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(The Hosting News) - Microsoft Corporation officially announced today that they will be hosting a workshop presentation on their cloud platform offering ‘Windows Azure’ at the Cloud Computing Congress (www.cloudcomputingcongress.com). This event will be taking place on the 16th March at Olympia, London.

Eric Nelson, Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist will be giving an introduction to one of the leading cloud platforms that is at the cutting edge of the Cloud Computing Age. Attendees will learn what Windows Azure is capable of doing and why, how and when you should adopt the Azure platform that went into production on the 4th January 2010.

The free to attend workshop session is a must attend for resellers, developers, the IT community and independent software vendors (ISV) who can explore the potential to increase revenues and decrease its costs.

The session will demonstrate Windows Azure PaaS offering that enables applications built in .NET, Java, Ruby, PhP, SQL Server, MySQL and more to be run on Microsoft Data Centers.

“For the past decade we have relied on Microsoft for underpinning technologies in our foundational SaaS, infrastructure services and innovations in the Media & Entertainment and Enterprise markets’’, said Darcy Lorincz, CEO of Origin Digital. “Integration with the Windows Azure platform is another market leading, evolutionary step for our company and we expect that Origin Digital and our customers will benefit from performance and cost benefits for years to come.’’

“The Cloud Computing Congress is an event designed for building partnerships across the board, and providing a good networking environment for those to communicate and take the cloud debate forward.” commented Ian Johnson, Managing Director, Six Degrees Events. “I’m especially interested in heading the latest in the demand for mobile devices and mobile cloud computing, and the challenges this presents.”

The Cloud Computing Congress will run simultaneously with other conferences including; Enterprise Social Media www.enterprisesocialmedia.net, Social Media World Forum www.socialmedia-forum.com, Mobile Social Media – www.mobilesocial-networking.com.

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(The Hosting News) - Microsoft Corporation officially announced today that they will be hosting a workshop presentation on their cloud platform offering ‘Windows Azure’ at the Cloud Computing Congress (www.cloudcomputingcongress.com). This event will be taking place on the 16th March at Olympia, London.

Eric Nelson, Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist will be giving an introduction to one of the leading cloud platforms that is at the cutting edge of the Cloud Computing Age. Attendees will learn what Windows Azure is capable of doing and why, how and when you should adopt the Azure platform that went into production on the 4th January 2010.

The free to attend workshop session is a must attend for resellers, developers, the IT community and independent software vendors (ISV) who can explore the potential to increase revenues and decrease its costs.

The session will demonstrate Windows Azure PaaS offering that enables applications built in .NET, Java, Ruby, PhP, SQL Server, MySQL and more to be run on Microsoft Data Centers.

“For the past decade we have relied on Microsoft for underpinning technologies in our foundational SaaS, infrastructure services and innovations in the Media & Entertainment and Enterprise markets’’, said Darcy Lorincz, CEO of Origin Digital. “Integration with the Windows Azure platform is another market leading, evolutionary step for our company and we expect that Origin Digital and our customers will benefit from performance and cost benefits for years to come.’’

“The Cloud Computing Congress is an event designed for building partnerships across the board, and providing a good networking environment for those to communicate and take the cloud debate forward.” commented Ian Johnson, Managing Director, Six Degrees Events. “I’m especially interested in heading the latest in the demand for mobile devices and mobile cloud computing, and the challenges this presents.”

The Cloud Computing Congress will run simultaneously with other conferences including; Enterprise Social Media www.enterprisesocialmedia.net, Social Media World Forum www.socialmedia-forum.com, Mobile Social Media – www.mobilesocial-networking.com.

Microsoft ‘Windows Azure’ Workshop to Appear at Cloud Computing Congress 2010 is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) - Microsoft Corporation officially announced today that they will be hosting a workshop presentation on their cloud platform offering ‘Windows Azure’ at the Cloud Computing Congress (www.cloudcomputingcongress.com). This event will be taking place on the 16th March at Olympia, London.

