An image from Data Centers Canada’s Toronto North facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Data Centers Canada ( www.datacenterscanada.com ) announced Tuesday it has opened its Phase 3 data center POD space at its Toronto North facility. The Phase 3 POD has approximately 125 cabinets with single-cabinet, cabinet clusters and private cage configurations available to customers

An image from Data Centers Canada’s Toronto North facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Data Centers Canada ( www.datacenterscanada.com ) announced Tuesday it has opened its Phase 3 data center POD space at its Toronto North facility. The Phase 3 POD has approximately 125 cabinets with single-cabinet, cabinet clusters and private cage configurations available to customers. Located 13 miles north of Toronto in Vaughan, the facility is in close proximity to Pearson International Airport and the downtown financial district.

Hosting News – ATLANTA – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of end-to-end Internet business products and services, today announced its alliance with Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading metro fiber network and bandwidth service provider in the Northeast. Through the relationship, enterprises in buildings and data centers connected to Lightower’s all-fiber network can now optimize network performance and availability through the use of Internap’s Performance IP™. Businesses can also benefit from Internap’s Managed Hosting, CDN and Colocation services.

Web Host News – West Chester, OH – iNET Interactive has announced today the location and date for the seventh annual HostingCon, the world’s premiere conference and trade show serving the hosted services industry.  HostingCon 2011 will be held in San Diego, California, from August 8-10 at the San Diego Convention Center situated beautifully on the glistening San Diego Bay. HostingCon attracts web hosts, cloud services, data centers, software-as-a-service (SaaS), ISVs and other Internet service providers from across the world.  In 2010, HostingCon attendees represented more than 33 countries.  Whether traveling from near or far, HostingCon attendees expect a high-class location to conduct business but they also want to have fun and relax – all of which San Diego delivers. As the nation’s eighth largest city, San Diego is easily accessible for domestic and international travelers, home to over 11,000 high-tech companies and showcases great entertainment and attractions.  In addition, San Diego `experiences beautiful weather year-round with an average daily temperature of 70.5 degrees (21.4 degrees Celsius.) “San Diego has earned a worldwide reputation as a top convention and meeting destination,” commented Bev Yuellig, Event Operations Manager for HostingCon

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host ServInt Names Director of Sales News: Rackspace Readies Cloud Services to Expand into UK Articles: How Your Web Hosting Affects Your SEO News: Noise Filter: Symantec’s Acquisition of VeriSign’s Security Business Articles: Website Hosting Sales Using Alternative Methods (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The founder of whistleblower website Wikileaks ( www.wikileaks.org ), Julian Assange, told an Australian newspaper that he was hassled by airport security upon returning to his country of citizenship, perhaps as a result of publishing a confidential blacklist of websites that forms the basis of the Australian government’s proposed Internet filter last year. Assange told newspaper The Age that his passport was taken from him at the Melbourne Airport and after 15 minutes was told by customs officials that it was about to be cancelled

Web Hosting News – JAPAN – KVH Co., Ltd., a leading provider of IT and communication services in Japan, announced today that KVH Tokyo Data Center 2 (TDC2), its second commercially available data center in the Tokyo area will be completed and operational by February 2011. Located just outside of Tokyo in Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture, KVH TDC2 will effectively address the increasing need for turn-key, high-specification data center space for corporations demanding high power and cooling capacity.

Web Host News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today launched a new mobile iPhone application expressly designed to make it easy for customers to connect to the company’s Orbit customer portal. In its first iteration, the application enables customers to view and manage support tickets; monitor server ping status; reboot servers; power servers on and off; and initiate operating system (OS) reloads