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(The Hosting News) – SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced a transaction in which its management team and GI Partners, a private trans-Atlantic investment firm, have acquired all of the equity in SoftLayer.
Since its founding, SoftLayer has revolutionized hosting through its unswerving commitment to innovation and automation. At a pivotal time in the industry, as increased connectivity, virtualization advances, and cloud service innovations dramatically reshape the landscape, SoftLayer is poised to continue playing a significant role in the industry’s transformation.
“I’m extremely proud of how much SoftLayer has grown and accomplished in its history. GI Partners’ investment and partnership enables us to take our unparalleled approach to the next stage,” said Lance Crosby, Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer. “It’s gratifying that a firm with GI Partners’ insight and success sees such value in SoftLayer’s past growth and future opportunities.”
“SoftLayer has taken a visionary model and created a company for the future of hosting,” said Rick Magnuson, Executive Managing Director of GI Partners. “We are excited to bring additional resources and experience to help SoftLayer leverage its strategic position in the expanding global data center services market.”
DH Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to SoftLayer in connection with the transaction.
Source: SoftLayer Acquired by GI Partners and Management
(The Hosting News) – SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced a transaction in which its management team and GI Partners, a private trans-Atlantic investment firm, have acquired all of the equity in SoftLayer.
Since its founding, SoftLayer has revolutionized hosting through its unswerving commitment to innovation and automation. At a pivotal time in the industry, as increased connectivity, virtualization advances, and cloud service innovations dramatically reshape the landscape, SoftLayer is poised to continue playing a significant role in the industry’s transformation.
“I’m extremely proud of how much SoftLayer has grown and accomplished in its history. GI Partners’ investment and partnership enables us to take our unparalleled approach to the next stage,” said Lance Crosby, Chief Executive Officer of SoftLayer. “It’s gratifying that a firm with GI Partners’ insight and success sees such value in SoftLayer’s past growth and future opportunities.”
“SoftLayer has taken a visionary model and created a company for the future of hosting,” said Rick Magnuson, Executive Managing Director of GI Partners. “We are excited to bring additional resources and experience to help SoftLayer leverage its strategic position in the expanding global data center services market.”
DH Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to SoftLayer in connection with the transaction.
COIMBATORE, India (July 26, 2010) – AssistanZ, a leading provider of outsourced server management solutions, today unveiled the latest iteration of its corporate website, a new standards-based hub for customers to access the company’s latest line of server management solutions.
The new website has been in development for more than three months, and was built to allow the company to easily add new management services as they become available. Bearing AssistanZ’s distinctive white-and-red color scheme, the Web 2.0-style site focuses on the company’s five areas of expertise, including Linux, Windows, Server Administration Tasks, Server Security, and Software.
With the new site launch, AssistanZ now offers Unlimited Linux Plesk Server Management & Monitoring for just $49 per month, and Unlimited DirectAdmin Server Management & Monitoring for $35 per month. Earlier this year, AssistanZ released its unlimited cPanel management service. All unlimited plans include unlimited server administration requests via ticket support, 24×7 availability, 24x7x365 Non-Stop Server Monitoring with email alerts, reboot requests to datacenters, and monitoring at AssistanZ’s global monitoring locations. Customers can choose up to two ports for monitoring, and enjoy a 30-day money back guarantee if they are not satisfied with the service.
“The server management sector of the hosting industry remains one of the fastest growing areas in hosting, as providers look for ways to improve quality and uptime of their servers. We are able to reduce cost and improve efficiency in a way that has created a real competitive advantage for our firm. The old negative conceptions about outsourced management and support are simply not true anymore,” said Amal Ranjith, managing director of AssistanZ.
AssistanZ is also providing a free license of Softaculous, an auto-installer for the cPanel control panel, for customers who utilize the company’s cPanel management service. AssistanZ is a NOC partner of Softaculous.
AssistanZ also provides a variety of specialty services, including optimizing for server upload/download speed increases, website performance increases, and security hardening. The company hopes to add additional notification features, including SMS alerts, in the coming months.
To learn more about AssistanZ, please visit http://www.assistanz.com.
About AssistanZ
Based in Coimbatore, India, AssistanZ is a leading provider of outsourced server management services. AssistanZ manages both Windows and Linux servers and offers a wide variety of ancillary services, including outsourced Web Hosting support, professional multimedia & Web design, customer management, software management, and much more. Learn more about AssistanZ by visiting http://www.assistanz.com or calling 1-888-500-1070.
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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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(Gawkwire.com) – London Web has been appointed by Miniframe, supplier of innovative desktop virtualisation software SoftXpand, as the exclusive distributor for supplying its award-winning multi-user solution to the UK and Eire markets.
This announcement comes several days after MiniFrame was awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2010 European Desktop Virtualisation Product Innovation Green Excellence Award. The award is the latest in a series of Green IT Industry awards given to MiniFrame in recognition of the company and its product as leaders in Green IT initiatives across all market sectors.
