Internap has revealed that approximately 15,000 square feet of colocation at a new stand alone 45,000 square foot facility will debut adjacent to its existing Boston data center. The expansion helps the company meet strong customer demand for its bundled Internet solutions. The first phase of completion will become available in the fourth quarter of this year. James P. DeBlasio, Chief Executive Officer of Internap noted, ”This initiative is part of our strategic plan to enhance data center offerings in key markets. With this expansion in Boston, Internap now has its ninth owned facility and a total of 43 colocation service points, demonstrating our commitment to serving our customer’s growth requirements now and in the future.”

Infrastructure plans will allow Internap to provide a maximum amount of power and cooling to support a customer’s high-density solutions. This new facility will also take advantage of more environmentally friendly technologies, including ultrasonic humidification, air economizers and circuit level power monitoring, all designed to provide a less energy intensive solution, as compared to previous generations of data centers.

The Boston expansion also provides access to Internap’s Performance IP and Content Delivery Network (CDN) product offerings. These premium Internet connectivity and content delivery services enable customers to deploy next-generation Internet applications such as video and rich media.

Internap is an intelligent route control solution, developed to provide reliability, performance and security to the Internet, as well as a global integrated content delivery service, designed to enable businesses to stream digital media over the Internet. The company provides patented and patent-pending technologies that address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, to enable enterprises to deploy business-critical applications such as e-commerce, VoIP, and audio/video across IP networks. The company provides additional solutions, including video and audio streaming, advertising placement, reporting and analysis, live event broadcasting, media asset management, integrated web hosting and consulting services. Internap currently serves more than 3,000 customers throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

To learn more about Internap, please visit: www.internap.com.

Presentations will compare and contrast web application virtualization solutions such as WebSphere Extended Deployment and hardware virtualization solutions. In addition, discussions concerning systems may be combined to provide the most flexible web application hosting environment, will be offered.

The Virtualization Faculty will include such distinguished speakers as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Ben Rudolph (Parallels), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Bob Quinn (3Leaf Systems), Brian Martin (IBM), Carlo Innocenti Ph.D. (DataDirect Technologies), Chris Shayan (Ashna Samane), Doc D’Errico (EMC Corporation), Domenic Alcaro (APC), Etay Bogner (Neocleus), George Pradel (Vizioncore), Geva Perry (GigaSpaces), Gordon Hunt (Real-Time Innovations), Gordon Jackson (DataSynapse), Gregory Brail (Sonoa Systems), Harry Petty (Brocade), Hubert Yoshida (Hitachi Data Systems), Ian Thain (Sybase), Jacek Kruszelnicki (Numatica Corporation), Jeremy Geelan (SYS-CON Media), Joe McKendrick (WebServices.org), John Goodson (DataDirect), John Senor (iWay Software), JP Morgenthal (GXS), Keith Swenson (Fujitsu), Ken North (Computing, LLC), Kenon Owens (VMware), Kevin Epstein (Scalent Systems), Koen Aers (Red Hat/JBoss), Kyle Gabhart (Web Age Solutions), Lance Urbas (Certeon), Mario Dal Canto (SIMtone), Mark Davydov Ph.D. (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Mark Hapner (Sun Microsystems), Mark Milligan (VirtualLogix), Matt George (Fidelity Investments), Michael CareyPh.D. (BEA Systems), Michael Gorman (Whitemarsh Information Systems), Mike Pizzo (Microsoft), Miko Matsumura (Software AG), Nikita Ogievetsky (Morgan Stanley), Paul Lipton (CA), Paul Rivot (IBM), Peter Manca (Egenera), Phil Morris (Sun Microsystems), Pierre Fricke (Red Hat / JBoss), Ravi Gururaj (VMLogix), Rich Lechner (IBM), Rich Schreiber (Nastel Technologies), Richard Mark Soley (OMG), Robert Steward (DataDirect), Ron Williams (Tivoli Software), Sean Derrington (Symantec), Shai Fultheim (ScaleMP), Simon Crosby (Citrix), Stephen Herrod (VMware), Stephen Pollack (PlateSpin), Tom Bishop (BMC Software), Tom Woteki (Cisco), Ursula Sinkewicz (Fidelity Investments), Vern Brownell (Egenera), Victoria Livschitz (Grid Dynamics), Yakov Fain (Farata Systems), Zoran Cakeljic (Virtual Iron).

