Web Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovative on-demand data center services provider, today announced that the research firm Longhaus has named SoftLayer the strongest offshore (no Australian data center) trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider for Australian enterprises. Longhaus conducted a detailed review based on 60 criteria resulting in the top 34 short-listed cloud providers currently serving Australian customers

A photo from Host Europe’s website shows the inside of its data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Domain name registrar and web hosting provider Host Europe ( www.hosteurope.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) to provide free Open-Xchange webmail and personal information management to more than 1.4 million email accounts. According to the press release, Host Europe plans to consolidate its existing webmail solutions such as Atmail, Roundcube and SquirrelMail and replace them with Open-Xchange webmail by the end of 2011.

A screen shot taken of a Dell cloud services promotional video (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a report by The Australian , Dell ( www.dell.com ) CEO Michael Dell revealed that the company is set to launch a massive global data center buildout to meet the demands for its cloud computing services.

A screen shot taken of a Dell cloud services promotional video (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a report by The Australian , Dell ( www.dell.com ) CEO Michael Dell revealed that the company is set to launch a massive global data center buildout to meet the demands for its cloud computing services. The initiative is part of the company’s overall plan to build data centers in 10 countries of the world, starting with a new data center in Australia.

A screenshot of the Instant CloudMove solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Cloud platform developer Gizmox ( www.visualwebgui.com ) announced on Thursday that its Visual WebGui Instant CloudMove solution is now available through the Windows Azure Marketplace. According to the press release, Gizmox’s support of Windows Azure provides enterprises with the “shortest path” to enable its client and server applications on the cloud. Gizmox says its VWG enables the “auto-transposition of application code that runs locally as a client/server application into an application that runs natively on Windows Azure.” The rich Web application is accessible in a “secure-by-design” mode from any browser or mobile device.  According to the press release, Instand CloudMove supports the transformation from various technologies such as Visual Basic 6, Oracle Forms, Power Builder, COBOL, Magic and others, Microsoft.NET into applications that run natively on Windows Azure

Ebrahim Keshavarz of AT&T delivers a keynote address on Thursday (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Thursday’s second keynote was delivered by Ebrahim Keshavarz of AT&T, who sought to illuminate some areas opportunity in delivering cloud services to SMBs, a bit more than a recurring theme at the conference.

Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante prepare to deliver their report Wednesday afternoon (WEB HOST INDSUTRY REVIEW) — In the first session in the afternoon marketing track Wednesday at the Parallels Summit, Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante presented the results of a study of approximately 600 SMBs, conducted in an effort to gain some insight into their spending on cloud services. They found that US SMBs spend about $8.6 billion annually in cloud services, including $4.9 billion in hosted infrastructure, $2.3 billion in web hosting, $600 million in hosted email and $800 million in Hosted PBX (which seems to be a particular area of new focus for Paralllels). There’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing going on with Parallels’ definition of “cloud services” and the services it designs its products to enable.

Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante prepare to deliver their report Wednesday afternoon (WEB HOST INDSUTRY REVIEW) — In the first session in the afternoon marketing track Wednesday at the Parallels Summit, Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante presented the results of a study of approximately 600 SMBs, conducted in an effort to gain some insight into their spending on cloud services. They found that US SMBs spend about $8.6 billion annually in cloud services, including $4.9 billion in hosted infrastructure, $2.3 billion in web hosting, $600 million in hosted email and $800 million in Hosted PBX (which seems to be a particular area of new focus for Paralllels)

(Proposal for handling recovered IPv4 address space) Introduction Global Internet Number Resource Policies are defined by the ASO MOU – between ICANN and the NRO – as “Internet number resource policies that have the agreement of all RIRs according to their policy development processes and ICANN, and require specific actions or outcomes on the part of IANA or any other external ICANN-related body in order to be implemented”. Attachment A of this MOU describes the Development Process of Global Internet Number Resource Policies, including the adoption by every RIR of a global policy to be forwarded to the ICANN Board by the ASO, as well as its ratification by the ICANN Board. In this context, the ICANN Board adopted its own Procedures for the Review of Internet Number Resource Policies Forwarded by the ASO for Ratification

Web Hosting News – Montevideo – The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced last week that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. On Monday, January 31, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two blocks of IPv4 address space to APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, which triggered a global policy to allocate the remaining IANA pool equally between the five RIRs. Today IANA allocated those blocks.