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(The Hosting News) – Michigan data center operator Online Tech and Ann Arbor-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software firm Campfire Interactive formally announced a partnership to deliver Campfire’s PLM solution on managed servers in Online Tech’s SAS-70 certified data centers.

Pradeep Seneviratne, President of Campfire Interactive, said “we are clearly seeing the growing trend towards Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) running on managed servers. Many of our customers are deploying our advanced Product Lifecycle Management tools but don’t want to manage the servers and infrastructure. We selected Online Tech as our managed hosting partner to deliver our Software through a SaaS model for our clients. This allows us to operate as a tightly integrated team, and helps us focus on the business solution, and know that the underlying infrastructure will be reliable and cost-effective.”

“Our relationship began by hosting Campfire’s solution for a Fortune 50 company on our managed servers” said Mike Klein, President of Online Tech. “The customer needed to deploy Campfire’s PLM solution quickly and they preferred a hosted solution with a simple monthly fee over the challenge of getting a new application approved and supported through their corporate IT department. The customer was deploying Campfire’s solution for a mission critical business process – worldwide strategic planning and sales forecasting. This meant that the deployment had to meet all of the global enterprise-scale security and reliability concerns of a Fortune 50 company. We met all the customer requirements and helped them accelerate their time to market and minimize their long term support costs by delivering the software on managed servers.”

Online Tech’s SAS-70 certification smoothed the way to getting corporate approval for a managed hosting solution in Online Tech’s data centers. SAS-70 is a nationally recognized audit standard for evaluating the process and security control procedures across the data center that is required by Sarbanes-Oxley. The SAS-70 designation demonstrates that the data center has the proper controls and procedures around physical and network security, environmental controls, system availability and performance and those controls have been followed consistently over time.

Following the successful first deployment, other Campfire customers have already taken advantage of this partnership to utilize Online Tech’s services. Based on these multiple customer success, Campfire and Online Tech have decided to formalize their partnership and offer the solution to Campfire’s entire customer base.

As part of the agreement, Campfire’s customers can host their mission critical PLM software on Online Tech’s managed servers located in their world-class Michigan data centers for a fraction of the cost of maintaining a full-fledged data center. This helps Campfire Interactive rapidly deliver its offerings across a broad range of vertical markets including Automotive, Chemical, Electronics and Semiconductors, and across a wide range of geographies. In addition, Campfire can now offer the convenience of hosting custom solutions for those clients who have unique needs.

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(The Hosting News) – Michigan data center operator Online Tech and Ann Arbor-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software firm Campfire Interactive formally announced a partnership to deliver Campfire’s PLM solution on managed servers in Online Tech’s SAS-70 certified data centers.

Pradeep Seneviratne, President of Campfire Interactive, said “we are clearly seeing the growing trend towards Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) running on managed servers. Many of our customers are deploying our advanced Product Lifecycle Management tools but don’t want to manage the servers and infrastructure. We selected Online Tech as our managed hosting partner to deliver our Software through a SaaS model for our clients. This allows us to operate as a tightly integrated team, and helps us focus on the business solution, and know that the underlying infrastructure will be reliable and cost-effective.”

“Our relationship began by hosting Campfire’s solution for a Fortune 50 company on our managed servers” said Mike Klein, President of Online Tech. “The customer needed to deploy Campfire’s PLM solution quickly and they preferred a hosted solution with a simple monthly fee over the challenge of getting a new application approved and supported through their corporate IT department. The customer was deploying Campfire’s solution for a mission critical business process – worldwide strategic planning and sales forecasting. This meant that the deployment had to meet all of the global enterprise-scale security and reliability concerns of a Fortune 50 company. We met all the customer requirements and helped them accelerate their time to market and minimize their long term support costs by delivering the software on managed servers.”

Online Tech’s SAS-70 certification smoothed the way to getting corporate approval for a managed hosting solution in Online Tech’s data centers. SAS-70 is a nationally recognized audit standard for evaluating the process and security control procedures across the data center that is required by Sarbanes-Oxley. The SAS-70 designation demonstrates that the data center has the proper controls and procedures around physical and network security, environmental controls, system availability and performance and those controls have been followed consistently over time.

Following the successful first deployment, other Campfire customers have already taken advantage of this partnership to utilize Online Tech’s services. Based on these multiple customer success, Campfire and Online Tech have decided to formalize their partnership and offer the solution to Campfire’s entire customer base.

As part of the agreement, Campfire’s customers can host their mission critical PLM software on Online Tech’s managed servers located in their world-class Michigan data centers for a fraction of the cost of maintaining a full-fledged data center. This helps Campfire Interactive rapidly deliver its offerings across a broad range of vertical markets including Automotive, Chemical, Electronics and Semiconductors, and across a wide range of geographies. In addition, Campfire can now offer the convenience of hosting custom solutions for those clients who have unique needs.

