As a result of this initiative, LeaseWeb will gain visibility into the sources of potentially harmful online activity and can quickly remove the offending sites from its hosting network, protecting users from malicious threats.

The hosting provider has already confirmed two organizations, Website Zeus Tracker and Quarantainenet, as sponsorship recipients, which will share network security traffic information with LeaseWeb.

Website ZeuS Tracker monitors Zeus botnets, a malicious malware toolkit which infects computers and takes them offline.

Quarantainenet is a network management and security organization which provides products that allow companies to access and manage their networks more securely.

“Hosting a large infrastructure means we have a responsibility to deter spam and cybercrime. We cannot control everything on the network, but by working with other security organizations we can be proactive in taking sites down sooner,” says Alex De Joode, head of security at LeaseWeb. “Organizations such as Quarantainenet and Zeus Tracker provide an invaluable service in monitoring fraudulent activities on the Web, but many internet providers do not have the resources necessary to carry out this vital work. It is an important partnership and LeaseWeb hopes to increase the number of organisations we sponsor in the coming months ensuring we are doing all that we can to combat nuisance and fraudulent activity on the Web.”

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“We were compelled by how well SunGard fit our needs for application availability in the cloud,” said Jim Dunlap, president of Cycle30. “We have achieved a secure and flexible infrastructure at both a fixed and predictable variable cost, helping us serve our customers better while enabling us to grow quickly.”

“Billing systems are business-critical applications that demand an enterprise-grade infrastructure along with the flexibility for fast provisioning of new customers and services,” said Rahul Bakshi, VP of Product Management & Solution Design at SunGard Availability Services. “SunGard’s enterprise cloud services help Cycle30 drive innovation that improves on traditional billing system models by delivering billing via a cloud-based environment, helping multiple customers increase operational efficiency and competitive agility with the same hosted infrastructure.”

SunGard’s Enterprise Cloud Services provide secure enterprise-grade, on-demand and virtualized infrastructure with multiple layers of data protection for application availability. Customers also benefit from access to a portfolio of managed hosting, storage and recovery services for physical and virtual environments.

To learn more about the benefits and challenges that cloud computing brings to an organization, download SunGard Availability Services’ free white paper, “Cloud Computing: Resiliency is the Key to Success.”

About Cycle30

Cycle30, Inc., a GCI company based in Seattle, Wash., provides billing services in North America. The company’s offering covers all order-to-cash systems required by converged telecom, cable and utility providers. Cycle30 has helped transform GCI from a multi-product carrier of various services to a truly converged provider of bundled, high-value telecom services, consolidating its billing systems, and increasing operational efficiency and competitive agility.

About SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors to prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company.

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Rebel Networks provides scalable, secure and full-featured Hosted Exchange solutions that give users the ability to easily collaborate without them having to invest in mail servers, software licenses, security, or be involved with ongoing system administration. Users can have options to have active Sync enabled for their iPhones, as well as have full Blackberry Enterprise Hosting for their Blackberry Devices. Sharepoint, and Communications server will be added within 60 days.

Rebel Networks also plans to offer a wholesale version of OWAcloud to their resellers and other smaller hosting companies later this month.

The OWAcloud, according to Rebel Networks, will offer more than just email and blackberry colaboration. The plan for OWAcloud is to have small Business customers pay small monthly fee’s for services required such as telephony and voicemail integration, CRM solutions, email, mobility devices, but also wiki portals, tools, and access to legal documents, HR documents, best practices, and online accounting.

“The Idea is simple, a small business today needs to deal with many facets of IT, Telephony, Mobility, and outside consultants to help them manage all of these components and integrate it with HR, Legal, office administration,” Macchione said. “This cloud will make it much easier for small business to manage all aspects of IT, without spending CAPEX, or extra in IT.”

Rebel Networks services include the provision of managed dedicated servers, unmanaged collocation services, domain names services, reseller hosting, and shared Web hosting solutions with 100-percent server uptime.

As part of its cloud computing strategy, Rebel Networks added a new data center last month in Dallas, providing a range of services, including shared hosting, semi and fully-managed dedicated hosting, colocation and virtual servers. Rebel Networks said it would be adding US based Microsoft Exchange, Blackberry and other SaaS services with the launch of this data center, complimenting the SaaS services out of Toronto.

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Texan officials sent the notice to IBM on July 16  stating that the company had not followed through on its obligations of a massive seven-year data center consolidation and privatization deal signed back in 2006.

The deal aimed to consolidate 27 Texas state agencies’ IT operations into two new IBM-operated facilities, with the migration of the agencies’ servers to IBM to be completed by December 2009.

However, the DIR says that IBM has completed less than 12 percent of this task, with only five agencies being completely consolidated and an additional five undergoing consolidation, so far.

The government threatened it would potentially terminate the deal if IBM did not resolve these alleged shortcomings within 30 days.

Texas CIO Karen Robinson and a government deputy told Government Technology last week that they are hopeful that the state and IBM will be able to arrive at a resolution.

