(The Hosting News) – IT hosting company, OneNeck IT Services, has been recognized by the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation (GCOI) Selection Committee and honored as a finalist for the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation’s Innovator of the Year—Small Company Award.

“OneNeck is extremely honored to be recognized by the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Selection Committee,” said Chuck Vermillion, CEO of OneNeck IT Services. “The GCOI Innovator of Year award is Arizona’s highest honor for technology innovation and being recognized for this award validates us as a premier enterprise hosting and managed services provider.”

The Governor’s Celebration of Innovation was established in 2003 by combining two technology award ceremonies: the High Tech Industry Cluster’s 17-year Innovator of the Year awards ceremony and the Arizona Software and Internet Association’s 10-year “Celebration of Innovation.” With the addition of the Governor’s support, the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation has become the premier technology community gathering of its kind in Arizona. For more information on GCOI, please visit http://www.aztechcouncil.org.

This year’s event will feature a Technology Showcase with more than 50 booths, providing an opportunity for sponsors and award finalists to demonstrate and discuss their exceptional products and services to attendees. Entertainment includes a theatre-style awards ceremony followed by dinner and a VIP networking after-party.

The 2010 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards Showcase will be held on November 18, 2010 in the heart of downtown Phoenix at the Phoenix Convention Center, 100 North Third Street, in the South Building Ballroom form 3:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Interested parties can visit http://bit.ly/acsDld for more information.

OneNeck’s business philosophy is built around accountability. Their solutions and services allow customers to have a single service provider for complex and critical system management and hosting. The resulting value and synergy easily differentiates them from a typical Application Service Provider (ASP) or hosting provider. Although every environment OneNeck manages is unique, they provide the same consistent level of service. OneNeck has the depth and breadth of knowledge few other companies can provide.

Source: OneNeck Named Finalist for Innovator of the Year

(Gawkwire.com) - Syslint Technologies has today released vcPanel Enterprise Hybrid edition. Delivering on its commitment to add features and innovate it's popular vcPanel Enterprise VPS control panel in order to meet its goal of creating the most feature rich and stable VPS / Cloud control panel on the market. This next version of vcPanel software is now vcPanel Enterprise Hybrid, version 10.8. This is a huge step in the market of VPS and Cloud control panels as this version will exceed offerings from other control panels, with brand new, unique features.

  

With over 20 new user requested features and stability enhancements 10.8 offers two major and unique features. One of these major features is IPV6 support along with enhanced IP v4 management. vcPanel future proofs your investment by delivering IPV6 native support which promises to make dealing with IP addresses much simpler. Another key feature and industry first is the ability to load balance containers across nodes for maximum uptime, scalability and redundancy. You will be able to load balance containers in one datacenter or in geographically diverse datacenters using an intuitive drag and drop interface. Server administrators can manage the load balancers from a feature rich menu.

These two key features continue to differentiate vcPanel in the marketplace.

  

The Enterprise Hybrid Edition (10.8) has other new features in addition to the ones stated above. These new features include IP Management, RDNS Management, a File Manager, a SSH or KVM console, Full Log Management, Bandwidth Port Speed Limitations, OpenVZ Plan Creation GUI, Distributed Architecture, Automation with billing systems such as WHMCS, Blesta and plans for other billing systems and much more. More information about these specific features and documentation of the new features is located online at

http://www.vcPanel.net.

Pricing & Availability

VCPanel Enterprise Hybrid Edition is now publicly available worldwide from VCPanel.NET or any of its Resellers, Datacenter Partners, or Distributors. Retail license pricing continues to be listed at $10.00/month, licensed on a per server-basis. For details, or to purchase, please visit http://www.vcPanel.net.

