News: 1&1 Internet Web Hosting Firm, Expands Bandwidth Network
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 22, 2008 - Webhosting company, and subsidiary of United Internet, 1 and 1 Internet, has completed a comprehensive extension of its wide area network (WAN), with an overall bandwidth of more than 120 Gigabit per second.
For the first time, 1 and 1 is connected directly to a large Internet Exchange point outside of Europe at Equinix in Chicago. The development means that the external connectivity of the world's largest web host has tripled over the past twelve months.
Andreas Gauger, Chairman of the Board, 1 and 1 Internet Inc., noted, ''With the upgrade of our Internet bandwidth, our millions of web hosting customers in Europe and the U.S. can be sure that their content will reach Internet users worldwide even faster and more reliably. As a result of multimedia applications like video streaming, the demand for bandwidth has grown enormously over the last few years.''
The data volume transmitted from 1 and 1's data centers has in fact nearly doubled over the past year from 3,500 Terabytes (3.5 million Gigabytes) in January 2007, to 6,500 Terabytes in December 2007.
Mr. Gauger added, ''The continuous upgrade of 1 and 1's data network shows that despite pessimistic forecasts from some, the boundaries of Internet growth have not yet been reached.''
In November, U.S. research company, Nemertes, warned in a well known study that Internet infrastructure might no longer supply the growing demands of private and business users over the next 3 to 5 years. With its latest network upgrades and further measures planned for 2008, 1 and 1 feels well prepared for continuously growing demand.
Over the next year, 1 and 1 will focus on extending its U.S. network. In Chicago, at Equinix, 1 and 1 is for the first time connected to a large Internet Exchange point outside of Europe. In March, 1 and 1 will more than double the external connectivity of its Lenexa, Kansas data center. With more than 600,000 customers, 1 and 1 is presently the fifth-largest web host in the U.S. market.
Besides the upgrade of its wide area network, 1 and 1 has also made changes to its underlying technology. Instead of SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy), now Ethernet technology - well-known from corporate and home networks - is being utilized.
Mr. Gauger added, ''Ethernet can be handled more easily, and by switching to powerful routers from U.S. based manufacturer Foundry Networks, we can even save money. 1 and 1 benefits from an additional cost saving potential through the network extension, as data streams can be distributed optimally through new peerings and routing alternatives.''
1 and 1 was established in 1988 and hosts more than 9 million domain names, with over 7 million customer contracts, 9 million domains and 81 million email accounts. The company's U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. 1 and 1 features an array of services, from instant domain packages to all-inclusive shared hosting plans, dedicated servers and ready-to-run eShops. 1 and 1 is a Microsoft Joint Development Partner, and works with other paramount companies such as Google, Plesk, Symantec, and HP/Compaq.
For more information about 1 and 1 Internet, please visit: www.1and1.com.
Posted by editor on Tuesday, January 22 @ 11:32:50 EST (450 reads)
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News: Web Hosted Time Device, Developed by Attendance on Demand Firm
San Mateo, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 22, 2008 - Independent marketing solutions firm, Coremetrics, has reported over 70% growth in new business for 2007, and a compound annual growth rate of 61% over the past five years.
Over the course of the year, Coremetrics has dramatically increased its customer base by 46%, adding clients from diverse sectors, such as B and H Photo-Video, Consumer Cellular, Desjardins Group, Diageo, eImprovement.com LLC, Lastar, Loews Hotels, Newegg.com, Orkin, Inc., Panasonic, Publishers Clearing House, Shane Co. and VEGAS.com. The company also maintained its leading position as the provider of services to the top online retailers in the industry.
Joe Davis, President and CEO of Coremetrics noted, ''Over the next year, our own internal research shows that overall digital marketing spend will reach approximately $22 billion, so it's imperative that brands understand how to maximize these efforts, so they can reap substantial ROI. With recent consolidation in the digital marketing optimization space leading to some uncertainty, companies are looking for a clear, consistent partner, who is vested in their long-term strategy and success. Coremetrics has proved its strong leadership in this industry, and we look forward to an even more successful 2008.''
In September 2007, Coremetrics Online Analytics was named as a Web Analytics Leader in The Forrester Wave(TM): Web Analytics, Q3 2007 report, with the highest score for Strategy, a section of the report designed to predict a vendor's likelihood of future success. In addition, the company received the highest score in Product Direction, a sub-category designed to showcase a vendor's product strategy.
