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(The Hosting News) – IT Partners today announced that it is a Premier-level partner in the VMware Partner Network. This achievement demonstrates IT Partners’ expertise in VMware virtualization solutions.
“VMware is pleased to recognize IT Partners with Premier status, the highest partnership level within the VMware Partner Network,” said Brandon Sweeney, vice president, Americas channel sales, VMware. “We value our relationship with IT Partners and look forward to even greater success in the future.”
As a Premier-level partner, VMware recognizes IT Partners as a go-to solution provider that can deliver the most comprehensive VMware solutions and services to customers on the journey to cloud computing. Premier-level partners are the most qualified partners in the VMware Partner Network and with this distinction, IT Partners has demonstrated a broad range of expertise and the ability to best serve their customers’ needs desktop, datacenter and cloud computing solutions.
VMware Partner Network is a comprehensive program that provides a common infrastructure, extensive sales and services tools, margin opportunities and industry-recognized training for the entire VMware partner ecosystem, including solution providers, technology partners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). VMware Partner Network is designed to help ensure a more consistent and successful user experience as well as help partners increase their business potential by increasing their skills in VMware solutions. The program helps partners maximize their investments in VMware virtualization to provide customers with the best end-to-end virtualization solutions available. Read more about VMware Partner Network, www.vmware.com/partners/programs
Source: IT Partners Joins VMware Partner Network
(The Hosting News) – IT Partners today announced that it is a Premier-level partner in the VMware Partner Network. This achievement demonstrates IT Partners’ expertise in VMware virtualization solutions.
“VMware is pleased to recognize IT Partners with Premier status, the highest partnership level within the VMware Partner Network,” said Brandon Sweeney, vice president, Americas channel sales, VMware. “We value our relationship with IT Partners and look forward to even greater success in the future.”
As a Premier-level partner, VMware recognizes IT Partners as a go-to solution provider that can deliver the most comprehensive VMware solutions and services to customers on the journey to cloud computing. Premier-level partners are the most qualified partners in the VMware Partner Network and with this distinction, IT Partners has demonstrated a broad range of expertise and the ability to best serve their customers’ needs desktop, datacenter and cloud computing solutions.
VMware Partner Network is a comprehensive program that provides a common infrastructure, extensive sales and services tools, margin opportunities and industry-recognized training for the entire VMware partner ecosystem, including solution providers, technology partners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). VMware Partner Network is designed to help ensure a more consistent and successful user experience as well as help partners increase their business potential by increasing their skills in VMware solutions. The program helps partners maximize their investments in VMware virtualization to provide customers with the best end-to-end virtualization solutions available. Read more about VMware Partner Network, www.vmware.com/partners/programs
(The Hosting News) – BurstNET Technologies, Inc. has announced its expansion into the European hosting marketplace, with the opening of its wholly-owned subsidiary, BurstNET® Limited. To support its expansion into Europe, BurstNET® has selected Manchester, United Kingdom, for it’s European base of operations, where it will meet both international customer demand and globally redundant hosted infrastructure needs. BurstNET® aims to continue its solid expansion and to further consolidate its leading position in web hosting worldwide.
The new BurstNET® European network gives clientele access to fully redundant multi-10Gbps connectivity between BurstNET’s US and EU/UK network, as well as major Internet hubs in Manchester, London, & Amsterdam, for transit and European peering exchange access. Upon turn-up, BurstNET® immediately has one of the largest webhosting-specific networks in Europe, with many providers still operating on 1Gbps connections, rather than 10Gbps.
“The demand for our services to be expanded to other regions, particularly in Europe, has been heard loud and clear”, stated BurstNET® CEO Shawn M. Arcus. “We’ve had serious interest from our existing client base, which solidified that the time was right to move forward. We’ve had this effort in development for many months and are extremely pleased to be able to go live with our European service. We look forward to meeting the needs of our European clientele, and providing the unmatched service and support, at extremely low price points, that we have been known for in the US.”