London Web Managing Director, Jamie Easterman stated, "SoftXpand is a natural choice for any organisation that is serious about its green commitments and is striving to make a significant impact on its carbon footprint and implement cost savings based on reduced power consumption. We have never seen technology like SoftXpand that benefits as many organisations with significant, tangible reductions in IT purchasing and running costs. We have implemented SoftXpand with a variety of public and private sector clients and the total savings in cost and ownership are compelling without sacrificing performance for end users. Verifiable 80% energy savings are easily achievable."
MiniFrame Marketing and Sales VP, Emmanuel Boutboul, commented: "The UK is one of the major markets for MiniFrame and working with the right partner is essential. We are delighted at the new partnership with London Web and look forward to a successful business relationship in the coming years. We strongly believe that, together with London Web, we will significantly increase our activities in the UK."
MiniFrame’s innovative SoftXpand Xpress software enables sharing of Windows-based machines. The software converts a single desktop PC into a system capable of supporting up to 8 users simultaneously – each logged on with their own desktop, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Since SoftXpand is not based on thin client technology, it delivers high-performance video options to each user. Video support is provided by installing additional video cards into the PC or by connecting low-cost Plug and Play display adapters via USB.
Implementing MiniFrame’s technology offers other benefits such as reducing e-waste generation and disposal costs by more than 80%. Heat output from PCs is reduced significantly – decreasing air-conditioning system consumption. IT departments can significantly cut costs in deploying software and hardware upgrades as well as reducing switch and cable requirements.
SoftXpand Xpress is already being used by over 100,000 organisations across the globe and has immense potential to become a leading desktop virtualisation solution on the market owing to its "green" credentials and cost effectiveness. The solution is ideal for applications in a variety of industries including education, call centres, manufacturing companies, small and medium – sized businesses (SMBs), financial institutions, government organisations, hotels and Internet cafes.
SoftXpand is now available from London Web for immediate 30-day trial and purchase from http://softxpand.londonweb.net
Chicago, IL: June 3, 2010: SingleHop, Inc, the Chicago provider of dedicated servers and complex hosting solutions, today announced a key partnership with CannyBill, the highly regarded web billing system producer. The agreement allows for SingleHop’s Tandem server reseller customers to get 6 months of free access to Cannybill’s highly intuitive and adaptable billing system.
Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Managing Director of CannyBill, commented, “We are delighted to have joined the SingleHop Tandem Reseller Program. It’s one of the most innovative and exciting dedicated server reseller programs out there and CannyBill will be a perfect match. The power of CannyBill is the ability for users to manage every aspect of their billing process, from invoicing clients to collecting payments. Now, with the partnership between SingleHop and CannyBill, we are able to tightly integrate our two platforms and offer Tandem Partners a way to resell SingleHop dedicated servers, all via web based order forms.”
“Tandem is a one-of-a-kind program because it offers server resellers a three-pronged approach to helping their businesses succeed. First, they get access to datacenter-grade controls over their servers and a powerful and fully white-labeled control panel for their own clients. Second, VirtualWarehouse offers them a guaranteed and detailed list of highly discounted servers that they can choose to resell. Finally, they can take advantage of exceptional marketing agreements at no cost to themselves, agreements that connect them to the best providers in the industry that can assist them in marketing, security, and even billing such as our partnership with CannyBill”, mentioned Dan Salcedo, VP of Communications at SingleHop.
Tandem was launched in February of this year and offers resellers the ability to have more control, sell more servers, and earn better margins through a comprehensive list of exclusive benefits, including fully white-labeled control panels and marketing assistance, that resellers can use as tools for marketing or higher margins.
About CannyBill
CannyBill is a web based invoicing and billing solution for businesses and web designers. Users can easily create, send and manage invoices, and accept payments online via credit card. Users can also sell their products and services, using order forms that their customers can access, and even link to live API’s such as Plesk, cPanel/WHM, Geotrust, Enom, Basecamp and many more. www.cannybill.com
About SingleHop, Inc.
SingleHop, Inc., is a full-service, managed, dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. The cornerstone of SingleHop’s managed hosting is the à la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise. www.singlehop.com
(Gawkwire.com) – The UK’s premier Search Engine Optimisation and internet marketing agency as voted for by uk.topSEOs.com, SEO Consult, have now moved into their new offices in Hooton, Cheshire.
Due to their impressive growth over the last financial year, SEO Consult have recruited extra staff in all departments to cope with the large influx of clients signing up with for their bespoke search engine optimization services. Still recruiting across all areas of the business to meet with increasing demand, SEO Consult have now completed the move into new, larger offices in the Cheshire area to accommodate the recent workforce additions and prepare for the future.
Situated in the Hooton area of Cheshire, it will allow greater access for potential visiting clients looking to sign up with one of the UK’s leading SEO agencies. Their talented SEO team moved into the new building on Friday 07 May, and their new address is as follows:
SEO Consult
Unit B1, Willow House
Oaklands Office Park
Hooton Road
Hooton
Cheshire
CH66 7NZ
UK
“The move has been coming for a long time now, but we wanted to make sure that everything was 100% ready before we moved into our new home,” commented Matt Bullas, Managing Director of SEO Consult. “The transition has been seamless and we were able to resume normal business again from Monday 10 May. We are delighted with our new home and the new opportunities it can provide for us. We’re still looking to increase staff for all areas of our business and would like to hear from anybody who feels they can offer fresh, exciting ideas to our ever-expanding team.”
