International business hosting services firm, LeaseWeb, for over six months, has been recognized in the first position on the list of the world’s fastest growing hosting companies.
Con Zwinkels, Managing Director of LeaseWeb noted, ”If we continue to grow as we did in the past year, I expect that LeaseWeb will remain in the number 1 spot for a while yet. In the past 12 months we have doubled the number of employees – and we still have at least 30 job openings. We have also doubled the capacity of our hosting network. We are expanding our Support Unit from some 30 to 50 employees. And we are already Dell’s biggest internet partner in Europe. To top it all off, in one year we have managed to fill nearly 500 data center cabinets with hosting equipment at the EvoSwitch CO2-neutral data center.”
The ‘Fastest Growing Companies’ list is published monthly by the American magazine, HostReview. LeaseWeb was already listed in 18th position on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 of 2007.
Mr. Zwinkels added, ”This position on the American HostReview list is extra special to me. To us, it confirms that we are not only working hard on growing but that the market is also seeing that. Not just in the Netherlands, but around the world.”
In the near future, LeaseWeb will be able to continue its fast expansion thanks to virtualization. Using virtualization enables us to allocate server space to customers in a much more flexible way, explains Zwinkels. It also allows us to roll out new servers even more quickly. We already have a Windows Express Server and a Linux Express Server that can be live within 24 hours. Virtualization would speed up the rollout of new servers even more. Among other things, LeaseWeb employs virtualization experts in the field of VMware and is a Microsoft launching partner for the virtualization feature via Hyper-V, which will be released as a part of Windows Server 2008 later this year.
Customer demand for bandwidth is growing very quickly at LeaseWeb. This is why LeaseWeb is currently restructuring its sizeable global hosting network. The recent acquisition of two Cisco Carrier Routing System 1s (CRS-1s) will make LeaseWeb’s network infrastructure more hierarchical and scaleable and enables a bandwidth capacity increase to 1900 Gigabits per second (1.9 Terabits).
Mr. Zwinkels continued, ”The CRS-1s and the related new network architecture will allow us to accommodate the predicted growth in internet traffic. As a result, LeaseWeb customers can be sure that our growth potential in terms of bandwidth for the next few years is huge.”
The growth of both LeaseWeb and its hosting network attract customers that need a lot of bandwidth. Hyves, for instance, has already selected LeaseWeb as its premier provider. And 123Video, the Dutch version of YouTube, has also switched to LeaseWeb in the past year. 123Video is growing so quickly that it expects to exceed the 12 Gbps of required bandwidth as early as next year.
Mr. Zwinkels concluded, ”Customers who need this much bandwidth need a hosting partner that is able to expand bandwidth quickly and properly. Our philosophy is to maintain twice as much capacity as is consumed by our customers. The great advantage is that we attract big customers, which in turn drives even faster growth.”
Recently, LeaseWeb restructured its support division, including a new support manager, and 16 additional support agents. The new Support Division that includes 33 employees, will be expanded significantly in the near future, to accommodate LeaseWeb’s expansion. LeaseWeb has engaged Ivo Roomer (35) to manage the Support Division. Roomer previously worked for VNU Media as a Sales Manager Online Media and has a lot of experience in the hosting sector, among other things as a Manager Sales Support and European Business Manager. Roomer will be off to a good start in his new position with an ambitious expansion of 16 additional support agents.
LeaseWeb is an international supplier of hosting products and services that specializes in both Microsoft and Linux, and focuses primarily on the professional market. The company is among the top 30 hosting providers in the world and provides services such as web hosting, dedicated hosting, colocated hosting, VPS and streaming, as well as technical support. LeaseWeb owns a first-class Cisco-powered network offering a bandwidth of over 160 Gbps, which extends across five data centers in the Amsterdam region via the major telecom carriers. LeaseWeb is also present on internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna , Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb now manages 11,000 servers. Its customers include Starbucks, Hyves, Telegraaf Media Groep, Koninklijke Joh. Ensched, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AVRO, Direct Wonen, and University.
To learn more, please visit: www.leaseweb.com.
Wednesday XO communications had several problems with their network and effectively “Black Holing” some IP blocks and there by dropping traffic without notice for a number of customers. Let us know if you were affected by this gremlin as well.
