Kevin Newcomb

SiteLite announced Monday (March 26) that it plans to acquire fellow Management Service Provider (MSP) RECCOM in an all-stock transaction. “There’s a great synergy between our two companies,” Steve Sickler, SiteLite’s executive VP sales and marketing, told ASP News. “We had already worked with RECCOM on integrating our systems for our work with Exodus, so […]

Managed backup, restore and vaulting solutions provider LiveVault Corp. announced Monday (March 26) that it is developing a service which will incorporate Microsoft’s recently unveiled HailStorm Web Services. LiveVault offers online backup, recovery and electronic vaulting services to enterprise remote and branch office (RBO) and small to mid-size business (SMB) customers. With HailStorm, LiveVault customers […]

Appshop Inc. Monday (March 26) announced it has entered the beta testing stage of wireless accessibility to its Oracle e-Business ASP offering. Oracle e-Business applications, including customer relationship management (CRM), e-Commerce, enterprise resource planning (ERP), finance, human resources, manufacturing, marketing, product development, supply chain management and transportation, will be accessible through any mobile device, including […]

Oracle users may not be ready to outsource their applications, according to an Aberdeen Group survey of the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG). In fact, only 5 percent of respondents have implemented an outsourced ASP solution, and more than 82 percent have no plans to do so. “The OAUG’s membership serves as a cross section […]

Exodus Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:EXDS), a leader in complex Internet hosting and managed services, Thursday (March 22) introduced myExodus, a Web portal that provides Exodus customers with a view into their mission-critical Internet infrastructures. A centralized and secure portal that can be accessed from anywhere via the Internet, myExodus enables Exodus customers to access a variety […]

The ASP Industry Consortium has been elected to the 2001 Associations Advance America Honor Roll, a national awards competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) in Washington, D.C. The ASP Industry Consortium received the award for its “ASPs – Changing the World of Computing” public education campaign. Since its inception, the Consortium […]

Micron Electronics Inc. (Nasdaq: MUEI) and Interland Inc. (Nasdaq: ILND) Friday (March 23) announced that the boards of directors for both companies have approved a definitive merger agreement. Micron will acquire Interland in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $130 million, which it plans to combine with HostPro, its Los Angeles-based web hosting subsidiary. Micron […]

AlphaBlox Corp., maker of a Web-based platform for building analytical applications, has announced management changes and additions designed to accelerate the company’s growth in the analytic application marketplace. Polly Sumner, who joined AlphaBlox as president and chief operating officer 18 months ago, will assume the role of chief executive officer, focusing her efforts on strategic […]

Pan-European data communications company KPNQwest (NASDAQ & ASE: KQIP) announced an agreement Wednesday (March 21) with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to launch Managed Exchanged Services across Europe. The service, which will be delivered over KPNQwest’s Application Infrastructure Provider (AIP) platform, is a first step to distributing Managed Exchange Services and a platform for launching value-added […]

Application infrastructure provider (AIP) Allegrix announced plans to add Microsoft’s recently unveiled Hailstorm technologies to its .NET Acceleration Initiative. “Hailstorm represents one of the most ambitious IT projects ever conceived,” said Chris Clabaugh, president and CEO of Allegrix. “Its success could establish Microsoft and its solution providers as the Internet market leaders for the foreseeable […]

Managed hosting provider Telenisus Corp. this week introduced a Web application testing service that helps customers manage and actively secure information assets, integrating Sanctum Inc.’s AppScan application vulnerability assessment tool into its new Telenisus WebRecon service. “Try as they might, ordinary hosting companies typically struggle just to keep up with physical and network security, let […]

Citrix Systems Inc. , a global leader in application server software and services, and Sequoia Software Corporation , a leading provider of XML-based portal software, Wednesday (March 21) announced that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Citrix to acquire Sequoia. The all-cash transaction, structured as a $5.64 per share tender offer, is […]