News: Rackspace Web Hosting Firm, Deploys Hosted E-Mail Spam, Phishing Protection
Blacksburg, Virginia - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 3, 2008 - Managed web hosting and IT services firm, Rackspace Managed Hosting's Mailtrust solution, has deployed the Cloudmark Authority for Spam Protection.
Over 100,000 business hosting customers utilize Mailtrust, which has deployed the Cloudmark Authority plug-in for Apache SpamAssassin to improve message filtering accuracy and boost system performance. Cloudmark's comprehensive message filtering solution, combined with Mailtrust's proven hosted business-class e-mail services, gives demanding business customers unmatched messaging capabilities, higher e-mail service quality and a markedly improved user experience.
Pat Matthews, President of Mailtrust noted, ''Mailtrust's mission is to be the best hosted business-class e-mail provider and partnering with Cloudmark furthers this goal. With spam making up more than 95 percent of all e-mail traffic, it is important for us to provide our customers with a reliable solution that stops unwanted e-mail traffic before it impacts internal messaging infrastructure and storage. Also, Cloudmark's automatic threat protection has enabled us to refocus engineering and administrative resources away from maintenance issues in order to be able to focus more on our customers' needs.''
After evaluating several solutions, Mailtrust selected the Cloudmark Authority plug-in for Apache SpamAssassin because of the following: -- Improved Filtering Accuracy -- Cloudmark rapidly detects all categories of spam and phishing with more than 98 percent accuracy and near zero false positives. High accuracy is maintained by an in-memory cache of the latest threat fingerprints, which is updated by Cloudmark every 30-60 seconds. -- Fingerprinting Technology and Real-time Feedback -- Cloudmark combines Advanced Message Fingerprinting with real-time reporting from a network of more than 600 million trusted reporters around the world. Mailtrust's customers join Cloudmark's Global Threat Network and are empowered to report any unwanted message reaching their inbox. This unique combination of technology and user reporting enables Cloudmark to detect new threat outbreaks hours or days ahead of competitive solutions. -- Reduced Server Load, CPU Usage and Power Consumption -- Cloudmark's fingerprinting technology requires significantly less computing resources than alternative filtering solutions. With Cloudmark, Mailtrust was able to cut the number of filtering servers it used by 50 percent. Savings on spam filtering infrastructure, power consumption and administration are passed on to customers in the form of improved service and lower service charges.
Cloudmark also integrates seamlessly with Mailtrust's new integrated control panel, which allows customers to control both Exchange and Noteworthy e-mail services from one central location. Users can now also manage their Cloudmark spam settings through Mailtrust's new control panel, thereby enabling a single domain with both types of mailboxes and one shared set of spam controls.
Jamie de Guerre, Chief Technology Officer of Cloudmark remarked, ''The Cloudmark Authority plug-in for SpamAssassin offers a seamless way for e-mail hosting companies like Mailtrust to benefit from greatly improved filtering accuracy and performance without having to change their system architecture. Mailtrust is known in the hosting industry as an innovator and a leader in customer satisfaction. We look forward to working with Mailtrust to help deliver on its promise of providing the most secure, reliable and cost-effective business e-mail service in the market today.''
Cloudmark Authority is an out-of-the box solution, which integrates with virtually any Apache SpamAssassin environment. Like Apache SpamAssassin, Cloudmark Authority is compatible with a wide variety of e-mail systems, including procmail, sendmail, Postfix, qmail and many others. Already in use at more than 100 of the world's largest service providers and mobile operator networks, Cloudmark Authority is uniquely architected to block spam, phishing and virus threats on virtually any communications platform. Backed by a unique and powerful combination of Advanced Message Fingerprinting and real-time feedback from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network, Cloudmark Authority is able to rapidly detect even the most advanced messaging threats, including mutating spam and phishing attacks.
