JP Gagne, President of NewServers noted, ''Our goal with the free migration and scalability planning service is to assist our clients in leveraging the full potential of NewServers' dedicated utility platform. We want to educate our client on how to take advantage of the performance benefits and cost savings our platform delivers.''

Recently, NewServers sponsored the Structure 08 conference in San Francisco, CA. Structure 08 is a conference developed by award winning technology writer Om Malik. Structure 08 was created to inform businesses so they can plan their future computing infrastructure needs.

The current promotional offer from NewServers through July 31 includes:

David Welch was diagnosed at age 38 with a lemon-sized brain tumor widely considered inoperable. Over the past three years, Mr. Welch has documented his journey as a brain cancer survivor on his web site, www.38lemon.com, which reaches and seeks to educate nearly 40,000 new visitors a month and had over 10 million hits in the past year alone. Highwinds is supporting Mr. Welch in his efforts by contributing its CDN (Content Delivery Network) services for the delivery of several videos over its high-performance RollingThunder(TM) network.

Mr. Welch utilizes the Highwinds CDN to deliver videos to interested individuals anywhere in the world -- quickly and reliably. One featured video shows an operation performed by Mr. Welch's surgeon, Dr. Patrick J. Kelly, a highly respected neurosurgeon with the NYU Medical Center and the founder of The Brain Tumor Foundation. Another educational video promoting early detection was provided by this foundation and is also delivered courtesy of Highwinds. The 38 Lemon web site also features Mr. Welch's personal journal, which documents his daily experiences as a brain cancer patient, through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation.

The Highwinds CDN provides unparalleled performance and value in the delivery of video and other media content over the Internet. Among content delivery networks, the Highwinds CDN sets the pace by offering important advantages in data center peering, real-time analytics, instant account provisioning, rapid content deployment, complete content control, massive scalability, and other critical differentiators. It consists of Highwinds' global RollingThunder network and its StrikeTracker media manager, which puts actionable data at users' fingertips.

Mr. Welch added, ''It has been three and a half years since my diagnosis, and reaching a growing worldwide audience through 38 Lemon says much about increasing brain cancer awareness from a patient's perspective. Highwinds has created software and tools to deliver educational media that supports our mission, and I am very grateful to have their software, services and CDN platform for running our media.''

38 Lemon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission of ''Brain Cancer Awareness -- From a Patient's Perspective.'' Diagnosed at 38 with a lemon-sized brain tumor widely considered inoperable, David Welch has documented his journey since then. 38 Lemon is not a medical web site. Rather, it is the experience of one brain cancer patient, from first surgery, chemo, second surgery, and radiation and chemo.

Highwinds Network Group, Inc. has provided development of content replication and delivery software and services since 2002, which has led to a number of technology innovations in network management, distributed file system technology and advanced content routing methods. The Highwinds CDN leverages best-in-class hardware and software to quickly and successfully move content at a global level. The company's high-performance RollingThunder network and user-friendly StrikeTracker content management and reporting dashboard enable clients to deploy and manage content, file downloads and streaming media. Highwinds is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and maintains data centers in thirteen North American and European cities.

For more information about 38 Lemon, please visit: www.38lemon.com.

To learn more about Highwinds Network Group, Inc., please visit: www.highwinds.com.

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-dedicated-server-web-hosting-firm-the-planet-upgrades-virtual-private-rack-sol-4403.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-dedicated-server-web-hosting-firm-the-planet-upgrades-virtual-private-rack-sol-4403.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:53:48 GMT Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has included the addition of Gigabit speed and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to its virtual private rack solution.

Urvish Vashi, Director of product management at The Planet noted, ''We introduced virtual racks to provide a cost-effective, automated solution for large and small complex hosting environments. By adding these upgrades, we're able to better meet the needs of one of our fastest-growing customer segments.''

The upgrades offer the benefits of enhanced network performance and increased functionality for virtual racks. The upgrade to 1Gbps network connectivity allows customers to transfer data faster between servers both within their virtual rack environment and to other servers on the Internet. As a result, customers can host higher-scale, more complex environments and offer more bandwidth-intensive services such as streaming media. The cost for Gigabit Network Uplinks is $10 per month per server.

The Planet is also adding VPN services - at no additional charge - to all customers with dedicated firewalls in their virtual rack environment. This value-added service offers customers remote access to their network and greater security. Customers can choose between site-to-site IPSEC VPN or Cisco AnyConnect VPN for individual end-users.