In the event that IBM does not make good with its agreement terms, the Texas Department of Information Resources will potentially disassemble parts of the services that are being offered and market them through different vendors.

Although, the department is quick to state that it has not yet made a final decision on this and will give IBM a full chance to fulfill its terms of the deal.

IBM spokesman Jeff Tieszen said on Tuesday that the company would respond to the notice “in an appropriate and timely manner.”

He emphasized that IBM has met all of the contract’s obligations and believes the allegations to be “unfounded accusations of material contract breaches” that fail to provide just cause for terminating the contract.

The DIR alleges that IBM has failed to make key deadlines due to poor performance and underinvestment in the project, as well as removing some of its staff from the project and withdrawing consolidation duties all together since last fall.

IBM says that the consolidation project has been slowed down by the state’s poor management by the state, alleging that the DIR lacks the authority to centrally manage the plan.

The company says these issues have hindered server modernization and consolidation while significantly increasing IBM’s costs.

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In recent months, Arsys has undertaken various energy efficiency projects at the new Data Center to consolidate its technology platforms through virtualised environments and the cloud hosting platform.  The number of servers required, and therefore the energy consumed, is thus reduced without affecting the technology services marketed by the company.

In the words of Olof Sandstrom, General Manager for Operations of the company, “this Data Center has enabled us to undertake intensive server virtualisation projects and reduce the total number of actual, physical production servers by around 800, while increasing our levels of service and the reliability of our platforms.  We intend to continue working on these lines to cut the number of actual servers by a further 400”.

The Arsys Data Center incorporates advanced technology that reduces the electricity consumption of servers.  “By combining latest generation UPSs, chillers, climate control units with automatic cold regulation and ventilation, open towers and sealed off, chilled aisles in the technical room, we have set up a system with enormous potential for configuration and adjustment which can reach an annual average PUE of less than 1.6, even though it is not yet performing at full capacity”, explained Sandstrom.

Arsys is optimising all its technological and industrial resources to reduce the environmental impact of hosting and maximise reliability and energy efficiency in the services that it has launched onto the market and in the customised ICT architecture solutions that it develops from medium and large sized corporations.

Arsys is already planning to expand its modular Data Center in response to increasing demands for its services.

About Arsys
Arsys is a leader in technology and innovation which provides Internet presence services, managed hosting, cloud computing and advanced solutions for corporate customers and individuals. Arsys has over 250,000 customers and manages over 680,000 domains. The company is at the top of the ranking in its sector in Europe and is pioneering the development of Spain’s first commercial cloud hosting platform.

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“We treat our hosting solutions as mission-critical for our customers, and we take every step possible to guarantee performance and uptime. By utilizing Xen in our Virtual Private Servers and guaranteeing system resources, we are able to create a tangible differentiator between Site5 and our imitators. When uptime and performance are a factor in the consumer buying process, Site5 wins every time. We’ve quite literally built our business on it,” said Site5 Chief Operating Officer Tom Sepper.

Site5 Xen-based Virtual Private Servers are widely customizable. Virtual Private Servers start at $50 per month for 40GB of disk space, 600GB of monthly bandwidth, and at least 756MB of RAM on the node. All plans include Site5’s exclusive “No Worry” Full Management, a control panel, at least two dedicated IP addresses, and a wide-variety of other value-added features.

In the coming months, Site5 plans to introduce additional Virtual Private Server hosting solutions, including an unmanaged alternative to its existing fully-managed services.

Earlier this month, Site5 introduced Shared Cloud Hosting and Cloud Virtual Private Serves. The cloud hosting solutions offer unprecedented reliability, speed, and scalability by virtualizing entire clusters of servers and creating a fully redundant hosting environment.

About Site5
Based in Denver, Colorado, Site5 is an international leader in affordable web hosting solutions for individuals and businesses. For more than a decade, Site5 has provided award-winning customer support and aggressively-priced hosting solutions to customers on six continents. Today, Site5 offers a variety of shared, reseller, VPS, dedicated, and cloud hosting solutions.

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The company mentions that cloud servers allow customers to take control, creating new servers instantly and resizing existing capacity immediately via a user-friendly web control panel. Customers save money by buying exactly the capacity they need today, knowing that they can immediately scale up when required.

It avers that cloud servers run any server operating system, are fully configurable and designed for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing. The company adds that the cloud hosting package is available from its UK as well as US data centers, and is built on the high performance 10 Gbps SuperNetwork infrastructure and offers a 100% SLA with 100x credits for any downtime.

Dominic Monkhouse, UK MD of ServerBeach commented on the launch, “Self-service cloud servers are perfect for our ServerBeach customers. We work with many fast growth companies and developers whose hosting needs change on a day-to-day basis, so to support this we have built in flexible and scalable cloud servers on a pay as you go model. ServerBeach is built ‘By Geeks, For Geeks’ and we know that our customers will love this extra flexibility and control.”

Richard Davies, CEO at ElasticHosts, said, “We are delighted to offer our award-winning cloud servers to ServerBeach’s customers. We’re confident that they’ll be as excited by the scalability and flexibility as our own customers have been.”

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