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The service guarantees disk speed, system management, availability and other elements often stated as barriers to Cloud adoption.

MONTREAL, May 16, 2013 - Canada-based infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leader iWeb announces the launch of a fully-managed Cloud hosting service based on OpenStack®.

The managed Cloud service is the first Openstack public cloud deployment in Canada and the first in the industry to provide guaranteed disk speed as a standard, a key element of overall system performance. The other key components of this breakthrough service are worry-free system management, rapid deployment, Cloud elasticity, scalability and soon, a robust application-programming interface (API).

“This service would not have been technologically possible even 12 months ago,” says Mike Gero, Director of Product Management. “When we looked at the market we couldn’t find a cloud that met all our customers needs. By engineering this cloud with the best vendors and technologies, we are delivering something I am sure customers will enjoy and competitors will envy. We truly believe this will meet our customer’s performance, availability and support requirements. Due to our use of SSD drives our standard disk performance is on average 2x that of other Cloud providers and the security of customer data is maintained with data replication and redundancy.”

Openstack infrastructure + iWeb’s network + Solid state disk drives (SSD)
= Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

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The service guarantees disk speed, system management, availability and other elements often stated as barriers to Cloud adoption.

MONTREAL, May 16, 2013 - Canada-based infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leader iWeb announces the launch of a fully-managed Cloud hosting service based on OpenStack®.

The managed Cloud service is the first Openstack public cloud deployment in Canada and the first in the industry to provide guaranteed disk speed as a standard, a key element of overall system performance. The other key components of this breakthrough service are worry-free system management, rapid deployment, Cloud elasticity, scalability and soon, a robust application-programming interface (API).

“This service would not have been technologically possible even 12 months ago,” says Mike Gero, Director of Product Management. “When we looked at the market we couldn’t find a cloud that met all our customers needs. By engineering this cloud with the best vendors and technologies, we are delivering something I am sure customers will enjoy and competitors will envy. We truly believe this will meet our customer’s performance, availability and support requirements. Due to our use of SSD drives our standard disk performance is on average 2x that of other Cloud providers and the security of customer data is maintained with data replication and redundancy.”

Openstack infrastructure + iWeb’s network + Solid state disk drives (SSD)
= Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

Continue reading »

Canadian Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider becomes a corporate partner and one of top 50 sponsors of the OpenStack Foundation.

MONTREAL, April 15, 2013 – Canada-based infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leader iWeb has joined the OpenStack® Foundation as a corporate sponsor with a commitment to developing open cloud standards and technologies.

The OpenStack Foundation supports a global community of more than 8,800 members representing 850 unique organizations across 114 countries and is responsible for continuing to promote the development, distribution and adoption of OpenStack cloud software. Continue reading »

Canadian Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider becomes a corporate partner and one of top 50 sponsors of the OpenStack Foundation.

MONTREAL, April 15, 2013 – Canada-based infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leader iWeb has joined the OpenStack® Foundation as a corporate sponsor with a commitment to developing open cloud standards and technologies.

The OpenStack Foundation supports a global community of more than 8,800 members representing 850 unique organizations across 114 countries and is responsible for continuing to promote the development, distribution and adoption of OpenStack cloud software.

“iWeb has long been committed to open technologies. As we get ready to deploy our new generation of private and public cloud, OpenStack was a great fit for us. We have been in development with OpenStack for many months now for a high performance cloud. The rich feature set and ability to customize all elements to meet the needs of our customers has been critical for iWeb. ” Says iWeb President and COO Christian Primeau.

OpenStack continues to grow quickly. Founded in 2010 with the support of 25 companies and a few dozen developers, today OpenStack powers some of the most widely-used SaaS applications and eCommerce sites along with some of the world’s largest public clouds.

As one of the top 50 sponsors of OpenStack, iWeb signals strong commitment to the technology and market positioning. Key benefits are the open community driven philosophy along with a rapid pace of innovation. iWeb brings a long history of innovation and reliability with hosted solutions.

