(The Hosting News) – OVERLAND PARK, KS – Codero, a dedicated server/managed hosting leader, recently completed its 1st Annual Toys for Tots campaign, raising more than $3,600 to buy new toys for Kansas City-area youth during this holiday season. Codero used an all-employee competition known as “Penny Wars” to raise $1,806.25, matched by the company for a total of $3,612.50. This in turn allowed employees to purchase 496 toys which were then delivered to the local Toys for Tots office.
In early December, Codero launched its “Penny Wars” game to raise money for the Kansas City Metro Toys for Tots, part of a national program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Codero departments and groups then had one week to generate the most cash or points: pennies and $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills counted as positive points for each team, while nickels, dimes, quarters, and $1 and $5 bills were negative points.
“I would like to thank Codero for their generous donation, and it has gone a long
way in making this Christmas season a little brighter for those less fortunate in our area,” says MSgt Gerhold Wanamaker, Toys for Tots coordinator with the 24th Marine Regiment.” It’s through the generosity of people like this that I am able to provide this assistance to the kids of Kansas City.”
In all, this year’s Kansas City Toys for Tots campaign collected over $71,000 and 70,000 toys to assist more than 52,000 children throughout the metro area. According to Marine Corps Reserve organizers, this season was a success in meeting all requests from those who applied to the program in 2009.
“In the spirit of giving, and giving back to our community, we’re pleased to partner with this longstanding charity to help children experience the joy of the holidays,” says Ryan Elledge, Codero’s Chief Operations Officer. “This has been a great experience for us as well, and we’re already making plans to do it again next year.”
See more about the Toys for Toys campaign on the Codero Facebook page.
About Codero
Specializing in dedicated and managed hosting services for small-to-mid-sized businesses, Codero offers advanced email, eCommerce, security and networking solutions. This includes a full line of high-performance Windows® and Linux servers as well as EVault Backup, Pinnacle Shopping Cart, and more. All Codero products are backed by secure data centers, live 24/7/365 U.S.-based support and a seasoned staff with international experience in the hosting business for over 15 years. Codero recently launched its Codero Rewards program and the Green with Codero Initiative, powering 100% of its dedicated server and managed hosting operations through renewable energy credits. For more information about Codero, please visit www.codero.com.
About the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program
Founded in 1947, Toys for Tots is dedicated to collecting new, unwrapped toys every October, November and December and distributing those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children. Local Toys for Tots campaigns are held in communities throughout the United States where Marine Corps Reserve Units are located. Fundraising activities include golf tournaments, foot races, bicycle races and other purely voluntary events designed to increase interest in Toys for Tots and concurrently generate toy and monetary donations.
Contact
Shelby Garlock, Director, Marketing
shelbyg@codero.com
877.999.2750
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(The Hosting News) – Fremont, CA – dataguise, a leading innovator of security solutions for protecting sensitive data across the enterprise, has announced that Molina Healthcare deployed dataguise dgmaskerâ„¢ and dgdiscoverâ„¢ in more than 100 training, development and testing environments. dataguise security products identify and mask the Personal Health Information (PHI) of Molina Healthcare’s members and providers, thus protecting sensitive data and enabling the managed care organization to meet HIPAA compliance requirements.
Molina Healthcare, Inc. is a multi-state managed care organization that arranges for the delivery of healthcare services to persons eligible for Medicaid, Medicare, and other government-sponsored programs for low-income families and individuals. Altogether, Molina Healthcare’s licensed health plan subsidiaries in California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Washington currently serve approximately 1.3 million members.
Prior to dataguise, Molina Healthcare was relying on an internally developed solution, which proved to be unreliable, difficult to maintain and required frequent adjustments. Since implementing the dataguise solutions, Molina Healthcare has eliminated the risk of exposure and access to its sensitive data while reducing the overhead needed for dedicated resources to manage and maintain the integrity of its database environments by 300 percent.
“As a healthcare organization that supports government programs, we are constantly receiving and storing highly sensitive data; a data breach would not only have a negative impact on customer satisfaction, but would also jeopardize our fulfilling HIPAA compliance standards,†said Nitin Gotmare, director of IT for Molina Healthcare. “The dataguise technology desensitizes information so that a breach is not possible. With dgmasker and dgdiscover in place, we can provide our customers and members with peace of mind that their personal health information is safe and secure.â€
dataguise dgdiscover and dgmasker are designed to find structured database repositories across the network, search and discover sensitive data in structured databases, and then mask or de-identify to protect sensitive data. With dataguise, organizations have access to a single product that finds, searches and masks sensitive data across all databases throughout the enterprise. This allows organizations to create corporate masking policies for faster adherence to compliance regulations, lower risk of a data breach, and reduce reliance on cumbersome single database masking solutions. While most organizations have measures in place to control access to critical data in their production environments, this protection does not always extend to non-production data – an area addressed by dataguise.
