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Now that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is available, many business are looking at a considerable investment to upgrade their infrastructure. But the costs of doing so can be stifling. After all, in addition to actually migrating all your employees over to the new system, there also costs associated with ensuring that your IT staff are fully trained in how to configure and maintain the new system. Many businesses can get around this, however, by partnering with a reliable Exchange hosting provider and simply outsourcing all these headaches.

Why Upgrade?

When it comes to dealing with such IT upgrades, it’s easy for many business decision makers to say “well, if it ain’t broke, why fix it?” But there are actually 9 good reasons to upgrade to Exchange 2010 from whatever earlier version that your business is using. Specifically, Exchange 2010 offers:

• Reduced deployment cost: Exchange Server 2010 can help your business reduce costs by addressing common infrastructure requirements such as backup, e-mail archiving, mobile e-mail access, and voice mail.
• Simplified high availability and disaster recovery: Exchange Server 2010 has also introduce a mor esimplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery than previous versions, and this can help your business achieve new levels of reliability and reduce the complexity of maintaining business continuity.
• Easier administration and decreased help desk dependence: Another benefit of Exchange Server 2010 is that it provides new self-service capabilities that help your users (i.e. employees) perform common tasks without calling the help desk and taking up your IT team’s resources.
• Greater mobility: Exchange Server 2010 also offers a better universal inbox experience, letting your users with access all of their business communications from a single location.
• Decreased inbox overload and increased productivity: The latest release of Microsoft Exchange Servers also adds new productivity features that let your employees organize and prioritize their emails.
• Transformed voice mail: Microsoft Exchange 2010  can actually let your team creceive and preview their voice mail in text form right in their inbox.
• Simplified compliance: Microsoft Exchange 2010 also offers more efficient archiving, which will simplify compliance and discovery.
• Safeguards for sensitive information: Through centrally managed and enforced data protection and control features, Exchange Server 2010 makes it easier to encrypt, manage, and control your company’s communications.
• Reduced risk of malware and spam: Exchange Server 2010 features enhanced built-in defenses against junk e-mail and support for an array of third party security product.

Upgrading to Exchange 2010: Taking the Leap of Faith

If these are benefits that your business wants to enjoy, your decision to upgrade will then come down to some old fashioned number crunching. After all, as much as the upgrade is in an investment, and you’ll likely realize the ROI, we are in recessionary times, so some longer-term investments are better put-off until after the economy has rebounded before.

But there are ways your business can implement an upgrade, but not incur the costs of new hardware, data migration, and training your system admin and other IT staff. Specifically, by partnering with a recognized hosted exchange provider, your business can considerably reduce the costs of both the upgrade an ongoing system maintenance.

And to help your business choose a reliant Exchange hosting provider, Microsoft also offers a list of such certified Exchange hosting providers here.

By partnering with one of these recognized hosted exchange provider, your business can enjoy the support, experience, and knowledge of their highly specialized staff. After all, their staff will be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of exchange servers, and will be able to anticipate your needs and requirements much more quickly than your in-house team. This will mean avoiding many of the unanticipated pitfalls of undertaking and exchange upgrade in-house, as well as being able to more quickly rectify any bugs or glitches that may arise in the future.

Furthermore, it will take time and experience for your own in-house team to become familiar and understand Exchange 2010. A certified hosted Exchange partner, however, will have the expert staff on-hand. This means that you can (1) avoid the costs of additional IT training, and (2) free up your IT staff so that they actually focus their resources on supporting your core business mandate.

Moving Forward with Microsoft Exchange 2010

The Microsoft Exchange 2010 servers clearly offer benefits that no serious company should forgo. However, the economy these days isn’t so amenable to investing in auxiliary, non-essential infrastructure.

But businesses who are serious about secure and efficient email communication can still reap the benefits of Microsoft Exchange 2010 without incurring most of the costs of upgrading. All they have to do is choose a reliable Exchange hosting provider that can offer the requisite expertise required to support you business needs.