“We are excited to welcome iWeb to the OpenStack community,” said Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. “iWeb has had a long-held focus on reliability and commitment to the open cloud that will benefit the whole community, and we look forward to advancing the OpenStack mission with their support.”

Information on OpenStack can be found on http://www.openstack.org/.

About iWeb (http://iweb.com)

iWeb provides the on-demand server and cloud infrastructure that allows over 20,000 customers in more than 150 countries worldwide to deliver today’s Internet-based technologies and to create tomorrow’s online innovations. Since 1996, Montreal-based iWeb has been rated among the world’s top web infrastructure providers based on performance and reliability and among Canada’s fastest growing companies. iWeb’s network continues to rank among the most reliable in the world, according to independent internet researcher Netcraft.

Contact:
Bernard Dahl, Public Relations, +1-514-802-2801, iweb.news@presentis.ca

March 2013 saw iWeb record a 44 successive month with no network downtime, maintaining our position as the most reliable hosting in the world for more than three years. Don’t take our word for it – our uptime is independent measured each month by hosting performance analysts Netcraft.
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We’re pleased to announce the deployment of the high-capacity, energy-efficient ADVA FSP 3000 optical transport solution throughout our high-speed Montréal network.

The ADVA FSP 3000 is the most efficient, reliable and scalable solution available and will help us scale our network while maintaining our promise of 100% uptime.

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Cloud hosting company attracts another high caliber executive as new Chief Marketing Officer

MONTREAL, Oct. 2, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Simon Rivard, whose past e-commerce successes include Quebecor Media, TD Bank and Desjardins, was appointed Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of iWeb.

“The growth of any business depends on the effectiveness of its go-to-market strategy and its marketing ability,” says Christian Primeau, iWeb President and Chief Operating Officer, as the company nears the 20,000 managed servers milestone. “Simon’s 25-year experience will be invaluable in developing and implementing our sales and marketing strategy, as well as for the development of our range of products and services. Just as importantly, he “thinks big” and shares our values and our culture – which is very exciting!” adds Primeau.

“iWeb is essentially an entrepreneurial structure that has the means of its ambitions; there was no way I was going to refuse such a rare opportunity!” says Rivard, a graduate of Montreal’s HEC, who was recently a lecturer for the Université de Sherbrooke’s Masters and MBA program. (Communications and e-Commerce).

Earlier this year, iWeb was ranked among Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies for a fifth consecutive year, and the reliability of its IP network continues to rank it among the world’s best hosting companies, according to Netcraft, the U.K.-based Internet and hosting research organization.

About iWeb (iWeb.com)
iWeb provides the on-demand server and cloud infrastructure that allows over 20,000 customers worldwide to deliver today’s Internet-based technologies and to create tomorrow’s online innovations. Since 1996, Montreal-based iWeb has been rated among the world’s top web infrastructure providers based on performance and reliability and among Canada’s fastest growing companies.
http://iweb.com

Netcraft, a site that measures reliability, uptime and network performance, has ranked iWeb.com as one of the most reliable web hosting companies during August 2012. It is the fourth consecutive month for iWeb in the top-ten list, in which it has appeared regularly over the past year.

Netcraft’s report provides a quick comparison of data transfer reliability. The reliability performance is monitored every 15 minutes, from several reference points.

According to Netcraft, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent from a customer’s point of view than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why they choose to rank their table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

Netcraft is a British Internet services company that provides internet security services and research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet since 1995. It is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.

The complete analysis is available on Netcraft’s website.

Netcraft, a site that measures reliability, uptime and network performance, has ranked iWeb.com as one of the most reliable web hosting companies in June 2012. Also present among the most reliable networks for the previous month, iWeb has regularly appeared in the top ten over the past year.

Netcraft’s measurements will allow you to evaluate reliability of data transfer. The reliability performance is monitored every 15 minutes, from several reference points.