BurstNET® has seen significant growth in its US hosting business, bringing the company to more than 10,000 dedicated and virtual private servers currently in service. Founded in 1991, BurstNET® is one of the oldest web hosting operations in the industry. The company is known as a pioneer of the Web Hosting industry, having been heavily involved in the creation of the industry standard CPanel® control panel (http://www.cpanel.net), and co-creator of the industry’s first $99 dedicated server. The company operates one of the oldest and largest resale programs in the industry, servicing thousands of resellers, as the backend for many popular hosting companies.
Source: BurstNET Expands Operations to Europe
(The Hosting News) – BurstNET Technologies, Inc. has announced its expansion into the European hosting marketplace, with the opening of its wholly-owned subsidiary, BurstNET® Limited. To support its expansion into Europe, BurstNET® has selected Manchester, United Kingdom, for it’s European base of operations, where it will meet both international customer demand and globally redundant hosted infrastructure needs. BurstNET® aims to continue its solid expansion and to further consolidate its leading position in web hosting worldwide.
The new BurstNET® European network gives clientele access to fully redundant multi-10Gbps connectivity between BurstNET’s US and EU/UK network, as well as major Internet hubs in Manchester, London, & Amsterdam, for transit and European peering exchange access. Upon turn-up, BurstNET® immediately has one of the largest webhosting-specific networks in Europe, with many providers still operating on 1Gbps connections, rather than 10Gbps.
“The demand for our services to be expanded to other regions, particularly in Europe, has been heard loud and clear”, stated BurstNET® CEO Shawn M. Arcus. “We’ve had serious interest from our existing client base, which solidified that the time was right to move forward. We’ve had this effort in development for many months and are extremely pleased to be able to go live with our European service. We look forward to meeting the needs of our European clientele, and providing the unmatched service and support, at extremely low price points, that we have been known for in the US.”
BurstNET® has seen significant growth in its US hosting business, bringing the company to more than 10,000 dedicated and virtual private servers currently in service. Founded in 1991, BurstNET® is one of the oldest web hosting operations in the industry. The company is known as a pioneer of the Web Hosting industry, having been heavily involved in the creation of the industry standard CPanel® control panel (http://www.cpanel.net), and co-creator of the industry’s first $99 dedicated server. The company operates one of the oldest and largest resale programs in the industry, servicing thousands of resellers, as the backend for many popular hosting companies.
(The Hosting News) – Hosting Metro, Inc. announced today that it has acquired long-time Windows web host company Win Web Hosting. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro is migrating existing services and marketing to its own operations, and will be able to offer Win Web Hosting customers expanded support through a dedicated 24/7 support line, as well as additional hosting features and services previously unavailable to Win Web Hosting customers. Some of these new features include Cloud Hosting, Cloud Storage, VPS, Dedicated Servers and shared web hosting.
Tony Chu, CEO of Hosting Metro stated, “By acquiring Win Web Hosting, we looked to increase our support of Windows by integrating the expertise of Win Web Hosting’s development and support teams into our already reliable infrastructure. In addition, with our recent integration of ASP.NET 4.0 and our pending rollout of the newest Windows control panel Enkompass on September 1st, we feel that this is a perfect time to expand our Windows capabilities and service offerings.”
Musa Gursay, former CEO of Win Web Hosting has agreed to stay on with the new company and will continue to provide consultation services focused on the Windows community. “Hosting Metro is a great company, and I am very confident that they will exceed the needs of their customers. I have been especially impressed by their ability to deliver leading technologies at cost effective prices, and their Campfire Support system is unparalleled in the industry. When you combine those elements with their solid infrastructure it is truly a winning scenario for their Windows-based hosting customers.”
(The Hosting News) – Hosting Metro, Inc. announced today that it has acquired long-time Windows web host company Win Web Hosting. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro is migrating existing services and marketing to its own operations, and will be able to offer Win Web Hosting customers expanded support through a dedicated 24/7 support line, as well as additional hosting features and services previously unavailable to Win Web Hosting customers. Some of these new features include Cloud Hosting, Cloud Storage, VPS, Dedicated Servers and shared web hosting.
