Digital Technology International says it now has more than 100 users for its hosted Cloud publishing environment. There was celebratory cake ready at the mediaXchange conference in Orlando, Florida, but latest signings – including Freedom Communications and Sun-Times Media take the total to 113. All are in North America and, while arrangements are underway for the next rollout of DTI’s ‘software-as-a-service’ solutions across Europe, marketing vice president Steve Nilan says it will be 2011 before the facility is available in the Asia-Pacific. Announced at last year’s mediaXchange event, Cloud provides secure and redundant data centres, abundant bandwidth and the highest level of network availability in the industry, he says. "We announced DTI Cloud a year ago as a dramatic new way for newspaper publishers to reduce costs and increase competitiveness. Reaching the 100 newspaper milestone so quickly is a strong endorsement of our SaaS solution and ample evidence that the industry is aggressively adopting new business models," he says. "DTI is excited to be an integral part of the industry's transformation.". He says having its entire suite of content management, circulation and advertising and financial solutions in the cloud for mission-critical deadline publishing is a “unique benefit” for customers.