British web hosting company, UK2.net, has undertaken to completely revamp its order process. As part of the project, UK2 has debuted the launch of a newly enhanced, instant domain look up tool.
Intended to modernise the way customers buy hosting products and services, the new domain look up tool allows customers to search for multiple domains, and make changes to their shopping basket, in a single browser window. It also uses Ajax technology for searching instantly – beginning the search as soon as you start typing. All of this means that if a customer wants to register multiple Domain Names and multiple types of TLD in a single order, they can do this in a fast and efficient way by using the new UK2 domain look up.
Ditlev Bredahl, CEO / MD of UK2.net noted, ”Our new domain look up tool and order process are the result of several weeks of hard week, so we are very pleased to announce the launch. UK2 is a very innovative company, always looking for ways to improve our services to customers, and looking at the significant amount of Domain Names registered each day we knew that making registration even easier would be a welcome development.”
Using expert input from the leading research company Marketing Experiments, once a Domain Name has been selected customers then enter a much simplified and more intuitive order process. The rationale behind the new order process was to follow the Marketing Experiments guidelines of removing friction and reducing anxiety, so customers are only asked for essential information. This new rationale also applies when ordering a UK2 Web Hosting package, where traditionally the order process involved several steps. Now, with UK2.net this order process takes just a few clicks, as customers first place the Web Hosting order and then decide on what domains they would like to use or buy afterwards.
The new look up tool means that customers can now secure their online identity, quickly and efficiently, without having to place multiple orders. UK2.net offer a range of the most popular Domain Names, starting from 2.99 pounds per year exc. VAT.
In April, UK-2 Group released its first quarter results, indicating the best ever, since the domain name registration highs of the early 2000′s.
In addition, the excellent growth seen by the company is in the higher revenue and profit areas of shared and dedicated hosting, not just domain names.
UK2.net has been a significant player in the British and European hosting markets since 1998, and is the founder brand of the UK-2 Group. UK2.net underwent a large organisational and strategic restructure in 2006, so to take advantage of the increase in popularity of hosting services and associated growth in the hosting market. The company has significantly increased customer numbers since then, and continues to challenge the other leading hosting brands.
Earlier this year, the company acquired clients from US host Stargate and midPhase Services Inc.’s Shared and Virtual Private Server businesses. UK-2 Group has been a significant player in the British and European hosting markets for many years, and recently underwent a large restructure, making important organizational changes in readiness for customer growth plans and challenging the bigger hosting brands. UK-2 is one of the largest domain registrars in the UK having registered over 1 million domain names.
UK-2 Group intends to continue operation of midPhase’s various brands, including: midPhase.com, ANHosting.com and Autica.com, due to its successful approach and market leadership to date. UK2 will not integrate midPhase into any existing UK-2 Group brand. This means there will be no impact on existing midPhase customers in terms of products, services, prices and support. UK-2 does not plan to migrate servers and has chosen to collocate the existing midPhase servers with SingleHop, Inc., a company owned and operated by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman.
UK-2 Group, a major player in the hosting industry since the late nineties, provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many customers through its family of hosting brands – UK2.net, US2.net, midPhase Services, AN Hosting, Autica and Resell.biz. The group operates its services out of several multi million pound data centres and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support. UK2-Group is also a major shareholder in the merged Redbus Interhouse and Telecity Group, the leading European data centre provider.
To learn more about UK.Net, please visit: www.uk2.net.
The new release of the AB-5-03-1 CRM software from InfoParc’s absoluteBUSY, includes an improved sales module, enhanced tagging feature and improved compatibility with PHP-5, MySQL-5.
The tagging feature’s number of tags per line can now be configured on the fly, which allows a nice screen rendering also for very large sets of freely defined tags. A Live-Demo of the new release can be found on the web site. Web based contact- and customer-management, lead tracking, sales tracking, project tracking. The browser based user interface enables easy cross-platform information sharing and collaboration for teams and departments using different desktop computers or laptops (Windows, Mac, Linux).
absoluteBUSY – web CRM was first published in 2001 and is used by all kinds of companies, ranging from small companies to large corporations with worldwide subsidiaries. A number of customers from various industries are operating customised absoluteBUSY systems, specially tailored to their needs.
