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London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - May 31, 2007 - Colocation, VoIP, and Internet backbone company, Level 3 Communications, has been selected by international managed hosting and networks company, Easynet, to provided backbone solutions across 15 locations in Europe.

Level 3 Communications’ European Markets Group today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Easynet, an international managed hosting and networks company. Level 3 will serve as the underlying bandwidth provider for Easynet’s enterprise business infrastructure solutions throughout Europe. The expanded relationship positions Level 3 as a key strategic network partner for Easynet, a part of the British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) group.

Under the terms of this new multi-year agreement, Level 3 will deliver both 10GigE and 1GigE LAN PHY intercity and metropolitan wavelength services as part of Easynet’s commitment to delivering superbly managed solutions to its international enterprise customers. The upgraded Level 3 network solution replaces the STM-4 network that has been in place since 2003.

David Rowe, Chief Executive Officer remarked, ”How we work with partners is a real differentiator for Easynet. Level 3 understands our key business drivers and can provide us with the reliable, scalable backbone solutions that support our commitment to providing an outstanding customer experience. We have enjoyed collaborating with Level 3 for a number of years and believe Level 3 has the network, service portfolio and expertise to help us meet our customers’ strategic business objectives.”

Brady Rafuse, President and Chief Executive Officer of Level 3 European Markets added, ”We are delighted to be expanding our relationship with Easynet, enabling them to continue to grow their business in key markets. Level 3’s network was designed specifically to support companies like Easynet, catering to the growing capacity requirements and increasing global reach they require to support their customer base. This agreement underscores the strength and quality of our network and services across Europe.”

With its 10GigE LAN PHY offering a dedicated Ethernet point-to-point service, Level 3 endeavors to enable customers to leverage cost-effective and familiar Ethernet technology to build and grow large IP backbones. This service is available across the majority of Level 3’s fiber-based network in Europe and the United States, including extensions to key metropolitan points of presence.

Level 3 continues to invest in its network, and with one of the world’s largest Internet backbones, the company provides reliable, high capacity bandwidth to meet growing demand from customers with rich media traffic. Level 3 offers connectivity in more than 175 key markets in Europe and North America, with metropolitan networks in 125 cities. The comprehensive suite of Level 3 network services deliver the building blocks for its customers’ diverse service offerings. Level 3 has the scalability, performance, and service portfolio to support content delivery solutions as its customers’ network needs evolve.

Level 3 Communications, Inc., an international communications company, operates one of the largest Internet backbones in the world. Through its customers, Level 3 is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers. The company provides a comprehensive suite of services over its broadband fiber optic network including Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport and infrastructure services, colocation services, voice services and voice over IP services. The services are designed to provide building blocks that enable Level 3’s customers to meet growing demands for advanced communications solutions.The principal components offered by Level 3’s (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service include network trunking, local telephone numbers, local number portability, the safety of E-911, operator assistance, caller ID, directory listings, and directory assistance. The service is designed to allow Level 3 customers to retain the flexibility to manage and control end-user features without the difficulties of implementing complex interconnection arrangements.

To learn more about Easynet, please visit: www.easynet.com.

For more information about Level 3, please visit: www.level3.com.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 31, 2007 - Web hosting solutions provider, JaguarPC, has entered into a partnership with Elfbox.com, to offer a half price promotion on colocation services, featuring up to 50% discounts, for Elfbox server, tower and rack server customers.

ELF Technologies has focused on providing individuals and businesses custom-built high-end computer systems at an affordable price. The new promotion offers customers the opportunity to experience the power of a dedicated box on a colocation plan backed by JaguarPC’s 24/7 support, free installation and setup.

Eric Echter, President and Chief Executive Officer for ELF Technologies remarked, ”We’re pleased to partner with a web host that has the stellar reputation for uptime and support as JaguarPC. Our customers expect only the best in quality and value, and this promotion will allow them to experience the great colocation services that JaguarPC has to offer.”

