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Atlanta, Georgia - (The Hosting News) - January 6, 2009 - Web hosting and managed integrated VoIP services provider, Cbeyond, has released a new Enhanced Web Hosting service for small businesses, including a design-it-yourself tool, marketing capabilities and an e-commerce solution.

Geoff Cummings, product manager for Web Hosting at Cbeyond remarked, ''Consumers research purchases in a variety of ways, and an attractive, easy-to-use website is an integral part of a company's brand, not just a 'nice-to-have' feature. Small businesses need a professional online presence to effectively market their company and sell their products and services. With Cbeyond's Enhanced Web Hosting application, small businesses can establish, promote and manage their online presence, as well as provide customers with 24-hour access to their products and services via a dynamic website.''

Cbeyond's Enhanced Web Hosting service allows small businesses to quickly and easily manage their online assets to effectively market their company, promote their products and services, and acquire new customers. Small businesses can purchase Enhanced Web Hosting as a base package with the option of adding Enhanced Marketing and Enhanced E-commerce packages as needed.

Cbeyond's Enhanced Web Hosting package offers small businesses the essential tools to launch and manage their online Web presence. With this package, Cbeyond can host a company's website, configure their domain or transfer an existing domain to the company's Cbeyond account. Further, the design-it-yourself Web application available with this package enables small businesses to build and customize their own website by choosing from more than 200 pre-configured, easily customizable templates. The package supports flash and video files to create a rich user experience.

By adding the Enhanced Marketing package as an upgrade, Cbeyond customers can effectively target their prospects, communicate with their existing customers and drive traffic to their website. With this package, customers have the ability to quickly and easily build banner ads, register with search engines and achieve search engine optimization. Cbeyond also offers eMarketing guides to provide small businesses with best practices for managing their web site. Cbeyond's Enhanced E-commerce package is an upgrade which allows customers to easily promote products and services online. With this package, small businesses can build an online store that accepts payment, tax and shipping information.

Customers also receive all of the Enhanced Web Hosting and Enhanced Marketing applications when they purchase this package. With enhanced applications and customer-friendly tools, Cbeyond Web Hosting is an effective and easy-to-use method for small businesses to market their company and sell their products. For more information about Cbeyond Enhanced Web Hosting and to hold an interactive demo of the Design-It-Yourself Web site Creator, visit www.cbeyond.net/services/internet-hosting.htm.

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY - News) is a leading IP-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 40,000 small businesses throughout the United States. Cbeyond offers more than 30 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry, broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network.

To learn more about Cbeyond, please visit: www.cbeyond.net.

Armonk, New York - (The Hosting News) - January 6, 2009 - Hosted application solutions provider, IBM, has completed its tender offer for the shares of Business Rule Management System (BRMS), Optimization, Visualization, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) portfolio firm, ILOG, in the amount of approximately $340 million USD (EUR 215 million).

The tender offer, announced July 28, 2008, was finalized after IBM acquired all outstanding stock in ILOG and satisfied the other conditions of the offer. Headquartered in Paris, ILOG has more than 2,500 customers, 850 employees and operations in 30 countries around the world. The ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS), Optimization, Visualization, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) portfolios will build upon IBM software and business process management (BPM) leadership across a broad range of applications and environments.

Tom Rosamilia, general manager, IBM WebSphere Software remarked, ''As a leader in business rules, optimization, visualization and supply chain management software, we are pleased to welcome the ILOG customers and the ILOG employees to the WebSphere family. The acquisition of ILOG is an important element within our overall SOA strategy and the key addition of the ILOG BRMS to IBM's BPM portfolio will help IBM clients to become more dynamic. ILOG brings significant new capabilities to IBM that will provide agile, flexible applications for real-time response and confident decision-making.''

ILOG technology is anticipated to add significant capability across IBM's software platform and the addition of BRMS will provide another dimension of leadership for the IBM BPM portfolio. This includes improved rules and business optimization for WebSphere and Information Management offerings, better visualization for WebSphere, Lotus and Tivoli products and solutions, as well as enhanced optimization and efficient supply chain management assets for planning and scheduling within a service oriented architecture (SOA).

The ILOG BRMS products help businesses increase the agility of their decision making by letting them adapt and respond dynamically. Based on applied mathematics and computer science, the ILOG optimization products allow enterprises to cope with many operating constraints. The software enables them to transform business objectives, resources and operational constraints into best possible action plans and schedules to enhance service, revenue and profits.

ILOG Visualization enhances an organization's collaboration, role-based, and decision-making capabilities by building interactive user interfaces through diagrams, maps, schedules, charts and editors. ILOG Supply Chain Management solutions, which include Network Design, Inventory Optimization, Production Planning and Scheduling, provide an opportunity for leaner manufacturing and green supply chain management.

