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Carouge (Switzerland), December 16th, 2011 – Infomaniak Network SA launches a media storage and publishing platform for large-scale companies.

At a time when it is very easy to publish videos on Internet web sites, the fastest integrations are made possible with the use of such platforms as Youtube and Dailymotion. However, these generally free solutions offer very rigid settings and impose numerous constraints such as video length restrictions or player customizations.

After several years of research and development (over twenty engineers at present based in Geneva), Infomaniak Network has decided to launch a media content platform offering the possibility to sidestep most of the market leaders’ technical restrictions.

Relying on its many years of experience working with companies specialized in broadcasting such as the Télévision Suisse Romande (Swiss Romandy Television), the Radio Télévision Belge (Belgian Radio Television) and all the local Swiss Romandy television and radio stations, Infomaniak Network SA achieved its goal of grouping its partners’ needs and suggestions together to offer a product specialized in media storage and publishing.

As a reminder, broadcasting any recorded audiovisual content whatever the size and even in big quantities is made possible today using the VOD (Video on Demand) technology on a worldwide scale. Internet users can then view the content whenever they want, even if a large number of people are viewing it at the same time.

So what does this multimedia storage platform offer more than its competitors?

- several terabytes of storage capacity are available for unlimited time and number of videos
- content protection or on the opposite sharing and broadcasting of media through social networks are made possible thanks to geographical restriction or pay-per-view
- creating your own skins for your Video or Audio player
- getting an API to integrate the downloading of videos in your CMS and release videos online to your customers
- creating your WebTV with predefined lists of videos
- email assistance and telephone hotline based in Geneva

This top of the range solution opens the way to companies and professionals specialized in the development of Internet web sites for high-quality integration of audio and video contents on their web sites.

Find out more about this product on the company’s web site at http://streaming.infomaniak.com/online-video-storage

About Infomaniak Network SA

Established in 1996, Infomaniak Network SA is a Swiss company based in Geneva, where all the company employees work and where both its Datacenters are located. The company is specialized in the hosting of Internet websites, mail managing and audio and video contents live broadcasting. Infomaniak Network SA promotes a relaxed corporate culture and works on raising its employees and customers’ awareness of sustainable development and our lifestyle’s impact on the environment for future generations. With a turnover of over 10 million CHF and nearly 40 employees, Infomaniak Network SA is maintaining an ongoing growth year after year while becoming one of Switzerland and Europe’s main Internet leaders. 2012 will indeed be a turning point in the company’s expansion, with the launching of new top of the range products and tools adapted to the market’s present and future demand.


To learn more about Infomaniak
www.infomaniak.com



Press contact:

Eric Thalmann
Tel: 0041228203544
Email: presse@infomaniak.com

The success of “Bike to Work” is not only due to the fact that people like riding a bike and that cycling is good for your health but particularly more to the fact that those taking part form teams of 4 so that they can motivate each other, swap experiences and share the joys of cycling. Sharing motivation this way is a key aspect of the bike to work campaign. Several thousand people have shared in this experience by taking part in the “Bike to Work” campaign. If you haven’t joined yet, what would you say to taking the plunge this year?
Nothing could be simpler as healthy physical exercise on a daily basis – which our body needs. “Half an hour’s cycling every day reduces the risks of illness significantly, and what is more it’s economical, fast and good for the environment” emphasises Aline Haldemann, who is in charge of the project at PRO VELO Switzerland.
The benefits for your body are inextricably linked to the benefits for a healthy mind that as it happens can be felt from the first few minutes’ cycling, before and after work. In the mornings you start your working day in fine form and in the evenings you have a chance to clear your head and think of something else as you set off home.

How it works

The campaign will take place from the 1st to 30th June. The goal is to use your bike to get to work for at least half the days you work. If your journey is too long or too difficult, you can also combine cycling with public transport. You just need to complete one part of the journey by bike, as there is no minimum distance to cycle.
You take part in the campaign in teams of 4 people. So get your workmates fired up and sign up your team. You’ll no longer be alone, you can share your experiences and above all, you can advise and encourage new cyclists. If you have trouble making up a team, remember it’s possible for one person in a team to use a different means of getting around other than by bike, which uses their physical strength, like walking or roller blades. Don’t miss this opportunity and sign up your team at www.biketowork.ch by the 31st May 2011 at the latest.

Win prizes

All those taking part who travel to work by bike at least 50% of their working days will be automatically entered in the competition, on an individual basis but also as a team, if the four members have met this goal. Team prizes include, for instance, trips by tandem, CFF season tickets and even balloon flights. Numerous individual prizes include, among other things, a trip to Hamburg on the City Night Line (2 overnights for 2 people incl.), a week’s spa, bikes and solar chargers as well as a multitude of runner-up prizes.

Escape by bike

Infomaniak Network supports “Bike to Work” because the health of our employees is particularly important to us and we would like to contribute to more sustainable mobility, following on from our ecological commitment as described in our charter (found here: http://ecologie.infomaniak.ch/). In order to support the company in tune with the “Bike to Work” campaign, Infomaniak Network is organising a bike trip in the month of June. We will be closing our offices for an afternoon and starting out with a picnic in the Geneva countryside, followed by a bike trip with breaks for visiting local producers/farmers for tastings.