The Conference is sponsored by the following companies:

• DataDirect (Diamond Sponsor)
• Intel (Platinum Sponsor)
• Red Hat (Platinum Sponsor)
• Green Hills Software (Platinum Sponsor)
• Fujitsu (Gold Sponsor)
• Novell / Platespin (Gold Sponsor)
• Ceedo (Gold Sponsor)
• Software AG (Gold Sponsor)
• 3PAR (Silver Sponsor)
• APC (Silver Sponsor)
• Certeon (Silver Sponsor)
• Web Age Solutions (Silver Sponsor)
• WSO2 (Silver Sponsor)
• Stoneware (Silver Sponsor)
• AppStream (Expo Sponsor)
• Astaro (Expo Sponsor)
• Composite Software (Expo Sponsor)
• Grid Dynamics (Expo Sponsor)
• InstallFree (Expo Sponsor)
• Nastel (Expo Sponsor)
• Managed Methods (Expo Sponsor)
• Farata Systems (Expo Sponsor)
• Splunk (Expo Sponsor)
• Xsigo Systems (ExpoSponsor)
• DataSynapse (Expo Sponsor)
• Mellanox Technologies (Expo Sponsor)
• Marathon Technologies (Expo Sponsor)
• MQ Software (Expo Sponsor)
• RingCube (Expo Sponsor)
• Reflex Security (Expo Sponsor)

International Virtualization Conference and Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat; Stephen Herrod, CTO of VMware; Vern Brownell, founder and CEO of Egenera; Simon Crosby, founder and CTO of Citrix XenSource; Hubert Yoshida, vice president and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems; Jeffrey Nick, CTO of EMC; David Greschler, director of Virtualization Strategy for Microsoft; Hal Stern, vice president and distinguished engineer for Sun Microsystems; Andrew Hillier, founder and CTO of CiRBA; Alex Vasilevsky, founder and CEO of Virtual Iron; Jack Zubarev, founder and COO of SWsoft; Stephen Pollack, founder and CEO of PlateSpin; Brett Adam, founder and CEO of rPath; Kevin Brown, founder and CEO of Kidaro; Bob Lozano, founder and CEO of Appistry; and Harry Ruda, founder and CEO of Desktone.

To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the following international events:3rd International Virtualization Conference and Expo 2008 – East

Other events include: the 4th International Virtualization Conference and Expo 2008 – West, scheduled for November 20-21, 2008, San Jose, CA, and the 5th International Virtualization Conference and Expo 2009 – Europe, scheduled for January 26-27, 2009, in London, England.

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

Recently, Foundry Networks presented at the R.W. Baird Growth Stock Conference in Chicago, IL, featuring Michael Iburg, Treasurer. Following that event, was the Piper Jaffray Semiconductor and Communications Conference, in New York, NY. The Deutsche Bank 2007 Technology Conference in San Francisco, CA also featured Mr. Iburg.

The Cowen and Company SMid-Cap Technology Conference has been scheduled for May 31, 2007 in New York, NY, at 1:55 p.m., where Mr. Michael Iburg, Treasurer will speak. Cowen and Company is an investment banking firm whose focus is research, trading and services centered around the key sectors of growth in our economy, including Health Care, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Consumer, Aerospace and Defense, and Alternative Energy, with nearly 90 years of experience.

On June 12, 2007, Mr. Iburg will appear at the Bear Stearns Technology Conference in New York, NY, at 3:25 p.m. The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns and Co. Inc., a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm, since 1923. Clients include corporations, institutions, governments and individuals.

All of the presentations may be accessed at the company’s website, under the Investor Relations page.

Foundry Networks, Inc. is a provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and web traffic management solutions including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4 – 7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, access routers and metro routers. Foundry’s customers include the world’s premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial, and manufacturing companies.

For more information about Foundry Networks, Inc., please visit: www.foundrynetworks.com.

Rodney Giles, Co-founder and CEO of Eleven2 noted, ”’We are very excited about this relocation. We feel this new environment will give us the room to continue to expand our personnel in order to meet the needs of our growing customer base.”

Since the company opened in 2004, they have seen its clientele double many times over and now services well over 66,000 websites. In that time, Eleven2 has moved its headquarters five times in order to accommodate.

Mr. Giles continued, ”We feel like we’ve been constantly growing, and with that we’ve had to make many changes to how we do things. Moving as much as we have is all part of the growing process, and we feel that this new location will give us enough room and will meet the needs of our growth for quite a while.”

