London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/27/2012 -- Virtual Internet, a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions for mission critical websites and applications, has been selected to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies to UK public sector organisations as part of G-Cloud.

The G-Cloud framework enables government organisations to purchase cloud services from suppliers that have already undergone the UK Government's demanding approval process to join the G-cloud supplier list.

"This marks a new era in IT for government," says Patrick McCarthy, Managing Director, Virtual Internet, "allowing the public sector to take better advantage of the cost savings, efficiency, and agility of cloud computing. The UK Government's G-Cloud initiative is a testament to the importance of cloud-based technologies and the departure from the old on-premise hardware model."

As an approved supplier, Virtual Internet's high-availability Cloud Services are now offered to public sector organisations for purchase online through the Government's CloudStore. These services include Virtual Internet Public Cloud Hosting, Private Cloud Hosting, Hybrid Cloud Hosting, and Content Delivery Network.

Virtual Internet partners with leading suppliers including VMware and Level 3 Inc., and operates top tier UK datacentres that deliver maximum resiliency and security. Virtual Internet is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified for security management and quality management.

For more information about Virtual Internet Cloud Services, please visit: http://www.vi.net

For more information about the G-Cloud and CloudStore visit: http://www.govstore.net

About Virtual Internet
Virtual Internet is a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions for businesses. Virtual Internet tackles the agility, innovation, and efficiency challenges posed by on-premise IT infrastructure. Specialising in cloud services and exceptional managed services with tailored SLAs, Virtual Internet delivers a reliable platform for hosting your websites and applications without you having to manage the infrastructure that goes with it. Virtual Internet cloud services includes cloud servers, private cloud, and hybrid cloud and delivers a dynamic environment for hosting IT assets with the flexibility to change resource requirements on-demand and in tandem with business objectives. The team at Virtual Internet believe that all companies are different which is why they design, build and manage cloud services to suit each customer's unique needs. The company also offers dedicated servers, colocation, CDN, and messaging and collaboration SaaS applications.

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London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/09/2012 -- Virtual Internet (http://www.vi.net), a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions for mission critical websites and applications, has been recognised by Netcraft as one of the most reliable hosting company sites globally.

VI outperformed a number of other high-profile hosting providers, taking the second spot in December 2011's Netcraft report and demonstrating the reliability of VI's routing.

Netcraft measures the response times on the global top forty hosting providers' sites every fifteen minutes from several points around the Internet. The independent analytics firm bases its rankings on testing for the lowest number of failed requests and the speed of connection time.

Virtual Internet managing director, Patrick McCarthy comments: "We are pleased to be recognised by Netcraft as one of the most reliable hosting company sites. This award reflects our commitment to continually driving the advancement of our network and infrastructure and to providing the best available web hosting solutions for businesses. "

Virtual Internet's portfolio of hosting products includes cloud hosting, dedicated servers, managed hosting, CDN and colocation. The company delivers its customisable hosting solutions to businesses from a variety of industries and locations around the world.

About Virtual Internet (VI)
Virtual Internet (VI) is a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions with headquarters in London, England and Salt Lake City, Utah. Since Virtual Internet was founded in 1996, its philosophy has been to work with world-class technology providers to deliver the best hosting services available. With VI, you're guaranteed a reliable platform without having to manage the infrastructure that goes with it. We specialise in public and private cloud hosting and make a point of offering maximum flexibility, with tailored service level agreements. For more information, visit http://www.vi.net.

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Virtual Internet, a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions for mission critical websites and applications, today announced that its VI Cloud Hosting public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™.

Fulham, London -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/02/2011 -- A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Virtual Internet provides its VI Cloud Hosting VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

"Backed by our world-class cloud infrastructure and customer support, VI specialises in VMware hosting for business and so we are very pleased that our VI Cloud Hosting public cloud service is now recognised as having attained VMware vCloud Powered validation," commented Patrick McCarthy, managing director, Virtual Internet.

"The VMware vCloud Powered program was developed to enable our service provider partners to differentiate themselves and help them bring their enterprise-class cloud services to market in this competitive landscape," said Gavin Jackson, Director, vCloud & Service Providers, EMEA, VMware. "We look forward to supporting Virtual Internet further as it delivers on the agility and performance customers are looking for in the cloud computing landscape."

