News: Web Hosting Marketers, Debuts FFMpeg Server Implementation
Venice, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 8, 2008 - Hosting marketers management revealed that it will start implementing the installation of ffmpeg, mencoder and other software's on all its servers.
The decision is based upon the ability to offer its customers a complete on-demand solution for collecting, uploading and publishing videos. Hosting Marketers currently hosts more than 11,000 web sites in the USA, divided over three data centers. In order to offer its customers additional storage services, the USA fastest-growing hosting provider ordered the implementation of ffmpeg and related libraries on all its servers.
Paul Santos, Managing Director, at Hosting Marketers noted, ''As new technologies continue to emerge, hosting providers are forced to allocate additional budget to remain technologically competitive. But in the current economic climate this is becoming unsustainable and hosts are waking up to the inherent benefits of outsourcing key parts of their IT infrastructure. By partnering with Hosting Marketers, video sites webmasters can take advantage of this market opportunity. Our hosted services and solutions are flexible and scalable enough to handle the full range of businesses from small to large and our pricing model offers attractive revenue opportunities.''
The Hosting Marketers ticks all the boxes and is designed to deliver the right offer, at the right time, in the right place, to the right people backed up by Lewinsky prediction that the number of worldwide enterprise sites using Video Hosting or a Youtube Clone type of site will grow from 1% in 2007 to 20% of the total web sites by 2012. This is reinforced by their assertion that 'the market for video sites services is poised for rapid growth due to the rising popularity.
Hosting Marketers, Inc, was formed in 2003 to provide hosted and internet based services to small and medium sized businesses. With data centers in Houston and New York, more than 20,000 customers benefit from ffmpeg hosting services and website hosting, with quality assured support and guaranteed service levels. Hosting Marketers is USA leading provider of Video Hosting solutions with over 11,000 business customers. Around 50% of Hosting Marketers' business comes via indirect channels. Hosting Marketers is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the Microsoft EMEA Hosting Service Provider of the Year 2006 and is both ISO9001 and ISO27001 Certified.
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News: Hosting Services Firm, NaturalInsight, Debuts Certified Partner Program
Sterling, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 8, 2008 - Web-based workforce management solutions, NaturalInsight, has developed a Certified Partner Program, launching with the integration of voice infrastructure hosting and Omega Solutions, DemandVoice.
Through an open application program interface (API) environment, NaturalInsight partners with select technology service providers including leading telephony, recruiting, professional employment organization (PEOs), payroll providers, and others - enabling such value-added capabilities as expense management, accounting, timekeeping, HR outsourcing, mobile access, and more. This collaborative technology approach creates a one-stop-shop for all aspects of people, place and project management via the web- building on NaturalInsight's growing platform for workforce management excellence.
Mark Rayburn, President and CEO of DemandVoice noted, ''NaturalInsight is more than just a portal into information; it's a business driver for workforce success. The integration of DemandVoice hosting services extends the value and reach of NaturalInsight by providing the exchange of real-time data directly with mobile field agents. The Certified Partner Program leverages our expertise and infrastructure to quickly satisfy customer demand with an easy to use, secure, and scalable solution - we're proud to be a part of this program's success.''
Partners make significant mutual commitments to client success including joint marketing, training and business development programs. Leveraging the momentum that NaturalInsight is generating for the on-demand industry, current Certified Partners are experiencing tremendous success by joining the program.
With the addition of DemandVoice, NaturalInsight customers will be able to leverage innovative technology for creating comprehensive voice-enabled environments without the hassle of complex telephony requirements. Through a partnered, fully hosted approach, DemandVoice builds, maintains and grows voice infrastructures, giving its customers the ability to remain focused on their core competencies.
Omega Solutions gives NaturalInsight customers the ability to intelligently and easily outsource a variety of employee related tasks such as human resource management and payroll, saving organizations both time and money. With Omega, organizations also experience significant savings on insurance, taxes, worker's compensation and other administrative costs through direct market relationships.
David Curtis of Omega Solutions remarked, ''As a market leading PEO, Omega Solutions' goal is to give organizations the ability to leverage both proven technology and experience for a highly effective, single source for managing staff and administrative tasks. Partnering with NaturalInsight extends this opportunity by enabling organizations to not only manage internal, but also effectively manage external, workforce issues and related projects. We are excited to be a part of their network.''