• High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
• Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
• Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
• Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
• Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

WebaZilla selected its Dallas location to enable a maximum amount of users to access resources at a high speed of data transfer. The Dallas network is based on the new Cisco 7609S platform, one of the most powerful platforms on the market.

WebaZilla's network traffic is provided by some of the biggest bandwidth providers, including Level3, Above.net, TeliaSonera, Cogentco, KPN, Globalcrossing and Teleglobe. Based on personal practice and motivation theory, WebaZilla uses the best equipment from famous producers in the world market, such as Cisco, Dell, Western-Digital, Supermicro, 3Com, Seagate, APC and R and M. All WebaZilla servers and network equipment is protected by a conditioning system that maintains the necessary temperature, humidity and cleanliness for the entire datacenter.

WebaZilla was founded in August 2005, offering professional hosting with a 24/7 support technical support system available. WebaZilla includes a no-break power supply, a flexible backup copying on separate servers, and instant recovery of necessary data. In addition, all services on WebaZilla servers are closely monitored for quality functioning with the help of a special monitoring system based on complex soft hardware. WebaZilla clients receive guaranteed no-break servers functioning, as well as a software system that includes constantly updated service and network traffic data.

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

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-advanced-account-management-options-deployed-by-esthost-4401.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-advanced-account-management-options-deployed-by-esthost-4401.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:30:23 GMT Wilmington, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2008 - Web hosting provider, EstHost, Inc., has introduced a revamped billing system for virtual hosting accounts, equipped with newly developed features.

From now on EstHost, Inc customers are able to add or remove additional services, monitor their hosting costs and control their accounts with minimal dependence on customer support department.

In response to the customers' preferences in keeping under control every aspect of online business working process, the EstHost, Inc development team issued an updated billing and account managment system.

With its reworked, improved and more flexible billing system for virtual hosting accounts, EstHost, Inc provides its customer with the utter and complete control over their account, giving the unlimited access to all advanced features, expenses and special offers. This particular offer allows an account owner changing the pricing plan, applying more features along with involving more resources at any time. The modification of redundant capabilities can now be performed without additional assistance from the support team. New services can be added or cancelled while the account balance is being recalculated in real time. The new advanced billing system is fully integrated with Plesk and Cpanel and enables easy and flexible account management. Controlling bandwidth usage, ordering and canceling services, getting notifications about low account balance and a large variety of other convenient options are now fully available to virtual hosting account owners.

EstHost, Inc hopes to deliver better customer experience for all its virtual hosting account owners with the implementation of a new improved billing system version fully equipped with carefully elaborated and more advanced features.

Established in 2004, today EstHost, Inc. offers professional, reliable virtual hosting, dedicated server and Virtuozzo-powered virtual private server solutions. EstHost, Inc. is constantly expanding its network infrastructure and employs connections from nLayer, WV Fiber, Scnet, Sbc, Telia, SAVVIS, and Global Crossing. EstHost, Inc. potential customers are offered a test run, with a free 5-day trial. Domain-related services, which include new registrations, e-mail forwarding and managed DNS, can be obtained from http://estdomains.com. EstHost, Inc. also encourages http://bakler.com to purchasing old unused domain names from other webmasters.

To learn more about EstHost, Inc., please visit: http://esthost.com.

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-provider-carpathia-opens-new-virginia-data-center-facility-4400.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-provider-carpathia-opens-new-virginia-data-center-facility-4400.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:22:22 GMT Washington, D.C. - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2008 - Managed hosting services for enterprises and government agencies, Carpathia Hosting, has added over 20,000 square feet of raised floor, Tier III data center space at its Blue Ridge Data Center.

The new data center was designed to combine some of the most cost-effective data center space in the Washington, D.C. region with industry-leading managed hosting and disaster recovery services. The Blue Ridge Data Center features tremendous power advantages over other regional data centers with two 20-megawatt electrical substations on site that provide unparalleled flexibility and scale. Carpathia Hosting will offer power configurations for both high and low density hosting solutions with the ability to scale to meet ongoing energy demands.

The uniqueness of having two electrical substations on site will allow Carpathia to deliver enterprises and federal agencies tremendous flexibility and assurance to meet the most stringent hosting requirements. Located in Harrisonburg, Va., the Blue Ridge Data Center was built just 100 miles from Washington, D.C. and is outside the 50-mile blast zone and over 50 miles from the nearest nuclear power plant.