One Server

• 1u-4u or Tower
• 1 power port
• 1 network port
• 324 GB Bandwidth (1mbps)
• Normally $97/mo — after Elfbox partner discount only $47/mo
  Full Rack
• 42 U
• 20 amps power
• 324 GB Bandwidth (1mbps)
• Normally $597/mo — after Elfbox partner discount only $397/mo

Greg Landis, President of JaguarPC remarked, ”Businesses looking for colocation services need a high degree of reliability and support. This is a fantastic opportunity to get hardware built to their exact specifications that Elfbox is known for and pair it with the best offer for colocation in the industry today.”

Every JaguarPC plan includes:

• Full root access
• Free reboots
• Free moving assistance and data transfer for moves
• Free 5 IP addresses
• Free initial OS install
• Managed backups and services available
• Choice of control panels: cPanel, Interworx, DirectAdmin, Plesk

JaguarPC, based in Houston Texas and owned by Jaguar Technologies LLC Hosting, provides Internet hosting solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, government agencies, prominent individuals and non-profit organizations worldwide. JaguarPC’s core portfolio comprises information technology and business hosting services, as well as programming services. JaguarPC’s complementary subsidiary businesses are dehe.com, a vps and dedicated provider specializing in the Windows platform, and Devpond software, a web software company.

For more information about the offering, please visit: www.jaguarpc.com/services/elfbox.php.

To learn more about JaguarPC, please visit: www.jaguarpc.com.

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Sydney, Australia - (The Hosting News) - May 31, 2007 - Search engine, Google, is hosting Developers Day, to discuss the future of innovation in web applications, including Open Source technology for offline capabilities, and new tools for mashup programming.

Over 5,000 developers at 10 locations around the world at the first-ever Google Developer Day. In keynotes and breakout sessions in Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Paris, Hamburg, London, and Mountain View, California, Google engineers and product managers will be discussing the future of web applications with developers from around the world.

Google will be articulating its strategy for working with the developer community and reinforcing its commitment to driving open standards, providing building blocks for developers inside and outside Google to create web applications quickly, and leading strategic enhancements to the web development environment as a whole.

Jeff Huber, Vice President of Engineering at Google explained, ”One of the things we find most exciting about emerging web technologies is the ability to mash up many different pieces of technology to build new applications, create businesses, or even just satisfy that niche interest or convenience. We want to work closely with developers so together we can define the next generation of products available to users on the web.”

Google’s developer program is focused on enabling developers to incorporate Google’s infrastructure and services as building blocks in their own products. Using Google products, developers can:

• Integrate Google services. Google builds web services that enable developers to use products like Google Maps mapping service as building blocks in their own applications.
• Reach Google users. Google enables developers to embed their applications within products like iGoogle personalized homepage service, so they can reach millions of Google users.
• Build next generation web applications. Google looks for ways to improve the web browser as a platform, so that ultimately users’ most important applications can run in a web browser.

Underlying these themes is a firm commitment to open standards and a desire to work with the community to experiment frequently, gather feedback, and iterate quickly.

At Developer Day events, Google will share details and demos of a new open source technology for creating offline web applications. The new browser extension, named Google Gears, is being made available in its early stages to the developer community so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations and help improve upon it. The long-term hope is that Google Gears can help the industry as a whole move toward a single standard for offline capabilities.

Easier mashups

Google will also release Google Mashup Editor, an experimental online code editor for building mashups using a simple markup language. Aimed at developers familiar with HTML and JavaScript, the Google Mashup Editor offers a simpler way to deploy AJAX user interface components atop existing feeds and Google web services. By substituting extended XHTML tags for entire blocks of JavaScript code and hosting the mashups on Google servers, the Google Mashup Editor speeds mashup creation and fosters more powerful, more interesting web applications.

Google Mapplets: An API for embedding third-party applications in Google Maps

Developer Day sessions will also feature a new product called the Google Mapplets API. Released on May 29 at the Where 2.0 conference, Google Mapplets enable users to customize Google Maps with mini-applications from Google and third-party developers. These applications might provide news, real estate listings, weather reports, or just about anything else a developer can dream up. Since the Google Mapplets API combines the Google Maps API and the Google Gadgets API, anyone familiar with those APIs can quickly build a Google Mapplet and reach millions of Google Maps users.

