managed hosting provider webAIR Completes Building of New York Data Center MMR

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webAIR, a managed hosting provider providing cloud solutions and colocation managed, finished construction of its new Meet-me Room (MMR) and the corresponding network structure platform in its NY1 new York data center. MMR webAIR would improve its direct connectivity to carriers hotels, cloud providers, and global trade of the Internet, in addition to a more "expansive" fully managed infrastructure solutions deployed at the scene.

webAIR advanced interconnect fabric allow NY1 customer data centers to directly connect their hosted infrastructure to conduct public clouds, world trade of Internet and interconnect fabrics such as console and main port, providing endless connectivity options.

MMR and NY1 network fabric also extends biggest points of presence (POPs), including 60 Hudson Street, 325 Hudson Street, 111 8th Ave., and 32 Avenue of the Americas Region New York subway, allowing customers to connect directly to a third party network to those locations.

launching the new MMR webAIR and platform corresponding network fabric stems from societal beliefs that the future of its customers business depends on "fast, secure , automated and low connectivity latency "to their partners and customers.

colocation new york Through these virtual and physical cross-connections available NY1 data center webAIR, customers can also access an expansive suite of fully managed infrastructure solutions that are installed and managed on site, and can be operated at a moment's notice. These include the company's Public private webAIR and Clouds, Storage-as- a-Service (SaaS), Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS), managed firewalls, load balancing, as -a-service and Enhanced IP Transit with built DDoS monitoring and mitigation.

"NY1 next Meet-me Room physical generation and a network fabric are specially designed to evolve with the changing marketplace," said Sagi Brody, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of webAIR . "Today, it means having the ability to adopt fully automated capabilities.This NRS allows customers the flexibility to efficiently move data in the ways that make the most sense for their businesses, whether it is a physical cross-connect in a popular PoP, a cross-connect virtual on an interconnection fabric, or MPLS direct tie-in to their local network. "

Founded in 1996 and based in New York, webAIR public offering, private and hybrid cloud, cloud storage, bare metal dedicated servers, colocation, CDN, security and disaster recovery. The company also operates a international network of data centers located in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam.

StorageCraft releases the latest version of its backup management solution, ImageManager 7

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The latest version of StorageCraft ImageManager, a software solution free backup management, allowing administrators to manage more easily, organize and play backup images taken with StorageCraft ShadowProtect ShadowProtect 5 SPX and recovery solutions.

"the functionality additions already robust ImageManager 7 set were the result of feedback from our partners. They asked, and we listened," said Matt Urmston, Director product management, StorageCraft . "We added the professional tools of computing said would allow them to more effectively manage the business continuity efforts, giving users the ability to spend less time on backup management needs and spend more time with other activities essential to the mission. "

c7-data-centers In addition to several new features, StorageCraft also announced that its backup and previous bonuses based recovery technologies - StorageCraft StorageCraft intelligentFTP and HeadStart Restore - are now standard features of ImageManager 7.

new standard features in ShadowProtect ImageManager 7 include:

  • StorageCraft intelligentFTP - provide maximum flexibility allowing users to transfer all files ShadowProtect incremental or just one, collapsed daily file. It also allows for customizable retention policies so users can transfer selected files
  • StorageCraft HeadStart Restore -. would recover in minutes in an emergency pre-staging local backups in a virtual machine to standby failover. Volume Eve stays current because ImageManager fills each incremental backup in the VM
  • Advanced Image Verification -. provides the necessary safeguards to be programmed to start automatically via the integrated StorageCraft VirtualBoot technology, providing an email with a screenshot attached screen of the connection system screen. It also provides the ability to configure verification of advanced image to produce daily, weekly or monthly based on the needs of users
  • managed folders Expandable -. includes scalable managed folders to view detailed job information, such as replication tasks, HeadStart Restore, or intelligentFTP Shadowstream jobs. In addition, users are now able to quickly and easily view the status of ongoing verification and consolidation activities in brief
  • managed folder filters -. offers users the ability to filter files based on the type of configured jobs, such as folders by type of job folders with running tasks, sync folders, etc.
  • shop management backup - allows users to configure a single ImageManager managed folder and allows to automatically apply the policy settings to the subfolders in the backup store. The new subfolders are automatically managed and inherit the settings of the primary backup memory.

managed hosting provider CentriLogic expands portfolio with three new services

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CentriLogic, a global provider of managed hosting, cloud computing and colocation, announced the addition of e-commerce, disaster recovery, as -a-service and content service management system to its portfolio of iT outsourcing solutions.

