“In any given market, there are probably 10 or more providers that we could have gone to, especially in a place like New York or Atlanta,” said George Karidis, chief strategy officer at SoftLayer. “We looked for the best provider that had the right cost structure, the right flexibility, and the right amount of connectivity. Telx was that provider. Today, our customers can directly tap into our infrastructure on a guaranteed, high-speed connection without going over the public Internet. The Telx solution provides high redundancy, security, and limitless scalability.”

As a connectivity partner, Telx delivers a secure, connection-rich environment from which SoftLayer can offer low-latency access to its applications and network infrastructure. A customer in Atlanta, for example, can connect to a SoftLayer data center in Dallas, Seattle, or Washington DC, through either a VPN or Metro-LAN connection. The Telx interconnection replaces the need for a public Internet connection, ensuring that the network is more secure, latency is reduced, quality of service is enhanced, and the number of hops is minimized. This empowers SoftLayer’s customers to optimize application performance, while keeping SoftLayer’s market entry speed high and operational costs low.


“We are pleased to become a connectivity partner to SoftLayer,” said Rose Klimovich, VP of Product Development at Telx. “Telx colocation and interconnection solutions have helped SoftLayer improve the reliability, security, and latency of their on-demand infrastructure, while enabling them to focus on core competencies such as developing competitive cloud offerings and delivering them to customers on a faster time table.”

About Telx
Telx is the leading provider of interconnection, collocation, and business exchange services in strategic, high demand North American markets. With 15 premier facilities, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to the industry’s highest performance networks and access to more than 750 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers, and enterprises. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with four facilities in the New York Metro area, two facilities in Chicago, two facilities in Dallas, three facilities in California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara) and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, and Charlotte, N.C. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com.

About SoftLayer Technologies
Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides best in class, on-demand IT services on a global basis from facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC. SoftLayer integrates and automates all IT elements to innovate industry-leading services—including cloud, dedicated, and virtual computing environments—all managed through a single interface. Enterprises of all sizes benefit from gaining complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management for their IT solution. For more information, please visit www.softlayer.com or call 866.398.7638.

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SQL Profiler is a powerful tool that allows the application and database developer to troubleshoot general SQL locking problems, performance issues, and perform database tuning. The SQL Profiler captures all of the SQL queries and the CPU/IO usage associated with a statement that is issued to the database.


“While many SQL development issues can be diagnosed on a customer’s development environment, there are issues that only crop up in a production environment and perhaps only at specific time of the day. These issues can be very difficult to troubleshoot,” said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. “With our SQL Profiling as a Service customers can schedule a database trace at a specific time of their choosing and offers a new way to help our customers troubleshoot.”

With this service, a standard trace will be run at a time specified by the customer and the trace file will be made available for download. The customer can then analyze the trace file using SQL Profiler or Database Tuning Adviser on their local computer.

About DiscountASP.NET
DiscountASP.NET is an innovative leader in Microsoft Windows hosting, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET hosting and SQL Server database hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, DiscountASP.NET was one of the first hosting providers to offer SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 hosting. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET and SQL Server technology, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for affordable enterprise-class ASP.NET web hosting.

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Bezeq International took space in Interxion’s FRA 3 facility in 2006 for termination of their European traffic and as a base for provision and expansion of their international services. Since then a strong working relationship has developed, and Bezeq has successfully developed a broad portfolio of telecom solutions as well as high-end network and security services for multinationals.


“We have developed an excellent working partnership with Interxion, and it was a natural next step to expand our European capacity with them as the Interxion facility became a core part of our backbone,” said Benny Pinhas, Operations Director, Professional Services, Bezeq International.  “Our relationship with Interxion creates value for our customers and generates revenue for us. We have other providers in Europe, but Interxion is far and away the most important to our business model.”

Interxion’s five interconnected Frankfurt data centres provide highly reliable infrastructure and direct access to over 70 carriers and 80 ISPs – one of the highest carrier and network provider densities in Europe. In addition to secure, high-availability and connected infrastructure with up to 2N power backup and redundant cooling, Interxion provides customers with a wide range of optional monitoring and maintenance services and turnkey managed services.

“Our productive and growing relationship with Bezeq International underlines the added value we can bring to ambitious global service providers,” said Peter Knapp, Interxion Germany MD. “As Bezeq continues to grow, we look forward to continuing to work with them to provide an industry leading pan European connectivity solution to meet their needs.”

About Interxion
Interxion is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving over 1,100 customers through 26 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly-designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With connectivity provided by 350 carriers and ISPs and 18 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created content and connectivity hubs which foster growing customer communities of interest.

