| Web Hosting Services for Insurance Software Company, Provided by AT&T
University Park, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - July 3, 2008 - Web host, Internet services and ISP company, AT and T Inc., has entered into a three-year service contract with insurance software vendor for the property and casualty insurance industry, Insuresoft.
Chris Blair, Vice President of Product Management for Insuresoft remarked, ''From the start, we needed a collaborative provider with the power and connectivity to ensure a top-notch experience for our customers. AT and T has the complete set of solutions and capability to support Insuresoft's operations and paves the way for our company to evolve applications to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.''
As its primary provider, AT and T will deliver a portfolio of hosting services that keeps Insuresoft connected and ''always on'' for its customers. Insuresoft will take advantage of AT and T's collocation services, housing its equipment at one of 38 AT and T global Internet Data Centers (IDCs). AT and T will provide scalable bandwidth to Insuresoft, ensuring the reliable power and connectivity that is required to support Insuresoft's services and customers.
Both cost efficient and flexible, AT and T's solution assigns the optimal bandwidth that is needed to support network traffic and Insuresoft's Web tools. In addition to expanded bandwidth and extensive hosting services, Insuresoft will benefit from the AT and T BusinessDirect Web portal and management tools. This online platform securely provides access to applications for convenient bill payment and network data analysis. About Insuresoft Insuresoft is a Microsoft Gold-Certified independent software vendor delivering insurance software to the property and casualty insurance industry. Insuresoft offers a suite of products and services that are configured to meet the unique needs of managing general agents and insurance companies in North America. Insuresoft is a privately-held company headquartered in University Park, Illinois, and has offices in Alabama and Minnesota. For additional information, please visit www.insuresoft.com.
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. AT and T Inc. holds a 60 percent ownership interest in Cingular Wireless, which is the No. 1 U.S. wireless services provider with 55.8 million wireless customers.
For more information on AT and T hosting services, please visit: www.business.att.com/hosting.
To learn more about AT and T, please visit: www.att.com.
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| Hosting and VoIP Services, Integrated with VoipNow Plesk Module
Wilmington, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - July 3, 2008 - Server management and data center administration facilitator, Rack-Soft, has released the free connection module between its hosted PBX server software 4PSA VoipNow and Paralells Plesk.
By incorporating the industry's leading control panel, the new software delivers a unified communication platform, By integrating Parallels Plesk with 4PSA VoipNow under a single administration interface, the user management is automated and the provisioning of voice and video communications in hosted environments is greatly simplified.
Bogdan Carstoiu, General Manager at Rack-Soft noted, ''By combining the hosting industry's leading control panel with the hosted VoIP PBX software, providers are ready for unified communications and to offer value services to their customers. With this integration, service providers that use Plesk can resell VoIP services and offer affordable hosted PBX services to SMB and residential users using SaaS (Software as a service) model.''
VoipNow Plesk Module replicates effortlessly existing Plesk accounts into VoipNow with only a click of a button or links Plesk users with existing VoipNow accounts for centralized management. Plesk users with VoipNow accounts can work with hosting and VoIP from the same interface. When VoIP functionality is added to a Plesk account, the user will have delivered voicemail and faxes directly into his email box.
VoipNow Plesk module is a free application and can be downloaded from 4PSA website. The software is compatible with the latest Plesk 8.4 version running under Linux and UNIX.
Rack-Soft is a specialized developer and integrator of server and Data Center software that supports major operating systems and platforms. The company delivers solutions that help service providers and enterprises control their infrastructure, automate processes, and improve communications.
Rack-Soft is a developer and integrator of software solutions for the server market, utilized by ISP, HSP, small and medium businesses. Rack-Soft products are developed to simplify server management, data center administration, and voice communications. Rack-Soft implements CMM (Capability Maturity Model) in order to maximize software reliability.
To learn more, please visit: www.4psa.com.
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| Dedicated Server Provider, NewServers, Offers Free Migration, Scalability
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - (The Hosting News) - July 3, 2008 - Provider of on-demand dedicated utility servers with hourly billing, NewServers, has
launched free migration assistance and scalability planning services.
The free service includes consulting provided by the NewServers engineering group focused on developing a migration and scalability plan that leverages the API and automated scaling features of the NewServers platform.
JP Gagne, President of NewServers noted, ''Our goal with the free migration and scalability planning service is to assist our clients in leveraging the full potential of NewServers' dedicated utility platform. We want to educate our client on how to take advantage of the performance benefits and cost savings our platform delivers.''