Recently, the company debuted the launch of a new solution that will work with President George W. Bush’s Economic Stimulus Plan, to provide web hosting services for life, at $600. In January of 2008, Bush announced that U.S. taxpayers would get checks of several hundred dollars from the government in order to boost the economy. Eleven2 immediately began to brainstorm ways on how to give something back as well.

Eleven2 is offering lifetime hosting for $600. Based on the pricing of its “launchParty” plan, $600 would only go as far as roughly eight and a half years.

Established in 2004, Eleven2 Hosting was started by two web developers who, at the time, could not find high quality hosting solutions that met their requirements. Now hosting over 60,000 websites and with ten years of experience, Eleven2 offers shared hosting, reseller hosting, and customized dedicated server plans. Data centers include locations in Houston, TX and Atlanta, GA. The company continues to reinvent the customer experience with VIP, an automated support system developed in-house. Eleven2 Hosting also provides domain sales and database/FTP/email hosting for small to medium sized businesses.

To learn more, please visit: www.eleven2.com.

Alex Bouzari will speak about Content-Rich, Web 2.0 Storage Dynamics, from the perspective of the company’s data infrastructure for the most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world — including the largest online gaming and music sites, social networking applications developers and photo and video sharing services.

Mr. Bouzari will discuss how explosive growth in next-generation digital content — such as video-on-demand, Web 2.0 environments, digital broadcasting and post production and digital video surveillance — is creating explosive demand for the next generation of data storage. Bouzari will discuss how monolithic, cache-centric storage architectures are not designed for the content explosion taking place today — an explosion which requires real-time, purpose-built platforms designed for massive throughput and scalable capacity. Bouzari will highlight the types of next-generation storage platforms required to support the consistent, massive streams of large image files and unstructured data driving the content explosion and how such platforms enable users to thrive in their extremely competitive markets.

The presentation is to take place on Tuesday, May 20 at 9:20 a.m. Eastern Time, at the Westin Boston Waterfront Boston, Mass. (Advance registration with JPMorgan is required).

DataDirect Networks has over 150 petabytes installed worldwide, counts over 400 broadcasters and post production facilities as its clients and has global partnerships with Dell, IBM and Sony. Alex Bouzari brings more than twenty years of experience in the storage industry and a wealth of knowledge in running profitable, fast-growth technology companies.

Prior to co-founding DataDirect Networks, Mr. Bouzari served as CEO of Personal Writer, Inc., and DataDirect Networks’ predecessor, MegaDrive Systems, Inc. Mr. Bouzari holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Engineering and Economics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with graduate studies in Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University.

For more information, visit http://www.datadirectnet.com or http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/jpmorgan/investbk/global/na/usconferences/tec h08 About DataDirect Networks DataDirect Networks is the leading provider of scalable storage platforms for performance and capacity-driven applications.

The 36th Annual JPMorgan Technology Conference hosts more CEOs than any other technology investor conference. The company will offer selected webcasts. As the longest running event in the high tech industry, it is considered one of the cornerstones of growth in building the technology community. As the premiere conference of its kind, the three-day event offers unparalleled corporate access for investors to companies that shape the technology business community.

More than 200 presenting companies will be featured. The conference will cover Hardware and Software to Semis, Semicap Equipment, Telecom, to Internet. Questions and answers will be provided by over 90% of the conference presenters, who are CEOs. During the conference, executives will also participate in more than 1,800 individual meetings and analyst-hosted fireside chats.

DataDirect Networks’ S2A Silicon Storage Architecture technology is designed to enable modern applications such as video streaming, content delivery, modeling and simulation, backup and archiving, cluster and supercomputing and real-time collaborative workflows that are driving the explosive demand for storage performance and capacity. DataDirect Networks’ S2A solutions solve today’s most challenging storage requirements, including providing shared, high-speed access to a common pool of data, minimizing data center footprints and storage costs for massive archives, reducing simulation computational times, and capturing and serving massive amounts of digital content.

To learn more about DataDirect Networks, please visit: www.datadirect.com.

Through the agreement, cPanel license holders, which are generally web hosting providers with large numbers of clients using the control panel, will receive volume discounts on R1Soft’s software, which provides near-continuous disk based backup.

CPanel customers will also receive marketing materials from R1Soft that are intended to help them sell the CDP service to their own customers.

R1Soft says its software now integrates with all the major hosting control panels, including cPanel.