With a focus on delivering the highest quality and most secure managed hosting services in the industry, Carpathia Hosting holds a number of key certifications, including Department of Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP) and SAS70 certification. Carpathia is able to meet even the strictest federal and enterprise data center site requirements. The Blue Ridge Data Center was designed in partnership with DBT Development Group, Total Site Solutions and Carpathia Hosting and was created to meet or exceed the Uptime Institute's Tier III Data Center classifications.

Brent Bensten, Senior Director of Operations at Carpathia Hosting noted, ''Rising utility rates and limited availability of power drove us to partner with DBT and Total Site Solutions to develop a data center option that gives our customers an extremely competitive price point for their complex hosting requirements. At the same time, we have delivered a facility that meets the strict data center standards government agencies and enterprises require including secure managed hosting and disaster recovery services.''

The Blue Ridge Data Center is designed to address a variety of enterprise and federal hosting needs, as well as the needs of large system integrators. Carpathia Hosting's Integrator One program, announced earlier this spring, provides system integrators with a broad range of data center design, management and support services in their drive to meet customer requirements, on time and within budget.

The announcement of the new Blue Ridge Data Center continues a period of growth and expansion for Virginia-based Carpathia Hosting, who continues to expand its federal and enterprise clientele in the Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, Ariz. metro areas by providing highly secure and flexible managed hosting services while maintaining aggressive plans aimed at delivering the most cost effective solutions.

Carpathia Hosting is a provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses that require 100% application availability. Employing dynamic technologies that remove hardware dependencies and improve efficiencies, Carpathia Hosting solutions strive to reduce operational costs while surpassing SLA requirements. As a datacenter neutral company, Carpathia Hosting offers security, quality and high performance.

To learn more, please visit: http://www.carpathiahost.com.

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-hosting-transformation-summit-2008-registration-opens-at-tier1-research-4399.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-hosting-transformation-summit-2008-registration-opens-at-tier1-research-4399.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:55:18 GMT New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2008 - Hosting industry professionals are invited to register for Tier1 Research (T1R)'s Hosting Transformation Summit 2008, scheduled for September 15-17, 2008.

The conference focuses on the economics of the hosting and Internet infrastructure markets and how, by appreciating today's management challenges and understanding the long-term evolution of the sector, a hosting, datacenter or Internet application provider can position itself to succeed. Participating companies include firms across the datacenter value chain, including managed and dedicated hosting players, colocation companies, power and cooling companies, and investors that are actively involved in the industry. Enterprise IT executives who depend on outsourced services also participate as the forum presents an opportunity to gain greater insight into the outsourced datacenter and hosting markets, network with executive peers, and gain insight into the challenges and opportunities that are shaping the future of the industry.

This exclusive program will examine the future evolution of the IT hosting industry and will discuss how hosting vendors and enterprises can optimize their Internet infrastructure partners. The 2008 Hosting Transformation Summit is taking place September 15-17, 2008 at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Daniel Golding, Vice President and Research Director of Tier1 Research and Conference Chair noted, ''Attendees at the Summit have returned year after year for two reasons: an outstanding conference program where industry leaders talk candidly to their peers about the future of the industry, and exceptional networking opportunities with a senior-level executive audience. We expect this event to sell out as it has every year.''

The summit will include insight from members of the Tier1 Research team, who will offer the latest bottom-up market forecast for all hosting services segments.

Mr. Golding added, ''For four years, the Tier1 Research analyst team has examined the hosting market at our annual conference in Las Vegas. Over the course of those four years, T1R analysts charted the rise of the hosting industry out of the ashes of the telecom crash, including the evolution of SaaS and Web 2.0, and the movement of hosting into the enterprise mainstream. The Hosting Transformation Summit has been built around the idea of making the managed hosting and colocation industries both scalable and profitable.''

Attendees include senior executives and key decision-makers at hosting companies (ranging from sector leaders to startups); leading venture capital, private equity and public-market investors; and CIOs and senior-level enterprise IT managers at companies from a cross-section of industries.

Additional program highlights include:

The impact of cloud computing and hosting in the enterprise

• The optimal economic model and approach to management success
• Datacenter real estate - its acquisition, operation and impact
• Tracking the shift from conventional hosting to virtualized services
• M and A and IPO strategies from key financial professionals, including top bankers
• Insight from key industry leaders, whose successes and failures will shape the years ahead.