Customers of Virtual Internet have the ability to move workloads from their VMware vSphere-based virtualized or private cloud environment to the VMware vCloud Powered service and back again. This application portability is a key differentiator allowing customers to achieve the flexibility and security they need while enabling increased IT agility.

Virtual Internet sought VMware vCloud Powered validation in order to deliver customers the reassurance that their workloads are secure and easily portable across hybrid cloud environments. As a validated provider, Virtual Internet can now provide users with enhanced responsiveness and agility, and reduced IT costs through increased consolidation, task automation and simplified management. Virtual Internet's cloud service is available now.

About Virtual Internet
Virtual Internet (VI) is a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions. Since Virtual Internet was founded in 1996, its philosophy has been to work with world-class technology providers to deliver the best hosting services available. With VI, you're guaranteed a reliable platform without having to manage the infrastructure that goes with it. We specialise in public and private cloud hosting and make a point of offering maximum flexibility, with tailored service level agreements. For more information, visit http://www.vi.net.

VMware, VMware vCloud, VMware vCloud Director and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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Virtual Internet’s CDN Solution Improves Reach of Bossa Studio’s Latest Innovative Social Game

Fulham, London -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/27/2011 -- Virtual Internet, a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions for mission critical websites and applications, announces today that innovative gaming company, Bossa Studios, chose Virtual Internet for Content Delivery Network (CDN) for the launch of its new social game, Monstermind.

Bossa Studios has been branded a 'stealth-studio' by some sectors of the industry press, keen to get the low-down on what the 'Bossians' have been working on, and now they will get to see exactly what the team has been up to with the launch of their social game Monstermind. The successful release of Monstermind is down to a team that comprises members previously of such studios as Blitz Games, Playfish, Endemol, and Jagex to name but a few.

Henrique Olifers, Gamer-in-Chief at Bossa is excited with the game's successful release and the future prospects of expansion: "Social games are a massive phenomenon, undeterred by geography or borders. As such, we need to make our game and its assets available around the globe, with the best possible performance, something we could only achieve with the help of CDN technology. Virtual Internet has been a key partner to meet this objective thanks to their competitive pricing and sound platform."

Bossa Studios selected Virtual Internet to deliver industry-leading content delivery network backed by Virtual Internet's VI-tal support. CDN provides caching and downloading services and with recent POP additions in the Middle East and the Far East, and POP's in South America arriving this year, VI's network is the number one choice for global content delivery, something that Patrick McCarthy, Managing Director of

Virtual Internet is keen to share:
"Our strategic partnership with one of the world's most advanced Internet infrastructure companies, combined with our well-recognised customer support services, means we can provide an enhanced CDN service which delivers high-performance and efficiency. For customers like Bossa Studios, their business model depends on the speedy delivery of content to their users, and VI's CDN solution will support Bossa Studios in going global with their innovative games."

Patrick continues, "The gaming industry and CDN go hand in hand as CDN has the capability to distribute workloads and deliver the performance required for social gaming. We're delighted to have the opportunity to work with Bossa Studios, a company that is redefining social gaming, and look forward to a successful working relationship long into the future."

Bossa Studios' new game is in the final stages of testing and is currently in open beta before formally launching later on in the year. The game is currently available on Facebook and will be available on iPhone, iPad, and Android soon.

About Virtual Internet
Virtual Internet (VI) is a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions. Since Virtual Internet was founded in 1996, its philosophy has been to work with world-class technology providers to deliver the best hosting services available.

With VI, you're guaranteed a reliable platform without having to manage the infrastructure that goes with it. We specialise in public and private cloud hosting and make a point of offering maximum flexibility, with tailored service level agreements. For more information, visit http://www.vi.net.

About Bossa Studios
Bossa Studios is a creative bunch of people bonded together by their passion for creating games that rock. Packing past experience in all sorts of games and platforms, from mobile to high-end console (and, of course, social too), now we're rather busy building a couple of games for Facebook that will see the light of day pretty soon. For more information, visit http://www.bossastudios.com.

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Virtual Internet – Cloud Hosting by Virtual Internet will prompt US businesses to realize the answer lies in the cloud.