Managed Hosting Agreement Signed by Online Tech and Campfire Interactive is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

Santa Clara, California – (The Hosting News) – September 22, 2009 – Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Unify, is providing provisioning and management for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), accelerating the deployment for customers of over 150,000 seats.

Described as currently the largest single OCS installation in North America, in less than 90 days, Ensim’s OCS Manager solved all the major provisioning and management requirements that had delayed the deployment of over 150,000 seats of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.

Scott Young, vice president of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation noted, ”Deployment of OCS 2007 often proves challenging for regulated organizations due to complex user entitlement policies. By deploying Ensim Unify, our customer was able to solve its OCS provisioning and management challenges in less than 90 days, while enforcing the security and compliance policies required for its users. The effectiveness and scalability of Ensim Unify speaks for itself in this case, given the size of the OCS deployment it enabled.”

A number of provisioning obstacles had stopped the customer from gaining the benefits of OCS. These obstacles included support for complex IT security and compliance policies, such as multiple provisioning workflows for different types of employees, multi-level help desk support, and minimizing the burden on IT caused by the manual update process. Ensim delivered a provisioning and management solution that integrated with the customer’s existing directory infrastructure and provisioning policies and supported different provisioning workflows, while automating the hundreds of daily manual updates. It also enabled delegated administration to support multi-level help desk operations, while offering full audit and reporting for these processes.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition is a complete, role-based access management solution that can be deployed just for OCS or across the entire unified communications (UC) infrastructure including email, VoIP, conferencing, collaboration, and instant messaging. Ensim’s OCS Manager enables businesses to realize the promise of unified communications without the pain of manual user provisioning and burdensome management. OCS Manager works with existing ID management solutions to allow organizations to take full advantage of all the new OCS 2007 features without imposing a burden on IT.

Key features of Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition OCS Manager include:

• Ability to Integrate with Complex Provisioning Policies
• Support for Multiple Provisioning Workflows
• Automated Maintenance of Daily Manual Updates
• Full Multi-level Help Desk Support
• Detailed System Activity and Transaction Logging

David J. Wippich, chairman and CEO at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”The ROI associated with deploying unified communications is significant, but many organizations are stuck at deployment or take on burdensome management tasks after deployment. Ensim Unify enables quick deployment, automation of maintenance tasks, and interoperability that leverages existing investments and policies that can be extended to UC apps like OCS.”

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

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

For more information on Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition OCS Manager, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/ensim_unify/OCS.

Santa Clara, California – (The Hosting News) – September 22, 2009 – Provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, Ensim Unify, is providing provisioning and management for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), accelerating the deployment for customers of over 150,000 seats.

Described as currently the largest single OCS installation in North America, in less than 90 days, Ensim’s OCS Manager solved all the major provisioning and management requirements that had delayed the deployment of over 150,000 seats of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.

Scott Young, vice president of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation noted, ”Deployment of OCS 2007 often proves challenging for regulated organizations due to complex user entitlement policies. By deploying Ensim Unify, our customer was able to solve its OCS provisioning and management challenges in less than 90 days, while enforcing the security and compliance policies required for its users. The effectiveness and scalability of Ensim Unify speaks for itself in this case, given the size of the OCS deployment it enabled.”

A number of provisioning obstacles had stopped the customer from gaining the benefits of OCS. These obstacles included support for complex IT security and compliance policies, such as multiple provisioning workflows for different types of employees, multi-level help desk support, and minimizing the burden on IT caused by the manual update process. Ensim delivered a provisioning and management solution that integrated with the customer’s existing directory infrastructure and provisioning policies and supported different provisioning workflows, while automating the hundreds of daily manual updates. It also enabled delegated administration to support multi-level help desk operations, while offering full audit and reporting for these processes.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition is a complete, role-based access management solution that can be deployed just for OCS or across the entire unified communications (UC) infrastructure including email, VoIP, conferencing, collaboration, and instant messaging. Ensim’s OCS Manager enables businesses to realize the promise of unified communications without the pain of manual user provisioning and burdensome management. OCS Manager works with existing ID management solutions to allow organizations to take full advantage of all the new OCS 2007 features without imposing a burden on IT.

Key features of Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition OCS Manager include:

• Ability to Integrate with Complex Provisioning Policies
• Support for Multiple Provisioning Workflows
• Automated Maintenance of Daily Manual Updates
• Full Multi-level Help Desk Support
• Detailed System Activity and Transaction Logging

David J. Wippich, chairman and CEO at Ensim Corporation remarked, ”The ROI associated with deploying unified communications is significant, but many organizations are stuck at deployment or take on burdensome management tasks after deployment. Ensim Unify enables quick deployment, automation of maintenance tasks, and interoperability that leverages existing investments and policies that can be extended to UC apps like OCS.”

