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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.

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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Hosting365 has signed a deal with CarsIreland.ie to provide a dedicated server in order to cater for CarsIreland.ie’s 200,000 unique visitors per month, which makes the website one of the most visited in Ireland.

Due to the popularity of the website, CarsIreland.ie decided to move to a dedicated hosting environment and selected Hosting365 on the basis of its innovative product offering, reliability and technical support.

While private advertisers can advertise for free, CarsIreland.ie is commercialised by car dealers paying a license fee to list their inventory, integrated financial service offerings, online advertising and sponsorships.

CarsIreland.ie prides itself in its ability to drive human behaviour online to create measurable value for its customers. The company also places a big emphasis on the user experience, online user acquisition, conversion and retention. This is supported by technology which provides a number of real competitive advantages.

Commenting on the deal, Mick Dillon, Director of CarsIreland.ie, said: ‘Critical to providing a strong user experience is our hosting infrastructure, this is why we turned to Hosting365. We have a dedicated server with Hosting365, whose infrastructure guarantees us fast loading pages and almost immediate search results. Quality technical support also played a big part in our decision to choose Hosting 365.’

Kevin O’Connor said: ‘CarsIreland.ie is another Irish Internet success story. They company is constantly looking to roll out innovative online features such as its car history service check. Working in partnership with them, we can guarantee CarsIreland.ie the site performance and technical support to offer their customers a quality user experience.’

Namesco, established in 1996, has an enviable reputation in the United Kingdom for providing a wide range of quality Internet Service products backed by expert in-house customer care and support.

Kevin Savage, Namesco’s Managing Director, said, “We are delighted to acquire Ireland’s largest hosting provider. Namesco’s purchase of Register365 is part of our expansion plan and further consolidates our position as one of the leading shared hosting providers in the world. We look forward to continuing to provide the high level of services Register365’s customers are accustomed to.”

Commenting on the sale, Stephen McCarron, Managing Director, Hosting365, said, “The sale of Register365 is a major milestone in the history of Hosting365 as it marks the complete evolution of our business. Two years ago we took the strategic decision to acquire our own Data Centre facility and focus the company on Hosted Managed Services for the enterprise market. Since that period Hosting365 has experienced huge growth in this sector which now accounts for over two thirds of our turnover. This was recently acknowledged when we were named the seventh fastest growing technology company in Ireland as part of the Deloitte Fast 50. We plan to invest all proceeds from the sale into growing our team, expanding our infrastructure and developing new
products and services on our cloud computing platform,”

“We have taken the decision to sell Register365 in order to focus on our managed services offering and to continue our growth in Ireland and internationally. This was a very personal decision for me to make as Register365 was once the core of the business I founded in 2001. We decided to sell Register365 to Namesco as they fundamentally matched our company values and have an excellent reputation for customer service. For example, they were recently named as the best shared hosting provider of 2008 at the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) Awards in the UK,” McCarron added.

None of Register365’s customers will be affected by the sale as Register365’s services will continue to be delivered in Ireland. The sale of Register365 is the latest milestone in Hosting365’s expansion strategy. The company recently announced a €2 million investment in new infrastructure and the creation of 20 jobs. Hosting365 also plans to hire an additional 14 staff in its Dublin and Polish offices by the end of the year.

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About Namesco

Namesco has evolved through both strong organic growth and acquisitions since 1996 and is now regarded as one of the leading ISP’s in the UK with over 10 years experience.

Ranked 4th largest Domain Name Registrar in the UK and among the top 50 hosting providers in the world Namesco is set to continue to offer customers market leading products and services well into the future.

In 2007 Namesco were acquired by Italian Domain, Hosting and Social Networking company Dada already a major player in Italy and Spain. Dada is moving forward to strengthen its leadership in the European market with an eye toward continued international expansion.