“With dataguise, organizations are mitigating the risk of exposure that privacy data presents when moved outside the walls of a secure network environment and replacing manual or home-grown solutions that drain internal resources and endanger its compliance status,†said Allan Thompson, Executive Vice President, Operations for dataguise. “By using our cross-platform sensitive data discovery and masking technology, organizations can implement a reliable, cost-effective solution that provides the highest level of data protection, satisfying the many compliance mandates currently in place surrounding privacy data.â€
About dataguise
dataguise offers automated and advanced data security solutions to help ensure regulatory compliance ,protect against data theft, discover sensitive data and maintain data quality. dgdiscover enables organizations to find structured database repositories across the network, search and discover sensitive data in structured databases. dgmasker is then able to mask or de-identify to protect sensitive data. dgmasker provides secure masking of database content with unprecedented flexibility and functionality across heterogeneous environments. For more information, call 510-824-1036 or visit dataguise.com
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(The Hosting News) – Top features of the Miva Merchant 5.5 Shopping Cart:
1. PCI & PA-DSS Compliance
It is crucial that the shopping cart software you use for your e-commerce site is compliant with the new PCI PA-DSS by July 2010 if you store any confidential or credit card information. Many shopping carts are not and will not be compliant by the deadline. However, Miva Merchant will be 100% compliant by July. Sites that are found to be non-compliant can face severe and hefty fines and even face the possibility of being shutdown. This is not a matter that is being taken lightly by any means since Internet security is taken very seriously nowadays.
Miva Merchant has developed a strategic partnership with ControlScan to provide all-inclusive PCI compliance and security across all sites utilizing Miva Merchant Hosting. Websites that use ControlScan’s services receive a seal from the company notifying customers that they are protected. This seal will give consumers a sense of trust and security so they will feel comfortable sharing their private information.
2. Store Morph Technology (SMT)
This popular and powerful new feature allows users to create stores that are totally customized to their specific needs based on provided templates. Store Morph Technology is a huge advancement in the creation, design and management of e-commerce businesses.
With SMT, storeowners have total control over the layout and design of every single page of their store. SMT allows merchants to have a certain layout on one page and a totally different one on another page. SMT is renowned for its simple use of basic HTML commands in order to create customized pages.
SMT allows stores to become more functional to their target clients and customers by modifying small yet important details of a site. This way not every Miva Hosting store looks the same – you can make your site stand out amongst the competition.
3. Miva Skins
A skin is a graphical interface that changes the appearance of a site without altering the way the site functions or operates. Miva Merchant has developed skins for just about any kind of retailer or service you can fathom. From sporting goods retailers and beauty product stores to travel agencies and restaurants, store skins for a wide array of businesses are available at a reasonable cost.
The Miva Merchant 5.5 Skin Store gives the online merchant an impressive selection of store skins available for purchase. When a storeowner purchases a skin for their store, they are able to improve the look and feel of their site instantly. Banners, custom images, backgrounds and buttons are also included with the purchase.
4. Miva Modules
Miva Merchant 5.5 presents its users with the ability to buy and install third party modules for their stores. These plug-ins are easily installed and allow for customization without costly outsourcing to a custom programmer.
New modules are consistently being developed since there is an evolving market for them. There are modules for a wide variety of tasks including:
- Physical Appearance Templates (that go beyond the abilities of SMT)
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Email Management
- Ordering and Shipping
- Marketing and Promotions
- Inventory Management
For a list of the best-selling Miva Merchant modules available, please visit Miva Central’s Modules Page.
5. Technical Support
The technical support of Miva Merchant and its Premier Partner hosting companies is unparalleled and unrivaled. They connect with each and every client on a personal level and demonstrate time and again that they actually care about their customers. Furthermore, online merchants will find a great deal of valuable information on the Miva Merchant website through their forums, tutorials, FAQs and videos.
For a setup fee of $129 and a monthly cost of $19.95, store operators can join the Miva Merchant Service Club, which provides them with exclusive support through Miva themselves. The $129 setup fee will be waived if you sign up within thirty days of obtaining your Miva license.
