Why, in the midst of a major Windows Home Server push, would HP introduce a little Linux-based NAS at half the price? And why would HP make the $300 Media Vault mv2120 so full featured and easy that its $600-and-up MediaSmart Servers look
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Only a few months after announcing the opening of our offices in Oslo and London, WebDeal is proud to cut the ribbon on yet another branch – this time in the United States.
WebDeal’s new American division is located in San Francisco, California, in the heart of the city’s elite financial district. The opening allows us to get closer to our partners and customers in North America, as well as extend our reach even further across the globe.
WebDeal, the world’s leading specialist in eZ Publish hosting solutions, has also announced the …

London, March 27, 2008 — Hostway UK is today announcing the launch of its content delivery network, which will improve user experience of the Internet by directing traffic to its customer’s websites to the nearest, and consequently best-performing web server. By using a number of Foundry ServerIron 4G switches, Hostway can route users to the server nearest to their location, ensuring that content is tailored to the user’s location and providing valuable business continuity and redirection services.
“Almost all large companies have their website accessible on a number of servers around …

HERNDON, Va., March 27, 2008 – Parallels today announced it has acquired ModernGigabyte, LLC, maker of ModernBill automated billing system and other hosting automation solutions. ModernBill customers will benefit from Parallels Open Platform initiatives such as the Application Packaging Standard which will allow them to gain additional revenue from their existing client base.ModernBill customers benefit from tighter integration with Parallels products as well as from the Parallels Open Platform architecture, which includes the Application Packaging Standard (APS).
The acquisition provides Parallels with a complete hosting control panel and billing system …

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 25, 2008 – Intel Corporation has further increased its energy-efficient performance lead today with the introduction of two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50 GigaHertz (GHz). The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor L5400 Series takes advantage of Intel’s unique 45nm manufacturing capabilities and reinvented transistor formula that combine to boost performance and reduce power consumption in data centers.
Benefiting companies with power-constrained, high-compute density environments, the Quad-Core Intel …

Purplenova is a leader in providing innovative solutions for secure desktop content hosting. Traditional Web Servers are difficult (and sometimes impossible) to set up on home and office PCs. Secondly, commonly used techniques for making desktop content web-accessible, such as VPNs or Web-conferencing solutions do not lend themselves to Web 2.0 environments, where a simple mechanism to publish desktop content is required. Our patent pending technology provides a solution to both these problems by making it possible to securely and easily web-publish content directly from your PC.
With the Purplenova …

Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and HTTPS. The development version of Squid (3.1) includes IPv6 and ICAP support.
Squid has been developed for many years. Early work …

Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the fastest-growing vendor among the top five in the worldwide server market, according to the latest report from market research company Gartner*. The company exhibited a record year-on-year growth of 17.9 percent in server unit shipments**. In the x86 server market, Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers also delivered the strongest growth among the top five server vendors with 19.8 percent***.
Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers was able to generate a record growth in x86 unit shipments by focusing on customer requirements and needs, delivering better overall value to its customers …

Hospital utilizes Red Hat and JBoss technology to maintain disaster-recovery systems
Raleigh NC – March 10, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Florida Hospital, the largest hospital in the state of Florida, providing care to over one million patients per year, relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network to maintain reliable disaster-recovery systems that protect and maintain critical patient information.
Florida Hospital, ranked in US …

McLean, Va., March 10, 2008 — ServInt, a pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide, today introduced its new SuperVPS service.  The SuperVPS virtual private server is a powerful replacement for the traditional dedicated server.  It offers customers increased redundancy while providing the same computing performance of a traditional dedicated server — with significant cost savings.
As ServInt’s new flagship service, SuperVPS is ideal for small and medium-size web-based companies that demand a hosting service managed by experienced professionals.
SuperVPS is particularly well suited for socially …