Tony Chu, CEO of Hosting Metro stated, “By acquiring Win Web Hosting, we looked to increase our support of Windows by integrating the expertise of Win Web Hosting’s development and support teams into our already reliable infrastructure. In addition, with our recent integration of ASP.NET 4.0 and our pending rollout of the newest Windows control panel Enkompass on September 1st, we feel that this is a perfect time to expand our Windows capabilities and service offerings.”
Musa Gursay, former CEO of Win Web Hosting has agreed to stay on with the new company and will continue to provide consultation services focused on the Windows community. “Hosting Metro is a great company, and I am very confident that they will exceed the needs of their customers. I have been especially impressed by their ability to deliver leading technologies at cost effective prices, and their Campfire Support system is unparalleled in the industry. When you combine those elements with their solid infrastructure it is truly a winning scenario for their Windows-based hosting customers.”
(The Hosting News) – Hosting Metro, Inc. announced today that it has acquired long-time Windows web host company Win Web Hosting. With the agreement in place, Hosting Metro is migrating existing services and marketing to its own operations, and will be able to offer Win Web Hosting customers expanded support through a dedicated 24/7 support line, as well as additional hosting features and services previously unavailable to Win Web Hosting customers. Some of these new features include Cloud Hosting, Cloud Storage, VPS, Dedicated Servers and shared web hosting.
Tony Chu, CEO of Hosting Metro stated, “By acquiring Win Web Hosting, we looked to increase our support of Windows by integrating the expertise of Win Web Hosting’s development and support teams into our already reliable infrastructure. In addition, with our recent integration of ASP.NET 4.0 and our pending rollout of the newest Windows control panel Enkompass on September 1st, we feel that this is a perfect time to expand our Windows capabilities and service offerings.”
Musa Gursay, former CEO of Win Web Hosting has agreed to stay on with the new company and will continue to provide consultation services focused on the Windows community. “Hosting Metro is a great company, and I am very confident that they will exceed the needs of their customers. I have been especially impressed by their ability to deliver leading technologies at cost effective prices, and their Campfire Support system is unparalleled in the industry. When you combine those elements with their solid infrastructure it is truly a winning scenario for their Windows-based hosting customers.”
Source: Hosting Metro Acquires Win Web Hosting
(The Hosting News) – About 6 months ago G.I. Partners approached SoftLayer about doing an investment in the company,” Lance explains. “They have done a lot of investment in this space overall including Digital Realty, Savvis, Telx, The Planet and most recently ViaWest. After they approached us and we started going through due diligence, we began to find there was a lot of common DNA with The Planet and so as we began to close the process over the last 30 days or so, we started exploring the possibility of putting these two companies together.”
That common DNA doesn’t just extend to the family history between the two companies. It also includes many mutual customers. They both also target the dedicated and cloud hosting space. However, if both companies were purely similar, merging them would simply create a larger company, which is technically not a bad thing…, but it would be somewhat boring.
In addition to the similar fields of interest, SoftLayer brings their infrastructure know how. The plans for the merger include moving customers to SoftLayer’s automation layer. This translates to the new company able to take on more customers, keeping staff low, and yet maintaining their high-grade support.
The Planet offers an enterprise level suite of services. Namely, The Planet will bring colocation and managed hosting to the party. Along with these hosting addons, The Planet also brings in enterprise level hosting features and the expertise in handling those services.
SoftLayer, up until recently, has avoided the colocation and managed hosting spaces. They have instead focused on their target niche and have not deviated from that path. And yet, if they do merge with The Planet, adding those services is part and parcel of the new company. So why now? Why would SoftLayer, who have been disciplined in avoiding the watering down of their brand, want to increase their services and in fact, consider adding those services as a definite strength?
“It’s been on the drawing board for a long time and we are going to bring a SoftLayer approach to those two types of services that are not yet seen in the industry. As we talk about it internally we are going to pull out a big stick and poke a lot of our competitors in the eye when they see what we are going to do to colocation and managed services,” says Lance.
