Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The Planet Web Hosting Provider, to Manage Atitude Digital Media Hosting

Helder Conde, Chief Technology Officer of Atitude Digital Media noted. ”In our business, our Webcasts are live, with several hundred people online for each event. Nothing can go wrong with the level of clients we serve. Our reputation is earned every time we conduct a Webcast, so uptime, stability and security are critical to us.”

Based in Sao Paulo, the 20-year-old company provides webcasting services to some of the world’s largest companies, including Pfizer, Schering-Plough, AstraZeneca, Novartis and Avon, as well as a number of medical societies.

In the past four years, the company has conducted more than 700 Webcasts with thousands of hours of live content to thousands of people in more than a dozen countries. A customer of The Planet since 2005, Atitude previously used dedicated hosting services for managing the company’s complex infrastructure.

Mr. Conde noted, ”We’ve grown rapidly, and we were looking for a company that provides all the services and technical expertise of Planet Northstar. Their Anticipation Advantage methodology helped determine exactly what we needed to create a top-notch infrastructure that could scale with our growth, and at a budget that was workable for us. We expanded our footprint to include additional servers, load balancers, firewalls, SAN storage, managed backup and database management. At Atitude, our core values include being responsive, trustworthy and committed to our customers, and I’m impressed our dedicated account team shares these values.”

Steve Kahan, Vice President of marketing and product management with The Planet added, ”Our development of the Anticipation Advantage enables customers to thoroughly plan their IT infrastructure beyond their needs just today. The methodology also provides key process indicators about when they need to begin scaling, which eliminates the worry and frustration many organizations experience in the face of rapid growth. Equally as important, the account team of highly skilled and seasoned experts is always available to customers so they have the confidence that a knowledgeable partner who knows their business is always available to help.”

In its 20-year history, Atitude has kept a keen eye on emerging market trends. The company was originally known for creating high-quality, computer-generated slides and transparencies for corporate presentations, as well as multimedia productions. Today, it is Brazil’s leading provider of Webcasting services, hosting on average more than one each day from three studios in its Sao Paulo offices.

Mr. Conde continued, ”In the last four years, the Internet has emerged as the best platform for communications, and our client base has moved rapidly for both internal and external audiences. Our clients require extensive training both for sales representatives and physicians, and they’ve found Atitude as the perfect solution to meet these needs.”

The company manages the entire event for clients. They work directly with presenters to host the event, sending notification and reminder e-mails to participants, generating reports on results, providing on-demand access afterwards, as well as maintaining extensive databases for each company. According to Conde, the presentations continue to add value for the companies since each one is typically viewed by at least four times the number of live Webcast participants.
Mr. Conde observed, ”In years past, these companies sponsored semi-annual meetings for their sales forces, but today as new studies emerge or competitive products are announced, it’s critical that they have new data immediately, so they rely on our services to meet that demand. At the same time, if one of these companies hosts physicians at an event anywhere in the world, they can Webcast with us from any venue, and we can support the requirement since our bandwidth connections are incredibly robust. With our capabilities, we make their lives much easier.”

The costs for hosting in the U.S. are five to six times lower than those in his native country. While bandwidth costs are slowly declining, ADSL is more common and far less efficient. In addition, because taxes on hardware are approximately 70 percent, hosting provides far better economic sense for his growing business.

Mr. Conde concluded, ”Making the decision to host overseas was difficult. As our international business grew, I knew it was the right direction for our company. We’ve seen other companies emerge in Brazil, and they appear to do a good job, until the participants begin to load. It’s there they fail. Our speed and reliability set us apart, which makes our offering highly competitive.”
Ultimately, The Planet’s goal is to provide:

High levels of network capacity and speed to deliver peak performanceInstant scalability to handle even the largest spikes in network trafficParallel, redundant, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture to assure reliability and stabilityMultiple layer network security that prevents Delayed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks from harming businessesKnowledgeable experts with a passion for excellence and a commitment to operate the best networks in the business

The Planet hosts over 22,000 small and medium-size businesses and 7.7 million Web sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24×7x365 support. The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses.

For more about The Planet, please visit: www.theplanet.com.

Web Hosting SMEStorage, Debuts Data Access Solution Integration

The new Facebook component can also share Flickr, for easy image uploads. Ian Osborne, CEO, commented, ”We are committed to providing increased integration with other high value web application services so that our users can get the most from their data. We believe storage to be a commodity and that the true value of working data is what you can do with it, how you can access it, and how it integrates with others.”

Mr. Osborne added, ”We already provide our users the ability to use a rich web client, iGoogle, the iPhone or a light mobile client to access their data. We also provide email backup and business collaboration features that include business groups, revision control, firewall friendly file sharing, all of which we intend to augment over the next 3 months.

”Our Storage service is built on top of Amazon S3 and we will make an exciting announcement about new ways to access our service quite soon. We will also be announcing some exciting new collaboration integration to enable our users to do even more with their data.”

SMEStorage provides access to data using various channels such as a rich web client, iGoogle, IPhone, Mobile, Facebook and Joomla. It uses Amazon S3 as to store its data and provides new users with 250MB free. TheSMESpace provides online and mobile applications for businesses and individuals - TheSMESpace is your space for business.

To learn more, please visit: http://thesmespace.com.

What does bandwidth mean?

In web hosting the bandwidth is a limit of data that web hosting company provide for your site. The amount of bandwidth mainly depends on content and disign of your site and on average number of visitors.

Nowadays web hosting companies offer different types of bandwidth solutions. For instance, you can choose unlimited bandwidth, but you’ll have to pay more. We just want to recommend you not to choose the plan with little bandwith volume because successive web site assume to have a lot of visiters. But everything depends on your site. It is better to scan the plans that web hosting company offers and correlate them with your web site requirements. Web hosting company may disable your site if you use more bandwidth than it was agreed. Some companies do it in another way. They don’t disable your site but take extra money from you.

If you are in a doubt how much bandwidth you need you should ask for suggestions a professional because it is unreasonable to choose a web hosting plan when you have no expectations. The price of the plans depends on bandwidth requirement. High plans allow to use more traffic at one time.

You also may do without smb’s help and calculate your probable bandwidth usage. You should count the size of text and images on one page, then multiply it with expected traffic from the Internet. And, finally, multiply the sum with days of month. The result will approximately equal bandwidth requirement of your web site.

You may take an interest in methods of saving your bandwidth. First of all you should know that the most easy way to limit your bandwidth usage is to create web site with small pages.
It is also necessary to follow some more rules:

1.Try to use less grafics and images. It is better to use grafics in GIF format and images and photos in JPEG format.
2.Use text content in HTML format.
3.Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Remember that usage of numerous large images, grafics, music, online movies in your web site requires high web hosting plan