Round Tale
Web Hosting news and views!
0
(The Hosting News) – Parallels has announced the appointment of Birger Steen as President of the company. Mr. Steen comes to Parallels from Microsoft, where he was the Vice President of Small and Medium Business and Distribution and will join the company in September 2010.“Birger Steen is a great addition to the Parallels team and we are excited to have him join the organization in this capacity” said Serguei Beloussov, Chairman and CEO of Parallels. “Birger’s experience is a great match for our Cloud services enablement and desktop software businesses, especially given his current focus on small business customers and the Microsoft partner community. In addition, his tenure in senior positions at several leading companies in Russia, Norway, and the US gives him a breadth of knowledge and experience that will help us as we grow.”
Prior to his current role at Microsoft, Mr. Steen held several senior positions at the company since joining in 2002. He started his Microsoft career at as General Manager in Norway and then moved on to serve as General Manager and Vice President of Microsoft Russia. During his tenure there, Microsoft’s revenues from Russia grew tenfold. Before Microsoft Mr. Steen was CEO of Scandinavia Online AB which was listed on the Stockholm and Oslo Stock Exchanges in 2000 under his leadership.
In his new role he will report to Mr. Beloussov and will be responsible for sales, marketing, product management, and support, as well as assisting Mr. Beloussov in transforming the company for the next stage of growth.”
“I’m very excited to be joining Parallels” said Birger Steen. “The company is at the very forefront of the industry. Parallels enables Service Providers to launch and profitably deliver Cloud services for the small business segment. Small businesses all over the world are quickly moving their IT to the Cloud, and Parallels has a tremendous opportunity to help both existing Service Providers, new entrants to the IT services arena and the 150 million small businesses they collectively serve to take advantage of the Cloud model.”
Birger holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim and earned his MBA from INSEAD in France.
Source: Parallels Names Micosoft Veteran as President
(The Hosting News) – Parallels has announced the appointment of Birger Steen as President of the company. Mr. Steen comes to Parallels from Microsoft, where he was the Vice President of Small and Medium Business and Distribution and will join the company in September 2010.“Birger Steen is a great addition to the Parallels team and we are excited to have him join the organization in this capacity” said Serguei Beloussov, Chairman and CEO of Parallels. “Birger’s experience is a great match for our Cloud services enablement and desktop software businesses, especially given his current focus on small business customers and the Microsoft partner community. In addition, his tenure in senior positions at several leading companies in Russia, Norway, and the US gives him a breadth of knowledge and experience that will help us as we grow.”
Prior to his current role at Microsoft, Mr. Steen held several senior positions at the company since joining in 2002. He started his Microsoft career at as General Manager in Norway and then moved on to serve as General Manager and Vice President of Microsoft Russia. During his tenure there, Microsoft’s revenues from Russia grew tenfold. Before Microsoft Mr. Steen was CEO of Scandinavia Online AB which was listed on the Stockholm and Oslo Stock Exchanges in 2000 under his leadership.
In his new role he will report to Mr. Beloussov and will be responsible for sales, marketing, product management, and support, as well as assisting Mr. Beloussov in transforming the company for the next stage of growth.”
“I’m very excited to be joining Parallels” said Birger Steen. “The company is at the very forefront of the industry. Parallels enables Service Providers to launch and profitably deliver Cloud services for the small business segment. Small businesses all over the world are quickly moving their IT to the Cloud, and Parallels has a tremendous opportunity to help both existing Service Providers, new entrants to the IT services arena and the 150 million small businesses they collectively serve to take advantage of the Cloud model.”
Birger holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Industrial Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim and earned his MBA from INSEAD in France.
(The Hosting News) – Ipswitch today announced its WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit is now available for free in booth 1751 at Cisco Live Las Vegas from June 28 to July 1 and online for a limited time at http://www.whatsupgold.com/PR/Toolkit. With its broad and robust functionality, the new WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit helps monitor, diagnose and troubleshoot a vast majority of common network engineering tasks including the categories of: design and planning; discovery; diagnostics; DNS verification; remote control; and configuration and credentials management.
The WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit features a single installation and user-friendly interface and is the only toolkit that addresses this broad range of categories from a single-credential library, allowing users to access any tool without having to re-enter credentials. The toolkit also has exportable, printable and sharable reporting results to simplify troubleshooting and share with upper management and to report on activities and status. The Engineer’s Toolkit is available now for free for a limited period at http://www.whatsupgold.com/PR/Toolkit.
“Network managers will be impressed with the Engineer’s Toolkit user-friendly interface and its ability to ease the burden of daily network and system administration tasks,” said Brian Gollaher, director of product management, Ipswitch, Inc., Network Management Division. “We will be doing hands-on demonstrations of the Engineer’s Toolkit in booth 1751 and we invite attendees to stop by to check it out and pick up a free copy.”
WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit Categories and Features:
Design and Planning
Properly design subnets to use existing address space more efficiently
Discovery
Stay informed on what devices are running on the network
Quickly identify responding and non-responding addresses , and available ports
Automatically gather IP address to MAC address information in the LAN
Diagnostics
Visualize real-time ping results for one node or multiple addresses or hostnames
Rapidly discover device or network hop connectivity issues
Generate test traffic on the WAN for capacity planning purposes
Verify that corporate email servers have not been blacklisted
Visualize performance across SNMP-enabled devices
DNS Verification
Quickly identify addresses with or without reverse DNS responses, or with forward DNS errors
Verify the hierarchy of DNS resource records
Remote Control
Remotely boot PC and servers
Visualize any active session in any device in the network from a single console
Configuration and Credentials Management
Remotely configure NetFlow across Cisco devices from a central console
Easily recover Cisco type 7 forgotten passwords
Pricing and Availability
The Engineer’s Toolkit, valued at $995 MSRP, is being offered for free for a limited time. Please visit http://www.whatsupgold.com/PR/Toolkit for a free download, or visit booth 1751 at the Cisco Live Las Vegas show for more information.
(The Hosting News) – IHOST is now bundling a no-cost DNN shopping cart module from Smith Consulting, Inc. into all DNN hosting accounts.
The Smith Cart DNN Module allows web store customers to select and pay for items, enter coupon or discount codes, and create self-service accounts they can log into to track order status, view invoices, and more.
“We’ve added the outstanding Smith Cart DNN Module to all DotNetNuke hosting accounts as a way of making web entrepreneurship less painful,” IHOST, LLC CEO Slavic Kozyuk said. “We’re excited to offer SmithCart product to our customers, it will certainly only add to the value.”
The DNN shopping cart, pre-installed by IHOST, requires no initial setup. In addition to standard cart features, Smith Cart DNN Module offers helpful product management and tax-handling features, plus recurring billing options and shipping-and-handling calculation.
“IHOST has a proud history of attaching valuable options and features to our reliable DNN hosting services,” Kozyuk said. “With this no-cost e-commerce bundle, we’re continuing that tradition. We’re grateful to our partners at Smith Consulting Inc. for helping us bring greater value to our customers.” The Smith Cart DNN Module is available now to all new and current IHOST clients.
Cart Features: Product management, recurring billing support, shipping and handling calculation, tax handling, multiple payment methods and gateways, checkout, coupons and discounts, affiliate tracking support, marketing assistance, customer self-service, store and order administration. For more information about IHOST’s hosting plans, visit http://www.ihostasp.net.
About IHOST, LLC
Since 2004, IHOST has hinged its business strategy on the success of the DotNetNuke platform. Its goal is to deliver the best DNN hosting and customer service at reasonable rates. IHOST is an active participant in the DotNetNuke community and continues to deliver affordable, up-to-date DNN hosting solutions to the web.
(The Hosting News) – IHOST is now bundling a no-cost DNN shopping cart module from Smith Consulting, Inc. into all DNN hosting accounts.
The Smith Cart DNN Module allows web store customers to select and pay for items, enter coupon or discount codes, and create self-service accounts they can log into to track order status, view invoices, and more.
“We’ve added the outstanding Smith Cart DNN Module to all DotNetNuke hosting accounts as a way of making web entrepreneurship less painful,” IHOST, LLC CEO Slavic Kozyuk said. “We’re excited to offer SmithCart product to our customers, it will certainly only add to the value.”