T1R, a division of The 451 Group, analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments affecting public and private companies within the IT, communications and Internet sectors with a particular focus on hosting, Internet infrastructure and IT services. Clients include institutional investors and technology vendors, along with end users and venture capitalists. Clients leverage T1R's analytical insight for idea generation, trend identification, due diligence and grounded opinions, as well as metrics and forecasts on companies and industries covered.T1R is headquartered in New York.

For additional information on its research coverage and services, please visit: www.t1r.com.

To learn more about the summit, please visit: www.hostingtransformation.com/na/2008.

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-dedicated-server-firm-softlayer-hyper-v-for-virtualization-solution-debuts-4398.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-dedicated-server-firm-softlayer-hyper-v-for-virtualization-solution-debuts-4398.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:46:18 GMT Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has enhanced its offerings, to include virtualization with the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Hyper-V was developed as a next-generation virtualization hypervisor that allows a single physical server to be separated into multiple virtual machines that can run independent operating systems' Windows, Linux and others. As with all SoftLayer services, Hyper-V can be ordered through the customer portal and provisioned automatically along with a server's operating system or systems.

George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer at SoftLayer remarked, ''Deploying Hyper-V is the first step in an extensive virtualization strategy that we are rolling out over the coming months. The opportunities and advantages of virtualization are radically impacting the way we envision SoftLayer's future and our fundamental approach to server and data center architecture.''

A hypervisor such as Hyper-V creates a level of software in between the physical ''bare-metal'' hardware and any operating system. The hypervisor then assigns and manages the hardware's resources to create and run distinct virtual machines. Each virtual machine can run a different operating system, or even its own instance of the same operating system. This presents incredible advantages, including:

• increased server utilization rates and decreased infrastructure costs by pooling server resources rather than managing individual servers
• reduced provisioning times by allowing individual machines to be removed for maintenance without interrupting application use
• decreased environmental impact, by delivering the productivity of multiple machines within only a single machine's power, cooling and floor space requirements
• fewer application and OS incompatibilities, as each virtual machine runs independently from others on the same physical hardware

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry's first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

To learn more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-enterhost-web-hosting-provider-partners-with-smartertools-4397.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-enterhost-web-hosting-provider-partners-with-smartertools-4397.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:37:05 GMT Fort Worth, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Enterhost, in order to provide business communication software for its dedicated server clients, has renewed its partnership with SmarterTools.

Kevin R. Valadez, President of Enterhost noted, ''Our relationship with SmarterTools has provided our customers with a solid, feature rich set of applications. This is the fourth year we've committed to doing business with SmarterTools and we continue to have great confidence in SmarterTools' ability to meet our clients' requirements.''

The software includes SmarterMail 5.X -- an award-winning, ASP.NET AJAX-based mail server; SmarterStats 3.X -- a robust site analytics application; and SmarterTrack 3.X -- a helpdesk application designed for customer service departments.

As a result of the partnership, every client who purchases a dedicated server from Enterhost will automatically receive all three applications at no charge, and will own a 50-user permanent software license in their own name. The software package normally retails at nearly $500.

SmarterMail 5.X introduces an entirely new AJAX-driven Web interface, bringing desktop application performance to the Web. Enhanced antispam delivers up to 99% spam protection right out-of-the-box. Its newest features include improved calendaring, throttling, notification and advanced server reporting.

SmarterTools' SmarterStats 3.X gives users detailed Web analytics in a Web interface that includes a full complement of standard and custom reports, data mining, geographic mapping and more. The software's newest features include customizable chart views, robust data mining capabilities and a fully translatable interface. SmarterTrack 3.X is a full-featured ticketing system that also includes live chat, cost analysis, data mining, a knowledge base and full reporting analytics.

Enterhost is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the preferred provider for Adobe web developers around the world. Enterhost owns and operates a world-class data center with a fully redundant Cisco powered network. Premium shared hosting services start at $9.95 and dedicated servers featuring Dell PowerEdge hardware as low as $149.

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

For more information about SmarterTools, please visit: www.smartertools.com.

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-support-guru-debuts-linux-and-windows-technical-support-4396.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-support-guru-debuts-linux-and-windows-technical-support-4396.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:30:00 GMT Gujarat, India - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2008 - Web hosting support services company and subsidiary of Byte Technosys Pvt. Ltd., Hosting Support Guru, has debuted its offering of new technical support and server administration plans for both Linux and Windows platforms.

