Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions noted, ”Ensim has been recognized with a 2007 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in the advancement of data communications. Ensim has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”

Ensim Unify, which self-installs in less than one hour, allows enterprises to alleviate common challenges, such as provisioning, password management, role management, and auditing and compliance of Active Directory servers, Exchange and mobility applications through a secure web-based management portal.

Francois Depayras, Vice President of marketing and alliances at Ensim added, ”Ensim is pleased to be able to offer a solution that addresses the growing need for comprehensive, flexible and easy-to-configure provisioning services. This award further validates our standing in the market and speaks to the high quality of our product.”

The eighth annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2007 were selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement. The 2007 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.

For more information about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

In the last year, GoDaddy added Cron, a service that allows Linux customers to run a task on a scheduled basis. Go Daddy customers can now use this feature to schedule updates of content, email daily archives of forums or create a custom job that fits specific needs. GoDaddy customers also have Database Backup and Restore options, the ability to integrate Google Webmaster Tools and Password Protected Directories, a feature that allows the customer to limit web access through their hosting accounts.

Carlie Fairchild, Linux Journal Publisher remarked, ”Obviously, GoDaddy has made tremendous strides with our readership.”

GoDaddy.com provides Linux customers with newly supported application frameworks as well, including a new web-based File Manager and Editor. GoDaddy.com additionally offers its Hosting Connections portfolio featuring one-click install applications to enhance Web sites. GoDaddy.com has also added a highly requested application, Drupal, a free software program allowing customers to publish and manage Web content.

The Internet hosting and domain registrar has been honored with a range of awards, beyond the Linux distinction. GoDaddy.com was voted “Best Registrar” by Domain Name Wire recently. Earlier this year, GoDaddy was given the ”Domainers Choice Award for Best Hosting Company – 2008.” Last year, The GoDaddy Group, Inc. appeared on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list.

GoDaddy is also one of the top web host providers in the business and supports more than five million customers and largest domain name registrar, with over 29 million domain names in its portfolio.

GoDaddy is a provider of services designed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. GoDaddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The GoDaddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 million domain names under management. GoDaddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The GoDaddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

For more information about GoDaddy, please visit: www.godaddy.com.

According to the company, Veracode’s SecurityReview, the first application security testing solution available as an on-demand service, was the winner in the Best Vulnerability Assessment Solution category. Veracode was also honoured to receive the SC Innovation Award for technology innovation in the IT security industry.

Matt Moynahan, CEO of Veracode noted, ”Veracode is the first company to address the application security challenge in two unique ways – by offering application security audits as a service and by inspecting application code at the same level at which it is attacked – namely the binaries. It’s very gratifying to receive these awards because they not only validate our innovative approach to application security but also underscore the strides we are making to reduce our customers’ application security risk.”

Now in its thirteenth year, these highly acclaimed and prestigious awards are designed to reward excellence and innovation in the IT security industry. Veracode and its SecurityReview service were among more than 300 entries submitted for the SC Magazine Awards Europe. The panel of judges included chief security officers as well as high level IT security executives. Veracode was presented with these accolades at the SC Magazine Awards gala dinner on Tuesday 22 April, 2008 at the Hurlingham Club in London.

Paul Fisher, Editor of SC Magazine commented, ”Tonight was fantastic. Our winners were chosen from some truly outstanding finalists. The judges had a tough time choosing the eventual winners. The industry is in great health.”

SC Magazine is an unrivalled intelligence source for information security and risk professionals. Its readership includes FTSE 100 CISOs and CSOs who are relied upon to protect their businesses from the wide-ranging data threats that exist in the world today. Each issue of the magazine includes news and threat analysis, stats, features on the security issues that matter, and insightful columns from industry experts. The SC Interview, carried in every issue, profiles the key thinkers in information security, including the CEOs of the leading IT security vendors. Unique in its sector, SC also publishes comprehensive product reviews and group tests of IT hardware and software. SC is indispensable for anyone with an interest in information security and protecting their business.

Veracode is an on-demand application security testing solutions firm. Veracode SecurityReview is the industry’s first solution to use patented binary code analysis and dynamic web analysis to uniquely assess any application security threats including vulnerabilities and malicious code. SecurityReview performs the only complete and independent security audit across any internally developed applications, third-party commercial off-the-shelf software and offshore code without exposing a company’s source code. Delivered as an on-demand service, Veracode delivers the simplest and most-cost effective way to implement security best practices, reduce operational cost and achieve compliance without requiring any hardware, software or training.

Veracode has garnered awards including recognition as a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ 2008, Info Security Product Guide’s ”Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award 2008,” Information Security’s ”Readers’ Choice Award 2008,” AlwaysOn Northeast’s ”Top 100 Private Company 2008,” NetworkWorld ”Top 10 Security Company to Watch 2007,” and Dark Reading’s ”Top 10 Hot Security Startups 2007.” Based in Burlington, Mass., Veracode is backed by .406 Ventures, Atlas Venture and Polaris Venture Partners.