If a storeowner signs up with Miva’s Service Club they will receive the following:
- Priority access with unlimited toll free telephone and email support for Miva Merchant
- Support for Miva Synchro (Miva’s unique program that integrates online storefronts and databases with Intuit Quickbooks)
- Database Repair
- Free modules, success secrets and store graphics as part of Miva’s monthly “Gemâ€
For the clients of Webnet Hosting, a Premier Provider of Miva Merchant Web Hosting and consistently voted Best Miva Merchant Host, 24/7/365 phone and email technical support are included with all hosting packages at no additional cost. Keep in mind that a quality web host will always provide 24/7 both email and phone support. Having constant support for your website is important because if your site is not working properly you can quickly lose money and no e-commerce operator wants that!
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(The Hosting News) – Latisys, a provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions, today announced it has been selected by leading Web Hosting provider Lunarpages to provide data center colocation and managed IT services.
For more than a decade, Lunarpages has focused on providing affordable and reliable hosting for over 150,000 satisfied customers – ranging from individuals and small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. Customer growth, as well as broader use of high-density applications, drove Lunarpages’ need for a provider that could deliver outsourced, scalable IT infrastructure management services.
“We consider our data center partner to be a critical part of the Lunarpages team, which is why we invest in only the best,†said George Natzic, Chief Operating Officer at Lunarpages. “By turning to Latisys, our customers will benefit from a SAS70 compliant infrastructure and continuous uptime. At the same time, we have assurance and peace of mind that our IT environment is secure.â€
Lunarpages selected Latisys and its Irvine data center facility for its ability to provide:
· High-density colocation services – LatisysHD (Latisys’ high-density colocation services) in the firm’s SAS70 Type II certified Irvine, California data center facility (delivering 225 watts of power per square foot) can support customers’ increasingly high-performance computing and application requirements. LatisysHD is available in all Latisys locations including Denver, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois.
· Maximum uptime – Latisys data center facilities are engineered with the highest level of redundant systems to deliver a 99.999% uptime Service Level Agreement.
· Managed security – Latisys’ comprehensive suite of managed security solutions (firewall, intrusion detection, VPN, virus-filtering) ensures that the customer’s colocated or managed hosting environment is fully secure.
· Power and cooling – With N+1 cooling and power infrastructure, Latisys’ data center facilities have been designed to scale and meet power and cooling requirements in both the short and long term.
· Compelling pricing – Latisys employs a flexible approach with customers for managing their IT infrastructure in the most cost effective manner.
“Because Lunarpages prides itself on offering customers uncompromised security, management, pricing, and services, selecting a data center partner that enabled the firm to execute on this mission was paramount,†said Don Goodwin, executive vice president, Latisys. “We are excited to begin this new relationship with Lunarpages, and that our Latisys HD data center services and related managed services offering continue to resonate with leading Web hosting providers.â€
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(The Hosting News) The partnership between RTW Hosting and Node4 began in 1994, with RTW’s need for a SIP trunking provider. Node4’s resources allowed it to offer geographic numbers and competitive call rates fitted the customer’s requirements perfectly.
Around six months after their initial SIPlink order, RTW Hosting were looking for a colocation facility which could accommodate the business’s next planned phase of growth. It was at this time that Node4 were just completing the final developments on their latest data center, DC3, in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
DC3, with space for 450 racks, was just what RTW Hosting were looking for in terms of specification including, N+1 air conditioning and generators and an N+N UPS solution, cold aisle containment, up to 32amps dual feed power, and an on-site Network Operations Centre, to run their Roadtowork.com infrastructure. As a result, they placed an order for 3 full racks in DC3 with all the power they needed, moving their equipment in in September of this year. The size and young age of the facility meant that there is the option for RTW Hosting to increase their colocation presence with Node4 either within DC3 or across Node4’s other data center sites in Derby and, by late 2010, Northampton.
Mike Wills, from RTW Hosting enthuses about Node4 and DC3; “Before moving to DC3, we were constantly up against restrictions on cooling and power and this was holding back growth. The DC3 data centre ticked all the boxes: The data center provided us with the very latest security, well laid out and deep cabinets, superb cooling and all the power we needed. As a result, we have now migrated over our primary operations to DC3. With excellent response times from the support team, near immediate remote hands when needed; we have been delighted with the outcome. On the rare occasions when we need to visit site, the train has taken the strain in just a matter of a few hours. The most complicated logistic is the last mile in finding the site for the taxi driver or courier given its naturally discrete physical presence!â€
Node4 and RTW Hosting are set to continue their working partnership throughout 2010 with a number of new projects in the pipeline.