The DNN shopping cart, pre-installed by IHOST, requires no initial setup. In addition to standard cart features, Smith Cart DNN Module offers helpful product management and tax-handling features, plus recurring billing options and shipping-and-handling calculation.
“IHOST has a proud history of attaching valuable options and features to our reliable DNN hosting services,” Kozyuk said. “With this no-cost e-commerce bundle, we’re continuing that tradition. We’re grateful to our partners at Smith Consulting Inc. for helping us bring greater value to our customers.” The Smith Cart DNN Module is available now to all new and current IHOST clients.
Cart Features: Product management, recurring billing support, shipping and handling calculation, tax handling, multiple payment methods and gateways, checkout, coupons and discounts, affiliate tracking support, marketing assistance, customer self-service, store and order administration. For more information about IHOST’s hosting plans, visit http://www.ihostasp.net.
About IHOST, LLC
Since 2004, IHOST has hinged its business strategy on the success of the DotNetNuke platform. Its goal is to deliver the best DNN hosting and customer service at reasonable rates. IHOST is an active participant in the DotNetNuke community and continues to deliver affordable, up-to-date DNN hosting solutions to the web.
IHOST Offers Free DNN Shopping Cart with Hosting Accounts
(The Hosting News) – ZNet has announced the DotPulse Own-Your-Hosting-Company Program in its constant efforts to make positive contributions to the highly competitive web hosting marketplace. The new and one-of-its-kind DotPulse program would take all the stress out of starting a world-class hosting company and create hosting entrepreneurs selling qualitative hosting services from any part of the world.
All those who nurture a dream of being their own bosses and hate the 9 to 5 routine of a dull job, good news is around- YOU CAN START YOUR OWN HOSTING COMPANY at almost no cost!
DotPulse, a Znet venture has for the first time ever in the web hosting world started a unique program where anyone can set up his own hosting company by subscribing to prepaid or postpaid options.
Anyone who is interested in opening his company can currently choose to sell Domains, Web Hosting, Email Hosting, Digital Certificates and Website builder from a fully Brandable and CMS (Content Management System)-enabled website provided by DotPulse. He would also receive a Control Panel from which allows for fully automated Domain, Billing, Sales and Product management at the click of mouse.
The New Own-Your-Hosting-Company Program would be based on Znet’s world class, on-demand hosting infrastructure to fully manage your IT environment. Znet has globally distributed hosting infrastructure based in Washington DC, Dallas, Seattle, Hyderabad, Bangalore & Jaipur (coming shortly) not to mention 24/7 server monitoring & excellent tech support.
Speaking on the occasion of the launch CEO Znet Technologies Private Limited, Munesh Singh said, “The idea behind DotPulse was to create a fleet of hosting entrepreneurs globally who can find a unique destination to fulfill their dreams of owning a company without any capital investment.”
The Online Marketing head, Znet Technologies, Dr. Sanjay Joshi noted, “The best part of the DotPulse program is there are very less fees to join or any minimum sales commitment for someone who wishes to open a company.”
Quick Advantages:
100 Private Labelled – You get all the products entirely under your own brand, including website, services, control panel, knowledge base.
100% Price Control – You get total freedom to design your own pricing structures.
100% Instant Sign-Up – In couple of minutes you can sign up and float your own company.
About ZNET Technologies
ZNET Technologies Private Limited (formerly ZNET India) & its new venture DotPulse is a Jaipur, India-based Web hosting and IT Infrastructure Company founded in 1999 by techpreneur Munesh Singh. The core of the company is to provide domain name registration, Web hosting services (Windows, Linux and Java), business Email hosting, SSL certificates, dedicated and Hyper-V powered VPS servers and reseller hosting services to global and local clients. Visit www.dotpulse.com.
World’s 1st Own-Your-Hosting-Company Program
(The Hosting News) – ZNet has announced the DotPulse Own-Your-Hosting-Company Program in its constant efforts to make positive contributions to the highly competitive web hosting marketplace. The new and one-of-its-kind DotPulse program would take all the stress out of starting a world-class hosting company and create hosting entrepreneurs selling qualitative hosting services from any part of the world.
