Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-29 – Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp.

The open source version of ConVirt has been available for more than three years and is broadly deployed and well-tested in real-world data centers — having been downloaded more than 30,000 times. In fact, ConVirt1.x is included in most major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Open SUSE, Debian and others.

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise extends ConVirt Open Source with the advanced automation and scalability features necessary for running large-scale or mission-critical virtualized environments. By delivering high availability, backup and recovery, storage and network automation, and enterprise-grade security, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables IT managers to meet and exceed service levels while using infrastructure in the most efficient way.

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise is also the go-to tool for enterprises ready to move beyond virtualized infrastructure management towards a hosted or private cloud model. With an extensive cloud management feature set, which includes multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning, resource limiting, and many more, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables IT organizations to offer infrastructure-as-a-service, while ensuring full isolation and compliance with corporate policies.

“We’ve implemented a variety of virtualization platforms over the years and managing them all – especially the open source hypervisors – has always been the single biggest pain point,” said Steven Scoleri, Principal Architect at GSI Commerce, a leading provider of e-commerce and interactive marketing services. “Our beta test of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise has gone very well and we think it just may be the game-changer we’ve been looking for. We no longer need experts on hand at all times to complete simple virtualization tasks. We look forward to further exploring ConVirt’s capabilities and using it to manage our entire open source-based virtual data center.”

“Until now, any organization that wanted a complete solution for managing and automating a virtual data center was locked into expensive and proprietary solutions like VMware vCenter,”,” said Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Convirture. “That changes today as ConVirt 2.0′s advanced automation, private cloud management, enterprise scalability and datacenter integration features now meet or exceed what’s available from proprietary platform vendors. With ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise, organizations considering Xen or KVM as open source alternatives to commercial virtualization platforms are no longer forced to compromise on manageability. ”

About ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise supports all of the features available with the ConVirt 2.0 Open Source product including:

• Server pool-based management
• Templates-based provisioning
• Monitoring and configuration management
• Comprehensive virtual machine administration
• Highly scalable, 3-tier, standards-based architecture

In addition, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise delivers scalability, automation, and private cloud management features that were previously available only for proprietary virtualization platforms, including:

• High availability: ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise ensures that mission-critical applications are always up and running by delivering a comprehensive high availability feature set, including virtual and physical machine failover;
• Backup and recovery: A full backup and recovery feature set ensures successful recovery from planned and unplanned outages. Scheduled and on-demand backups are supported. Restore modes can be for the most recent state or any earlier backup. Both virtual machine state and storage are captured, so virtual machines are brought up in a consistent state.
• Private Cloud Management: A data center that has been virtualized can be turned into a private, infrastructure-as-a-service cloud in a scalable and secure way, with support for full multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning, resource limiting and the ability to create virtual appliances that comply with corporate standards and publish them effortlessly to cloud users.
• Storage and network automation with ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise significantly streamlines the error-prone and time-consuming tasks of configuring network and storage in a virtualized environment. Storage configuration standardizes storage across a server pool by automating configuration of all storage types, including NFS, iSCSi, AOE, Fiber Channel and LVM. Network integration provides a centralized interface for managing virtual networks.
• Enterprise Integration: ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise provides a full suite of integration capabilities, including an open repository, command line interface, and programmatic APIs.

Pricing and Availability

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise is available immediately direct from Convirture. Pricing starts at $1,495 per host for up to 10 hosts, with volume pricing available for larger environments. A “per virtual machine” pricing package is also available for ISP’s and hosting providers. More information is available at http://www.convirture.com/contact.html

About Convirture

Convirture was founded in 2006 to help organizations effectively manage open source virtualization platforms. More information is available at www.convirture.com.

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-29 – Sucuri, an eminent name in providing Web integrity and monitoring solutions, has issued a warning of a new series of malware code injection attacks targeting obsolete WordPress websites, as reported by SOFTPEDIA on July 17, 2010.

Users, who visit these websites, will end up being redirected to web pages that serve FakeAV variant.

Further, the security researchers explained, that these new attacks were the duplicate of those mass compromises that had recently, hit thousands WordPress blogs, on BlueHost, GoDaddy and other organizations. The hackers execute automatic scan procedures to trace the vulnerable installations and thus insert a rouge code in the PHP script.

This malicious code is obfuscated through an encoding function called, base64. The assessment of code gives the output as the elements of a HTML script, which have the content of an external domain.

