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Charlotte, North Carolina - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 -
Independent data center operator and managed services provider, Peak 10, has appointed Mark Whetstone to its management team, as vice president of business development, responsible for overseeing the company’s market development and strategic partnerships.

Jeff Spalding, executive vice president of Peak 10 remarked, ”Mark’s new role is critical as he will manage and promote our ongoing national success. He will lead the charge in responding to the increasing demand for Peak 10’s services by small- and medium-sized enterprises across the nation. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industries and has been a valued partner, client, and long-time friend of Peak 10. We look forward to the addition of Mark’s expertise and insight as we push ahead to further our service offerings to meet customer demand and to expand our brand and reach nationwide.”

Mr. Whetstone comes to Peak 10 from M3 Technology Group (M3TG), a Charlotte, N.C.-based managed and professional services company where he was the co-founder and managing director. A long time resident of Tampa, Fla., where he attended the University of South Florida with majors in marketing and business administration, he has worked in sales, business development, channel sales, national accounts and leadership roles for MCI/Verizon and EMC Corporation. In addition to M3TG, he also co-founded Tampa-based Gulf Coast Long Distance.

Mr. Whetstone added, ”Peak 10 is very well respected within the industry and companies nationwide are increasingly interested in its portfolio of services. I will focus my activities on addressing this growing demand by expanding our reach nationally, further leveraging our current strategic partnerships and forming new ones, while ensuring that an increasing number of businesses are aware of Peak 10’s scalable services and around-the-clock support.”

Peak 10’s managed IT and data center services improve reliability, increase revenue growth, lower costs and maximize internal resources for customers while keeping their valuable information technology assets close to the business. Peak 10 combines its secure network, high-tech data centers and portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies nationwide. The company owns and operates data centers in nine key U.S. markets that include Cincinnati, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C.; Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Richmond, Va.

Peak 10 is the leading independent data center operator and managed services provider, delivering scalable, economical and reliable solutions for hosting and managing complex information technology infrastructure. The company combines multiple data centers and its portfolio of managed services with localized engineering and support to serve market-leading companies including LendingTree, Rivals.com, Global Knowledge, Pergo, Healthways, Churchill Downs and The Fresh Market. Peak 10 is SAS70 Type II compliant and helps companies meet the requirements of various regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, PCI and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA).

For more information on data center solutions from Peak 10, please visit: www.peak10.com.

Sunnyvale, California - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 -
Yahoo! Inc., web hosting search engine portal, will participate in a number of upcoming investor conferences in the upcoming months.

Conferences scheduled include:

Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference:

Blake Jorgensen, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Hilary Schneider, executive vice president for Yahoo! U.S., will participate in a question and answer session at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2009 in San Francisco. The session is scheduled to begin at 1:00pm PT / 4:00pm ET on Wednesday, February 25, 2009.

Jefferies 5th Annual Internet and Media Conference:

Michael Walrath, senior vice president of Yahoo!’s advertising marketplaces group, will participate in a question and answer session at the Jefferies 5th Annual Internet and Media Conference in New York. The session is scheduled to begin at 5:00am PT / 8:00am ET on Thursday, February 26, 2009.

Morgan Stanley Technology Conference:

Carol Bartz, chief executive officer, and Blake Jorgensen, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will participate in a question and answer session at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco. The session is scheduled to begin at 11:15am PT / 2:15pm ET on Tuesday, March 3, 2009.

Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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

Quebec, Canada - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 -
Provider of Hosted Microsoft Exchange, SherWeb, has unveiled a competitive risk-proof, out-of-the-box solution for resellers worldwide, with its White Label Reseller Program.

The newly implemented program provides IT solution providers with new revenue opportunities by allowing them to leverage SherWeb’s Fortune 500 infrastructure and incorporate a value-added solution to their service offerings. In addition to offering the most competitive prices on the market, SherWeb distinguishes itself by presenting an enhanced, faster and more flexible control panel. Through the uniquely customizable user interface, resellers can tailor their product’s look and feel to better reach their customers. SherWeb also provides resellers with technical training and support, as well as sales and marketing tools.

