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.

Session Topic Sneak Peek and Early Bird Pricing Available at CitrixSynergy.com

12/17/2009 » Fort Lauderdale » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), today announced registration for Citrix Synergy™ 2010 is now open. Citrix Synergy – where virtualization, networking and cloud computing meet – has evolved into a global event offered in two key geographic locations: Synergy San Francisco will take place May 12 to 14, 2010, at the Moscone West Convention Center, and Synergy Berlin will be held Oct. 6 to 7, 2010, at the Estrel Hotel and Convention Center.

Synergy offers an open, expansive array of technical and business breakout sessions, as well as hands-on learning labs, presented by leading technical experts. Presenters will examine key issues impacting IT, such as breaking away from the costs and complexities of the distributed computing status quo; building a simpler, more cost-effective computing environment to position organizations at the forefront of the on-demand IT services era and utilizing available technologies to achieve and exceed business goals.

Synergy will feature timely virtualization, networking and cloud computing content, including sessions such as:

• Need a simpler, low-risk path to Windows 7? Desktop virtualization makes it a snap!
• Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) is ready for prime time: How Citrix did it and what we learned.
• Dear CFO, I know how we can save big bucks with desktop virtualization…
• Virtualization and application networking. Learn how one plus one equals three.
• HDX, the user experience “champ,” takes on the contenders.

Synergy is the industry’s premier conference focused on the growing convergence between virtualization, networking and cloud computing. Session content will address how these technologies can solve real IT business problems in an open and dynamic atmosphere and will be divided into the following three tracks:
Desktop Virtualization
This track provides a comprehensive examination of desktop virtualization, covering the full breadth of desktop virtualization technologies, including client virtualization (local virtual desktops), desktop streaming, VDI (hosted virtual desktops), self-service on-demand applications, application virtualization and user profile management. You’ll get case studies of successful implementations, best practices, technical sessions and a roadmap to help you reduce costs, simplify desktop management and deliver high-definition desktops to all users now.

Datacenter-Cloud
Server virtualization, networking and cloud technologies are converging to enable dramatic improvements in datacenter efficiency, flexibility and reliability at an affordable cost. You’ll learn about the latest innovations in server virtualization, datacenter infrastructure management, and networking and application delivery controllers. This fast-paced technical track will examine all three areas with special attention to options and merits of private and public cloud solutions.

IT Business and Strategy
Senior IT management face unprecedented challenges, needing to reduce costs, while simultaneously delivering innovation to drive efficiencies for their users and effectiveness for their business. This track is designed for senior IT leaders, providing new sources of IT-led innovation and competitive advantage to position their business for success today and in the future. Insightful, interactive sessions will feature prominent industry executives who have produced impressive bottom-line improvements for their businesses.

Synergy will also feature hands-on training. The instructor-led, hands-on learning labs provide the in-depth experience required to master new Citrix technologies. These high-value, unique labs are designed for administrators and architects responsible for managing or designing an environment that consists of Citrix technologies including XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and NetScaler.

Citrix Summit 2010, the premier training conference designed for members of the Citrix Partner Network, will be combined with Synergy – both in San Francisco and Berlin. Summit, which begins two days prior to Synergy, is the main event where the company’s partners can learn about the latest trends in virtualization, network optimization and cloud computing solutions. Summit provides intense educational sessions and offers valuable technical knowledge, selling skills and competitive strategies for attendees.

Registration for Synergy and Summit San Francisco, as well as Synergy and Summit Berlin is now available at www.citrixsynergy.com. A discounted, early bird registration is available for Synergy San Francisco through Feb. 2, which provides a $400 savings off of the normal conference fee.

About Citrix Synergy 2010
Born as a user conference more than 10 years ago, Citrix SynergyTM is the only event where virtualization, networking and cloud computing meet. Interoperability and openness are central to the event. Its sessions will focus on the coming convergence of these critical technologies and how they can be used today to address real world IT business challenges. Synergy addresses topics that have simply become too critical and widespread for one event on one continent. IT professionals now have two opportunities each year to attend this important industry conference. Citrix Synergy San Francisco will take place May 12 to 14, 2010, at Moscone West Convention Center. Citrix Synergy Berlin will be held at the Estrel Hotel and Convention Center, Oct. 6 to 7, 2010. More information is available on the Citrix Synergy web site at http://www.citrixsynergy.com.