Eric Nelson, Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist will be giving an introduction to one of the leading cloud platforms that is at the cutting edge of the Cloud Computing Age. Attendees will learn what Windows Azure is capable of doing and why, how and when you should adopt the Azure platform that went into production on the 4th January 2010.

The free to attend workshop session is a must attend for resellers, developers, the IT community and independent software vendors (ISV) who can explore the potential to increase revenues and decrease its costs.

The session will demonstrate Windows Azure PaaS offering that enables applications built in .NET, Java, Ruby, PhP, SQL Server, MySQL and more to be run on Microsoft Data Centers.

“For the past decade we have relied on Microsoft for underpinning technologies in our foundational SaaS, infrastructure services and innovations in the Media & Entertainment and Enterprise markets’’, said Darcy Lorincz, CEO of Origin Digital. “Integration with the Windows Azure platform is another market leading, evolutionary step for our company and we expect that Origin Digital and our customers will benefit from performance and cost benefits for years to come.’’

“The Cloud Computing Congress is an event designed for building partnerships across the board, and providing a good networking environment for those to communicate and take the cloud debate forward.” commented Ian Johnson, Managing Director, Six Degrees Events. “I’m especially interested in heading the latest in the demand for mobile devices and mobile cloud computing, and the challenges this presents.”

The Cloud Computing Congress will run simultaneously with other conferences including; Enterprise Social Media www.enterprisesocialmedia.net, Social Media World Forum www.socialmedia-forum.com, Mobile Social Media – www.mobilesocial-networking.com.

Microsoft ‘Windows Azure’ Workshop to Appear at Cloud Computing Congress 2010 is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) - Microsoft Corporation officially announced today that they will be hosting a workshop presentation on their cloud platform offering ‘Windows Azure’ at the Cloud Computing Congress (www.cloudcomputingcongress.com). This event will be taking place on the 16th March at Olympia, London.

Eric Nelson, Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist will be giving an introduction to one of the leading cloud platforms that is at the cutting edge of the Cloud Computing Age. Attendees will learn what Windows Azure is capable of doing and why, how and when you should adopt the Azure platform that went into production on the 4th January 2010.

The free to attend workshop session is a must attend for resellers, developers, the IT community and independent software vendors (ISV) who can explore the potential to increase revenues and decrease its costs.

The session will demonstrate Windows Azure PaaS offering that enables applications built in .NET, Java, Ruby, PhP, SQL Server, MySQL and more to be run on Microsoft Data Centers.

“For the past decade we have relied on Microsoft for underpinning technologies in our foundational SaaS, infrastructure services and innovations in the Media & Entertainment and Enterprise markets’’, said Darcy Lorincz, CEO of Origin Digital. “Integration with the Windows Azure platform is another market leading, evolutionary step for our company and we expect that Origin Digital and our customers will benefit from performance and cost benefits for years to come.’’

“The Cloud Computing Congress is an event designed for building partnerships across the board, and providing a good networking environment for those to communicate and take the cloud debate forward.” commented Ian Johnson, Managing Director, Six Degrees Events. “I’m especially interested in heading the latest in the demand for mobile devices and mobile cloud computing, and the challenges this presents.”

The Cloud Computing Congress will run simultaneously with other conferences including; Enterprise Social Media www.enterprisesocialmedia.net, Social Media World Forum www.socialmedia-forum.com, Mobile Social Media – www.mobilesocial-networking.com.

Microsoft ‘Windows Azure’ Workshop to Appear at Cloud Computing Congress 2010 is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) – Worldwide cloud-enablement leader Parallels, today announced that Melanie Posey, Research Director, Hosting and Telecom Markets at IDC will deliver the opening keynote address at Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida on 22-24 February. Ms. Posey will introduce the theme of the event – ‘Profit from the Cloud’ – with a presentation on Public Clouds delivered on the morning of February 23^rd, 2010.

“With so much emphasis on the cloud model and its implications for all telcos, hosters, VARs, managed service providers and ISVs, Parallels Summit 2010 will provide the perfect forum for tracking global trends, leveraging them in local markets and meeting some of the most significant companies in the industry,” said Melanie Posey, Research Director, Telecom Markets at IDC.