Recently, NewServers sponsored the Structure 08 conference in San Francisco, CA. Structure 08 is a conference developed by award winning technology writer Om Malik. Structure 08 was created to inform businesses so they can plan their future computing infrastructure needs.
The current promotional offer from NewServers through July 31 includes:
Free First Month while promotional supplies last
2TB free premium bandwidth
Free migration assistance and scalability planning
Last month, the company debuted its reseller program featuring multiple API feature access. With volume discounts of up to 20% and NOC level support access, the NewServers reseller program targets traditional hosting resellers, ISVs, web designers and application developers with higher volume and control needs. The API allows Resellers to fully integrate with NewServers' NOC automation to manage six key functions. These functions include adding a server, canceling a server, real-time available inventory list, active server information, current billing information, and server reboot control.
GigaOM is the premier destination site for technology industry insiders. Edited by award-winning journalist Om Malik, GigaOM is widely considered an authoritative voice on what is disrupting the world of technology. Topics covered include broadband, VoIP, infrastructure, mobile, wireless, and venture capital. With signature intelligence, candor and irreverence, GigaOM breaks down the hype and explains how these new technologies will shape our future. GigaOM is part of Giga Omni Media, a portfolio of leading publications in the technology and entrepreneurial markets that reaches 1.75 million readers worldwide.
NewServers is a provider of on-demand dedicated utility servers. With datacenter services located at NAP of the Americas in Miami, FL and multi-gigabit networks managed by Internap, NewServers provides the industry's leading dedicated utility server architecture with hourly billing. With this architecture the company delivers unprecedented security, power and control to manage IT environments while providing high scalability.
For more information, please visit: www.newservers.com.
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| Hosting Content Network Video Firm, Highwinds, Enables Brain Cancer Awareness
Winter Park, Florida - (The Hosting News) - July 3, 2008 - Multi-platform IP services and content distribution provider, Highwinds, is contributing to raising brain cancer awareness, by providing video hosting and delivery services for the 38 Lemon nonprofit effort.
Steve Miller, President of Highwinds noted, ''Highwinds is providing the video delivery for 38 Lemon as a public service. Clearly the use of video can be a highly educational tool, and we are pleased to be donating our content delivery services in support of such a worthy cause.''
David Welch was diagnosed at age 38 with a lemon-sized brain tumor widely considered inoperable. Over the past three years, Mr. Welch has documented his journey as a brain cancer survivor on his web site, www.38lemon.com, which reaches and seeks to educate nearly 40,000 new visitors a month and had over 10 million hits in the past year alone. Highwinds is supporting Mr. Welch in his efforts by contributing its CDN (Content Delivery Network) services for the delivery of several videos over its high-performance RollingThunder(TM) network.
Mr. Welch utilizes the Highwinds CDN to deliver videos to interested individuals anywhere in the world -- quickly and reliably. One featured video shows an operation performed by Mr. Welch's surgeon, Dr. Patrick J. Kelly, a highly respected neurosurgeon with the NYU Medical Center and the founder of The Brain Tumor Foundation. Another educational video promoting early detection was provided by this foundation and is also delivered courtesy of Highwinds. The 38 Lemon web site also features Mr. Welch's personal journal, which documents his daily experiences as a brain cancer patient, through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation.
The Highwinds CDN provides unparalleled performance and value in the delivery of video and other media content over the Internet. Among content delivery networks, the Highwinds CDN sets the pace by offering important advantages in data center peering, real-time analytics, instant account provisioning, rapid content deployment, complete content control, massive scalability, and other critical differentiators. It consists of Highwinds' global RollingThunder network and its StrikeTracker media manager, which puts actionable data at users' fingertips.
Mr. Welch added, ''It has been three and a half years since my diagnosis, and reaching a growing worldwide audience through 38 Lemon says much about increasing brain cancer awareness from a patient's perspective. Highwinds has created software and tools to deliver educational media that supports our mission, and I am very grateful to have their software, services and CDN platform for running our media.''
38 Lemon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission of ''Brain Cancer Awareness -- From a Patient's Perspective.'' Diagnosed at 38 with a lemon-sized brain tumor widely considered inoperable, David Welch has documented his journey since then. 38 Lemon is not a medical web site. Rather, it is the experience of one brain cancer patient, from first surgery, chemo, second surgery, and radiation and chemo.
Highwinds Network Group, Inc. has provided development of content replication and delivery software and services since 2002, which has led to a number of technology innovations in network management, distributed file system technology and advanced content routing methods. The Highwinds CDN leverages best-in-class hardware and software to quickly and successfully move content at a global level. The company's high-performance RollingThunder network and user-friendly StrikeTracker content management and reporting dashboard enable clients to deploy and manage content, file downloads and streaming media. Highwinds is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and maintains data centers in thirteen North American and European cities.