Demo & Screen Shots

You can see a look and feel demo from http://vcpanel.net/Demo

  

About VCPanel.NET

Syslint Technologies Pvt Ltd. Is a leading provider of cost-effective management software for server virtualization platforms. Our tools help businesses, and service providers economically optimize their use of technology. Founded in 2009, the company has offices in India, Canada and the United States. For more information, visit http://www.VCPanel.net. VCPanel is a trademark of Syslint Technologies Pvt Ltd. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Please see the comparison of vcPanel with other control panels from http://vcpanel.net/ See the vcPanel new wiki from , http://wiki.vcpanel.net/ You can see the complete features from http://vcpanel.net/Features

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(Gawkwire.com) - PubCon, the premier search and social media conference and expo, has announced that it will hold its multi-track spring conference, PubCon South at Austin 2011, on March 8 - 9, 2011 in Austin, Texas.

Many of the key players who are shaping the future of the Web and social media will come together for PubCon South at Austin 2011 and converge on the Norris Executive Conference Center for cutting-edge multi-track sessions and networking events in one of the major technology hubs around the Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and the greater Southwest U.S. region.
"PubCon South at Austin 2011 is going to be a remarkable gathering of the brightest minds in emerging technology, search and social media," said PubCon founder and chair Brett Tabke.

"With a winning lineup of special conference panel discussions, diverse multiple topic tracks, top keynotes, unique sessions, industry exhibitors, training programs, and PubCon's noted lineup of networking events and parties, we're excited to announce PubCon South at Austin 2011, truly a must-attend event," added Tabke.

PubCon South at Austin 2011 will offer new emerging media track and session topics, top keynote speakers, and an intensive professional PubCon Masters Group search and social media training program.

Registration for PubCon South at Austin 2011 will begin during the coming weeks.
Speaking proposals, sponsorship and exhibitor presence requests for PubCon South at Austin 2011 are now being accepted. Speakers should apply with proposals soon as places are limited.

PubCon registration and more information is available at www.pubcon.com

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(The Hosting News) – The EU has chosen Flexiant’s revolutionary cloud platform FlexiScale as the infrastructure for a nine million euro FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) project to enable the transition of mobile applications to the cloud.

Following a rigorous selection process by the EU, Flexiant will join a consortium of Europe’s leading experts in cloud computing, including Telefonica, Nokia, Orange and Ericsson. The consortium of academic and industrial partners will create a platform as a service (PaaS) infrastructure to support the optimized and elastic hosting of Internet-scale multi-tier applications. Transitioning key telecoms players onto the cloud will allow them to offer customers a richer array of innovative applications, will generate considerable cost savings and will substantially uplift their “green” credentials. The project, named “4CaaSt” will create a PaaS platform that is not specific to one cloud provider or one technology, ensuring uniformity of standards and protocols across the industry which will translate into appreciable gains for consumers.

FlexiScale, developed by Flexiant, will provide the EU FP7 project with a cloud environment to test use-case scenarios in real world conditions. Flexiant is one of only three independent public cloud providers in Europe and five worldwide. Its ground-breaking technology, Extility, the software fabric underpinning FlexiScale, allows service providers and data centre operators to deliver both public and private cloud computing services to their own customers.

This news cements Flexiant’s position at the cutting edge of cloud computing in Europe following an announcement earlier this month of Flexiant’s participation in another EU FP7 project (Optimis) which provides a test bed for the software tools needed to run the next generation of cloud platforms.

Cloud computing allows businesses to lease computing power as and when they need it, rather than having to buy expensive equipment. Businesses use the internet to access computing resources from hosting providers who provide a platform to collect, store and process data. The net effect is to drive down operating and capital expenditure whilst significantly reducing the carbon footprint of each transaction and providing infinite scalability.

Alex Bligh, Flexiant’s CEO, comments: “We are delighted to further strengthen our relationship with the EU and to be working with some of the largest telecommunications companies in Europe on this important project. Having been the first business in Europe to launch a cloud platform it is exciting to now be part of the team that will help move their applications onto the cloud.”

4CaaSt is conducted under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research and technological development. FP7 bundles together all research-related EU initiatives and plays a crucial role in achieving the goals of growth, competitiveness and employment.

