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Arsys Reduces Data Center Energy Consumption

July 28th, 2010 admin

The leading Internet presence, managed hosting and cloud computing service company Arsys has reduced its energy consumption by 20% in the past year, since its new Data Center came online in July 2009. This has resulted in a reduction in electricity consumption of approximately 300,000 kWh per month, including both the electricity consumed by servers and that required to cool them.  That amount of production by power utilities would have resulted in the emission of several tonnes of CO2 per month.

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.

Source : web-hosting-news.org

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Site5 Introduces Xen-Based Virtual Private Servers

July 28th, 2010 admin

Site5, a leader in shared, reseller, VPS, dedicated, and cloud hosting, today introduced Xen-based Virtual Private Servers, offering 100 percent dedicated system resources to each account, unlike other virtualization alternatives which share resources between user accounts. Because each Site5 Virtual Private Server offers guaranteed server resources, customers are able to expect a sustained high level of performance. When sever resources are shared between user accounts – as is an industry norm – customers can unexpectedly experience significant, periodic performance drops.

“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.

Source : hosting-news.org

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Web Host NeoSpire Names Chief Operating Officer

July 12th, 2010 admin

Web hosting provider NeoSpire (www.neospire.com) announced on Friday it has promoted Jim Ciampaglio to the position of chief operating officer.

Ciampaglio previously served as NeoSpire’s vice president of sales, a position he has held since March 2009.

In this new role, he plans to expand marketing and operations activities by broadening NeoSpire’s strategic partnership.

He will also manage the company’s network services, marketing, engineering, facilities teams, and customer advocacy team.

“In a little over a year with NeoSpire, Jim Ciampaglio has demonstrated a broad range of talents,” says Mitch Gervis, CEO of NeoSpire. “His ability to understand the needs of the customer, his grasp of operations, and his vision for the future of hosted services are all valuable skills that will benefit us in the years ahead. I look forward to working closely with Jim in his new role.”

Prior to joining NeoSpire, Ciampaglio worked for Web hosting provider NaviSite, where he was vice president of sales for the shared and dedicated hosting business unit.

His past experience includes senior director of sales at NTT/Verio, where he was responsible for the retail sales team, indirect sales channel, professional services, sales engineering and sales support.

He also has worked at Verizon as a group manager, an account director at Aegis Communications, and a quality assurance manager at MBNA.

Source : thewhir.com

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Newtek Integrates Microsoft’s Web App Gallery

July 12th, 2010 admin

Newtek Web Hosting, the technology services division of Newtek Business Services, Inc., yesterday announced that it has added the Microsoft Web Application Gallery to the list of tools available within the WebControlCenter, their account management application. The company mentions that the Web App Gallery is included for all shared hosting plans hosted on the Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 platform and provides users with easy installation of over twenty popular PHP and ASP.NET-based web applications.

It articulates that Microsoft’s Web App Gallery includes widely used blogging platforms, content management systems, photo galleries, tools, and forum software. And with a 1-click, or near 1-click, installation process for all included apps, users can quickly and easily install the applications of their choice and have them online and fully operational within a few short minutes.

The company avers that its Web App Gallery tool is included free on all new ASP.NET and ColdFusion 9 hosting plans, which are both hosted on Microsoft’s latest web platform, Windows Server 2008. It adds that some of the applications included in the Web App Gallery, and supported by the company, includes WordPress, DotNetNuke Community Edition, Acquia Drupal, Umbraco CMS, phpBB, and Gallery Server Pro to name a few.

“Seeing the huge benefits of giving our customers an easier way to deploy widely used applications, our phenomenal Development Team placed a great deal of time and resources into building out the Web App Gallery tool within the WebControlCenter,” said Bob Cichon, President of Newtek Technology Services. “It not only saves time and makes things easier for designers and developers, but it adds significant value for hosting resellers using our environment for their own clientele.”

Source : web-hosting-top.com

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