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center™, Citrix Cloud Center™ (C3) and Citrix Online product families radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering desktops and applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world’s largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion.

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Host Color web hosting provider , a well-known  firm in VPS Web Hosting community announced to hosting media its changes in VPS hosting plans. They increased the resources of their best selling plans in virtual private servers – “VPS Advance” and “VPS Start”.

Managing Director of Host Color LLC, Alexander Avramov said “The new upgraded Virtual Private Servers provide more resources and support our customers to reach their growth targets. We are now offering load-balanced VPS hosting plans from two different data centers – one in Indiana, U.S. and the other in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I can say that now Host Color ranks among the most reliable and technologically advanced providers in VPS hosting industry”.

“VPS Start” new  features are 384 MB of memory, 15 GB of web space and 150 GB of monthly bandwidth. The cost of this virtual server plan did not changed and stays at $19.95/mo. The previous features of this plan was  256 MB of memory, 10 GB of web space and 100 GB of monthly bandwidth.

“VPS Advance” new features are  768 MB memory, 30 GB of web space and 300 GB of monthly bandwidth. There is also a $10 per month decrease in hosting price if customers decide to pay on a yearly bases with an annual contract.

The above VPS plans uses Virtuozzo virtualization a product from Parallels. Host Color gives the clients  of the above VPS hosting plans a way to use Parallels Plesk Control Panel with an affordable cost of $5/mo. This is a $10 less than the average monthly license price of Plesk control panel of $15/mo. They also offer CPanel control panel with a price of $15/mo.

AvaHost web hosting is a shared and reseller web hosting provider and now they have expanded to offer VPS (Virtual Private Server) web hosting. This can help many users to get a low cost alternatives to shared web hosting, the VPS product line offers four levels of VPS web hosting to meet client’s needs.

AvaHost clients may choose now from the four plans which begin at 256MB to 1024 Mb and a disk space of 10 GB up to 40 GB with bandwidth that start at 300 GB up to 1200 GB.

All four plans offer clients SSH root access, development tools, unlimited domain, the power of installing your own software, dedicated IPs, free DNS hosting, having your own DSN servers, reload and reimage OS, shutdown and reboot commands, boot, and to install and compile custom software. VPS hosting  also provide custom MIME settings, support for .htaccess, website access statistics, sendmail support, Cron job support, customizable error pages and access to both error logs and raw logs.

Clients who chooses VPS hosting will get a webmasters bonus package that worth more than $1300.00. This package includes graphics, templates, banner templates and a quality eBooks.

AvaHost web hosting provider has established a strong presence in the hosting industry, offering high end products with excellent customer support.

HostColor has a large variety of web hosting plans that fits nearly every one starting from shared web hosting  which are ready for blogs like wordpress, B2evolution and CMS hosting, their shared hosting can host up to 30 website, e-commerce websites and social web hosting.

They also offer a variety of VPS plan that can fit a lot of sizes of websites starting from the VPS start with 256 MB of Memory priced $17.34/m to the custom VPS with 1792 MB of memory and priced $119.95/m.

They also offer an advance range of web hosting using dedicated servers, ranges from $99 to $399 per month. they also offer other web hosting related products like unique IP’s and SSL sertificates.

Host Color established in 2000. They started business in Europe and expanded to the United States in August 2003. They  incorporated in Delaware, USA, they owned a number of website service brands and successful web hosting.

Quad Xeon Dedicated Servers with 2.65 GHz, 4 GB memory, 500 GB of hard drive space with only 149.95 per month.

All the physical servers that host these virtual servers are located in their premium Data center located in the heart of Montreal downtown, Canada connected to VEXXHOST premium redundant network which is connected to the Internet by four global Internet providers for perfect redundancy also they are using the best network hardware possible such as Cisco routers and switched for 100% network availability.