absoluteBUSY is a commercial, cost effective application with a price range from EURO 140 per user down to EURO 60 per user, depending on the total number of seats. All fees are a one time payment, no subscription, no recurring fees. Additional user licenses can be added ”on demand” after any period of operation. absoluteBUSY is sold on a ”try before you buy” approach. Free demo and evaluation packages are available on request.
absoluteBUSY is based on the popular and scalable open source software stack LAMP/WAMP (Apache webserver, PHP scripting, MySQL database), available for all major server platform (Unix, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X, Novell 6.5 ). absoluteBUSY runs with PHP-4 as well as with PHP-5 and is compatible with MySQL 3.23.xx, 4.x and 5.x.
InfoParc is a privately owned, independent company, founded in 1995 by Chris Metzler. InfoParc is a small team of experienced consultants and engineers, focused on rapid development of database-driven, web based business applications using PHP, MySQL and Oracle technologies. InfoParc is based in Vienna/Austria (Europe) with an additional development team in Eastern Europe.
absoluteBUSY is a web based CRM software for on-site installation (no hosted application). The software includes a smart contact manager, a task tracking module, a sales tracking module basic project tracking and reporting capabilities. Due to it’s simple architecture, absoluteBUSY is one of the fastest professional web based CRM applications. The system can either be installed on your company internet / intranet server or at some web hosting providers webspace.
To learn more about InfoParc, please visit: www.infoparc.com.
For more information about absoluteBUSY systems, please visit: www.absolutebusy.com.
Dedicated server, web hosting and e-business solutions for individuals, small to medium size business, and enterprises, OLM, LLC, has expanded, by offering over 30 different types of dedicated servers.
As OLM.net shifts its focus to dedicated servers, it will continue to add more features and choices for customers. All dedicated servers are fully customizable through an online ordering wizard, allowing every aspect of the server – from the processor to the control panel – to be self-designed.
Budget dedicated servers start at $29.95/monthly and high-end servers start at between $199 and $399/monthly. Servers are available in Single Core, Dual Core, or Quad Core processor configurations, with both Intel and AMD models offered. In the Quad Core configurations, OLM.net recently introduced Intel’s latest Clovertown and Harpertown processors, each offering unrivaled performance and reliability.
All dedicated servers now come with the option of SATA, SCSI, and SAS disk drives, in any standard or RAID configuration. OLM also offers KVM over IP, allowing users to completely control their server remotely, using keyboard, video, and mouse access. OLM.net also introduced its new dedicated server reseller program which offers discounts of more than 20% per month to qualified resellers.
Chris Silkman, Business Manager at OLM.net noted, ”As dedicated servers continue to evolve to become a more integral part of our business, we are making our base plans more customizable, reliable, and competitive in the global hosting market. Our budget dedicated servers, starting at less than $30 per month, have already smashed records and jumped an important cost hurdle for small businesses. We see our mission-critical higher end offerings as equally important to maintaining OLM.net’s role as a flag carrier for this market.”
OLM.net is an integrated dedicated server, web hosting and e-business solution provider for individuals, small to medium size business, and enterprises around the world. Founded in 1996, OLM has since emerged as one of the largest global Internet Solution Providers, hosting over 350,000 domains and thousands of dedicated servers in over 150 countries. OLM.net offers web hosting, e-commerce, virtual and dedicated servers, reseller accounts, merchant and search engine services, web design, and SEO, among other services.
For more information about dedicated servers from OLM.net, please visit: www.olm.net/dedicated-servers.
To learn more about OLM.net, please visit: www.olm.net.
Financial institution web hosting and integrated technology solutions firm, Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc., has been selected to support the Texell Federal Credit Union network of services.
Goldleaf’s technology-based solutions were chosen to improve the performance of Temple, Texas-based Texell Federal Credit Union, with web hosting, and compliance and security functionality, as well as its marketing services.
With more than $100 million in assets, Texell wanted to drive the growth of its online channel, strengthen its Internet presence and reinforce its brand, while providing a secure forum to protect confidential data and comply with Federal regulations.
