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KEMP Technologies Unveils Latest Load Balancing Solution
February 10, 2010 -- Application delivery and load balancing technology developer KEMP Technologies has announced its latest server load balancer, LoadMaster 2000, which it claims to be the most affordable, feature-rich load balancer in the industry.
Inside Kemp Technologies' New Virtual LoadMaster
January 20, 2009 -- After months of development, load balancer builder Kemp Technologies announced last week that it has released a virtual load balancing solution it says managed hosts and other service providers can resell to their customers.
Tez Networks to Distribute Coyote Point Solutions in India
August 7, 2009 -- Indian IT solutions provider Tez Networks has entered into an alliance with mid-market application acceleration and load balancing solutions provider Coyote Point Systems to distribute its "Equalizer" family of load balancers and application acceleration solutions in India.
C I Host Adds Free Balancing With Purchase
March 4, 2009 -- C I Host is offering customers who order two dedicated server packages a free load balancing solution, helping customers increase their site's availability and saving them approximately $1,950 in the first year alone.
Zeus Releases New Load Balancer
March 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, UK-based Zeus (zeus.com) released a new low-end version of its load balancing and SSL offload software last week as part of its efforts to break into the US application front-end market.
Schematic Deploys Coyote Point Tools
January 11, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- E-business solutions provider Coyote Point Systems (coyotepoint.com) announced that technology development firm Schematic (schematic.com) has, using the Equalizer E350 load-balancing and traffic management solution in its data center, succeded in providing "five-nines" availability to client Web sites. Since implementing Equalizer, Schematic's Web hosting service has not experienced any downtime in more than two and a half years.
The Planet Balances Load with Zeus
January 11, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Texas-based Web host The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Tuesday that it has forged a partnership with application traffic management solution provider Zeus Technology (zeus.com), setting out to improve the reliability and performance of customer networks through load balancing.
SAVVIS Records Virtualization Uptake
December 13, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting, network and managed application services provider SAVVIS Communications (savvis.net) announced on Monday that its virtualized utility services platform has gained significant momentum across the industry.
Replacements Picks Hosted Solutions
November 30, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Hosted Solutions (hostedsolutions.com) announced on Tuesday that it has been designated the official managed Web hosting provider for retailer Replacements, Ltd.
Verio, ATS Team On Government Services
October 22, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Verio (verio.com) announced on Friday that its technology solutions, including its hosting and managed services, are now available to the federal government through Advanced Technology Systems Inc's General Services Administration IT services schedule.
VeriCenter Launches Recovery Tools
September 24, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed services provider VeriCenter (vericenter.com) announced on Thursday that it has added several disaster recovery clients, along with several new solutions, to its hosting facility in Atlanta, prompted in part by the recent hurricane activity in the Southeast United States.
Zeus Tool Powers Document Systems
August 24, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Zeus Technology (zeus.com), a developer of infrastructure software solutions, announced on Tuesday that Document Systems, a developer of loan document production software, has chosen to deploy the Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager, a traffic management and load balancing solution.
Peer 1 Launches Load Balancing Solution
July 29, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet bandwidth and colocation provider Peer 1 Network (peer1.net) announced the launch of its new load balancing solution GLOBAL on Wednesday.
Quickshift Deploys Inkra's VSS
July 28, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Network infrastructure firm Inkra Networks (inkra.com) said on Wednesday that security integrator Quickshift (quickshift.fr) will offer security solutions to its customers from an Inkra-based virtualized network security platform. Quickshift will deploy Inkra's Virtual Service Switch, a device that virtualizes, consolidates and delivers multiple security services such as load balancing, firewalls and intrusion prevention, from a single platform.
Q9 Provides Web Hosting for ASP
July 22, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed Web hosting provider Q9 Networks (q9.com) announced on Thursday that it has secured a managed services contract to support Marlborough Stirling's hosted mortgage origination and servicing solutions.
Radware Files Suit Against F5 Networks
July 21, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Radware (radware.com), a provider of application switching solutions, said on Tuesday that it has filed suit against F5 Networks (f5networks.com), a provider of application management products.
Speedera Balancing F-Secure Load
June 22, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Speedera Networks Inc., (speedera.com) a provider of on-demand distributed application and content delivery services, today announced that F-Secure Corporation, a provider of centrally managed security solutions, has selected Speedera's Traffic Balancer service to ensure global load balancing between its multiple data centers in Europe and North America.