For more information please visit www.interxion.com

About Bezeq International
Established in 1996, Bezeq International is Israel’s leading Internet and international telecommunications provider, offering complete telecom solutions in international and intra-organisational telephony, Internet, business integration, hosting, data transfer and security services. Bezeq International is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bezeq The Israeli incumbent Telecommunication Corp, Limited, Israel’s largest telecommunications service provider. For more information please visit www.bezeqint.net

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Rackspace has seen significant growth in the hosted email and applications channel, nearly doubling the number of resellers in the last year, and prompting the first Email & Apps Reseller Conference this week in Atlanta, Ga. The new plans for the Email & Apps channel program provide resellers more opportunity for recurring revenue, a tiered structure with mounting benefits to reward growth, the ability to set prices and margins, and additional marketing and training resources to help channel partners grow their businesses.


To support this new approach Rackspace has also already begun investing in training and marketing resources for channel partners, providing new white-labeled collateral that partners can brand and use for their marketing campaigns. Resellers also have access to monthly sales force training, educational webinars and materials, and Rackspace’s ongoing commitment to Fanatical Support®.

“We see expansion into vertical markets as a big opportunity for the Rackspace cloud computing business,” said Pat Matthews, GM of the Rackspace Email & Apps division. “We really believe in our channel partner strategy and our partners who already possess the expertise and networks to best represent our offerings in these markets. In exchange, we are striving to offer our partners every competitive advantage and revenue opportunity, whether it’s new products, high quality marketing resources, or providing the Fanatical Support they need to succeed.”

In the last six months, Rackspace has introduced several new products that present resellers with more opportunity than ever to increase revenue through existing customer up sells and bundled solutions. In addition to its proprietary Rackspace Email platform, hosted Microsoft Exchange, and mobile solutions, Rackspace now offers Email Archiving, hosted Microsoft SharePoint, and expected to come soon for resellers, Rackspace Cloud Drive and Server Backup.

In addition to the expanded product portfolio, resellers choose Rackspace Email & Apps for its unique offerings and benefits, including:

* Fanatical Support® – Access to Rackspace live support teams 24×7x365
* Reseller Control Panel – Easily manage all customer accounts from one dashboard
* Exchange Hybrid – Combination of Exchange and Rackspace Email on a single domain reduces customer costs and provides a unique selling point
* Integration Options – Documented APIs for Rackspace Email and hosted Microsoft Exchange
* Personalized Branding – Resellers have the ability to brand their customer’s control panel, webmail interface, support documents, and marketing and sales literature

“Our customers trust us with their online business operations, including email. We must have a partner with a reliable platform,” said Darryl Parker, CEO of Parker Web Services. “Rackspace is that partner. Their product mix and scalability have allowed us to grow our company, take on more clients, and add more revenue.”

About Rackspace Email & Apps
Rackspace Email & Apps, the rapidly growing software-as-a-service division of Rackspace Hosting, offers a full suite of hosted email, collaboration, and storage solutions. The Email & Apps division hosts more than 1.6 million paid email accounts through its proprietary web-based platform, Rackspace Email, hosted Microsoft Exchange, and a hybrid offering of the two services all backed by Rackspace’s 24×7 Fanatical Support. In 2009, the Email & Apps division processed more than 30 billion emails and blocked more than 17 billion pieces of spam and 500 million viruses. To learn why Rackspace Email & Apps attracts more than 1,000 new customers each month, please visit: www.rackspace.com/apps

About Rackspace
Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry. The San Antonio-based company provides its customers Fanatical Support® in their portfolio of hosted IT services, including Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing and Email and Apps. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

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“In these recessionary times, we are committed to the success of our customers which is why we have gone to great lengths to competitively price the products and services we offer,” stated Shelby Garlock, Director, Marketing. “In fact, we are so dedicated to offering the best possible value that if a customer discovers a better price for like services, we’ll honor it. We have found when we can meet our customers’ demand for responsive, quality services at low-cost prices, it’s a win-win for everybody. Response has been overwhelmingly favorable.”

In order to receive a price match, customers must submit a copy of a dated price and specification quote that is no more than thirty days old, or a live link to a website advertising the price and specifications to be matched. The Price Match Challenge is valid on newly activated dedicated and managed hosting services, and will be honored for as long as the customer maintains that service with Codero.


For full details about the Price Match Challenge and other current promotions, please visit www.codero.com/specials/ or email any questions to pricematch@codero.com.

