Financial details of the cash and stock transaction were not disclosed. William King, CEO of Alentus Corporation noted, ”This acquisition provides a stable and solid addition of Linux powered web hosting to the Alentus client base. And at the same time, it offers Windows hosting options to Website Source and SpeedFox clients. We are pleased with how the companies complement one another and look forward to growing our client base by offering a more complete menu of website hosting services to the Internet community.”

The acquisition immediately adds $2.6M in annual revenue to Alentus’ current long-term profitable operations record and will add an additional 14,000 clients to Alentus already impressive client portfolio. The current Website Source infrastructure is being integrated into the Alentus global, redundant Cisco-powered network, and all Texas staff has been retained.

Founded in 1998, Website Source and SpeedFox offer Linux-based shared web site hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Servers, E-Commerce, and Domain Registration services. WebSite Source operates a Cisco-powered network in downtown Austin, TX and manages over 200 servers.

Alentus Corporation is based in Laguna Niguel, California, with Data Center and Network Operations Center facilities in Edmonton, Alberta. The company provides Windows web hosting, SharePoint Hosting, SQL Hosting, Microsoft Exchange hosting, and Windows Dedicated Servers to thousands of small- to medium-sized companies and customized solutions to larger organizations including many Fortune 500 clients. Alentus is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and in discussions with several North American and European hosting and managed services providers to further enhance network and service offerings.

To learn more about WebSite Source, please visit: www.websitesource.com.

For more information about SpeedFox, please visit: www.speedfox.com

To learn more about Alentus Internet Services, please visit: www.alentus.com.

Under the terms of the agreement, Pro-Teck will utilize Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting to support the company’s ProValue platform that requires 24×7 availability to service today’s rapidly evolving financial markets.

Luc Levensohn, Vice President Security and Infrastructure, Pro-Teck Services noted, ”We did a lot of due diligence and determined Rackspace could provide us with the highest level of disaster recovery and system redundancy to protect our clients information while providing the scalability and capacity to support our growth.”

Pro-Teck’s ProValue connects many of the world’s largest financial institutions with the real estate data, modeling and expertise they need to effectively manage their real estate collateral. The system requires robust performance to support a large number of simultaneous connections as vendor and client partners throughout the United States process thousands of daily transactions in real time. The platform also provides extensive archiving, retrieval and data stream capabilities critical to its client’s business operations.

Glenn Reinus, Senior Vice President of worldwide sales, Rackspace remarked, ”Because Pro-Teck’s IT infrastructure was Microsoft-based, they found Rackspace’s Windows expertise and Microsoft Gold Certification a true advantage. Intensive Hosting takes a consultative approach with our enterprise customers. Through our dedicated team of experts, we are able to build a deep working relationship, effectively becoming an integral component of customers’ IT departments. We work alongside Pro-Teck as an extension of its IT department and work diligently for our customer’s success.”

Rackspace’s Intensive Hosting provides Pro-Teck with a fully-managed hosting solution. With primary and failover server locations, advanced custom monitoring services, managed backup and storage, and Windows 2003 Enterprise database services, Pro-Teck relies on Rackspace’s 24/7/365 Fanatical Support(TM) demanded by today’s financial markets.

Last month, Rackspace announced two high-level appointments – Florian Schiebl as European Business Director, and Tarquin Bellinger as Sales Director, to reinforce its European operations. Prior to joining Rackspace, Schiebl was Managing Director of iPass, being responsible for the Central and Eastern European regions. He has also held positions at Bertelsmann, Compaq, Siemens, COLT Telecom and MFN.

Mr. Bellinger has joined Rackspace to lead the Sales and Solutions Engineering team. His previous position was at BT, where he led the company’s 21st Century Network business development programme. Prior to that, he led Cable and Wireless’ global services business division focusing on financial markets, based in New York.

Established in 1977, Pro-Teck Services works with Mortgage Lenders, Mortgage Servicers, Secondary Market Investors, Capital Markets and Property and Casualty Insurers to improve risk management through superior real estate collateral information. Pro-Teck provides a comprehensive suite of services including on-line real estate data, fraud scoring, value modeling, inspections, valuations and appraisals.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.

The company plans additional videos over the coming year.

“There’s no one more qualified to talk about The Planet’s products and services than our own customers,” said The Planet’s Vice President of Marketing and Product Management Steve Kahan. “Customers often tell us that they come to The Planet for its world-class data centers and network, and then find additional benefits such as our uptime and customer support. More often than not, they’ve hosted with other providers and are looking for a company with a solid reputation that understands the critical business issues they face. These new videos clearly illustrate why The Planet is the right fit for more than 22,000 businesses around the world.”

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This agreement which Momentum calls “the first of its kind” for the company, enables it to offer its complete line of data centre services directly through the partner’s national sales organization, which is comprised of 150 employees. These services include colocation, dedicated servers, fully managed IT services, remote monitoring and automated data back-up.