Now that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is available, many business are looking at a considerable investment to upgrade their infrastructure. But the costs of doing so can be stifling. After all, in addition to actually migrating all your employees over to the new system, there also costs associated with ensuring that your IT staff are fully trained in how to configure and maintain the new system. Many businesses can get around this, however, by partnering with a reliable Exchange hosting provider and simply outsourcing all these headaches.

Why Upgrade?

When it comes to dealing with such IT upgrades, it’s easy for many business decision makers to say “well, if it ain’t broke, why fix it?” But there are actually 9 good reasons to upgrade to Exchange 2010 from whatever earlier version that your business is using. Specifically, Exchange 2010 offers:

• Reduced deployment cost: Exchange Server 2010 can help your business reduce costs by addressing common infrastructure requirements such as backup, e-mail archiving, mobile e-mail access, and voice mail.
• Simplified high availability and disaster recovery: Exchange Server 2010 has also introduce a mor esimplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery than previous versions, and this can help your business achieve new levels of reliability and reduce the complexity of maintaining business continuity.
• Easier administration and decreased help desk dependence: Another benefit of Exchange Server 2010 is that it provides new self-service capabilities that help your users (i.e. employees) perform common tasks without calling the help desk and taking up your IT team’s resources.
• Greater mobility: Exchange Server 2010 also offers a better universal inbox experience, letting your users with access all of their business communications from a single location.
• Decreased inbox overload and increased productivity: The latest release of Microsoft Exchange Servers also adds new productivity features that let your employees organize and prioritize their emails.
• Transformed voice mail: Microsoft Exchange 2010  can actually let your team creceive and preview their voice mail in text form right in their inbox.
• Simplified compliance: Microsoft Exchange 2010 also offers more efficient archiving, which will simplify compliance and discovery.
• Safeguards for sensitive information: Through centrally managed and enforced data protection and control features, Exchange Server 2010 makes it easier to encrypt, manage, and control your company’s communications.
• Reduced risk of malware and spam: Exchange Server 2010 features enhanced built-in defenses against junk e-mail and support for an array of third party security product.

Upgrading to Exchange 2010: Taking the Leap of Faith

If these are benefits that your business wants to enjoy, your decision to upgrade will then come down to some old fashioned number crunching. After all, as much as the upgrade is in an investment, and you’ll likely realize the ROI, we are in recessionary times, so some longer-term investments are better put-off until after the economy has rebounded before.

But there are ways your business can implement an upgrade, but not incur the costs of new hardware, data migration, and training your system admin and other IT staff. Specifically, by partnering with a recognized hosted exchange provider, your business can considerably reduce the costs of both the upgrade an ongoing system maintenance.

And to help your business choose a reliant Exchange hosting provider, Microsoft also offers a list of such certified Exchange hosting providers here.

By partnering with one of these recognized hosted exchange provider, your business can enjoy the support, experience, and knowledge of their highly specialized staff. After all, their staff will be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of exchange servers, and will be able to anticipate your needs and requirements much more quickly than your in-house team. This will mean avoiding many of the unanticipated pitfalls of undertaking and exchange upgrade in-house, as well as being able to more quickly rectify any bugs or glitches that may arise in the future.

Furthermore, it will take time and experience for your own in-house team to become familiar and understand Exchange 2010. A certified hosted Exchange partner, however, will have the expert staff on-hand. This means that you can (1) avoid the costs of additional IT training, and (2) free up your IT staff so that they actually focus their resources on supporting your core business mandate.

Moving Forward with Microsoft Exchange 2010

The Microsoft Exchange 2010 servers clearly offer benefits that no serious company should forgo. However, the economy these days isn’t so amenable to investing in auxiliary, non-essential infrastructure.

But businesses who are serious about secure and efficient email communication can still reap the benefits of Microsoft Exchange 2010 without incurring most of the costs of upgrading. All they have to do is choose a reliable Exchange hosting provider that can offer the requisite expertise required to support you business needs.