Tony Hale, Chief Executive Officer of Texell explained, ”Goldleaf’s value proposition was unique, as it presented a solution that truly went beyond our initial needs. Deploying Goldleaf’s technology demonstrates our commitment to our members through the creation of an easy-to-navigate, intuitive web site, fully equipped with security features to protect our members’ confidential information. The site is customized, compliant, secure, and we were immediately impressed by the scope and depth of Goldleaf’s offering. The marketing services piece was especially attractive, as it pulls together the look and feel of the new site and couples it with marketing initiatives designed to drive more business to our institution.”
According to Mr. Hale, what began as a simple evaluation of web hosting providers evolved into a much more comprehensive endeavor, ultimately enabling the credit union to reap significant benefits from an extensive program that tied together multiple initiatives. In addition to web design and maintenance, Texell’s program incorporates Goldleaf’s marketing services, which ties the global campaign together to ensure cohesive and consistent messaging. Goldleaf’s marketing services include detailed market segmentation so the credit union can tailor specific marketing objectives to a particular audience.
Texell is also leveraging Goldleaf’s distinct security features, including secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption, SAS-70 audit reporting and the Company’s Pharming Shield solution. Credit union executives also cited the flexibility of Goldleaf’s solution as a factor in their selection process. Texell has the capability to edit and manage content internally, which maximizes the speed and accuracy at which online information can be updated and maintained. The site has multi-tiered authority to preserve the integrity of the data, as well as the ability for Texell to pre-create site changes that can be implemented on a timed rollout. Additionally, the solution has an automated system that archives changes to Web site content and images that will be tracked throughout the life cycle of Texell’s relationship, ensuring compliance with Regulation DD in the Truth and Savings Act.
Todd Shiver, Executive Vice President of Goldleaf Financial Solutions added, ”Our mission is to help our clients succeed and leverage technology to improve efficiencies, increase profitability, be more competitive, and provide the best products and services in their market. Our entire company is dedicated to the development of innovative solutions that have a positive and direct impact on an institution’s asset and customer base. Texell understands its members’ needs and has a very strategic approach to Web and marketing services, which we believe enables them to stand apart from the competition.”
Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc. (GFSI) offers a product suite that provides core data processing, item processing and check imaging, ACH origination and processing, remote check capture and deposit processing, accounts receivable financing solutions, a teller automation system, turn-key leasing solutions, financial institution website design and hosting and retail inventory management services. Goldleaf believes its suite of products and services allows financial institutions and small to medium-sized business customers to compete more effectively.
To learn more about Goldleaf Financial Solutions, please visit: www.goldleaf.com.
The Planet privately held dedicated hosting company’s Vice President of Facilities, Jeff Lowenberg, has garnered SearchDataCenter.com’s first-ever ”Data Center Manager of the Year” award.
The award recognizes excellence in data center project management, according to senior site editor Matt Stansberry. Mr. Lowenberg was recognized for his work that will save the company over $1 million on energy costs in 2008 alone, based on the implementation of new ”green” data center efficiencies.
Mr. Lowenberg provided a guided tour that outlines the efficiencies the company has implemented. Douglas J. Erwin, Chairman and CEO of The Planet remarked, ”From our own research and through discussions with customers, they choose The Planet based on the quality of our world-class data centers and network, as well as our reputation for customer service. With more than 50,000 servers across our data centers, energy is our fourth-largest expense. Jeff Lowenberg’s work contributes significantly to customer satisfaction, as well as to our bottom line. Jeff’s award is a resounding commentary on the quality of our data centers, which our customers will appreciate.”
Mr. Lowenberg conducted a six-month trial to reduce power consumption and increase data center operating efficiency. Initial results demonstrate that while critical server loads increased by 5 percent, power used for cooling decreased by 31 percent. Overall, the company experienced power reductions of up to 13.5 percent through a broad range of improvements. The new green initiatives were conducted across its six world-class data centers.
Armin Heinlein with Panalpina Group was a runner-up, followed by finalists Ben Stewart with Terremark and William Stewart with Sempra Energy.
