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(Gawkwire.com) – For small and mid-size businesses, 2011 is going to be a big year. For many it will be a decisive year. This year, the companies that will embrace the Internet will grow big, and those who will not may face the risk of extinction. To help the willing ones, Gossimer has introduced a handful of Easy and Quick Website Builder Plans.

The most basic easy and quick website builder plan costs USD 2.59/month, and the most advanced one costs USD 8.99/month, with several other price points in between. Each of the website builder plans include web hosting and email hosting. It means the small and mid-size business owners will not have to pour more money in going online. To go online, all a business owner needs is a domain name and any of the Website Builder Plans.

The Website Builder Plans have been designed to help non-technical people create websites for themselves. The subscribers of any of the plans will be able to create a website for their businesses, without any external help. This, as the industry experts believe, will remove the fear of losing control from the minds of small and mid-size business owners.

“During the weeks that I took off for vacations, I happen to personally get in touch with many small and mid-size business owners. During these meetings I came to know, first hand, that how much reservation a business owner has in letting an outsider [web developer and designer] know about the nuances of their businesses, and this is what they sight as the main reason for not having a website,” Said Marvin Dreyer, CEO of Gossimer, “Another reason was the cost of website creation and their [small and mid-size business owners] inability to create websites by themselves. So we decided to make our Website Builder Plans easy-to-work with, and made them available on multiple price points.”

Subscribers of each plan can make unlimited changes to their websites, and they also get a huge library of unique website designs and templates to choose from. The website builder plan uses a WYSIWYG editor which works the same as does Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Word. The company also provides a promotion module with the plan to help small and mid-size business owners optimize their websites for search engine discovery. A person can do all sorts of things using Gossimer’s Website Builder Plans, and each of the plans comes with 30-day money-back guarantee.

This strategy seems to be working for Gossimer, one of the best web hosting companies in the world. Gossimer seems to be winning a steady stream of awards dating back over ten years. In the past year alone, the amount of awards has steadily increasing month over month. Latest awards include “The Most Popular Domain Register” awarded every month since May 2010 by the Domains Directory http://www.domainsdir.com/search/profile.aspx?spid=15068. Additionally, Gossimer has been awarded “The Most Popular Web Host” every month since September 2010 by The Web Host Directory http://www.webhostdir.com/search/profile.aspx?spid=15068. The awards are a direct reflection on the company’s focus on the customer.

In 2010, Gossimer has raised the bar by offering one after another exciting domain name registration and web hosting promotions, and with this new offering the company appears ready to set 2011 on fire as well. Only time will tell if Gossimer succeeds in achieving its goal or not.

About Gossimer, LLC

Gossimer is a full-feature, fastest growing domain name registration and webhosting company which has been voted as one of the 25 most famous web hosting company in the world for many consecutive months. Since 2001, Gossimer has provided web hosting, email hosting, SSL certificates, domain registration and now Website Builder services from New Jersey and Florida. The company is well known for its exceptionally responsive customer support, knowledgeable technical support, server uptime, and attractive web hosting packages.

For more information, please visit: http://www.gossimer.com

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(The Hosting News) – Leading VMware hosting provider StratoGen today announced the launch of a new generation of cloud hosting service based on VMware vCloud Director. SHARP™ empowers users to create entire virtual datacentres in the cloud complete with firewalls, networks and virtual machines from a simple web based portal.

Karl Robinson, Managing Director said “This is a stunning new service that turns the cloud hosting market upside down. Whilst first generation cloud hosting services have enabled users to build and configure simple virtual machines, the StratoGen SHARP™ platform hands the full power of our cloud infrastructure over to the user in the form of a virtual datacentre. Within their datacentre customers can build routed networks, deploy and configure firewalls with NAT and DHCP, build vApps and of course deploy highly resilient virtual machines on the VMware hypervisor.”

StratoGen are the first major hosting provider to offer services based on VMware vCloud Director.

David Elliott, Technical Director commented “As a VMware partner, StratoGen were lucky enough to be part of the vCloud Director beta program so we have been working with this software for many months. After our own extensive testing program, we have been hugely impressed with the reliability and sheer power of the product. Advanced features include the ability to create VPNs and load balancing solutions using vShield, which you simply can’t do with any other cloud hosting solution.”

Virtual machines built on the platform can scale to 8 CPUs with 96GB RAM and run virtually any operating system. In addition, pre-built virtual appliances from the VMware virtual appliance marketplace are supported.

The StratoGen service also includes the ability to import virtual machines from existing VMware environments, allowing for a seamless migration from private clouds or other hosting services.

For further information on VMware hosting from StratoGen visit http://www.stratogen.net/products/vmware-hosting.html

To mark its launch, StratoGen are offering a free 15 day trial of the service.

About StratoGen

StratoGen is a leading VMware hosting company with a worldwide client base and award winning cloud platform. StratoGen hosted VMware products include a 100% uptime service level guarantee.

Source: Next Generation Cloud Hosting Service Launched

(Gawkwire.com) – Zerowait today announced the opening of their Sydney, Australia office and depot. Laurence Jones, the new Australian Managing Director, is focused on providing Australian NetApp customers with cost effective alternatives to NetApp solutions, from complete off -lease transferable license systems to next business day support for out of warranty systems.