Stefan Midford, President and CEO of NaturalInsight commented, ''NaturalInsight's vision is to become the on-demand hub for workforce management, supplying all the necessary components for success in one easy-to-access, user-friendly location. Our Certified Partner Program will play a large role in making this vision a reality, while also strengthening our customers' ability to turn their distributed teams into profit drivers. We welcome DemandVoice and Omega Solutions to our program; we value them for their innovation and expertise and look forward to quickly growing this team of leading solution providers.''
DemandVoice, LLC is a voice application hosting company headquartered in Atlanta, GA USA. We're experts in Operations and offer telephony Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in managed co-lo, hosted, and ASP models. Our standards-based, voice application hosting network integrates industry-leading VoiceXML, Advanced Speech Recognition (ASR), and Text-to-Speech/Speech Synthesis (TTS) servers to provide customers and partners with on-demand capacity for speech-enabled and touch-tone IVR applications. DemandVoice houses its fully redundant platforms in quality-certified, geographically dispersed, carrier-neutral facilities designed for security, reliability, and high throughput. If you want the capacity to be heard, but not the large capital expenditures, delays, and risks of integrating and deploying voice hosting infrastructure then accelerate your time-to-market with DemandVoice's state-of-the-art global network.
Omega Solutions is a PEO, or (Professional Employment Organization) - an 'enhanced' payroll and Human Resource service. Partnering with Omega saves organizations money, since the administrative fee is less than the savings Omega can provide to its customers. As a PEO, Omega has access to markets that allow it to significantly reduce costs for worker's compensation insurance, state unemployment tax, group medical insurance, and possibly Single Business Tax, as well as other costs of administration.
NaturalInsight provides leading edge Web-based workforce management and data collection software for industries with widely distributed workforces. A fully integrated suite of services, NaturalInsight allows for streamlined staff management, task scheduling, project tracking and integrated reporting of activities performed in many locations. The company's hosted solution model allows clients to minimize technology investment while improving overall performance and accountability.
Austin, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 8, 2008 - Hosted social commerce applications firm, Bazaarvoice, has implemented its Ask and Answer, on the Buy.com Internet Superstore website.
Neel Grover, CEO and President of Buy.com noted, ''We are committed to continuously improving our site to make it more user-friendly and ensure customers have the tools to make educated purchasing decisions. The Ask and Answer feature will give our customers more information up front and ultimately drive higher conversion rates and return traffic.''
Shoppers can now post product questions alongside standard product information to be answered by other consumers who have direct experience with the product in order to help custrs make the best possible purchasing decisions. Questions and answers can be accessed by any Buy.com visitor, complementing the company's existing ratings and reviews capabilities with a fresh source of relevant and engaging user-generated content.
In addition to Ask and Answer, Buy.com's rich features include BuyTV, an entertainment platform that includes a nationally televised shopping show plus online streaming video reviews on product pages, where manufacturers educate shoppers about their offerings. Other site features include a robust marketplace of more than 750 retailers and competitive price comparisons on more than a million product pages. Buy.com selected Bazaarvoice to expand its site offerings because of its cutting-edge social commerce tools.
Brett Hurt, CEO of Bazaarvoice remarked, ''Buy.com's Ask and Answer implementation adds an important new dimension to the Buy.com shopping experience. Online businesses lose as many as 67% of consumers due to a lack of online product information, but 83% of online shoppers say they would make purchases if sites offered increased interactive elements. Bazaarvoice Ask and Answer provides the additional information customers need to convert.''
Buy.com is a leading e-commerce company with more than 11 million cumulative customer accounts, focused on providing its customers with a rewarding shopping experience and a broad selection of high-quality technology and entertainment retail goods at competitive prices. Buy.com offers millions of products in a range of categories, including consumer electronics, computer hardware and software, cell phones, books, music, videos, games, digital music downloads, toys, bags, home and outdoor, baby, jewelry, shoes and sporting goods.
The company's BuyTV offering featured on the site also is a nationally syndicated shopping program available on TV and through distribution avenues such as Yahoo and YouTube. Founded in June of 1997, Buy.com is located in Aliso Viejo, California.