About Codero
Specializing in dedicated and managed hosting services for small- to mid-sized businesses, Codero’s technology portfolio includes high-performance Windows® and Linux servers delivering advanced email, eCommerce, security and networking solutions. All Codero products are backed by secure data centers, live 24/7/365 U.S.-based support and a seasoned staff with international experience in the hosting business for over 15 years. An industry innovator, Codero recently launched its Codero Rewards program and the Green with Codero Initiative, powering 100% of its dedicated server and managed hosting operations through renewable energy credits. For more information about Codero, please visit www.codero.com.

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“Moving steadily forward in the 21st century does not mean trampling all over our natural resources, so we have teamed up with Carbonfund.org and implemented a variety of green initiative programs to help preserve our natural resources,” says Karl Zimmerman, CEO of Steadfast Networks. “The same high quality and exceptional service Steadfast Networks stands for in our managed servers, colocation hosting services, and web hosting services is the standard we aspire to for maintaining a healthy environment.”


In addition to becoming carbon neutral and purchasing carbon offsets, Steadfast Networks encourages employees to commute by foot, bike, or public transportation, and in some cases, work from home. To increase efficiency and help the environment, local vendors such as Amadi Systems provide more than 90% of Steadfast Networks’ equipment, cutting down on the emissions caused while transporting. Steadfast Networks orders the equipment with no packing materials in order to reduce the trash produced. All paper and cardboard products, equipment, hardware, and servers building-wide are recycled.

“Not having to unpack equipment has increased the speed of operations and made our Chicago hosting services and data centers run more efficiently,” says Zimmerman. “Highly efficient network systems and dedicated server hosting also reduce carbon outputs, and those are options we also offer to customers who want to reduce their carbon imprint.”

Steadfast Network’s base operations, shared web hosting, VPS hosting, and backup services are carbon neutral. Customers who wish to receive carbon neutral colocation services and dedicated server hosting indicate that choice by contacting a Steadfast Networks representative or when placing an order. Additionally, Steadfast Networks’ low power Atom servers, Xeon processors and Intel solid state drives lower operational costs while reducing the carbon footprint associated with hosting services. Providing dedicated server, colocation, and hosting services without up-selling a more energy-intensive IT solution a customer does not need further reduces
environmental impact.

“People who are passionate about caring for our world are loyal to companies who share that same sense of responsibility,” says Zimmerman. “Customers appreciate transparency and businesses with carbon neutral hosting services can let their clients know they are standing up and doing their part for our world.”

For more information on Steadfast Networks’ green initiative, or to suggest more ways to reduce the carbon footprint, visit http://steadfast.net/corporate/green.php.

About Steadfast Networks
Established in 1998, Chicago based hosting company Steadfast Networks, delivers high quality, powerful servers through reliable dedicated server hosting, colocation server hosting, virtual private servers, shared web hosting, and dedicated game server hosting. Steadfast’s award-winning services and dedicated support staff help customers from all over the world 24/7/365. Customers can choose basic hosting or a customized, fully managed dedicated server hosting solution. Steadfast Networks offers 100% carbon neutral hosting services as an environment-friendly provider.

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Web Hosting clients can choose exactly the infrastructure and services they need with AIT, leveraging the advantages of customization without the high costs. With a wide range of solutions and transparent pricing, AIT allows clients to choose the right options for their business. “Our customers have a wide variety of needs which range from hosted email, domain registration to customized gaming servers. Our newest line of dedicated server’s offer scalable and flexible solutions, with a choice of operating systems and hardware,” said Avery Skelton, VP of Sales & Marketing, AIT. “The movement of communication and business critical applications to the Web gives both small and large businesses alike the opportunity to save big. Our newest plan additions are power packed and feature rich yet very reasonably priced.”


AIT a fourteen year old web hosting incumbent has seen a large increase in the need for always available email hosting and specialized applications which have driven the company’s consistent increase in Enterprise sales. According to company officials, the days of purchase “Big Brand” hosting at premium pricing is over. With over 100 Free Web Hosting Features, AIT claims to offer “the most” at a fraction of the cost of its competitors in the Dedicated Server space. “We guarantee uptime and dedicated, around-the-clock customer support,” said Skelton.

Using a combination of Cloud Computing and Managed Services, AIT provides dynamically scalable resources to provide robust hosting services to clients worldwide. “We do all of our dealer processing and inventory online.” Said, Wally Bell CEO Sundance Boats and 10 Year AIT Customer. “When you choose AIT, you get the highest quality and value for your hosting investment, with IT infrastructure and management services backed by their team of certified IT professionals committed to your success and satisfaction.