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

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

For more information on Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition OCS Manager, please visit: www.ensim.com/products/ensim_unify/OCS.

Los Gatos, California – (The Hosting News) – July 14, 2009 – Private label web and video conferencing software firm, Persony, has made available a free version of its Web Conferencing 2.0 in the Application Packaging Standard (APS) format promoted by Parallels.

Adopted by key Cloud Services Providers and third party application vendors, APS is a new industry standard that simplifies deployment of web applications, enabling service providers and their customers to easily deploy Persony’s web conferencing software on their web sites.

Soeren von Varchmin, Vice President of SaaS, Parallels remarked, ”We are pleased to see Persony joining the growing list of commercial applications in the APS Catalog. Persony’s web conferencing application is a highly demanded service and helps to round out a broad range of applications that cloud services providers can offer to their SMB customers, quickly and easily.”

Persony Web Conferencing 2.0 is an easy-to-use and feature-rich web and video conferencing solution. Participants can join a meeting with virtually any web browser and do not need to download any special software. Unlike many other web conferencing services, Persony web conferencing can be hosted on a standard web server with full private labeling. The free version of Persony software allows Parallels Plesk Panel users to easily create a web conferencing site with up to 100 trial users, including free audio conferencing. Trial users can host unlimited number of meetings with two participants per meeting. Meeting room sizes ranging from 10 to 100 participants can be purchased from Persony. Add-on options include multi-point video and voice over IP, synchronized audio and web conferencing recording, and an iPhone application for moderating or joining a meeting from an iPhone.

Eric Chen, CEO of Persony noted, ”We have been looking for ways to bring the benefits of online meetings to small businesses and help them reduce costs and increase productivity. The Application Packaging Standard is supported by many leading hosting providers and allows us to reach millions of users globally.”

The APS format of Persony Web Conferencing is available for download immediately at www.apsstandard.org. Persony is actively looking for service providers to offer web conferencing as an add-on option under a revenue sharing model.

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. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Persony’s web and video conferencing solutions enable many service providers to offer fully branded, feature-rich, and easy-to-use web collaboration services at very affordable pricing. Persony’s patent-pending smart-client technology puts the intelligence of a collaborative application on the client side and uses standard web servers to connect remote users. By leveraging the millions of web servers in existence, Persony’s solutions can be deployed anywhere and at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. The smart-client approach is a disruptive technology that allows individuals and small businesses to afford applications that were once only available to larger corporations.

For more information about Persony, please visit: www.persony.com.

To learn more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Los Gatos, California – (The Hosting News) – July 14, 2009 – Private label web and video conferencing software firm, Persony, has made available a free version of its Web Conferencing 2.0 in the Application Packaging Standard (APS) format promoted by Parallels.

Adopted by key Cloud Services Providers and third party application vendors, APS is a new industry standard that simplifies deployment of web applications, enabling service providers and their customers to easily deploy Persony’s web conferencing software on their web sites.

Soeren von Varchmin, Vice President of SaaS, Parallels remarked, ”We are pleased to see Persony joining the growing list of commercial applications in the APS Catalog. Persony’s web conferencing application is a highly demanded service and helps to round out a broad range of applications that cloud services providers can offer to their SMB customers, quickly and easily.”

Persony Web Conferencing 2.0 is an easy-to-use and feature-rich web and video conferencing solution. Participants can join a meeting with virtually any web browser and do not need to download any special software. Unlike many other web conferencing services, Persony web conferencing can be hosted on a standard web server with full private labeling. The free version of Persony software allows Parallels Plesk Panel users to easily create a web conferencing site with up to 100 trial users, including free audio conferencing. Trial users can host unlimited number of meetings with two participants per meeting. Meeting room sizes ranging from 10 to 100 participants can be purchased from Persony. Add-on options include multi-point video and voice over IP, synchronized audio and web conferencing recording, and an iPhone application for moderating or joining a meeting from an iPhone.

Eric Chen, CEO of Persony noted, ”We have been looking for ways to bring the benefits of online meetings to small businesses and help them reduce costs and increase productivity. The Application Packaging Standard is supported by many leading hosting providers and allows us to reach millions of users globally.”

The APS format of Persony Web Conferencing is available for download immediately at www.apsstandard.org. Persony is actively looking for service providers to offer web conferencing as an add-on option under a revenue sharing model.

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. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Persony’s web and video conferencing solutions enable many service providers to offer fully branded, feature-rich, and easy-to-use web collaboration services at very affordable pricing. Persony’s patent-pending smart-client technology puts the intelligence of a collaborative application on the client side and uses standard web servers to connect remote users. By leveraging the millions of web servers in existence, Persony’s solutions can be deployed anywhere and at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. The smart-client approach is a disruptive technology that allows individuals and small businesses to afford applications that were once only available to larger corporations.

For more information about Persony, please visit: www.persony.com.

To learn more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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