During 2007, Coremetrics launched several new products and enhancements to its digital marketing optimization suite: Marketing Attribution with 3D Marketing Analytics, Coremetrics 2008, Coremetrics SMB Solutions and LIVEmail 2.0. With these new products, Coremetrics is able to provide its customers with multi-faceted analysis of their digital marketing strategies, in order to fully comprehend online consumer behavior over a lifetime, rather than just at the first or last click.
Additional 2007 Coremetrics highlights include: -- International expansion: A key part of Coremetrics' strategy in 2007 was continued growth and increased presence in overseas markets, with a major focus on EMEA and the Asia Pacific region. The company announced the appointment of key executives across EMEA and in Australia, who will be core to the company's ongoing international growth and expansion. During the course of 2008, Coremetrics plans to significantly increase its headcount in the EMEA region, as well as establishing presences in China and Japan. -- Coremetrics once again partnered with IBM, capitalizing on Web 2.0 features to provide embedded analysis for WebSphere Commerce Web 2.0 Store customers, and to provide customers with a more streamlined user experience. Among the companies to benefit from this partnership was philosophy, Inc. -- Performance improvements -- During 2007, Coremetrics continued to focus on increased scalability, with a 40% increase in processed data and more than 400 trillion transactions managed. It also cemented its position as an innovative SaaS provider, uniquely positioned to offer hands-on business support in conjunction with an on-demand solution that embeds industry-specific best practices, helping clients interpret and make best use of their data.
Coremetrics is an on-demand web analytics and precision marketing solution provider, a web analytics platform that captures and stores all customer and visitor clickstream activity to build LIVE (Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience) Profiles. The company's LIVE Profiles serve as the foundation for digital marketing initiatives. Coremetrics services more than 1,000 brands and has delivered over $300 million in documented ROI in the past two years. Coremetrics is also the integrated web analytics solution for IBM WebSphere Commerce, delivering a best-of-breed multichannel business analytics solution. The company is privately held with funding from Accel Partners, FTVentures, and Highland Capital Partners and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Posted by editor on Tuesday, January 22 @ 11:20:27 EST (397 reads)
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News: Microsoft, Web Hosting Provider, Acquires Former Disney CIO
Redmond, Washington - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 22, 2008 - Microsoft Corporation, has hired industry veteran, Tony Scott, as its new Chief Information Officer and corporate Vice President, to join its executive leadership team, and run its global IT operations.
Mr. Scott, 56, will manage Microsoft's 4,000-person global information technology organization that manages critical technology systems supporting the company's worldwide sales, marketing and services efforts, as well as enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes. Mr. Scott will officially assume his new role at Microsoft in February and report to Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. Turner remarked, ''Our internal IT systems and operations play a critical role in the success of our business and how we deliver new technologies and advancements to our customers in the marketplace. We will leverage Tony's deep experience in running global IT organizations, and his focus will be in three key areas. First, we want to run a world-class IT department, leveraging Tony's track record and deep knowledge of operational excellence to achieve the highest level of business value by utilizing IT. Second, as Microsoft's biggest user of our products and solutions, Tony and the IT team will drive our solutions and deployment throughout our enterprise and provide valuable input and feedback to our product groups. In turn, this will ultimately improve our customer satisfaction in the marketplace. Third, we will call upon Tony to connect and collaborate with CIOs around the world to regularly share best practices with our customers and partners.''
A respected industry veteran, Mr. Scott brings more than 25 years of experience running global IT operations for leading corporations. Most recently, Mr. Scott served as senior vice president and chief information officer of The Walt Disney Co., where he was the first CIO to manage companywide IT. During his time at Disney, Mr. Scott led the company through a major transformation, which included improving the reliability and effectiveness of the company's information systems, shifting focus more toward employee enablement, and upgrading core IT infrastructure including datacenter reliability. Before joining Disney, Mr. Scott served as chief technology officer at General Motors Corp. and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co.
Mr. Scott noted, ''More than any other company, Microsoft knows how important it is to leverage IT for strategic business advantage, and I look forward to building on this success in my new role. So few places offer the chance to expand your skills and have an impact across such a broad range of technologies - from services to unified communications to mobility. It is a great opportunity, and I am excited to work with this team to help Microsoft advance its business forward through IT.''