“We are confident that this agreement will allow Momentum to reach significantly more of those mid-sized organizations who can benefit most from our data center service offerings,” says Phil DeLeon, president of Momentum. “In addition, we believe a partnership with the Canadian arm of one of the world’s largest technology resellers validates our overall strategy to market out data center services through a channel centric, go-to-market model.”

The company recently acquired a 20,000 square foot data center facility with over 8,000 square feet of highly secure and reliable raised floor in Toronto, Canada.

Momentum provides a range of website outsourcing and hosting services, including managed dedicated hosting, colocation and data backup. The company has over 200 industry certifications from leading organizations such as Microsoft, IBM, HP, Sun, Citrix, VMware, Redhat, Symantec and Cisco.

Angel Anderson, Vice President of Sales for DataViking noted, ”The goal of DataViking is no less than being the true one-stop shop for businesses’ technical needs. Instead of dealing with a hosting provider, a hardware management firm or a web design firm separately, DataViking consolidates all these key offerings that businesses demand under one umbrella. Add in dedicated technical support, and the result is peace of mind so businesses can worry less about technology and focus more on their business.”

Designed to enable technology hardware and software applications, DataViking will also provide hosting platforms with high availability. The new company will fold hosting firm Fivestarhost’s customers into JaguarPC’s parent entity Landis Holdings, Inc. DataViking will offer businesses: -complete management of office computers -customized applications tailored to businesses and their clients -web design and development services -greater levels of technical support -clustered failover high availability hosting plans -other managed services.

Mr. Anderson, previously president of Fivestarhost, looks to migrate Fivestarhost’s clients to the DataViking brand which will be operated under Landis Holdings, Inc. Landis Holdings is better known as the parent company for web host JaguarPC, who will be a key partner in the new creation.

Greg Landis, President of JaguarPC added, ”The idea of DataViking really came from keeping in close contact with our clients. We consistently heard companies bemoaning the fact that managing technology was taking over all of their time. With DataViking, we look to provide the highest reliability for service, support and hosting. As technology continues to evolve, we will adapt the offerings from DataViking as well.”

DataViking anticipates officially launching to the public in June 2008, and currently is continuing build out of its infrastructure and management team. A list of interest is currently being compiled at www.dataviking.com.

DataViking offers complete technology management for businesses, including a portfolio of hardware management and deployment, application development and maintenance, web design and high availability hosting plans. DataViking is a subsidiary of Landis Holding, Inc.

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 is Devpond software, a web software company.

For more information about DataViking, please visit: www.dataviking.com.

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

John Cole, Managing Director, Adknowledge UK, remarked, ”We require instant access to over 15 terabytes of behavioural targeting data in the USA and so we knew that we would need a reliable data hosting provider in the UK to help us grow our data set in Europe. Rackspace fit the specifications of our brief and were well within budget, so we went live in December 2007. We have been very impressed by the service so far.”

Doug Loewe, Managing Director, Rackspace EMEA, noted, ”These are very exciting times for us as reaching the 4000th customer is an accolade we are very proud of. I feel confident that our belief in delivering Fanatical Support for our customers will continue to lead to success. While it’s far easier to focus on technology, exceeding customer expectation is the real challenge, which is why we are absolutely committed to customer service. We are delighted to have Adknowledge as one of our customers and look forward to a fruitful relationship with them.”

Rackspace has been selected by Adknowledge to aid it in the launch of two new products – Taglines and Cubics Social advertising. Taglines inserts behaviourally targeted logos and text links to user generated emails, newsletters and news alerts, turning what is essentially an existing cost base into a brand new revenue stream for UGC publishers and ISPs with large volumes of user generated email. Cubics, the social advertising channel of Adknowledge serves targeted ad inventory across hundreds of social media applications, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo platforms.

Rackspace also announced two high-level appointments – Florian Schiebl as European Business Director, and Tarquin Bellinger as Sales Director, to reinforce its European operations. Prior to joining Rackspace, Schiebl was Managing Director of iPass, being responsible for the Central and Eastern European regions. He has also held positions at Bertelsmann, Compaq, Siemens, COLT Telecom and MFN.

Mr. Bellinger has joined Rackspace to lead the Sales and Solutions Engineering team. His previous position was at BT, where he led the company’s 21st Century Network business development programme. Prior to that, he led Cable and Wireless’ global services business division focusing on financial markets, based in New York.

Adknowledge is a single destination for advertisers looking for quality clicks beyond Google and Yahoo. Adknowledge operates BidSystem.com, a multi-channel behavioural targeting ad network in which advertisers seamlessly bid for traffic in display, email and smaller search engines. Over 50,000 advertisers have used the Adknowledge BidSystem. Additionally, publishers can display advertisements by integrating the AdStation product line of solutions with their website, email list, or search engine.

Rackspace delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services to businesses of all sizes, including hosting specialization and expertise, delivering services as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Rackspace’s portfolio of companies also includes the Mosso cloud computing platform and Mailtrust provider of business-class hosted email solutions.

To learn more about Adknowledge, please visit: www.adknowledge.com.

For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.