For more information, please visit: www.veracode.com.

There will be separate award for each category and subcategory and an overall best dedicated hosting provider Award for an outstanding service provider who continues to inspire the industry.

Submissions are now being accepted for the following categories and subcategories:
- Server and O/S Hosting

IBM AIX, AS/400, HP-UX Linux, Solaris, VMware, Windows

- Database Hosting

IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Cluster, MySQL Oracle 9i / 10g / 11g, Oracle RAC

- Application Hosting

AspenTech, BEA WebLogic, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Citrix, Custom Software, IBM WebSphere, Lotus, Microsoft Exchange, SupportSoft, Verity Hosting, VMware

- Service Provider Hosting

Application Service Provider (ASP), Software as a Service (SaaS)

- Solutions By Industry

Construction, Education, Energy/Utilities, Financial, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Marketing/Media, Retail/Distribution, Technology and Transportation

The options in managed dedicated web hosting have grown exponentially in recent years. Dedicated servers are now available at prices even the smallest businesses can afford, and the future of Web Hosting is Dedicated Servers.

Top 10 Dedicated Hosting Website categorically defines Dedicated server hosting providers as Cheap Dedicated hosting, Best Dedicated hosting and Managed Dedicated services based on both Linux and Windows platforms and offering options such as Celeron, Pentium 4, Dual Xeon, Xeon Quad Core, Kentsfield, Conroe, Woodcrest and Clovertown Processors, Dual Core AMD Opteron, cPanel, Plesk, WHM, Redhat, Debian, FreeBSD, CentOS and Windows 2003.

Top 10 Dedicated Hosting is a team of skilled professionals focused on providing Dedicated Server Hosting Reviews to clients, Consultancy and Training to Web Hosting Providers, End Users and others. Expertise and experience is provided to help businesses grow, reduce overall costs, and simplify the web environments.

To learn more about submitting an entry, please visit: www.top10dedicatedhosting.com/awards.html.

Last week. Professor Diane Zorn, a professor at New York University, won the highest accolades at the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) National Conference, with the USDLA Excellence in Teaching for Online Distance Learning award for Sonic Foundry’s web casting platform.

Dr. John G. Flores, Chief Executive Officer of USDLA noted, ”As a premier organization for the entire distance learning profession, we are honoring Diane Zorn and Sonic Foundry as leaders in their industries. Together they have raised the bar of excellence, and we are truly honored by their contributions to the distance learning industry.”

Facing skepticism from other faculty members that a distance learning course could fulfill the course requirements, Ms. Zorn applied for and won a grant to develop a rich media coursecast powered by Mediasite by Sonic Foundry. Her goal for students taking the online course was for them to learn tangible skills, not only concepts.

Ms. Zorn explained, ”The design of the course, which wouldn’t be possible without Mediasite, assumes that greater quality means greater individualization of learning.”

Ms. Zorn uses the Mediasite platform to create student-centered, highly interactive rich media courses that promote deep and durable learning. She incorporates built-in continuous assessment, asynchronous discussion, clarification of expectations, website orientation and synchronous, real-time interactions. Her courses-which teach business ethics and philosophy to first, second and third-year undergraduate level students-range in class size from 50 to 90 students. About 10 percent of her students are adult learners from age 30 to 50. The enrolled students are learning remotely from the Greater Toronto area, across Canada and the United States, Australia, Pakistan, the Middle East and Europe.

Students can select the content delivery mode they prefer: about 10 percent use video hand-held devices to view the lectures, such as video iPods, another 30 percent use mp3 players to listen to the lectures while the majority of students view the lectures on their PCs or Macs.

Rimas Buinevicius, Chairman and CEO of Sonic Foundry added, ”In our opinion and many others, Professor Zorn has taken lecture capture to an entirely new level. We are immensely proud of the ways she has capitalized on Mediasite’s capabilities. She is truly on the leading edge of meeting the diverse needs of her students within a flexible, interactive learning community.”

The USDLA presented the award on April 23 at the 2008 International Distance Learning Awards in conjunction with its 2008 National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1987, USDLA has been the world’s premier distance learning association. The USDLA International Awards program annually awards outstanding individuals and organizations engaged in the development and delivery of distance learning programs.

Through her pioneering use of Mediasite in the classroom, Ms. Zorn also won York’s University-Wide Teaching Award in 2007, and has been nominated for the Commonwealth of Learning Excellence in Distance Education Award in 2008.

Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry provides rich media communications and knowledge management, providing enterprise solutions and services that link an information-driven world. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company has received numerous awards including the 2007 Frost and Sullivan Global Market Leadership Award, Ziff Davis Media’s Baseline Magazine’s sixth fastest-growing software company with sales under $150 million and Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. Named a Bersin and Associates 2007 Learning Leader, Sonic Foundry’s webcasting and knowledge management solutions are trusted by education institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government agencies for a variety of critical communication needs.

To learn more, please visit: www.sonicfoundry.com.

The Readers’ Choice poll for asp.netPRO Magazine determines the outcome of which firm will receive the title. During March/April 2008, asp.netPRO Magazine asked their readers to participate in voting for their favorite ASP.NET products and services. There were over 20 categories, including Best IDE, Best Forum Application, and Best Hosting Services.

Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ”We are extremely proud to win this recognition and we thank the asp.netPRO magazine readership and the ASP.NET developer community for their continued support. Our team is energized by this win and remains committed to innovation and cutting-edge Windows hosting.”

Recently, DiscountASP.NET entered into a partnership with vendor of advanced ASP.NET user interface components and .NET reporting solutions, Telerik. Under the partnership, DiscountASP.NET customers can receive a $50 discount on Telerik RadControls and Reporting solutions. Telerik users can get 6 months free hosting for the first year of DiscountASP.NET’s base ASP.NET hosting annual plan.

Last month, DiscountASP.NET debuted the integration of Microsoft Windows 2008 Hosting, on its enterprise-class shared hosting infrastructure.
The new Windows 2008 hosting platform includes many new enhancements, including:

1. Windows Server 2008 Standard edition
2. Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7)
3. FTP 7 (including FTP over SSL)
4. PHP5
5. Trust Level Control
6. Microsoft IIS Manager access

DiscountASP.NET introduces two new Control Panel tools for IIS7 hosting management. Customers can use the Application Pool Pipeline Mode chooser tool to switch between Classic and Integrated mode. In addition, a new Microsoft IIS Manager Permission tool is introduced allowing customers to manage the users that can have IIS 7 Manager access privileges.

asp.netPRO is an information resource for the ASP.NET developer community. Through its magazine and website, asp.netPRO provides valuable programming techniques through real-world applications and code, as well as expert opinion and strategy. asp.netPRO is focused on helping professional software developers build, deploy, and run the next generation of dynamic, distributed web applications.

DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Windows-based shared hosting provider, focused on providing the best value in ASP.NET and SQL database hosting. A Microsoft Gold Certified partner, DiscountASP.NET was one of the first hosts to launch Windows 2008 hosting, and .NET 3.5 hosting supporting LINQ and ASP.NET AJAX hosting.

To learn more about asp.netPRO, please visit: www.aspnetpro.com.

For more information about DiscountASP.NET, please visit: www.discountasp.net.

Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring noted, ”We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together. It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists.”

In preparation for the formal announcement of its Top 100 Award, the Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.

Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, strategy, and ecosystem integration.

According to Red Herring, Parallels is on the list due to its innovative and entrepreneurial achievements. The 100 winning companies will be announced at the Red Herring North America event, May 12-14, in San Jose, California. The event attracts leading entrepreneurs, financiers and corporate strategists. More information about this event can be found at http://herringevents.com/northamerica08/index.html.

Red Herring is a global media company which combines the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more information about Red Herring, please visit: www.redherring.com.

For more information about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Tim Mateosian, co-founder of Big Room Studios, has won a managed hosting server, which includes 1 TB of monthly data transfer and bi-weekly vulnerability scans. The open contest received more than 1,000 online entries from viewers of the premier episode of ”Growing Pains,” the company’s humorous video-short series.

Rajan Sodhi, Vice President of marketing at PEER 1 noted, ”The best thing about this contest is that it truly helps Tim solve his IT ‘growing pains’ and expand his business. Business and tech managers go through many IT challenges as their online demands grow. Sharing their stories in entertaining ways can help others navigate the complexities of running an online business.”

Headquartered in Portland, Maine, Big Room Studios specializes in offering combined online services, which primarily include web and print design, web development and IT support and consulting. Started in 2002 by Mateosian and his brother, the company now has clients throughout North America and the UK. Mateosian has been a PEER 1 customer for nearly six years and has worked in the hosting industry for more than 10 years. He has always loved computers and technology and started in the industry as a hosting reseller. The business grew to include advanced web solutions when his brother, a talented programmer, joined and created a web framework for the firm. PEER 1’s self- managed hosting is the ideal solution for this kind of programming, since the Mateosian brothers require more control over the server environment in order to run their web solutions.

Mr. Mateosian added, ”I am excited about winning the managed hosting contest. This is extremely good timing since our company is growing quickly and we were planning on expanding anyway. And I have never won anything before.”

PEER 1 will be holding a new contest, calling for contestants to create and upload their own “growing pains” video, in conjunction with the upcoming second episode of ”Growing Pains” due out in May.