In such a situation, cyber criminals use “whereisdudescars.com” as the attacking website. Besides, they add the following JavaScript code to the websites: <script src=” http://whereisdudescars.com/js2.php”></script>. This code further loads another JavaScript code from the site http://www4.realprotection36.co.cc, trying to push “Fake Antivirus” virus to the site visitor.

The script can also be used to redirect to other malicious domains possibly from the .co.cc. The domain (co.cc) is in controversy now because of hosting malware loaded websites that manipulate search results through poisoned search results.

This type of criminal activity is very common in the cyber world, whereby the criminals take advantage of the victims by panicking them. Once the victims are panicked, the criminals either persuade them to upload malware to infect their computers or ask them for license fee for the removal of cyber security threat.

In fact, there have been many poisoned search results pointing to a website hosted on .co.cc domains, from where the victims are redirected to other pages similar to YouTube or displaying some fake antivirus scans. In such cases, scareware installer naming PACKUPDATE107_195.EXE is downloaded and detected as Adware/SecurityMasterAV.

According to the security firm “Panda”, websites displayed in both the cases have no connection to the search carried out. An image that appears ‘My Computer’ is displayed with an alert message of infection after the system is completely scanned, reports cjnews on July 16, 2010.

Resource: SPAMfighter News

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-29 – HP (NYSE:HPQ) today introduced a new way for clients to cut capital investment requirements for the design and build of data centers in half while significantly decreasing their carbon footprint.

The patent-pending HP Flexible Data Center (HP Flexible DC) offers a standardized, modular approach to designing and building data centers that allows clients to replace traditional data center designs with a flexible solution that can be expanded as needed while conserving resources.

“The pressure to save on capital and operating expenditures is one of the most critical issues facing enterprises today,” said David J. Cappuccio, vice president and chief of research, Gartner. “When building new data centers, clients need to consider options that support business growth, while also saving time and costs.”

“Financial institutions create an enormous volume of data, which means they need to be able to quickly add capacity to their data center without disrupting business,” Bob Cashner, senior vice president, Corporate Properties, Wells Fargo. “HP Flexible DC is a promising new approach to the way organizations can meet computing demands efficiently while addressing capital-intensive data center costs.”

HP Flexible DC “butterfly” design

HP Flexible DC is based on a “butterfly” design featuring four prefabricated quadrants, or modules, that stem off a central administrative section. The offering uses industrial components to improve cost efficiencies as well as a streamlined building process with a variety of options for power and cooling distribution.

HP Critical Facilities Services – which provides consulting and design engineering and architecture services – collaborates with clients to evaluate their needs and to help with the planning and implementation of all aspects of their data center infrastructures.

“Clients, such as financial service providers, government entities, and cloud and colocation hosts, will find the scalable and modular nature of HP Flexible DC a compelling option,” said Kfir Godrich, chief technology officer, Technology Services, HP. “HP can help clients innovate the way they build and operate a greenfield data center for greater savings over its life span.”

Features of HP Flexible DC include:

• Prefabricated, standardized components allow clients to shorten the time it takes to build and deploy a data center, resulting in lower capital costs and faster time to market.
• The modular design extends clients’ ability to increase scalable capacity while retaining specified levels of reliability and redundancy.
• Specific configurations optimize the use of power and cooling resources to lower energy and water use, enabling clients to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a facility’s carbon footprint.
• Air-cooled, rather than water-cooled, mechanical systems save clients power and potentially millions of gallons of water annually.

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.

Resource: Web Hosting News

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-29 – Telx®, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has been selected as a colocation provider by DediPower, a UK-based managed hosting and on-demand data center company. Telx’s secure, connection-rich colocation facility at 60 Hudson Street in New York City is now DediPower’s primary Point of Presence (PoP) within the U.S., enabling secure, reliable delivery of on-demand cloud application and managed hosting services, including its recently-launched Public Cloud offering, to customers in three continents.

“DediPower was in need of a Manhattan colocation facility to extend our state-side coverage and provide connectivity to our overseas customers,” said Craig Martin, CEO of DediPower. “We looked for the colocation partner within the U.S. that had the most strategic locations and the largest number of service providers we could choose from to ensure reliable application and storage service delivery. Our international and North American customers can directly tap into our infrastructure on a guaranteed, high-speed connection in the 60 Hudson Street location, without going over the public Internet. The Telx solution provides our managed private cloud network the high redundancy, security and connectivity choice we require.”