For more information about Microsoft, please visit: www.microsoft.com.
Posted by editor on Tuesday, January 22 @ 11:08:25 EST (439 reads)
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News: Search Engine for IT Utility, Splunk, Releases 2008 Forecast
San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 22, 2008 - IT Search company, Splunk, has released information indicating 2007 forecasts of over 500 customers, a growing partner program, and major new product releases.
Splunk announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2007, revealing that it exceeded its sales forecast for the quarter by 35 percent and achieved 133 percent of its forecast for the fiscal year. Splunk ended the year with more than 500 enterprise, service provider and government agency customers. During the quarter, Splunk added more than 100 new customers and upgraded 40 customers to higher data indexing levels.
The three most active industries contributing to the quarter were financial services, online services, telecommunications and government agencies. New customers include Bear Stearns and Company Inc., Orbitz, AT and T Wireless and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Splunk's partner ecosystem continues to account for a growing percentage of the company's business. More than 25 percent of fourth quarter sales were through OEM, system integrator and resale partners. New partners added during the quarter include Radware, Voltage and Penguin Computing. The fourth quarter also saw the introduction of the Splunk Preview release program giving customers early access to product features and functionality. The goal of the program is to provide an early view of new product and encourage user participation in the product development process.
The first two releases included transaction search and change identification, as well as the preview of Splunk for Microsoft Windows. Splunk 3.1 also became available in the fourth quarter. Major product milestones in 2007 included Splunk 3.0 and Splunk for AIX, both made available for general download in the third quarter. Delivered only 15 months after the last major version, Splunk 3.0 takes IT Search beyond the scope of log management and troubleshooting with interactive reporting of search results, dashboards and personalization, as well as an expanded search language with new statistical and arithmetic operators. Splunk for AIX allows customers running mission critical AIX applications to dig into everything happening at every layer of their AIX systems from one place with Splunk.
Michael Baum, CEO and Co-Founder of Splunk remarked, ''Until now, it made sense to manage data centers in silos -- break it down into manageable pieces, get the right point tool for the right job and move through distinct operational areas. But tremendous amounts of data, complex web applications, and virtualization have broken out of the silos, are crashing into compliance and security issues, rendering point tools limited or useless, and merging operational and business considerations that previously stood alone. To solve these problems customers need the ability to integrate any IT data from all their applications, servers and network devices into a broader view -- not just to make sense of the data, but transform it into valuable information assets.''
Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's IT Search software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. More than 500 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 150,000 users are utilizing Splunk.
Posted by editor on Tuesday, January 22 @ 11:00:33 EST (1433 reads)
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News: Web Hosting Company, eMonsterhost, Deploys .MOBI Web Site Builder
Green Bay, Wisconsin - (Website Hosting Directory) - January 21, 2008 - Web hosting provider, eMonsterhost, Inc., is offering the WebSite Tonight product, providing key features designed to facilitate the .MOBI transformation.
The new application is designed to allow anyone to design and create a .MOBI-compliant web sites easily and affordably. Pages designed for .MOBI are optimized for on-the-go devices, making them easy to load and navigate from the smaller, more limited screens of wireless phones and PDAs.
According to recent reports, 100,000-plus .MOBI domain names were registered during the first four days of the Landrush period beginning Sept. 26. General registration opens up to the public on Oct. 11 when even more registrations are anticipated. To put the excitement into perspective, it took more than 10 years for other top-level domains to garner 100,000 registrations in the early days of the Internet. The fast popularity of .MOBI registrations may support estimates by Yankee Group, an industry analyst, that the mobile data services market could reach $698 billion in yearly sales by 2009, according to a recent CNNmoney.com article.
Companies large and small and across all industries can embrace the power of the .MOBI top-level domain. Using WebSite Tonight offered by eMonsterhost, users can easily create Web sites that are formatted specifically to provide on-the-go mobile content and services. For example, web sites that are .MOBI compliant are designed with content and graphics suited for a two-inch screen rather than a 17-inch desktop monitor. Long download times and excessive scrolling can be a thing of the past.
Other enhancements to WebSite Tonight include calendar control, photo album enhancements, animated splash pages with sound, music and video support and an expanded workspace.
For more information about the WebSite Tonight program, please visit: www.emonsterhost.com.
Posted by editor on Monday, January 21 @ 11:26:00 EST (682 reads)
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