According to Netcraft, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent from a customer’s point of view than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why they choose to rank their table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

Netcraft is a British Internet services company that provides internet security services and research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet since 1995. It is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.

The complete analysis is available on Netcraft’s website.

Netcraft, a firm which measures reliability, uptime and network performance, has ranked iWeb.com as one of the most reliable web hosting company sites in May 2012. Third this month, iWeb has regularly appeared in the top ten over the last year.

Netcraft’s measurements will allow you to evaluate reliability of data transfer. The reliability performance is monitored every 15 minutes, from several reference points.

According to Netcraft, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent from a customer’s point of view than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why they choose to rank their table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

Netcraft is a British Internet services company that provides internet security services and research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet since 1995. It is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.

The complete analysis is available on Netcraft’s website.

MONTREAL, May 23, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Christian Primeau has been appointed president and chief operating officer of iWeb, the Montreal-based Cloud service and Internet hosting company co-founded by Martin Leclair and Eric Chouinard. Primeau takes office today with a clear mandate: to implement the company’s strategic plan and compound its growth.

In February, iWeb added Bruce Knooihuizen, former Rackspace CFO, to its Board of Directors.

“I have long talked about our intent to grow iWeb into a $100 million business, and the Chief Operating Officer’s role is vitally important to attaining that level of revenue. It’s hard to overstate its importance, strategically speaking.” comments Eric Chouinard, CEO, who had been acting as interim COO since the company’s privatization, in June 2011. “Success leaves a trail, and since iWeb’s privatization, last year, we have been following the impressive trail left by Christian. It takes a particular mix of expertise and vision to lead iWeb’s operations to the next level, and Christian’s resourcefulness and drive will be important elements of iWeb’s future!”

Christian Primeau’s career, in a snapshot;

Bell Canada > 2006-2012
– Vice-President, Quebec Sales
– Vice-President, Client Delivery Services
– General Manager, Infrastructure Services

Sun Microsystems > 1994-2006
– Vice-President, Partners and Alliances
– National District Manager
– Business Development Manager, E-Commerce and ERP Solutions

“The mission is clear: to make it possible for iWeb to triple revenues in the near future, in a sustainable way, while respecting the values that have enabled the company to become what it is today”, says Christian Primeau, on his first day on the job at iWeb’s Montreal head office. “In addition, from a more personal angle, I am returning to the exciting reality of a growth-oriented environment, mixed with the entrepreneurial spirit for which iWeb is known. It’s a challenge I simply could not refuse! ”

iWeb, ranked among the largest IT companies in Canada by the Branham Group (107th in Canada, 18th in Quebec), recently released a new “kinder” Cloud Server service, powered by its Smart Layer technology. Continuing its financial and technological growth, iWeb employs over 200 people, operates four IT and data centers in Montreal and, after being publicly-traded for eight years, completed its privatization in June of 2011.

About iWeb (iWeb.com)

iWeb provides the on-demand server and cloud infrastructure that allows over 20,000 customers worldwide to deliver today’s Internet-based technologies and to create tomorrow’s online innovations. Since 1996, Montreal-based iWeb has been rated among the world’s top web infrastructure providers based on performance and reliability and among Canada’s fastest growing companies.

http://www.iweb.com
For further information:

Bernard Dahl
Public Relations
514-762-6468
bernard@presentis.ca

Montreal, QC, May 2nd, 2012 – iWeb ranks 107th in the 2012 edition of Branham300, the annual list of the 300 largest Internet and Communications Technology (ICT) companies in Canada, based on revenue. iWeb, who incidentally provides cloud computing infrastructure to several of the companies that made this year’s ranking, continues its climb, from 241st in 2006 to 107th in 2012.

“First things first: congratulations to all our clients and partners who made it into the 2012 ranking!” says Eric Chouinard, iWeb President and Chairman, recently back from a trade mission in Brazil.

The company’s 2011 revenues exceeded US $36M, up 24% from $29.5M in 2010.