Mailtrust, a division of Rackspace, provides more than 100,000 small, medium, and geographically dispersed companies with business-class email hosting. The company manages and maintains the email service and hosting infrastructure, freeing up IT resources and eliminating the need for customers to purchase email-related hardware, software, and security services. The company's mission critical email systems are housed in Rackspace's carrier-grade data centers to help ensure uptime. Founded in 1999, and acquired by Rackspace in 2007, Mailtrust is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia and was recently named the 217th fastest growing, privately held company in America by Inc. Magazine.
Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering the most accurate, high-performance and comprehensive real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed, mobile and social networks. Cloudmark patented solutions combine Advanced Message Fingerprinting technology based on innovative, highly efficient algorithms and a Global Threat Network consisting of trusted reporters in every country across the globe to provide security intelligence and filtering at all points of the messaging infrastructure. Cloudmark solutions protect more than 600 million mailboxes for the world’s largest service provider networks, including over 75 percent of major ISPs in the United States and Japan. Cloudmark's customers include EarthLink, Comcast, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, NTT OCN and Swisscom as well as leading hosting providers, Mailtrust, Synacor, NuVox and others. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers' IT departments. Rackspace's portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.
For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.
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News: Search Engine Solution Firm, Informatica, Presents at Financial Conferences
Redwood City, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 3, 2008 - Independent data integration software firm, Informatica, recently accepted invitations to present at several annual technology and financial conferences.
Earl Fry, Executive Vice President and CFO, made presentions including a corporate overview at the Conference, including a live audio web cast.
One such conference, the JMP Securities Research Conference, featured over 100 public companies in presentations to over 300 institutional investors, with keynote panels featuring industry leaders in venture capital, public equity investment, hedge fund management, and real estate investments, offering the 2008 business outlook.
JMP Securities' equity research coverage encompasses six broad growth industries - Technology, Healthcare, Consumer, Real Estate, Financial Services and Business Services - and this year's event will showcase nearly 250 primarily small-cap and mid-cap public companies in those sectors as well as a number of high-profile private companies that are impacting the marketplace today. The annual conference provides a forum for discussion among premier growth companies and institutional investors. The event enables management teams and buyside professionals to engage each other in a setting designed to promote in-depth disclosure and spur meaningful discussion.
Informatica also presented at the Wedbush Morgan NY Management Access Conference, the Merrill Lynch Technology 2008 Conference, Citi's 5th Annual Small and Mid Cap Conference, the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium, the Roth 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference and the Thomas Weisel Partners Annual Technology, Telecom and Internet Conference.
Late last year, the company reported record revenues of $391 million, with a 21 percent annual growth. Godfrey Sullivan was named to its Board of Directors.
Caixa Economica Federal selected the Informatica Data Integration Platform and it was named one of ''The Dozen Companies That Matter Most To The Intelligent Enterprise.'' The company also completed its acquisition of Identity Systems.
Recently, the Informatica 8.5 enterprise data integration software, has been honored as top ''Gold Winner'' in the category of Data Integration, as part of SearchDataManagement.com's 2007 Products of the Year awards.
According to SearchDataManagement.com, a leading guide for data management professionals and business leaders, ''Informatica's Release 8.5 won high marks from our judges, who recognized it as 'the most pragmatic story' out of all of the nominees in the data integration category.''
The Product of the Year awards were judged by SearchDataManagement.com's editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants, who selected the ''best of the best'' products on the basis of their innovation, performance, ease of integration into the environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. Informatica 8.5 was the sole Gold Winner for the category of data integration.
SearchDataManagement.com wrote ''Informatica Release 8.5 addresses enterprises' growing need for multi-functional data integration platforms,'' while observing that single platform architecture such as Release 8.5 promises to help enterprises better deliver data required by the business, by enabling data access on a timely basis, regardless of source or format.
