March 6, 2009 – Have you ever wanted to decipher a secret message or analyze imagery? Do you have a soft spot for dogs? Perhaps you just want to learn more about the Central Intelligence Agency’s history and mission. Maybe you want to pursue career possibilities at the CIA. All this—and much more—can be found on the Kids’ Page of the CIA Web site.
March 11, 2009
Get an Inside Look at the CIA with Sites to See
February 26, 2009 – Have you ever wondered what’s hidden within the walls of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)? If you’ve imagined it as another ordinary office building, you’d be wrong. At CIA you can find exhibits, museum galleries, statues, and a memorial wall and garden dedicated to the remarkable men and women who have given their lives while advancing the Agency’s mission.
A Look Back … The Cold War: Strangers On a Bridge
February 20, 2009 – On February 10, 1962, two men stepped on to opposite ends of the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin. Francis Gary Powers—a prisoner of the Russians since 1960— faced westward. Rudolf Abel—captured by the FBI in 1957—faced eastward. Both men had been captured while performing daring intelligence missions. When the signal was given, Powers and Abel began to cross the bridge. They passed in the middle of the bridge, with barely a nod. They were headed home.
Directorate of Science and Technology: Technology so Advanced, it’s Classified
February 12, 2009 – Here at CIA, most of the work we do is classified. And the work done in the Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T) is no exception. In fact, the men and women—the scientists, engineers and technical experts—in the DS&T produce technology so advanced, it’s classified. Think back to a James Bond movie and the work developed by the “Q Branch.” What our men and women do is even more impressive. The use of science and technology is critical to the intelligence process, and the DS&T’s mission is to attack intelligence problems with cutting-edge technical solutions to help protect the nation.
Web Hosting Subsidiary, Premiered by Profuse Solutions
Los Angeles, California – (The Hosting News) – March 10, 2009 – The new Chimehost company, has been launched by Profuse Solutions, serving individuals and small businesses. Chimehost will offer Linux-based Shared, Reseller, and VPS hosting services.
Deepak Kandhare, CTO of Profuse Solutions remarked, ”After more than six months of development, Chimehost offers hosting services that are affordable and cater to a wide spectrum of customers. Whether our customers are seeking personal hosting, media hosting, multimedia streaming, or SEO, the Chimehost platform is an ideal choice. Chimehost is backed by multi-million dollar infrastructure and years of hosting experience.”
As a special launch-promotion, Chimehost customers can take advantage of free Shared Hosting. The free hosting plan includes 300MB of disk space, 5GB of monthly traffic, and a full portfolio of management features through cPanel. The free hosting promotion will continue indefinitely.
Chimehosts premium Shared Hosting plan starts at $4.95 per month and includes unlimited monthly traffic and disk space. Premium hosting customers can also host an unlimited number of domains and utilize increased resource allotments, such as email addresses, MySQL databases, and sub-domains. Premium hosting customers also receive three pages of customized Web design services for free from Chimehost’s web development department.
All Shared Hosting plans also offer – at no additional cost – a variety of special features, including automatic data backups, 24/7 network monitoring, video streaming capabilities, e-commerce tools, among other features. In addition to Shared Hosting, Chimehost offers reseller hosting, from $10.95 per month, and Virtual Private Servers (VPS), from $25.95 per month.
Profuse Solutions currently operates three other hosted services brands, including Gazzin Networks, Psychz Networks, and Winlintech Solutions.
Hosting customers since 1999, Profuse Solutions is a leader in hosted services for individuals and small to medium sized businesses. The company owns and operates its own infrastructure, including server hardware, network connectivity, and a North America-based technical support team.
To learn more about shared hosting plans, please visit: http://chimehost.com/shared_hosting/shared_hosting.html.
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Hosted Data Centres Europe 2009 Event, Gains E-Shelter as Gold Sponsor
Frankfurt, Germany – (The Hosting News) – March 10, 2009 – The Data Centres Europe 2009 event, has gained, data center operator, e-Shelter, whose customers include financial service organisations, telecom operators and IT service providers, as a gold sponsor.
e-Shelter offers specialized business services including leasing of data centre and Office Space, planning, development and operation of data centres and their technical infrastructures and security services.
Nicola Hayes, vice president of BroadGroup remarked, ”We are delighted that yet another leading European data centre operator has chosen to support this year’s important anniversary event. With attendees joining the event from both the EU and internationally, DCE09 continues to sustain its reputation as the content leader in data centre events with proven high networking value.”
With extensive innovation in the programme, and the participation of companies across the EU, Data Centres Europe will sustain its reputation as the premier content driven event and focus this year on the Enterprise. The programme has been designed to tailor insight and information to commercial and technical decision making data centre professionals.
Reflecting the enterprise focus of the event, the conference will this year take place at the newly opened America Square Conference Centre in the City of London and will bring together enterprises, data centres and companies engaged in the data centre sector.
