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(The Hosting News) - Entrepreneurial enthusiast Network Redux has announced today it’s decision to support Portland Startup Weekend. This will provide a one year VPS One account and registered domain name to each new business developed within the 54 hour event.
Startup Weekend is a national event that provides resources and opportunities and brings together a community to establish their ideas into reality. “What an incredible method for help those with an idea or invention get going in today’s economic climate,” says Network Redux President, Thomas Brenneke.
“We are active participants in the startup and entrepreneurial components within Portland and are pleased to be able to provide one of the most essential tools for any new business, reliable managed web hosting. Our engineers will work with each of these startups to build, configure and pro-actively monitor their environments to meet their specific and unique requirements. We’re also proud to be working with our friends at NedSpace. Josh and team are doing more for local startups than any other privately held organization in the Portland metro area.”
Portland Startup Weekend to be Sponsored by Network Redux is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News) - Entrepreneurial enthusiast Network Redux has announced today it’s decision to support Portland Startup Weekend. This will provide a one year VPS One account and registered domain name to each new business developed within the 54 hour event.
Startup Weekend is a national event that provides resources and opportunities and brings together a community to establish their ideas into reality. “What an incredible method for help those with an idea or invention get going in today’s economic climate,” says Network Redux President, Thomas Brenneke.
“We are active participants in the startup and entrepreneurial components within Portland and are pleased to be able to provide one of the most essential tools for any new business, reliable managed web hosting. Our engineers will work with each of these startups to build, configure and pro-actively monitor their environments to meet their specific and unique requirements. We’re also proud to be working with our friends at NedSpace. Josh and team are doing more for local startups than any other privately held organization in the Portland metro area.”
Portland Startup Weekend to be Sponsored by Network Redux is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News) - Entrepreneurial enthusiast Network Redux has announced today it’s decision to support Portland Startup Weekend. This will provide a one year VPS One account and registered domain name to each new business developed within the 54 hour event.
Startup Weekend is a national event that provides resources and opportunities and brings together a community to establish their ideas into reality. “What an incredible method for help those with an idea or invention get going in today’s economic climate,” says Network Redux President, Thomas Brenneke.
“We are active participants in the startup and entrepreneurial components within Portland and are pleased to be able to provide one of the most essential tools for any new business, reliable managed web hosting. Our engineers will work with each of these startups to build, configure and pro-actively monitor their environments to meet their specific and unique requirements. We’re also proud to be working with our friends at NedSpace. Josh and team are doing more for local startups than any other privately held organization in the Portland metro area.”
Portland Startup Weekend to be Sponsored by Network Redux is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News) - Entrepreneurial enthusiast Network Redux has announced today it’s decision to support Portland Startup Weekend. This will provide a one year VPS One account and registered domain name to each new business developed within the 54 hour event.
Startup Weekend is a national event that provides resources and opportunities and brings together a community to establish their ideas into reality. “What an incredible method for help those with an idea or invention get going in today’s economic climate,” says Network Redux President, Thomas Brenneke.
“We are active participants in the startup and entrepreneurial components within Portland and are pleased to be able to provide one of the most essential tools for any new business, reliable managed web hosting. Our engineers will work with each of these startups to build, configure and pro-actively monitor their environments to meet their specific and unique requirements. We’re also proud to be working with our friends at NedSpace. Josh and team are doing more for local startups than any other privately held organization in the Portland metro area.”
Portland Startup Weekend to be Sponsored by Network Redux is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News) – Primary Unified Monitoring™ solutions provider Nimsoft, announced today that demand for monitoring that encompasses both the datacenter and the cloud propelled Nimsoft to a profitable and record-breaking year in 2009. The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) captured market share as the solution of choice for leading managed service providers (MSPs), hosting providers, public cloud providers, and global enterprises. Nimsoft led the industry with the first Unified Monitoring solution capable of managing internal datacenters together with private and public cloud environments.
“2009 was an exceptional year for Nimsoft,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Despite the global recession, Nimsoft customers invested in solutions that not only provide immediate value and cost savings, but also position them for the future as they expand into hybrid IT infrastructures.”