(The Hosting News) — Isilon® Systems today announced that SoftLayer has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its enterprise cloud infrastructure. With Isilon IQ’s OneFS® operating system, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, streamlining data management and increasing efficiency across three different, geographically disparate data center facilities. With Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer can scale its storage resources in lockstep with customer demand, reducing capital expenditures while delivering more robust, flexible and responsive services to its worldwide customer base.

“Our cloud services address customers’ need for enterprise-class data center resources, meaning our network, servers and storage must always be available on-demand,” said Jacob Linscott, director of IT systems, SoftLayer. “Isilon IQ fits the bill perfectly—an easy-to-use single file system that allows us to buy what we need, when we need it, and then scale capacity and performance in-line with business growth. With Isilon, we’ve improved service functionality and flexibility without having to add any headcount.”

SoftLayer’s global, on-demand data center and hosting services deliver fully automated solutions from facilities across the United States, providing enterprises with complete access, control, security and scalability. Prior to deploying Isilon IQ, SoftLayer’s traditional SAN system was incapable of cost-effectively scaling to meet the high I/O and data growth requirements of its rapidly expanding customer base, preventing SoftLayer from fully capitalizing on market demand. By deploying Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure can now service a broad spectrum of enterprise applications—including server and desktop virtualization, highly transactional workloads and disaster recovery—improving its ability to address mainstream data center requirements. With Isilon IQ, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, easy-to-use, “pay as you grow” file system, decreasing both capital and operational expenditures, while accelerating business growth.

“As businesses enlist cloud service providers to reduce costs and increase efficiency, the providers’ most immediate challenge is how best to manage the rapid data growth and high performance requirements of their expanding customer base,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon Systems. “SoftLayer is setting the example for enterprise cloud services by using Isilon scale-out NAS to broaden its service offering, minimize costs and maximize its market opportunity.”

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon® (Nasdaq: ISLN) IQ Chosen by SoftLayer to Power Enterprise Cloud Services

(The Hosting News) — Isilon® Systems today announced that SoftLayer has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its enterprise cloud infrastructure. With Isilon IQ’s OneFS® operating system, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, streamlining data management and increasing efficiency across three different, geographically disparate data center facilities. With Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer can scale its storage resources in lockstep with customer demand, reducing capital expenditures while delivering more robust, flexible and responsive services to its worldwide customer base.

“Our cloud services address customers’ need for enterprise-class data center resources, meaning our network, servers and storage must always be available on-demand,” said Jacob Linscott, director of IT systems, SoftLayer. “Isilon IQ fits the bill perfectly—an easy-to-use single file system that allows us to buy what we need, when we need it, and then scale capacity and performance in-line with business growth. With Isilon, we’ve improved service functionality and flexibility without having to add any headcount.”

SoftLayer’s global, on-demand data center and hosting services deliver fully automated solutions from facilities across the United States, providing enterprises with complete access, control, security and scalability. Prior to deploying Isilon IQ, SoftLayer’s traditional SAN system was incapable of cost-effectively scaling to meet the high I/O and data growth requirements of its rapidly expanding customer base, preventing SoftLayer from fully capitalizing on market demand. By deploying Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure can now service a broad spectrum of enterprise applications—including server and desktop virtualization, highly transactional workloads and disaster recovery—improving its ability to address mainstream data center requirements. With Isilon IQ, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, easy-to-use, “pay as you grow” file system, decreasing both capital and operational expenditures, while accelerating business growth.

“As businesses enlist cloud service providers to reduce costs and increase efficiency, the providers’ most immediate challenge is how best to manage the rapid data growth and high performance requirements of their expanding customer base,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon Systems. “SoftLayer is setting the example for enterprise cloud services by using Isilon scale-out NAS to broaden its service offering, minimize costs and maximize its market opportunity.”

