Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - August 26, 2008 - Colocation, managed hosting, disaster recovery and IP network services, Data393, has entered into an agreement to deliver high density colocation services to business and technology public pension organization services firm, Sagitec Solutions.

Brett Jones, General Manager of Data393 noted, ”Businesses such as Sagitec are increasingly seeking more power and cooling to support high density blade technology and high density hosting applications. We’re pleased to provide access and services from our 30,000-square-foot data center to provide Sagitec with a customized solution to help it deliver benefit program administration to its plan members and participating employees nationwide.”

Sagitec will take advantage of cage space within Data393’s recently completed 10,000-square-foot, power-rich, high density colocation suite that offers high density power for blade servers, parallel redundant generator capacity, and increased raised flooring and cooling.

Tom Adams, IT Project Manager for Sagitec remarked, ”We are pleased to find a secure and reliable company such as Data393 to assist in our IT infrastructure needs. We are committed to providing exceptional value and helping our public pension organizations achieve their mission and vision through our extensive knowledge, experience, forward thinking and progressive technologies, and Data393 is an important link in our system.”

Founded in 2004, Sagitec is a global technology solutions company that partners with public sector agencies to solve business problems created by complex and frequently changing business rules. Neospin, Sagitec’s flagship solution framework, helps state and local agencies implement business solutions that are agile, evolutionary and interoperable.

Located in the Inverness Business Park in southeast Denver, Data393 offers highly reliable colocation, managed hosting, disaster recovery and IP Network services featuring Cisco, Microsoft, Red Hat, EMC and Compellent technologies from a SAS 70 Type II facility.

Managed Data Holdings (MDH) was founded by three highly experienced industry executives in conjunction with Great Hill Partners and Catalyst Investors. MDH’s strategy is aimed at operating state-of-the-art data centers across Tier I and Tier II markets in the U.S. to meet the increasing demand for managed hosting, managed services, colocation space and disaster recovery services required by small and medium-sized business customers or divisions of large enterprises. Our data centers are SAS70 Type II compliant and are designed to accommodate the changing power density and cooling needs of the colocation market while maintaining consistent high levels of customer service and support.

For more information about Sagitec, please visit: www.sagitec.com.

To learn more, please visit: www.data393.com.

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Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”As a Parallels Gold partner, HostingPanama benefits from greater market exposure, expanded business opportunities through joint strategic marketing initiatives and a high level of service and support. We’re excited to be working together with HostingPanama to offer more customers optimized computing through Parallels’ virtualization and automation technologies.”

Gold partner status is a distinguished and advantageous partnership status available from the Parallels Service Provider Partner Program. As a Parallels Gold partner, HostingPanama receives a wide variety of benefits unavailable to most hosting providers. Namely, through volume licensing software discounts, HostingPanama is able to offer a wider array of services with significantly lower pricing than its competitors. HostingPanama also receives access to exclusive tools and web resources that will allow it to reach more customers around the world.

To better support its large deployment of Parallels technologies, HostingPanama receives priority technical support through direct access to Parallels engineers and programmers. HostingPanama is also able to more effectively package and deploy Parallels technologies to generate more focused results for its clients.

According to Parallels, Gold partners are service providers that typically serve a national or regional customer base and often own their own datacenters. Partners of this type generally have made significant investments in their infrastructure and use automation to streamline their business processes. Typically, Gold partners have been in business for over 5 years and have grown into the Gold level through working with Parallels Channel Account Managers that provide advice on their go-to-market strategy, marketing, and service plans.

Eduardo Vila, Chief Sales Officer of HostingPanama remarked, ”As a Gold Partner in Parallels’ Service Provider Partner Program, we are able to leverage a plethora of marketing and operational resources to further develop the services we provide to our clients. I view this partnership as an opportunity to increase the scale and scope of our virtualization and automaton services, and I look forward to the continued progression of our relationship with Parallels.”

HostingPanama is the largest Web hosting provider in Panama and offers a robust variety of offshore hosting services for businesses in North America and Europe. HostingPanama’s multiple datacenter nodes offer access to major fiber optic continental backbones, ensuring especially low latency to the United States and Canada. The datacenter nodes also feature round-the-clock physical access security, advanced automation, and of course redundancy interlaced throughout every infrastructure system.
Based in Panama City, Panama, HostingPanama is an outsourcing web hosting, dedicated server, and colocation service provider. Emphasizing privacy, security and reliability, the company provides services to over 7,000 businesses worldwide in its nearly 14,000 square feet of datacenter space. HostingPanama was founded in 1999.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more about HostingPanama, please visit: www.hosting.com.pa.

To learn more about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

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Opponents of the sales tax point to a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that said a mail-order company only has to pay taxes in the states where it has operations. Newegg only charges sales taxes in California, where the merchant is headquartered as well as Tennessee and New Jersey, where it has operations.

What do you think of Newegg’s defiance? Is New York’s tax law illegal? Sound off in the comments.

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“The back-to-school season has grown in importance for retailers and leads into the all important fourth quarter sales period,” explained Patti Freeman Evans, Research Director and Online Retail Analyst at JupiterResearch. “With the shaky economy expected to impact the amount of money consumers spend on back-to-school shopping, retailers are using social media to capture the attention of younger consumers.”