Shane Dove, Node4’s Sales Manager comments; “We are very pleased to have RTW Hosting as a customer and as a partner, utilizing our full range of products and solutions which has allowed them to make the most of the technologies available to themselves and their customers.â€
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(The Hosting News)- Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), one of the most high profile companies in the field of hosting and cloud computing, released news that its Rackspace Email & Apps division now hosts more than 1.6 million paid mailboxes across its hosted email offerings. New and existing customers cite best-in-class migration, Fanatical Support® and a robust email platform at an affordable price as the common reasons for choosing Rackspace.
“Businesses shouldn’t have to manage in-house email servers anymore,†said Pat Matthews, general manager, Rackspace Email & Apps. “But email is more mission critical than ever and IT managers need to partner with a company they can trust. Rackspace bridges the gap for companies that don’t want to invest in expensive on-premise systems but still need business-class email and a company that will service them when they need it. The traction we have achieved in a tough economy shows that we have been successful in bridging that gap.â€
ReCourses is one such company, which turned to Rackspace after experiencing the problems of managing their own email system in-house. David Baker, founder of ReCourses, a truly global business providing consulting services to the marketing industry, was managing his own email server. But if there was a problem while he was traveling, he had no way to physically get the server back online. David made the decision to move to a hosted email solution, which provided him with the peace of mind he needed to focus on more critical aspects of his business. According to Baker, “Uptime and excellent support were very important factors in my decision. Rackspace has exceeded my expectations in those areas, which gives me confidence that I can conduct my business without worrying about risks such as an outage.â€
Bundle City was using the free email service that was bundled with their web hosting package, but they were frustrated with the poor service and lack of features. As an online marketplace, Bundle City relies almost exclusively on email communications to conduct business. For them, speed and reliability of communication was especially important. “Rackspace Email offers advanced features . . . yet it’s still extremely affordable for a small business,†said Bundle City founder, Pez Elias.
Another customer, Thomas Vranas, was in search of a replacement for his company’s legacy POP email system, when he found Rackspace. “The POP email was not conducive to running a mid-sized company,†said Vranas, president of PROACT Search, a premier executive search and management consulting firm. “Things I’d taken for granted in the corporate world, like calendars, sharing, and invites, are necessities.†Rather than build an IT infrastructure from scratch, Vranas chose Rackspace Email due to its flexibility in product offerings, satisfaction-guaranteed uptime, scalability, and access to around-the-clock Fanatical Support.
Rackspace Email features spam and virus protection, a unique and easy-to-use control panel for administrators, large mailbox storage and attachment size, desktop access with Microsoft Outlook, and integration with mobile devices, all backed by Fanatical Support®. Rackspace also offers hosted Microsoft Exchange, as well as a hybrid offering of Microsoft Exchange Hosting and Rackspace Email.
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(The Hosting News)– Gogax, a Canadian dedicated server provider has announced the release of its brand new customer portal. This new service will, according to Gogax, provide “total control†to its dedicated server customers using a web based customer management portal.
This new portal offers improvements in the account management functions, support features and extensive server management including detailed bandwidth monitoring, reboots, os reloads and much more. Gogax is proud and excited to offer this long-awaited new customer portal as the old one was lacking in features and was not as scalable. The new portal has been operational for the past two weeks and the positive feedbacks keep pouring in. Customers greatly appreciate this new and powerful tool we are providing them with their servers.
Elazar Cohen, CEO of Gogax, explains “It was time for a refreshing new portal for our customers and the feedback proves it. The new portal offers many new robust features making it very simple for our customers to do tasks such as automated reboots, extensive server monitoring solutions, IP management, server hardware and software management, reverse DNS, kvm over IP functions and much more. We strive for customer satisfaction and I can definitely say that with this new change, it is mission accomplished.â€
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(The Hosting News) – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, increased its number of users to more than 15 million people worldwide – an increase of 80 percent in 2009.
The results come from deals with software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers including Versatel (Germany’s third-largest telecommunications provider with 1.3 million e-mail accounts), Dotster (among the world’s largest domain name registrars servicing hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide), NameCheap (a leader in domain name registration and web hosting with 1 million domains), Nexen-Alterway Hosting (the French leader in open source web hosting) and NTS (a leading distributor in the Asian market). With the exception of NTS – the first distributor moving into the SaaS market in Asia – all the others have replaced their web mail with Open-Xchange and are selling additional groupware and mobility capabilities – providing additional benefits along with revenue opportunities for the SaaS providers.