More and more followers

The “Bike to Work” programme has been running for five years in a row and was set up by PRO VELO Suisse. As part of this campaign, PRO VELO expects to see over 55,000 participants from more than 1200 Swiss companies getting to work by bike for the month of June.

INFOMANIAK Network SA is adopting an ecological charter that encompasses the development of its operations and aims to:

1. show its commitment to sustainable development,
2. act in conformance with its commitments,
3. prove the appropriateness between a business and a responsible attitude towards the environment,
4. invite other companies to adopt a similar “code of conduct”.

28 points have been drawn up that should be observed in daily activities. The Charter affects all the employees at the company. It establishes rules that are intended to minimise INFOMANIAK's impact on the environment and to decrease its energy consumption as much as possible. In this way INFOMANIAK will be able to continue to grow while reducing its emissions of Co2, right down to "zero emission".

Brought into life through an initiative by one of the founders of INFOMANIAK, the Charter stems from the latter's fundamental concerns, and from the current environmental situation. This approach is intended to be copied, which should be one of the main concerns of any company.

The Charter will be launched online for the public on 21st April 2008. OU BIEN was launched online on 21st April OU will be launched online on AUTRE DATE FUTURE.
This section of the site, with a substantial amount of illustrations and documentation to back it, will allow customers, suppliers and the public to discover how INFOMANIAK is adjusting its behaviour from an ecological aspect on a daily basis and with concrete examples and how it makes sensible decisions to minimise the company's impact on our environment as best possible.

Journalists and editors are invited to take a first look at this new section of the site at the following address :
http://www.infomaniak.ch/ecology/

With immediate effect we will be at your disposal to provide any information relating to this initiative. You may visit our premises and also take a look at our electric vehicle (100% electric car) that is available to employees for their use.

Several significant changes have occurred in recent years in technology of our flagship product and we had to put a coat of paint on the front of our shop.

We took the opportunity to start something new: a synchronization tool for Outlook calendar.

Developed by our team in Geneva, this product is available with each email address hosted on our platform. It can be used in two ways:

Synchronization between Outlook and Webmail:

Like a PDA synchronizes with Outlook, sync your Webmail also! This will allow you to have all your contacts and calendar available on any browser. Sending text messages from Webmail to one of your contacts will also be simplified, more need to memorize the addresses and phones of your friends. Your calendar will be available anywhere provided there is internet.

Synchronization between different workstations:

Very useful for small businesses and associations, it helps to have address books and calendars common and shared by the working group for example. When the message that we provide is used with the IMAP protocol, this product can compete with software such as Microsoft Exchange, much heavier.

Today, with over 30,000 hosted domains, and a growth of more than 1,000 new contracts every month, Infomaniak Network SA ranks among the top 3 hosts Switzerland. In addition, 35% growth achieved abroad show that our expertise is not due to regional demand and the quality of our hosting services can compete internationally.

This specialization started working with the first Internet radio www.basic.ch in Switzerland in 1998 and 2001 in One FM and Lausanne FM we entrusted the audio and video in real time from their antennas.

Since then, more than 11 Swiss radio on the FM band using our expertise in streaming by Internet.

Infomaniak Network offers customers a real-time audio broadcast in higher quality and FM frequencies available in Flash, Windows Media, Winamp, Real Media and Quick Time.

Infomaniak Network SA stands out once again with two new features included in their hosting package

SmartInstall

The principle is very simple: since the administration console of your website, you now have the option to install various PHP scripts free with one click.

This process, developed 100% by Infomaniak Network SA, you can install in seconds forums, chats, blogs or online shops (e-commerce) on your website, without any technical knowledge.

Installation and initial configuration is fully supported by this tool. These scripts will now be accessible to all.

The proposed range will grow continuously by the scripts most relevant OpenSource community.

Send SMS to 12ct

Each user among the 1,200 email addresses in their proposed hosting solution can now easily send SMS, but also set alarms for the PDA's Webmail also they can be notified of the arrival of specific messages ( sender, subject, message content, etc.).. SMS and send each line purchased from the Webmail interface.

Product coming

Infomaniak Network SA is developing a comprehensive synchronization tool between Webmail and major mail clients (Outlook, Outlook Express) using a free plug .. This new exclusive will be available in June 2005 on all the email addresses available accommodation.

Indeed, Infomaniak Network SA is 3 caps on their hosting services and now offers 1.5GB of disk space instead of 1GB, increases from 650 to 1200 the number of email addresses and then offers 15 MySQL databases (against 10 previously), all of course at no extra cost.

Since 1999, Infomaniak Network SA has never increased the disk space of the basic package, is now done for existing and future contracts. And with the high turnover of our servers, we can offer more regular additional disk space.

These new features are added to the mail system unlimited in size and volume for each address, proposed a real solution with antivirus, antispam two systems (rbl + Bayesian filter), a management console and a webmail, where new features are introduced the time.

