SAVVIS, a worldwide leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications, has decided to make key management changes to ameliorate the company’s technological and functioning groups, client services & support, product technology and development.

Michael Tardif and Timothy Caulfield have been given novel ranks as Senior Vice Presidents reporting directly to Phil Koen, SAVVIS Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Caulfield was nominated as Senior Vice President of Operations and he looks after the company’s technical and operating groups comprising hosting and network services, delivery services, customer support, security services, carrier management, corporate quality, and capacity management.

Brazil’s web hosting operator, Brasil Telecom Group has selected Comodo’s H-Sphere solution to handle web hosting solutions.

Web hosting automation and Internet security services provider, Comodo said that Brasil Telecom make use of its H-sphere service for its novel business to offer web hosting mechanization to small as well as medium size business groups, which is known as iG Empresas.

The deal permits iG to generate and leverage revenue from their base of 40,000 web host customers. H-Sphere is a chief web hosting control panel broadly familiar to convene the demands of large scale hosting processes. It provides a complete client control panel, direction interface, private label reselling, integrated SSL certified administration tools, virtual private servers, devoted server hosting, MS Exchange hosting, incorporate billing, trouble ticket system and powerful clustering capabilities and much more.

High Featured Shared Hosting Company Hostaga Internet Solutions has started a new affiliate program and also plunged installation costs on all shared hosting.

According to the company, shared hosting customers will get 75% discount off on their first month of service. The latest affiliate program offers pays outs to members based upon the number of referred sales and additional bonuses at increments of 10 sales. There is also a $10 starting balance offered for simply enrolling in the program.

Steven Clarke, Hostaga Founder and CEO said that an aggressive affiliate program is a significant part of any Web host marketing plan. Many clients get attracted towards the company’s benevolent plan. It’s imperative to give customers an opportunity to swell as the demands of most hosting customers are growing.

Optimus Solutions, a complete IT products and solutions provider declares the instigation of IBM System i managed hosting.

The company says that the customers will get the computing power of System i and 99.9% system uptime assurance at a reasonable monthly charge.

This offering individually locates Optimus to assist clients to achieve high-availability through a flexible and cost-effective mode, generate a software development test environment, increase their recovery power and business stability arrangement.

Mark Metz, Chief Operating Officer of Optimus Solutions said, “Managed hosting enables customers to achieve faster time-to-value and greater return on investment on projects by eliminating the need to purchase an otherwise costly capital asset. Customers can now take advantage of the benefits of IBM System i architecture at a much lower price point.”

Web hosting services provider, StreamlineNet publicized the launch of its support site, StreamlineSupport.net.

StreamlineSupport.net permits clients to explore a highly developed data base. It also appends and suggests alterations to the subject in a wikipedia style.

Andrew Dollamore, the company’s Chief executive Officer stated, “I'm extremely excited about the launch of this new service as it marks the beginning of a new phase in the company's growth. We have always prided ourselves on developing cutting edge products at the lowest prices but now with over 90,000 sites hosted we understand the importance of investing heavily in to our most prized asset, our loyal customers.”

WebsiteDirect makes declaration of its new web hosting plan and free add-on package. The company said that it will charge $9.95/ on a monthly basis, for its latest business hosting plan that mainly focalize the requirements of smaller groups wishing to take advantage of the Internet to attain success. Its main features comprise; limitless email addresses @yourcompanyname.com, room for a website holding 400,000 pages, and 30 Internet programs for managing an online store, a forum, a chat room and spam and anti-virus filters.

Moreover, the company also inaugurates a Corporate+ add-on package that is freely available when ordered by sending an inquiry to plus@websitedirect.biz. Its main features include monthly search engine optimization review, 5-page website designed, and recommendation for client websites.

Web hosting services provider Fasthosts has teamed up with Sedo, the world’s only global domain marketplace, which will enable its clients to acquire formerly registered domain names through Sedo’s safe and competitive secondary domain marketplace.

Stephen Holford, Director of Product Marketing, Fasthosts said, “The Sedo community of domain owners represents a very dynamic global market for Fasthosts. It offers domain solutions for a variety of audiences from large and small domain name resellers to individual domain customers, but all of them can take advantage of Sedo's comprehensive secondary marketplace services.”

Managed hosting service provider Rackspace proclaimed that it has appended an enterprise-class Intrusion Detection System ‘Invision Security Appliance,’ which unites multi-layer threat management technology and supervising with the company’s dedicated endorsement to detect network problems automatically.

Rackspace enlarges its security potential with the commencement of Invision IDS, increasing the hosting authority’s fully-integrated set of administered safety services and products.

Invision’s ActiveWatch Monitoring ServiceSM provides SANS-certified network security to observe action and carry out prevalent fortification and security appraisal to notice network threats like worms, Trojans, BotNets and unauthorized intruders immediately.

Globally competitive Web Hosting Provider, Easy CGI enhanced the versions of Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PHP. Now its all web hosting plans encompasses these restructured adaptations.

The company said that SQL Server 2005 offers safe and consistent storage for both integrated as well as relational data. It optimizes the overall performance without changing the database arrangement or customer policy. Along with this version upgrade the company has raised the default MSSQL, database size from 50 MB to 300MB.

The company promoted MySQL 4.1.21 due to its reliability, constancy and safety. phpMyAdmin backup is incorporated with all Easy CGI MySQL database installations to permit the web-based database management.

Internet Service Provider and eCommerce Solutions company, Destra Corporation Limited makes announcement that BlueFreeway Ltd has acquired its web hosting division ‘Destra Hosting’ for an expected $20 million.

Destra Corporation Limited will get $18 million in cash and the remaining $2 million in BlueFreeway shares including a public float and listing of Blue Freeway on the ASX.

Destra will expend the yielded funds to reinforce destra’s balance sheet and for purchasing profitable digital media businesses, Destra CEO, Domenic Carosa said.

Chairman Carl Olsen added, “Given that destra will also be a shareholder in BlueFreeway, it is the intention that BlueFreeway and destra Corp will enter into a strategic alliance for co-marketing and reciprocal provision of hosting and communication services, as well as online media services.”