To find out more about SEO Consult please visit our website at http://www.seoconsult.co.uk/ or call 0845 205 0292 during office hours.
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(Gawkwire.com) – A leading cable expert is calling out to the Government to accelerate its nationwide broadband roll-out programme before the UK lags even further behind the rest of the world.
Roger Webster, managing director of Nottingham-based Webro Cables & Connectors, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, believes the planned investment in the UK broadband infrastructure is a very positive move for the country, but it needs to be pushed forward quickly so it can keep up with the new digital age.
“Now the election has come and gone and we have a new era in Government, we need to drive forward the plans and catch up with the rest of the world, growing the number of households with broadband access,” explained Roger.
“In 2009 there were 466.95 million* broadband customers in the world and only 18,356,000 of those were in the UK. We’re sixth in the world in terms of broadband user figures but we’re behind other thriving countries such as US, Japan and China.
“The funding programme behind the Government’s plan for broadband roll-out is a subject of much debate but wherever that money comes from, the value of the results will undoubtedly outweigh the investment.”
Webro has a 30-year legacy in the coaxial, telecom, security and fibre optic industries. It supplies the top five UK TV and satellite distributors and its coaxial cables are used in many different systems, applications and industries from top hotel chains, caravan sites and high security systems to protect both people and property to the Highways Agency and the London Underground network, for which it is Link-Up certified.
Roger added: “Fibre is a far bigger growth market than was first anticipated and we’re working with companies such as Sky and doing what we can to help push forward this growth in new technology. But we need other companies and the Government to play its part too.
“The development of more new housing and the simultaneous laying of fibre cables are helping to push the country forward in its development of broadband access. However, the country’s slow take up of fibre to date will continue to cause major bottlenecks unless additional investment plans are driven quickly forward.
“The UK is hampered by the legacy of aging copper installations and needs to continue to push out the laying of fibre optic cables to bring super fast broadband to as many homes, schools and businesses as possible. This is especially important with the rise in population of applications such as the BBC iPlayer and social networking.”
Roger concluded: “We’re living in an exciting digital age and the UK should be leading the pack in terms of broadband development and infrastructure.”
For further information about Webro’s cable and connector products, please visit the website at www.webro.com.
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(Gawkwire.com) – Bull, one of Europe’s leading IT players, has expanded its equipment housing requirements with Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centres.
Interxion Netherlands currently houses IT equipment for several Bull clients, including DetailResult Services, the shared service centre for retail group Dekamarkt and the “Dirk van den Broek companies”. Bull manages and maintains the IT infrastructure, monitoring it remotely with round-the-clock secure access whenever required. The agreement for additional equipped space includes an option to expand into a second Interxion data centre, ensuring that Bull and its customers can continue their expansion in the coming years, while maintaining consistently high levels of service and availability.
“The outsourcing of infrastructure management is, for many companies, a major move,” said Jeroen Lulof, Sales Manager at Bull Holland. “For these companies IT is of great importance, and they put this critical component in our hands. This means we need trustworthy partners like Interxion – partners that can offer the right levels of service and reliability to us and our clients.”
“We are delighted to expand our relationship with Bull,” said Michel van den Assem, Interxion Netherlands Managing Director. “The extra data centre space will offer 2N UPS power and N+1 cooling, as well as advanced alarm and monitoring systems, supported by the latest high-density power configurations. In addition, in line with Bull’s strong environmental credentials, all power will be generated from renewable energy sources such as wind, biomass, or hydro.”
(The Hosting News) – Bull recently announced that it has expanded its equipment housing requirements with Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centres.
Interxion Netherlands currently houses IT equipment for several Bull clients, including DetailResult Services, the shared service centre for retail group Dekamarkt and the “Dirk van den Broek companies”. Bull manages and maintains the IT infrastructure, monitoring it remotely with round-the-clock secure access whenever required. The agreement for additional equipped space includes an option to expand into a second Interxion data centre, ensuring that Bull and its customers can continue their expansion in the coming years, while maintaining consistently high levels of service and availability.
“The outsourcing of infrastructure management is, for many companies, a major move,” said Jeroen Lulof, Sales Manager at Bull Holland. “For these companies IT is of great importance, and they put this critical component in our hands. This means we need trustworthy partners like Interxion – partners that can offer the right levels of service and reliability to us and our clients.”
“We are delighted to expand our relationship with Bull,” said Michel van den Assem, Interxion Netherlands Managing Director. “The extra data centre space will offer 2N UPS power and N+1 cooling, as well as advanced alarm and monitoring systems, supported by the latest high-density power configurations. In addition, in line with Bull’s strong environmental credentials, all power will be generated from renewable energy sources such as wind, biomass, or hydro.”
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