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon® (Nasdaq: ISLN) IQ Chosen by SoftLayer to Power Enterprise Cloud Services

(The Hosting News) — Isilon® Systems today announced that SoftLayer has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its enterprise cloud infrastructure. With Isilon IQ’s OneFS® operating system, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, streamlining data management and increasing efficiency across three different, geographically disparate data center facilities. With Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer can scale its storage resources in lockstep with customer demand, reducing capital expenditures while delivering more robust, flexible and responsive services to its worldwide customer base.

“Our cloud services address customers’ need for enterprise-class data center resources, meaning our network, servers and storage must always be available on-demand,” said Jacob Linscott, director of IT systems, SoftLayer. “Isilon IQ fits the bill perfectly—an easy-to-use single file system that allows us to buy what we need, when we need it, and then scale capacity and performance in-line with business growth. With Isilon, we’ve improved service functionality and flexibility without having to add any headcount.”

SoftLayer’s global, on-demand data center and hosting services deliver fully automated solutions from facilities across the United States, providing enterprises with complete access, control, security and scalability. Prior to deploying Isilon IQ, SoftLayer’s traditional SAN system was incapable of cost-effectively scaling to meet the high I/O and data growth requirements of its rapidly expanding customer base, preventing SoftLayer from fully capitalizing on market demand. By deploying Isilon scale-out NAS, SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure can now service a broad spectrum of enterprise applications—including server and desktop virtualization, highly transactional workloads and disaster recovery—improving its ability to address mainstream data center requirements. With Isilon IQ, SoftLayer has unified all of its file-based cloud operations onto a single, easy-to-use, “pay as you grow” file system, decreasing both capital and operational expenditures, while accelerating business growth.

“As businesses enlist cloud service providers to reduce costs and increase efficiency, the providers’ most immediate challenge is how best to manage the rapid data growth and high performance requirements of their expanding customer base,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon Systems. “SoftLayer is setting the example for enterprise cloud services by using Isilon scale-out NAS to broaden its service offering, minimize costs and maximize its market opportunity.”

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon® (Nasdaq: ISLN) IQ Chosen by SoftLayer to Power Enterprise Cloud Services

( The Hosting News ) – Neustar, Inc., a provider of managed authoritative DNS services, and OpenDNS, a recursive DNS service provider, yesterday announced the implementation of a Neustar-sponsored initiative that will provide near-real time updating of the Domain Name System (DNS) across the internet, utilizing its databases to form the DNS Real-time Directory. The company avers that this provides a centralized cloud-based system that allows its customers and participating providers to publish DNS modifications in real time to participating ISPs and recursive service providers, creating a better experience for internet users around the world.

The company explains that along with OpenDNS, it has identified the need for a better process for updating the DNS, which is critical to the performance and security of the internet. Under the current process, enterprises and domain owners, who maintain the authoritative DNS records, are constrained by a ‘waiting period’ known as DNS Time to Live (TTL) before the recursive DNS records cached within the ISPs’ infrastructures are updated. The often sluggish pace of these DNS updates plagues customers of both companies on a daily basis.

It further explains that since the inception of the internet, documented online outages have exposed a glaring need for a fundamental change to this approach. In recent months, large service providers – as well as entire countries – have been completely unavailable to internet users for periods of time due to errors in ISPs’ DNS memory or cache. While the fixes were identified and made immediately, the corrections were subject to inherent caching rules, and therefore could not be propagated until the TTL expired. The company states that the DNS Real-time Directory makes disaster recovery easier, faster and more flexible, as it facilitates instant updates to DNS entries and IP addressing in the wake of an outage. It adds that by speeding up the time it normally takes to acknowledge updates to the internet’s infrastructure, the DNS Real-time Directory represents a significant step forward in the way web-savvy organizations manage change.

“We were pleased to work with Neustar on this initiative,” said David Ulevitch, Founder and Chief Technical Officer of OpenDNS. “Collaborating with Neustar means OpenDNS is now not only one of the largest recursive DNS services on the planet, but also the most up-to-date. Neustar provides a world-class authoritative DNS service. OpenDNS provides a world-class recursive DNS service. We look forward to other service providers adopting the DNS Real-time Directory as the standard for real-time updates.”