“This year’s ranking suggests that the Canadian technology industry is in good shape, a very promising indicator for our future growth in the Canadian market,” adds Chouinard, who co-founded the Montreal-based IT Infrastructure company in 1996 with Martin Leclair. “We are delighted to be recognized among the leading Canadian IT companies, and we are particularly proud that our 24% growth rate compares very well with the ranking’s 11.75% average. It would be great to break into the Top 100 next year! ”

According to the Branham Group, Canada’s ICT industry got back on track in 2011, as cumulative revenues for the Top 250 Canadian Tech companies combined to set a new Branham300 revenue record in 2011, increasing sales by 11.75% to $82.62B. The previous year’s growth was only 3.66%.

Since its inception, iWeb has created over 200 jobs, opened four IT and data centers in Montreal and, after being publicly-traded for eight years, completed its privatization in June of 2011. iWeb recently released a new “kinder” Cloud Server service, powered by its Smart Layer technology. Furthermore, it ranked 18th among the 42 Quebec companies who made it into the 2012 ranking and has no intention of slowing its financial or technological growth.

About iWeb (iWeb.com)

iWeb provides the on-demand server and cloud infrastructure that allows over 20,000 customers worldwide to deliver today’s Internet-based technologies and to create tomorrow’s online innovations. Since 1996, Montreal-based iWeb has been rated among the world’s top web infrastructure providers based on performance and reliability and among Canada’s fastest growing companies.

http://www.iweb.com

About Branham Group Inc.

Branham Group Inc. is a leading industry analyst and strategic consulting company servicing the global information, communication, and entertainment (ICE) technology marketplace. Branham Group assists technology companies and related institutions in achieving market success through its custom consulting services (Planning, Marketing and Partnering), and through its multi-client research subscription programs (Digital Health, Green IT and Cloud). Branham also produces an annual listing of the top ICT companies in Canada (www.branham300.com) and monitors over 450 Digital Health vendors. 
http://www.branhamgroup.com.

Contact:
Bernard Dahl
Media Relations / Public Relations
514-762-6468
bernard@presentis.ca

Montreal, April 4 2012 — Eric Chouinard, iWeb President and CEO, will be in Brazil from April 9 to 14 to present the company’s latest Cloud, web and Internet infrastructure solutions during Quebec’s Brazilian trade mission.

iWeb’s Brazilian client base has grown exponentially, from 11 clients in 2006 to nearly 1,100 today; this represents nearly 10% of the Cloud hosting company’s client base. Also noteworthy, iWeb’s 2011 revenues grew to U.S. $ 35 million.

“Brazil has quickly become one of our most exciting markets; Brazilians are seizing opportunities within their market, and they are using our infrastructure to provide international levels of performance and reliability”, says Eric Chouinard, who will be participating in his fifth trade mission since 2008. He added that “Something very special is happening in Brazil, the entrepreneurial energy among tech companies is unbelievable – I’m eager to experience it firsthand!”

This pan-industry trade mission is organised by Québec’s Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export to promote cooperation in the fields of technology and science.

About iWeb (iWeb.com)

iWeb provides the on-demand server and cloud infrastructure that allows over 20,000 customers worldwide to deliver today’s Internet-based technologies and to create tomorrow’s online innovations. Since 1996, Montreal-based iWeb has been rated among the world’s top web infrastructure providers based on performance and reliability and among Canada’s fastest growing companies.

http://www.iweb.com

Contact:

Bernard Dahl

Media Relations

514-762-6468

bernard@presentis.ca

Montreal, April 4^th, 2012 – iWeb announces the launch of its new Cloud Server service, powered by its Smart Layer Technology, engineered to be “kinder” and easier to manage by customers, who increasingly require Cloud platforms and servers which are easy to use, quickly deployed and provide capacity and performance on demand – billed by the hour.

“Our customers asked for cloud services, and we heard them loud and clear. We also heard horror stories from businesses that had been charged outrageous amounts for data transfer fees using other cloud platforms. So we decided to build a kinder cloud; one that won’t drown your business with unexpected charges” says Martin Leclair, President of Products and iWeb co-Founder.