“Providing easy and useful backups is a requirement to stay competitive in the hosting industry. R1Soft takes backups to the next level and we want to make sure that our customers have easy access to that technology,” said Dave Koston, vice president of operations at cPanel, in the press release. “With the ability for users to have access to their high-availability backups right from cPanel, along with the performance and ease of use of R1Soft’s products, it’s a no brainer for our companies to forge this partnership.”

The companies are offering a discount on R1Soft’s software to cPanel users until the end of the month, providing “an introductory collection of continuous data protection software” for $998. The “cPack” includes five copies of each of CDP Agents, CDP for MYSQL and CDP Servers, along with the service provider API for provisioning and one year of technical support and maintenance.

CPanel says the cPack is a savings of more than $2,700. More information about the bundle is available at a landing page on the R1Soft website.

CPanel is currently planning its 2008 partner conference, which takes place June 11 to 13 in Houston, Texas.

Easyspace today announced the launch of its May 2008 special offer, just one of a number of special offers to be rolled out in the coming months.
Until 31st May, all people buying a domain name with Easyspace will be able to purchase any number of .biz domain names for 7.50 pounds each for one year – a saving of 40% on the standard sale price of the domain. The offer lasts only until 31st May and is open to both new and existing customers.

This latest offer comes on the heels of a number of product improvements at Easyspace, not least the reduction in price of it’s Virtual Server range, but also the introduction of virtual servers and the introduction of improved specification Dedicated Servers.

Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Director of Easyspace noted, ”While we realise that .coms and .co.uks are the most popular extensions for domain owners in the UK, we feel giving a significant discount on some of the other Top Level Domains opens up an alternative option if customers preferred .com or .co.uk is already registered. We’ve also recently added new mailbox and forwarding features to all domain registrations, meaning alternative domains through Easyspace are now a fantastic option.”

Founded in 1997, Easyspace was one of the first domain and web hosting companies in the UK. Easyspace domains come with the usual admin features, including MX Control, Name Server Control and web redirection. Customers can also take advantage of 100 pound Pay Per Click Vouchers with each domain name.

To learn more, please visit: http://www.easyspace.com.

Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer, VMware noted, ”Most servers and desktops today are still consuming 70-80 per cent of their rated power even when idle. VMware is able to deliver substantial power and cost savings through innovative power management capabilities in our virtualization solutions that safely power down or throttle servers when not in use. By powering down servers and desktops during inactive periods such as evenings or weekends, we can help customers save another 25 per cent or more on power consumption without affecting applications or users.”

The virtualization solution firm for desktops to datacentres, reports that by using its virtualization, customers can consolidate 10 or more physical machines onto a single server and reduce power consumption and cost by 80-90 per cent. VMware customers that have moved from a 1:1 application to server ratio to 60:1 or higher have achieved millions of dollars in capital and operational savings.

For every server virtualized, customers can save about 7,000 kilowatt hours (kWh), or four tons of CO2 emissions, every year. VMware has virtualized more than 6 million server workloads since 1998, resulting in an estimated energy savings of nearly 39 Billion kWh, or roughly US4.4 billion. This is roughly equivalent to the total energy consumption of Denmark for one year. PCs virtualized and hosted on servers in the datacentre can also reduce power consumption and cost by 35 per cent. Hosting desktops in the datacentre also doubles the replacement cycle of PCs or thin clients, reducing the environmental impact associated with manufacturing new equipment.

Since 2006, VMware has been an active pioneer inworking with utility companies to offer incentive programs supporting virtualization projects in datacentres. VMware works with utilities across North America including Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, SDG and E, BC Hydro and Austin Energy to provide customers incentives based on the amount of energy savings achieved through datacentre consolidation.

Sheffield Hallam, one of the UK’s most innovative and progressive universities with more than 28,000 students and over 5,000 staff, required a number of new IT services to support its user community. This led to the number of servers within the datacentre doubling within twelve months. The building’s electricity grid could not supply enough power to reliably support the required number of servers within the main datacentre, and physical space was also a major issue. Sheffield Hallam is using VMware’s market-leading datacentre virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure 3, to reduce power and cooling requirements in the datacentre and improve the delivery of IT services. VMware Infrastructure 3 provides the capability for automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption.

Dave Thornley, service support manager, Sheffield Hallam University remarked, ”With the server farm growing towards capacity, we knew a completely new strategy was required. We decided that moving to a virtual infrastructure would be the most effective way to tackle cost management and space issues. Using VMware, we have made a huge impact on our power bills as well as leading to major savings in the deployment of new services to users.”