“For decades, the Internet community has known that while DNS caching provides enhanced network performance and stability, it also introduces complexities and vulnerabilities into the Domain Name System,” said Sean Leach, Senior Director of Technology at Neustar. “With Neustar’s DNS Real-time Directory, DNS changes and corrections can be propagated immediately throughout the Internet using a centralized, cloud-based directory infrastructure for the first time ever.”

“Delays in Domain Name System updates have long frustrated service provider and enterprise IT decision makers alike,” added Dan Golding, Vice President and Research Director at Tier 1 Research. “DNS delays result in thousands of ‘Internet brownouts’ every year as organizations change their email services, bring up new web sites, or move locations. This new, collaborative real-time DNS update system is an incredibly useful addition to the evolving Domain Name System.”

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(The Hosting News)- Hosting.com, the leading provider of hosting and colocation solutions and a  strategic VMware vCloud(TM) partner, released information today that clients can upload their own VMware virtual machines or VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk Format) files to Hosting.com’s Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions. This functionality was released  in a limited beta in November and is one of the first cloud service providers to offer this capability to VMware clients and users.

Cloud Enterprise customers now have the flexibility and portability to move their virtual machines, either from their own environment or another host, into one of Hosting.com’s Cloud Super Sites. This solution can provide VMware vSphere(TM) users with a redundant layer of offsite disaster recovery and business continuance services in a secure hosted environment. Current and new Cloud Enterprise customers can access this functionality via the Customer Control Panel.

Dan Chu, VMware vice president, emerging products and solutions, commented, “Cloud Enterprise is an example of how cloud hosting is altering and enhancing the technology landscape, enabling customers to upload their own virtual machine environments. This gives VMware vSphere(TM) users the ability to easily transfer their virtual machines to Hosting.com’s cloud datacenters spread throughout the country for additional fault tolerance or improved service.” He continued, “The virtual machine upload functionality is in high demand from our customer base and Hosting.com has moved quickly to deliver this solution to the marketplace.”

The solution is ideal for companies that have VMware virtual machines at their premise or another host and need additional compute capacity in a secure cloud environment. Uploading the entire VMDK file is a seamless process that eliminates the work associated with rebuilding applications and data in a cloud or offsite environment. In addition, users can easily modify their compute, storage and disc resources through the Hosting.com control panel to meet the resource needs of the applications running within the virtual machine(s).

Joel Daly, Chief Operating Officer for Hosting.com commented, “Our product engineering and development teams were pushed to deliver a solution that allows companies to avoid the typical migration time constraints and technical burdens associated with reinstalling and reconfiguring applications – they have succeeded.” Daly continued, “The client demand through the limited beta displayed the marketplace need for multi-platform solutions; this solution allows our colocation and managed hosting clients to develop applications, websites etc in their own virtual environments and utilize our cloud platform for launch, fault tolerance or geographically dispersed disaster recovery.”

Cloud Enterprise leverages the latest in virtualization platform technology with VMware vSphere 4, and is highly available on both the computing and disk infrastructures. Starting as low as $125 per month, Cloud Enterprise provides on-demand cloud hosting via a secure web portal so businesses can rapidly deploy virtual servers and modify resources as needed. Cloud Enterprise requires no contracts and clients can purchase, provision and add CPU, RAM, and DISK online.

Hosting.com has a portfolio of Cloud Hosting Solutions including Cloud Enterprise, Cloud Dedicated, Cloud VPS, and vCloud Express – that reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide extreme flexibility to businesses of all sizes. Hosting.com has made significant investments in enterprise-class technologies such as EMC, Dell, Juniper, F5, and Intel to deliver a robust, standards-based cloud infrastructure to clients demanding unparalleled performance and security.