The physical servers that host the VPS’s also use hardware RAID 10 for data performance and redundancy. Quad core Xeon processors and a minimum of 16 GB RAM.

All VPS physical servers are equipped with dual power supply, datacenter has a redundant electric power supply systems using UPS’s, electric power generators and the national power grid which make the availability of power supply approach to 100%.

The benefit of using Xen VPS web hosting is that all clients are having their own dedicated RAM, disk space & bandwidth. Also Xen VPS web hosting is different than any other method of virtualization as it gives customers complete access with full resources, also Xen VPS isolate every individual VPS and has its own kernel which protect VPS’s from crashes if one of the VPS’s in the same server  crashes .

VMware announced that it has completed the acquisition of B-hive Networks. B-hive is privately-held performance application management Software Company. Its headquarters in San Mateo, California, and principal R&D facilities located at Herzliya, Israel. VMware claims that it had announced a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive on 28-05-2008.

VMware also says that with this acquisition, it will leverage the B-hive technology and team to improve its portfolio of infrastructure management and application products by offering proactive performance management and service level reporting for applications running within the virtual machines. VMware explains that B-hive technology brings insight into the performance of applications and the ability to automate changes using the company’s datacenter virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure, to reallocate resources as needed to ensure service level objectives. In addition, with this acquisition, B-hive’s R&D facility and team will form the core of the VMware’s new development center located in Israel.

Layered Technologies avers that it will provide Microsoft Hyper-V GoLive Beta Program and Microsoft Developer Network members with dedicated servers in an on-demand, hosted environment. As a member of the MSDN community or a GoLive Partner, customers will receive an exclusive monthly discount on the Microsoft Hyper-V-enabled hosting packages.

Jack Finlayson, Chief Executive Officer of Layered Technologies said “We are excited to be a part of Microsoft’s ongoing effort to provide customers and partners with the best operating system platform for virtualization,” He also added “We worked closely with Microsoft to be the first hosting providers to rapidly deploy this technology. In bringing virtualization to the market, we are looking to help businesses consolidate resources, reduce support costs, and decrease operations expenses.”

Aaron Phillips, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Layered Technologies said “The mainstream acceptance of virtualization provides a new level of sought-after features for administrators,” He also added “As the technology has matured, a hosted virtualization offering through our relationship with Microsoft was a natural progression.”

The upgrades include also the servers’ hardware also; all the VPS servers now have a RAID 10 for data security, redundancy and performance. Dual power supply unit for power redundancy and to eliminate any chance of downtime. All the servers are Intel multi Xeon processors of up to 8 processors and have ECC RAM of up to 32 GB.

All Virtual private servers use Xen virtualization method, which totally separate RAM, space and even kernel of each VPS server and prevent any interfering between VPS’s.

With all these specifications and redundancies and by giving a generous dedicated RAM of up to 1 GB to each VPS server, makes VEXXHOST VPS plans better than using a dedicated server with a much affordable prices.

Easy CGI web hosting, a well-known hosting company which was offering Windows Server hosting only is now has a full range of five VPS (virtual private server) plans for clients who need Linux system. These plans are nearly the same of those offered to its Windows system. Easy CGI range of Linux virtual private server plans can satisfy nearly any VPS hosting need – starting from  small businesses ending to big corporations.

“Although we are a Windows Web hosting provider,” Dan Richfield President of Easy CGI said “we pride ourselves on flexibility and our ability to deliver what customers want. There’s a definite market out there for Linux-based hosting and we are one of the few hosting companies offering dedicated VPS on both Windows and Linux platforms.”

All five these plans guarantee a small number of VPS for each server, which gives each customer a bigger share of CPU time, disk space and RAM.

Easy CGI web hosting is a leading Windows Web hosting company since 2001, they provide value web hosting and customer support. The VPS plans that they offer are flexible, easy-to-use, and have step-by-step instructions with huge knowledge base.