On the possibilities of an IPO, Lance says, “I think that [an IPO] is the most logical step for the combined companies, putting them together they are going to be about 300 million in revenues and growing rapidly and you get to a point where the number of potential suitors out their drops dramatically simply because of the size of the company so an IPO becomes the natural choice.”
(“So if you want to sum it up, you could say we are strapping on the gloves, ” says Doug. However, you sum it up, the potential merger between The Planet and SoftLayer could be a hosting juggernaut rivaled by very few especially in the dedicated server market.
Source: SoftLayer and The Planet Shed Light on Merger
(The Hosting News) – A – SiteCloud.com announced today that it is entering the web hosting market with their proprietary cloud hosting platform built on top of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud and features cPanel / WHM. SiteCloud.com offers twelve advertised packages scaled within the cloud hosting architecture for the equivalent of; Shared, VPS, Dedicated Server and Reseller Hosting services.
“We believe SiteCloud will become a leader in the web site hosting industry.” Says Trey Gardner. “Our cPanel cloud hosting services allows us to host larger and more active web sites. Typically larger, more active web sites are turned away from shared hosting providers and are forced to migrate to a VPS or dedicated server, a tedious process for most webmasters. At SiteCloud if a web site becomes more successful and needs more resources, our proprietary system is able to automatically adapt and scale to the load. We then offer an upgrade within the cloud environment, where the users keep the same control panel and there is no migration to another server. We just allocate more resources allowed to be used by the customer.
In addition, SiteCloud’s cloud hosting infrastructure allows us to offer a far more reliable web hosting service. In the cloud individual hardware failures do not pose the same types of threats to the stability of hosting like they do with single server hosting which means more reliability for our clients’ web sites.” added Trey.
About SiteCloud.com
SiteCloud.com is managed by CEO Trey Gardner a twelve year veteran of the web hosting industry. Located in Santa Monica SiteCloud was established in 2009 and started providing web site hosting services in June 2010. SiteCloud’s proprietary cloud hosting platform is built on top Amazon.com’s EC2 Elastic Cloud. SiteCloud offers cPanel for shared hosting clients and WHM + cPanel for their reseller, VPS and dedicated server clients. SiteCloud also offers free web site file migrations and offers clients 24×7×365 support. <!– <!–
Source: SiteCloud Launches Cloud Hosting Service
(The Hosting News) – A – SiteCloud.com announced today that it is entering the web hosting market with their proprietary cloud hosting platform built on top of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud and features cPanel / WHM. SiteCloud.com offers twelve advertised packages scaled within the cloud hosting architecture for the equivalent of; Shared, VPS, Dedicated Server and Reseller Hosting services.
“We believe SiteCloud will become a leader in the web site hosting industry.” Says Trey Gardner. “Our cPanel cloud hosting services allows us to host larger and more active web sites. Typically larger, more active web sites are turned away from shared hosting providers and are forced to migrate to a VPS or dedicated server, a tedious process for most webmasters. At SiteCloud if a web site becomes more successful and needs more resources, our proprietary system is able to automatically adapt and scale to the load. We then offer an upgrade within the cloud environment, where the users keep the same control panel and there is no migration to another server. We just allocate more resources allowed to be used by the customer.
In addition, SiteCloud’s cloud hosting infrastructure allows us to offer a far more reliable web hosting service. In the cloud individual hardware failures do not pose the same types of threats to the stability of hosting like they do with single server hosting which means more reliability for our clients’ web sites.” added Trey.
About SiteCloud.com
SiteCloud.com is managed by CEO Trey Gardner a twelve year veteran of the web hosting industry. Located in Santa Monica SiteCloud was established in 2009 and started providing web site hosting services in June 2010. SiteCloud’s proprietary cloud hosting platform is built on top Amazon.com’s EC2 Elastic Cloud. SiteCloud offers cPanel for shared hosting clients and WHM + cPanel for their reseller, VPS and dedicated server clients. SiteCloud also offers free web site file migrations and offers clients 24×7×365 support. <!– <!–
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