Peter Cassar, CEO of SherWeb remarked, ”SherWeb’s White Label Reseller Program is a great way to quickly deploy the number one business class email solution on the market and give your clients their money’s worth on Microsoft’s hosted communications and collaboration services. Simple, 100% customizable and immediately profitable, our Reseller Program is the easy way to take part in the billion dollar SaaS opportunity from any location in the world.”

SherWeb has made it a priority to make its Hosted Exchange Reseller Program as profitable as possible. Resellers have the freedom to set up their own prices since they bill their customers directly, thus enabling them to keep a close relationship with their clients and maintain full control over their profits. There are no fees to join, no contract, and no minimum sales volume. Resellers can also benefit from SherWeb’s wide range of hosted solutions such as Office Communications Server, Dynamics CRM, BlackBerry, and SharePoint which are all available under the same platform, allowing for an even greater resell opportunity.

SherWeb Inc. provides shared web hosting services, dedicated servers and hosted messaging and collaboration systems. The company is currently serving thousands of customers from more than 25 countries around the world. SherWeb’s hosting solutions are modular and scalable in order to ensure that customers can grow their businesses without having to invest additional time, capital or other resources into their web and messaging infrastructure.

To learn more, please visit:
www.sherweb.com.

Milton, Pennsylvania - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 -
US based managed hosting provider, JDT Web Host, has upgraded its website with a new design and advanced services, including a display of its updated state-of-the-art facilities.

The company has renovated its Internet presence with new features such as user friendly navigation, detailed web hosting plans with customer testimonials. The website redesign was in response to the fast paced and competitive market, to revise the look and feel of the site to demonstrate determination and dedication for quality hosting services. The new site was developed using technologies such as whois script, PHP and MySql, to enrich the visitor experience.

The upgraded website offers web hosting packages for Windows hosting and Linux hosting, as well as for new windows 2003 and MS SQL server 2008. The site comprises a new fresh look and simplified use structure than before. Also, existing services are made more flexible and user friendly. The company’s portfolio includes provided services such as dedicated hosting, domain registrations, managed hosting, corporate email services and a range of other services.

JDT Web Host is a Computer and Internet Technologies Firm Located in Milton Pennsylvania, The United States Of America. JDT Web host has over 10 years of experience bringing IT, Networking, Computer and web hosting to the public. JDT Web host offers US based Web Hosting, dedicated server, logo design and corporate E-mailing services.

To learn more, please visit: www.jdtwebhost.com.

Amherst, New York - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 - Storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, ATTO Technology, Inc., has released what it terms is the industry’s first 16-port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Host Adapters, the ExpressSAS H60F and H6F0.

In addition, the release of the 4-internal/4-external port ExpressSAS H644, has been added to its existing family of 6Gb/s SAS/SATA host adapters. Now available for OEMs, the H60F, H6F0 and H644 deliver throughput of up to 600MB/s per port with the flexibility to connect to SAS, SAS2.0, SATA and SATA II devices.

An expansion of ATTO’s ExpressSAS 6Gb/s SAS/SATA host adapter product line, the H60F, H6F0 and H644 provide the fastest available connection to SAS/SATA storage in Windows, Mac and Linux environments. The ExpressSAS H60F and H6F0 feature a unique two-host-adapters-in-one architecture with two independent controllers delivering 16 lanes of connectivity to achieve approximately 60% faster performance than competitive offerings. The H60F, H6F0 and H644 all support up to 256 physical devices and are backwards compatible with 3Gb/s SAS and SATA devices.

The H60F, H6F0 and H644 host adapters combine x8 PCIe technology, SAS speeds and ATTO’s exclusive Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) Technology to provide a cost-effective, direct-attached solution for high-performance IT and digital media applications. To achieve optimal performance in high-bandwidth environments, ATTO combines hardware and software elements to effectively manage latencies and control the acceleration of data transfers. This distinctive intelligence provides the fastest and most efficient performance for SAS/SATA systems with reduced I/O bottlenecks.

ATTO Technology, Inc. is a storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions firm for data-intensive computing environments. ATTO provides a wide range of end-to-end solutions to help customers’ better store, manage and deliver their data. With a focus toward markets that require higher performance, ATTO manufactures host and RAID adapters, bridges, RAID storage controllers, and management software. ATTO solutions are based on providing a high level of connectivity to all storage interfaces including SCSI, SATA, iSCSI, SAS and Fibre Channel. ATTO distributes its products worldwide directly to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, VARs and authorized distributors. Contact ATTO Technology, Inc. world headquarters: 155 CrossPoint Parkway, Amherst, New York 14068; Phone: (716) 691-1999; Fax: (716) 691-9353.