2009 financial highlights include:
– 130 brand new logo customers
– Over $50 million in bookings and over 40 percent growth in new bookings from 2008
– Cash flow positive every quarter during the year
– Increase in monthly recurring revenue of nearly 70 percent from December 2008
– Increase in revenue backlog of nearly 70 percent from December 2008
During the year, MSPs looking to expand their service catalog and profitably grow their business chose Nimsoft for its ability to offer monitoring of so many different environments with excellent customer visualization. MSPs also appreciated the capability of NMS to support hundreds of different customers from a single instance. Large enterprises embraced Nimsoft in order to move to a more dynamic infrastructure and enhance customer satisfaction. Hosting and cloud providers selected Nimsoft for scalable monitoring solutions that could be deployed into their rapidly growing infrastructures in an automated and touch-less manner.
Sample new 2009 customers include:
– Enterprises: BrainLAB, Credit Agricole Deveurope, European Medicines Agency, Foodstuffs South Island, Health Dialog, InfoSpace, and SMART Technologies
– Service Providers: 1&1 — the world’s largest Web hosting provider, Atrion, GlassHouse Technologies, ISC IT Solutions, IT Authorities, Midwave, Securex, and Thomas Duryea
Nimsoft achieved a number of product and industry milestones in 2009, including:
– Nimsoft became the first to deliver Unified Monitoring, providing complete visibility into business applications running internally and externally — from the datacenter to the cloud. As part of this, Nimsoft unveiled a public web portal, www.unifiedmonitoring.com, providing real-time data on the performance and availability of leading cloud, SaaS, virtualization, and hosting provider platforms.
– Nimsoft delivered public cloud probes for Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, Google Apps, and Google App Engine, providing visibility into the performance and availability of those environments.
– Nimsoft announced Unified Reporting, consolidating performance and availability reporting from all sources including cloud services and applications, internal datacenters, and virtualized infrastructures.
– Nimsoft acquired and fully integrated Layer2/Layer3 discovery, topology mapping, and root cause analysis intellectual property from Cittio Inc.
– Ingram Micro Seismic, the world’s largest IT distributor, selected Nimsoft as the vendor of choice to resell to medium and large MSPs.
– Nimsoft achieved VMware ready optimized status and released probes for managing Hyper-V, XenServer, Solaris Zones, and IBM PowerVM.
– Gartner positioned Nimsoft in the Challengers quadrant of the Gartner 2009 IT Event Correlation and Analysis Magic Quadrant, reflecting Nimsoft’s continued positive momentum and leadership.
– Yankee Group’s 2010 predictions report named Nimsoft as a leading provider of solutions to manage cloud resources.
– In a Market Insight Report, The 451 Group praised the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring offering: “It’s so far the most comprehensive offering we’ve come across for monitoring public and private cloud environments.”
“Our outlook is tremendous,” said Read. “Analyst firms across the board are predicting rapid growth in cloud management solutions. IDC predicts that cloud management investments will swell to $44 billion by 2013, and Nimsoft is positioned as a leader in this area. We are very pleased that leading enterprises and service providers choose Nimsoft for end-to-end monitoring regardless of where the infrastructure resides.”
Nimsoft’s Record Breaking Year Result of High Demand for Cloud Management Solutions is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News) – Primary Unified Monitoring™ solutions provider Nimsoft, announced today that demand for monitoring that encompasses both the datacenter and the cloud propelled Nimsoft to a profitable and record-breaking year in 2009. The Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) captured market share as the solution of choice for leading managed service providers (MSPs), hosting providers, public cloud providers, and global enterprises. Nimsoft led the industry with the first Unified Monitoring solution capable of managing internal datacenters together with private and public cloud environments.
“2009 was an exceptional year for Nimsoft,” said Gary Read, Nimsoft president and CEO. “Despite the global recession, Nimsoft customers invested in solutions that not only provide immediate value and cost savings, but also position them for the future as they expand into hybrid IT infrastructures.”
