A screenshot of the Web Desktop’s “app grid” navigation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With the explosion of cloud technologies moving the industry forward, and with companies increasingly developing applications in the cloud, hosting providers, and the services that deal with the hosting business, are looking for new ways to use the cloud in distributing or supporting their services. Messaging and collaboration provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) is just one of the many companies embracing the cloud

A video from Horizon DCS’ website shows CEO Lance Black (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation firm Horizon Data Center Solutions ( www.horizondcs.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has teamed up with TKC Integration Services ( www.tkcis.com ) to provide cloud computing solutions to government agencies through a NASA SEWP IV (Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement) contract. TKCIS is a contractor in the Washington, D.C. area that provides a range of lifecycle technology solutions to the federal government.

A video from Horizon DCS’ website shows CEO Lance Black (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation firm Horizon Data Center Solutions ( www.horizondcs.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has teamed up with TKC Integration Services ( www.tkcis.com ) to provide cloud computing solutions to government agencies through a NASA SEWP IV (Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement) contract. TKCIS is a contractor in the Washington, D.C.

SunGard Availability Services VP of product management Rob Walters discusses the company’s new enterprise cloud services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — While many managed service providers are partnering with third-party infrastructure companies to help introduce cloud solutions, some MSPs are taking on the daunting task of building out their own cloud solutions. One such MSP is SunGard Availability Services ( www.sungardas.com ), which recently introduced its Enterprise Cloud Services to the North American market . SunGard’s new Enterprise Cloud Services is powered by Vblock technology from VMware, Cisco and EMC.

03|07|2011 5:28 pm EDT Afilias to Consider Proposals for Allocation of 1 & 2 Letter INFO Domains by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registries , Up to the Minute – 0 Comments Afilias just announced that they are accepting proposals for single and double character .INFO domains. Applications have to be submitted with non-refundable $1,000 fee and have to be received before 12:00 UTC on 30 April 2011. The registry operator  reserves the right, to reject proposals that are received after the submission deadline or are deficient or incomplete.

With dashboard integration, Network Redux customers can now use New Relic’s service at no cost to rapidly monitor and troubleshoot business-critical web applications San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 01, 2011 New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management (APM) solutions, and Network Redux, a leading provider of managed web hosting solutions, today announced that Network Redux will offer Bronze-level subscriptions of New Relic’s proven application management service free of charge to Network Redux customers. With integration of New Relic with the Network Redux dashboard, customers can now rapidly gain comprehensive visibility into the performance of their applications and troubleshoot issues proactively

Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov delivers the Wednesday Keynote, in which he announced the company’s new CEO (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov delivered one of the opening keynotes Wednesday at the Parallels Summit, jumping immediately into a kind of state-of-the-union for cloud service providers, and concluding with some big news for the company – a big new product and a new CEO. He started at the top, looking at Amazon, the market-defining cloud vendor

iiNet and Microsoft aim virtual server deal at small business By Stan Beer Thursday, 17 February 2011 18:38 IT Industry – Strategy Australia’s self proclaimed “number two” ISP has sought to capitalise on the growing cloud services market for small business by announcing a deal with Microsoft to provide virtual private servers for businesses that want to host their applications online. The deal will involve iiNet providing the storage infrastructure and broadband services using Microsoft’s web server software and is clearly aimed at the small business market

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 15, 2011 JumpBox, Inc. today announced a promotion that enables any individual to leverage JumpBox’s application packaging technology to host his or her blog, web site or wiki free for one year on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This promotion may be used in conjunction with the AWS Free Usage Tier to combine the reliability of the AWS technology infrastructure platform with best-in-class Open Source server software

Ali Hedayati, president and COO at Coradiant (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — For any web-facing application, performance is critical. But not every organization operating a web application has a full understanding of its performance, and the factors that influence it. There is a wide variety of application performance monitoring and management solutions out there, and several methods for measuring, reporting and managing performance