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CrystalTech Web Hosting Prepares for .NET 3.5 With Beta Offer

2007-07-24T00:00:00-08:00

Phoenix, AZ (IPRWIRE) July 13, 2007 – While the upcoming release of Microsoft’s .NET framework contains several bug fixes and updates (so-called “red bits”), it also brings a number of new assemblies and technologies (so called “green bits”) that net developers have been waiting to get their hands on. These green bits include AJAX, LINQ for both C# and VB, and enhancements to the tool sets that will help ease building applications using Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.

“CrystalTech prides itself as one of the premiere Microsoft partners specializing in Windows web hosting,” said Robert Cichon, CrystalTech President. “We have been part of the Beta program with Microsoft and .NET since day one, and we were one of the first, if not THE first, to have a full-fledged web site management application based on the .NET framework. Our WebControlCenter™ is a prime example of the reliability, stability and security you can get when using the .NET framework.”

As with previous beta hosting plans CrystalTech offered, the plan based on .NET 3.5 will be free for a limited time. The Plan will offer enough disk space and bandwidth so that early adopters can get running on .NET 3.5 as quickly as possible. In addition, CrystalTech is considering offering .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 as a separate beta Plan. “The future is now,” continued Cichon. “Even though Microsoft is still a few months away from having a release to market of its next generation server OS and platform, there’s no reason people can’t start seeing what is on the horizon.”

“This is a great way for those who are unfamiliar with our reputation for providing first-rate hosting solutions with the highest levels of service and support to try us out,” added Cichon. “CrystalTech was founded by developers and for developers. Catering to that market and following that business plan has served us well for the past ten years; there’s no reason to stop now,” Said Cichon. CrystalTech will release the beta plan for public consumption by the end of July.

About CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT), CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows-based web hosting companies in the world, hosting customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. CrystalTech is responsible for hundreds of millions of visits each day on the Internet and uses a state-of-the-art data center that includes redundancy throughout core systems like power, air conditioning, network connectivity, network transportation, as well as a secured environment for their network operations center. For more information about CrystalTech, please contact 877-323-4678 or visit www.crystaltech.com.

About Newtek Business Services, Inc.
Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor to the small to medium-sized business market under the Newtek ™ brand. According to the SBA, there are over 25.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7% of all employer firms, generate 60 to 80% of all new jobs annually and create more than 50% of non-farm private GDP. Since 1999, Newtek has helped these business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses. Newtek focuses on providing its 75,000 customers with access to financial, management and technological resources that enable them to better grow and compete in today’s marketplace.

Newtek’s products and services include:
- Business Lending: Business loans to start up, acquire, or expand a business
- Electronic Payment Processing: Credit card, debit card, check conversion, and ACH solutions
- Insurance Services: Nationwide commercial and personal lines of insurance
- Outsourced Digital Bookkeeping: Bookkeeping and recordkeeping at a fraction of the cost of in-house staff
- Web Hosting: Full service web host including domain registration and online shopping cart tools
- Web Design and Development: Customized web design and development services for a powerful web presence
- Tax Preparation and Advisory Services: Expert tax planning and consultation for your business
- Data Backup, Storage and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval
- Business Plan Preparation: Professional business plan assistance providing a roadmap for success
- Payroll: Payroll management processing and employee tax filing

For more information, go to www.newtekbusinessservices.com.

( An IPRWire.com Press Release )

Contact Info:

Name: Craig Brown
Address: 6135 N. 7th Street
City: Phoenix
State: AZ
Country: United States
Zip: 85014

Web Address: www.crystaltech.com
Business Blog: iblogit.com/crystaltech
Phone: 602-263-0300

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CrystalTech, A Web Hosting Company, Announces Support For Latest Programming Framework

2007-02-01T00:00:00-08:00

Phoenix, Arizona (IPRWIRE) Thurs, Feb. 1st, 2007 -- CrystalTech Web Hosting™ (www.crystaltech.com), a Newtek Business Services™ company (NASDAQ: NEWT), is pleased to announce support for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 on all of its ASP.NET 2.0 shared hosting plans. ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (formerly known as "Atlas") allows programmers to quickly create more efficient and interactive web content that works across the most popular internet browsers. With this framework, web developers can enhance existing web pages, or create next-generation interfaces, with powerful AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components. The main benefit to programmers is that the AJAX interface accesses remote services and data directly from the web browser, thereby reducing the number of post backs to the host server. This action makes for a more seamless and natural experience for the end user.