To learn more, please visit: www.attotech.com.

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 - Education technology company, Blackboard Inc., has opened its second data center in Amsterdam, reinforcing the Company’s commitment to supporting the growing number of European institutions that have enlisted Blackboard to host and manage their learning environments.

Sarah Morgan, Strategic Projects Manager at The University of Manchester noted, ”We rely on the Blackboard’s hosting to deliver a large scale virtual learning solution to our students, and believe that our efforts will benefit greatly from Blackboard’s new European data centre. Our campus has witnessed a growing number of students who choose to combine their academic study with employment, and this means that our e-learning offering must provide students with reliable, robust, real time access to their tutors, course material and campus wide learning resources.”

Blackboard’s two European data centers now provide hosting services to more than 50 institutions across the continent. Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Birmingham have both recently established new hosting agreements with Blackboard. In addition, Leiden University in the Netherlands and The University of Manchester have recently extended their hosting agreements.

With the increasing financial and staffing limitations in the education, corporate and government industries, managed hosting has become an increasingly valuable cost saving option. And as learning management systems play a more important role in supporting student success, a growing number of institutions have sought solutions to help manage the day-to-day administration of their learning environments, allowing them to focus more on teaching and learning and less on technology.

Together, Blackboard operates a total of six data centers in the United States, the Netherlands and Australia that support e-learning applications for more than 600 clients in the education, corporate and government fields worldwide. Overall, Blackboard guarantees a 99.7 percent uptime rate, though the company has actually achieved a 99.9 percent over the last year across all data centers.

Harry Choi, Vice President of Blackboard Managed HostingSM commented, ”The opening of a second European data centre was essential to meeting the increasing demand we are seeing from European institutions. Institutions need reliable, secure, high performance infrastructure to support their increasingly complex virtual learning environments. Many are finding that managed hosting is an essential ingredient in their efforts to drive student and institutional success.”

Blackboard Managed Hosting supports 6 million active users, more than 3.5 million course sites and more than 350 million Internet hits a day during peak activity. Collectively, more than 2,000 servers are managed daily which monitor over 18,000 services every few minutes, including a broad range of Blackboard software installations and third party services supported by Blackboard Managed Hosting.

Staffed around the clock and throughout the year, Blackboard Managed Hosting guards against threats to physical and data security, natural disasters and network outages of all types, providing highly reliable, secure and cost effective hosting environments for education, corporate and government clients.

For more information about Blackboard Managed Hosting, please visit: http://blackboard.com/support/services/managed-hosting.aspx.

Sydney, Australia - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 -
Web design and development company, Netstarter, has recently launched its new 2009 website, in a format consisting of a hybrid solution comprising a CMS driven, search engine friendly HTML website, including custom flash animations.

The website has already been receiving praise by industry sources for it’s diversity, creativity, ease of use and quality design. When asked about the process involved in designing your own web design company’s new website, Netstarter Creative Director, Shaun Le Polovin gave the following response ”It was a fun but exhausting exercise. We decided to start by revisiting our logo. The new design is more modern and representative of our company’s position in the market. Developing the new information architecture was next, followed by the interface design for each and every page. A number of team members were involved in the various stages of the process and we are ecstatic with the final results.”

Netstarter is the web partner for some of the most recognizable brands, industry associations and government departments. Over the past decade they have successfully delivered more than 2500 successful websites. The company specializes in web design with the focus and expertise to translate business objectives into successful web solutions.

In addition to designing and managing websites for Hitachi, Sage, Starr Partners and Lube Mobile, Netstarter has a team of 50 full time staff dedicated to the production of high quality, low cost websites for small businesses.

Netstarter offers a range of web design and development services including content management, flash design and custom application development. Netstarter’s Online Marketing Division work closely with clients, developing Search Engine Optimization and Paid Search campaigns.

To learn more, please visit: www.netstarter.com.au.

Nuremberg, Germany - (The Hosting News) - February 25, 2009 - Provider of open source collaboration software, Open-Xchange, is making available to qualifying partners, an offering of free webmail, calendaring and contact infrastructure.

Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange noted, ”With our easily scalable open source infrastructure, we are able to offer partners a unique solution for these economically challenging times. By adding Open-Xchange, service providers, educational institutions, government and other non-profits get a secure, scalable, cost-effective webmail client for all their users for free — and can offer an upgrade to mobile device support and fully-featured groupware.”

Qualifying partners such as web hosting providers, telcos, ISPs, as well as academic institutions and non-profit organizations can take advantage of a fully-maintained webmail module, which includes installation and configuration support of the Open-Xchange software.

Philbert Shih, research analyst, Tier 1 Research remarked, ”Offering rich e-mail as an alternative to Exchange is a must-have for hosters from a competitive perspective, plus it creates revenue streams and positions hosters to sell complementary services that solidify their relationship with customers. The collaboration and groupware capabilities that Open-Xchange brings to proprietary e-mail platforms is one way for hosters to introduce mid-market, rich e-mail platforms -a growing opportunity driven by the growth in web-enabled mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce.”

The promotion is intended for partners with large numbers of existing e-mail users that require business-class, user-friendly webmail. The special offer requires partners to offer their customers higher-value Open-Xchange features, such as support for mobile devices. There are three tiers in the promotional offer for partners with:
* More than 100,000 e-mail accounts;
* Between 10,000 and 100,000 e-mail accounts;
* Less than 10,000 e-mail accounts.

Built as open source software, Open-Xchange is an affordable alternative to commercial e-mail/collaboration platforms like Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint providing an equivalent user experience with features like mobility support (iPhones, Blackberry), document sharing, shared calendars and shared address books. The simple, intuitive software facilitates effective teamwork by improved communications.

Open-Xchange is a provider of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. The company provides on-premise versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider’s existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.

Open-Xchange Server is installed by more than 3,500 companies and organizations worldwide. Leading hosting providers, led by Network Solutions (U. S.), 1 and 1 Internet (Germany), JMF (Japan), OVH (France) and Hostpoint (Switzerland) provide more than 8 million users worldwide with hosted business-class e-mail, personal information management (PIM), and full groupware solutions built on Open-Xchange.

Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y.

For more information, please visit: www.open-xchange.com.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - February 24, 2009 - Web hosting provider, Rackspace Hosting, will have new tools available to help customers assess and reduce environmental impacts, in order to estimate total carbon footprints.

John Engates, CTO, Rackspace Hosting remarked, ”Rackspace is committed to helping our customers meet objectives on all fronts. This new small business carbon calculator is a valuable addition to our suite of Green-focused offerings and will be a benefit for Rackspace and our customers as we continue our efforts to be more environmentally friendly.”

Utilizing a new business carbon calculator, customers may access information to allow them to take steps to reduce and then mitigate their global warming impact. The new carbon calculator was developed for Rackspace by NativeEnergy, a leading international provider of high quality carbon offsets and emission reductions, and represents the continuation of efforts to promote environmentally friendly programs that began under Rackspace’s Greenspace initiative, which was launched in 2007.

Through these new tools, Rackspace customers can also access Greenspace web resources to learn more about climate change and effective steps they can take to reduce their carbon impact, like reducing wasteful packaging practices and using energy efficient hardware. These customers will also be able to learn how they can mitigate their global warming emissions by purchasing high quality carbon offsets from NativeEnergy, where there is a focus on helping new renewable energy projects get financed and built so that energy from these projects can displace energy that otherwise would have to come from burning fossil fuels, a major contributor to global warming. Businesses can also save their data and track their progress over time with these new tools.

Tom Boucher, President and CEO at NativeEnergy remarked, ”Many companies want to do more to reduce their potential negative impact on the planet. Rackspace is not only leading the way, the company is engaging its customers to support real and effective solutions that can help businesses reduce their environmental impacts and achieve corporate goals.”