CentriLogic serves customers worldwide from 11 interconnected data centers located in North America, Europe and Asia. The new managed hosting offers have been developed in response to customer demand for end to end solutions to support complex outsourcing needs.

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    Inside the CentriLogic data center in Lenoir, North Carolina

    CentriLogic E-commerce -. combines managed hosting and application development capabilities to offer a fully outsourced solution, including design, development, hosting, systems integration and processing automation commands. CentriLogic supports a variety of e-commerce platforms, including Hybris, Magento and nopCommerce. The service is PCI-DSS 3.0 supports the integration capabilities for integrated shipping and payment processors. CentriLogic provides the secondary site configuration for disaster recovery and offers additional services, including storage management, backup, monitoring and security

  • Recovery-as-a- CentriLogic Disaster Service (DRaaS) -. is a fully managed, turnkey service that enables automatic replication of managed hosting infrastructures through CentriLogic data centers to provide a failover environment for workloads, applications and data. The characteristics of the infrastructure architecture services customized to support unique business needs. CentriLogic also guarantees domestic residence data, ensuring that business or critical customer data remains consistent and does not cross geographical borders in transit
  • The content management system CentriLogic customized solutions (CMS) -. incorporate leading technology and open-source CMS, including Orchard, Joomla, WordPress, and many more. CentriLogic CMS consists of application development, application management and hosting, with the possibility to add additional managed services, including storage, backups, monitoring and security. Features include digital asset management, advanced content and cross-channel personalization, live chat, integration of social media, multilingual support, multi-site capabilities, monitoring and a platform measures highly scalable integrated form for integration.

"We are rapidly seeing an increase in demand for IT decision makers who need turnkey solutions to support e-commerce, content management, and recovery strategies disaster," said said Robert Offley, president and CEO of CentriLogic . "For these companies, the compliance, security and flexible service delivery capabilities are increasingly critical during the vendor selection process, while the backend infrastructure supplying the client's operational results is to become secondary. in addition, many companies want to consolidate the whole process to a single provider from design and development through deployment, hosting and ongoing management. "

KEMP360 Central is now available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace - for simplified visibility and management control Application Delivery

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KEMP Technologies, advanced a layer global provider 2-7 Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and centered on the load balancing applications, announced that KEMP360 Central is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to help companies simplify and streamline the distribution management applications in Microsoft Azure.

application delivery company's quality KEMP360 Central management supplements Virtual LoadMaster of KEMP (VLM) for Azure , which was a solution certified since 2014 and has grown to become a top 10 offers Azure Marketplace. In the last 12 months, VLM Azure hourly usage increased by over 15 times.

kemp technologies The family of KEMP360 products allows companies to centralize visibility, control and monitoring of application delivery services distributed, such as load balancing and reverse proxy, through onsite, hybrid and public cloud infrastructures. In cloud computing environments, these services play a vital role for both native and migrated legacy applications where preservation functionality on site can mean the difference between a costly re-implementation architecture, or be able to take full advantage the benefits of Azure cloud earlier.

"KEMP360 Central is a key component of our cloud-first strategy," said Jeff Fisher, vice president of strategic alliances, KEMP Technologies . "The seamless integration with Microsoft Azure will allow us to contextualise more relevant data that the platform can expose. These innovations allow the current value that helps customers achieve optimal quality of experience for their Azure powered applications and services. "

DevOps

KEMP has also expanded the central KEMP360 capabilities to integrate the monitoring and the future third DevOps management focused delivery Offers applications such as NGINX and HAProxy in Azure. These capabilities are essential given the enormous adoption of Linux-based solutions in Azure, which Microsoft estimates are now one of three deployed virtual machines.

Go forward, the deeper KEMP360 central integration and the flagship virtual KEMP LoadMaster with current and future Azure solutions like Azure Stack, also simplify the migration of applications from on-site Microsoft architecture and hybrid legacy public cloud deployments

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AccelOps Names Former Oracle Executive as Vice President of Global Sales

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Software provider AccelOps, Inc., provider of analytical cloud management solutions-oriented, hired Rick Ainsworth as Vice -President of global sales. Ainsworth AccelOps comes after four years at Oracle, where he grew revenues to Data Integration Solutions EMEA division of Oracle from $ 9 million to over $ 100 million within two years.