Also joining the speaker line-up is Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer, who plans to specifically address questions asked by those in the industry while also providing some insight into creating and building a high growth hosting company. “The Parallels Summit is one of the most important events that we attend.  It has the most qualified delegates in the hosting industry and is often the starting point for many of our long lasting relationships,” he said. “I’m looking forward to a very interactive session and urge people to send their questions in early.”

Other confirmed speakers for the event include Warren Adelman, President and Chief Operating Officer at GoDaddy.com and Antonio Piraino, Senior Analyst, Managed Hosting & Cloud Infrastructure Services, Tier 1 Research. Serguei Beloussov, Chairman and CEO at Parallels and Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Worldwide at Parallels will feature prominently throughout the Summit.

Platinum sponsors for this exclusive event include Microsoft and Verisign while gold sponsors are Intel and Unison and Silver sponsors are AMD, InterNex, tucows and e.pages.

Parallels Summit 2010 will be held at Fontainebleau Miami Beach from 22-24 February, 2010. Registration is free for Parallels partners, customers, invited guests and other industry professionals. This global conference will provide a blueprint of how delegates can utilize Parallels technology to enable new Cloud Services; develop strategies to improve and extend the value of their services to the market; and develop new up-sell and cross-sell strategies that drive more revenue.

About Parallels — Optimized Computing
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms.

Parallels Summit 2010 Opens with Keynote Address is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) – Worldwide cloud-enablement leader Parallels, today announced that Melanie Posey, Research Director, Hosting and Telecom Markets at IDC will deliver the opening keynote address at Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida on 22-24 February. Ms. Posey will introduce the theme of the event – ‘Profit from the Cloud’ – with a presentation on Public Clouds delivered on the morning of February 23^rd, 2010.

“With so much emphasis on the cloud model and its implications for all telcos, hosters, VARs, managed service providers and ISVs, Parallels Summit 2010 will provide the perfect forum for tracking global trends, leveraging them in local markets and meeting some of the most significant companies in the industry,” said Melanie Posey, Research Director, Telecom Markets at IDC.

Also joining the speaker line-up is Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer, who plans to specifically address questions asked by those in the industry while also providing some insight into creating and building a high growth hosting company. “The Parallels Summit is one of the most important events that we attend.  It has the most qualified delegates in the hosting industry and is often the starting point for many of our long lasting relationships,” he said. “I’m looking forward to a very interactive session and urge people to send their questions in early.”

Other confirmed speakers for the event include Warren Adelman, President and Chief Operating Officer at GoDaddy.com and Antonio Piraino, Senior Analyst, Managed Hosting & Cloud Infrastructure Services, Tier 1 Research. Serguei Beloussov, Chairman and CEO at Parallels and Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Worldwide at Parallels will feature prominently throughout the Summit.

Platinum sponsors for this exclusive event include Microsoft and Verisign while gold sponsors are Intel and Unison and Silver sponsors are AMD, InterNex, tucows and e.pages.

Parallels Summit 2010 will be held at Fontainebleau Miami Beach from 22-24 February, 2010. Registration is free for Parallels partners, customers, invited guests and other industry professionals. This global conference will provide a blueprint of how delegates can utilize Parallels technology to enable new Cloud Services; develop strategies to improve and extend the value of their services to the market; and develop new up-sell and cross-sell strategies that drive more revenue.

About Parallels — Optimized Computing
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms.

Parallels Summit 2010 Opens with Keynote Address is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) – Worldwide cloud-enablement leader Parallels, today announced that Melanie Posey, Research Director, Hosting and Telecom Markets at IDC will deliver the opening keynote address at Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida on 22-24 February. Ms. Posey will introduce the theme of the event – ‘Profit from the Cloud’ – with a presentation on Public Clouds delivered on the morning of February 23^rd, 2010.

“With so much emphasis on the cloud model and its implications for all telcos, hosters, VARs, managed service providers and ISVs, Parallels Summit 2010 will provide the perfect forum for tracking global trends, leveraging them in local markets and meeting some of the most significant companies in the industry,” said Melanie Posey, Research Director, Telecom Markets at IDC.