The plans are targeted towards web hosting companies which are looking for Outsourced Web Hosting Support. The new and innovative modular support plans give customers a one-blanket support option at affordable costs bringing with it simplicity and quick resolutions for potential problems.

Paritosh Jani, IT Operations Manager at Hosting Support Guru remarked, ''Until now, Hosting Support had been offering plans for support on Windows platform. Over these years we have evolved and have increased our client base as well as our team size. With our transparent customer support plans, expert advice and assistance is available whenever and wherever our clients need it. Moreover, we work towards providing proactive support to our clients rather than being reactive. Most of our Server Administration plans are based on proactive support.''

The new support plans cover support for various like Helm, Plesk, cPanel and Hosting Controller with any ticket system of hosting provider. There is also a option for choosing Server Monitoring and Remote Server Administration plans for hosting companies, data centers or anyone looking to keep their server secure and online 24x7 - 365.

Mr. Jani continued, ''Whether it is Linux or Windows servers our server administrators are skilled to maintain good uptime for your servers. All our support engineers are MCSE, CCNA certified engineers to ensure excellent support to our customers. Most of the plans allow the customer to choose from Level I, Level II and Level III support which are backed by Non-Disclosure Agreements and Service Level Agreements. With our commitment of less than 1 hour response time and under 6 hours resolution time, our clients are happy and so are we.''

Hosting Support Guru is a venture of Byte Technosys Pvt. Ltd, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner company in engaged in to offshore projects, for over 10 years. The company has provided web presence and technical support to a large number of clients with 24/7 customer support.

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

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-support-guru-debuts-linux-and-windows-technical-support-4396.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-support-guru-debuts-linux-and-windows-technical-support-4396.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:30:00 GMT Gujarat, India - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2008 - Web hosting support services company and subsidiary of Byte Technosys Pvt. Ltd., Hosting Support Guru, has debuted its offering of new technical support and server administration plans for both Linux and Windows platforms.

The plans are targeted towards web hosting companies which are looking for Outsourced Web Hosting Support. The new and innovative modular support plans give customers a one-blanket support option at affordable costs bringing with it simplicity and quick resolutions for potential problems.

Paritosh Jani, IT Operations Manager at Hosting Support Guru remarked, ''Until now, Hosting Support had been offering plans for support on Windows platform. Over these years we have evolved and have increased our client base as well as our team size. With our transparent customer support plans, expert advice and assistance is available whenever and wherever our clients need it. Moreover, we work towards providing proactive support to our clients rather than being reactive. Most of our Server Administration plans are based on proactive support.''

The new support plans cover support for various like Helm, Plesk, cPanel and Hosting Controller with any ticket system of hosting provider. There is also a option for choosing Server Monitoring and Remote Server Administration plans for hosting companies, data centers or anyone looking to keep their server secure and online 24x7 - 365.

Mr. Jani continued, ''Whether it is Linux or Windows servers our server administrators are skilled to maintain good uptime for your servers. All our support engineers are MCSE, CCNA certified engineers to ensure excellent support to our customers. Most of the plans allow the customer to choose from Level I, Level II and Level III support which are backed by Non-Disclosure Agreements and Service Level Agreements. With our commitment of less than 1 hour response time and under 6 hours resolution time, our clients are happy and so are we.''

Hosting Support Guru is a venture of Byte Technosys Pvt. Ltd, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner company in engaged in to offshore projects, for over 10 years. The company has provided web presence and technical support to a large number of clients with 24/7 customer support.

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

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-hypernia-web-hosting-partners-with-gamesmasters-com-for-cabal-online-4395.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-hypernia-web-hosting-partners-with-gamesmasters-com-for-cabal-online-4395.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:12:59 GMT Manchester, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - Online hosting services and solutions for the interactive entertainment industry, Hypernia Hosting Corp, has become a global partner with U.K.-based game publisher, GamesMasters.com LTD, for the MMO game, Cabal Online.

Hypernia was selected by GamesMasters.com LTD as their official international online partner based on Hypernia's lengthy and successful history in the online games space, as it is known for providing tier-1 bandwidth for CDN, gaming and media streaming. Hypernia's large volumes of equipment, bandwidth and facilities around the world enable game players to enjoy a robust multi-player experience.