Philip Lydford, chief executive of e-Shelter (UK) Ltd. remarked, ”At the time we were considering how best to build out our new 800,000 sq ft facility near London, I attended Data Centre Europe. The presentations that I saw and the discussions that I subsequently had with presenters and attendees proved invaluable in shaping the design. The result is that we obtained planning consent for an innovative data centre campus which is now well on the way to becoming a reality with the focus on sustainability.”
The programme also includes a unique and timely special carbon trading workshop designed to provide an executive overview of where legislation has reached in the EU, the implications, and what will be required in future.
DCE09 also plays host to the annual Awards ceremony for the sector, which is closely aligned to this year’s theme. As a result, awards will be given to Best Corporate Facility, Best Managed Services Data Centre, Best Colocation Facility, Best Risk Mitigation Service Provider, Best Data Centre Environmental Policy, Best Regional European Data Centre, Best pan-European Service Provider, Best Data Centre Consolidation Programme, Best New Entrant into the Data Centre Market and a special Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Sector.
DCE09 is sponsored by SunGard, TelecityGroup, Equinix e-Shelter, e-BRC, IVI, Migration Solutions, ARUP,
CB Richard Ellis, The Colocation Exchange, and Lamda Hellix Data Centres. The Content Partner is the Uptime Institute, and Strategic Partner is Globeron. Media Partners include the Data Center Journal, webhosting Info, SE10, and Data Centre News. The annual Awards Ceremony will take place in London on the evening of 22nd April.
To learn more about the event, please visit: www.datacentres.com/dce.
Canadian Web Hosting Donates to Union Gospel Mission
Vancouver, B.C. – (The Hosting News) – March 10, 2009 – Canadianwebhosting.com has donated $5,000 to Union Gospel Mission (UGM), motivated by CEO Tony Chu’s loss of a family member. In addition to emergency and prevention assistance, UGM has alcohol recovery programs for both men (in Vancouver) and women (in Mission).
Mr. Chu remarked, ”I understand what our homeless brothers and sisters go through day after day. That is why we have chosen Union Gospel Mission as our charity of choice. I wish to thank UGM for their dedication and hard work as they help people get back on their feet and rebuild their lives.”
Founded in 1998, Canadianwebhosting.com is a privately-held web hosting company focusing on customer care. Canadianwebhosting.com provides 24/7/365 support through Toll-free telephone, email and live online chat. The company is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Union Gospel Mission has been reaching hungry, hurting and homeless men, women, youth and children for nearly 70 years. Through its 12 locations in Metro Vancouver and the city of Mission, UGM provides counseling, education, safe housing, and alcohol and drug recovery to those struggling with poverty, homelessness and addiction.
To learn more about Union Gospel Mission, please visit: www.ugm.ca.
For more information about Canadianwebhosting, please visit: webhosting.com”>www.canadianwebhosting.com.
Managed Web Hosting Provider, Attenda, Chosen by dunnhumby
London, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – March 10, 2009 - Managed services company, Attenda Limited, has signed a three year managed services contract with international marketing consultancy, dunnhumby, to manage its new Project and Portfolio Management application, CA Clarity, as well as its ERP application Microsoft Dynamics AX.
dunnhumby employs more than 1,000 people in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Its clients include Tesco, Casino, Kroger, Procter and Gamble, Shell, Coca Cola and Mars.
With its rapid business expansion plan, dunnhumby sought an experienced hosting provider to manage its Clarity project and resource management application that will be used internally throughout the business, and will integrate with their Microsoft Dynamics AX finance and HR application.
The Attenda contract includes management of Clarity Project and Product Portfolio Management and Microsoft Dynamics AX applications, both of which are being delivered on a virtualised infrastructure using VMware. The Attenda managed service represents a high profile solution for dunnhumby, representing a strategic move to partnering for delivery of key business IT services.
Stuart Bonell, CTO, dunnhumby noted, ”We recognised that Attenda had the essential skills and credentials to manage these important applications for us.”
dunnhumby uses data driven customer insight to help their clients make better informed decisions and to take actions to drive effective customer loyalty. This proven approach has a dramatic positive impact on the performance of retailers, manufacturers, financial services and telecoms companies. dunnhumby’s unique framework embeds customer insight into the organisation, enabling companies to make faster and better business decisions.
Mr. Bonell concluded, ”Our relationship with Attenda as a long term partner helps us to optimise our IT service delivery and management. In turn that enables us to focus on delivery of actionable insight to our clients knowing that key internal IT services like these are being delivered by the right mix of our people and Attenda expertise.”
Attenda Limited manages applications for business to function effectively for secure and optimum performance of applications, irrespective of the physical location of the infrastructure. With over 5 years’ investment into Attenda M.O., the Attenda operations platform provides people, processes and technology to deliver its services, within a cost-effective structure. Currently, the firm’s client base includes 130 of the UK’s companies. The company financial backing and accreditations include Avis Europe, bmi, easyCar, Compass Group, Microsoft, NHS, Princes and Travelodge. Attenda is ISO9001 and ISO27001 accredited, an HP SP Signature Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a SAP Hosting Partner, a SunTone accredited managed service provider and an Accredited Catalist Supplier. Attenda is one of only seven companies to have been ranked in the UK’s Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 for three consecutive years.