Also joining the speaker line-up is Lance Crosby, CEO of SoftLayer, who plans to specifically address questions asked by those in the industry while also providing some insight into creating and building a high growth hosting company. “The Parallels Summit is one of the most important events that we attend.  It has the most qualified delegates in the hosting industry and is often the starting point for many of our long lasting relationships,” he said. “I’m looking forward to a very interactive session and urge people to send their questions in early.”

Other confirmed speakers for the event include Warren Adelman, President and Chief Operating Officer at GoDaddy.com and Antonio Piraino, Senior Analyst, Managed Hosting & Cloud Infrastructure Services, Tier 1 Research. Serguei Beloussov, Chairman and CEO at Parallels and Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Worldwide at Parallels will feature prominently throughout the Summit.

Platinum sponsors for this exclusive event include Microsoft and Verisign while gold sponsors are Intel and Unison and Silver sponsors are AMD, InterNex, tucows and e.pages.

Parallels Summit 2010 will be held at Fontainebleau Miami Beach from 22-24 February, 2010. Registration is free for Parallels partners, customers, invited guests and other industry professionals. This global conference will provide a blueprint of how delegates can utilize Parallels technology to enable new Cloud Services; develop strategies to improve and extend the value of their services to the market; and develop new up-sell and cross-sell strategies that drive more revenue.

About Parallels — Optimized Computing
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms.

Parallels Summit 2010 Opens with Keynote Address is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

( The Hosting News ) -Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that critical IT infrastructure for Dolby Laboratories’ (NYSE: DLB) Dolby Axon voice technology will be housed in the Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas. Dolby Axon brings a realistic voice experience—complete with surround panning and distance attenuation—to massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) and virtual worlds. The Dolby Axon desktop client brings the technology into a virtual chat room environment.

Colocating the IT infrastructure that powers Dolby Axon at Terremark’s NAP of the Americas provides Dolby a massive and diverse connectivity available through the more than 160 carrier networks with infrastructure in the facility. In addition, Terremark’s world-class colocation services are supported by industry-leading 100 percent service level agreements for the data center’s power and environmental systems.

“With its unique voice surround sound technologies, Dolby Axon provides a new level of realism to MMOGs and offers developers more tools to enhance the gaming experience,” said Matt Tullis, Senior Marketing Manager for Games at Dolby Laboratories. “Terremark is a key provider that offers a complete set of customizable services and provides connectivity to the world’s leading networks to support Dolby Axon’s scalable and efficient model that can support thousands of users per server and scale seamlessly across servers to support extremely large virtual worlds.”

Terremark offers customers throughout various verticals services ranging from managed hosting and cloud computing to virtualized disaster recovery and information security that leverage the company’s global footprint of top-tier datacenters and superior connectivity. The company’s uniquely differentiated ability to provide this full suite of high-quality solutions for business-critical applications is ideally suited for the MMOG market and products like Dolby Axon.

“Our ability to consistently attract customers with our best-in-class products and services underscores the value of our strategic approach to partnering with CIOs to clearly identify and cater our solution to their specific needs,” said Barry Field, Terremark’s Senior Vice President for U.S. Commercial Sales. “Dolby’s decision to utilize the NAP of the Americas as a key component in its launch of Dolby Axon is a testament to our facility’s robust physical infrastructure and high level of connectivity, as well as our company’s ability to dynamically meet their future needs.”

Terremark’s NAP of the Americas Chosen by Dolby is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

( The Hosting News ) -Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that critical IT infrastructure for Dolby Laboratories’ (NYSE: DLB) Dolby Axon voice technology will be housed in the Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas. Dolby Axon brings a realistic voice experience—complete with surround panning and distance attenuation—to massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) and virtual worlds. The Dolby Axon desktop client brings the technology into a virtual chat room environment.