Designed to meet the high customer demand for scalable server hosting solutions, provisioned on demand and billed on an hourly basis, the iWeb Cloud Service allows customers to utilize the resources they need, when they need them most and for just as long as required.

“By extending our SmartLayer technology, we have developed a highly performing cloud offering that will exceed the needs of most customers, who can now build their hosting infrastructure using both the new Cloud Server and the Smart Server, which share the same high performance local network”.

The iWeb cloud is a natural progression for the company, which has focused on expanding its highly resilient infrastructure with a high degree of automation. The past two years has seen dramatic growth at iWeb both in terms of customer growth and in terms of the investments made to build highly automated and integrated solutions.

For a limited time, the new Cloud service offers unmetered traffic  and no data transfer charges within the iWeb network and out to the internet. Competitively priced and backed by iWeb’s 24/7 hardware, infrastructure and network support, the new Cloud Service is available directly from iWeb.com and through iWeb’s extensive partner and reseller network.  

About iWeb (iWeb.com)

iWeb provides the on-demand server and cloud infrastructure that allows over 20,000 customers worldwide to deliver today’s Internet-based technologies and to create tomorrow’s online innovations. Since 1996, Montreal-based iWeb has been rated among the world’s top web infrastructure providers based on performance and reliability and among Canada’s fastest growing companies.

http://www.iweb.com

Contact:

Bernard Dahl

Media Relations / Public Relations

514-762-6468

bernard@presentis.ca

Great news to kickstart the new year 2012! Netcraft, a firm which measures reliability, availability and performance of networks, has once again ranked iWeb as one of the web hosting companies operating the most reliable network. Placing fourth in December, iWeb regularly made Netcraft’s Top 10 in 2011. Continue reading »

Netcraft, a firm which measures reliability, uptime and network performance, has ranked iWeb.com as one of the most reliable web hosting company sites in August 2011. Second this month, on list, iWeb has regularly appeared in the top ten over the last year. Continue reading »

Netcraft, a firm which measures reliability, uptime and network performance, has ranked iWeb.com as one of the most reliable web hosting company sites in January 2011. The reliability performance is monitored every 15 minutes, from several reference points. Netcraft’s measurements will allow you to evaluate reliability of data transfer. Second this month, on list, iWeb has regularly appeared in the top ten over the last year. Continue reading »

Dear customers,

Our Panelbox server S035 recently had to be checked for data corruption and this emergency maintenance caused a service interruption that affected a small part of our shared hosting customers.

Now that this technical incident has been addressed, we wish to answer some of your questions Continue reading »

Once again, for the 6th time in 2009, the iWeb network is reported as the most stable and reliable, according to the Netcraft ranking, which measures the reliability and network performance of web hosting companies. NetCraft ranked iWeb.com 6th in its rankings.

With this 6th rank in Netcraft’s top 10, we can state that iWeb’s BGP network is one of the best, or the best, in the web hosting industry.

Be sure that we work hard to improve one of the best Internet network in the world

Once again, iWeb is in the top 10 of the most reliable web hosting providers, according to the well-known benchmarking website Netcraft, which lists each month data on lost requests and connection times.

It’s the 5th time that iWeb is ranked amongst the top 10 of most reliable web hosting company in the world in 2009. It’s the result of our excellent network, of our products, as well as our team of 178 passionnate of web hosting!

Thanks to our Internet network, awarded by Netcraft,  and our amazing taletend staff, striving always for the best, we have been chosen as the best provider of Windows Dedicated Server in july 2009.

The Dedicated Server Directory USA team judge providers on their network, their support staff, the redundancy equipment for network and electrical infrastructure, and the environment footprint.

Thanks to our privileged relationship with Microsoft Canada, iWeb services and products with Windows and SQL can only improve over time!

Netcraft, a firm which measures reliability, uptime and network performance,  has ranked iWeb.com as one of the most reliable web hosting company site in June 2009.