“In today’s cost conscious economy, many customers are looking to extend the life and ROI of their NetApp systems,” says Mr. Jones. “Zerowait’s extensive inventory and deep product knowledge allow customers to extend the life of their systems well beyond what NetApp advises, deferring expensive storage purchases. In many cases, older units can be re-provisioned for secondary applications, DR solutions or archival applications, significantly extending the ROI on these units.”

Rob Robinson, Vice President of Sales, said, “Many of our customers now take advantage of our off lease units with transferable licenses when they are provisioning new applications. We can often provide a recent, high end system for less than half the cost of a new system, while offering better performance and larger expansion capabilities. When it comes time to expand, our shelves and drives are often as much as 75% less than the cost of new storage. And while we hope that clients will select Zerowait as their support partner, all of our off lease units are eligible for NetApp support.”

“With the addition of our SimplStor product line, we can now provide complete storage solutions for our clients, from front line to archive,” added Mike Linett, President of Zerowait. “SimplStor offers easily extensible, single name space disk archive storage for less than the cost of tape. Combined with our off lease NetApp systems andenterprise class support, we can now offer Australian customers the cost savings that have built our business in the US and Europe. Zerowait can now offer local service around the world.”

About Zerowait: Headquartered in Wilmington, DE USA; Zerowait is the worldwide leader in independent service and support of NetApp filers. Zerowait solutions include off-lease fully licensed NetApp systems and the new SimplStor line of single name space archive storage. Storage administrators throughout the world rely on Zerowait to provide affordable solutions to the skyrocketing costs of data storage. http://www.zerowait.com

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(Gawkwire.com) – BlipSnips®, a 2010 graduate of the mentor-led technology accelerator program TechStars, today announced the release of its BlipSnips for Facebook product suite allowing consumers to create videos using their iPhones, mark their favorite moments, tag their friends and post the videos immediately to their friends’ Facebook walls – as well as allowing those friends to tag the same videos and share them with additional networks of friends, making the app highly social.
BlipSnips also recently announced that Chris Kelly, former Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook and a lead investor in BlipSnips, has been appointed a senior advisor to the company’s Board of Directors.

“The idea of social photography has existed for many years, but as video grows into such a dominant medium on the web, BlipSnips has brought much of that same social functionality to video for the first time,” said Kelly. “Now we can create, annotate and share video with many friends in just a few clicks and that represents a seismic shift in how video becomes social and how consumers can use video.”
The apps emerged out of BlipSnips’ CEO, John Bliss’s own personal experience when he received a long video of a cycling race he’d participated in. Bliss grew frustrated with how long it took to scroll back and forth through the video to identify himself in the race. He wanted to be able to tell the friend who’d sent him the video that he indeed saw himself in the race, but it was taking too long to view. Bliss knew that there had to be an easier and faster way for people to share video moments.

"Internet users spend more time on social networks and with online video than any other activity on the web,” said Bliss. “Yet, to date, this has been a passive, unsatisfying experience. BlipSnips is the first app to make video truly social, by sharing moments in video and tagging friends that appear in those moments, and doing so where people want to be social – from their mobile devices and on Facebook."

Justin Osofsky, Director of Media Partnerships at Facebook added, “People engage more with any type of content – including videos – when it’s surfaced through people they know and trust. We’re just starting to witness what’s capable when products are designed to be social from the ground up.”

The TechStars startup first launched its video sharing and commenting service upon graduating the 2010 summer class in August. The platform provides Internet users the ability to mark, caption and share their favorite moments of online video within their social networks and to embed their video content within blogs and websites.
BlipSnips’s move into Facebook brings their features to the fastest growing video hosting and consumption platform in the world. The integration also exploits many of the latest aspects of the Facebook platform’s Open Graph protocol to provide new abilities surrounding Friend Tagging within key moments as they appear in videos. The BlipSnips for Facebook suite launches with several key features for Facebook users.

“We built BlipSnips with a core objective to make video social,” said Greg Keller, Chief Product Officer of BlipSnips. “We’re glad to be first to Facebook with patent pending captioning and friend tagging at precise video moments – all without any limits on video length, shares or number of friends who can interact.”
Having the ability to easily tag people and moments in a video, as well as comment on those tags rather than just indicate your appreciation with a smiley, makes this product suite interactive for all levels of users.

BlipSnips for Facebook App Key Features

    Access it now at http://on.fb.me/fMolFS

    Mark and caption key moments within Facebook and YouTube videos

    Tag Facebook friends and notify them of their appearances in video moments

    Facebook and YouTube video management system for content organization and sharing

    Progressive, gesture-driven user interface

    Shoot video with iPhone iOS4’s HD camera, mark key moments, tag Facebook friends

    Upload directly to the BlipSnips for Facebook App for viewing, sharing and discussion

    Built on the Facebook Connect authentication platform

    Newly designed video player offering a rich array of interactive features

Pricing and Availability

The BlipSnips for Facebook application suite is patent-pending, entirely free and available now for use. BlipSnips is a social sharing service enabling users anywhere on the Internet to tag, share and discuss specific moments that matter to them within online video. Learn more at http://www.blipsnips.com

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