The FFC  announced on Thursday, it has ended its efforts in trying to provide a compromise between the various companies, citing that weeks of negotiations had not “generated a robust framework to preserve openness and freedom of the Internet.”

Verizon executive vice president, Tom Tauke thanked the agency for its efforts. “The FCC talks made good progress toward consensus on a number of points. We will continue to work with the FCC, Congress and all interested parties.”

AT&T Senior Executive Vice President Jim Cicconi said that AT&T was “disappointed that the net neutrality talks convened by the FCC have broken down. We put a number of significant concessions on the table and, despite today’s setback, remain convinced that a consensus solution can be achieved.”

Today’s announcement is in response to continued strong demand for OHI’s cloud hosting and continued penetration into the Latin America market.  

Data Center Facility Highlights include:
BUILDING SPECIFICATIONS
• Ideal Location in Downtown Miami, with close proximity to Miami International Airport and Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas
• Category 5 Hurricane-rated infrastructure
• Outside FEMA 500-Year flood zone
• Carrier-Grade Raised Floor (250 PSF load capacity)
• Roof-Access Available
 
SECURITY
• Multiple layers of hardened physical security
• 24x7x365 on-site security
• CCTV Surveillance, with Digital Storage
• Multiple Layers of Electronically Controlled Card Access
• Biometric Fingerprint Access

POWER DISTRIBUTION
• Underground Dual Power Grids from FPL, with priority turn up.
• N+1 UPS Power, with Branch Breaker Monitoring
• A/C & D/C Power (A+B) Availability
• Raised Floor Power Delivery
• 14-Day Fuel supply with extended refueling contracts
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
• Designed for optimum airflow and humidity at 72-78 degrees F
• N+1 Redundant Cooling
• Raised Floor Delivery
 
FIRE DETECTION / SUPPRESSION
• Total Pac, Dual-Alarmed Dry Pipe Suppression System
• Multi-Zone Pre-Action
 
“We are extremely pleased to have secured space in a brand-new data center facility. This project is a major undertaking and will provide our customers with redundancy, geographic diversity and continue expansion of the OHI platform.  Open Hosting Inc. looks forward to providing our customers with an even better experience for their hosting needs and requirements,” said Dave Cummings, OHI Chief Executive Officer.

Open Hosting Inc. established in 2003, is a trusted, reliable provider of cloud hosting and custom solutions offering the freedom and control of dedicated servers with the added flexibility and scalability of the cloud at utility-based pricing.

To be selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, a company must be involved in the development of a major technology and have the potential for long-term impact on business and society. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership and show all the signs of being a long-standing and sustainable market leader – and its technology must be proven.

“To be honored by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer is a tremendous honor,” said David Ulevtich, OpenDNS CEO. “When we launched the service in 2006 our singular goal was to improve the Internet through a better DNS service. Today, as when we started, we remain focused on innovation and delivering a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable Internet experience to our millions of users around the world.”

This year, the honorees the Forum named had the widest range ever of country of origin: Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nigeria, People’s Republic of China, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Over half of the Technology Pioneers are from the United States, underscoring the country’s position as a leading incubator for innovation.

Other 2011 Technology Pioneers include foursquare and Spotify. The entire list of Technology Pioneers, with profiles and selected video interviews with the companies’ CEOs, Founders and Chief Scientists, can be found at http://www.weforum.org/techpioneers.

“The World Economic Forum is proud to recognize an outstanding group of innovative companies as Technology Pioneers for 2011,” said André Schneider, managing director and chief operating officer of the World Economic Forum. “Their technologies and business models will have a durable and valuable effect in several industries and society as a whole. We look forward to their unique contributions to the mission of the Forum: improving the state of the world.”

In the past three months, HostNine has an overall ranking from Commission Junction of #2 of 63 total affiliate programs. In all affiliate programs (3,226) run by Commission Junction, HostNine ranks #40. Commission Junction ranks affiliate programs based on their payouts and success rates—both of which are key priorities for HostNine. Affiliate payouts from HostNine are in excess of $150 per referred sale for high-volume affiliates.

“We have always viewed affiliate marketing as a vital way to broaden our customer base and maintain widespread brand recognition in the industry. By rewarding our partners generously and tangibly supporting their efforts to generate sales, we have built years of trust and countless loyal affiliates. Commission Junction’s top ranking for HostNine backs up what we’ve been saying for a long time, and it means a lot to our team,” said Taylor Hawes, affiliate program manager, HostNine.

Affiliates can leverage dozens of constantly updated banners and Web marketing assets provided by HostNine. The company also has invested heavily in upgrades to its website, which has reduced the order form dropout rate by a whopping 30%. The substantial enhancements are largely due HostNine’s unique two-step order form, further shortening the sign-up process. Affiliates have already praised the changes.