Available worldwide, Informatica 8.5 is a comprehensive release encompassing Informatica's data integration and data quality platforms: Informatica PowerCenter 8.5, Informatica PowerExchange 8.5, and Informatica Data Quality 8.5. PowerCenter 8.5 provides the mission-critical platform for any type of data integration initiative, within and between enterprises. PowerExchange 8.5 streamlines and delivers very broad access to all forms of enterprise data including difficult-to-access mainframe data. Informatica Data Quality 8.5 empowers information owners to assess and continually enhance the quality and usefulness of their data as an integral part of the data integration process.
SearchDataManagement.com is the web's guide for data management professionals and business leaders. With its combination of news, learning guides, expert advice, white papers, webcasts and customized research, SearchDataManagment.com offers a rich collection of insight on how to efficiently manage the data supply chain. The site also offers tips on vendors, product selection, and expert advice.
SearchDataManagement.com is part of the TechTarget network, that publishes integrated media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process. Through its industry-leading Web sites, magazines and conferences, TechTarget delivers measurable results that help IT marketers generate qualified sales leads, shorten sales cycles and grow revenues.
Informatica Corporation is a provider of enterprise data integration software and services. Informatica's goal is to provide organizations with greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,900 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of any complexity and scale. The company provides services in the following areas: Equity Research, Institutional Sales and Trading, Merger and Acquisition Advisory, Public Company Financing, Private Company Financing, and Corporate Services.
To learn more about Informatica Corporation, please visit: www.informatica.com.
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News: The Planet Web Hosting, Premieres Server Discounts
Houston, Texas - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 2, 2008 - Privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, recently debuted a limited-time pricing promotion on select servers, discounting its most powerful high-end line.
Including single-processor/single-core and multi-processor/multi-core servers, the promotion also extends to select servers in the company's new virtual racks, an advanced multi-server hosting solution.
Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Plane noted, ''More than 22,000 customers rely on our products and services to run their businesses, so we're committed to offering the latest technology at competitive prices. Power and performance are key for our customers, so we're offering steep discounts on some of our most robust boxes.''
The following pricing begins today and continues while limited promotional supplies last:
Xeon 3060 - SATA: Regularly $209 per month, now available for $179
Xeon 3210 - SATA and SAS: Priced from $199 to $249 per month, with savings up to 23 percent
Dual Xeon 5130 - SATA: Now available for $259 per month, a savings of 28 percent
Dual Xeon 5130 - SAS: Priced today at $309 per month, a savings of 18 percent
Dual Xeon 5130 - RAID: Now priced at $419 per month, down from $479
Dual Xeon 5335 - SATA and SAS: Priced now from $299 to $349 per month, with savings up to 25 percent
Discounts are also available on select Xeon and Dual Xeon servers in The Planet's virtual private rack solution.
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide:
High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide. By offering the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and unmatched network connectivity, The Planet's goal is to help turn information technology into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to successfully grow businesses.
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News: Google Search Engine, Hosts Core Strategy Event
Mountain View, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 2, 2008 - Google recently hosted an informal gathering, including discussions about its search innovation strategy, as well as an update on Google Health.
On the search front, Google imparted how it believes that search is expanding. 'Search' includes images, news, finance, books, local, and geographical information as well as general web activity. The media types are becoming more and more integral in its core universal search, but each presents its own challenges, innovations, and triumphs.
R.J. Pittman, Director of Search Properties, showed some of the advances made in image search -- offering an early form of face recognition on advanced search, for example -- as well as how ads might work to enhance the user experience on image search. He also demonstrated the interesting technologies that Google News has deployed to support features like quotes from newsmakers and better quality search for local news.
Carter Maslan, Director of Local Search Quality, talked about Geo products (Maps and Earth and their features) and the fact that they represent a considerable search problem: how to take all of the information about the physical world and make it searchable; how to label disputed borders; how Street View can help find where a person is going.
Google Earth has helped archaeologists find things they've looked for for years (i.e. a Roman villa in someone's backyard). User-generated content is the rage right now, but in addition to entertaining shared videos and photos, the user-generated content that we're seeing on geo products is profoundly useful and helps to better understand the world.
