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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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A man who gave up working in his father’s metal shop to building a good, solid content management system, Ted Kulp has been actively developing and tweaking CMS Made Simple for over five years.  Since its early beginnings, CMS Made Simple has grown from one man to a team of over ten developers who’s passion shows in their commitment to this product.  While not showing as a top open source CMS program contender, this piece of software has a lot to offer and is slowly growing in popularity.

Features

CMS Made Simple offers quite a few features.  SEO friendly URLs is at the top of the list and is a refreshing change from the standard CMS URLs that require a bit of fancy programming or modification to work with the major search engines.

There are a number of integrated features making this product an excellent choice – help, file manager with upload capabilities and an audit log.  User and group management are included as well as a group-based permission system.

CMS Made Simple allows for a unique web site design with the ability to change templates with ease.  The included admin panel is not only available in English but supports many other languages as well.  The program also boasts several extra features available with add-on modules – WYSIWYG, polls, blogging and calendar add-ons are just a few offered.

Support

The CMS Made Simple web site offers several avenues for support should the need arise.  Full documentation is available online as well as an FAQ, user forum, mailing list and an IRC chat channel.  If this isn’t enough, the company also offers a direct e-mail connection to a developer to have support issues handled when all other support routes fail to garner a user the answer they need.

The development side of this company’s web site allows users to report bugs and request features – a nice addition for regular uses of this CMS program.  This area also shows current releases and a roadmap to future developments of the software.

Beyond software

Going beyond simply producing and offering a CMS solution, CMS Made Simple also offers professional services for developers needing more assistance or something more than just what the program offers.  Among these services are support contracts purchased on a per-site basis, software development to help with solutions outside the standard program and the ability to contract one of the company’s developers for large projects.

Testimonials

As with any open source CMS program that may not be as popular as the biggies on the market, knowing that the product is stable and used by others is important.  The CMS Made Simple web site lists out many satisfied customers with complete testimonials regarding the product.  This web page shows the product is easy to use and is well-liked by many web professionals and business owners.

Final Thoughts

It definitely isn’t one of the more well-known open source content management systems out on the web but it is slowly growing in popularity.  CMS Made Simple is exactly that – an easy to use open source content management system.  This CMS program is worth checking out.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – June 23, 2009 – Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Corporation, is the first company in its market segment to successfully demonstrate support for Microsoft’s highly anticipated Exchange Server release.

David J. Wippich, president and CEO of Ensim Corporation remarked, ”Our rapid support for the latest Microsoft infrastructure, including the Exchange 2010 beta, is a testament to the deep technical expertise and flexible product architecture that characterizes Ensim’s award-winning suite of Microsoft management tools.”

Ensim updated its Unify Enterprise Edition – a suite of integrated software management tools that combine user provisioning with role-based, delegated administration, and change management – to support the Exchange 2010 beta, within weeks of the Exchange Server 2010 public beta release.

Exchange 2010 is the first server in Microsoft’s new generation of server technology that is capable of running on-premises and as a hosted service. This release includes a new integrated e-mail archive as well as a host of new features designed to help lower communications costs and improve user productivity. A public beta of the server was released in April, with the full version expected out in the second half of 2009.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition enables organizations to leverage the complete functionality of MS Exchange in a role-based model using their existing IT policy and allows Exchange system administrators to enable delegated administration of any complex management functions to help desk, HR personnel, and end users on a selective basis via an easy-to-use web-based portal. From mailbox rights delegation and distribution group management to multi-mailbox searches with no administrative level accounts required, Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition helps decrease costs for IT budgets.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition for Exchange Server 2010 will be publicly available following Microsoft’s official release of Exchange 2010.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim has over two million users under management and is Microsoft Gold Certified.

For more information or to view a demo, please visit: www.ensim.com/movies/Exchange2010.swf.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – June 23, 2009 – Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Corporation, is the first company in its market segment to successfully demonstrate support for Microsoft’s highly anticipated Exchange Server release.

David J. Wippich, president and CEO of Ensim Corporation remarked, ”Our rapid support for the latest Microsoft infrastructure, including the Exchange 2010 beta, is a testament to the deep technical expertise and flexible product architecture that characterizes Ensim’s award-winning suite of Microsoft management tools.”

Ensim updated its Unify Enterprise Edition – a suite of integrated software management tools that combine user provisioning with role-based, delegated administration, and change management – to support the Exchange 2010 beta, within weeks of the Exchange Server 2010 public beta release.