Netscaler Expands to Korea
June 3, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Netscaler (netscaler.com), a developer of application delivery systems, announced on Wednesday that is formally launching operations in Korea as part of its plan to expand in one of the world's most wired markets.
UK Agency Looking for Web Host
May 18, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO.gov.uk), an agency of the Ministry of Defence, is looking for a Web hosting provider to support its online presence. The agency is inviting hosting providers to submit bids for the 36-month contract, which must be received before June 18, 2004.
VeriCenter Hosting ESi Acquisition
Under the multi-year deal, VeriCenter will provide fully redundant sites for ESi Acquisition, using global load balancing for fail over between two data center locations. Vericenter said the deployment would ensure that ESi's solutions are continuously available for its customers.
Zeus Launches Traffic Manager
Zeus says Extensible Traffic Manager brings new levels of functionality to the load balancing market, providing control, intelligence, security and resilience for application traffic. With its TrafficScript control language, deep content inspection, intelligent Web services routing and end-to-end traffic security, says Zeus, the Extensible Traffic Manager uses business logic to make traffic management decisions.
Radware Wins Load Balancing Patent
According to Radware, US patent number 6,718,359 details the method for determining network proximity and its use as part of load balancing decisions.
Savvis Chooses Inkra for Data Center
April 5, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and managed services provider Savvis Communications (savvis.net) has chosen to deploy Inkra Networks' (inkra.com) networking virtualization technology in its data centers, Inkra announced on Monday, forming a key component of what is being billed as the industry's first virtualized utility computing data center environment. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Redline Upgrades Platform Software
"Enterprises managing the transition to Web-enabled applications have several concerns," says Craig Stouffer, vice president of marketing at Redline Networks. "First, they want to ensure new 'webified' business-critical applications are as available as the old client-server versions. Second, they want to streamline architectures to avoid managing a multitude of point products for functions such as compression, security, load balancing and acceleration. Third, they want problem-solving information at their fingertips, in a format they can quickly understand and use to take action. Redline's newest version addresses these concerns, improving business continuity for users and raising the bar for emerging dew data center platform requirements."
Texas.Net Adds Disaster Recovery Clients
EC Outlook, a value-chain automation supplier, has signed on for Texas.Net's warm-site disaster recovery services.
NetScaler Launches Application Delivery Systems
The company said the launch of these high-end systems solidifies its leadership in the emerging market for application delivery systems.
Q9 Selected to Host Online Wagering Site
Under the terms of the deal, Q9 will provide a fully managed hosting solution to Woodbine, including servers, firewalls, load balancing, backup and storage, for its new online horse racing wagering site (hpibet.com).
Macromedia, VitalStream Deliver Video Streaming
December 16, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Macromedia (macromedia.com), a software developer based in San Francisco, and VitalStream (vitalstream.com), a provider of digital broadcasting solutions based in Irvine, California, announced today that they have released Macromedia Flash Video Streaming Service, designed to allow companies to deliver video-enabled Flash content to the Macromedia Flash Player across Vitalstream's content distribution network.
Redline, DataPower Partner for Data Center Solution
November 7, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Redline Networks (redlinenetworks.com), a designer and manufacturer of networks appliances, and DataPower Technology (datapower.com), a provider of XML-aware network infrastructure, announced yesterday a partnership to market their products together as a single solution that allows Web-enabled data centers to provide enhanced Web services.
Clairns to Deploy Speedera SpeedSuite
October 2, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Speedera Networks Inc. (speedera.com), a content delivery service provider, said today that Clarins, a vendor of skin care products, has chosen to deploy SpeedSuite, its distributed delivery solution, to improve the availability and performance of its Web site.
Q9 Networks Adds Redundancy Services
September 29, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Q9 Networks (q9.com) announced today the addition of a Global Redundancy Service to its suite of "high-availability" service offerings.
Hifn Processors Used on Nauticus IDC Switches
September 11, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hifn (hifn.com), a provider of network security and flow classification technology, announced today that Nauticus Networks? (nauticusnetworks.com) N2000 Series of intelligent data center switches have integrated Hifn security processors.










