Web Hosting Forum – PLANO, Texas – Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, today announced that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is now available for rapid server deployments via Astro, Layered Tech’s proprietary automated Web hosting platform. In addition to Windows Server 2008, Layered Tech offers the broadest range of high-performance, secure Linux and Unix operating systems in the industry, so customers leveraging the speed and flexibility of Astro can choose the OS that best meets their needs and provision the server almost instantaneously.

With Windows Server 2008, customers can develop, deliver and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within their organizations. Astro displays server inventory in real-time and enables near instantaneous server provisioning so Layered Tech customers can easily configure their server, complete the purchase and have it available for use within 90 minutes.

“By adding Windows Server 2008 to our rapid deployment server offerings, customers can stay current with the latest offerings from Microsoft, explore new features with the .NET product offering and leverage a rich Web server environment that is more robust and feature-driven than previous versions of IIS,” said Layered Tech COO and CIO Terrance Bush. “We continue to evaluate the latest and greatest server technologies to determine what will best meet our customers’ needs and support their business goals. We’re excited to make Windows Server 2008 available within our rapid deployment service offering, provide our customers a wide variety of robust operating system options, and deliver powerful servers in less than two hours after selection.”

The Windows Server 2008 editions currently available via Astro include:
•Data Center Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications on medium and large servers;
•Standard Edition: the most robust Windows Server operating system to date due to its increased reliability, flexibility and control;
•Enterprise Edition: an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications.

Through Astro, customers can quickly customize their rapid deployment servers with a wide range of offerings, including the option to deploy IIS, Plesk Control Panel, Virtual Firewall Solutions and DEFCON bundled managed services. And with Encompass, Layered Tech’s centralized client management portal, customers can manage their account, request support, reboot servers and access other critical information such as bandwidth graphs, alerts and notifications.

Layered Tech launched Astro in January 2009 in its DataBank data center located in Dallas and continues to broaden the autonomous platform so customers can take advantage of additional services within minutes, not hours or even days. It plans to expand Astro into its Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Chicago facilities in the near future.

Web Hosting Forum – UNION CITY, CA – Data Center Pulse Inc. (DCP), a newly formed datacenter industry organization, today announced that it has enrolled its 1,000th member. This major milestone has been reached in just under 9 months, bringing the DCP community into 45 countries representing over 600 companies in virtually every market segment both public and private.

“We knew that there was a gap in the industry, but we were surprised at how quickly the membership grew”, says Dean Nelson, co-founder and Chairman of DCP. “Our goal was simple; to create a place that datacenter industry operators could gather to share ideas on best practices and ultimately influence the industry. With the myriad of pressures we are all facing; rising costs, density increases, complexity and new ecological scrutiny; we knew that a collaborative community could prove to be very beneficial.”

Data Center Pulse Inc. is an exclusive group of datacenter owners and operators influencing the industry through end users. DCP was formed September 13, 2008 on LinkedIn and in just nine short months they have attracted members ranging from some of the most innovative startups to many of the largest companies in the world. DCP Members must participate, or be responsible for, one or more of the following within their own company: Data Center Strategy, Architecture/Design, Operations, Efficiency, Sustainability or Use. DCP does not allow members with primary jobs in sales, marketing, PR, consulting or business development. The DCP members are the individuals that evaluate, recommend and purchase the products and services for the datacenter. They represent billions of dollars of annual purchases that drive the IT economy. They are the datacenter customers.

About Data Center Pulse
Data Center Pulse (DCP) is a growing, non-profit, datacenter industry organization founded on the principles of sharing best practices amongst its exclusive membership. Founded in late 2008, DCP has quickly become an industry nexus for the explosive datacenter industry’s operators and influencers. DCP’s mission is to align end users to share information thereby influencing the industry by defining, adopting and driving energy efficiency and best practices. The DCP members are the individuals that evaluate, recommend and purchase the products and services for the datacenter. They represent billions of dollars of annual purchases that drive the IT economy.

End users can join DCP through: http://join.datacenterpulse.org

Non end-users can join the DCP Industry group through: http://join-ind.datacenterpulse.org.

Web Hosting Forum – SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – According to analyst firm Netcraft, there are more than 238 million Web sites online. Getting a Web site noticed online can be daunting, which is why Go Daddy released Search Engine Visibility.

Search Engine Visibility walks users through a step-by-step process to make their Web site search engine friendly. This not only makes a search engine more likely to index the entire site, but to help get the Web site higher in search engine rankings.