PEER 1, an IT infrastructure provider, believes in the limitless opportunity of the Internet and the business growth and continuity it provides for its more than 9,000 customers. PEER 1 delivers highly scalable managed hosting and co-location solutions to ensure customers’ online presence is always fast, always available. Since 1999, PEER 1 has grown to include data centers and network points of presence in 17 major cities across North America and Europe. Serving a variety of companies, PEER 1 offers solutions that grow through every stage of web commerce, regardless of company size. The company’s headquarters are in Vancouver, Canada and the stock is traded on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol PIX.

To learn more about Big Room Sudios, please visit: www.bigroomstudios.com.

For more information about PEER 1, please visit: www.peer1.com.

Ensim Corporation is the leading provider of provisioning and automation software that helps companies and service providers manage their Messaging and Collaboration infrastructure. Ensim Unify enables IT departments in medium and large-sized organizations to manage applications, users, and devices on their existing infrastructure with a single software solution. Unify provides change management, automated provisioning, mobile device configuration, and delegated administration, all via an easy to use role-based web portal and extensible web services API.

Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions explained, ”Unified Communications magazine has bestowed its Product of the Year award on Ensim because it has demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. Ensim has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them.”

Francois Depayras, Vice President of marketing and alliances at Ensim remarked, ”This award validates our standing in the market. Unify meets the growing need for comprehensive, flexible, and easy to configure provisioning services and Ensim is pleased to be able to offer a solution of this quality to organizations grappling with diverse systems.”

Premiering in July 2007, Unified Communications is the first and only publication dedicated to educating readers on UC solutions. The 2007 Unified Communications Product of the Year Awards distinguish those companies that brought ground-breaking advancements to UC technologies in the past year. Winners of 2007 Product of the Year Awards will be featured in the March 2008 issue of Unified Communications magazine, www.uc-mag.com.

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC’s Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 onference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

Founded in 1998, Ensim Corporation is a provider of management software for unified communications and collaboration infrastructure. Ensim products are used by service providers and enterprises worldwide to accelerate and enable deployment of integrated solutions, simplify and automate secure management of complex environments, and increase user and IT productivity. Ensim is Microsoft Gold Certified, and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading infrastructure vendors including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft. For more information, contact Ensim at 1-877-693-6746 or 1-408-496-3700 outside the United States.

To learn more about TMC, please visit: www.tmcnet.com.

For more information about Ensim, please visit: www.ensim.com.

Over 4,500 IT professionals from around Europe attended Europe’s largest virtualization industry event, the Palais des Festivals. The award is a mark of Attenda’s success as a leading VMware Service Provider, bringing to market new virtual infrastructure hosting and managed services offerings.

Steve Jackson, Director, EMEA Strategic Partners, VMware, noted, ”VMware is proud to honour Attenda with this well deserved accolade. As one of our primary EMEA Service Provider Partners, Attenda is embracing VMware’s datacenter virtualization capabilities in VMware Infrastructure 3 to create innovative and powerful on-demand computing services for its clients.”

Attenda is utilizing VMware technology to power its Real Time Infrastructure, with the benefits of faster provisioning, higher availability and lower cost than would be possible with conventional hardware hosting, whilst also helping the environment by consuming less power and data centre space.

Mark Fowle, CEO, Attenda Limited commented, ”Our adoption of VMware in late 2006 transformed our business. By leveraging the functionality of VMware, we have been able to improve the agility and availability of our clients applications, whilst providing a robust DR platform.”

According to industry analysts, utility computing is becoming a key component of the hosted services industry and Attenda is providing a broad range of utility computing solutions, from high end managed services to individual web hosting solutions.

Mr. Fowle continued, ”This award from VMware and our other certifications and industry awards, is a great testament to the investments we continue to make in our shared operations platform Attenda M.O. Time and time again, it proves to differentiate Attenda and deliver a quality of service and cost point unmatched in the managed services industry.”

Attenda manages applications so that businesses may selectively outsource IT operations and re-focus on using IT to add strategic value to business. With over 7 years’ investment into Attenda M.O., Attenda’s operations platform, it provides the people, process and technology to deliver exceptionally high service levels, but at a cost that is amortised across Attenda’s entire client base – currently 134 of the UK’s leading companies. The company enjoys substantial financial backing, the industry’s leading accreditations and an unrivalled portfolio of clients including bmi, Christian Aid, easyCar, Microsoft, NHS, Princes, St. James’s Place and Travelodge.

Attenda is both ISO9001 and ISO27001 accredited, an HP SP Signature Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a SAP Adaptive IT Hosting Provider, a SunTone accredited managed service provider and an Accredited Catalist Supplier. Attenda is one of only seven companies to have been ranked in the UK’s Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 for three consecutive years and was voted 2007 Best Managed Services Provider by Data Centre Europe Awards 2007.

To learn more, please visit: www.attenda.net.