Bazaarvoice offers outsourced technology, services, analytics, and expertise to help companies enhance the online shopping experience with social commerce applications that drive sales. Bazaarvoice Ratings and Reviews, Ask and Answer, and Stories deliver immediate success by minimizing implementation risk and maximizing the strategic impact of user-generated review content through complete customization, deep integration, community management, advanced analytics, search engine optimization, and syndication across the Web and to offline channels.
Bazaarvoice was named to the 2007 Red Herring Global 100 and 2006 Red Herring Top 100 lists and received the 2006 ClickZ Marketing Innovation of the Year award. Bazaarvoice currently serves over 225 eCommerce leaders including Borders, Dell, Macy's, Office Depot, Inc., Overstock.com, PETCO, P and G, QVC, Sears, and ZipRealty. The company has headquarters in Austin, TX, and offices in London, Paris, and Singapore.
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News: Web Hosting Company Monthly Rankings, Released by Netcraft
Bath, United Kindom - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 7, 2008 - Web hosting and managed services firm, Verio, has been named by Netcraft, as the most reliable hosting company site for July 2008, closely followed by Tiscali.
Verio offers a complete collection of web hosting services, including domain registration, web design, marketing, shared hosting, dedicated servers and virtual and managed private servers. Prior to being sold to NTT in 2000, Verio's initial growth was achieved by raising funds to purchase more than 45 ISPs, web hosting companies and e-commerce companies from around the world. Verio continues to operate as an NTT Communications company.
Tiscali appears in second place this month and continues to operate its main site from Apache running on a Linux operating system. Tiscali is a European telecommunications company based in Italy and markets its offerings predominantly in Italy, the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Their core business is providing internet access, with two million ADSL subscribers in the UK and Italy. Tiscali had the most reliable hosting company site in February this year.
Six of July's top ten hosting companies run Linux on their main sites, including Verio and Tiscali. New York Internet uses FreeBSD, while Go Daddy uses Windows Server 2003. Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. Further information on the measurement process and current measurements are available.
Verio Inc. is a provider of hosting and managed services for small and midmarket companies and partners worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT America, US subsidiary of NTT Communications, which provides complementary global network access reaching over 200 countries worldwide. The company offers businesses a range of Internet services, including web hosting, managed services and value-added professional service offerings. Verio supports its operations with scalable global infrastructure and systems including the NTT Communications Global IP Network, and provides business solutions to customers and partners in more than 146 countries.
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England, funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways: Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing. Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet. Accepting advertising on the Netcraft web sites. Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Clients include Aegon, British Telecom, Capita, John Lewis, Lloyds of London, Microsoft, Rackspace, and Securicor.
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News: Digital River Web Hosting Provider, Chosen to Power Shure
Minneapolis, Minnesota - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 7, 2008 - Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River, Inc., has signed an e-commerce agreement with Shure Incorporated.
As a manufacturer of microphones, earphones and audio electronics, the company chose Digital River to design and launch a new online store to support the marketing and sales of Shure's consumer and professional audio equipment in the United States.
Don Peterson, Senior Vice President of global client development noted, ''We are in business to help our clients navigate and manage the complexities involved in running their e-commerce operations. Leading electronics manufacturers like Shure continue to rely on our global e-commerce expertise and comprehensive solution to create seamless online shopping experiences for their customers and help grow their businesses.''
To help Shure expand its online business for its growing personal listening and accessory product lines, Digital River is providing end-to-end e-commerce services. For the new store, Digital River is managing online store orders, physical product fulfillment, fraud prevention screening and 24X7 customer service. Digital River also will provide online marketing tools to help Shure implement marketing programs and online product promotions designed to convert traffic into sales and build customer loyalty.
Mark Karnes, Executive Director of global marketing noted, ''We selected Digital River as our e-commerce partner because of its global experience and demonstrated success working in online markets. The company's scalable systems and e-marketing expertise and services not only met our technology requirements, but also will provide an important foundation for driving future growth for our business.''
Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated manufactures microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the company has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure's diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones and wireless microphone systems for performers and presenters, award-winning earphones and headsets for MP3 players and smartphones, and top-rated phonograph cartridges for professional DJs. Today, Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance is a top priority.
Shure Incorporated corporate headquarters is located in Niles, Ill., in the United States. The Company has additional manufacturing facilities and regional sales offices in China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, The United Kingdom, and the United States.
Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company's comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.
For more information about Shure Incorporated, please visit: www.shure.com.
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