Latisys’s Chicago Facility Receives First Type II Audit
Web hosting solutions provider Latisys today announced its Chicago-area Tier III Data Center has successfully completed its first SAS 70 Type II audit. In addition to completing the Chicago facility audit, Latisys’ other colocation facilities (Denver, Irvine) were also audited and again confirmed to be SAS 70 Type II compliant. The Denver facility has been compliant since 2005, and the Irvine facility has been compliant since 2007.
Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70, Service Organizations is a widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The SAS 70 audit independently verifies the validity and functionality of a data center’s control activities and processes. Achieving successful completion of a SAS 70 Type II audit confirms that Latisys’ Chicago data center has been through an in-depth audit to ensure adequate controls and safeguards are in place.
“Our customers – particularly those in heavily regulated sectors such as energy, financial, healthcare, insurance and pharmaceuticals – require assurance that the highest levels of internal controls and security are established and maintained,” said Evans Mullan, Chief Operating Officer, Latisys. “Investing the necessary resources to complete SAS 70 Type II audits for all three Latisys data centers reaffirms our commitment to safeguarding customers’ sensitive data and mission critical IT infrastructure with best practice processes.”
LiquidWeb Announces Parallels Plesk Panel
Herndon, Virginia – May 11, 2009 – Web hosting and data center services firm, LiquidWeb, will offer automation and virtualization provider, Parallels’ Plesk Panel 9.0 on 100% of its dedicated and virtualized servers.
Clinton Hansen, Manager of Windows Products, LiquidWeb remarked, ”The value and performance of Parallels Plesk Panel is unmatched in the market. By working closely with Parallels, we are able to offer the solution on 100% of our servers and enable our customers to focus on IT efficiency and the optimization of internal resources.”
By adding Parallels hosting automation control panel software to its Linux based servers, LiquidWeb is able to increase per server profitability and provide its entire customer base with the most stable and secure multi-platform hosting control panel on the market.
LiquidWeb started offering Parallels Plesk Panel on its Windows servers and is now expanding this to include the 80% of its servers that are Linux based. The intuitive interface is easy to navigate and enables the company to present all of its customers with a way of making cumbersome tasks quick and straight-forward, regardless of their operating system. This gives small-and-medium sized business owners the ability to save money and better manage their servers without needing to employ a large IT team.
Parallels Plesk Panel also offers complete integration with leading services such as the Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog and Parallels Plesk Billing 6.0. The APS Catalog provides access to hundreds of pre-packaged applications, while the integration of Parallels Plesk Billing creates a full-featured hosting automation solution that eliminates the need for third party billing software.
Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Division, Parallels noted, ”The increased functionality of Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 creates an easy and completely integrated end-user experience for LiquidWeb customers. The availability of the APS Catalog and Parallels Plesk Billing 6.0 enables service providers and resellers to build more profitable full-featured offerings to increase their revenue streams.”
The offering will vary in price and be available within the next two weeks through LiquidWeb.
Liquid Web is a leading provider of premium web hosting products and data center infrastructure. Established in 1997, Liquid Web’s growth has been fueled by providing unbeatable managed services to businesses of all sizes, in all areas of the world. Liquid Web currently serves more than 10,000 clients in over 100 countries around the world. Liquid Web has been honored by INC Magazine as one of the nation’s fastest growing companies consecutively in 2007 and 2008.
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service 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.
To learn more about Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0, please visit: www.parallels.com/products/plesk.
For more information, please visit: www.parallels.com.
Cartika Hosting Announces Launch Of Clustered Hosting Service
Ontario, Canada - Web hosting company, Cartika Hosting, has developed a new High Availability Linux (HAL) clustered hosting service, offering a range of targeted solutions, in addition to a streamlined web interface.
The new HAL services feature completely redundant clustered architecture with additional load balancing of all services within the cluster. Complimented by predictive failure analysis, Countinous Data Protection and enterprise grade Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus features.
Andrew Rouchotas, Cartika’s CEO explains that the unique aspect of HAL is that it resolves most common issues associated with shared hosting. By spreading loads over multiple nodes, HAL allows websites to burst well beyond normal CPU and RAM allocations without overloading servers. Additionally, service is more reliable as a downed server node will not impact service availability.
Mr. Rouchotas noted, ”HAL solves the problems typically associated with shared hosting by spreading services and loads across a fleet of load balanced nodes. We are able to dramatically increase the resource availability and capacity to any given website hosted. Additionally, we are able to increase reliability by building physical server redundancy into all services.”
A Pressure Release System ensures that the system will never become overloaded during periods of very large bursts by Quing request and also acts as an indicator for a requirement to add additional resources (i.e. nodes) to a given array without resulting in cluster instability.
Users get real multiple domain hosting allowing granual email, ftp, stats and web options control for each domain and DNS zone, as well as an Ajax based webmail solution powered by Roundcube. Spam is essentially eliminated with Mailfoundry Enterprise grade spam appliance integrated into users control panels and included for free with any HAL package.
HAL is a premium hosting service transcending industries, sectors and company size. With their range of services, Cartika specializes in providing small to medium sized and enterprise businesses the very best in high availability web hosting, complete with service that includes security firewalls, load balanced architecture, redundant storage arrays, continuous data protection, mail foundry anti-virus and anti-spam protection, and much more.
Mr. Rouchotas added, ”The TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) analysis for HAL is very strong for any business serious about their website performance, availability, and scalability. For $100 a month, a business can acquire high availability hosting for all of their core services. The solution is more reliable and robust then a dedicated server and solves the typical problems associated with shared hosting environments. Additional value adds as found in the redundant, end user accessible backup solution as well as the integrated Mailfoundry anti-spam/virus appliance round off this offering and positively impact a company’s TCO calculations.”