Hosting.com offers VMware Cloud Upload Environment is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

( The Hosting News ) – Neustar, Inc., a provider of managed authoritative DNS services, and OpenDNS, a recursive DNS service provider, yesterday announced the implementation of a Neustar-sponsored initiative that will provide near-real time updating of the Domain Name System (DNS) across the internet, utilizing its databases to form the DNS Real-time Directory. The company avers that this provides a centralized cloud-based system that allows its customers and participating providers to publish DNS modifications in real time to participating ISPs and recursive service providers, creating a better experience for internet users around the world.

The company explains that along with OpenDNS, it has identified the need for a better process for updating the DNS, which is critical to the performance and security of the internet. Under the current process, enterprises and domain owners, who maintain the authoritative DNS records, are constrained by a ‘waiting period’ known as DNS Time to Live (TTL) before the recursive DNS records cached within the ISPs’ infrastructures are updated. The often sluggish pace of these DNS updates plagues customers of both companies on a daily basis.

It further explains that since the inception of the internet, documented online outages have exposed a glaring need for a fundamental change to this approach. In recent months, large service providers – as well as entire countries – have been completely unavailable to internet users for periods of time due to errors in ISPs’ DNS memory or cache. While the fixes were identified and made immediately, the corrections were subject to inherent caching rules, and therefore could not be propagated until the TTL expired. The company states that the DNS Real-time Directory makes disaster recovery easier, faster and more flexible, as it facilitates instant updates to DNS entries and IP addressing in the wake of an outage. It adds that by speeding up the time it normally takes to acknowledge updates to the internet’s infrastructure, the DNS Real-time Directory represents a significant step forward in the way web-savvy organizations manage change.

“We were pleased to work with Neustar on this initiative,” said David Ulevitch, Founder and Chief Technical Officer of OpenDNS. “Collaborating with Neustar means OpenDNS is now not only one of the largest recursive DNS services on the planet, but also the most up-to-date. Neustar provides a world-class authoritative DNS service. OpenDNS provides a world-class recursive DNS service. We look forward to other service providers adopting the DNS Real-time Directory as the standard for real-time updates.”

“For decades, the Internet community has known that while DNS caching provides enhanced network performance and stability, it also introduces complexities and vulnerabilities into the Domain Name System,” said Sean Leach, Senior Director of Technology at Neustar. “With Neustar’s DNS Real-time Directory, DNS changes and corrections can be propagated immediately throughout the Internet using a centralized, cloud-based directory infrastructure for the first time ever.”

“Delays in Domain Name System updates have long frustrated service provider and enterprise IT decision makers alike,” added Dan Golding, Vice President and Research Director at Tier 1 Research. “DNS delays result in thousands of ‘Internet brownouts’ every year as organizations change their email services, bring up new web sites, or move locations. This new, collaborative real-time DNS update system is an incredibly useful addition to the evolving Domain Name System.”

Neustar and OpenDNS Combine to Improve DNS Updates is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News)- Hosting.com, the leading provider of hosting and colocation solutions and a  strategic VMware vCloud(TM) partner, released information today that clients can upload their own VMware virtual machines or VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk Format) files to Hosting.com’s Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions. This functionality was released  in a limited beta in November and is one of the first cloud service providers to offer this capability to VMware clients and users.

Cloud Enterprise customers now have the flexibility and portability to move their virtual machines, either from their own environment or another host, into one of Hosting.com’s Cloud Super Sites. This solution can provide VMware vSphere(TM) users with a redundant layer of offsite disaster recovery and business continuance services in a secure hosted environment. Current and new Cloud Enterprise customers can access this functionality via the Customer Control Panel.

Dan Chu, VMware vice president, emerging products and solutions, commented, “Cloud Enterprise is an example of how cloud hosting is altering and enhancing the technology landscape, enabling customers to upload their own virtual machine environments. This gives VMware vSphere(TM) users the ability to easily transfer their virtual machines to Hosting.com’s cloud datacenters spread throughout the country for additional fault tolerance or improved service.” He continued, “The virtual machine upload functionality is in high demand from our customer base and Hosting.com has moved quickly to deliver this solution to the marketplace.”