London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/21/2011 -- Virtual Internet (VI), a major UK provider of business hosting solutions, is officially launching their flagship cloud-hosting product. With recently upgraded VMwaretm cloud servers increasingly outselling conventional hosting solutions, VI's business-class cloud solutions deliver reliability, cost savings, scalability, and performance.

According to Forrester Research, nearly 70% of an average IT budget is spent on maintenance of existing infrastructure, reducing the resources allocated to innovation and strategic planning. Extremely flexible and fail-safe, cloud hosting creates a fully automated workflow with hosting resources dynamically provisioned when and where they are needed. As a self-healing virtual infrastructure, cloud hosting delivers continuous network uptime, whilst allowing freedom of management of operational systems, load balancing, and overall resource utilization.

"The bottom line is that cloud hosting is the most efficient hosting solution today and we're happy to deliver our solutions to the US market. This is the future of web hosting," said Patrick McCarthy, VI's Managing Director.

VI has created a hardware-based cloud that is fully hardware and network redundant including redundant hardware firewalls. The cloud is sandbox-ready and production-ready the instant customers sign up for a customized SLA. They can hit the ground running in the knowledge that their applications are powered by the finest hypervisors in the cloud.

"Having an advanced and flexible hosting solution is an indispensable part of a solid business plan. The hosting provider you choose will be the backbone of your business and VI has been that vital framework for numerous customers since 1996" remarked McCarthy. "We invite US businesses to experience a new level in cloud web hosting, with industry-leading SLAs and 24/7 customer support."

Customers' data is hosted at a 10,000 square foot datacenter in Lindon, Utah. The state-of-the-art facilities are SAS 70 compliant with Tier 3 classification.

For information or a quote, visit http://www.vi.net or call 877 358 3819.

About Virtual Internet
Since 1996 Virtual Internet has been keeping an innovative finger on the pulse of web hosting technology. It was the first host to provide both Xen and VMware private and public cloud servers to the UK enterprise market. Now the company has launched "on-demand" VMware private and public cloud hosting services to the US market at a fraction of the traditional cost.

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London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/22/2011 -- Virtual Internet – Within days of announcing it will shortly be entering the U.S. hosting market, Virtual Internet is offering UK clients the chance to win an Ipad 2 if they sign up for annual colocation packages.

"Corporate customers who sign up for a full (or half) rack colocation package for one year will get a new Ipad 2," said Yana Kryuchkova, Marketing Manager, Virtual Internet.

Those companies who wish to mitigate risk and get their feet wet with a 3-month contract (or above) will automatically receive the first month free.

Colocation involves shipping company servers to Virtual Internet's sophisticated 10,000 square feet data centre in London that offer some of the highest allocation speeds in the UK; up to 40TB.

Colocation packages start at £49 featuring an "always-up" environment with redundant power, air conditioning and a fail-save environment through multiple carriers.

"We are always looking for ways to incentivize our colocation packages and make them a compelling choice for our astute clients. We regularly hold iPhone and iPad contests as a way to show our appreciation for their business and feedback," said Patrick McCarthy, Managing Director, Virtual Internet.

Virtual Internet was recently awarded ISO 9001 & 27001 certifications, which dovetails with its flawless reputation for maintaining a 100% network uptime guarantee inside world-class data centres.

"Clients can eliminate the headaches of running onsite hardware/software which usually entail rising costs and increased complexity," said Mr. McCarthy.

The Virtual Internet core network infrastructure is 10Gb, with 1Gb links to Edge switches providing 100Mb ports to servers. 1Gb ports are available to customers who require it.

Virtual Internet offers customers the ability to rent full (or half) rack mounts for a one-time fee and additional services including a seamless deployment of power and cabling for the incoming servers.

"Your collocated servers are in safe hands; we were voted the most reliable web hosting platform in Great Britain in 2009 and we work hard to maintain this standard."

All colocation services are backed up by VI-tal Support, which operates around the clock, 365 days per year.

About Virtual Internet
Since 1996 Virtual Internet has been a pioneer in the UK colocation and dedicated hosting market offering industry-leading SLAs and 100% network uptime guarantees.

