Jack Finlayson, Chief Executive Officer, Layered Tech noted, ''The Microsoft Hyper-V platform allows Layered Tech to deliver a category-leading product that outperforms traditional VPS offerings generally available in the marketplace. These are full virtual machines with complete control over everything, right down to the operating system. Customers now have a greater range of control than ever before, combined with a much higher degree of security and reliability.''

As a key feature of Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V allows virtualization of multiple operating systems, including Windows and Linux, all on the same server. The technology provides a scalable, reliable and highly available virtualization platform along with a single set of integrated management tools to manage both physical and virtual resources. Windows Hyper-V also offers large memory support and provides backup/restore, snapshotting and easy transition of virtual servers from one physical server to another.

The Hyper-V-based virtual private machines are delegated virtual instances from top-of-the-line servers, which are either IntelVT (IVT) or AMD-V-enabled processors for true virtualization. Windows Hyper-V allows both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux or Windows virtual machines to be created independent of the underlying operating system. Standalone applications such as Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint, for example, will now be able to run on one physical server, allowing users to consolidate multiple systems into a single environment without compromising control, security features or performance.

John Zanni, General Manager of Worldwide Hosting, Microsoft Corp. remarked, ''We are excited that Layered Tech is among the first hosting providers to bring dedicated Hyper-V-based virtual private servers to market. Their offering, combined with the tremendous advantages of a hypervisor-based virtualization tool, will help extend the savings realized through server consolidation and deliver on the vision of true virtualization. In addition, Hyper-V will enable Layered Tech to continue to run a heterogeneous environment by running both Windows and Linux on the same server using a single management interface.''

Pricing for Hyper-V-based virtual private machines starts at $89.00 per month, and additional virtual machines are available on a pay-as-you-grow basis to support customers' specific needs.

Social applications are the cornerstone of social networking web sites. Recommendation-based growth can mean widespread and very rapid distribution so applications must be architected and built for a large user base. Developers using the new service from Sun and Joyent will now have this flexibility and scalability via access to the Sun-powered, OpenSolaris-based Sun Fire x4150 and Sun Fire x4500 Joyent Cloud. Cloud computing allows developers to start with a small set of resources capable of serving thousands of users and provision additional resources on-demand to scale to millions of users as required.

Jason Hoffman, Founder and CTO of Joyent remarked, ''Bumpersticker started on a Joyent Accelerator as an experimental Facebook application 11 months ago. Bumpersticker has now grown to over one billion page views a month. Sun's OpenSolaris has helped Joyent meet our clients' needs to scale quickly. The open-sourcing of Solaris has made a big difference to our business model. It allows us to scale virtually and keep up with the rapid growth in demand for Joyent's Cloud computing service.''

Mark Otero, Founder and CEO of Klicknation.com offered, ''We have been using Joyent's Cloud for eight months. Joyent and the OpenSolaris-based infrastructure they provide has helped us reliably scale to over four million users and over 22 million widget views a day at an extremely low cost.''

Adam Souzis, architect of the Glam Application Platform commented, ''Developers of Glam applications need more than a good idea. To succeed, you need to start small on a flexible platform that can rapidly scale from a few hundred users to several million users. That's why Glam has chosen to partner with Joyent to offer infrastructure to developers building applications on Glam's OpenSocial-based platform.''

Juan Carlos Soto, VP of Global Market Development and Engineering of Sun Microsystems added, ''Social applications are one of the fastest growing software categories and will continue momentum with the promise of monetization offered by Hi5, Facebook, Myspace, Google's Orkut, LinkedIn Glam and other social networking sites with memberships that number in the millions. With this new program, Sun can provide social application developers access to Sun's technology and expertise in building large-scale applications with Joyent helping them to deploy on a highly scalable and reliable platform.''

In conjunction with this offering, Sun and Joyent are organizing a multi-city Social App Tour to offer training on developing web-scale social applications on the Cloud. The tour will travel to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Boston, New York and Austin/Dallas between September and December. Training will cover architecting and designing social applications that are capable of scaling to deal with viral growth and will demonstrate how to use tools such as Dtrace to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and optimize code for maximum scalability

Joyent provides Cloud computing services. Joyent's goal is to help developers go from idea to millions of customers served without the pain of large capital outlays and long-term vendor contracts. Our clients use Joyent Accelerators to power large scale web applications, including apps for Facebook and OpenSocial. Joyent Accelerators are virtualized servers coupled with the highest grade network and routing fabric available. Joyent's cloud is open, scalable, and fast.