As a connectivity partner, Telx delivers a secure, connection-rich environment from which DediPower can offer low-latency access to its cloud applications and managed hosting network infrastructure, including its Content Delivery Network and its new Public Cloud, a solution that uses only best of breed hardware and dedicated support normally associated with private enterprise solutions. The Telx interconnection replaces the need for a public Internet connection, ensuring that DediPower’s cloud services are more secure, latency is reduced, quality of service is enhanced and the number of hops is minimized.

“We are pleased to welcome DediPower to our flagship 60 Hudson Street location,” said Brad Hokamp, CMO of Telx. “Telx’s colocation and interconnection solutions have helped cloud and managed hosting providers like DediPower improve the reliability, security, and latency of their on-demand infrastructure through our Global Marketplace of service providers.”

To learn more on Telx’s value to cloud providers, including improved network performance, reduced time to market and direct access to the industry’s largest ecosystem of leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises, please visit http://telx.com/Industries/telx-cloud-computing-storage-and-applications.html.

About 60 Hudson Street
60 Hudson Street continues to be Telx’s flagship interconnection facility as well as the nerve center for international communications. Telx is a leading colocation and interconnection service provider within 60 Hudson Street. The building, referred to as the premier North American interconnection facility, is situated on the heart of the Hudson Street/Ninth Avenue fiber highway. This facility also provides low-latency access to Telx’s Financial Business Exchange (FBX) solution and Global Marketplace of providers. Telx’s New York colocation centers, including 60 Hudson Street and 111 8th Avenue, provide a managed, network-neutral, secure environment for core interconnection networking elements for carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprise business customers.

About DediPower
A leading UK provider of managed hosting and data center solutions, DediPower makes internet and eBusiness innovation a reality and delivers outstanding ROI for organisations of all sizes. Current clients include Sony, Virgin, ITV, NHS and The BRIT Awards. Focused on delivering service excellence through its Support with Passion® philosophy, DediPower’s enterprise class data centers offer 100% availability and accredited data security to support business critical, data-rich, ecommerce, interactive and web-based applications. It provides managed hosting, managed private cloud, virtualization, multi-server clusters, and colocation services. DediPower is a winner of numerous hosting awards and is a Microsoft Gold certified partner and RedHat Ready hosting partner. DediPower’s headquarters is located in Reading Berkshire, UK. For additional information, visit www.dedipower.com.

About Telx
Telx is a leading provider of interconnection, colocation and business exchange services in strategic, high demand North American markets. With 15 premier facilities, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to the industry’s highest performance networks and access to more than 800 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with four facilities in the New York Metro area, two facilities in Chicago, two facilities in Dallas, three facilities in California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Clara) and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com.

Resource: Web Hosting News

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-28 - Aflexi,(http://www.aflexi.net/) a leading developer of CDN Software and Content Delivery Network Management solutions today launched the new Aflexi web site. Aflexi’s CDN Management services and CDN software is targeted towards service providers who want to quickly, easily and cost-effectively provide CDN services.

“Our new site is tightly focused on the services and software that Aflexi offers to small and medium size service providers who need CDN functionality in order to compete on an international scale,” said Whei Wong, CEO of Aflexi. “Web hosting companies can now provide content providers and publishers with all the bandwidth and POPs they need without having to pay the exorbitant rates charged by the major CDN suppliers.”

The Aflexi CDN software provides automated installation and software upgrades for CDN server deployment as well as intuitive account management, bandwidth management, CDN server management and Publisher migration process. The Aflexi CDN solution supports commonly-used webhosting control panel systems and comes bundled with software that can improve CDN performance or experience FlexiMart, Aflexi’s new and unique Bandwidth Exchange platform, enables web hosts to share infrastructure by allowing them to buy, sell and trade capacity, in real time and on the fly, both at a fixed price and via auction-like bidding.

FlexiMart includes a powerful search engine that enables an Aflexi CDN operator to quickly discover all available bandwidth within specific regions offered by other CDN Operators. This allows buyers to enhance traffic performance at desired locations and time periods by purchasing region-specific bandwidth instead of global bandwidth.

About Aflexi
Aflexi develops and provides content delivery solutions for ISPs and content distributors worldwide. The Aflexi CDN software optimizes website traffic across various ISPs and their POPs. The intelligent Aflexi back-end system scrutinizes traffic patterns and visitor profiles, and can make the necessary adjustments in real time to ensure the highest possible delivery speeds and data quality. If a specific server or network becomes overloaded, the Aflexi system automatically reroutes incoming and outgoing traffic to the next available ISP, server or POP.

