In this category you can find the latest hosting and online service news for small business. The posts include those about web hosting, cloud computing and others.
Austin-based BidModo launched today public beta of its online small business marketplace.
BidModo.com “connects buyers with vendors, identifying business needs and automating bid and matching processes”.
Cloud-based document-hosting service DocStoc has launched Docstore Marketplace, an online iTunes-style store that allow any individual or corporate user to sell documents either through the DocStoc site or via the service’s embedded document viewer.
Founder and CEO Jason Nazar said that the company intends to become “the premier online marketplace for small businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals.” It will enable professionals such as single-practice or small-practice lawyers, accountants and real estate brokers to monetize the documents that they create for their businesses, such as loan or financing agreements, financial statements, mortgage papers and so on.
IT hosting provider The Planet has added two new affordable dedicated servers to its product portfolio – the G6950 SATA and the G6950 SATA Plus.
The new servers come with the the Intel Pentium G6950 dual-core 2.8GHz 32nm processor and are packed into the Dell PowerEdge R210 chassis.
VMware has announced the availability of VMware Go web service that allows small or medium businesses to virtualize servers and create running virtual machines “with just a few clicks of a mouse”.
According to the company, VMware Go provides a simple three-step virtualization: Initial ESXi server setup, virtual machine creation, and ESXi management.
American Express OPEN, the small business division of American Express, today launched AcceptPay online invoicing and payment solution that allows business owners to create, send and track invoices.
According to American Express, AcceptPay benefits include faster payments and improved efficiency, variety of payment types, added financial control, and ease of use.
Intuit has added GoBiz Solutions’ GoBiz XL , a Web applications suite for small business operations, to the App Center in QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010 and to Intuit Workplace.
“The GoBiz XL suite includes Contact Management, Sales Cycle Management, Service/Dispatch Management and Inventory Management applications and can be accessed through many devices with Web browsers. GoBiz XL is now integrated and synchronized with QuickBooks to provide a combined front and back office SMB solution,” the press release says.
Hosting.com, a managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions provider, today announced enhancements to the Cloud Enterprise solution.
“Access to high performance SAN (EMC) storage, increased computer resources (8GB of RAM now 32 and 4 virtual CPUs now 8 ) and support for seven additional operating systems (including RedHat and Windows Datacenter 2008 R2) highlight the enhancements,” the press release says.
Pricing for the Hosting.com Cloud Enterprise offering starts at $125 per month.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), enabling enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection.
All current and future Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customer accounts are enabled to use Amazon VPC, but customers will not be charged for Amazon VPC until they begin using it.
PowerVPS, a provider of virtualization and cloud hosting services, has unveiled new cloud hosting packages for small businesses.
The new packages are called Fuse, Force, and Ignite and feature cloud servers offering a complete managed solution including the operating system, core services management, system and security monitoring, and data backups.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) now offers Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server Standard 2008 instances in all Amazon EC2 Regions, extending EC2’s existing offerings that include Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 instances.
Rackspace Hosting, a hosting and cloud computing provider, has announced new product offerings, including Rackspace Cloud Drive and Rackspace Server Backup.
Vistaprint has announced that it has expanded its online marketing efforts for small businesses with the addition of Online Search Profiles.
“With no technical expertise required, Vistaprint’s Online Search Profiles take minutes to create and are distributed to over 100 search engines including Google Maps, Yahoo Local and YellowPages.com. Consistent listing data entered into many trusted search engines helps increase a business’ local online search ranking, potentially surpassing the listings of competing businesses. In addition to an increased online presence, business profiles are also published in a special Vistaprint directory for further exposure,” the press release says.
Vistaprint’s Online Search Profiles start at $2.99 a month.