Google Web Toolkit framework reaches one million downloads, supports the Google Gears browser extension

Google will also announce that the Google Web Toolkit has surpassed one million downloads since its release in May 2006. It will also release the Google API Library for Google Web Toolkit with support for Google Gears, enabling developers to conveniently enhance their Google Web Toolkit applications with offline functionality.

For those unable to attend, the Google Developer Day website will provide live webcasts of the sessions from the Mountain View and London events. In addition, the website will offer blogs, schedules, presentations, Developer Day photos, and links to recorded videos from sessions around the world. All session videos will also be available on a Google Developer Day channel on YouTube.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

To learn more about Google Developer Days, please visit: http://code.google.com/events/developerday.


For more information about Google, please visit: www.google.com.

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Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 31, 2007 - Privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, has unveiled discounted unmetered bandwidth, for new server orders, wherein customers may gain unlimited access to a 10 MB uplink from the company’s multiple Tier-1 providers, along with its 100 percent uptime service level agreement.

Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management at The Planet remarked, ” Many of our customers operate high-traffic e-commerce sites, which require high bandwidth availability to ensure peak performance at peak times. Bandwidth overages are similar to cell phone overages which translate to additional costs for customers. The Planet delivers a ”no surprise guarantee” with unmetered bandwidth at a nominal price, which enables SMB customers to prepare for seasonal or unexpected spikes in traffic.”

With direct connections to the Internet through several Tier-1 telecom providers, The Planet ensures that customers are able to bypass congested transit networks, and shorten the network path between the IT infrastructure and customers or end users. This helps to ensure lower latency, maximum speed and unparalleled reliability.

Recently, The Planet added enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) to its private rack portfolio, to provide its customers access, to highly scalable, high-performance disk storage. The new storage solution from Network Appliance, is designed to provide The Planet’s customers with maximum data availability and protection, particularly for those whose businesses require critical online data repositories, including databases, media libraries, backup archives and e-mail.

The new addition follows the company’s recent addition of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 Series Firewalls and Foundry ServerIronXL load balancers to its comprehensive private rack portfolio. For Web 2.0 companies and SaaS providers that operate complex hosting environments, the new products add enterprise-class capabilities and enhancements at attractive, self-managed pricing.

Steve Kahan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at The Planet remarked, ”With the proliferation of e-commerce and e-mail, the data needs of our customers continue to explode. Our new storage options enable customers to gain the same enterprise capabilities usually available only to larger organizations. As a result, they are able to make faster decisions, better serve their own customers and continue to grow their businesses without the worry of IT management. For those who have outgrown the storage provided by local hard disks, the new NetApp storage solutions provide a powerful, affordable option.”

The Planet’s new high-performance, is geared toward highly scalable storage, to add additional options specifically designed to deliver value. According to the company, NetApp FAS storage operates faster than data stored on local disks, offering high throughput and fast response times that are required for transaction processing, database and technical applications. The non-disruptive capacity expansion can be easily configured, managed and maintained. When additional storage is required, NetApp offers non-disruptive capacity expansion. In addition, the solution is fault-tolerant, with predictive technology that sends notices of an impending failure, warnings are sent to customers, The Planet and to its own automated systems.

Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions Marketing at Network Appliance added, ”Reliability, scalability and simplified management are hallmarks of NetApp storage solutions. Customers want solutions that do not compromise their data or application availability. NetApp systems allow customers to confidently expand storage requirements within The Planet’s private racks in a cost-effective manner.”

The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 2.8 million web sites worldwide. By offering the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and the highest level of network connectivity, The Planet endeavors to turn information technology into a competitive advantage, enabling customers to grow businesses.

To learn more about the Network Appliance solutions and services, please visit: www.netapp.com.

For more information on the unmetered bandwidth special, please visit: www.theplanet.com/unmetered-bandwidth?utm_campaign=ZPHONOOA.

To learn more about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

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