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-27 – BurstNET Technologies, Inc.™, a leading provider of budget hosting services, today announced IPv6 addressing service available end-to-end on its entire product line: including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), & Co-Location.

IPv6 stands for Internet Protocol version 6. It is the second version of the Internet Protocol to be used generally across the virtual world, with the first version being IPv4. IPv4 is still the protocol of choice for most of the Internet, however, the transition to IPv6 is steadily underway. IPv4 32-bit addresses, due to the growth of the Internet, have become a scarce and valuable commodity. Organizations have gone to great lengths to deal with the shortage and high cost of IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is the future of Internet addressing, because IPv4 is close to running out of available addresses space. With less than a year’s worth of Internet addresses left, as industry professionals predicted in July 2010, the call for the technology industry to move faster to adopt the next-generation Internet protocol is growing louder.

The differences between IPv6 and IPv4 are in five major areas: addressing and routing, security, network address translation, administrative workload, and support for mobile devices. One of the main differences in IPv6, is in the number of addresses available for networked devices. For example, each mobile phone or other kind of electronic device can have its own IPv6 address. The most visible change in IPv6 is that addresses balloon from 32-bits to 128-bits, example: 3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf. IPv4 addresses have 32 bits in them and so allow a maximum of four billion addresses, while IPv6 addresses have 128 bits. With such a huge address space, ISPs will have sufficient IP addresses to allocate enough addresses to every customer, so that every IP device/website has a truly unique address—whether it’s behind a firewall or not.

BurstNET® is one of the first budget hosting providers to make IPv6 addressing service available end-to-end on its entire product line: including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), & Co-Location. BurstNET® clientele can get a head start configuring their services for IPv6, or just utilize an inexpensive VPS package to just learn how to configure/utilize IPv6 for future needs.

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-27 – eUKhost, the UK’s premier web hosting company, announce that they are now able to offer their customers private cloud hosting when they sign up to use their services.

Utilising a dedicated cluster of web servers deployed in a VMware cloud structure, eUKhost’s private cloud hosting is an all-inclusive solution. Clients will have access to provisions, licensing, setups, monitoring and complete cluster management. This means that people making use of eUKhost’s private cloud hosting will be guaranteed enhanced security measures, improved backup, better equipment and no downtime whatsoever. They will also have access to experienced technical support whenever required.

The typical private cloud hosting setup offered by eUKhost consists of a VIcentre server with Windows 2008, an SAN storage server for centralised shared storage and four ESX host servers – the number of which can be customised to the customer’s requirements.

“We’re delighted to be able to offer our clients private cloud hosting and are looking forward to hearing customer feedback in the coming weeks and months,” says Ryan Watson, Business Development Manager at eUKhost. “The benefits of our private cloud hosting are numerous. You will be guaranteed 100% uptime for instance and have dedicated disk space and monthly bandwidth for your needs. There are also a number of operating systems that can also be employed including Linux CentOS 5.x, Ubuntu 9.x and more besides.”

For more information details about eUKhost Ltd and their services please visit http://www.eukhost.com or call 0808 262 0255.

About eUKhost Ltd:-

Launched in 2001, eUKhost Ltd offer a range of services including Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Business Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Semi-Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers and Offsite Backup Solutions. 24/7 technical support is available and 99.95% uptime guarantee is offered as standard with their UK-based servers.

Greatresponder.com – 2010-07-27 – Server Complete, LLC a web hosting provider is pleased to announce their partnership with SmarterTools, Inc., effective July 1. A web hosting provider and technologies company, Server Complete offers Linux and Windows VPS  and dedicated web hosting with a specialty in virtualization. SmarterTools builds information technology management software applications to support businesses.

SmarterTools continues to make great strides in the Windows software market with SmarterMail (an Exchange-level Windows mail server), SmarterTrack (a powerful help desk application), and SmarterStats (comprehensive Web log analytics and SEO software). By partnering with SmarterTools, Server Complete is able to offer their customers valuable SmarterTools software products with their Windows packages at no charge.

“The partnership with SmarterTools is going to greatly benefit our customers by providing them with enterprise grade software for use on their Windows services without the large cost normally associated with such,” says Daniel Stephens, Server Complete CEO. “We are constantly looking for ways to offer a better value to our customers, and this partnership with SmarterTools could not be better at doing so.”