“Lots of our customers want to know how to rank higher in Internet search engines,’” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “So we created Search Engine Visibility. This tool gives you real tactics and sound advice about Search Engine Optimization – without having to pay big bucks.”

Search Engine Visibility lets users optimize their site by defining keywords, analyzing content and tracking keyword performance. Search Engine Visibility also provides a “Top 10 SEO Checklist,” which helps identify commonly made mistakes and techniques on how make a Web site stronger.

Search Engine Visibility also provides a video tutorial and other educational materials which help users understand the search engine optimization process. Once a Web site is optimized, users can submit their Web site to the most commonly used search engines on the Internet.

Users can call Go Daddy’s 24/7 customer care representatives if they have any questions during the optimization process.

For more information about Search Engine Visibility or any of Go Daddy services, visit www.GoDaddy.com.

Web Hosting Forum – DENVER, CO – Hosting.com, the first name in managed hosting and colocation solutions, today announced that it is expanding by opening a 30,000 square foot datacenter and 13,000 square foot corporate complex in the Denver metro area in late August. Company owners Art Zeile and Joel Daly have operated three successful high-tech firms, all headquartered in Denver, including InFlow, Inc., sold to Sungard in 2005.

The demand for secure, reliable colocation space in Denver continues to outpace availability. Art Zeile, Hosting.com CEO, commented, “We are excited to serve a very large need in Denver with this new datacenter. Colocation space with our high level of service and support is absent from downtown.” He continued, “We will grow aggressively over the next 24 months through a national platform of managed and secure services; we are excited that Denver is at the center of our growth.”

Hosting.com will occupy a historic Ford Model T factory retrofitted to their specifications for the expansion. The location takes advantage of a strong network topology, multiple power grids, and close proximity to fully redundant fiber feeds from Tier 1 providers. The datacenter will incorporate Hosting.com Smart Design Standards and provide up to 10 Gb/sec of redundant connectivity for bandwidth routing optimization as well as 200 watts/sq ft of power and cooling. It will be the only datacenter of its kind in downtown Denver.

In addition to hosting and colocation services, the new facility will support Hosting.com’s new cloud hosting platforms, Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Private. Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; and San Francisco, CA. Hosting.com’s cloud and virtualization solutions coupled with a geographically dispersed datacenter network allows their clients to take full advantage of their services for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery solutions for their Web enabled businesses and technology infrastructure.

Joel Daly, Hosting.com COO, noted, “By operating five datacenters from coast to coast, we provide our clients with unparalleled solution and service options. Our business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) enhancements will provide clients with cost-effective means to achieve and test true disaster recovery and fault tolerance.”

Web Hosting Forum – Sunnyvale, CA – Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced the expansion of its cloud infrastructure with the launch of a new detection center in Washington, DC, the Company’s fifth worldwide.

Commtouch’s Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and Data Cloud technologies currently process more than two billion Internet transactions each week within the Company’s globally distributed detection centers to identify new messaging and Web threat outbreaks as they are initiated.

“As Web and email traffic and threats continue to increase rapidly, this new center will allow us to more efficiently and effectively serve our growing customer base,” said Yossi Maslaton, Commtouch’s vice president of network operations and customer services. “We will be better equipped to handle the growing volumes of queries and real-time information analysis in the US, and our East Coast customers will benefit from higher quality of service with less latency.”

In addition to the Washington, DC facility, Commtouch maintains two additional US facilities, one in Hong Kong and another in the United Kingdom. The detection centers have been strategically located around the globe to provide Commtouch partners and their customers with full coverage and service regardless of their geographic location. The new center will also enhance the availability and failover capabilities of the Commtouch infrastructure.

Commtouch detection centers serve the Company’s messaging and Web security solutions: Anti-Spam, Zero-Hour™ Virus Outbreak Protection, GlobalView™ Mail Reputation Service, GlobalView URL Filtering and GlobalView Zombie Intelligence Service. These offerings are integrated in an OEM model within security vendors’ products, such as unified threat management devices, managed security services, message transfer agents, and gateway and desktop software.

The global infrastructure enables Commtouch to provide superior security solutions with a distributed ‘in the cloud’ delivery method, thus providing the company’s customers access to real-time threat prevention patterns with a small local footprint. End-customers have the ability to leverage the vast processing power of Commtouch’s infrastructure, extracting and caching just the relevant updates.