LiveAPI 2.0 combines the industry's most extensive set of APIs with the richest social network platform on the market, provides digital development groups with:

1) Ability to completely build, customize and flexibly change a site on top of the full power of LiveWorld's social network platform.

2) Easy dynamic integration of community content into any web page.

3) Standards based with Secure Transaction Model: XML or JSON Format, SOAP Protocol (Rest avail in Q4 08).

4) API based pricing: LiveAPI 2.0 comes with a pricing model based on API calls instead of full page view rates. This enables companies to cost effectively scale their sites with deep integration of community content and functionality.

While LiveAPI 2.0 dramatically expands the range of the suite, it is built upon a tried and true platform that has provided multiple Fortune 500 clients with a scalable, full featured social network and dynamic community content integration for over two years. The underlying platform is same one deployed for LiveWorld's industry leading Community Center, which is known for the widest range of end user features in the industry, high scalability and LiveWorld's next generation moderation tools and reporting systems.

LiveAPI 2.0 comes with extensive documentation, sample code, access to a sandbox development environment and membership in LiveWorld's API developer community.

LiveWorld is a social media agency that services Fortune 1000 companies, to empower social network building and business. LiveWorld provides ongoing, integrated social media marketing strategy and implementation.

With over 20 years of experience, an extensive applications hosting platform, and a track record of delivering over 1 million hours of moderation services, LiveWorld offers its clients a team of experienced community managers and moderators who oversee activity and user content online. LiveWorld deploys its services in more than 70 country-language combinations, and is the trusted partner of leading brands worldwide, including: A and E, The Campbell Soup Company, eBay, HBO, HSBC, Kraft Foods, LeapFrog, Neutrogena, MINI Cooper USA, TJX, QVC and many others.

Glenn Hudler, an Information Officer for the International Finance Corporation, a Member of the World Bank Group added, ''Since our network is critical to our success we require a fast, reliable and secure high-performance infrastructure to support our growing operations. The Juniper Networks NSM delivers enhanced functions in a single application to manage our Juniper products, allowing us to significantly improve responsiveness to threats while simultaneously reducing operational costs and maintaining investment protection without compromises in performance and functionality.''

Juniper Networks NSM, with comprehensive, secure centralized device and policy management, provides unparalleled capability for device and security policy configuration, comprehensive monitoring, reporting tools, and tools for investigating potential security threats in the network - all from a single user interface. NSM enables large scale deployments and the ability to do global policy enforcement via a hierarchical distribution of the Juniper Networks NSMXpress and the NSM Central Manager. In addition to centralized management for Juniper Networks J-series services routers, EX-series Ethernet switches, Secure Access SSL VPN and firewall/VPN and Intrusion Detection and Prevention appliances, and UAC solution, new features and benefits include:

• Consistent monitoring across Juniper network and security products
• Implementation of policy changes network-wide to mitigate threats
• Policy versioning with rollback capabilities
• Efficient network-wide control with centralized management
• XML schema-based management architecture for extensibility
• Open, standard northbound SOAP/XML API for ease of integration
• Role-based administration

The latest NSM capabilities enable innovative businesses to also centrally manage their comprehensive Juniper Networks Adaptive Threat Management and Access Control Solutions. Juniper Networks Adaptive Threat Management Solution is a dynamic and high-performance security solution that leverages interoperability between security components to provide network-wide visibility and control in order to adapt to changing risks. Juniper Networks Access Control Solution delivers a comprehensive network access control (NAC) security solution that protects vital network resources and applications by provisioning secure local access across the distributed enterprise.

Mike Harding, Vice President of Network Management, Juniper Networks remarked, ''Juniper is committed to delivering fast, reliable and secure high-performance network and security solutions that provide operational efficiency so that customers can concentrate on their business objectives instead of their network. With our latest capabilities in NSM, device technicians, network administrators, and security administrators can now work together to improve management efficiency and security, reduce overhead, and lower operating costs.''

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