2009 financial highlights include:
– 130 brand new logo customers
– Over $50 million in bookings and over 40 percent growth in new bookings from 2008
– Cash flow positive every quarter during the year
– Increase in monthly recurring revenue of nearly 70 percent from December 2008
– Increase in revenue backlog of nearly 70 percent from December 2008
During the year, MSPs looking to expand their service catalog and profitably grow their business chose Nimsoft for its ability to offer monitoring of so many different environments with excellent customer visualization. MSPs also appreciated the capability of NMS to support hundreds of different customers from a single instance. Large enterprises embraced Nimsoft in order to move to a more dynamic infrastructure and enhance customer satisfaction. Hosting and cloud providers selected Nimsoft for scalable monitoring solutions that could be deployed into their rapidly growing infrastructures in an automated and touch-less manner.
Sample new 2009 customers include:
– Enterprises: BrainLAB, Credit Agricole Deveurope, European Medicines Agency, Foodstuffs South Island, Health Dialog, InfoSpace, and SMART Technologies
– Service Providers: 1&1 — the world’s largest Web hosting provider, Atrion, GlassHouse Technologies, ISC IT Solutions, IT Authorities, Midwave, Securex, and Thomas Duryea
Nimsoft achieved a number of product and industry milestones in 2009, including:
– Nimsoft became the first to deliver Unified Monitoring, providing complete visibility into business applications running internally and externally — from the datacenter to the cloud. As part of this, Nimsoft unveiled a public web portal, www.unifiedmonitoring.com, providing real-time data on the performance and availability of leading cloud, SaaS, virtualization, and hosting provider platforms.
– Nimsoft delivered public cloud probes for Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, Google Apps, and Google App Engine, providing visibility into the performance and availability of those environments.
– Nimsoft announced Unified Reporting, consolidating performance and availability reporting from all sources including cloud services and applications, internal datacenters, and virtualized infrastructures.
– Nimsoft acquired and fully integrated Layer2/Layer3 discovery, topology mapping, and root cause analysis intellectual property from Cittio Inc.
– Ingram Micro Seismic, the world’s largest IT distributor, selected Nimsoft as the vendor of choice to resell to medium and large MSPs.
– Nimsoft achieved VMware ready optimized status and released probes for managing Hyper-V, XenServer, Solaris Zones, and IBM PowerVM.
– Gartner positioned Nimsoft in the Challengers quadrant of the Gartner 2009 IT Event Correlation and Analysis Magic Quadrant, reflecting Nimsoft’s continued positive momentum and leadership.
– Yankee Group’s 2010 predictions report named Nimsoft as a leading provider of solutions to manage cloud resources.
– In a Market Insight Report, The 451 Group praised the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring offering: “It’s so far the most comprehensive offering we’ve come across for monitoring public and private cloud environments.”
“Our outlook is tremendous,” said Read. “Analyst firms across the board are predicting rapid growth in cloud management solutions. IDC predicts that cloud management investments will swell to $44 billion by 2013, and Nimsoft is positioned as a leader in this area. We are very pleased that leading enterprises and service providers choose Nimsoft for end-to-end monitoring regardless of where the infrastructure resides.”
Nimsoft’s Record Breaking Year Result of High Demand for Cloud Management Solutions is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News ) UK2 Group today announced the availability of R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) across its extensive virtual private server cloud. VPS.NET (http://vps.net) now offers customers a more advanced level of data protection with user-ready CDP backups and individual file-restoration capabilities.
VPS.NET offers an “instantly deployable” image that can have a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Server up and running in just 60 seconds giving customers complete administrative privileges over scheduling and managing their backups. The CDP software protects VPS.NET customers’ environments by performing asynchronous replication of the target servers and archiving only the deltas or changed blocks to disk. Each replication creates a full backup that typically only takes minutes to create, even on larger data sets. This gives VPS.NET customers the ability to perform more granular restores of individual files or folders as opposed to restoring the entire VPS.
CDP can replicate other VPS.NET virtual machines and physical servers to recovery points stored on disk. It can replicate and archive nodes inside the VPS.NET cloud as well as any Internet accessible Windows or Linux server. CDP recovery points provide VPS.NET customers the ability to perform more granular restores of individual files or folders as opposed to restoring the entire VPS.
“Our team has been working closely with R1Soft for months on this project and we are pleased to say that we can now offer our customers scalable VPS hosting with a trusted high-performance data protection offering that can be deployed within minutes,” said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of UK2 Group.
