April 13, 2012 — In the week ending April 13, 2012, Blacknight is offering a 30-day free trial of its goMobi website builder, EuroDNS is offering its .AT domain names for a special price, HostGator is offering a discount on its Windows servers, and Action Web Group is offering 30 percent off its Jackpot Rubberband hosting plan.

April 13, 2012 — DDoS protection services provider Prolexic Technologies announced on Wednesday that it has released its Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which shows that financial services firms experienced nearly three times the number of DDoS attacks during Q1 compared to Q4 2011.

April 13, 2012 — The Cabinet Office confirmed on Friday that G-Cloud director Chris Chant will retire at the end of April, two days after he wrote a blog post criticizing goverment IT departments for being unwilling to change how they purchase services.

April 13, 2012 — A US judge told the lawyers for Megaupload, the US Department of Justice, web hosting provider Carpathia Hosting, and other parties involved in a dispute over the maintainence of the 1,100 servers previously used by Megaupload, that they should discuss the situation and arrive at a resolution.

April 13, 2012 — Cloud management provider RightScale announced on Tuesday that it will offer HP Cloud as one of the public cloud choices available for management with RightScale.

April 13, 2012 — Microsoft released its global “SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011″ report last month which explores SMB attitudes toward the adoption of cloud services and what opportunities that offers hosting companies.

April 13, 2012 — Security provider eleven announced on Friday that results from its April 2012 email security report indicate that phishing emails increased by 169.6 percent in the first quarter of 2012. In the same quarter, malware emails increased by 83.7 percent.

April 13, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider CSC announced on Friday it has expanded cloud services in Canada with its CSC BizCloud, the first on-premise private cloud billed as a service and ready for workloads in 10 weeks.

April 12, 2012 — Web hosting provider Windstream Hosted Solutions announced on Thursday it has opened its new data center in Little Rock, Arkansas, which is designed to meet the growing demand for cloud-based and dedicated managed services.

April 12, 2012 — Web hosting provider Cirrus Tech announced on Thursday that it has deployed ThreatSTOP across its entire network to protect its customers from malware. This news comes three months after Cirrus Tech launched its CloudTO cloud hosting in Canada.