For more information about 38 Lemon, please visit: www.38lemon.com.
To learn more about Highwinds Network Group, Inc., please visit: www.highwinds.com.
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| Dedicated Server Firm, The Planet, Upgrades Virtual Private Rack Solution
Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has included the addition of Gigabit speed and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to its virtual private rack solution.
Urvish Vashi, Director of product management at The Planet noted, ''We introduced virtual racks to provide a cost-effective, automated solution for large and small complex hosting environments. By adding these upgrades, we're able to better meet the needs of one of our fastest-growing customer segments.''
The upgrades offer the benefits of enhanced network performance and increased functionality for virtual racks. The upgrade to 1Gbps network connectivity allows customers to transfer data faster between servers both within their virtual rack environment and to other servers on the Internet. As a result, customers can host higher-scale, more complex environments and offer more bandwidth-intensive services such as streaming media. The cost for Gigabit Network Uplinks is $10 per month per server.
The Planet is also adding VPN services - at no additional charge - to all customers with dedicated firewalls in their virtual rack environment. This value-added service offers customers remote access to their network and greater security. Customers can choose between site-to-site IPSEC VPN or Cisco AnyConnect VPN for individual end-users.
Virtual rack customers are now able to utilize higher-capacity firewalls and load balancers with these upgrades. These advanced hardware add-ons include the Cisco ASA 5520 and Cisco ASA 5550 firewalls, as well as the powerful Server Iron 4G load balancer.
Virtual racks enhance security, particularly for companies running advanced, high-performance applications that require flexibility in multi-server environments:
Unlimited server-to-server transfer: Multiple servers within the same virtual rack have unlimited connectivity so customers don't pay for bandwidth between servers.
Unlimited server-to-server transfer: Virtual racks allow customers to pool bandwidth across all servers in the environment.
The Planet attempts to eliminate the guessing game of which server will accumulate overages, only to find others below the limit. Pooled bandwidth allows servers to share the bandwidth included with every server purchased from The Planet.
Unlimited server-to-server transfer: A complete hosting solution for complex environments requires advanced firewalls and load balancers. Virtual racks allow customers to take advantage of these solutions across their multi-server applications.
Ultimately, The Planet endeavors to provide:
- High levels 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 over 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 enhanced facilities and network connectivity.
To learn more about The Planet's private rack solutions, please visit: www.theplanet.com/hosting-products/private-racks.
For more information about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.
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| Colocation Web Hosting Services by WebaZilla, Premiere in Dallas Data Center
Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2008 - Web hosting company, WebaZilla, has debuted hosting and colocation services, through its new Dallas, Texas, data center, expanding its business to the United States to meet demand.
The company also has two datacenters in the Netherlands.
Alexei Goubarev of WebaZilla noted, ''Years of experience and knowledge were used to build WebaZilla's new hosting network. The new Dallas datacenter allows WebaZilla to deliver the best performance possible to customers around the world.''
WebaZilla selected its Dallas location to enable a maximum amount of users to access resources at a high speed of data transfer. The Dallas network is based on the new Cisco 7609S platform, one of the most powerful platforms on the market.
WebaZilla's network traffic is provided by some of the biggest bandwidth providers, including Level3, Above.net, TeliaSonera, Cogentco, KPN, Globalcrossing and Teleglobe. Based on personal practice and motivation theory, WebaZilla uses the best equipment from famous producers in the world market, such as Cisco, Dell, Western-Digital, Supermicro, 3Com, Seagate, APC and R and M. All WebaZilla servers and network equipment is protected by a conditioning system that maintains the necessary temperature, humidity and cleanliness for the entire datacenter.
WebaZilla was founded in August 2005, offering professional hosting with a 24/7 support technical support system available. WebaZilla includes a no-break power supply, a flexible backup copying on separate servers, and instant recovery of necessary data. In addition, all services on WebaZilla servers are closely monitored for quality functioning with the help of a special monitoring system based on complex soft hardware. WebaZilla clients receive guaranteed no-break servers functioning, as well as a software system that includes constantly updated service and network traffic data.
To learn more, please visit: www.webazilla.com.
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| Web Hosting Advanced Account Management Options, Deployed by EstHost
Wilmington, Delaware - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2008 - Web hosting provider, EstHost, Inc., has introduced a revamped billing system for virtual hosting accounts, equipped with newly developed features.
