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Web Hosting News – NEW YORK and NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA – Verizon (NYSE, NASDAQ:VZ) and SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), announced on Wednesday (March 16) that they will jointly deliver the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) rapid-deployment solution to enterprise workers through Verizon’s flagship cloud offering, Computing as a Service. Workers will now be able to access SAP CRM from their desktops or their mobile devices
A map of Telehouse’s data center footprint throughout Japan (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and data center operator Telehouse ( www.telehouse.net ) announced on Thursday that all 21 of its data centers located throughout Japan are operational without any unplanned outages. The Telehouse Sendai facility, located in the most severely affected area of Japan, is also operational, says the company.
A map of Telehouse’s data center footprint throughout Japan (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and data center operator Telehouse ( www.telehouse.com ) announced on Thursday that all 21 of its data centers located throughout Japan are operational without any unplanned outages. The Telehouse Sendai facility, located in the most severely affected area of Japan, is also operational, says the company. The earthquake and resulting tsunami hit the Pacific Ocean near Northeastern Japan last Friday, causing damage to the nation’s power infrastructure
Website Hosting News – REGENSBURG & SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s technology center, Silicon Valley, is host to the 40th rotating ICANN Meeting. The international Internet branch is getting together from March 13 – 18, 2011, to discuss the latest developments around nTLDs and more
For those wanting to plan ahead, ICANN have announced their meeting to be held in October 2012 will be held in Toronto, Canada. The announcement skips meetings scheduled for October 2011 (Africa), March 2012 (Latin America) and June 2012 (Europe), all of which have not had their locations announced to date.
A video still from the WHIR tour of the Phoenix NAP facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Data center operator Phoenix NAP ( www.phoenixnap.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has deployed packet-optical solutions from Cyan ( www.cyaninfo.com ) to interconnect the company’s 90,000 square foot colocation facility with a second facility in the Phoenix area. According to the press release, the Cyan Z-series platforms provide Phoenix NAP with high-performance and low-latency transport between facilities.
Website Hosting News – London, UK – Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services, today announced the opening of its new Datacenter in Istanbul/Turkey in partnership with local telecommunications/system integrator company Teknotel Telekomünikasyon. ‘Telehouse Istanbul’ in partnership with Teknotel Telekomünikasyon, will be operational from March 2011 and is Telehouse’s first data center operation in the region. The new carrier neutral data centre facility in Kozyatagi is located on the Asian side of Istanbul and is opened under the Telehouse brand and operated, supported and maintained by Teknotel to Telehouse’s stringent global operating standards
A screen shot of The SharePoint Initiative’s SharePoint 2010 page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK hosting provider The SharePoint Initiative ( www.sharepointinitiative.com ) announced on Monday it is currently offering SharePoint 2010 hosting, which allows customers to store their data in the UK under stringent UK data protection laws.
The Obama administration is “seeking to give authoritarian regimes more power to impose censorship on the Web” through giving them more powers through organisations such as ICANN, says an editorial in the right-leaning Washington Times. The editorial says that “as the influence of the Internet has grown, ICANN has come under increasing scrutiny for foreign governments seeking more control over the system.” It is also a view that is espoused on many right-wing blogs and comments under articles in the right-wing press. The editorial says that the “Bush administration time and again rebuffed these power-sharing proposals” while in “October 2009 the Obama administration concluded an agreement with ICANN that increased international input on Internet governance.
