Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Apptix Launches Synchronization Tool to Enhance Customer Control of Hosted Services News: NYSE Euronext Opens Massive Data Center in London News: Apache Traffic Server Gets Top-Level Project Status In Record Project Launch Month News: Verizon Business Completes SAS 70 Type II Exams for Data Centers News: NTT Europe Online Helps CentraStage Takes Its Remote Support Platform Into the Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Liquid exchange group NYSE Euronext ( www.nyse.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has opened its European liquidity data center in London, UK. This is NYSE Euronext’s third facility.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Apptix Launches Synchronization Tool to Enhance Customer Control of Hosted Services News: NYSE Euronext Opens Massive Data Center in London News: Apache Traffic Server Gets Top-Level Project Status In Record Project Launch Month News: Verizon Business Completes SAS 70 Type II Exams for Data Centers News: NTT Europe Online Helps CentraStage Takes Its Remote Support Platform Into the Cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hosting provider Apptix ( www.apptix.com ) has launched an Active Directory Synchronization tool that automatically synchronizes changes in on-premise Active Directory databases to Apptix’s hosted Active Directory. According to Apptix’s Wednesday announcement, the Apptix AD Sync tool provides customers with a single point for creating and managing user accounts, and instantly provisioning Apptix services. It further enhances the end user experience by synchronizing local domain passwords with Apptix’s domain for a unified sign-in experience

MachPanel Unveils SharePoint 2010 Support Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 10:42:20 AM MachSol Inc. ( http://www.machsol.com ) developer of MachPanel an emerging leader of SaaS enabled Hosted Services Delivery Platform, believes in outperforming our customer’s expectations by continuously adding new and advanced features and further improving control panel’s performance by developing new builds and releases.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Unified communications — now for hosters News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Apple’s Nader Nafissi presented “Using Mac OS X Server for hosted services,” where he outlined Apple’s server solutions to a somewhat skeptical croud.  “Apple is known for simplicity, ease of use… from a small business perspective, that’s something they want as well,” Nafissi said. Mac OS X Server is based on a powerful 64-bit Unix foundation, letting it interoperate with a lot of technologies and devices

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Unified communications — now for hosters News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The first Business session of the afternoon came from a high-profile panel, moderated by Tier 1 Research analyst Philbert Shih. Titled “Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms”, the panel was comprised of Apptix CEO David Ehrhardt, Google channel partner manager Jeff Ragusa, Unison CMO Rurik Bradbury, Open Xchange CEO Rafael Laguna, and Microsoft industry marketing director Alex Danyluk. Each representative from the five companies shared their individual thoughts on how streamling the various communicational technologies and mediums can help companies can provide added-value for customers and therefore increase their total revenues

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Unified communications — now for hosters News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — “Everyone needs email and groupware, what could go wrong?” asks Unison Technologies CMO Rurik Bradbury. Apparently a lot. Over the past few years, dark clouds have been growing on the horizon as industry giants Cisco, Google, and Microsoft have launched direct offerings, sparking a clash of the Titans, Bradbury said in his Parallels Summit session, “Unified communications — now for hosters.” To borrow his analogy, hosting providers are like the Ewoks that are caught between the Jedi and the Dark Side’s fighting.  “Primative email and groupware won’t cut it against Google and Microsoft,” he said.

Jack Zubarev, president of service provider worldwide at Parallels, delivering a presentation at Parallels Summit 2010 Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Unified communications — now for hosters News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In his presentation “Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs”, Jack Zubarev, president of service provider worldwide at Parallels posed the question, “why is it beneficial to become a one-stop shop?” Zubarev talked about how crucial it is for hosting providers, particularly shared Web hosts, to offer different services in order to provide greater value for customers and decrease churn. He focused first on email solutions, showing that a company stands to make a $168 profit over a customer’s lifetime with email solutions versus a $12 loss on a customer without email

Jack Weixel, head of service provider markets at Google, delivering his keynote at Parallels Summit 2010. Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Unified communications — now for hosters News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The lone keynote presentation on the final day of Parallels Summit was delivered by Jack Weixel, head of service provider markets at Google.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Unified communications — now for hosters News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As big as the Internet already is, Intel data center group high density computing general manager Jason Waxman said that it’s set for a huge explosion in growth. There will be more users, more devices, and more content. “The cloud needs to change to move forward,” Waxman said.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Unified communications — now for hosters News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Technology Roadmap: Accelerate new services, make existing services better, and cut costs (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Oracle hosting provider Core Services ( www.coreservices.com ) announced on Monday it has opened a new 50,000 square foot data center in Somerset, New Jersey. The facility was formerly an disaster recovery center for a “major Wall Street bank,” according to the press release