A screenshot of Rydewski’s LinkedIn page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center solutions provider INX Inc. (www.inxi.com) announced Thursday that it has named Philip Rydzewski as its new chief financial officer and senior vice president.
An screenshot from the website announcing the merged operations of SoftLayer and The Planet It was a huge year for consolidation and acquisition in the hosting space – a year that saw private equity and other institutional investors acting on a growing interest in the managed hosting and cloud market with some major moves. The object here is obviously to look back on some of that hosting industry M&A activity in 2010, and provide a bit of a big-picture look, but let’s get it out of the way right now that it would be next to impossible to be anything approaching exhaustive in this article. There were almost 230 articles tagged “mergers and acquisitions” published on the WHIR in 2010.
Dell DX object storage platform, the foundation of Dell Unified Clinical Archive (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Dell ( www.dell.com ) announced on Wednesday it will acquire cloud storage firm InSite One (www.insiteone.com), a company that develops medical archiving cloud application for physicians to easily share medical images online for diagnostic purposes. The move comes a couple of weeks after Dell purchased cloud storage firm Compellent Technologies for about $960 million
An artist rendering of east Shandong hospital (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Virtualization solutions provider China Intelligence Information Systems (www.ciisi.com) announced on Wednesday that one of its wholly-owned subsidaries, Jinan Yinquan Technology (www.yinquan.cn) , has won the bid for the Shandong Provincial Hospital virtualization project. Established in 1897, the hospital is the Red Cross Hospital for Shandong Province and the School of Clinical Medicine of Shandong University.
A photo of the Somerset facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Oracle hosting provider Core Services (www.coresystems.com) announced on Wednesday its data center in Somerset, New Jersey is now live and fully operational. The company announced its move to the 50,000 square foot facility in February 2010 . “We were happy to move into a higher capacity facility in order to accommodate our dramatic growth,” Jim Bistis, president and CEO of Core Services said in a statement.


