Hosting Reviews – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies ®, the innovation leader in on-demand Dedicated and Cloud hosting, today announced its participation in and sponsorship of the 2011 Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O’Reilly Media, Inc.

Announces Sponsorship of Web 2.0 Expo DALLAS–( BUSINESS WIRE )– SoftLayer Technologies ® , the innovation leader in on-demand Dedicated and Cloud hosting, today announced its participation in and sponsorship of the 2011 Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. “Web 2.0 is a key event for SoftLayer” Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O’Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms, products, and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web.

Scality’s Brad King delivers an afternoon session on Thursday (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) —  The final session I attended at this year’s WorldHostingDays was delivered by Brad King, of Scalty, and entitled, “Cloud Storage: Threat or Opportunity?” a look at a more specific sub-set of the ubiquitous cloud discussions taking place around the show. He began with a discussion of a few of the key charateristics of cloud storage, saying it’s like a bank, in some ways (keep this safe for me, and then give it back), and it’s like a brain (remember this, and recall this). One of the interesting things about cloud storage is that it’s a variation on storage, as opposed to an entirely new way of doing things.

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

Web Hosting News – Orlando, FL – Atlantic.Net , a privately held leading hosting solutions provider, announced today that it has released a free application programming interface (API) for its world-class cloud computing platform, allowing customers to more efficiently utilize its robust functionality. Tasks such as provisioning new servers, deleting existing servers, and turning power on and off can now be handled with a few lines of code, rather than having to access a web interface.

MARCH 21, 2011: Cloud hosting company StratoGen today launched a range of security features designed to enhance cloud security and help prevent malicious attacks. The new service called SharpLock is free and available exclusively on StratoGen’s VMware hosting service.

Website Hosting News – CUPERTINO, CA – Cloud.com today announced CloudStack™ 2.2, the latest version of its innovative open source cloud computing platform. CloudStack is a comprehensive, open source software solution that accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of highly-scalable public and private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds. Using CloudStack as the foundation, data center operators can quickly and easily build cloud services within their existing infrastructure to offer on-demand, elastic cloud services.

A screenshot from Trusteer’s whitepaper about its Pinpoint monitoring solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Secure browsing provider Trusteer ( www.trusteer.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has launched Pinpoint, a new web login transaction monitoring service that detects malware without the installation of software on the endpoint device. According to the announcement, Pinpoint enables organizations to “transparently detect immediate threats on the user’s machine before allowing them to sign-in or execute transactions.” Designed to protect against fraud and information theft, Pinpoint detects infections in real-time, according to Trusteer. Trusteer says Pinpoint uses information gathered from malware command and control servers to detect behaviors of infected computers.  “Web fraud prevention is a three legged stool that combines detection, protection, and remediation,” Yaron Dycian, vice president of products for Trusteer stated.

A diagram of StratoGen’s hybrid cloud solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK cloud hosting provider StratoGen ( www.stratogen.net ) announced on Wednesday it has launched a range of security features designed to enhance cloud security and help prevent malicious attacks. The new security service comes a month after StratoGen launched its hybrid cloud solution with VMware

A diagram of StratoGen’s hybrid cloud solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK cloud hosting provider StratoGen ( www.stratogen.net ) announced on Wednesday it has launched a range of security features designed to enhance cloud security and help prevent malicious attacks. The new security service comes a month after StratoGen launched its hybrid cloud solution with VMware.