Source: FlexiScale selected for EU’s €9 million 4CaaSt project

(The Hosting News) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Storwize, a privately held company based in Marlborough, MA. Storwize provides real-time data compression technology to help clients reduce physical storage requirements by up to 80% (1), which improves efficiency and lowers the cost of making data available for analytics and other applications. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the third quarter of 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Storwize has over one hundred customers such as Mobileye, Polycom Israel, Shopzilla, Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Construction across a wide range of industries including energy, manufacturing, finance, insurance, telecommunications and cloud services.

With Storwize, IBM is acquiring storage technology that is unique in the industry in that it can compress primary data, or data that clients are actively using, of multiple types — from files to virtualization images to databases — in real-time while maintaining performance. This is in contrast to other storage compression technologies that only compress secondary or backup data. By compressing primary data, Storwize users can store up to five times more data using the same amount of storage, preventing storage sprawl and lowering power and cooling costs.

This is important now more than ever as the world’s data already vastly exceeds available storage space and enterprise demand for storage capacity worldwide is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 43% from 2008 to 2013, according to IDC (2).

Compression shrinks data so files and databases take up less space. Storwize’s Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) is based on the industry-standard compression algorithm and uses Storwize’s patented technology for real-time data compression without any performance degradation.

With Storwize, analytics applications can improve decision making by scanning many more years of historical data from multiple sources without the need to add additional storage equipment. Compressing data in real-time can also help make data available up to four times faster for transaction workloads (3).

Running Storwize data compression does not affect business and IT processes or other applications and does not require special skills to maintain. Product installation can be completed in as little as four hours, with little or no downtime.

“Real-time data compression helps address a significant client need — making it affordable to analyze and make sense of massive amounts of data in order to provide new services,” said Brian Truskowski, general manager, IBM System Storage and Networking. “By adding Storwize to our innovative portfolio of storage solutions, IBM is better equipped than ever to help clients handle growing quantities of data and make more of it available for analytics.”

“IBM has the strongest vision for the future direction of storage and we are pleased to become a part of that vision,” said Ed Walsh, CEO, Storwize. “Our customers will benefit significantly as our talented employees and innovative storage solutions merge with IBM’s world-wide reach in sales, service and research and development.”

Storwize joins other key IBM storage acquisitions and innovations that improve storage efficiency and analytics, including:

ProtecTIER deduplication technology that can be used together with compression technology to significantly improve storage efficiency.
The XIV high-end disk storage architecture that provides the performance needed to make data quickly available for analysis.
IBM’s Scale-out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), invented by IBM Research to support multiple petabytes of storage in a single file system.
The IBM System Storage Easy Tier feature, which uses ongoing performance monitoring to move only the most active data to faster solid-state drives (SSDs) on IBM’s flagship DS8700 disk storage system.

The Storwize appliance will work with popular NAS systems, including IBM N series and SONAS, as well as non-IBM NAS systems from EMC, HP, NetApp and others. Storwize real-time compression can provide added value to clients already using data deduplication, thin provisioning and other storage efficiency technologies.

This acquisition continues IBM’s investment in real-time compression, which has been proven for DB2 and Informix to reduce the overall total cost of information ownership by up to 80%.

About Storwize
Storwize provides online storage optimization through real-time data compression, delivering dramatic cost reduction without performance degradation. Based on the Storwize’s Random Access Compression Engine™ (RACE), Storwize STN appliances transparently compress primary storage between 50 and 80 percent without changes in performance, storage, applications, networks, or processes. RACE ensures that Storwize appliances deliver real-time random access and deterministic, lossless data compression to maintain reliable and consistent performance and data integrity. Storwize helps slow the growth of storage acquisition and related storage life-cycle costs, including reducing the amount of storage to be managed, powered, and cooled. Storwize is headquartered in Marlborough, MA with offices worldwide. Storwize, optimize without compromise.

About IBM
For more information on IBM, visit www.ibm.com. For more information on IBM Storage, go to www.ibm.com/systems/storage/.