Based on a load-balancing solution for more than 80% of our services, Infomaniak Network SA now refuses to make dedicated server hosting as more risky for the client.
A simple accommodation Infomaniak Network SA now requires more
12 physical servers to run, and it provides two main advantages: the load can be spread when using each service supported and is redundant, and therefore tolerant of any breakdowns.

By the internal development of these technical solutions, Infomaniak Network SA demonstrates the quality of sound produced by the numbers:
currently fourth host Switzerland with over 21'000 hosted domains, the second host Switzerland in terms of growth with over 1,000 new contracts each month, especially with growth taking place for more than 45% overseas. This now proves that his knowledge is not due to regional demand and the quality of its accommodation services compete internationally.

The next planned improvements are:

- Alarm SMS to the agenda and for the arrival of some expected messages
- Automatic installer program opensource (forums, online shop, cats, etc.).
- Tools for synchronizing contacts between webmail and major email clients and PDAs
- Increase the bandwidth per unit (currently 80GB)
- Online sales of domain names at prices "Infomaniak Network SA"

Indeed, the company reached a large enough, she was able to free themselves from external software that made dependent on their bugs, their prices and especially their lack of development and customization.

The web hosting company by Infomaniak Network SA will now be able to stand out every day a little more competitive solutions. Among the novelties of August, distinguish:

- New spam filter

In addition to the blacklist (black list or rbl) installed for almost 2 years now, and reject about 35% of spam, they propose an additional solution against spam using Bayesian methods. This filter captures up to 90% of spam and can be activated directly from webmail (http://webmail.infomaniak.ch) in the "Options" menu. Not only this tool is available at no extra cost, but it is no longer valid on the 650 email addresses included with each of their accommodation.

- New webmail

This new interface offers:

- A more modern design and practical
- A direct address as http://webmail.votresite.ch
- The ability to define colors by post to highlight the messages of people you feel
- Export formatted messages widespread. Eml

This webmail, like anti-spam tool has been developed 100% in-house team Infomaniak Network SA, which will allow them to make many improvements such as:

- Calendar synchronization with Outlook and Webmail
- Choice of webmail appearance of several themes
- A procedure for quick setup in 5 steps quickly and easily customize your webmail
- Looking for one or more words in the subjects of messages
- Classification of contacts by type (private, professional, etc.)
- Etc.


- Support for sub-domain

Today, sub-domains are available as follows:

In addition to addresses already allocated as http://admin.votresite.ch http://webmail.votresite.ch and you have the ability to enable sub-domains from a predefined list, a simple mouse click such as:

dev.votresite.ch
forum.votresite.ch
intranet.votresite.ch
shop.votresite.ch

and so on.

In terms of dns hosted ending in. Com,. Net,. Org,. Biz and. Info, the company released romande Infomaniak Network SA leads the latest ranking Swiss Webhosting.info. IP-Plus and Webland follow behind. Note that Novartis is strangely in the rankings following the activation of thousands of DNS corresponding to their different brands.

Asked by Netactuel Boris Siegenthaler confirms the strong upward trend of business and positions currently in fifth position Infomaniak hosts Switzerland (Swisscom for top positions, Tiscali and Agri.ch). Also according Boris Siegenthaler, Swiss German hosts run proportionally more areas. Ch, which would explain the leading position in the ranking Infomaniak Network of Webhosting.info.

The Motor Show in Geneva says the hosting of its website at Infomaniak Network SA

After welcoming the bank Ferrier Lullin Kronenbourg and the group, the month of January ends with the arrival of the motor show in Geneva to host their website corresponding to the 2003 edition.

Infomaniak Network SA is setting up for this exceptional event, two load-balancing servers for Unix frontend html, two servers fail-over for the SQL backend and 50Mbits of bandwidth provided to ensure continuous uptime for this site at very large audience.

Infomaniak Network SA Switzerland is the only host listed in top 50 for the stability of ISP servers ranked by Netcraft (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/isp.max.html). Netcraft is a company that can continuously monitor and free all the websites who want to know the stability of their accommodation. It then hosts a top 50 most reliable compared to the thousands of website continuously monitored. You can also easily scan your own website by entering the url of your domain name on the main page of NetCraft. If it is not there yet, it will automatically be taken into account the next day. You will know very quickly when the performance of your host, you can also surprised not to find another supplier of Switzerland in the top 50.

Infomaniak.ch operates his fifth cosmetic change since 1995. The graphic was revised to Z now with a more institutional. This new website features include news (source: AFP) module and a well-developed weather design. The Infomaniak 7,000 customers in terms of accommodation also benefit from a live support via the Web using an interface similar to that of a cat.

Infomaniak Network SA, No. 1 accommodation in western Switzerland, is now offering its services out of Switzerland. So far, only the Helvetic client could benefit from our services and today, pay by credit card is operational, with the help of Credit Mutuel. Thus, we can finally accept contracts from any region. The cost of our accommodation is set at Chf. 195 .- (billing blue ballot, valid in Switzerland only) or? 120 euros (payment by credit card), the second method is more economical. The details of our offers can be found on http://web.infomaniak.ch, for the moment only available in French.