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Hosting365 ranked 25th in Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2008

Hosting365 today announced that it ranked Number 25 in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest
growing technology companies in Ireland. Rankings are based on average percentage revenue growth over five years. Hosting365 grew 1,143 percent during this period.

Hosting365’s Managing Director, Stephen McCarron, credits the continuing move to an outsourced IT and infrastructure hosting model and the company’s position as a leader in both value and enterprise service with the company’s 1,143% revenue growth over the past five years. He said,
“We are thrilled and honoured to be ranked in the Deloitte Fast 50 for the second year running - it is a testament to the passion, commitment and energy of the amazing team I work with, both in Dublin and Krakow.”

The Fast 50 programme, now in its ninth year in Ireland ranks the fastest-growing technology companies in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This year, there were 17 companies from Northern Ireland in the ranking. The average annual growth rate of the 50 winning companies was 460%.

Announcing the winners of the Technology Fast 50 programme, David O’Flanagan, Partner with Deloitte, Dublin said: ?Congratulations to our 2008 Fast 50 winners – their success is indicative of the innovative technology companies present in Ireland. To have 16 new companies in the awards is a true sign of the talent and creative thinking that is present in
the technology industry in Ireland. It is this innovation and fresh thinking that will ensure Ireland’s continued success in this competitive industry.?

The awards took place in the Guinness Storehouse on October 16th. Industry figures speaking at the event included Jim Breen, CEO, Pulse Learning, John McElligott, Director of Strategy and M&A, eBay Global Classifieds and David Tansley, Partner, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Deloitte UK.

Details of the final Technology Fast 50 ranking list are available to download at
www.fast50.ie.

Hosting365, Ireland’s leading Managed Services and Data Centre facility provider, has signed a deal with Webtrade, one of Ireland’s top web design, development and online marketing companies.

Webtrade & Hosting365Hosting 365 is Ireland’s largest hosting provider with over 35% of the market, and operates its own 25,000 square feet, state of the art data centre in Park West, Dublin. Their deal, thought to be worth around €100,000, is for the provision of website hosting solution for Webtrade’s client base. Hosting365’s Hsphere clustered solution will allow Webtrade to create and manage web hosting plans at ease for their customers, with added functionality such as full transparency of usage data per client to enable easy invoicing.

Founded in 1998, Webtrade is one of Ireland’s longest established and highly successful web development companies having developed more than 500 websites for businesses and government agencies.

Commenting on the deal, Gary Cosgrave, Sales Director, Webtrade (pictured right), said, “Hosting365 was chosen giving us confidence that they can accommodate our own technological growth while ensuring our clients receive a service level that’s second to none.”

Kevin O’Connor, Channel Manager, Hosting 365 (pictured right), which was named as Ireland’s seventh fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50, commented, “Our dedicated solutions are tailored for customers seeking a flexible, stable and secure hosting solution.  As Ireland’s only Cloud Computing provider, we can provide on demand IT services.  Our cloud hosting solution offers our customers with a fully redundant solution, providing automatic failover of dedicated server solutions at both a physical and virtual level.  This means that their server is constantly available within the Hosting365 cloud server environment. Should an individual data centre encounter issues, services can simply fail over to another available data centre facility within the Hosting365 cloud network.”

“At Hosting365 we are trying to change the way businesses think about IT and how they buy hardware or software applications.  We invest in the very best technology, infrastructure, R&D and technical staff so that our clients can enjoy Ireland’s most sophisticated IT infrastructure with absolute efficiency, flexibility and security.  This enables our customers to concentrate on what’s important to them – growing their business!” O’Connor added.

Apart from the usual web design and web development, search engine optimisation, email and website hosting offerings, Webtrade’s services include online booking and reservation systems, onlinemarketing and their Content Management System, Siternity.

Siternity is based on the Software as a Service model (SaaS) which they claim reduces the lifetime ownership costs of websites by over 50%.  Webtrade’s clients receive a novel warranty that the standard features of their websites are permanently in-step with the latest web technologies, and with regular upgrades, clients are informed as to what the new and improved functionality entails and how it will benefit their on-line presence – making this investment very appealing to the business community.

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