Source: IBM Acquires Storwize for Data Compression Capabilities

(The Hosting News) – GoBetterTogether.com. officially launched their new website this week. The site aims to capture Memorys from large crowd participants to record history in an unprecedented fashion. Memorys are equal parts a business solution for event planners and a fresh new take on networking.

In a Memorys Conversation Post (on the site) Jimmy Legg writes, ” By capturing history as it happens we can assist everyone in learning much faster about missteps of the past and assist future generations in avoiding a similar fate.” With Public Memorys the world can access a greater knowledge database of world events with millions of contributors or a small town street fair with a few hundred or hundreds of thousand.

The site offers a definition of the Memorys feature as a culmination of individual memories of an event or moment in time as seen from the attendees point of view. These Memorys are created with written conversations, video and pictures. GoBetterTogether’s crowd resourceful segmented social networking platform that record history as it happens from crowd participants.

As a part of the launch, the home page announces a free HD video camera for best edited video submission by September 1, 2010. On The FAQ’s Page a statement reads, “ The Past Will Never Look The Same”.

Source: Capturing History on Video, New Site Launches

(The Hosting News) – GoBetterTogether.com. officially launched their new website this week. The site aims to capture Memorys from large crowd participants to record history in an unprecedented fashion. Memorys are equal parts a business solution for event planners and a fresh new take on networking.

In a Memorys Conversation Post (on the site) Jimmy Legg writes, ” By capturing history as it happens we can assist everyone in learning much faster about missteps of the past and assist future generations in avoiding a similar fate.” With Public Memorys the world can access a greater knowledge database of world events with millions of contributors or a small town street fair with a few hundred or hundreds of thousand.

The site offers a definition of the Memorys feature as a culmination of individual memories of an event or moment in time as seen from the attendees point of view. These Memorys are created with written conversations, video and pictures. GoBetterTogether’s crowd resourceful segmented social networking platform that record history as it happens from crowd participants.

As a part of the launch, the home page announces a free HD video camera for best edited video submission by September 1, 2010. On The FAQ’s Page a statement reads, “ The Past Will Never Look The Same”.

Source: Capturing History on Video, New Site Launches

(The Hosting News) – Ubersmith recently announced the release of the latest version of its flagship datacenter management software, Ubersmith DE Version 1.8, with Natural Language Search across all of its core modules. Now, data center managers can find and quickly correlate client account information, support issues, and device and usage data across the platform 85% faster. The new search tool returns more relevant and nearly instant results from very large data sets; and, as part of the leading automation software for the web hosting and data center market, it will save users thousands of hours per year, while improving reaction time to critical issues.
Complex searches that used to take 30-60 seconds now take less than five seconds thanks to the integration of powerful Apache SOLR and Zend Lucene search engines. The search tools also allow advanced screening capabilities in instances where either limited or obscure information is all that is available, such as support ticket information, one of the most important use cases, or IP addresses in use.
“The latest release of Ubersmith DE meets the service provider market’s needs for drastic improvements in speed when dealing with large data sets and user bases, which is typical for Ubersmith clients” said Dan Cech, chief technology officer. “As we make critical advancements in scalability and performance, we deliver on Ubersmith’s promise to bring continuous innovation, greater efficiency, cutting-edge features and time and cost savings to our customers.”

The new natural language search functionality is just one of hundreds of feature enhancements added in Ubersmith DE Version 1.8 in order to maintain the company’s position as the leader in streamlining data center operations and improving the efficiency and automation of service providers across the lifecycle of datacenter operations, assets, and customers.