From now on EstHost, Inc customers are able to add or remove additional services, monitor their hosting costs and control their accounts with minimal dependence on customer support department.
In response to the customers' preferences in keeping under control every aspect of online business working process, the EstHost, Inc development team issued an updated billing and account managment system.
With its reworked, improved and more flexible billing system for virtual hosting accounts, EstHost, Inc provides its customer with the utter and complete control over their account, giving the unlimited access to all advanced features, expenses and special offers. This particular offer allows an account owner changing the pricing plan, applying more features along with involving more resources at any time. The modification of redundant capabilities can now be performed without additional assistance from the support team. New services can be added or cancelled while the account balance is being recalculated in real time. The new advanced billing system is fully integrated with Plesk and Cpanel and enables easy and flexible account management. Controlling bandwidth usage, ordering and canceling services, getting notifications about low account balance and a large variety of other convenient options are now fully available to virtual hosting account owners.
EstHost, Inc hopes to deliver better customer experience for all its virtual hosting account owners with the implementation of a new improved billing system version fully equipped with carefully elaborated and more advanced features.
Established in 2004, today EstHost, Inc. offers professional, reliable virtual hosting, dedicated server and Virtuozzo-powered virtual private server solutions. EstHost, Inc. is constantly expanding its network infrastructure and employs connections from nLayer, WV Fiber, Scnet, Sbc, Telia, SAVVIS, and Global Crossing. EstHost, Inc. potential customers are offered a test run, with a free 5-day trial. Domain-related services, which include new registrations, e-mail forwarding and managed DNS, can be obtained from http://estdomains.com. EstHost, Inc. also encourages http://bakler.com to purchasing old unused domain names from other webmasters.
To learn more about EstHost, Inc., please visit: http://esthost.com.
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| Web Hosting Provider, Carpathia, Opens New Virginia Data Center Facility
Washington, D.C. - (The Hosting News) - July 2, 2008 - Managed hosting services for enterprises and government agencies, Carpathia Hosting, has added over 20,000 square feet of raised floor, Tier III data center space at its Blue Ridge Data Center.
The new data center was designed to combine some of the most cost-effective data center space in the Washington, D.C. region with industry-leading managed hosting and disaster recovery services. The Blue Ridge Data Center features tremendous power advantages over other regional data centers with two 20-megawatt electrical substations on site that provide unparalleled flexibility and scale. Carpathia Hosting will offer power configurations for both high and low density hosting solutions with the ability to scale to meet ongoing energy demands.
The uniqueness of having two electrical substations on site will allow Carpathia to deliver enterprises and federal agencies tremendous flexibility and assurance to meet the most stringent hosting requirements. Located in Harrisonburg, Va., the Blue Ridge Data Center was built just 100 miles from Washington, D.C. and is outside the 50-mile blast zone and over 50 miles from the nearest nuclear power plant.
With a focus on delivering the highest quality and most secure managed hosting services in the industry, Carpathia Hosting holds a number of key certifications, including Department of Defense Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP) and SAS70 certification. Carpathia is able to meet even the strictest federal and enterprise data center site requirements. The Blue Ridge Data Center was designed in partnership with DBT Development Group, Total Site Solutions and Carpathia Hosting and was created to meet or exceed the Uptime Institute's Tier III Data Center classifications.
Brent Bensten, Senior Director of Operations at Carpathia Hosting noted, ''Rising utility rates and limited availability of power drove us to partner with DBT and Total Site Solutions to develop a data center option that gives our customers an extremely competitive price point for their complex hosting requirements. At the same time, we have delivered a facility that meets the strict data center standards government agencies and enterprises require including secure managed hosting and disaster recovery services.''
The Blue Ridge Data Center is designed to address a variety of enterprise and federal hosting needs, as well as the needs of large system integrators. Carpathia Hosting's Integrator One program, announced earlier this spring, provides system integrators with a broad range of data center design, management and support services in their drive to meet customer requirements, on time and within budget.
The announcement of the new Blue Ridge Data Center continues a period of growth and expansion for Virginia-based Carpathia Hosting, who continues to expand its federal and enterprise clientele in the Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, Ariz. metro areas by providing highly secure and flexible managed hosting services while maintaining aggressive plans aimed at delivering the most cost effective solutions.
Carpathia Hosting is a provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses that require 100% application availability. Employing dynamic technologies that remove hardware dependencies and improve efficiencies, Carpathia Hosting solutions strive to reduce operational costs while surpassing SLA requirements. As a datacenter neutral company, Carpathia Hosting offers security, quality and high performance.
To learn more, please visit: http://www.carpathiahost.com.