The reliability performance is monitored every 15 minutes, from different reference points. Netcraft’s measurements will allow you to evaluate reliability of data transfer.

The iWeb network is in the top 10, specifically ranking fourth among the top hosting companies.This is the 10th time we’re ranked in the top 10, as you can see in iWeb’s track record.

Netcraft, a firm which measures reliability, uptime and network performance, has just published its ranking of the most reliable hosting companies for April 2009.

We’re proud to see that iWeb Technologies is ranked once again in the top 10 most reliable web hosting company, with 100% uptime according to Netcraft, in fact this is the 9th time we’re ranked in the top 10 (See our track records here). This award highlight the quality of our hardware and also the dedication of the iWeb staff on delivering world-class service. Congratulations to iWeb’s infrastructure team for reaching this quality of service!

IP network capacity has quintupled over the past year.

Montreal, Quebec, January 19 – With its most recent expansion, iWeb’s network now totals 50 Gbps. In order to meet a constantly greater demand for bandwidth from clients with web-based applications such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and video services, the global internet hosting provider’s network has more than quintupled in the past year, growing from 9 Gbps to 50 Gbps today.

“The fact is that many companies today are using web-based technologies to keep IT spending under control, or to reduce spending. IT budget restrictions mean that the companies we work with are outsourcing their infrastructure to iWeb faster than planned in order to meet their targets.” says Eric Chouinard, iWeb’s President and CEO. He adds that “New technologies are increasingly web-based, and our clients require more bandwidth every month.”

The network combines a total of 9 major telecommunications carriers into iWeb’s award-winning network, which uses BGP routing to ensure performance and reliability.
“Combined with the ever increasing bandwidth requirements of newer applications, we are constantly surprised with some of the innovative solutions our clients have put online – things we would not have imagined 5 years ago!” says iWeb’s President of Products and Technology, Martin Leclair. “Capacity is scheduled to increase again shortly and continually throughout the coming year, which is a clear indication of the direction in which technologies are heading – everything is going online” confirms the enthusiastic co-founder of iWeb. 

The Montreal-based company, whose financial results are scheduled to be published later this week, will be rolling out marketing campaigns to promote related bandwidth and dedicated server hosting services. Since becoming a public company in 2004, iWeb has been steadily growing to become one of Canada’s largest IP hosting firms.

About iWeb

iWeb is a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT Infrastructure, and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (IWB.V). With three secure data centers, all in Montreal, iWeb has carved out an enviable position on the international scene with more than 60% of its revenues from abroad. 

Founded in 1996 in Montreal, iWeb has recently completed a $22M financing agreement with investment banking giant Goldman Sachs. iWeb now has over 150 full-time employees providing Dedicated Server hosting, Co-location and Web Hosting services to more than 17 000 customers in 145 countries. More information is available at the company’s website: http://iweb.com/about-us/

For more information: 

Bernard Dahl
Director, Communications and Public Relations
iWeb Group Inc.
514-286-4242 ext 115
bdahl@iweb.com

Philip Tousignant
Chief Financial Officer
iWeb Group Inc.
514-286-4242 ext 149 
ptousignant@iweb.com

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news. It’s published every weekday at 8.00am EST. For Jan 19th, here are the highlights:

• an IP firm from Texas is seeking to stop six companies, including RIM (blackberry), Nokia and Palm to import handheld devices in the U.S., for allegedly violating its patents.
• Intel cuts prices on some chips, up to 48%. Included product lines in the price reductions are the Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium dual-core, Celeron, and Xeons.
• TechCrunch has a guide for Barack Obama’s Inauguration, with a list of websites, chats, mobile applications, real-time video streams, etc, for those who will be attending the event, and also for those who won’t be in Washington D.C.
• The Internet shrinks, Web loses 1.2M sites, the largest monthly loss since the dot-com bubble era
• A dashboard for web designers and web integrators, with download links, code and websites.