The Planet operates more than 150 30-ton computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units across its six data centers. In one data center alone, the company was able to turn off four of the units. The cooling requirement on two of the units was reduced to 50 percent of capacity, while another nine now operate at 25 percent of capacity. The company also extended the return air plenums on all of its down-flow CRAC units to optimize efficiency. In some cases, The Planet team was able to increase CRAC unit temperature settings by as much as 10 degrees while still meeting the thermal guidelines for data processing environments set by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
Across the board, the company evaluated both its data center footprint and recommended guidelines from the Site Uptime Network, an invitation-only consortium of companies that operate data centers around the globe. The Planet also evaluated standards for air conditioning efficiency from ASHRAE to optimize operating performance. Among these improvements are the following:
- Rearranged floor tiles to better manage cold airflow
- Installed seals and grommets in the ceilings, walls and floors to reduce bypass airflow
- Installed blanking plates in server cabinets to direct airflow more efficiently
- Sealed power distribution units to reduce bypass airflow
Last month, The Planet added an automated recovery solution, which is now available on all of its new and existing servers within the company’s extensive offerings. The Automated Rescue Environment (ARE) allows customers to self-restore and repair their servers directly from The Planet customer portal in the event of a critical software failure.
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide the following:
- High level of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performance
- Instant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network traffic
- Parallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stability
- Multiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businesses
- Knowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business
The Planet is a leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 22,000 small and medium size businesses and 6.7 million web sites worldwide, using the best choice of servers, software tools and support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and network connectivity.
For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.
Server virtualization, datacenter automation and SaaS software provider, Parallels, recently entered into a
Zend Technologies collaboration, to provide enterprise level PHP applications.
Through Parallels’ control panels and server virtualization offerings, the companies will deliver product interoperability and integration, define packaging and distribution standards, and pursue joint marketing initiatives.
Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”The APS standard is already supported by more than 100 PHP applications for everything from blogging and collaboration to content management, ecommerce and CRM. The Parallels-Zend partnership advances the web hosting industry by helping service providers deliver a greater variety of professional PHP applications and by growing the channel for PHP application vendors.”
Zend products will be certified with the Application Packaging Standard (APS), a new application packaging format designed to help easily and quickly implement software as a service (SaaS). Using the APS standard, hosting providers will be able to configure technology stacks based on Zend products to deliver premium PHP solutions for operating business-critical web applications.
Mark de Visser, Chief Marketing Officer, Zend Technologies remarked, ”With thousands of web applications available for individual and business use, PHP is one of the key technologies for hosting companies to support. Combining the PHP expertise of Zend with the packaging, delivery and maintenance capabilities of the APS standard will further expand the portfolio of high-quality PHP applications.”
Zend and Parallels will deliver an APS-compliant Zend Framework and an updated version of Zend Optimizer later this quarter. Over time, the companies plan to release new versions of all Zend products that support the APS standard.
Jochen Berger, CTO of intergenia AG added, ”It is exciting to see Parallels and Zend extending their partnership. We believe that this collaboration will enable us to broaden our portfolio with applications built on Zend technology.”
Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, provides products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than twenty million websites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 25,000 companies worldwide, Zend’s family of products provides a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
For more information on Zend Technologies, Inc., please visit: www.zend.com.
To learn more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.
Webhosting company, ResellersPanel, has debuted major upgrades to its hosting platform, in celebration of its fifth anniversary, including a new file manager, multi-currency billing solution and multi-store functionality.
Resellers will have the opportunity to create up to three more, entirely independent of each other, free reseller web hosting stores, configured according to their specific marketing strategies. They can get a unique domain name, choose a different website template and activate a separate DNS cluster for each of the stores, which will drive brand recognition and significantly increase their reseller anonymity.
The new multi-currency billing solution, on the other hand, gives the resellers the possibility to offer web hosting and domain registration services in the five most widely used online transaction currencies and directly address the demands of a particular target audience or a specific local market.
The new file manager, which has been integrated in the web hosting control panel, boasts an entirely new, easy to navigate user-friendly interface. Beside the ability to manage multiple files and folders at once, the users now have an unprecedented opportunity to edit their files using a WYSIWYG editor and to view the changes they are making directly in a web browser in real time.
The new file manager also gives the clients the opportunity for the first time to upload .zip, .rar, .tar.gz and .gz archived files and folders, which are being automatically unpacked in the selected directory, and visually keep track of the process by means of a progress bar. Pop-up tooltips, which contain essential information about a given file or folder and display the actions that can be performed on them, self-evident file type icons and image file thumbnails have been introduced as well.
