web-hosting-top.com hosting news - Jul 2001

Interliant, Inc. (interliant.com), a leading globalapplication service provider (ASP), announced today the launch of its INITReport service, a Web-based reporting tool that allows customers to accessperformance measures for their hosted information technologyinfrastructure.Available for Interliant's INIT managed hosting Solution, INIT Reportensures optimal performance and enables customers to track uptime againstService Level Agreements. Based upon network and ...

Telus (telus.com), one of Canada's leading telecommunications companies, yesterday announced that its original target completion date of 2005 for expansion of high-speed ADSL service will be reached two years ahead of schedule.Due to higher than expected customer demand and the company's ability tomeet this demand, Telus Velocity ADSL high-speed Internet service will beavailable to over 95% of homes and workplaces in 38 specific communities bythe end of 2003. More ...

Loudcloud Inc. (loudcloud.com), a leading managed services provider, today announced that Univision (univision.com), the largest Internet destination for the Spanish speaking community in the United States, has outsourced its Internet operations to Loudcloud. Univision.com will now be deployed, scaled, managed and monitored using theLoudcloud service, and its Opsware automation technology. Univision.com provides the Spanish speaking community with the ...

eSoft Inc. (esoft.com>esoft.com) yesterday announced the introduction of the InstaRak secure server appliance. The new product has been designed to meet the needs of service providers and their customers to provide a secure, end-to-end solution for web, DNS and mail services for multiple domains.eSoft says that by integrating server features with security protection, they have created the most secure server on the market today.According to International Data ...

Fastnet Corporation (fast.net), a leading business Internet solutions, Web hosting and co-location provider, announced yesterday that they have been chosen by 4anything.com to provide co-location services for its new Live Interactive Voice and Video Entertainment Service (livve.com).4anything.com, a leading provider of interactive Internet entertainment services, electronic commerce, and a network of web guides, said it could not afford to be offline for any amount of time. ...

Interliant, Inc. (interliant.com), a leading application service provider, today announced the completion of the sale of their Enterprise Resource Planning hosting and related consulting services business of Interliant Managed Application Solutions, Inc. to Interpath, an ASP. Columbus, Ohio-based IMAS operates a hosting services business for outsourced human resources and finance solutions. As part of the transaction, Interpath has agreed to offer employment to substantially ...

Kmart Corp announced yesterday that it is taking over Bluelight.com, its free ISP service and e-commerce entity.The San-Francisco based Bluelight.com is an independent company majority owned by the retail giant, formed in 1999 to increase online sales. While the e-tailer brought in some extra revenue, it wasn?t sufficient to survive as a standalone free ISP.Bluelight.com was created from the now-defunct Spinway, one of several free ISPs that went under last ...

Keynote Systems (keynote.com), a leader in Internet performance systems, announced today the addition of six new Web performance partners to its KeyPartner Program, a set of partner programs and initiatives designed to better serve customers' growing needs for Web site performance and management services, bringing to 60 the total number of partners in the program.The KeyPartner program is designed to bring Keynote customers "best-of-breed" Web performance management solutions that ...

InsideOut Technologies, Inc. (insideouttech.com), a provider of intelligent electronic business networks and services, has selected Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (mmfn.com) to provide co-location services and an optical IP network to support its Web-based infrastructure and client services.InsideOut will use MFN's Internet Service Exchange facility in McLean, Va., to host InsideOut's business networks. The three-year agreement with MFN allows InsideOut to provide consistent ...

CopperCom (coppercom.com), a communications equipment provider, today announced the availability of its Gateway Release 2.2 that delivers a host of new hardware and software capabilities to facilitate carrier operations and deployment of its VoB solution."CopperCom continues to show the commitment to doing business in the large incumbent marketplace comprised of RBOCs, IXCs, and large IOCs by re-certifying each release of its hardware and software," said Teresa Mastrangelo, ...