With the new offering clients also have the flexibility to increase the storage space on their CDP Server in just minutes. R1Soft Agent licenses will be available to VPS.NET clients for $15 /month. The R1Soft CDP MySQL Add-on, a necessity for correct backups of all online MySQL databases, will be available for an additional fee. CDP for MySQL provides user-scheduled asynchronous replication of online MySQL databases and works with both MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines.
“As one of the first large deployments of CDP on the cloud, the opportunity to work with VPS.NET’s experienced virtualization team on this project has been very exciting for R1Soft. Adding CDP for Linux, Windows and MySQL, exemplifies VPS.NET’s commitment to offering customers a wide range of self-managed services,” said David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies, Inc.
About VPS.NET and UK2 Group
VPS.NET (http://vps.net) is a recent addition to the UK2 Group, and offers affordable virtual private server cloud hosting. It is a redundant cloud system, which utilizes a RAID 10 SAN backend and node based VPS architecture. It also has immediate scalability with pre set up stacks, a simple billing process and a user friendly management portal. For more information about VPS.net please visit http://vps.net .
VPS.NET Brings R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® to the Cloud is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News ) UK2 Group today announced the availability of R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) across its extensive virtual private server cloud. VPS.NET (http://vps.net) now offers customers a more advanced level of data protection with user-ready CDP backups and individual file-restoration capabilities.
VPS.NET offers an “instantly deployable” image that can have a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Server up and running in just 60 seconds giving customers complete administrative privileges over scheduling and managing their backups. The CDP software protects VPS.NET customers’ environments by performing asynchronous replication of the target servers and archiving only the deltas or changed blocks to disk. Each replication creates a full backup that typically only takes minutes to create, even on larger data sets. This gives VPS.NET customers the ability to perform more granular restores of individual files or folders as opposed to restoring the entire VPS.
CDP can replicate other VPS.NET virtual machines and physical servers to recovery points stored on disk. It can replicate and archive nodes inside the VPS.NET cloud as well as any Internet accessible Windows or Linux server. CDP recovery points provide VPS.NET customers the ability to perform more granular restores of individual files or folders as opposed to restoring the entire VPS.
“Our team has been working closely with R1Soft for months on this project and we are pleased to say that we can now offer our customers scalable VPS hosting with a trusted high-performance data protection offering that can be deployed within minutes,” said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of UK2 Group.
With the new offering clients also have the flexibility to increase the storage space on their CDP Server in just minutes. R1Soft Agent licenses will be available to VPS.NET clients for $15 /month. The R1Soft CDP MySQL Add-on, a necessity for correct backups of all online MySQL databases, will be available for an additional fee. CDP for MySQL provides user-scheduled asynchronous replication of online MySQL databases and works with both MyISAM and InnoDB storage engines.
“As one of the first large deployments of CDP on the cloud, the opportunity to work with VPS.NET’s experienced virtualization team on this project has been very exciting for R1Soft. Adding CDP for Linux, Windows and MySQL, exemplifies VPS.NET’s commitment to offering customers a wide range of self-managed services,” said David Wartell, vice president of R1Soft, a division of BBS Technologies, Inc.
About VPS.NET and UK2 Group
VPS.NET (http://vps.net) is a recent addition to the UK2 Group, and offers affordable virtual private server cloud hosting. It is a redundant cloud system, which utilizes a RAID 10 SAN backend and node based VPS architecture. It also has immediate scalability with pre set up stacks, a simple billing process and a user friendly management portal. For more information about VPS.net please visit http://vps.net .
VPS.NET Brings R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® to the Cloud is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
Several marketing companies are internally divided by specialties. In today’s web-based world, many are segmented by fields such as web development, design, research and copy writing for example. This holds true in both agency and in-house environments. Due to such great diversities, these disciplines don’t always mix perfectly, but are often a necessity to get the job done. When it comes to SEM however, the talents and skills needed to effectively perform certain processes may not be as unique as one assumes. The professional who excels at search engine marketing can often handle SEO and PPC simultaneously without passing one of these tasks off to another party and disrupting the team.