Core search quality was addressed, with the latest update on web search from Johanna Wright, Director of Search Quality. Search has become very sophisticated, in such a short period of time. Google has accomplished a lot with universal search this past year by bringing new form and function to the results page. The search quality team is turning its attention toward the ever-elusive user intent (i.e., this is what I typed, here's what I meant). This will help make universal search even more useful. Understanding user intent also helps break down language barriers and find the best possible answer regardless of what language it's in or where it lives on the web.
In terms of new products, Google made Google Health publicly available. It offers users a safe and secure way to collect, store, and manage their medical records and health information online. In this day and age of information, it seems prudent to have a copy of individual medical records under control.
To break down the information silos, Google Health launched several partners and third party services already integrated. The partners are committed, and include everyday brand names such as Walgreens, Quest Diagnostics and Longs Drugs, to name just a few.
Google has also placed strong privacy policies in place to keep information safe and private. (Read more about this on our public policy blog.) There's a lot left to do in health -- literally thousands of partnerships to forge and petabytes of data to move around -- and Google is looking forward to hearing feedback from early Google Health adopters about its first step.
Unrelated to Google Health but in the interest of helping people get healthier, we launched our Go or Good campaign with the Cleveland Clinic. The Walk for Good iGoogle gadget encourages walking regularly and tracking progress.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, California, Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.
To learn more about Google, please visit: www.google.com.
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News: Web Hosting Design Destination, BoxedArt, Releases .MOBI Templates
Gainesville, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - May 30, 2008 - Web design destination, BoxedArt.com, has launched an exclusive release of a .mobi line of templates, optimized for mobile devices.
.Mobi is a rapidly growing top level domain extension used to denote website content optimized for certain types of mobile devices, including cell phones and PDAs. In addition to the requirement of using a .mobi domain name, .mobi site owners are required to have a site design that conforms to rigid XHTML standards.
Mark Greenberg, Marketing Director for BoxedArt parent company Big Resources, Inc. noted, ''We've developed our new .mobi pages to be functional and work with a large variety of mobile devices, but more importantly, we've designed each template to leave an astonishing impression with an eye popping and fresh Web 2.0 style.''
Each newly released BoxedArt .mobi template is built to conform to these standards, as well as have the option to serve Google Adsense advertisements, providing an instant revenue source for mobile website owners. The templates also come complete with up to 13 access code enabled pages, and follow the W3C Guide to Mobile Web Best Practices, which includes coding in XHTML; expandability for various sizes of mobile screens; proper encoding and document type declarations; ordered list navigation; and use of well formed code.
Mr. Greenberg remarked, ''The results from our Web surveys show that most website owners do not yet offer a version of their website for mobile users. There is more than four times the number of users with mobile devices than PCs. A .mobi site not only serves as a marketing tool, but it also will vastly expand a website's reach, including to the more than 2 billion people that have mobile devices.''
BoxedArt will initially release about 60 .mobi ready templates across several dozen categories. It is also in the process of developing hundreds more to fill the needs of websites of many more genres.
A portion of the newly released templates will be available in the members section, where they can be downloaded by any member of BoxedArt as part of the standard membership price, starting at only $49.99. The remainder of the templates will be available in the limited edition section, sold a maximum of 25 times per template - ensuring the distinctiveness of the designs. Members save 10% off the cost of these limited edition templates.
Big Resources' Network of development websites has been a leading source of tools, resources and services in the webmaster community since 1998. The network fills a wide variety of needs with free and premium services including graphics, scripts, original articles, help forums, stock photography, and hosting, among other services.
Launched in 2001, BoxedArt.com is a database of thousands of original and high quality web design and development products available for download. According to the company, the site's offering is unmatched in both size and quality with products available in over 32 different categories. Membership to the site is available for under $50, which includes unlimited access to over 5,000 products valued at over $2,000,000.
For more information about BoxedArt, please visit: www.boxedart.com.
To learn more about the Big Resources Network, please visit: www.bigresources.com.
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