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| Hosting Transformation Summit 2008 Registration Opens, at Tier1 Research
New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2008 - Hosting industry professionals are invited to register for Tier1 Research (T1R)'s Hosting Transformation Summit 2008, scheduled for September 15-17, 2008.
The conference focuses on the economics of the hosting and Internet infrastructure markets and how, by appreciating today's management challenges and understanding the long-term evolution of the sector, a hosting, datacenter or Internet application provider can position itself to succeed. Participating companies include firms across the datacenter value chain, including managed and dedicated hosting players, colocation companies, power and cooling companies, and investors that are actively involved in the industry. Enterprise IT executives who depend on outsourced services also participate as the forum presents an opportunity to gain greater insight into the outsourced datacenter and hosting markets, network with executive peers, and gain insight into the challenges and opportunities that are shaping the future of the industry.
This exclusive program will examine the future evolution of the IT hosting industry and will discuss how hosting vendors and enterprises can optimize their Internet infrastructure partners. The 2008 Hosting Transformation Summit is taking place September 15-17, 2008 at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Daniel Golding, Vice President and Research Director of Tier1 Research and Conference Chair noted, ''Attendees at the Summit have returned year after year for two reasons: an outstanding conference program where industry leaders talk candidly to their peers about the future of the industry, and exceptional networking opportunities with a senior-level executive audience. We expect this event to sell out as it has every year.''
The summit will include insight from members of the Tier1 Research team, who will offer the latest bottom-up market forecast for all hosting services segments.
Mr. Golding added, ''For four years, the Tier1 Research analyst team has examined the hosting market at our annual conference in Las Vegas. Over the course of those four years, T1R analysts charted the rise of the hosting industry out of the ashes of the telecom crash, including the evolution of SaaS and Web 2.0, and the movement of hosting into the enterprise mainstream. The Hosting Transformation Summit has been built around the idea of making the managed hosting and colocation industries both scalable and profitable.''
Attendees include senior executives and key decision-makers at hosting companies (ranging from sector leaders to startups); leading venture capital, private equity and public-market investors; and CIOs and senior-level enterprise IT managers at companies from a cross-section of industries.
Additional program highlights include:
The impact of cloud computing and hosting in the enterprise
- The optimal economic model and approach to management success
- Datacenter real estate - its acquisition, operation and impact
- Tracking the shift from conventional hosting to virtualized services
- M and A and IPO strategies from key financial professionals, including top bankers
- Insight from key industry leaders, whose successes and failures will shape the years ahead.
T1R, a division of The 451 Group, analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments affecting public and private companies within the IT, communications and Internet sectors with a particular focus on hosting, Internet infrastructure and IT services. Clients include institutional investors and technology vendors, along with end users and venture capitalists. Clients leverage T1R's analytical insight for idea generation, trend identification, due diligence and grounded opinions, as well as metrics and forecasts on companies and industries covered.T1R is headquartered in New York.
For additional information on its research coverage and services, please visit: www.t1r.com.
To learn more about the summit, please visit: www.hostingtransformation.com/na/2008.
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| Dedicated Server Firm, SoftLayer Hyper-V for Virtualization Solution, Debuts
Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - July 1, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has enhanced its offerings, to include virtualization with the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
Hyper-V was developed as a next-generation virtualization hypervisor that allows a single physical server to be separated into multiple virtual machines that can run independent operating systems' Windows, Linux and others. As with all SoftLayer services, Hyper-V can be ordered through the customer portal and provisioned automatically along with a server's operating system or systems.
George Karidis, Chief Strategy Officer at SoftLayer remarked, ''Deploying Hyper-V is the first step in an extensive virtualization strategy that we are rolling out over the coming months. The opportunities and advantages of virtualization are radically impacting the way we envision SoftLayer's future and our fundamental approach to server and data center architecture.''
A hypervisor such as Hyper-V creates a level of software in between the physical ''bare-metal'' hardware and any operating system. The hypervisor then assigns and manages the hardware's resources to create and run distinct virtual machines. Each virtual machine can run a different operating system, or even its own instance of the same operating system. This presents incredible advantages, including:
- increased server utilization rates and decreased infrastructure costs by pooling server resources rather than managing individual servers
- reduced provisioning times by allowing individual machines to be removed for maintenance without interrupting application use
- decreased environmental impact, by delivering the productivity of multiple machines within only a single machine's power, cooling and floor space requirements
- fewer application and OS incompatibilities, as each virtual machine runs independently from others on the same physical hardware
Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry's first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.
To learn more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.
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