Mayawati withdraws support to UPA government 21-06-2008 14.50
New Delhi: Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has withdrawn support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre.
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister accused the Centre of neglecting her state while annoucning her decision to to jettison the UPA.
"There won't be any electoral alliance neither with Congress nor with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). UPA has left the Taj Corridor case lingering against me for political mileage and its attitude to my state has been very hostile," Mayawati said at a press conference.
She has written to President Pratibha Patil, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Congress President Sonia Gandhi informing them about her party's withdrawal of support.
BSP has 17 Lok Sabha Members of Parliament.
"The central government has failed to curb inflation. I consider the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to be the same. The Congress has tried to tarnish our image in every way," BSP president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati told a press briefing in New Delhi.
The Congress is the leading member of the UPA.
The BSP has 17 MPs in Lok Sabha and the withdrawal of its support will have no effect on the longevity of the government.
"In case a no-trust motion against the UPA government is brought in parliament, we will decide on the basis of the issue," Mayawati said.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - May 30, 2008 -
International business hosting services firm, LeaseWeb, for over six months, has
been recognized in the first position on the list of the world's fastest growing
hosting companies.
Con Zwinkels, Managing Director of LeaseWeb noted, ''If we continue to grow as
we did in the past year, I expect that LeaseWeb will remain in the number 1 spot
for a while yet. In the past 12 months we have doubled the number of employees -
and we still have at least 30 job openings. We have also doubled the capacity of
our hosting network. We are expanding our Support Unit from some 30 to 50
employees. And we are already Dell's biggest internet partner in Europe. To top
it all off, in one year we have managed to fill nearly 500 data center cabinets
with hosting equipment at the EvoSwitch CO2-neutral data center.''
The 'Fastest Growing Companies' list is published monthly by the American
magazine, HostReview. LeaseWeb was already listed in 18th position on the
Deloitte Technology Fast 50 of 2007.
Mr. Zwinkels added, ''This position on the American HostReview list is extra
special to me. To us, it confirms that we are not only working hard on growing
but that the market is also seeing that. Not just in the Netherlands, but around
the world.''
In the near future, LeaseWeb will be able to continue its fast expansion thanks
to virtualization. Using virtualization enables us to allocate server space to
customers in a much more flexible way, explains Zwinkels. It also allows us to
roll out new servers even more quickly. We already have a Windows Express Server
and a Linux Express Server that can be live within 24 hours. Virtualization
would speed up the rollout of new servers even more. Among other things,
LeaseWeb employs virtualization experts in the field of VMware and is a
Microsoft launching partner for the virtualization feature via Hyper-V, which
will be released as a part of Windows Server 2008 later this year.
Customer demand for bandwidth is growing very quickly at LeaseWeb. This is why
LeaseWeb is currently restructuring its sizeable global hosting network. The
recent acquisition of two Cisco Carrier Routing System 1s (CRS-1s) will make
LeaseWeb's network infrastructure more hierarchical and scaleable and enables a
bandwidth capacity increase to 1900 Gigabits per second (1.9 Terabits).
Mr. Zwinkels continued, ''The CRS-1s and the related new network architecture
will allow us to accommodate the predicted growth in internet traffic. As a
result, LeaseWeb customers can be sure that our growth potential in terms of
bandwidth for the next few years is huge.''
The growth of both LeaseWeb and its hosting network attract customers that need
a lot of bandwidth. Hyves, for instance, has already selected LeaseWeb as its
premier provider. And 123Video, the Dutch version of YouTube, has also switched
to LeaseWeb in the past year. 123Video is growing so quickly that it expects to
exceed the 12 Gbps of required bandwidth as early as next year.
Mr. Zwinkels concluded, ''Customers who need this much bandwidth need a hosting
partner that is able to expand bandwidth quickly and properly. Our philosophy is
to maintain twice as much capacity as is consumed by our customers. The great
advantage is that we attract big customers, which in turn drives even faster
growth.''
Recently, LeaseWeb restructured its support division, including a new support
manager, and 16 additional support agents. The new Support Division that
includes 33 employees, will be expanded significantly in the near future, to
accommodate LeaseWeb's expansion. LeaseWeb has engaged Ivo Roomer (35) to manage
the Support Division. Roomer previously worked for VNU Media as a Sales Manager
Online Media and has a lot of experience in the hosting sector, among other
things as a Manager Sales Support and European Business Manager. Roomer will be
off to a good start in his new position with an ambitious expansion of 16
additional support agents.
LeaseWeb is an international supplier of hosting products and services that
specializes in both Microsoft and Linux, and focuses primarily on the
professional market. The company is among the top 30 hosting providers in the
world and provides services such as web hosting, dedicated hosting, colocated
hosting, VPS and streaming, as well as technical support. LeaseWeb owns a
first-class Cisco-powered network offering a bandwidth of over 160 Gbps, which
extends across five data centers in the Amsterdam region via the major telecom
carriers. LeaseWeb is also present on internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels,
London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna , Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and
Madrid. Founded in 1997, hosting provider LeaseWeb now manages 11,000 servers.
Its customers include Starbucks, Hyves, Telegraaf Media Groep, Koninklijke Joh.
Ensched, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AVRO, Direct Wonen, and University.
