Scottsdale, Arizona - (The Hosting News) - May 25, 2009 - Go Daddy representative, Danica Patrick, recently made history at the Indianapolis 500 with her third place finish, the ‘best ever by a woman’ at the legendary Brickyard.

Web traffic spiked 163 percent during the broadcast, as compared to last year’s. Even more people logged on to GoDaddy.com immediately after the race this year, with an overwhelming 570 percent lift in Web site visits. According to the company, traffic to Go Daddy’s Web site exploded following a mere ‘tease’ to Danica’s Speeding commercial early in the pre-race broadcast.

The event featuring Ms. Patrick also drove tremendous Web traffic to GoDaddy.com - doubling last year’s campaign results. In her new cliffhanger commercial specially created for the GoDaddy.com sponsored broadcast, Danica told viewers to, ”See what happens next at GoDaddy.com” and viewers responded almost as fast as an open-wheeled race car crossing the finish line.

Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy explained, ”First and foremost, congratulations to Danica on her historic performance. She made us all proud today on and off the track. It was amazing to watch the response to our new commercial…visitors jumping online so quickly to see our Internet-Only version.”

In the broadcast commercial, Danica is pulled over on a deserted highway for speeding. The storyline takes a big twist as the officer realizes who she’s stopped. The female cop then launches into an unsolicited Go Daddy Girl audition. At the end, Danica encourages viewers to log on to GoDaddy.com to see the racy conclusion.

The web hosting and domain name company surveyed people who watched the online commercial and found an overwhelming majority of both men and women thought it was funny. Overall, 92 percent of all those surveyed said they thought the Internet-Only version was ”hilarious, funny, clever.”

Ms. Patrick offered, ”A lot of people tease me about the Go Daddy ads because they push the envelope. But GoDaddy-esque ads are fun to make, fun to watch… you just never know what’s going to happen.”

Ms. Patrick has what it takes to prompt viewer response, which was Mr. Parsons’ idea from the start. The outspoken CEO has much to celebrate tonight considering his Go Daddy Girl made history on the track and helped attract new customers in droves.

Mr. Parsons added, ”Getting visitors to the site is what it’s all about - when people see what Go Daddy can do for them online, they become customers. Once they experience our 24/7 personalized customer service, they tell family and friends - who then become customers, as well.”

Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 35 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world’s No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. During 2008, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.

For more about Danica Patrick, plesae visit: www.GoDaddy.com/Danica.

To learn more about GoDaddy, please visit: www.GoDaddy.com.

Singapore, Asia - (The Hosting News) - May 25, 2009 - Virtualization and automation provider, Parallels, will soon be introducing its cloud services networking event, The Parallels APAC Summit 2009, in Asia.

Parallels APAC Summit 2009 is scheduled to take place in Singapore on September 25th, 2009 and registration is now open. Following the format of the annual US event, the Summit will feature in-depth business and product sessions with well-known Parallels speakers and industry leaders offering insights into: the industry and upcoming market trends; Parallels’ upcoming initiatives; and strategies for building a company that grows revenue, even in this challenging economic climate.

Antonio Piraino, Senior Analyst at Tier1 Research explained, ”Interest in cloud computing and hosting is growing rapidly amongst SMBs as the range of available services and trust in the model increases. This represents a great opportunity for cloud service providers that are able to execute and respond to market forces. The Parallels Summit is an established industry event that brings service providers, vendors, developers and users from across the sector’s value chain together for networking and frank discussion about strategy, trends and future directions.”

The Parallels APAC Summit 2009 marks the expansion of Parallels’ successful annual event into Asia, where Springboard Research predicts that: ”in 2009 every leading hardware, software and services vendor will have a clear cloud computing strategy. Moreover, as budgets shift from cap-ex to op-ex, more IT organizations will strongly consider cloud computing as an alternative software and service delivery model.&q Parallels is highly active in this market, with around 1000 customers and 200 strategic partners signed in the region.”

Additionally, the one-day event is aimed at giving attendees ample opportunity to visit the exhibition hall and network with potential business partners, colleagues and the Parallels team in order to forge profitable customer and partner networks. Attendees of the event will represent all interests in the APAC cloud computing market, including cloud services providers, ISVs, developers, hardware vendors and other industry players.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels noted, ”The success of Parallels Summit 2009 in February demonstrated both the sizeable opportunity represented by cloud computing and Parallels’ position as a key strategic partner for players in this space. We are pleased to expand this success into the Asia-Pacific market, which represents a significant prospect for Parallels and its partners in the cloud services space, both globally and within the region itself. Our event aims to highlight the potential revenue streams for cloud services providers in the region, and we hope to help them partner to survive and thrive in what is already a very competitive landscape.”

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To register for the event, or for more information, please visit: www.parallels.com/apac/summit.

For more information about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Capitola, California - (The Hosting News) - May 25, 2009 - Application server management software developer, NGASI, has launched NGASI AppServer Manager 9.0, designed to automate multiple installations and configurations of Application Servers and Applications on a single server machine, across multiple virtual servers and multiple physical servers.

The 9.0 release now includes integration with DotNetPanel for Windows in addition to its existing support for Plesk and cPanel control panels. Other new features include web hosting management tools for Java JDK 6, JBoss, Glassfish, and Tomcat 6.

The release also includes additional applications to the Application Factory, a library of popular Web Applications that enables users to perform one-click installation of selected applications.

NGASI AppServer Manager is designed for web hosting companies looking to increase revenues by offering advanced Java hosting to their customers.

NGASI AppServer Manager automates multiple installations and configurations for Tomcat,Jetty, Glassfish, Oracle-OC4J,and JBoss on a single server machine, across multiple VPS, and across multiple servers. For IT Managers, it enables central management of application server assets and resources spread across the enterprise. And for Web Hosts, it enables Private JVM JAVA Hosting. Plus 1 click installation of standard applications via the Application Factory.

To learn more, please visit: www.ngasi.com.

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