Founded in Toronto in May 2002, Cartika Inc. is an established Application Hosting utilizing advanced clustering technologies, providing advanced web hosting facilities, combined with several best of breed Open Source and Commercial Applications. Cartika caters to businesses of all sizes providing shared, reseller and dedicated hosting solutions on Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD operating systems supporting a multitude of solutions, languages and development platforms, including Coldfusion, Sharepoint, MS Exchange, CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Market differentiators include automated, multi-platform, managed clustered solutions allowing companies to scale across platforms, services and across a potentially infinite number of nodes from central control interfaces.
For more information on new High Availability Linux (HAL) hosting, please visit: www.cartikahosting.com/HAL.
To learn more about Cartika Hosting, please visit: www.cartikahosting.com.
New Unique Product Offering from CheapVPS.co.uk
Berkshire, United Kingdom – September 21st, 2008 (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) – CheapVPS, a purveyor of unmanaged Virtual Private Server hosting, has announced the launch of new product offering. With the shift in economic climate, most businesses, non-profits, and other organizations are looking for ways to cut costs while remaining as efficient as possible. Based on CheapVPS’s current standard offering, they have announced the creation of a new product known as “Part Time Servers.”
Based on the rock solid OpenVZ/HyperVM infrastructure, Part Time Servers allow customers to turn on their Virtual Private Server only when needed, and disable them when they’re done. This allows for customers to take advantage of a 50% discount on pre-existing Virtual Private Server plans already offered by CheapVPS. Data is also retained when the Virtual Private Server has been powered down, allowing customers to enjoy the fact that their data is safe.
CheapVPS, based in Berkshire, United Kingdom, is a brand name owned by VAServ, LTD. CheapVPS provides Virtual Private Servers for businesses, non-profit organizations, and end users.
To learn more about CheapVPS and their new product offering, please visit: http://www.cheapvps.co.uk/
Earthlink Announces Partnership With InMotion
Vancouver, Washington - August 27, 2008 – Earthlink subsidiary and broadband network company, New Edge Networks, has been chosen by the largest entertainment and electronics airport retailer in the United States.
InMotion has engaged New Edge Networks, to build and manage a private wide area network that it does not want to know is there. Allan Ghelerter, Director of IT for the specialty retail chain that operates 55 stores in about 30 major airports around the country explained, ”We want our network to be transparent and do what it is supposed to do; we don’t want to have to pay attention to it. Our customers have to catch planes.”
InMotion awarded New Edge Networks, the business communications unit of EarthLink Inc., a three-year contract valued at nearly $1 million to build and manage a private network based on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology. Network installation is underway.
Jacksonville, Florida-based InMotion selected MPLS so that it can integrate multiple existing legacy networks into one that can prioritize communications traffic. This will help optimize use of available network bandwidth, and enable improved performance of latency-sensitive applications used to operate online business functions. MPLS also makes it easy and quick to add and move stores on the network.
Mr. Ghelerter added, ”Our new MPLS network is the centerpiece of InMotion’s strategic initiative for investing in technology so we can both grow and offer an excellent customer experience.”
A principal driver for InMotion’s migration to an MPLS network is the company’s new strategic initiative for offering fast digital downloads of music and movies through an in-store kiosk called PlayPoint. The self-serve kiosk lets customers browse music or movie titles and play trailers before they swipe a credit card to purchase and quickly download their selections from a server based in Seattle, Wash.
Credit card transactions are routed from individual stores to InMotion’s payment processor, ChasePaymentech, through a direct network connection that New Edge Networks already has in place. A private network that does not traverse the public Internet provides added security and makes it easier for the retailer to achieve and maintain compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards imposed by credit card companies.
In addition to PlayPoint, which is currently available in about half of the stores, InMotion intends to use the new network to power a new point-of-sale and inventory management system, in-store camera systems with digital video recording, secure Internet access and corporate email.
The MPLS network can prioritize data traffic based on the customer’s preference. This helps InMotion optimize use of available bandwidth yet ensures applications perform at customers’ expectations.
Kevin Flaherty, Vice President of sales for New Edge Networks remarked, ”By managing InMotion’s private network, New Edge Networks becomes an extension of InMotion’s IT staff. This frees them to focus on other strategic IT activities for supporting a business that spreads across four time zones.”
With a managed network, InMotion’s IT staff gets access to an online dashboard that allows them to see near-live network performance results, make appropriate decisions and take necessary action. The online portal allows InMotion to check status of orders, see technician notes on trouble tickets, and more.
Mr. Ghelerter noted, ”One of the reasons we selected New Edge Networks is because they seem to better understand the nuances of dealing with airports and their security restrictions. Installers can’t just walk through security check points with screwdrivers and expect to get in and get out quickly. It’s a tough environment to work in.”
InMotion is a division of Gate Petroleum, a diversified private company that also operates more than 200 convenience stores and service stations in the Southeast, eight concrete plants in six states, four private resorts and various real estate holdings.
New Edge Networks, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a wholly owned subsidiary of EarthLink Inc. (NASDQ: ELNK). New Edge Networks builds and manages private networks for businesses and communications providers. Through its nationwide backbone network with about 900 switches and Internet routers, New Edge Networks uses any blend of access technologies (xDSL, frame relay, ATM, cable, wireless, and satellite) for providing broadband connectivity at any business address in the United States. Network options include any combination of access, network management functions, and on-site installation services.
To learn more about New Edge Networks, please visit: www.newedgenetworks.com.
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