Intermedia has announced Web hosting plans to leverage Adobe ColdFusion 8’s new technology. The new version gives developers the ability to integrate Web sites with .NET (News - Alert) applications and offers real-time monitoring and reporting of production systems.

The turnkey ColdFusion 8 plans announced by Intermedia will provide a robust, flexible environment with 99.9 percent uptime, SLA and round-the-clock management and support.

Intermedia is a Microsoft (News - Alert) Gold Certified Partner with headquarters in New York, N.Y. and sales, 24-hour customer service, and software development teams located in Sunnyvale, California and St. Petersburg, Russia.

Intermedia’s Web hosting product manager Anna Silchenko said, “We are very excited to offer ColdFusion 8. The new version allows us to provide our large community of developer customers with even more flexibility, performance and functionality than ever before, as well as greater integration with our Hosted Microsoft Exchange Email plans.”

ColdFusion 8 significantly improves performance, scalability and eases integration with secure hosting environments, making it invaluable to ColdFusion developers. Some of the improvements that can be seen include performance increases, enhanced encryption and security, .NET integration, pdf capabilities, and improved advanced features.

ColdFusion 8 includes RSA BSAFE Crypto-J libraries that offer FIPs 140-certified encryption. Also, any .NET object, be it local or remote, can be specified and used in a ColdFusion application. ColdFusion 8 applications are also able to dynamically generate and interact with PDF documents and forms, giving users “a printable, portable way to intelligently capture and share information.”

Also included in ColdFusion 8 are ZIP and JAR file capabilities, Ajax features, per-application settings, multi-threading, and Atom and RSS feeds.


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