Server Complete operates a custom client management system that includes numerous extras for all customers, including redundant DNS hosting, server status monitoring, and out-of-band terminal access. Server Complete Windows hosting customers can now add the SmarterTools bundle to the Server Complete list of extras.

About SmarterTools Inc.
Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona. SmarterTools builds a Windows mail server, customer service software, and Web log analytics and SEO software that simplify and automate the day-to-day IT operations of businesses and hosting environments in over 100 countries. Additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line is available at www.smartertools.com.

About Server Complete, LLC
Server Complete, LLC is a privately held technologies company founded in 2008 and based in Jacksonville, Florida. Operating out of numerous data centers across the United States, their flagship and most popular facility is located in Atlanta, Georgia. They offer expertise in virtualized services, dedicated servers, and offsite backup services. In addition, the Server Complete support team boasts an average response time of under five minutes (live averages can be seen at www.servercomplete.com/about), and they are staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

GreatResponder.com – 2010-07-25 – Easyspace Web Hosting and Domain Names providers in the UK, has announced the launch of a three months free web hosting promotion designed to provide customers with an increased benefit from their new hosting packages.

Web Hosting is a natural add on to any domain name purchase and is often the first stop for people looking for somewhere to host their website, particularly when a Dedicated or Virtual Server option is deemed too expensive.

“A lot of our attention in recent times has been on providing fantastic value for money offers across our range of domain name extensions. We now want customers, who want to add web hosting to their account, to benefit from a similar value for money option.” comments Sarah Haran, Managing Director at Easyspace.

Having provided high quality Web Hosting solutions for ten years, Easyspace is now offering three months free on all Web Hosting packages sold until the end of August 2010. Unlike similar offers by other providers in recent times, Easyspace are not simply discounting the price to be the equivalent of giving away three months free. Rather, all Web Hosting packages purchased up until the end of August will be provisioned for fifteen months rather than twelve, meaning you really do get three months free.

“The free 3 months is added to all web hosting packages by default, meaning there is no opting in required. New and existing customers simply have to purchase hosting as they normally would and they’ll find they receive a fifteen month contract rather than twelve month at no extra cost.”

Easyspace web hosting is perhaps best known in recent times for its highly innovative and cheap web hosting solution, Pic N Mix, launched to make the process of buying web hosting far more simple and flexible.

Sarah continued, “Pic N Mix is revolutionary, yet simple, in its purpose and usability. Allowing customers to choose the features of their hosting package allows them full control over the price they pay. Essentially it allows customers to pay only for what they need and not for features they won’t use. Now, with the 3 month free offer, Pic N Mix customers would benefit from fifteen months of hosting for an equivalent price of under £2 per month.”

Rather than the standard process of choosing a static pre-built package, Pic N Mix Web Hosting allows customers to choose volumes on a variety of features including number of mailboxes and disk space, as well as having the option of choosing Operating System and number of databases. Pic N Mix customers can also choose from seven popular domain extensions for the free domain included in each package.

The three Months Free offer launched by Easyspace is available on all Shared Web Hosting packages and runs until the end of August. It is open to both new and existing customers looking to purchase a new Web Hosting package.

GreatResponder.com – 2010-07-24 – One year free web hosting is offered from WestHost when customers choose business web hosting or personal hosting plans. The company said that this offer is available for limited period only.

Prospects who are going to start their online business and need an affordable and reliable web hosting provider for their personal and hobby websites, then they should consider the distinct hosting plans offered by WestHost. Business or personal, each of these plans are available with great features and unsurpassed service with reasonable prices. In addition to that, the company offers assures 100% lifetime satisfaction promise and 60 day money back guarantee to their clients. It also provides some exclusive features like instant activation, Ad-free hosting, network wide backups and toll free 24x7x365 U.S. support.

WestHost has been a leading web hosting provider since 1998. The company is known not only for its excellent products and services but also held high in terms of reliability and security. Following client centric philosophy, the company has evolved as one of the top web hosting companies. Using fast and reliable connection, it maintains 99% up-time standard. It provides various secondary powers solutions if there are urgency. The level of reliability is enhanced with RAID mirroring, round the clock monitoring and regular updates on security.

The staff includes dedicated and qualified team members who are always there to lend you a helping hand in case of requirement. Clients can call or get in touch with the representative over the live chat to put forward a hosting query.