GamesMasters.com publishes high quality games for the European online games market. GamesMasters.com is best known for their successful MMO title, Cabal Online, an RPG game product with 90,000 users, with a recent acceleration in subscribers to an additional 10,000 players per week. This rapid rate of increase in players, plus a high level of customer service, ensures that the game remains one of the best free-to-play games on the market.

James Vallord-Costa, CEO and co-founder of Hypernia, noted, ''GamesMasters.com cut their costs for bandwidth considerably after joining us. With the 'flex computing' capability of our on-demand utility hosting model, they were able to add new expansions and games without the added risk. Most companies would not be able to experiment with a new expansion or game, but we made it easy for them.''

GamesMasters.com will utilize Hypernia's on-demand utility hosting model which provided flexibility and cost savings, enabling the company to undergo significant service improvements in recent months. These included the addition of updated payment methods, the release of several large patches which has vastly increased the content of the game Cabal Online, a host of new features including new hunting grounds (the Chaos Arena), new rewards for Player vs Player action (players can now gain EXP from PvP) and several important bug fixes. As a direct result of their hosting partnership with Hypernia, these upgrades have produced positive results and Cabal Online is now one of the largest games in Europe.

Hypernia provided multi-gigabit feeds as GamesMasters.com increased their player base. This functionality guaranteed an excellent Internet connection for players, no matter how many extra users were online simultaneously. To accommodate for game world growth, Hypernia also provided GamesMasters.com with new servers during different periods, while also providing an inexpensive CDN solution to keep the GamesMasters.com patches and downloads affordable for all the new users.

Thorsten Schauer, company Director at GamesMasters.com LTD offered, ''GamesMasters.com believes that game play should be easy and convenient for all MMORPG game players. With that in mind, Cabal Online was designed for new users and other MMORPG users who will be able to easily adapt to our game system. Cabal Online does not require long periods of game play. Hypernia's role as our global hosting partner has been instrumental to our marketplace achievements with this game play plan for our customers.''

By allowing GamesMasters.com to host their own files, Hypernia helped keep users on the Cabal Online web site, instead of impacting the site's ''stickiness'' by driving players to third parties for file down-loading. Hypernia also provided full 24-hour customer support, a crucial feature since more than fifty percent of the Cabal Online players are based in Europe.

With the intention of providing a rich diversity of gaming styles for our customers, Games-Masters.com publishes MMO games from both the USA and Asia. The product of these two deeply differing cultures provided a gaming experience to suit all, and even niche groups of players. Initially, GamesMasters.com began publishing games crossing several genres such as Fantasy, Sports, Real Time Strategies and even Casual gaming, before expanding further into other genres.

Founded in 2001, Hypernia Hosting Corp engaged the Internet data center market with innovative service offerings that would help businesses and individuals take advantage of the speed and global reach of technology and the Internet. Hypernia believes that for organizations to be successful, they need a partner that provides solutions that spark independence and confidence in their new way of doing business. Hypernia established its high volume network for intense application hosting such as online gaming in 2002, and continues to be a leading provider of complex Internet hosting for enterprises with mission-critical Internet operations.

To learn more about GamesMasters.com LTD, please visit: www.games-masters.com.

For more information about Hypernia Hosting Corp, please visit: www.hypernia.com.

]]> http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-network-firm-cisco-systems-virtualization-expands-energy-efficienc-4394.html http://www.thehostingnews.com/news-web-hosting-network-firm-cisco-systems-virtualization-expands-energy-efficienc-4394.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:55:01 GMT San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - June 30, 2008 - Web host and Internet hardware networking firm, Cisco Systems, has released new products and professional services, designed to assist customers with virtualization efforts for data center operational and energy efficiency.

The company states that the new offerings make the virtual network an efficient platform for delivering data center services - accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation.

John McCool, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Data Center, Switching and Services Group, and co-chair of the Cisco EcoBoard noted, ''Real-time collaborative applications, energy concerns and the need to achieve greater efficiency from assets are driving IT managers to transform their data centers through new technologies. By providing virtualization technologies across the data center, Cisco aims to help businesses achieve the agility and resiliency they need to compete on a global scale.''

Cisco Systems, Inc. was founded in 1984, by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University and provides Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions. Cisco employs over 47,000 staff worldwide. The company's core development areas include routing and switching, as well as dvanced technologies such as: IP Communications, Network Security, Wireless LAN, Storage Area Networking, Home Networking, Video Systems, and Application Networking Services.

To learn more about Cisco, please visit: www.cisco.com.

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