"We are extremely pleased to offer ASP.NET developers support for this innovative framework," said Robert Cichon, CrystalTech’s President. "CrystalTech is completely committed to bring the latest technologies, like ASP.NET AJAX, to our customers quickly and affordably. With our feature-packed and economically-priced web hosting plans for ASP.NET 2.0, we want to provide our hosting customers the first opportunity to use this technology and take their websites to the next level."

For more information about CrystalTech, please visit the company’s website at www.crystaltech.com. For more information about ASP.NET AJAX, please visit http://ajax.asp.net.

About CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc.:
A wholly owned subsidiary of Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT), CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows-based web hosting companies in the world, hosting customers in over 100 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. CrystalTech is responsible for hundreds of millions of visits each day on the Internet and uses a state-of-the-art data center that includes redundancy throughout core systems like power, air conditioning, network connectivity, network transportation, as well as a secured environment for their network operations center. For more information about CrystalTech, please contact 877-323-4678 or visit www.crystaltech.com.

About Newtek Business Services, Inc.:
Newtek Business Services, Inc. is a direct distributor to the small to medium-sized business market under the Newtek TM brand. According to the SBA, there are over 25.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7% of all employer firms, generate 60 – 80% of all new jobs annually and create more than 50% of non-farm private GDP. Since 1999, Newtek has helped these business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools needed to manage and grow their businesses. Newtek focuses on providing its 70,000 customers with access to financial, management and technological resources that enable them to better grow and compete in today’s marketplace. Newtek’s products and services include:

- Business Lending: Business loans to start up, acquire, or expand a business
- Electronic Payment Processing: Credit card, debit card, check conversion, and ACH solutions
- Insurance Services: Nationwide commercial and personal lines of insurance
- Outsourced Digital Bookkeeping: Bookkeeping and recordkeeping at a fraction of the cost of in-house staff
- Web Hosting: Full service web host including domain registration and online shopping cart tools
- Web Design and Development: Customized web design and development services for a powerful web presence
- Tax Preparation and Advisory Services: Expert tax planning and consultation for your business
- Data Backup, Storage and Retrieval: Fast, secure, off-site data backup, storage and retrieval
- Business Plan Preparation: Professional business plan assistance providing a roadmap for success

For more information, visit www.newtekbusinessservices.com.

( An http://IPRWire.com Press Release )

Contact Info:

Name: Craig Brown
Address: 6135 N. 7th Street
City: Phoenix
State: AZ
Country: USA
Zip: 85014

Web Address: www.crystaltech.com
Business Blog: http://iblogit.com/crystaltech
Phone: 602-263-0300

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3Tera Announces AppLogic, the Industry’s First Grid Operating System for Utility Computing

2006-09-18T02:37:00-08:00

Aliso Viejo, CA - September 18, 2006 - 3Tera, Inc., the innovator of grid and utility computing solutions for online services, today announced the release of AppLogic 1.2, the industry’s first grid operating system designed to enable utility computing for transactional Web applications. AppLogic allows hosting providers to offer the first true utility computing services by converting commodity servers into fully scalable shared grids that are easy to manage. The system enables existing software to be packaged into completely self-contained, portable applications that can be easily deployed and scaled to dozens of servers on demand on any AppLogic grid, anywhere in the world. As a result, open source developers, Web 2.0 and SaaS companies can rapidly deploy Web applications without owning and operating hardware infrastructure, and pay only for the resources they actually use.