All those who nurture a dream of being their own bosses and hate the 9 to 5 routine of a dull job, good news is around- YOU CAN START YOUR OWN HOSTING COMPANY at almost no cost!
DotPulse, a Znet venture has for the first time ever in the web hosting world started a unique program where anyone can set up his own hosting company by subscribing to prepaid or postpaid options.
Anyone who is interested in opening his company can currently choose to sell Domains, Web Hosting, Email Hosting, Digital Certificates and Website builder from a fully Brandable and CMS (Content Management System)-enabled website provided by DotPulse. He would also receive a Control Panel from which allows for fully automated Domain, Billing, Sales and Product management at the click of mouse.
The New Own-Your-Hosting-Company Program would be based on Znet’s world class, on-demand hosting infrastructure to fully manage your IT environment. Znet has globally distributed hosting infrastructure based in Washington DC, Dallas, Seattle, Hyderabad, Bangalore & Jaipur (coming shortly) not to mention 24/7 server monitoring & excellent tech support.
Speaking on the occasion of the launch CEO Znet Technologies Private Limited, Munesh Singh said, “The idea behind DotPulse was to create a fleet of hosting entrepreneurs globally who can find a unique destination to fulfill their dreams of owning a company without any capital investment.”
The Online Marketing head, Znet Technologies, Dr. Sanjay Joshi noted, “The best part of the DotPulse program is there are very less fees to join or any minimum sales commitment for someone who wishes to open a company.”
Quick Advantages:
100 Private Labelled – You get all the products entirely under your own brand, including website, services, control panel, knowledge base.
100% Price Control – You get total freedom to design your own pricing structures.
100% Instant Sign-Up – In couple of minutes you can sign up and float your own company.
About ZNET Technologies
ZNET Technologies Private Limited (formerly ZNET India) & its new venture DotPulse is a Jaipur, India-based Web hosting and IT Infrastructure Company founded in 1999 by techpreneur Munesh Singh. The core of the company is to provide domain name registration, Web hosting services (Windows, Linux and Java), business Email hosting, SSL certificates, dedicated and Hyper-V powered VPS servers and reseller hosting services to global and local clients. Visit www.dotpulse.com.
On January 26th at 1:00pm EST, Paul Engles of Hostopia will be presenting “Empower Your Customers with Online Tools to Increase Their Sales”. Attend the webinar and find out how to give your customers what they really need; services that will increase their sales while saving them time and money.
Paul Engels has a 20-year background in senior sales, marketing and product management roles in leading technology and Internet-related businesses. As Chief Marketing Officer for Hostopia, Paul has helped lead the company through 30 consecutive quarters of growth and its IPO in November 2006. He is a well-known and accomplished industry commentator, speaker, panelist and contributing editor who has addressed large audiences at ISPCON, HostingCon, the USTA and others.
Register for the webinar today and be sure to bring any questions you’d like to ask to the presentation.
Also be sure to check out our Featured Webinars page for all upcoming HostingCon Webinar Series events.
For all the latest HostingCon news and information, visit HostingCon – The largest gathering of hosted services professionals in the world.
(The Hosting News)— Cloud computing software creator and computing services provider 3Tera® officially announced it’s plans for a new educational and certification programs to provide customers with expertise in building world-class cloud computing services and solutions. Along with it’s primary offerings there will be two certification programs are available, Certified Cloud Operator and Certified Cloud Architect, designed to address the needs of cloud computing professionals.
“Rapid development and deployment of applications are key reasons thousands of users are adopting cloud computing through our service providers and we’ve designed our certification programs with that in mind,” said Bert Armijo, SVP Marketing and Product Management, 3Tera, Inc. “Our certification programs offer instruction and hands-on labs covering the essential elements needed for rapid success in the cloud – basic concepts, advanced technologies, best practices, automation, and business continuity.”
Currently, two cloud computing certification programs are available:
The Certified Cloud Operator program is targeted toward service providers, enterprises operations professionals and systems integrators, responsible for the deployment and operation of cloud services. The program covers the process of installing, configuring and maintaining the computing fabric used for building cloud computing services. Emphasis is placed on hardware requirements, service configuration, hardware failure troubleshooting, provisioning of customers, and configuration of virtual private datacenters.