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"We will build a world class sales organization to generate value and exponential support to our customers," said Ainsworth.

with AccelOps' monitoring solution all-in-one for cloud and virtualized infrastructures , the managed hosting providers would be able to reduce costs and improve overall operational efficiency by monitoring all aspects of their iT infrastructure, including servers, storage, network, security and applications, unified manner. This break down organizational silos and result in a more effective, coherent and cost-effective managed hosting the service delivery process.

'Ready to become a world leader "

Before Oracle, Ainsworth led global sales of GoldenGate Software a data integration solutions provider. Ainsworth has developed and implemented a multi-faceted strategy go-to-market, combining direct, channel, and inside sales for growth of 875 percent turnover during his tenure there . He led the integration of Oracle sales when the company was acquired in 09.

Before GoldenGate, Ainsworth was Worldwide Sales Vice President ACI Worldwide , which offers retail and wholesale banking software, and national sales manager at Mozart systems , client / server manufacturer and processing cooperative software development.

"I am delighted to join the team AccelOps," Ainsworth said . "The company is poised to become the global leader in IT Operations Management focuses on the analysis-cloud and virtualized infrastructures. We will build a world class sales organization to generate the exponential value and support to our customers . "

Big data

AccelOps provides analysis focused on operations management iT to the cloud and virtualized infrastructure to a variety of clients including the managed hosting providers. The software virtual appliance manages security, network performance and compliance, all on one screen. AccelOps discovered automatically, analyzes and automates IT problems in the machine and big data across data centers of organizations and cloud resources, covering servers, storage, networks, security, applications and users.

Velocity Migrates Healthcare Organization, Aspirus in Managed Cloud Hosting Environment

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Aspirus, an organization of community-directed health care with more than 5,500 employees, based in Wausau, WI, has selected Velocity for hosting and managing Aspirus enterprise resource planning (ERP) software applications business in private Velocity cloud hosting environment.

managed the speed of cloud hosting solution was chosen by Aspirus because of its ability to support the range of applications Aspirus runs, experience in application management and support compliance requirements for health care organizations, and the high level of understanding of business and the Aspirus control can achieve using Velocity Zoom.

health care management applications

managed-hosting-healthcare Velocity Zoom is a cloud management console that provides CIOs and their teams with insight and control over performance and utilization of their ERP, enabling the company and analytical software. Management provides Aspirus console with the process of understanding the business that allows the organization to balance cash throughout the month, while making it easier for Aspirus provide auditability for financial transactions and payroll.

"We needed an IT services partner that has a strong application management experience in health care organizations, and that could help us manage costs and optimize our flexible software portfolio to support our business units more effectively, "said Todd Richardson, Senior Vice President and Chief information Aspirus ." managed cloud hosting services Velocity enable us to mitigate the risk associated with the selection and application maintenance and remaining compliant with the new regulations. "

Velocity is headquartered in New York with facilities in Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, London (Canada) and Glasgow (United Kingdom). Velocity is a portfolio company of Silver Lake Sumeru, a private equity firm with investments in technology-driven growth and compatible technology companies.

Software-Defined Storage Company Gridstore Targets UK market by VARs and managed hosting providers

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managed-hosting-storage-gridstore Gridstore, a storage provider defined by software (SDS) optimized for servers Windows with Hyper-V, is launching in the UK as part of its expansion in the markets of EMEA. The company, based in Mountain View, CA, will sell its products exclusively through a select network of dealers based value-added in the UK (VARs) and managed hosting service providers.

As a chain of 100% -Driven company, American Gridstore UK selects VARs and managed hosting service providers who virtualization, Windows and technical skills to provide IT solutions for the modern data center for medium sized business organizations.

Accelerate the application I / O

Gridstore storage offering defined by software optimized for Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, as well as backup and recovery. Gridstore 3.0 was designed from the ground up to accelerate applications in virtual environments. Unlike traditional one-size-fits-all storage, utilize patented Gridstore 3.0 side Virtual Server Controller Technology (SVCT) to remove / IO blender effect and optimize for each virtual machine to accelerate implementation I / O

Designed to meet the challenges storage virtualization faced by midsize companies Gridstore 3.0 is available for both hybrid model and the ability - for performance terms of setting hybrid cache, as well as the storage capacity of challenges. The solution of course would fit in the Microsoft Windows architecture appearing as local hard disks for the operating system.

The expansion in other markets

"As the first established US supplier of software-defined storage, bringing our innovative offerings in EMEA is the natural next step for Gridstore "said Gridstore CEO, George Symons . "With a strong and dedicated team of management, we are able to make a big impact on IT and on the storage market."