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacentre. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers and nearly 14,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and on the web at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington, Ontario.

To learn more information on the green VMware virtualization, please visit: www.vmware.com/solutions/consolidation/green.

For more information about VMware, please visit: www.vmware.com.

Aaron Weller, Director of Crucial Paradigm noted, ”With this new line of plans, businesses or individuals wishing to start using Windows Server 2008 can take advantage of our easy-to-use, robust Virtual Private Server solutions that avoid the costs and limitations of a dedicated server. Virtual Private Servers allow our customers to completely configure and control their entire hosting environment, without being limited by container-based technology that prevents customization. Windows Server 2008 takes our Virtual Private Servers to the next level, and we are excited to introduce it to our customers.”

Released just three months ago, Windows Server 2008 is the latest version of Microsoft’s enterprise operating system, sharing similar software architecture with Windows Vista. Windows Server 2008 allows hosting users to take advantage of native IPv6 support; a self-healing NTFS file system that corrects data corruption in real-time; the ability to install Windows 2008 Server Core, which is a significantly scaled down install without Windows Explorer; and other security and usability enhancements. Many of the new features will be ideal for Virtual Private Server users, who require an extra level of flexibility and security.

Crucial Paradigm will initially offer Windows Server 2008 on two plans, starting at $80/monthly for 35GB of data storage, 300GB of monthly data transfer, and 1GB of server RAM. Customers can choose from three versions of Windows Server 2008 – Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter.

Founded in 2003, Crucial Paradigm operates in multiple locations around the world. The privately-owned, debt-free company offers a wide range of hosting solutions from Basic Web Hosting to Reseller Hosting, Virtual Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers and High Traffic Clusters, custom designed, based on each client’s individual requirements.

To learn more about Windows Server 2008 Virtual Private Server plans from Crucial Paradigm, please visit: www.crucialp.com/virtual-dedicated-servers-vds/windows-2008-server.php.

For more information about Crucial Paradigm, please visit: www.crucialp.com.

ISPCon Spring 2008 will be held at the Donald E. Stephens (Rosemont) Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois from May 13-15, 2008. The event brings together 2500+ internet industry professionals including ISPs, webhosting providers, VoIP providers and numerous other internet industry professionals to discuss all facets of internet business including ways to increase revenue and develop new business opportunities.

Ravi Agarwal, groupSPARK senior executive officer, will speak to attendees on Thursday, May 15, 2008 on ways for ISPs and the service provider community to successfully compete in the expanding hosted services arena. His presentation titled SaaS vs. Software + Service: How You Can Survive Microsoft’s Entry into the Hosted Services Market, will speak to the trepidation now felt by resellers of hosted services worldwide regarding Microsoft’s decision to enter the market with their own hosted services offerings. Mr. Agarwal will address the explosive growth in the market and offer strategies resellers can employ to stand apart from the competition and provide value added products and services to their small and mid-size business customers.

“The hosting industry is growing dramatically as more and more SMBs discover that they can pay a small monthly fee and achieved the same level of productivity as large companies by using enterprise class messaging and collaboration tools in a hosted environment. As a result, resellers are looking to take advantage of this trend and offer these services to their customers. However, the recent press surrounding Microsoft’s entry into the hosted Software as a Service market is making many resellers reconsider their decision as they are unsure whether they will be able to compete,” said Ravi Agarwal, senior executive director, groupSPARK division of mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. “This fear is completely unfounded. There are many ways resellers can differentiate themselves and continue to thrive in this rapidly growing market. There is enough room for everyone to be successful.”

One of the ways that groupSPARK continues to thrive in a competitive market is to offer a full breadth of private label hosted software services through their reseller channel to SMBs who would otherwise be unable to deploy the applications in-house due to their significant cost. Services include hosted Exchange Server 2007, hosted SharePoint Services 3.0, and hosted Dynamics CRM as well as 2-way wireless synchronization with BlackBerry Enterprise Server®, Windows Mobile and Good Mobile Messaging. groupSPARK also offers all resellers live 24 x 7 technical support via phone, email and online chat which is staffed by experts based in the United States.

About groupSPARK

Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, groupSPARK, a mindSHIFT company, is a leading provider of SaaS services, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services v3.0, and Dynamics CRM, which can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.

Its partners utilize groupSPARK’s turnkey private label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, private label 24×7 U.S.-based support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities. For additional information, visit www.groupSPARK.com.