In May, HostNine introduced sweeping upgrades to its line of hosting plans, adding unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and other features for its worldwide shared Web hosting. Users can also choose from server locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia. In August, HostNine removed all annual payment requirements, extending savings to customers who pay monthly. HostNine now offers unlimited shared hosting for just $3.95 a month on a month to month basis. Other companies require anywhere from two to three years up front payment to receive affordable pricing.

“Honesty and integrity have always been our guiding principles, and we decided that advertising a $3.95 per month hosting plan, which really requires an up front payment of nearly $142.50, isn’t in line with the image we want to portray. We’re now one of the only hosting companies that actually offers a $3.95 per month hosting plan for a monthly payment of $3.95. We’re not worried about locking in our customers—they’ll stay with us for years because they love our service, not because we force them to,” said Ben Gabler, operations manager, HostNine.

Reseller Hosting from HostNine is available in five levels, starting at just $24.95 per month, which includes 50GB of disk space, 500GB of bandwidth, and a wide-variety of value-added features, such as the award-winning Reseller Central platform (available on all Reseller Hosting plans). Reseller Central is available exclusively to HostNine customers and provides resellers with unprecedented control of the reseller environment through a single, easy-to-use interface.

Dedicated Hosting and VPS Hosting also offer a wide variety of options and generous allotments of hosting resources.

To learn more about HostNine, please visit http://www.hostnine.com.

To learn more about earning money through HostNine’s affiliate program, please visit http://www.hostnine.com/affiliate-program.

About HostNine
HostNine, LLC is an industry leader in web hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private servers, and dedicated servers. Running all Dell PowerEdge servers located throughout ten different data centers around the world, HostNine provides a 99.9 percent network uptime guarantee to its customers.

All existing customers will be automatically given a 50 percent increase in disk space as well as an increase in bandwidth, depending upon the level of the hosting package. The minimum monthly bandwidth allotment has been increased from 100GB to 2TB, a boost of a whopping 200 percent.

“Providing value for our customers is essential, especially as businesses seek to do more with less in these economic times. By taking advantage of economies of scale due to our robust growth, we are able to provide our customers with much larger resource allotments on their hosting plans without increasing costs. Coupled with our global expansion and recent upgrades to our automation systems, we continue to make Future Hosting an attractive choice for small to medium sized businesses,” said Future Hosting Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Kowalski.

Earlier this week, Future Hosting added VPS management capability to its Future Hosting Management Portal. Clients now have complete control of all of their Virtual Private Servers under a single username. VPS clients are also able to access the complete lineup of Future Hosting client support and billing services through the same interface.

Virtual Private Servers from Future Hosting are available in a wide variety of configurations, including on both managed and unmanaged plans. Clients are also able to locate their server in any of Future Hosting’s six international data centers, in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, Seattle, or Washington, D.C.

Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.

About Future Hosting, LLC

Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.

By adding VPS management capability, clients will have complete control of all of their Virtual Private Servers under a single username. VPS clients will also be able to access the complete lineup of Future Hosting client support and billing services through the same interface.

“By adding the ability for our VPS clients to manage and control their servers in this environment, our FHMP is finally becoming the ‘one stop shop’ we envisioned when we designed this solution. Our clients will be able to manage their entire array of products and services from Future Hosting in a fast, easy to use interface,” said Future Hosting Chief Technology Officer Nick Zyren.

Virtual Private Servers from Future Hosting are available in a wide variety of configurations, including on both managed and unmanaged plans. Clients are also able to locate their server in any of Future Hosting’s six international data centers, in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, Seattle, or Washington, D.C.

Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.

For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.

About Future Hosting, LLC

Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.

With the announcement of its new office comes the appointment of two industry veterans, Neil Morarji as General Manager and Alexei Anisimov as Sales Engineer. Neil will be responsible for driving Parallels’ strong relationship with its cloud services provider partners and two ANZ distributors, Conexus and Software Only, while Alexei will concentrate on providing strategic sales and technical support for customers and partners in ANZ.
Parallels has had a growing presence in Australia and New Zealand through its service provider partners, distributors and retail partners since 2006 and has gained a formidable reputation among businesses, consumers and service providers looking for virtualization and automation solutions that are among the fastest growing in the market.
 
“We have seen the rapid local adoption of Parallels products over the last four years through our on-the-ground distributors, retail and service provider partners.  The decision to open offices in ANZ was a direct result of this success and the identification of potential business in the consumer, business and service provider markets. We have been working closely with our partners to best capitalize on the growing opportunity in ANZ,” said John Eng, Asia-Pacific VP of Marketing and Alliances for Parallels.
 
“The large majority of businesses in Australia and New Zealand are small-to-medium enterprises in need of high-quality IT services, but lacking the budgets to manage them in-house. Parallels enables SMEs to take advantage of the best technology when they need it and without complexity, so that they can stay focused on business,” said Eng.
 
The company’s desktop virtualization product for consumers, Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac, enables users to seamlessly run multiple operating systems and applications on their Mac desktops, with enhanced speed and performance.
 