The solution is ideal for companies that have VMware virtual machines at their premise or another host and need additional compute capacity in a secure cloud environment. Uploading the entire VMDK file is a seamless process that eliminates the work associated with rebuilding applications and data in a cloud or offsite environment. In addition, users can easily modify their compute, storage and disc resources through the Hosting.com control panel to meet the resource needs of the applications running within the virtual machine(s).

Joel Daly, Chief Operating Officer for Hosting.com commented, “Our product engineering and development teams were pushed to deliver a solution that allows companies to avoid the typical migration time constraints and technical burdens associated with reinstalling and reconfiguring applications – they have succeeded.” Daly continued, “The client demand through the limited beta displayed the marketplace need for multi-platform solutions; this solution allows our colocation and managed hosting clients to develop applications, websites etc in their own virtual environments and utilize our cloud platform for launch, fault tolerance or geographically dispersed disaster recovery.”

Cloud Enterprise leverages the latest in virtualization platform technology with VMware vSphere 4, and is highly available on both the computing and disk infrastructures. Starting as low as $125 per month, Cloud Enterprise provides on-demand cloud hosting via a secure web portal so businesses can rapidly deploy virtual servers and modify resources as needed. Cloud Enterprise requires no contracts and clients can purchase, provision and add CPU, RAM, and DISK online.

Hosting.com has a portfolio of Cloud Hosting Solutions including Cloud Enterprise, Cloud Dedicated, Cloud VPS, and vCloud Express – that reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide extreme flexibility to businesses of all sizes. Hosting.com has made significant investments in enterprise-class technologies such as EMC, Dell, Juniper, F5, and Intel to deliver a robust, standards-based cloud infrastructure to clients demanding unparalleled performance and security.

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(The Hosting News) – WHITE PLAINS, NY – AboveNet, Inc., (NYSE:ABVT) provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, announced the portfolio of services it is offering at The New York Internet Company’s (NYI’s) new 40,000 square foot data center. The data center is located in Bridgewater, part of the technology-rich central New Jersey corridor.

AboveNet’s services run the gamut from diverse, low-latency fiber optic connectivity to more advanced, customized Ethernet, WDM and IP services that will power NYI’s new flexible and comprehensive solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity planning applications. AboveNet also offers fiber connectivity to NYI’s main data center in Manhattan, a network redundancy that represents a key advantage in site-to-site syncing for DR, BCP and data replication applications.

“NYI is clearly focused on meeting its customer’s needs,” said AboveNet CEO and President, Bill LaPerch. “They know that small to mid-sized businesses want accessibility to the same DR/BCP resources enjoyed by the Fortune 500. We are proud to be part of this important and much needed effort.”

“AboveNet is a key part of our strategy,” added Phillip Koblence, COO of NYI. “Their reputation as one of the most respected and robust connectivity companies around adds significantly to our offering at 999 Frontier in New Jersey. Additionally, through AboveNet’s existing presence at our New York City facility at 100 William Street, our customers are able to achieve among the most comprehensive DR and BCP solutions available in the industry today.”

The Bridgewater, New Jersey data center, which opened October 28th, boasts power available for future upgrades.

About AboveNet, Inc.
AboveNet, Inc. provides high-bandwidth connectivity solutions for business and carriers. Its private optical network delivers key network and IP services in and among 15 top U.S. metro markets and London. AboveNet’s network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government. To learn more go to www.above.net

About The New York Internet Company
Established in 1996, The New York Internet Company is headquartered in the heart of the Wall Street area and owns and maintains its own data centers. The company’s core services include colocation, dedicated servers, web and email hosting, and managed services, as well as turnkey disaster recovery and business continuity solutions from its Bridgewater location. NYI specializes in data services for the financial services industry, but also has customers in a broad range of industries, including media, law, fashion, architecture, and real estate. For more information, visit www.nyi.net.

Media Contacts:
MaryBeth Nance, AboveNet Exec Dir Business Development & Marketing, mnance@above.net, 571-262-2865

Bill Lessard, NYI, wlessard@nyi.net , 914.476.6089

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