When Specialties Get in the Way
Many larger enterprises establish specialized roles for their SEM team with the belief that it creates advantages and efficiencies for the organization. While such methods have been effective in numerous industries and more traditional marketing schemes, applying them to the world of internet marketing is an entirely different story. Today’s economy has seen the specialized teams of both interactive and traditional full service agencies fighting over budgets and seemingly trying to justify their sole existence. It is very uncommon for such an environment to be able lead these teams towards one common goal. This is especially truly in an ailing economic climate where layoffs have essentially become a regular occurrence. Even with specialties teams that are focused with the company’s best interest in mind, the extra layer of communication that is required could actually get in the way and render management ineffective.
The Pride of Experts
There is an old saying that states when you have too many cooks in the kitchen, somebody just might get burned. In regard to an SEM campaign, this could be the case with a company’s SEO or PPC specialists. Although both offer exceptional value, SEO experts tend to look down on PPC professionals and vice versa. When someone learns and becomes comfortable with a particular method of SEM, they generally become set in there ways and close minded to the suggestion of others. Unfortunately, that lack of understanding with such vital components could drastically hinder the performance of company’s marketing campaign. For instance, a team member who specializes in SEO might conclude that a certain keyword is too competitive to obtain quality rankings, but lacks the knowledge or support to get around the problem. Likewise, a PPC expert might determine that a specific keyword is to costly to target, but refuses to get the insight he or she needs from the SEO specialist. When it comes to SEM in the specialized setting, the overall success of a campaign largely depends on upper management’s ability to facilitate proper strategy, communication and collaboration.
In order to integrate the elements of SEO and PPC in seamless fashion, a company must have a clear understanding of how all SEM tactics and strategies fit into the overall marketing mix. If your SEM team is not thoroughly cross-trained and willingly to communicate with each, the efforts of your campaign just might come up short and result in nothing but utter frustration.
Previously known as cmPublish, the Clickability Platform is a CMS with a different approach on content management. Developed by CMS provider Clickability, this platform is delivered on an on-demand basis, as well as full service with the company’s “Innovation as a Service” solution. Aside from content management, the Clickability Platform also offers analytics, email campaign, web 2.0 and advertising among other functionality. While there is obviously far more to the Clickability Platform than content management, this is indeed the focal point of the package.
Core Technologies
Though a licensed commercial product, Clickability Platform is based on powerful open-source technologies such as PHP, MySQL and Java. It utilizes Apache as its web server and Velocity for the templating system. Even though you have to pay for a license, the leveraging of various popular open-source tools makes Clickability Platform a cost effective CMS product.
Clickability Content
The main content entity in the Clickability environment is the item. Authors have the ability to create content items by selecting various types of content from the navigation pane. This CMS gives you a number of different content items out of the box, including jobs, blogs, press releases, case studies and FAQs. Furthermore, custom content types can be created as well. The templating system is a major part of the process as it allows you to actually get the content on your web pages. These templates can be tailored to display numerous types of content in different sections of a single page. While this feature caters to beginners, Clickability Platform also has something for developers with advanced creation environments and other customizing assets such as stylesheets.
Additional Features
Clickability Platform certainly isn’t short on features. The package bundles streamlined content management capabilities alongside a host of SEO tools, Web 2.0, capabilities and the following list of features:
Newsletters – Publishers can create a newsletter of content and automatically distribute it to subscribers. They can also manage mailing lists and have the ability to provide subscribers with double opt-in capabilities.
Advertising - Adverting functionality is tightly integrated into the Clickability Platform. This allows administrators to create and maintain campaigns as well as all the details that go along with them. Because ads are considered content pieces, they have targets that provide administrators with a way to track and keep up with the history of their performance.
cmSideKick – Clickability Platform allows you to run your website in the browser and the intuitive cmSideKick in a second frame. cmSideKick is a utility that enables you to perform deep analyzation of statistics, allowing you to view your site in the administrator mode or selective views to modify certain areas. This is one tool that you are likely to put to great use in the Clickability environment.
Conclusion
Clickability has come a long way since its days as cmPublish. However, it has managed to maintain all the basics of content management and received some nice upgrades to compliment the emerging technologies and web trends. Clickability Platform is definitely a enterprise CMS solution and can help to satisfy the needs of businesses of all sizes.
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