AIT’s reputation for excellence coupled with the best pricing in the industry creates value for business clients who demand robust solutions at affordable rates. AIT was amongst the first in the web hosting industry to offer dedicated hosting for as low as forty ($40) per month. “Our goal is to do the same as we have done in the past, only this time we are going to make Enterprise Hosting Affordable for virtually any business regardless of size,” said Skelton. For a low, transparent monthly fee find out how you can leverage enterprise-quality IT infrastructure freeing up your resources for other business priorities. Find out why more than tens of thousands of customers rely on AIT to helps them grow, improve and profit.

Advanced Internet technologies Inc, offers web hosting, domain name registration, web design, Email Marketing and is home to over 210,000 customers that include Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. Founded in 1996 AIT has grown into a multimillion-dollar web hosting and technology company, from its humble beginnings in a garage to its current 93,000 SF headquarters. AIT has achieved 14 straight years of sustained profitability and been named 2 times to The Inc. 500 list of fast growing firms, 3 times to the Deloitte & Touché Fast 500 list, and NC Entrepreneur Firm of the Year. For more information, email sales(at)ait(dot)com or call 1-800-878-4084 to take advantage of these special offers.

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iomart hosting offers managed services ranging from a single server to complex managed environments. As such, they needed to identify a high-availability solution that would fulfill their 24×7, 100% uptime customer guarantee, whilst remaining equally robust across their current heterogeneous storage environment.


Richard McMahon is the company’s Infrastructure Manager responsible for all hardware and software deployments and services within the group. Twenty-five people operate from within iomart’s five (5) state-of-the-art data centers located in London, Maidenhead, Glasgow, Nottingham and Leicester. All centers are linked via Dark Fibre or GigE connections. “Our 100% uptime guarantee is not a marketing ploy – it’s iomart’s motto and mantra. We live and breathe it to facilitate our customers’ business models. Therefore total high-availability is top of our priority list,” he stated.

Recently, to help clients facilitate cloud computing, iomart launched a dedicated, virtualized server service, offering VMware dedicated servers capable of running multiple operating systems and applications from one physical server.

With these services in mind, the challenge that iomart faced was managing 30 terabytes (TBs) of storage across a heterogeneous environment in the City of London and Maidenhead data centers. To meet this objective, iomart approached DataCore, EMC, NetApp and 3PAR for proposed solutions. The suggested environment from DataCore involved using standard x86 hardware, highly specified due to their being of a hosting nature, each having 128GB RAM for caching, 4 Quad Core Processors and 8GB HBA’s for connectivity. The disk that sat behind the server was classified as a low-end commodity disk. On top of this hardware, DataCore’s SANsymphony solution was used in a mirrored SAN-SAN configuration to virtualize and manage the environment across a fibre link. In total, the solution was less than a one-third of the cost of the equivalent software and hardware alternative proposals.

Keith Joseph, Regional Manager, DataCore Software picks up the story: “Cost savings were not the most important factor in iomart’s search. What they really wanted was to achieve total control of the environment and have the ability to migrate customer data between storage systems and disk types and to easily replicate to remote sites. This they found with DataCore’s SANsymphony.”

Mirrored high-availability (HA) between sites over 20 miles away also provides iomart with enhanced disaster recover (DR) capabilities. In their configuration, the environment is distributed throughout several locations and ensures that they have a fully distributed, HA model but across DR geographies.

DataCore’s synchronous replication functionality operates on a forced cache coherency model, based on a grid architecture that replicates the I/O block between the cache on each DataCore server before sending the acknowledgement to the application server and committing the data to disk. This overcomes the problems associated with clustered storage, while allowing iomart a greater degree of performance and flexibility.

McMahon concludes, “What we have achieved with SANsymphony is totally flexible, highly performing SAN-to-SAN mirroring, but straight out-of-the-box and backed by a decent price point. We can now move data ‘at will’ between vendors and seamlessly achieve LUN virtualisation across RAID arrays. No other solution offers us this.”

About iomart hosting
iomart hosting holds a unique place in the hosting market in that it genuinely offers a ‘one source’ approach. By physically owning and managing its own network infrastructure, including 5 state of the art Data Centre facilities, it offers world beating levels of service to its customers. iomart hosting offers managed services, ranging from single server management through to complex managed environments. All hosting services are customized to suit a client’s exact requirements and are designed for superior performance, reliability, security and scalability.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software develops the storage virtualization software needed to get the highest availability, fastest performance and maximum utilization from storage resources in physical and virtual IT environments. It provides the critical 3rd dimension on which the success of server and desktop virtualization projects hinge, regardless of the models and brands of storage devices used. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.