Examples of social media back-to-school implementation are JC Penny and Sears. Both retailers used integrated marketing campaigns, using tv ads to drive youth online where they can view tips on getting the same looks seen in the campaigns.

To promote its two new clothing lines, department store J.C.Penney created an online game called “DorkDodge” in which a girl has to navigate through a number of undesirable boyfriends to find her dream date. The retailer also launched an integrated marketing campaign showing teens how they can “get that look” with an array of clothing brands sold at J.C.Penney stores, featuring the theme of “The Breakfast Club.”

According to David Schatsky, President of JupiterResearch, “Retailers experimenting with Web 2.0 experiences will largely find benefit from them in the form of branding and awareness building rather than direct sales as social media has shown little direct impact on actual online retail sales.”

What do you think of using social media in your seasonal campaigns? Let us know in the comments.

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A quick Google News search for “SES San Jose” finds 276 articles from the past month – 138 when the duplicates are removed. A search in Yahoo! News for “SES San Jose” finds 114 articles from the past month. A query in Google Blog Search for “SES San Jose” finds 5,554 blog posts that mention “SES San Jose” from the past month, 337 when the duplicates are removed.

A little content analysis reveals the top 10 stories from the past month that were triggered by a keynote, panel, session or workshop at the 10th annual SES confence. Seven of these stories were ones that I predicted in my post on the Search Engine Watch Blog entitled “SES San Jose tip sheet for bloggers and journalists.” But three of the top stories came as surprises — even to an SES veteran like myself. Here, in order, are the Big Ten.

Kevin Ryan, VP, Global Content Director, SES & Search Engine Watch. (Twenty-three articles and 72 unduplicated blog posts, including “SES San Jose Photos – Paparazzi Style” by Lee Odden of TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog.

Tuesday Morning Keynote by Satya Nadella, SVP, Search, Portal & Advertising Platform Group, Microsoft. (Nineteen articles and 69 unduplicated blog posts, including “Is Microsoft’s Vision of Search Enough to Catch Google?” by Rob Hof of BusinessWeek. Rob wrote, “It would be dangerous for anyone to write off Microsoft. Its determination was on display today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s senior VP of search, portal, and advertising platform group, told the crowd that he sees searchers moving from merely typing keywords into Google to getting tasks done.”

Matt Cutts, Software Engineer Guru of Google. (Ten articles, 74 blog posts and a YouTube video entitled “Matt Cutts on Big Brand BlackHat Sites” on the ChrisDaviesCa Channel. Chris happened to be sitting next to Matt, Google’s head of webspam, when Matt weighed in about big brand sites that have been banned for black hat seo practices during the Black Hat/White Hat session during SES San Jose 2008.

Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Land. (Eleven articles, 41 unduplicated blog posts and a video interview by Mike McDonald of the WebProNews Video Blog entitled, “SES: Staying Focused On Search.”) Danny said that social marketing and all sorts of other things can be useful, but it’s important to get back to the search marketing basics.

Universal & Blended Search. (Four articles, 42 unduplicated blog posts and a video interview for the SESConferenceExpo channel entitled, “Johanna Wright of Google on Google Universal Search.” Johanna gives some insight into how vertical search results are blended into universal search results and advocates a thoughtful approach to making information accessible to Google through use of sitemaps and detailed descriptions.

Keynote Roundtable: Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything? (Four articles and 38 blog posts, including “SES roundtable: Search shouldn’t take all the credit” by Ellen Keohane of DM News. Ellen wrote, “Search marketing often gets credit for the final sale or conversion, even when it shouldn’t, according to a roundtable discussion today at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose.”

Opening Keynote Presentation by Lee Siegel, author of Against the Machine. (Two articles and 27 unduplicated blog posts, including “Trust: The Backbone of Consumer Satisfaction” by Kevin Lee of ClickZ.) Kevin wrote, “In an afternoon keynote, Lee Siegel, author of “Against the Machine,” predicted a backlash against the Internet as it has evolved. His book (which I’ve partially read) discusses how there are unforeseen consequences due to technology, and the Internet is responsible for largely unforeseen positive and negative effects on individuals and society.”

Thursday Morning Keynote: Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick. (One article and 27 unduplicated blog posts, including “Dan Heath 2008 SES San Jose Keynote” on WebmasterRadio.FM.) Listen to Dan explain Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die as he delivers his 2008 SES San Jose Keynote. Dan offers six key factors for sticky ideas, plus offers numerous supporting examples.

Orion Panel: How Much Search is Enough? (Three articles and 19 unduplicated blog posts, including “SES San Jose 2008 - Where’s Money For Search Going?” by Manoj Jasra of WebProNews. Manoj wrote, “How much Search is enough? Aaron Goldman of Resolution Media, Steven Kaufman of Digitas, Robert Murray of iProspect and Bob Tripathi of Discover Financial Services were posed that very question by SES’s own, Kevin Ryan.”

Orion Panel: Technical & Information Giants. (Six articles and 15 unduplicated blog posts, including “Technical & Information Giants Keynote - SES San Jose 2008” by Jason McElweenie of The SEM Blog. Jason wrote, “WOW. Let me repeat that. WOW….This was a great panel of some very huge icons on the web today. Bravo SES!”

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