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Managed hosting provider iland Internet Solutions (www.iland.com) announced on Tuesday it has selected AboveNet (www.above.net) as one of its top two Tier1 IP providers to connect the iland Virtual Data Centers, located in Los Angeles, Boston, Reston, Virginia and Dallas. AboveNet has provided iland with additional 4 Gbps IP network connectivity for each of its virtual data centers, providing iland and its customers with further redundancy, flexibility and cost effectiveness. "We continue to invest in our network construction to offer a broad array of high-bandwidth fiber optic connectivity solutions," says MaryBeth Nance, executive director of business development and marketing at AboveNet. "We provide reliability and scalability to meet iland's highest requirements for data center connectivity, IT virtualization, and consolidation and optimization services. By delivering a bundled, managed solution to iland within all four of its virtual data center markets, we also help control iland's network operating costs while enabling fast and scalable deployments."

IT industry events organizer Plum Communications announced on Wednesday it is hosting the IT industry conference and exhibition, IT360 (www.it360.ca), held on April 8 at the south building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto.

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced its new 'Lowest Price on The Planet' promotion, the most aggressive offer in its history. To encourage companies using other hosting organizations to consider The Planet, the process is simple: bring an invoice from a competitor, and The Planet will beat the offer on price, with an equivalent configuration for either self-managed dedicated or fully managed hosting. Also included in the promotion is one month of free hosting, free migration assistance with relocation from a competitor, and a free month of monitoring with reaction, one of its Alpha Advanced Services offerings.

Web hosting and managed IT services provider MaximumASP has added disaster recovery to its suite of offerings, it was reported recently. According to the company, the new service "provides off-site real time data replication with automatic failover" for maximum safeguard of customer data.

Web host SiteGround, recognized as one of the leaders in blogging and Open Source script hosting, has launched its own company blog, it was reported recently. According to the company, the blog will "open new opportunities for a closer interaction" with its customers and "provide ideas for further improvement" to its customer services.

Proving the old proverb about March, "in like a lion, out like a lamb," the final week of March has been rather quiet in terms of sales and promotions, with a few exceptions. ResellerClub has chosen this week to cap off its birthday promotion, WebhostGIANT announced a half-off promotion, and Host Department is offering 20 off its shared hosting for Easter. ResellerClub Announces "Big Birthday Bash" On Wednesday, one of the world's largest registrars, ResellerClub (www.resellerclub.com), announced the start of its annual "Big Birthday Bash" promotion, running through the month of March until the 15th of April. Celebrating its third birthday, ResellerClub is offering .in domains for $3.99, .tel for $9.99, .mobi for $6.99, and .biz for $3.99 annually.

ServInt, a pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced it has completed the largest-ever upgrade of its entire line of Virtual Private Server (VPS) services and is offering the upgraded packages without a price increase. ServInt also has upgraded all of its existing VPS customers at no additional cost. ServInt VPS services are ideally suited for small and medium-size, web-based companies that demand a web-hosting service managed by experienced professionals

Q Point Technology (www.qpointtech.com) has selected The Planet's (www.theplanet.com) new Storage Cloud service as the platform for its TrueSafe (www.truesafe.net) software infrastructure, which lets service providers offer their own online backup service. According to on-demand IT hosting provider, the Planet, which made the announcement Monday, Q Point Technology is the latest company to use its Storage Cloud, delivering its easy-to-use backup platform TrueSafe on The Planet's highly scalable, on-demand cloud storage service. TrueSafe is available through a Software-as-a-Service subscription model, letting any service provider immediately offer a branded backup service to their customers to preserve and protect server, laptop and workstation data off-site.

ServInt, a pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced it has completed the largest-ever upgrade of its entire line of Virtual Private Server (VPS) services and is offering the upgraded packages without a price increase. ServInt also has upgraded all of its existing VPS customers at no additional cost. ServInt VPS services are ideally suited for small and medium-size, web-based companies that demand a web-hosting service managed by experienced professionals.

A perfect and flawless IT infrastructure needs the proper and secure setup of the resources such as hardware, software, storage and other applications. It can be done only by designing the infrastructure in a systematic way.

What is Zimbra Hosting? Then, Zimbra hosting is the name of such an enterprise- class hosted email solution designed for viewing various business needed solutions together. So how it helps in business? Interested to learn its purposes?

What is Zimbra Hosting? Then, Zimbra hosting is the name of such an enterprise- class hosted email solution designed for viewing various business needed solutions together. So how it helps in business? Interested to learn its purposes?

Data center operator and managed hosting provider Peak 10 (www.peak10.com) announced on Tuesday it has signed an agreement where it will house retail reporting services provider dunnhumbyUSA within its Cincinnati facility.

Easyspace, one of the largest web hosting and domain name providers in the UK, is now offering the popular .TEL domain extension during its General Availability launch stage. Having just complete its Sunrise and Landrush launch periods, the .TEL has proven to be a highly sought after extension, generating several thousand sales despite the premium price attached to it during those phases.

http://www.webhosting.uk.com, a provider of Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server hosting solutions, today announced that it is now providing Windows shared as well as reseller hosting on Windows 2008 server platform. Windows Server 2008 is the most recent release of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. It delivers valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the core Windows Server operating system in the form of new web tools, virtualization technologies, security enhancements, and management utilities that help save time, reduce costs, and provide a solid foundation for information technology (IT) infrastructure.

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the general availability of its new Storage Cloud service. The company offers globally dispersed locations to meet their customers' requirements, wherever they are located around the world. Customers can choose from an on-premise local node in The Planet's Dallas D2 data center, or from locations on the East or West Coasts, Europe or Asia, through its partnership with Nirvanix. The company also offers Storage Cloud options for organizations that do not require hosting solutions.

While promising one crore laptops to students, the party said in its IT and telecom vision document released last week, it would spend Rs 10,000 cr on buying top-of-the-line laptops with open source software. The party also plans to allow unrestricted internet telephony.

Web host Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com), a global provider of quality web hosting services announced that it has opened its annual St. Patricks Day promotional campaign. As a part of it the provider offers 25% instant rebate on all web hosting service plans. However Host Color's VPS customers get even more - 1 free service month.

The solution is designed to deliver the full range of AT and T's IT infrastructure services to a company's location - whether it is an in-house company data center, remote office, or even third-party center - along with on-site servicing of equipment if needed.

Google has launched Google Ventures, a new venture capital fund that will invest in innovative startup companies, including health care, IT, consumer Internet products and biotechnology firms, Healthcare IT News reports. Rich Miner - co-founder of Android, a mobile platforms company acquired by Google in 2005 - and Bill Maris, who founded Web hosting pioneer Burlee.com, will serve as Google Ventures' managing partners. Miner and Maris, wrote on the Google Blog, "This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies." They added, "Economically, times are tough, but great ideas come when they will. If anything, we think the current downturn is an ideal time to invest in nascent companies that have the chance to be the 'next big thing,