Toronto, Canada - (The Hosting News) - October 30, 2008 - Web hosting provider for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), Netfirms, has debuted the launch of a new version of its XLR8 control panel, designed for easier and faster use to enable the benefits of clustered hosting and Web 2.0 cloud computing.

The control panel is now available to the more than 1.2 million Websites, worldwide, hosted by Netfirms. At the request of users, Netfirms has improved the usability of XLR8 by adding a domain transfer status bar to show how quickly transfers are occurring, plus a knowledgebase to make troubleshooting easier.

A new-look menu bar simplifies navigation, streamlines the transfer of domains to Netfirms, and makes it easy

Quebec, Canada - (The Hosting News) - October 30, 2008 - Internet hosting infrastructure provider, iWeb Group Inc., and subsidiary of iWeb Technologies, was recently invited to be the first presentation of the "Growth in Managed and Internet Services'' session at the RBC Capital Markets Growth Conference.

Bernard Dahl, iWeb's Director of Communications and Public Relations presented investors with iWeb's perspectives on the current state of Internet services at the conference, which is being held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto.

Held at the MaRS Centre, Toronto, Ontario, the event featured leaders in the technology finance industry sector, with discussions of business strategies and outlooks from all of the participating companies.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 31, 2008 - Hosting services provider, Rackspace Hosting, Inc., through its Mailtrust business-class email service, has selected Sonian to provide an email archiving service to its customers. Sonian provides an affordable, scalable and secure hosted email archiving solution for all organizations.

Pat Matthews, President of Mailtrust noted, ''The Sonian Email Archiving service is a great compliment to our business-class email hosting service. Today Mailtrust supports clients around the globe, which face the same regulatory and electronic discovery requirements that larger organizations face. All of these organizations need an affordable, scalable and compliant email archiving service to meet tho

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 31, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer partner, the Mezeo Personal Cloud Storage solution, is designed to enable monetization for the Online Storage Market.

Dan Golding, Vice President and Research Director, Tier 1 Research explained, ''File server replacement is one of the highest growth areas of the emerging Internet software and services sector. Hosting providers, eager to grow that aspect of their portfolios, are partnering with or acquiring vendors in this market, due to the strong growth it will see over the next five years.''

Mezeo Software Corporation is a Houston based developer of online fil