"In 2014, we believe the software defined storage will be a Buzzword Nebula become a reality for many organizations and we are pleased to be able to offer solutions to meet this demand in the US and now also in the UK, " Symons added. "We have seen great success in the United States and believe it is the right time to expand into other markets. It feels like the right time to target the UK, and it is, without doubt a real opportunity for us to leverage key gaps in current market offerings. "

German managed hosting provider, PlusServer acquires hosting activities synergetic AG

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PlusServer AG, a German managed hosting provider that owns and operates data centers Eurpope and the United States, acquired accommodation AG synergistic activities. With group sales in the double-digit million range and about 130 people in all affiliates synergetic AG is one of the largest Internet media companies in the German-speaking world

managed-hosting-plusserver the hosting services portfolio acquired includes individual PlusServer AG managed hosting solutions for international companies and e-commerce solutions hosting. The AG acquired synergistic solutions also include shared hosting packages under the brand name "Loomes' digital MPLS connectivity to the internet and the network location of the fixed businesses. Synergetic servers are housed in clean data center of the company in Wendlingen, near Stuttgart.

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"AG synergistic decided to focus on the areas of e-commerce business and the provision of agency services in the future, "said Markus Krämer, member of the Management AG synergistic . "On the hosting market increasingly competitive, the company has joined forces with PlusServer AG, to achieve the necessary future investments there."

"The additional capacity that we have now with the acquisition of accommodation for synergistic activity AG will strengthen our position as market leader in the area of German managed hosting again, "said Thomas Strohe, CEO of PlusServer AG on the acquisition . "Both clients and employees of the synergistic benefit to the same extent the strong support of a company that has been successful in the hosting market for over 15 years. Accommodation"

with over two million active sites, and about 40 000 clients systems hosted in data centers located in Strasbourg, Germany, and St. Louis, Missouri, PlusServer AG is a provider of dedicated servers for 15 . With PlusServer brands Internet.24, serverloft, Unmetered.com and Server4you, the managed hosting provider would cover the whole range of dedicated server solutions for business customers, private customers and resellers.

Dimension Data to quadruple its data center business in 2018, Powered by Trend Managed Hosting

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dimension Data, the $ 5.8 billion global supplier of ICT solutions, announced that it will quadruple the size of its data center business to $ 4 billion over the next five years, fueled by the iT-as-a-service and managed hosting services trend in the market. existing $ 1 billion data center business Dimension Data has a significant presence in all major regions of the world.

managed-hosting-dimension-data The company is looking to grow aggressively and scale its data center operations both organically and by acquisition. In addition, Dimension Data believes that its access to a large set of assets in data centers through its parent company, the NTT Group differentiates the company. NTT is one of the largest suppliers to the world of data center space, with some 243 data centers worldwide.

Although all geographic markets Dimension Data target exponential growth, the analysis show that there will be higher levels of development in mature regions such as North America and Europe , given the investments of existing data centers in those areas that require transformation. For many organizations, the most cost effective way to navigate in the future would be for IT-as-a-Service, managed hosting and outsourcing services.

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"in all regions and with all customers, large and small, there is an urgent need to undergo the process of transformation necessary to not only get better performance of data centers and managing disruptive technologies, but also gradually become greener in terms of environmental care, "said Steve Joubert, Group Executive for the center business Unit data .

"Getting there requires an integrated approach in the secure delivery of workloads and applications across the traditional data center, cloud and the enterprise network, are the next generation data center, " Joubert added ." This requires a level and scope of capabilities that the average organization does not and should not need to build or gain. "

Currently, Dimension Data operates 12 public cloud hosting places in the world with more locations coming online in the coming quarters. Dimension Data plans to spread significantly, it cloud hosting locations across partners' OneCloud ", giving it one of the largest footprints of clouds in the world.

Codero Launches Proactive Managed Hosting Service

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Codero, a hosting provider with data centers in Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix and Ashburn, Virginia, and plans expansion in Europe, has released its new proactive Managed Hosting service. Leverage a single layer automation, hosting, managed hosting service would Codero manage all the IT infrastructure to the application layer, including the infrastructure of the data center for customers.

managed-hosting-codero Codero proactive Managed Hosting, in beta for almost six months now offers e-commerce, SaaS and web-dependent businesses with enterprise-level personalized service. The managed hosting services freeing IT resources of clients who Codero manage all the IT infrastructure to the application layer , including the infrastructure of the data center, networks, devices, operating systems and applications subsystems network.