Exchange 2010 is the first server in Microsoft’s new generation of server technology that is capable of running on-premises and as a hosted service. This release includes a new integrated e-mail archive as well as a host of new features designed to help lower communications costs and improve user productivity. A public beta of the server was released in April, with the full version expected out in the second half of 2009.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition enables organizations to leverage the complete functionality of MS Exchange in a role-based model using their existing IT policy and allows Exchange system administrators to enable delegated administration of any complex management functions to help desk, HR personnel, and end users on a selective basis via an easy-to-use web-based portal. From mailbox rights delegation and distribution group management to multi-mailbox searches with no administrative level accounts required, Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition helps decrease costs for IT budgets.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition for Exchange Server 2010 will be publicly available following Microsoft’s official release of Exchange 2010.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim has over two million users under management and is Microsoft Gold Certified.

For more information or to view a demo, please visit: www.ensim.com/movies/Exchange2010.swf.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – June 23, 2009 – Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Corporation, is the first company in its market segment to successfully demonstrate support for Microsoft’s highly anticipated Exchange Server release.

David J. Wippich, president and CEO of Ensim Corporation remarked, ”Our rapid support for the latest Microsoft infrastructure, including the Exchange 2010 beta, is a testament to the deep technical expertise and flexible product architecture that characterizes Ensim’s award-winning suite of Microsoft management tools.”

Ensim updated its Unify Enterprise Edition – a suite of integrated software management tools that combine user provisioning with role-based, delegated administration, and change management – to support the Exchange 2010 beta, within weeks of the Exchange Server 2010 public beta release.

Exchange 2010 is the first server in Microsoft’s new generation of server technology that is capable of running on-premises and as a hosted service. This release includes a new integrated e-mail archive as well as a host of new features designed to help lower communications costs and improve user productivity. A public beta of the server was released in April, with the full version expected out in the second half of 2009.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition enables organizations to leverage the complete functionality of MS Exchange in a role-based model using their existing IT policy and allows Exchange system administrators to enable delegated administration of any complex management functions to help desk, HR personnel, and end users on a selective basis via an easy-to-use web-based portal. From mailbox rights delegation and distribution group management to multi-mailbox searches with no administrative level accounts required, Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition helps decrease costs for IT budgets.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition for Exchange Server 2010 will be publicly available following Microsoft’s official release of Exchange 2010.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim has over two million users under management and is Microsoft Gold Certified.

For more information or to view a demo, please visit: www.ensim.com/movies/Exchange2010.swf.

To learn more about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – March 13, 2009 – Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Corporation, will exhibit its Ensim Unify solution at TechEd North America 2009, taking place in Los Angeles, California this week.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition offers increased functionality aimed at proactively enforcing compliance policies and improving IT efficiency by eliminating manual processes and providing stricter security for mobile devices and distribution group management.

TechEd helps those developing, deploying, managing, securing, and mobilizing Microsoft solutions solve today’s real-world IT challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s innovations. The event provides developers and IT professionals the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft’s current and soon-to-release suite of products, solutions and services.

Microsoft Tech Ed North America will take place through May 15, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California 90015. Ensim will exhibit each day during open hours at Booth #646 and is available to offer insight on how IT administrators can seamlessly provision, de-provision, manage access, and configure accounts for any user within their existing Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange infrastructure – all from a single web-based management console.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified.

For more information, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Houston, Texas – (The Hosting News) – March 13, 2009 – Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Corporation, will exhibit its Ensim Unify solution at TechEd North America 2009, taking place in Los Angeles, California this week.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition offers increased functionality aimed at proactively enforcing compliance policies and improving IT efficiency by eliminating manual processes and providing stricter security for mobile devices and distribution group management.

TechEd helps those developing, deploying, managing, securing, and mobilizing Microsoft solutions solve today’s real-world IT challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s innovations. The event provides developers and IT professionals the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft’s current and soon-to-release suite of products, solutions and services.

Microsoft Tech Ed North America will take place through May 15, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California 90015. Ensim will exhibit each day during open hours at Booth #646 and is available to offer insight on how IT administrators can seamlessly provision, de-provision, manage access, and configure accounts for any user within their existing Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange infrastructure – all from a single web-based management console.

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of user provisioning and access management software. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified.

For more information, please visit: www.ensim.com.