The Certified Cloud Architect program is offered for system architects, IT operations professionals, application developers and systems engineers responsible for the design, integration, provisioning, deployment and management of distributed applications. Participants learn the architectural concepts of the AppLogic cloud computing platform, step-by-step procedures for deploying, operating and managing applications in the cloud, best practices for security, testing and scaling applications, and how to architect for business continuity.
“In the nine months we’ve partnered with 3Tera, cloud computing has become the fastest growing, and most profitable part of our business,” commented Mark Ortenzi, President, Cari.Net. “To meet this demand, we now have five 3Tera Certified Cloud Computing Operators and Architects well-versed in the deployment and management of customers’ solutions available 24/7 in all of our five datacenters.”
“Enterprises need more than just a single virtual machine for their blog; they need to run multi-tiered, mission-critical applications with geographic fault tolerance,” said Mike Michalik, CEO, Cirrhus9, a cloud systems integrator. “AppLogic is the best cloud computing technology we’ve seen that meets the needs of both the enterprise and start-ups. The certification ensures Cirrhus9 can deliver on any cloud computing requirement our customers may have.”
3Tera’s cloud computing training and certification programs are accessible to IT professionals who are either evaluating or using the AppLogic cloud computing platform. Certification is awarded upon successful completion of the training coursework and online testing. For more details on training schedule and availability, visit http://www.3tera.com/AppLogic/Cloud-Certification.php.
Cloud Computing Certification Announced by 3Tera® is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
(The Hosting News)— Cloud computing software creator and computing services provider 3Tera® officially announced it’s plans for a new educational and certification programs to provide customers with expertise in building world-class cloud computing services and solutions. Along with it’s primary offerings there will be two certification programs are available, Certified Cloud Operator and Certified Cloud Architect, designed to address the needs of cloud computing professionals.
“Rapid development and deployment of applications are key reasons thousands of users are adopting cloud computing through our service providers and we’ve designed our certification programs with that in mind,” said Bert Armijo, SVP Marketing and Product Management, 3Tera, Inc. “Our certification programs offer instruction and hands-on labs covering the essential elements needed for rapid success in the cloud – basic concepts, advanced technologies, best practices, automation, and business continuity.”
Currently, two cloud computing certification programs are available:
The Certified Cloud Operator program is targeted toward service providers, enterprises operations professionals and systems integrators, responsible for the deployment and operation of cloud services. The program covers the process of installing, configuring and maintaining the computing fabric used for building cloud computing services. Emphasis is placed on hardware requirements, service configuration, hardware failure troubleshooting, provisioning of customers, and configuration of virtual private datacenters.
The Certified Cloud Architect program is offered for system architects, IT operations professionals, application developers and systems engineers responsible for the design, integration, provisioning, deployment and management of distributed applications. Participants learn the architectural concepts of the AppLogic cloud computing platform, step-by-step procedures for deploying, operating and managing applications in the cloud, best practices for security, testing and scaling applications, and how to architect for business continuity.
“In the nine months we’ve partnered with 3Tera, cloud computing has become the fastest growing, and most profitable part of our business,” commented Mark Ortenzi, President, Cari.Net. “To meet this demand, we now have five 3Tera Certified Cloud Computing Operators and Architects well-versed in the deployment and management of customers’ solutions available 24/7 in all of our five datacenters.”
“Enterprises need more than just a single virtual machine for their blog; they need to run multi-tiered, mission-critical applications with geographic fault tolerance,” said Mike Michalik, CEO, Cirrhus9, a cloud systems integrator. “AppLogic is the best cloud computing technology we’ve seen that meets the needs of both the enterprise and start-ups. The certification ensures Cirrhus9 can deliver on any cloud computing requirement our customers may have.”
3Tera’s cloud computing training and certification programs are accessible to IT professionals who are either evaluating or using the AppLogic cloud computing platform. Certification is awarded upon successful completion of the training coursework and online testing. For more details on training schedule and availability, visit http://www.3tera.com/AppLogic/Cloud-Certification.php.
Cloud Computing Certification Announced by 3Tera® is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.
Back to top