Troy Augustine, President and CEO of iNET noted, ''We are excited to be able to add HostingCon to iNET Interactive. HostingCon - the world's largest physical gathering of hosted services professionals - is a perfect complement to Web Hosting Talk - the largest online gathering of hosting services professionals.''

Founded in 2005, HostingCon is the world's largest conference and trade show serving the hosted services industry. This year's event, to be held July 28 - 30 at Navy Pier in Chicago, is expected to draw over 1,500 hosted services professionals and nearly 100 exhibitors. The event features keynote addresses from Serguei Beloussov, the Chairman and CEO of Parallels, and Mark Rogers, the Director of Cloud Computing Services at Microsoft.

The addition of HostingCon is a natural extension for iNET Interactive, further strengthening its position as the leading media company serving the hosted services industry. The iNET Interactive portfolio also includes Web Hosting Talk, the largest online community serving the hosted services industry, HostingCatalog, the industry's only pay-per-click ad network, and various specialty hosted services directories.

HostingCon was founded by George Roberts, the CEO of Interjucture, and Frank Spaulding, Interjucture's COO. The pair will remain involved in HostingCon as members of its advisory board.

George Roberts remarked, ''Although Frank and I will remain involved as advisors, we are very excited to hand over the reins to iNET Interactive. We have complete confidence that iNET Interactive will continue to grow and develop HostingCon with the same passion and commitment that Frank and I have applied.''

HostingCon is the world's largest conference and trade show serving the hosted services industry. Founded by George Roberts and Frank Spaulding in 2005, the annual event has grown to over 1,500 attendees and nearly 100 exhibitors from more than 30 countries.

Rackspace's PCI Toolbox offers technical components customers need to help achieve compliance with PCI DSS in one simple bundle or sold individually for customers that need solutions for specific PCI compliance requirements. Building an in-house offering can be costly and frustrating, Rackspace's PCI Toolbox makes the process simple, allowing customers to stay focused on their business.

Jeff Reich, CSO, Rackspace Hosting noted, ''PCI DSS is not law, but it is strictly enforced by banks through contractual penalties or sanctions. We want to make it easy and affordable for our many e-commerce customers to reach compliance with the help of this bundled security solution. The PCI Toolbox allows customers to focus on their business.''

As with all Rackspace products, the PCI Toolbox is backed by Fanatical Support which offers 24x7x365 and access to a dedicated team of security experts. This team of experienced security professionals is available as a resource for customer security and PCI issues and stays up to date on upcoming changes and additions to the PCI compliance regulations. As the requirements change we intend to modify the Toolbox offerings accordingly, to assist customers in more easily maintaining PCI compliance year after year. The full PCI Toolbox solution includes the following components:

• Anti-virus Protection
• Customer Network Scanning Services
• File System Integrity Service
• Firewall Services
• Intrusion Detection Services
• Log Management Service
• Patch Management Services
• Physical System Security
• SSL Certificates
• VPN System Management Access

Dan Boblit, Vice President at BigBadToyStore noted, ''Like Rackspace, our business is built around providing our customers with excellent service. Rackspace has removed another burden for us with its suite of PCI Compliance tools. Now, not only do we rely on Rackspace for hardware support, but PCI support as well, giving us the ability to provide our customers with the best and most up-to-date credit card processing options.''

CRM OnTarget, which specializes in providing hosted Microsoft CRM to clients in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, and United Arab Emirates, is using Ensim's award-winning Unify platform to manage its hosted infrastructure, applications and customers. The following hosted services are currently available to CRM OnTarget’s customers:

· Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
· Microsoft Exchange 2007
· Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
· BlackBerry

All applications are managed via Ensim Unify, providing a single interface to CRM OnTarget's operations, its resellers and customers.

Francois Depayras, Vice President of marketing and alliances at Ensim Corporation remarked, ''CRM OnTarget's support for Dynamics CRM is the best in the business hands down. With Unify, they can easily extend their expertise in delivering excellent service for a host of new applications and gain complete operational control over all of them through a single portal, while creating an infrastructure that allows them to ramp up resellers and launch new customers quickly.''

CRM OnTarget will demonstrate Ensim Unify and its hosted solutions at this week's Microsoft 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference in at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Resellers will be able to launch new services immediately by signing up directly at the CRM OnTarget booth. Ensim will also be demonstrating its Unify solutions in booth #1039. For more information about the conference, visit: https://partner.microsoft.com/global/trainingevents/wwpartnerconference.

CRM OnTarget was established by TriVenture in 2003 to address the evolving need in the market for CRM software on demand. By early 2006, CRM OnTarget was a pioneer in the Microsoft Partner community rolling out new SPLA licensing models, building out the backbone of two Microsoft HMC1 Class A data centers, and providing a balance of services with software to ensure each client succeeds. CRM OnTarget serves clients in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, and users on every continent.

Jersey City, New Jersey - (The Hosting News) - July 15, 2008 - Managed hosting and security services company, DataPipe, has secured $75 million dollars in combined credit and equity financing, led by Goldman Sachs.

Robb Allen, CEO and Founder of DataPipe remarked, ''We're very pleased to be fully funded for future growth. This funding will enable us to expand our data center facilities and enhance our service offerings globally; it's great news for our clients.''

DataPipe will immediately begin an expansion of its Somerset, New Jersey campus, which has the potential for 60,000 square feet of data center space. DataPipe is also pursuing significant expansion opportunities in London and China, according to the Company.

DH Capital, LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to DataPipe for this transaction.

Gene Yoon of Goldman Sachs noted, ''We've been impressed with DataPipe's expertise in the managed hosting market and look forward to pursuing additional growth opportunities in partnership with Robb and the DataPipe management team.''