ILOG offers tools and technologies for business managers, analysts, architects and developers to use as they analyze, plan, track and improve business processes. Today, hundreds of large enterprises use ILOG technologies to automate the allocation of scarce resources and to build smart interfaces into their business processes. Additionally, scientists and mathematicians from hundreds of universities use ILOG products for advanced research, design, and analysis. For example, a business rule might be applied to elevate a premier customer to the front of a phone queue as part of a customer service process. ILOG's BRMS provides users with tools that allow greater control over the criteria that determine how and when to route those premier customers.

This allows businesses to accelerate the process of initiating policy changes that may be driven by market trends or competitive activity to ensure customer satisfaction is maintained. The ease of business rule management helps reduce costs while customer satisfaction and retention translates into increased revenue. Aviva Canada Inc., a leading property and casualty insurance group, selected ILOG JRules, a key offering in the ILOG business rule management system (BRMS) product line, for use in its common service delivery platform. Based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that also includes IBM WebSphere and IBM's Insurance Application Architecture (IAA), the platform will help Aviva automate its underwriting process for personal lines and auto, reducing the carrier's time-to-market to incorporate new or updated business policies. Aviva can implement rule changes in days or real time.

sMichael Lin, vice president e-commerce, Aviva noted, ''We selected ILOG JRules because of its ease-of-use, advanced rule management capabilities and tight integration in a service oriented architecture. Since business rules are a fundamental part of insurance processes, ILOG's track record as a BRMS provider and the support we received were also deciding factors for us.''

ILOG will become part of the IBM WebSphere software portfolio. Consistent with IBM's software strategy, ILOG clients' and partners' investments in existing IBM and ILOG technologies will be preserved, allowing customers to take advantage of the broader set of capabilities without the need to replace existing systems.

The acquisition of ILOG will strengthen IBM's business process management (BPM) and SOA position by providing customers a broad set of rule management tools for information and application lifecycle management across a comprehensive platform, including IBM's leading WebSphere application development and management platform. Many of the ILOG products will also become part of IBM's Industry Frameworks, which are integrated solutions that support industry specific business and technology standards.

Clients who use role based business spaces will now be able to take advantage of the visualization capabilities of ILOG to help improve the variety and sophistication of their views. In addition to diagramming and charting, these visualizations can be used by business space to provide more robust web-based BPM capabilities such as process modeling. With more than 7,000 client engagements worldwide, IBM is a worldwide leader in SOA and BPM. This leadership is further illustrated by a community of greater than 120,000 architects and developers, more than 150 universities incorporating IBM's SOA and BPM curricula, and more than 6,000 IBM Business Partners building SOA skills, solutions, and practices.

Data centers are the backbone of information technology (IT) infrastructure for businesses and other organizations, with powerful servers and storage systems running technology including software applications, email and web sites. IBM owns and operates more than 8 million square feet of data center space -- more than any other company in the world.

With more than 7,000 client engagements worldwide, IBM is a worldwide leader in SOA and BPM. This leadership is further illustrated by a community of greater than 120,000 architects and developers, more than 150 universities incorporating IBM's SOA and BPM curricula, and more than 6,000 IBM Business Partners building SOA skills, solutions, and practices.

For more information about IBM, please visit: www.ibm.com.

January 6, 2009 -- Delivering 38 million messages per day and managing 80 terabytes of data and more than a million business mailboxes in 120 countries, USA.NET has been named a "Top Player" in an analyst firm's report on the business email market, finishing the year closely ahead of sector giant Google.

January 6, 2009 -- Social networking site Twitter warned users Monday that phishers are directing users to fake Twitter login pages in an effort to dupe them into handing over their user names and password credentials.

January 6, 2009 -- Hosting software and service developer RegisterNuke.com has added TippingPoint's intrusion prevention systems as another layer of security to its dedicated and virtual dedicated hosting clients at no extra cost.

January 6, 2009 -- UK based ISP Lumison announced on Monday that UK managed hosting provider NetBenefit has chosen Lumison as its new data center partner.

January 6, 2009 -- Having blocked 1.9 million phishing attacks by the close of 2008, the Netcraft Toolbar community is bolstering its efforts to rid the Interent of scams by giving away prizes for members who send web analytics firm Netcraft reports of phishing sites they encounter.

January 6, 2009 -- Submarine transport cable provider Hibernia Atlantic announced on Tuesday it will build a new cable network for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland and the Department Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for the Republic of Ireland.

January 6, 2009 -- In a major change to its fee structure, flash-based web hosting tutorial provider DemoDemo.com has announced its tutorials are now available for a monthly subscription.