"We created Codero proactive Managed Hosting in response to customer requests and industry for a more integrated service that leverages the benefits of automation to our existing application hosting platform" said Emil Sayegh, CEO of Codero Hosting . ". The dependent Internet companies can now rely on Codero proactive Managed Hosting in tandem with all other offers for unmatched curated Service powered by a team of experts"

Proactive Managed Hosting includes:

  • No limitation on the services that can be managed; Coverage includes the hybrid hosting, storing elastic block, public cloud or private cloud hosting, dedicated servers, network devices, SAN, NAS, etc.
  • A dedicated team of engineers and named Codero dedicated to ProActive Managed Hosting Customers who works as an extension of customers of IT services; personal information Proactive Managed Hosting technicians available to customers contact for all teams.
  • Improved monitoring tools and leveraging the automation platform Codero to actively help support and protect critical web presences and application provisioning clients.
  • standard name brand equipment including firewalls at the corporate level and the top of Dell servers online
  • No queue for service the client base. simplified and accelerated support available via the preferred mode of communication client such as notes, chat, phone and email.
  • reach the upper support to other offers of the enlarged market.

Codero Hosting provides on-demand dedicated servers, managed hosting, cloud and hybrid hosting infrastructure and solutions. The company is majority owned by the growth equity firm based in New York Catalyst Investors.

Cartika CEO warns against use of snapshots as backups

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Cartika, a Canadian supplier management application hosting, issued a notice to users warning against the cloud based solely on the snapshots for backups. "Many cloud providers instant market as a sufficient backup solution, but snapshots of technologies, while useful for VM duplication or rollbacks are not a replacement for a dedicated backup tool," said Andrew Rouchotas CEO Cartika.

managed-hosting-cartika snapshots, which are a copy of a virtual machine byte by byte, are a form of backup, but snapshots, as expected by most cloud providers do not allow consider a number of data loss scenarios. A major drawback of instant regarding the handling of saved data, according to the CEO of Cartika, which often remains on the same server and storage physical volume as live VM. A failure of the sites supporting infrastructure and services of the organization will also damage the backup or make quick restores impossible.

"Snapshots do not include the file systems or databases, making it more difficult selective achievement data restoration and limits the portability of backup," added Rouchotas . "Moving instant between virtualization platforms is difficult, if not impossible."

managed hosting provider Cartika is the creator of the Bacula4Hosts backup tool company, a backup solution offering much more granular control of instant backup systems, including the ability to restore individual files, selected sets of files, databases and database tables, and mailboxes. Because they understand file systems rather than byte by byte copies, these backups can be restored directly to bare metal or any cloud platform.

Flexiant Flexiant press Concerto for managing applications across multiple public and private clouds

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Flexiant Flexiant press Concerto for managing applications across multiple public and private clouds -

Flexiant announced its latest solution, Flexiant Concerto, to offer the consistency and compatibility among multiple applications cloud provider APIs, the profiles of security and storage environments. The solution would be to open new opportunities for multi-cloud revenue for managed hosting service providers.

cloud-management Flexiant Concerto a hosted platform that provides lifecycle management of applications for multi-cloud (ALM), which aims to managed hosting offers service providers who want to help developers create next generation applications across multiple clouds

Concerto Flexiant enables hosting providers to manage multiple clouds, both own infrastructure to a service provider or a another cloud hosting services provider -. including Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudStack, digital Ocean, IBM, Joyent, OpenStack, Rackspace or VMware (Microsoft Azure and Google from 1 November 2014).

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"cloud giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are threatening the existence of managed services for hosting providers," said George Knox, CEO of Flexiant . "unless the service providers are positioning themselves appropriately against these giants making use of the very technology that once threatened their business. Flexiant Concerto is the simple solution to managing the multi-cloud workload portability and opens the door for service providers to embrace the cloud giants, while serving next generation applications market. "

The release of Flexiant Concerto follows on the back of the acquisition of multi-cloud management technology Tapp and Besol Sl business in May this year.

Global IT Consulting Company, Ampcus, select Carpathia to offer fully managed hosting solution

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Ampcus, a global IT consulting company based in Chantilly, Virginia, chose to deliver a fully managed solution supported by the federal compliant data centers Carpathia hosting. The Carpathia solution eliminated the need for Ampcus or end user to manage, support and care of their IT infrastructure from complex data center.

Ampcus was hired by his client to provide a complete solution for IT outsourcing. As such, Ampcus necessary to select a new data center and managed hosting service provider to replace the incumbent. The alternative supplier should be able to support the infrastructure of data centers across multiple geographies and achieve better latency, availability and reliability.

colocation-unites-states To meet these requirements, Carpathia evaluated the existing environment to determine what gaps were present and ultimately proposed an innovative solution built from the ground to perform critical measurements ALS.