“AppLogic allows hosting providers to move to a utility model by enabling them to host transactional and streaming Web applications on a grid. The applications become highly available and scalable for the first time, giving both hosting providers and developers a significant competitive advantage and dramatically simplifying operations,” said Bert Armijo, vice president, Marketing, 3Tera, Inc. “AppLogic gives anyone with a browser and basic IT skills the ability to visually assemble, deploy, manage and scale N-tier Web applications in minutes, effectively removing the time, cost and complexity barriers associated with bringing Internet-scale services to market.”

Key to the capabilities AppLogic provides is leveraging the company’s breakthrough disposable infrastructure technology. Disposable infrastructure enables traditional appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, application servers and storage to become an integral part of the Web application. Users visually assemble the infrastructure required to deploy and scale their applications. When an application starts, all required infrastructure is created automatically on the grid, maintained while needed, and disposed of when the application is stopped. As a result, each application includes everything required to run on a grid of commodity servers. This enables applications to be replicated complete with their data and content, scaled from a fraction of a server up to the whole grid, and even migrated to another grid, anywhere in the world, in minutes. The system handles server and storage failures without loss of data, permits hardware resources to be added or removed dynamically, and allows the grid and all applications to be managed remotely through an interactive Web interface.

“Unlike existing virtualized IT service delivery platforms that are cobbled together using disparate software and hardware solutions, AppLogic is a single system that enables us to host N-tier applications without adding new infrastructure or IT staff,” said John Keagy, president & CEO, UtilityServe. “AppLogic allowed us to provide new utility services to our customers within 30 days, and they are assured of a high availability solution that enables them to effortlessly and cost-effectively scale their applications as usage grows.”

“Our Web 2.0 and SaaS customers want to focus on developing their services and growing their business, rather than on operating and maintaining IT infrastructure,” said Todd Abrams, president, Layered Technologies. “AppLogic enables our customers to deploy new releases easily, scale instantly to meet business demands, and pay only for the memory resources their running applications use, providing them with remarkable agility and making unused capacity and over-provisioning a thing of the past.”

About the AppLogic Grid Operating System
AppLogic is the first and only grid operating system designed to run and scale existing transactional Web applications. The system enables hosting providers to offer the industry’s first true utility computing services. AppLogic is based on scalable grid architecture, advanced virtualization technologies and 3Tera’s ground-breaking disposable infrastructure. AppLogic converts existing commodity servers into scalable shared grids that are easy to manage. Disposable infrastructure packages applications and the infrastructure required to run them into self-contained and portable entities. As a result, AppLogic enables users to easily deploy existing Web applications on a grid, instantiate and scale them without modification, and without requiring a SAN or other shared storage. By completely separating software from the hardware infrastructure traditionally needed to run it, AppLogic is enabling the first true utility services to be offered.

AppLogic provides an AJAX-based visual interface and a scriptable shell, allowing users to deploy, scale and manage applications with ease. The system includes ready to deploy applications such as SugarCRM, Bugzilla, TWiki and SiteKreator, as well as a catalog of pre-packaged and supported disposable infrastructure components that make it easy to build, deploy, and monitor N-tier applications, all from a single interface.

Availability
3Tera’s AppLogic grid operating system is available now for existing customers to download, and prospective users can sign up for a free 30 day evaluation at http://www.3tera.com. Enabling a true utility services model, the AppLogic operating system meters the memory resources used by running applications, with pricing starting at $0.07 per Gigabyte/hour. Customers can start from a single server, and can add servers to the grid as they need more resources. Basic support, catalog updates and software upgrades are included.

About 3Tera, Inc.
3Tera, Inc. is the innovator of grid and utility computing solutions that simplify the deployment, operation and scaling of online services. The company’s breakthrough AppLogic grid operating system allows hosting providers to offer true utility computing that enables anyone with a browser and basic IT skills to operate dozens of servers, and hundreds of online applications, without owning and operating hardware infrastructure. 3Tera is a privately-held company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California with R&D facilities in Silicon Valley, Israel and Eastern Europe. For more information about 3Tera and its solutions, please visit the company’s Web site at http://www.3tera.com.

(press release provided by: http://www.iprwire.com)

Contact Info
Valdis Hellevik
Axis Public Relations

Web Address: http://www.3tera.net
Blog Site: http://www.3tera.com/hotcluster.html

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