It was also the first web host to deliver both Xen OnApp PayG and VMware (private and public) cloud servers to the UK enterprise market.

Each hosting package they sell is augmented by free VI-tal support packages that have allowed it to build strong client bases in the finance, government, education, health, media and travel sectors.

In January 2011 they reached a new milestone by becoming an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified web host.

Virtual Internet entered the U.S. arena in Summer 2011, with a host of cloud computing, colocation and dedicated server packages.

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London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/18/2011 -- Virtual Internet, The UK's leading corporate hosting provider - the first to simultaneously roll out Xen OnApp and VMware cloud computing - today officially announced new enterprise cloud, colocation and managed hosting services for the U.S market that will "go-live" on May 1, 2011.

With U.S. headquarters in Providence, UT, Virtual Internet plans to offer "on-demand" private and public cloud computing at a fraction of traditional IT on-premise costs to the American business sector.

"This is an exciting moment for us – one we have planned for quite some time. As a mature cloud-hosting provider with complementary colocation and dedicated server options, we have mastered the complexity and challenges of delivering enterprise level services at affordable prices," said Patrick McCarthy, Managing Director, Virtual Internet.

"Our state-of-the-art cloud technology and managed hosting services are backed by industry leading (custom) SLA's that put the customer first. We invite tech savvy U.S. businesses to test-drive our world class VI-tal Support that 'never sleeps' and operates around the clock, 365 days per year."

Virtual Internet enters the U.S. arena with strong credentials including a 100% network uptime guarantee and the distinction of being voted the 2009 most reliable web-hosting platform in Great Britain.

Over the past year, it has also strengthened its growing reputation as one of the most stable, secure and forward-thinking hosts in Europe by winning ISO 9001 & 27001 accreditations respectively.

"Besides our pedigree in private and public cloud hosting we also offer fast, scalable and mature content delivery networks along with other highly popular services such as Microsoft Hosted Email Exchange which ranks as best-of-breed email cloud collaboration software," said Przemyslaw Ceglowski, Operations Manager, Virtual Internet.

"Experience matters" has been the slogan adopted in Virtual Internet advertising campaigns across the European continent.

"The United States will be no different. While there is a staggering array of cloud hosting products visible on the commercial landscape there are really only a few who can compete in a consistent manner and grow accordingly along with its customer base. We are proud to be one of them," said Mr. Ceglowski.

Virtual Internet stated recently that while many cloud providers appeared comfortable delivering specific formalized products they struggled with customized solutions.

"This illustrates the challenges facing IT managers as they explore web host virtualization strategies encompassed by the cloud. "

"It takes time to get this equation right. Experience matters. We have been fine-tuning our cloud strategy in the UK since 2008 making us a compelling choice for enterprise customers, especially in new markets such as the United States," said Patrick McCarthy, Managing Director, Virtual Internet.

Virtual Internet is also preparing for the upcoming mobile Smartphone revolution by ensuring their cloud, colocation and managed servers can, in many instances, be accessed, controlled and monitored remotely via iPhone, Android and Blackberry mobile applications.

Gartner Inc., reports that mobile phones are set to overtake PCs as the most dominant form of web access by 2013. This make it a complementary technology to the rising power of cloud computing and an important component of the Virtual Internet's Data Center plans.

Virtual Internet intends to aggressively launch new products during its U.S. Summer campaign along with competitive pricing for a range of cloud, colocation and dedicated servers.

About VIRTUAL INTERNET
Since 1996 Virtual Internet has been a pioneer in the UK colocation and dedicated hosting market offering industry-leading SLAs and 100% network uptime guarantees.

It was also the first web host to deliver both Xen and VMware (private and public) cloud servers to the UK enterprise market.

Each hosting package they sell is augmented by free VI-tal Support packages that have allowed it to build strong client bases in the finance, government, education, health, media and travel sectors.

In January 2011 they reached a new milestone by becoming an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified web host.

Virtual Internet entered the U.S. hosting market on May 1, 2011 with a broad range of cloud-based hosting, colocation and managed server options.

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Virtual Internet – Offering unlimited storage at rates as low as £9.95 per month, Virtual Internet has opened up the doors to secure, business-critical email collaboration via its new suite of Hosted Microsoft Exchange Services.

