(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As part of its expanded cloud computing strategy , technology provider IBM ( www.ibm.com ) is leading a joint research initiative of 15 European partners to develop a smart cloud storage architecture to improve the global delivery of rich data and storage services across borders and vendor boundaries. The EU-funded initiative known as VISION Cloud ( www.visioncloud.eu ) will bring together consortium partners including standards bodies, media companies, telecommunications companies, healthcare companies, and academic institutions. The goal of VISION Cloud is to develop a new approach to storage that will tackle the major challenges facing today’s storage clouds including cost-effectiveness, data mobility across cloud providers, security guarantees, and the massive computing power demands.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As part of its expanded cloud computing strategy , technology provider IBM ( www.ibm.com ) is leading a joint research initiative of 15 European partners to develop a smart cloud storage architecture to improve the global delivery of rich data and storage services across borders and vendor boundaries.

Web Hosting News – RALEIGH, N.C. – The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the opening of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship program, recognizing college and university-bound students across the globe for their contributions to free software and the Fedora Project.

Getting Past ‘Virtualization Stall’ And To The Cloud Customers find it easy to get started on the road to virtualization, but often such projects stall before they get ready for a move to the cloud, according to Steve Kaplan, a solution provider and well-known author on virtualization. Getting past the virtualization stall requires stepping back and looking at the architecture from a completely new point of view, said Kaplan, vice president of data center virtualization at INX, a Houston-based solution provider

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Information infrastructure solutions provider EMC Corporation ( www.emc.com ) has formed a new partnership in an effort to help data warehousing and analytics users to discover, access and analyze data from both Greenplum databases and Hadoop infrastructure seamlessly. EMC’s Greenplum technology is designed to help businesses better manage and analyze large and continuously growing amounts of structured and unstructured information such as log files, sensor data, streaming data, sales receipts, e-mails, research data and images – collectively known as “big data.” According to EMC’s Wednesday announcement, it has formed an alliance with Hadoop-based data management software and services developer Cloudera ( www.cloudera.com ) to integrate Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop ( www.cloudera.com/hadoop/ ) with EMC’s Greenplum Chorus platform, which uses cloud computing techniques and social collaboration for enterprise data warehousing and analytics.

Taken from a Netezza white paper, an illustration showing the architecture of the comapny’s TwinFin system (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to expand its business analytics initiatives, IBM ( www.ibm.com ) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Netezza Corporation ( www.netezza.com ) for a net price of approximately $1.7 billion. According to IBM’s Monday announcement, the addition of Netezza technologies will help IBM clients gain faster insights into their business information at a lower cost

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: CA Technologies to Acquire Online Authentication Firm Arcot Systems for $200M News: Infinitely Virtual Adds Juniper Firewall Perimeter Anti-Virus News: Equinix to Build $60M Data center in Hong Kong News: Web Host BurstNet Opens Europe Headquarters News: Microsoft Co-Founder Sues 11 Online Brands for Patent Infringement (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Virtual hosting provider Infinitely Virtual ( www.infinitelyvirtual.com ) has moved from software-based solutions to perimeter anti-virus solutions on Juniper ( www.juniper.net ) firewall products, providing another advanced, cost-effective business solution for customers. According to Infinitely Virtual’s Monday announcement, its addition of perimeter anti-virus protection was precipitated by company growth, and the desire to add a high-quality anti-virus solution, which is an important part of any unified threat management suite, and an integral part of any security strategy.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: CA Technologies to Acquire Online Authentication Firm Arcot Systems for $200M News: Infinitely Virtual Adds Juniper Firewall Perimeter Anti-Virus News: Equinix to Build $60M Data center in Hong Kong News: Web Host BurstNet Opens Europe Headquarters News: Microsoft Co-Founder Sues 11 Online Brands for Patent Infringement (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Virtual hosting provider Infinitely Virtual ( www.infinitelyvirtual.com ) has moved from software-based solutions to perimeter anti-virus solutions on Juniper ( www.juniper.net ) firewall products, providing another advanced, cost-effective business solution for customers. According to Infinitely Virtual’s Monday announcement, its addition of perimeter anti-virus protection was precipitated by company growth, and the desire to add a high-quality anti-virus solution, which is an important part of any unified threat management suite, and an integral part of any security strategy. To protect against network-level attacks, Juniper devices use a dynamic packet filtering method known as “stateful inspection” to unmask malicious traffic, enabling firewalls to collect information on various components in a packet header, including source and destination IP addresses, source and destination port numbers, and packet sequence numbers.

Web Hosting News – ORANGE, CA – AFCOM, the world’s leading data center association, today announced the release of “Guiding Data Centers to Cloud Computing,” a position paper by the Data Center Institute that presents specific concepts and issues that it recommends organizations consider before they begin the transformation to public, private or hybrid cloud computing. This paper is the only available resource designed to provide information on cloud computing specifically for data center and facilities management professionals.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Bobcares Unveils On-the-Go Server Monitoring Service for iPhone OS News: Rackspace Offers Cloud Servers for Windows News: i365 Expands EVault Remote Disaster Recovery Service For Multi-Platform Cloud Environments News: Datapipe Names VP of Cloud Strategy and Architecture News: Q&A: Nicholas Tanzi, President and CEO, GPX Global Systems (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com ) announced on Tuesday it has begun general availability of its Cloud Servers for Windows offering. The announcement comes less than a month after Rackspace launched its open-source cloud platform OpenStack , where it revealed it is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings to the OpenStack project.  The new service “delivers a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testing and developing applications and supporting the high levels of traffic required for launching online gaming platforms or the next social networking phenomenon,” says Rackspace