Domain & Hosting News
Web Hosting News – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced its gold sponsorship of the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit North America at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, 13-15 September. Presented by Tier1 Research and The 451 Group, the event is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, data centre, CDN and cloud Internet infrastructure sectors
CHICAGO , Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Steadfast Networks , a leading Chicago based data center and dedicated server hosting provider, announced today its #1359 ranking on the Inc
Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Infinitely Virtual Adds Solid-State Drives to Boost Server Performance News: Future Hosting Launches VPS at LA Data Center News: Web Hosts and Other IT Firms Make the Inc. 500 List News: Web Hosting and Storage Provider DriveHQ Updates Cloud Service Offerings News: TierPoint Receives $8.2M in Financing for Green Data Center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator TierPoint ( www.tierpoint.com ) announced on Wednesday it has secured $8.2 million in financing for a new energy-efficient data center project, known as TierPoint 3. The company secured a $4.1 million loan from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, and $3.1 million from Evergreen Business Capital and the Small Business Administration, in addition to a $1 million infusion by TierPoint
Hosted Applications: Can You Trust Them With Your Business? Hosted applications have been part of the IT industry since before you first heard the words” You’ve Got Mail” boom out of your old Compaq Presario (or whatever 386-based PC you, your colleagues or your customers used at the time), and America Online began hosting e-mail, contacts and messaging for millions of end users. But while on one hand there’s nothing new about hosted applications, on the other hand everything is new as enterprises of all sizes begin migrating more and more mission-critical technology to the cloud
Vancouver, WA (PRWEB) August 9, 2010 Domain.com, a leading web services company, today announces a new program to support America’s young entrepreneurs. In light of the recent news where county health authorities shut down 7 year old Julie Murphy’s lemonade stand , Domain.com is showing solidarity with all young entrepreneurs by making it easy and inexpensive for their parents to help them build a website
Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: CSC Wins $104M Contract with US Army Aviation and Missile Research News: Google, Verizon Near Agreement on Prioritizing Content: Reports Articles: Going Beyond The Fog Of Private Clouds Blogs: Video Interview with Todd Abrams of Layered Tech News: IT Firms to Heavily Invest in Green Data Centers: Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A report from the New York Times has suggested that a possible deal between online services provider Google ( www.google.com ) and broadband provider Verizon ( www.verizon.com ) could result in a system where content creators can pay extra for faster content delivery.
Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Atlantic Metro, Data Center NYC Group Open $100M NYC Data Center News: Web Hosting Talk to Launch Cloud Performance Benchmarking Site News: Twitter to Open Data Center in Salt Lake City Area News: NTT Com to Open Data Centers in Vietnam and Singapore News: Peak 10 to Enhance its High-Performance Network with Addition of 10Gb Port (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microblogging site Twitter ( www.twitter.com ) announced last week it will move its current data center service with NTT America to its own, custom-built data center somwhere in the Salt Lake City area later this year in an effort to improve its service. Twitter said the new facility will provide it with “a much larger footprint in a building designed specifically around [its] unique power and cooling needs,” while housing “a mixed-vendor environment for servers running open source OS and applications”. The company first revealed it would move to a new data center at the company’s Chirp developer conference back in April, however, it did not specify at the time whether it would be operating its own data center or leasing space at a wholesale data center.
Anybody with web access can submit a story to Wikileaks. The site, however, states that its “primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations.” Wikileaks has now evolved an editorial policy by which only documents “of political, diplomatic, historical or ethical interest” are in fact published, and it has recently ceased to permit users to comment directly on stories.
Web Host News – NEW YORK – Logicworks, a leading provider of enterprise hosting and cloud solutions for high-availability applications and content, has been selected by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the largest and fastest growing labor unions in the US, to provide a hybrid-cloud infrastructure for their member database and support applications.
Blogetery.com , a little-known WordPress platform used by more than 70,000 blogs, was shut down by its Web hosting company mroe than a week ago and nobody seems willing to say why or who is responsible. BurstNet, the Web-hosting company, informed Blogetery’s operator that service was terminated at the request of some law enforcement agency but wouldn’t say which one.
Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts Blogs: Blueprints of Web Hosting’s Future News: Web Host VertexHost Colocates at VegasNAP News: The Green Grid’s PUE Seen as Preferred Industry Metric News: Datarealm Internet Services Adds New Web-based Interface for VPS Management News: Power Assure Raises Additional $11M in FundingJuly (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IP network services provider NTT America ( www.nttamerica.com ) has announced the latest evolution of its multi-location Layer 2 Virtual Private Network solution, enabling major content providers, ISPs and enterprises in the US to efficiently deliver content through major Internet network nodes and data centers located in key US cities. According NTT America’s Thursday announcement, NTT America new “VLink” virtual point-to-point connection service operates over its parent company’s network the NTT Com Global IP Network, providing direct connectivity between multiple locations, as well as an alternative to point-to-point connections. “As more and more companies look to the cloud for cost-effective network solutions, the delivery method for critical data is key,” NTT America customer solutions executive director Teri Francis said in a statement
Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: NetApp Console Provides Added Visibility and Management Capabilities for VMware Environments News: TIE Technologies Buys Web Design and Hosting Firm ForeScene News: Microsoft Highlights Opportunities for Service Providers at WPC 2010 News: Telehouse America Opens Data Center in Shanghai Blogs: Attend My “Opportunities and Advantages for Hosting Resellers” Panel and HostingCon (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In support of the new VMware vSphere 4.1 release, storage and data management solutions developer NetApp ( www.netapp.com ) has added new storage management integration for greater performance and scalability of VMware vSphere environments. According to NetApp’s announcement this week, NetApp Virtual Storage Console enables customers to centrally manage all NetApp storage for VMware environments directly from the VMware vCenter Server console and fully leverage the benefits of virtualized infrastructures. “Virtualization of the server and storage infrastructure is reshaping today’s data center as customers begin laying the foundation for cloud computing,” VMware global strategic alliances vice president Gary Green said in a statement.