“With the popularity of Mac computers among consumers and more recently business and SOHO users comes the need for flexibility and compatibility. Increasingly we are seeing the need for users to have the ability to run a Windows OS on their Mac OS for various reasons relating to personal and business use. Parallels consumer products offer the best of all worlds allowing people to use their Windows OS on their Mac OS at the same time without rebooting,” said Eng.
 
Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac is priced at AU$119 and NZ$149.95. It is available through key retailers including the Apple Store, Harvey Norman, David Jones, Dick Smith Electronics, Myer and Nextbyte. It is also available through major Apple Premium Resellers including MacOne, StreetWise, MacCentric and ComputersNow and online through Harris Technologies and Streetwise Software.

Issued annually, the Inc. 500|5000 list ranks the fastest growing companies in the U.S. Companies were required to have minimum revenues of $80,000 in 2006 and minimum revenues of $2 million in 2009 to qualify for the 2010 list, and must be privately held, for profit, and independent as of December 31, 2009.

“We are very pleased to be included in the Inc. 500. It is an honor to be listed among America’s top private companies and leading entrepreneurs,” said George Karidis, SoftLayer Chief Strategy Officer. “We have seen strong revenue growth and remarkable success since our founding in 2005, even through a challenging, turbulent economic climate.”

SoftLayer’s growth has been enabled by its strategic position to address the dynamic needs of businesses in an unstable economy. SoftLayer’s IT solutions offers an option for enterprises of any size, from any industry, to outsource their data center infrastructure needs and focus their resources on operational needs rather than capital expenditures.

For more information on SoftLayer’s inclusion in the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 and the complete list, please visit http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2010/index.html.

For more information on SoftLayer’s inclusion in the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 and the

complete list, please visit http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2010/index.html.

PORTAGE, Mich., August 24, 2010 –Web Host Boot Camp today announced the launch its free online webinar series for hosting industry professionals, the first of its kind in the hosting industry. Last year, the company unveiled the industry’s first-ever online virtual conference in the industry.

Each webinar will last up to an hour, and will be led by a distinguished industry leader. Topics include marketing, technology, news, and industry trends. Marketing strategist Hartland Ross, founder of eBridge Marketing Solutions, will lead the first session, scheduled for September 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM EST. Details on subsequent webinars are available at http://www.webhostbootcamp.net/category/webinars/.

“More than a year ago, we launched the first-ever Web Host Boot Camp virtual conference, shattering the paradigm that flying across the country was the only way to participate in an industry conference. Today, we’re launching our webinar series, which will reframe webinars as valuable, fast-paced discussions focused on our industry,” said Zachary McClung, president of Web Host Boot Camp.

To promote the launch of the webinar series, Web Host Boot Camp is giving away a $250 Visa Gift Card, which can be used like cash wherever Visa cards are accepted. All those registered for the webinar series by September 30, 2010, will be automatically entered for a chance to win.

Web Host Boot Camp also produces virtual conferences for hosting industry professionals. Its last conference, held in December 2009, drew more than 1,000 attendees and features dozens of engaging online lectures. Attendees were able to register at no cost to them.

To learn more about advertising opportunities for Web Host Boot Camp events, please visit http://www.webhostbootcamp.net/advertise.

To sign up for the Web Host Boot Camp webinar series and be entered to win a $250 Visa gift card, please visit http://www.webhostbootcamp.net/wp-login.php?action=register.

About Web Host Boot Camp
Established by business consultant Zachary McClung, Web Host Boot Camp is a radical new online media firm focusing on the web hosting industry. After pioneering the first-ever virtual conference exclusively for the web hosting industry, the company has launched a variety of initiatives designed to create dynamic, affordable educational opportunities for professionals at web hosting companies, hosting resellers, web designers, and anyone who wants to build a successful web hosting firm.

Laczynski brings more than 10 years of digital technology leadership experience to Datapipe, most recently as the founder and CTO of LTech, a pioneer in enterprise cloud computing products and services. At LTech, he led the business and product development vision, achieving significant sales and customer growth. A frequent speaker and author, Laczynski is recognized throughout the industry for his thought leadership, vision and experience helping organizations succeed with cloud computing. He has also led innovation in digital media and finance in roles at McCann-Erickson Worldwide and Credit Suisse. Laczynski is a graduate of New York University.

“Ed is a cloud computing expert and dynamic business leader,” said Robb Allen, Chief Executive Officer for Datapipe. “He will play a critical role on our leadership team as we continue to experience rapid growth in delivering high-value, cloud-based solutions. Ed’s broad technical experience and proven ability to lead teams successfully is a winning combination for Datapipe and our clients,” Allen said.

Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Laczynski said, “I am excited to join Datapipe, a leader in enterprise cloud computing. Known for their world class customer service, Datapipe has a global presence and a wealth of talented people committed to delivering the benefits of cloud computing to their clients. Datapipe is already growing their cloud offerings with the Stratosphere platform, and I’m pleased to lead the team to build new solutions around both private and public cloud services.”