"reliable and secure infrastructure Carpathia not only the availability and services increased level objectives, but it also resulted in more than $ 5 million in contract savings for Ampcus" said Salil Sankaran, president, Ampcus . "in partnership with Carpathia, we now have the opportunity to bid on contracts for a variety of different companies and government agencies that require compliance with strict compliance standards."

Cloud, ERP, CRM

Ampcus is an ISO 001: 08, ISO 000, ISO 27000, CMMI level 3 certified international consulting company specializing in Big Data , Cloud Computing, Cyber ​​security, Mobility, Infrastructure Management services, Testing and IV & V and Enterprise wide solutions such as ERP, CRM, EAI, BI services.

"We like to align our interests with our customers by taking time to listen, understand and design a solution based on critical business and technical needs," said Philip Hedlund, trade Vice President Carpathia . "By entrusting the management of complex IT infrastructure and support for Carpathia, Ampcus was able to significantly reduce their operating expenses."

Nexcess and Human Element Bring two-factor authentication for Magento

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Nexcess, a managed hosting company of Southfield Michigan, in collaboration with Human Element Magento development agency, has announced the release their Sentry Magento plug-in, which will provide authentication capabilities to two factors to one of the most popular e-commerce solutions worldwide.

magento-hosting-nexcess Out-of-the-box, Magento provides protection mechanisms in strong password, but salting and hashing passwords databases is not enough if Magento administrators do not choose sufficiently strong passwords and keep them safe, according Nexcess. The company says that having a username and password as the only authentication mechanism is simply no longer enough

Passwords can be considered as a factor authentication :. Something the user knows. Sentry add a second factor: something the user . Leveraging the ubiquity of smartphones and other mobile devices, two authentication factors integrations Sentry will require that users enter a limited time code generated by an application. Without access to authenticated devices, malicious third party will not be able to access back end of Magento, even if they are able to guess the password.

Sentry Nexcess plugin and the Human Element integrate Magento with the most popular providers of authentication services to two factors including Google Authenticator and Duo Security, providing an extra level of protection and making it more difficult for criminals to violate Magento stores.

server- side seat

magento-hosting "as Magento managed hosting company, we go to great lengths to keep our clients' data and customer data safe, but the weak password problem is not that we can simply solve with better server-side security, "said Chris Wells, President and CEO of Nexcess . "the best way to make safe passwords is to add an additional authentication factor that links the identity with an object in the hands of users. the Sentry plugin will allow Magento e-commerce retailers themselves -Same and keep their customers safe. "

Founded in 00, Nexcess has data centers across the US, Europe and Australia.

With sites in Ann Arbor and Portland, Human Element working to develop web solutions for high transaction web sites using the platform Magento Enterprise eCommerce. Human Element claims to be one of the fastest custom application development agencies increasingly Michigan.

Transportation Spend Management Company, Veraction, chose Carpathia for managed hosting infrastructures

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Carpathia, a hybrid cloud service provider and managed hosting solutions, announced that Veraction, Spend a transportation management solutions provider, chose Carpathia for deploying a secure infrastructure and compliant managed hosting.

Veraction Transportation Spend Management solution combines a suite of robust applications and expert services to deliver cargo and check the parcels, paying bills, the financial allocation services , management of transport data, spend analysis and visibility to customers. Veraction is based in Memphis, TN, with offices in the United States in Austin, TX and St. Simons Island, Georgia and global offices in Amsterdam, Manila and Shenzhen.

carpathia-hosting management of transport spending is intensive data, causes the processing millions of transactions per day and requires daily interaction with thousands of carriers across hundreds of clients. Accordingly, Veraction requires a high availability and high performance infrastructure and as such needed an agile partner with a strong security background and the ability to provide stringent SLA.

Carpathia designed, deployed, and now supports a "very" secure and compliant managed hosting solution, customized to meet all safety requirements and performance Veraction. Veraction is able to increase their existing staff and leverage to the card services The Carpathia portfolio rapidly grow and scale their business needs.

"Companies handling large volumes of data can have only the underlying infrastructure to do it quickly, but also safely," said Philip Hedlund, business operations vice-president Carpathia . "by selecting Carpathia, Veraction has access to an experienced technical team, formed to operate and manage complex networks. This allows Veraction to focus on the logistics service cost savings and an action expenditure information knowing that underlying IT infrastructure was approved at a quality service provider. "