London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/07/2011 -- Available anytime, anywhere the "always-on" web software can be accessed by mobile phones or web browsers within a sandboxed environment protected by the latest spyware, malware and antivirus programs.

"We handle the installation, configuration and ongoing system maintenance of your mission-critical email allowing you easily access centralized mail boxes (including Outlook Web Access) all integrated with calendars, tasks, files and contact management."-said Przemyslaw Ceglowski, Operations Manager, Virtual Internet.

"The unlimited storage, email archive retrieval and low monthly costs allow you to become a power user of hosted email services."
Hosted Email Exchange also allows customers to leverage their company domain name and integrate with mobile Smartphone packs including, Blackberry, Windows and the iPhone.

The release of Microsoft Exchange allows Virtual Internet to feature "email cloud collaboration" as a new suite of products to accompany its reputation as the first UK hosting provider to simultaneously offer VMware and OnApp Xen enterprise cloud servers.

The hosted email "cloud" services are supported by 24/7 VI-tal support which operates around the clock, 365 days per year.

Virtual Internet guarantees a 100% uptime for all hosting packages (including hosted email exchange), and was voted the UK's most reliable hosting platform by independent sources in 2009.

About Virtual Internet
Since 1996 Virtual Internet has been a pioneer in the UK colocation and dedicated hosting market offering industry-leading SLAs and 100% network uptime guarantees.

It was also the first web host to deliver both Xen and VMware (private and public) cloud servers to the UK enterprise market.

Each hosting package they sell is augmented by free VI-tal support packages that have allowed it to build strong client bases in the finance, government, education, health, media and travel sectors.

In January 2011 they reached a new milestone by becoming an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified web host.

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Virtual Internet (VI) – one of UK’s leading providers of business-class web hosting solutions –announced they have achieved VMware Enterprise Partner status.

London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/28/2011 -- Virtual Internet has been a partner with the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure VMware for years by now.

Back in 2001 year VMware has quite literally knocked down all contenders in the enterprise space since it come online offering the most compact, scalable, secure, and portable virtual machines in the cloud marketplace. As opposed to a traditional hosting environment, where your website is hosted on a single server, often alongside multiple other websites, cloud hosting is basically a complicated arrangement of multiple servers in clusters.

Yana Kryuchkova, Marketing Manager, at Virtual Internet: "At VI we do our best to deliver exactly the right hosting solution for any business."

"So years of experience and newly gained Enterprise Partner level proves that VI demonstrates extensive expertise in working with VMware technologies and could guarantee extensive support in building virtualization solutions to meet any customer needs."

Having been in the web-hosting sector for many years, Virtual Internet has gained the reputation of a reliable and supportive hosting provider with flexible, agile service delivery. VI Enterprise Cloud solutions built on VMware's industry-leading virtualisation technology guarantees 100% hardware and network uptime and the flexibility of a virtual private server (VPS) at lower costs compared to dedicated hardware.

"We use virtualisation to match resources to any customer workloads in real time, with the flexibility to add or remove resources if any changes needed. With VI's VMware-based Enterprise Cloud platform, our expert team look after all the technical details, so all it takes is a phone call to add a server, change your storage resources or add extra features like redundancy." - said Przemyslaw Ceglowski, Operations Manager, Virtual Internet.

Virtual Internet strengthened its lead in the cloud-hosting arena by recently gaining Enterprise Partner status. This is an addition to offering free, trademarked 24/7 VI-tal support, which underpins every single custom SLA they sell to an enterprise customer.

The customer support team is also comprised of other VCP qualified engineers and VSP qualified staff to handle all requests relating to the cloud servers build on reward winning VMware platform.

About Virtual Internet
Since 1996 Virtual Internet/http://www.vi.net has been a pioneer in the UK colocation and dedicated hosting market offering industry-leading SLAs and 100% network uptime guarantees.

It was also the first web host to deliver both Xen and VMware (private and public) cloud servers to the UK enterprise market.

Each hosting package they sell is augmented by free VI-tal support packages that have allowed it to build strong client bases in the finance, government, education, health, media and travel sectors.

In January 2011 they reached a new milestone by becoming an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified web host.

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