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“Medium-sized businesses require assistance navigating today’s complex communications environment. Level 3’s local-focus initiative is the right approach to provide accessible support. This is a great strategy for establishing long-term relationships and a solid foundation for growth,” said Courtney Munroe, group vice president for Worldwide Telecommunications Research at IDC.


In support of this local-expansion effort, Level 3 is growing and realigning its local workforce in Northern California to combine a local presence, in-depth marketplace knowledge and broad expertise in the communications industry. Through a combination of its extensive backbone network, metro fiber-optic footprint, and a locally focused sales and customer support team, Level 3 provides greater opportunities for mid-market enterprises to take advantage of Level 3’s broad portfolio of communications services.

“Northern California businesses are continually finding new and different ways to communicate and conduct business with their customers and partners,” said Chris Tamblyn, Level 3’s general manager for Northern California. “Level 3’s suite of solutions and extensive fiber footprint supports this kind of innovation and positions us as an ideal competitive alternative to traditional providers.”

Through this initiative, Level 3 will leverage existing network assets of more than 450 metro fiber route miles in Northern California. In addition, Level 3 plans to augment network capacity in the region and expand the number of businesses that are directly connected to the Level 3 network. This expansion will provide mid-market enterprises with access to the full suite of Level 3 services and allow them to quickly and easily increase their bandwidth as business needs grow.

The expansion of operations in Northern California marks the continuation of a locally focused strategy that Level 3 launched successfully in mid-2009. The company is pleased with the progress of the initiative to date as evidenced by increased sales from customers in the initial markets as well as higher reported overall customer satisfaction for mid-market enterprises.

About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is a leading international provider of fiber-based communications services. Enterprise, content, wholesale and government customers rely on Level 3 to deliver services with an industry-leading combination of scalability and value over an end-to-end fiber network. Level 3 offers a portfolio of metro and long-haul services, including transport, data, Internet, content delivery and voice. For more information, visit www.Level3.com.

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“There is already a huge amount of interest in Google’s new OS, even though it’s still just in beta, so we want to make sure our customers can try it out on their Macs without impacting their primary work environment on Mac OS X,” said Kim Johnston, Vice President of Marketing for Consumer, Business and Online at Parallels. “It’s important to us that we continue to innovate to meet our customers’ needs, giving them the ability to use the broadest range of applications possible, whether on Mac, Windows, Linux or Chrome operating systems.”


The ability to run Google Chrome OS on Parallels Desktop for Mac will be demonstrated during several presentations taking place at the OS X Business Park at CeBIT, and at Parallels’ booth (A20, Hall 2) throughout the five day event. In addition, there will be sessions introducing Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition, the world’s first bare metal hypervisor solution for the Apple Xserve, which launched last week.

Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition builds on Parallels’ market leading virtualization portfolio including the existing server virtualization solution, Parallels Server for Mac, launched in June 2008. Parallels Server for Mac brought virtualization to the Apple Xserve for the first time, enabling organizations to standardize on the Mac platform and integrate into existing IT infrastructures. This powerful new product with “bare metal” architecture delivers speed and the ability to migrate systems without needing to go completely offline (”hot migration”), while the inclusion of Parallels Virtual Automation, provides comprehensive management tools for monitoring and maintaining the virtual environment.

The innovative leading German advertising agency Jung von Matt is amongst the first to adopt Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition, using the solution to move its collaboration software into Virtual Machines.

“In order to consolidate our server landscape and move several Windows and Linux Servers onto Virtual Machines on our Mac Pro and Xserve hardware, we became an early adopter of the original Parallels Server for Mac,” said Stephan Budach, IT Support R&D at leading German advertising agency Jung von Matt. “Having successfully Beta tested versions of Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition, we’ve already found significant performance improvements from this stable and matured technology. With the final build launched, we now plan to migrate our Oracle Collaboration Suite to Oracle Beehive. This will sit on Beehive application servers in clustered virtual servers running Oracle Linux.”

Sessions at the OS X Business Park stage

* Parallels Realize business solutions on your Mac: Tuesday 2nd March at 10.00am; Thursday 4th March at 3.00pm; Saturday 6th March at 10.30am, 12.30pm and 3.30pm
* Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition: Tuesday 2nd March at 2.30PM; Thursday 4th March at 10.30AM

About Parallels
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.

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