About Hosting365

Hosting365 is a Managed Services and Data Centre Facility company. Hosting365 owns and operates its own 25,000 square feet, state of the art data centre in Park West, Dublin. Hosting365 was named as Ireland’s seventh fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50. More information can be found on www.hosting365.com

From your phone, surf to http://iphone.register365.com

Commenting on the launch, Ed Byrne, General Manager, Hosting365 said, “Our application will allow our customers to register an Internet domain name right from the palm of their hand. Obviously the launch of the iPhone is one of the most anticipated events of 2008 in Ireland and as our customers are often early adopters when it comes to technology, we developed this application to tap into the enthusiasm around its release,”

“With proliferation of the Internet soaring, and the huge growth of mobile Internet devices, we wanted to offer our customers an easy way to register domain names while away from their desktop. This is just the tip of the iceberg for us in terms of mobile applications, we intend to make all our systems available to mobile users,” Byrne added.

iPhone applications are functions that have been developed specifically for use on the mobile phone. Other applications developed for the iPhone for US audiences include a YouTube player, which enables users to watch clips from the video sharing website; 101 Cookbooks, an archive of food recipes for consumers looking for culinary ideas while on foot; and Gas, which allows users to check petrol prices in their vicinity.

The investment has seen the company incorporate blade server and virtualisation technology into its existing facilities in order to offer a range of new services. hosting365 signed deals with HP to provide the blade server technology and with VMware for the virtualisation software.

It has enabled the company to offer its customers on-demand IT services, such as Hardware as a Service and Software as a Service, allowing clients to pay for IT as and when they use it. The new technology positions hosting365 to match the shifting needs of companies looking to reduce future investments in IT infrastructure and power consumption costs.

The company milestone has led to the creation of twenty jobs, all of which have been filled. The new recruits include Senior UNIX, Networking and Microsoft engineers, as well as technical infrastructure staff. hosting365 also plans to hire an additional 14 staff in its Dublin and Polish offices by the end of the year as it continues to expand.

Commenting on the announcement, Stephen McCarron, Managing Director, hosting365, said “This is a strategic investment which has enabled us to offer on-demand IT services. We are now in a position to offer organisations computing assets as and when they need them. IT is not a core competency for most organisations, so it makes little sense from them to make huge investments when they can take advantage of our staff’s technical expertise and cut down on capital expenditure,”

“Companies are starting to realise that they are overspending on IT and their existing investments are often underutilised. The outsourced managed services model is a cost effective solution as they can take advantage of our economies of scale. hosting365 combines the best of both worlds by offering world class data centre facilities and the IT expertise of our diverse engineering, technician and support teams,” McCarron added.

“By combining the VMware layer with the high availability, high performance components of the HP infrastructure, Irish companies can, for the first time, avail of the benefits of a multi million euro infrastructure for a cost less then a traditional dedicated server,” added Sales Director, Paul Lynch. “This approach to how managed hosting is delivered will change not only how it is viewed in Ireland, but also globally”.
hosting365’s existing clients include the Irish Stock Exchange, the Irish Government Department for Social & Family Affairs, Certified Public Accountants of Ireland, O2, daft.ie and entertainment.ie.

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For further information please contact:

Piaras Kelly / Joe Carmody
Edelman
01 6789333
086 8131691 / 086 8058764
piaras.kelly@edelman.com /joe.carmody@edelman.com

Friday, February 29, marks leap day, a day that’s added to the month of February almost every four years—that is, every leap year—to keep the modern calendar in line with the celestial cycles that frame it.

At Hosting365, we specialise in delivering highly available solutions, backed by excellent support and service, 365 days a year. Every 4 years, we get to do one extra day!!

To honour this auspicious occasion, we’ve updated our site logo (temporarily) and are offering free set-up and first month free to any Cloud Appliances bought today - the 29th February 2008.

Simply talk to sales for more details!

www.hosting365.com - offers enterprise managed services, data centre services and dedicated / complex hosting platforms to business and;

www.register365.com - offers ICANN Accredited domain registration, standard shared hosting and related services for Small to medium businesses and individuals.

With a sleek black look, we tried to project a simple, clear message based on our Blade/SAN cloud platform (the future of hosting, and more on which we’ll blog later) and data centre centric managed services provision.

We’re delighted to receive your feedback, either as a comment here, or directly by email or livechat.