Noord-Holland, Amsterdam - (The Hosting News) - December 23, 2008 - Data center provider, EvoSwitch, has reduced the average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of its facilities, from 1.8 to 1.6.

The above power reduction resulted in a 20 percent increase in energy saving - from 20 to 40 percent - compared to a traditional data center.

The ultimate goal of EvoSwitch is to achieve an energy saving of 70 to 80 percent. The extra 20 percent saving in energy consumption is largely the result of further investments in low-energy equipment and control systems. The expansion of the data center in 2008 also contributed to the improved PUE.

The first phase of EvoSwitch (2,000 m2) is already fully occupied by equipment from cust

Royal Oak, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - January 5, 2008 - Web hosting company, Liberty Center One, has introduced its new Hosting Bailout Program, in an effort to assist Michigan businesses, by providing qualified companies with free migration, set-up and server rack space.

Rex Smith, President of Liberty Center One explained, ''As times get tougher, older data centers are faced with financial pressures that sometimes result in a reduction in their maintenance spending, thus harming redundancy and impacting uptime. Many older data centers simply do not have the infrastructure to accommodate modern servers' power and cooling requirements.''

The program is available through the end of January, 2009 and is designed to address the u

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - January 5, 2009 - Toolbar, homepage and content division of digital media and advertising company, MIVA, Inc., has released the beta version of its free ALOT Desktop software application.

Designed to enable widget display directly on desktops, without open browser windows, users can choose from a range of different widgets which may be customized and added to desktops. The widgets include an online radio player, news headlines, weather and celebrity gossip. It is intended that with future releases of the product, users will be able to access any widget from MIVA Direct's rapidly expanding online widget portfolio, ALOT Buttons.

Peter Corrao, President and CEO of MIVA explained, ''Our objectiv

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - January 5, 2009 - The opening of an additional data center, to provide increased processing capacity, as well as further redundancy and failover capabilities, has been debuted by Fulcrum database marketing solutions.

David King, CEO of Fulcrum noted, ''Fulcrum's solutions deliver gains in both revenue and profits, which has led to rapid growth in the number of client databases we manage, particularly in the current economy. This additional center will give us more flexibility and processing power, plus enhance our disaster recovery and redundancy capabilities.''

In addition to managing enterprise data warehouses and large-scale marketing databases, Fulcrum provides advanced analytics and customer m