To learn more, please visit: www.attenda.net.
Business Hosting Division Expands, at Macquarie Telecom
Sydney, Australia – (The Hosting News) – March 10, 2009 – Macquarie Hosting has reported that it has doubled its sales and operations staff, as the company’s Business Hosting division continues to grow. New staff appointments are bringing over ten decades of experience to spearhead project management, business development and network engineering.
Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Hosting, Macquarie Telecom remarked, ”Each of these appointments aligns directly with Macquarie Telecom’s business growth strategy. They come at an opportune time as we see increased demand from business and Government for managed services, managed security and solutions that help them reduce operating costs and streamline processes in the current economic climate.”
Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom has strengthened its sales and operations team with twenty new appointments in the past three months to support grown in Business Hosting. Appointments cover the areas of business development, project management, senior engineering support and network operations management. All positions will be based in Macquarie Telecom’s Sydney offices
The rapid expansion builds on existing growth of the business hosting and data centre business, which contributed $81.2 million in revenue to Macquarie Telecom in the last financial year (ended June 2008) and now accounts for more than one third of overall revenue for the business.
Established in 1992, Macquarie Telecom works exclusively with the business and government markets. We provide a range of voice, data, mobile, mobile data and hosting solutions to over a million users in more than 3000 companies.
The expanded team brings to Macquarie Hosting more than ten decades of experience in the industry from organisations including WebCentral, Optus, Telstra and AT&T. The team will be responsible for strengthening the company’s leadership in the critical application hosting market and will focus on hosting of new applications and web services.
Through a new partnership with the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Macquarie Hosting is drawing some appointees from the University’s Bachelor of IT course. This is the first time Macquarie Hosting has partnered with a local university to recruit IT specialists directly into the business. The University students will be trained as part of the company’s network operations centre team.
“Over the next twelve to eighteen months we expect to see another steep increase in the number of organisations either selectively outsourcing or moving their critical applications online. In 2008 we saw an increase greater than 30% of Australian businesses looking to outsource some aspects of their IT infrastructure and we expect 2009 to build on this.
Mr. Tudehope added, ”It continues to surprise me, particularly in the current uncertain economic climate, that organisations fail to estimate the true costs of managing their IT infrastructure in-house when assessing their IT management strategies.”
The most senior appointment to the new Macquarie Hosting team, Gerard Barwell, Sales Manager, Hosting will be responsible for running Macquarie Telecom’s second business sales team.
Established in 1992, Macquarie Telecom works exclusively with the business and government markets, providing a range of voice, data, mobile, mobile data and hosting solutions to over a million users in more than 3000 companies.
To learn more, lease visit: www.macquarietelecom.com.
Hosting by Sungard, Selected by Jive Software
Wayne, Pennsylvania – (The Hosting News) – March 10, 2009 – Social business software provider, Jive Software, has selected SunGard Availability Services AdvancedHosting managed IT services, to support its enterprise software suite.
Dave Hersh, chief executive officer of Jive Software remarked, ”SunGard managed services provide some of the most secure, scalable environments available and that is exactly what we want for our customers – only the best. With this approach, we are able to focus our internal resources on our top priorities, namely our direct relationships with customers and advancing social business software in the enterprise.”
Jive selected SunGard because of its operational excellence in meeting service level agreements and its IT infrastructure that delivers scalability and reliability to accommodate Jive’s fast-growth operations.
By utilizing SunGard, Jive will offer customers its social business software via a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. SunGard AdvancedHosting managed IT services allow Jive customers to run applications in a highly available, redundant environment with reduced demands on their own IT resources.
Jive was recently named a community platform ‘Leader’ by Forrester Research and recognized in the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Social Software report produced by Gartner Inc. [Gartner RAS Core Research Note, Nikos Drakos, Anthony Bradley, Jeffrey Mann, 31 October, 2008]
SunGard provides a proven hosted services environment for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies. SunGard’s AdvancedHosting managed IT services portfolio has more than 60 unique service offerings. In North America, SunGard has 34 managed services facilities, thousands of managed services customers and an infrastructure that provides high availability for enterprise managed services. SunGard’s infrastructure includes a 25,000 mile global network backbone.
Dave Colesante, senior vice president at SunGard Availability Services added, ”In today’s economy, Jive – like every other company – is looking for cost-effective approaches to support business-critical systems and applications. Jive recognizes the cost and competitive advantages they can gain by leveraging SunGard’s infrastructure investment rather than building and managing one themselves.”
Jive is the global leader of the enterprise Social Business Software market. Jive has more than 2,500 customers worldwide, including more than 15% of the Fortune 500. Jive was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit Jive Software online.
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With four million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business.
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 472 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance and Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant was published on 31 October, 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the ”Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
To learn more, please visit: www.sungard.com.