Colocating the IT infrastructure that powers Dolby Axon at Terremark’s NAP of the Americas provides Dolby a massive and diverse connectivity available through the more than 160 carrier networks with infrastructure in the facility. In addition, Terremark’s world-class colocation services are supported by industry-leading 100 percent service level agreements for the data center’s power and environmental systems.

“With its unique voice surround sound technologies, Dolby Axon provides a new level of realism to MMOGs and offers developers more tools to enhance the gaming experience,” said Matt Tullis, Senior Marketing Manager for Games at Dolby Laboratories. “Terremark is a key provider that offers a complete set of customizable services and provides connectivity to the world’s leading networks to support Dolby Axon’s scalable and efficient model that can support thousands of users per server and scale seamlessly across servers to support extremely large virtual worlds.”

Terremark offers customers throughout various verticals services ranging from managed hosting and cloud computing to virtualized disaster recovery and information security that leverage the company’s global footprint of top-tier datacenters and superior connectivity. The company’s uniquely differentiated ability to provide this full suite of high-quality solutions for business-critical applications is ideally suited for the MMOG market and products like Dolby Axon.

“Our ability to consistently attract customers with our best-in-class products and services underscores the value of our strategic approach to partnering with CIOs to clearly identify and cater our solution to their specific needs,” said Barry Field, Terremark’s Senior Vice President for U.S. Commercial Sales. “Dolby’s decision to utilize the NAP of the Americas as a key component in its launch of Dolby Axon is a testament to our facility’s robust physical infrastructure and high level of connectivity, as well as our company’s ability to dynamically meet their future needs.”

Terremark’s NAP of the Americas Chosen by Dolby is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

On November 20, global leader in web hosting automation, virtualization and cloud enablement, Parallels, made the announcement that Melanie Posey will be giving the opening keynote address at the Parallels Summit 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida next year.  Posey, Research Director of IDC’s Web Hosting Services and Telecom Services Vertical Views programs, is scheduled to introduce “Profit from the Cloud”, which is the theme of the event, in addition to a special presentation on Public Clouds.  Her speech will be delivered on the morning of February 23, 2010, the second day of the three-day event.

Ms. Posey stated that with so much emphasis on cloud computing and its implications for those in the IT world, the Parallels Summit 2010 will serve as the ideal forum for tracking global trends and collaboration among some of the most important players in the industry.

SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby is also scheduled to join in what is becoming an impressive lineup of speakers.  He intends to specifically address questions posed by those in the industry in addition to providing insight into developing a high-growth hosting firm.  Attendees of the Parallels Summit can submit their questions to Crosby via email at summit_questions@parallels.com

Mr. Crosby said the Parallels Summit is one of the most significant events to attend, stating that it provides access to the most qualified delegates in the hosting industry and often acts as the starting point for many important relationships.  Crosby noted that he is looking forward to an interactive session and encourages attendees to submit their questions early.

Other speakers that have been confirmed for the Parallels Summit include Antonio Piraino, Senior Analyst of Managed Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure Services at Tier 1 Research, and Warren Adelman, CEO and President at GoDaddy.com.  The Summit will also prominently feature Serguei Beloussov, Parallels Chairman and CEO, as well as Jack Zubarev, President of Parallels Service Provider Worldwide.

Microsoft and Verisign are among the platinum sponsors for the exclusive event, while Intel and Unison are gold sponsors.  Silver sponsors for the fifth annual Parallels Summit include AMD, e-pages, InterNex and Tucows.

The Parallels Summit 2010 will be hosted in the Fontainebleau community of Miami Beach from February 22-24.  Registration is free for all Parallels clients, partners, invited guests and other industry delegates.  An international conference, the event will provide a comprehensive blueprint of how the IT industry can leverage Parallels technology to deploy new cloud solutions, devise strategies to enhance and extend the market value of their services, and create new up-selling and cross-selling strategies that drive in increased revenues.

About Parallels

Founded in 1999, Parallels is a global leader in automation and virtualization software technology.  Its solutions optimize computing for businesses, cloud service providers and consumers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms.  Parallels is one of the fastest growing companies in the IT field with more than 700 staff members throughout Asia, Europe and North America.