Rackspace is a longtime proponent of the Green movement and makes conscious efforts to continue making positive changes to decrease its and its customers’ carbon footprint. Specifically, Rackspace designs all data centers with power conservation in mind and also operates one facility on renewable energy. Rackspace is currently working towards its LEED certification for the company’s corporate headquarters. In addition, Rackspace leverages energy efficient hardware and equipment which consume less electricity. Each year, Rackspace hosts its annual ”Green Day” event inviting vendors and nonprofit organizations to present employees with environmentally friendly tips. Ongoing employee education campaigns and the Green Council, an employee led group focused on green education and sustainability, are additional ways in which Rackspace shows its commitment to the environment.

As the leader and specialist in hosting services, Rackspace Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support, furthering the company’s mission to be one of the world’s greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the 2009 list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting, email hosting (www.mailtrust.com) and cloud hosting (www.mosso.com).

NativeEnergy leverages market demand for carbon offsets to bring online new Native American, family farmer and community-owned renewable energy projects. Native Energy offers third-party verified and certified renewable energy credits, and offsets from a variety of operating projects across America and internationally. Through its novel approach of bringing upfront payment to renewable projects for the estimated future carbon offsets, NativeEnergy enables its clients to help directly finance the construction of specific new wind farms and other renewable energy projects.

Continuing to focus on real, additional offsets that provide both an environmental and a social benefit, more information is available at www.nativeenergy.com. NativeEnergy is a founding member and Co-Chair of the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance. www.icroa.org.

For more about the calculator, please visit: www.rackspace.com/information/events/green/nativeenergy.php#begin.

To learn more about Rackspace, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

Scottsdale, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - February 24, 2009 - Web hosting and domain registrar, Go Daddy, recently displayed the newly redesigned No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet in the 2009 Nationwide Series season opener at Daytona International Raceway.

Brad Keselowski, winner of NASCAR’s 2008 Nationwide Series’ Most Popular Driver Award, will take to the track in the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet at the Camping World 300. Adding to the excitement of the car’s debut, Keselowski is slated to be the ESPN In-Race Reporter on Saturday. He’ll provide a driver’s view and commentary from behind the wheel.

Mr. Keselowski remarked, ”I’m just so excited to be back on the track and am very lucky to have GoDaddy.com on board for both series in 2009. We’re going to make a run for the championship in the Nationwide Series and have some strong runs in the Sprint Cup car. We wouldn’t be able to do it without the support GoDaddy.com is providing and I personally appreciate their confidence in me as a driver.”

This is Mr. Keselowski’s second year driving for GoDaddy.com, the world’s dominant web hosting domain registrar. Keselowski’s performance last season turned out to be exactly what Go Daddy expected from the 25-year-old, who is mentored by one of NASCAR’s greats: Go Daddy spokesman Dale Earnhardt, Jr. In 08, Keselowski finished third in points in the Nationwide Series, posting two wins, 11 top-five finishes and 20 top-ten finishes.

This has been a tough year for NASCAR drivers in terms of sponsorships. The economy has forced many longtime corporate sponsors to pull out. Go Daddy, however, experienced unprecedented corporate success in 2008 and, in turn, expanded its sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., JR Motorsports, HMS Motorsports and Keselowski.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder at Go Daddy remarked, ”NASCAR and GoDaddy.com are a great fit. NASCAR fans are loyal just like Go Daddy customers; NASCAR drivers have a winning spirit like our employees; and most of all, our team gets a real charge out of being associated with all of these great people and this sport.”

Mr. Parsons, the driving force behind this year’s incredibly successful Go Daddy Super Bowl advertising campaign, actually helped design the No. 88 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets as well.

GoDaddy.com sponsors JR Motorsports in 20 Nationwide Series races this year. Earnhardt will race the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets in the series - cars which Dale Jr. designed.

Go Daddy will also sponsor Keselowski in seven Sprint Cup Series races in the No. 25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolets.

Go Daddy’s foray into racing sponsorships started with the company’s support of IndyCar’s Danica Patrick in 2006. That sponsorship continues this year as well. Patrick, a Go Daddy Girl and IndyCar’s most popular driver, starred in Go Daddy’s 2009 Super Bowl ad campaign.

The Camping World 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series airs live Saturday on ESPN2 at 1 p.m. E.T. Viewers of ESPN2’s coverage will get the chance to see Go Daddy’s newest commercial campaign, featuring Dale Jr., Brad and Go Daddy Girl Candice Michelle on Saturday as well.

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 33 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world’s largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

To learn how more about Go Daddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.