The updates to the multi-lingual hosting control panel include also the addition of the Chinese language, PHP6 support, a new domain parking option, a WHOIS/ID protection service, which allows the registrants to shield their identity against spammers and fraudsters, and a new .htaccess file generator, which offers IP authentication, hotlinking protection, SSI activation, URL redirection and custom error pages creation.
It is estimated that five years of work went into the ResellersPanel updates, and this special anniversary coincides with the introduction of several important updates to ResellersPanel’s platform, such as a new file manager, which is designed to enable clients to handle the content of their websites more easily and efficiently, and new multi-store and multi-currency options, which will dramatically expand the marketing reach of the resellers themselves, and that ResellersPanel will continue to surprise the hosting community with newer and newer innovations beneficial for it.
ResellersPanel has been in business since 2003, and is the first and to this date the only company in the web hosting business offering a completely free, fully-automated reseller hosting program. Approximately 100 000 resellers have established full-featured private label web hosting companies. ResellersPanel also offers also a cPanel reseller hosting program, dedicated, semi-dedicated and virtual private servers, domain name registration.
To learn more, please visit: www.resellerspanel.com.
Web hosting provider, Internet services and ISP company, AT and T Inc.’s government solutions division, has
garnered a $292 million contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Serving as the secondary network service provider in the Eastern and Western regions for OneNet, an advanced, next-generation network, AT and T Government Solutions will utilize its 4,000 employees to support the federal government. OneNet will consolidate seven legacy Wide Area Networks (WANs) into one secure Internet Protocol (IP) network infrastructure that will facilitate the future convergence of IP and wireless while driving data sharing across all components of DHS.
The award was made via the General Services Administration Networx Universal contract, a 10-year $20 billion contract vehicle that allows AT and T Government Solutions and others to provide a full range of telecommunications and related network services to the federal government.
Don Herring, Senior Vice President, AT and T Government Solutions noted, ”The Department of Homeland Security is tasked with the critical mission of leading the unified national effort to protect our country from a wide variety of constantly changing threats. AT and T looks forward to serving DHS as a trusted long-term transformational provider for OneNet.”
AT and T currently provides a wide array of voice and data services to DHS agencies, such as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration and others.
Recently, AT and T was listed by industry analyst firm, Gartner Inc., in its 2008 Leaders Quadrant for Web Hosting Services. Gartner’s ”Magic Quadrant for North American Web Hosting, 2008,” authored by L. Leong, T. Chamberlin, includes .AT and T Inc.’s Hosting and Application Services. This new positioning for AT and T comes on the heels of a Gartner ”Magic Quadrant Report for U.S. Network Service Providers, 2008,” which also placed AT and T in the Leaders Quadrant.
AT and T’s leadership in hosting services is being driven by an ongoing strategy to extend its global network reach and capacity, globalize its portfolio of business services and embed the latest utility-computing and other managed hosting technologies so that companies can deliver real-time applications to their employees, customers, suppliers and partners. A portion of AT and T’s recently announced $1 billion investment in its global network will be used to increase its data center hosting capacity by 180,000 square feet through mid-2009. Expansion targets in 2008 will include Singapore, Amsterdam, Boston and Dallas.
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the ”Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
AT and T Government Solutions is a long-standing, trusted source of network-enabled solutions for the federal government, integrating unmatched network resources and IT and software engineering expertise with innovative technologies from AT and T Labs and industry-leading partners. With headquarters in Vienna, Va., AT and T Government Solutions is best known for network leadership in voice, data, video and managed services. AT and T Government Solutions is a proven solutions integrator, with expertise in areas such as education and training, enterprise resource planning and management, information assurance, knowledge management, modeling and simulation, network transformation and management and program management.
AT and T Hosting and Application Services provides a variety of hosted infrastructure, managed services and managed applications capabilities that support the IT operations of customers ranging from small and midsize businesses up to the largest global corporations. Customer applications enabled by AT and T include corporate Web sites, e-commerce, digital content delivery, multiplayer online gaming, collaborative intranets and extranets, data backup and recovery, and enterprise resource planning (ERP), among other services.
AT and T Inc. is one of the world’s largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. Operating globally under the AT and T brand, AT and T companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to business and as leading U.S. providers of high speed Internet, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services.
For more information on AT and T hosting services, please visit: www.business.att.com/hosting.