“While we’ve made tremendous progress in sales and development in 2009, we expect to build on that momentum with a goal of reaching 26 million users in 2010,†said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “There are very exciting deals in our sales pipeline and more social network features coming to our collaboration software. We’re really seeing the pace accelerating as we look ahead to next year.â€
The company‘s software is also used on-premise by some 3,500 companies and organizations worldwide — including the addition in 2009 of a large Japanese retail bank and the University Hospital Cologne (in Germany).
In 2009, the company introduced an innovative groupware concept called “Social OX,†which can aggregate e-mail from Google, Yahoo and many others into a folder in Open-Xchange, plus automatically add and incorporate contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing to the Open-Xchange address book.
With availability of the Open-Xchange OXtender for Business Mobility in 2009, users can receive push e-mail and synchronization of contacts, calendar and other information from their Open-Xchange account to their smartphones, including iphone ,BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and others.
Other additions this year are OXtender for MacOS X, which enables end users to access and edit all information and documents stored on the Open-Xchange server with their familiar desktop Mac applications. Plus, availability was made this month of a free open source connector for Mozilla Thunderbird, the cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
Official Open-Xchange support for Dutch and Spanish languages was added to English, French and German and the Open Source community contributed many other language packs.
Open-Xchange also announced important partner agreements. In the near future, the collaboration software will be extended with Rack-Soft’s leading Unified Communications software to give end users telephone, fax, instant messaging integrated with Open-Xchange e-mail, contacts, calendar and task information.
Also, SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, announced cooperation with Open-Xchange to integrate data from SugarCRM and the Open-Xchange collaboration software as the first software to build on the social networking capabilities in Open-Xchange.
About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. The company provides on-premise versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider’s existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.
Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, visit www.open-xchange.com.
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(The Hosting News) – Montreal, Canada – Gogax, a Canadian dedicated server provider, is proud to reveal its brand new customer portal offering “total control†to its dedicated server customers using a web based management portal.
This new portal offers improvements in the account management functions, support features and extensive server management including detailed bandwidth monitoring, reboots, os reloads and much more. Gogax is proud and excited to offer this long-awaited new customer portal as the old one was lacking in features and was not as scalable. The new portal has been operational for the past two weeks and the positive feedbacks keep pouring in. Customers greatly appreciate this new and powerful tool we are providing them with their servers.
Elazar Cohen, CEO of Gogax, explains “It was time for a refreshing new portal for our customers and the feedback proves it. The new portal offers many new robust features making it very simple for our customers to do tasks such as automated reboots, extensive server monitoring solutions, IP management, server hardware and software management, reverse DNS, kvm over IP functions and much more. We strive for customer satisfaction and I can definitely say that with this new change, it is mission accomplished.”
For complete details on the new Gogax Portal and its features, visit: http://www.gogax.com/servers/cp.php
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(The Hosting News)-Fast food giant McDonald’s will soon begin offering free wireless Internet access at its U.S. restaurants. This is part of a plan to make its locations feel more like a “hang out” location instead of a fast hamburger joint.
“We’re not just about hamburgers,” said Dave Grooms, chief information officer for McDonald’s USA, AP reports. “We are about convenience and all kinds of value.” The company, the world’s largest fast-food chain, has offered Internet access for about five years.
In mid-January, it will lift the $2.95 fee it has charged for two hours of Internet access at 11,000 of its 14,000 U.S. locations. There will be no time limit after the fee is lifted, according to the same source. “McDonald’s is about value — value in our food, value in our services,” Grooms said. “It’s a natural fit.”
The plan is to use free Wi-Fi as a tool to encourage customers to stay in the restaurants between meals and hopefully buy McCafe coffee drinks and the new line of smoothies and frappes, Macobserver.com reports.
The free access comes under a partnership with AT&T(T Quote), which provides McDonald’s stores with wireless Internet, The Street informs.
The Morning News quotes AT&T saying its public Wi-Fi access points have already been used more than 51 million times during 2009, more than double the number of connections during all of 2008, according to PC World. Terms of the deal between AT&T and McDonald’s were not disclosed.
Macobserver.com reports that the decision to offer free wireless Internet access could be a move on McDonald’s part to compete with Starbucks and other coffee chains for between meal customers. McDonald’s plans to roll out its free Wi-Fi program in mid January across the United States.
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