SMBs to use Intermedia’s servers to access their email when their Exchange server goes down. Unlike other basic ‘dial-tone’ solutions, Intermedia’s offering is Exchange-based and allows for full access to user mailboxes – including 14 days of email history, calendar appointments, contacts and more. In the event of a server outage.

ContentSync, a proprietary tool built by Intermedia, synchronizes Intermedia’s Business Continuity Exchange servers with its customers’ on-premise Exchange servers, providing customers with always up-to-date access to their data in the event of an outage. The solution requires no hardware or software to install, configure or manage, making it possible for SMBs to have a normally cost-prohibitive high-availability solution at a much more affordable price.

The second part of Intermedia’s new solution set is SpamStopper, a hosted service that provides email filtering, antivirus, antispam and anti-phishing for small businesses that have their own on-premise mail server. SpamStopper detects ‘bad’ emails with a greater than 99 percent rate of accuracy, offers near-perfect spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as ‘unsolicited commercial e-mail’ (UCE), ‘unsolicited bulk e-mail’ (UBE), ‘gray mail’ and just plain ‘junk mail,’ the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). SpamStopper also includes Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Detection to shield networks from new malware Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan.

Most anti-spam software requires administrators to access flagged emails in an external folder to determine if it they are spam messages. Intermedia lets administrators avoid this time-consuming process by managing the entire process on the back-end from its world-class secure datacenter facilities. All flagged messages are sent to the users’ trash folders where they can choose to sort through them or ignore them on their own time.

Sara Radicati, CEO of the Radicati Group offered, ”Downtime, spam, viruses and phishing, is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as brand spoofing, an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. Emails all take a toll on small businesses with huge cost implications. Comprehensive hosted solutions like Intermedia’s Business Continuity and SpamStopper offer a no upfront investment option for small businesses looking to protect their email infrastructure.”

Both of Intermedia’s new solutions are available immediately and are able to quickly and easily integrate with customers’ on-premise Exchange servers. Business continuity is available for $5 per user per month and SpamStopper is available for $50, a one-time fee for the first 50 users, plus 50 cents per user per month for each additional user.

In January, Intermedia released its Business Productivity Suite (BPS). BPS is the first hosted solution to include hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) and Microsoft Outlook 2007 as a bundled offering. The new solution helps businesses increase productivity and efficiency while allowing greater flexibility and lower risk, all for a lower price point than on-premise software or a la carte hosted services.

Intermedia.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, providing a comprehensive package of the highest uptime, 24×7 support, and technical knowledge. In the hosting business since 1995 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000, Intermedia.NET, offered the first Exchange hosting solution specifically for small and medium businesses with enterprise-strength technology for low monthly fees, with no up-front investment. Intermedia.NET is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, with 24×7 support. The company offers a variety of Exchange hosting and web hosting plans, from the smallest businesses with three users and upwards, to substantial mid-sized organizations.

For more information about Intermedia.NET, please visit: www.intermedia.net.