Other Feature Enhancements in Ubersmith DE Version 1.8 include:
•    New support feature for “Level 2″ credit card processing helps merchants save money on transaction fees: This new features sends tax details along with each transaction to help merchants accept more credit cards and qualify for the best rates.  Merchants with large numbers of customers and high transaction volumes (such as government and large corporations) will benefit by getting higher approval percentages and more favorable rates.
•    System-wide and Support Manager User Interface (UI) enhancements help better manage large numbers of data, especially support tickets, by adding usability improvements and time-saving data correlation on the support screens, as well as the screens to manage billing, client accounts, orders, permissions, and reports and monitoring.
•    Integrated device support has been expanded to new switch and rebooter/PDU models, adding to the hundreds of specialty datacenter switches, servers and appliances that Ubersmith already supports.
•    Expanded virtualization features to manage cloud and hybrid offerings via the Virtuozzo API.
•    Several new API calls, including support for tags, enhancements to IP management handling and order queue interaction
•    SSL certificate provisioning enhancements
•    Plus, over 200 bug fixes, speed and usability improvements.
Hosting companies, managed services provider (MSPs), public cloud vendors, SAAS providers and enterprises can now manage multiple areas of the operations and business faster and more effectively, including: billing automation, management and provisioning of devices, support and trouble ticket resolution, customer relationship management (CRM), usage and alert monitoring and integrated financial and business reporting.

Ubersmith DE 1.8 is designed to fit the needs of all sizes of service providers, from startup cloud providers all the way to the largest ISPs and enterprises and is available starting from a low, monthly base rate.  Each installation of Ubersmith comes with comprehensive migration assistance and full 24/7 support from Ubersmith’s team of expert engineers. Upgrades are performed by contacting customer support.

About Ubersmith.
Ubersmith is a pioneer in Web-based automation for the global web hosting, data center and service provider industries and the market leader in automated data center management tools among businesses generating $1 – $20 million in revenue from cloud, virtual hosting, and dedicated servers offerings.  Founded in 2003 and based in Troy, NY, the privately-held company was the first to offer automated billing and monitoring of server usage to the IT infrastructure industry. The company is the only company serving a significant share of the market with a single-platform workflow solution offering real-time billing of bandwidth and overage usage, alongside mission-critical features to automate device lifecycle management, customer relationship management (CRM), support and trouble ticket resolution, real-time performance monitoring, and advanced profitability evaluation and business reporting. Please visit our website at www.ubersmith.com.

Source: Ubersmith Adds Brand New Advanced Search Tools

(GAWKWIRE) - Neptuny, a leading solution provider in IT Performance Optimization and Capacity and Virtualization Planning solutions, today announced that it has been mentioned in Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management, 2010” report, published by Milind Govekar on 12th July 2010 among sample vendors for different sections “Virtual Server Resource Capacity-Planning Tools”, “Saas Tools for IT Operations” and “Resource Capacity Planning Tools”.
 
Neptuny Caplan is the Capacity and Virtualization Planning solution that enables customers to associate capacity needs to business drivers. Caplan provides unique features, such as the ability to manage any technology domain (physical and virtual servers, databases, applications, storage, network, facilities and more) and the agent-less and highly automated architecture. Caplan is also available as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to allow customers to quickly implement their Capacity Management process. Caplan has been successfully implemented by major US and European companies to reduce costs and avoid risks and to ensuring a better IT and business alignment.
 
Giuseppe Nardiello, Neptuny Business Development Manager comments: “We are happy to be mentioned three times in Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management, 2010” report. We believe that this confirms Neptuny Caplan as one of a few solutions providing both the benefits of a traditional Capacity Management tool and of a Virtualization Planning tool, including SaaS flexible pricing model.”
 
About the Gartner Hype Cycle
The Hype Cycle is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and/its affiliates and is reused with permission. Hype Cycles are graphical representations of the relative maturity of technologies, IT methodologies and management disciplines. They are intended solely as a research tool, and not as a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
 
About Neptuny
Neptuny is a leading provider of IT Performance Optimization and Capacity Planning solutions. Neptuny is Caplan, the Capacity and Virtualization Planning solution that allows customers to safely optimize their physical, virtual and elastic IT infrastructures. Neptuny references are major US and European companies operating in different market segments (Telco, Banking, Insurance, Energy, Retail and Travel). For more information about Neptuny, visit www.neptuny.com
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