By Kirk Ladendorf AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Published: 6:59 p.m. Friday, April 22, 2011 Austin companies ranging from online service providers to a local travel agency felt the sting of a major outage at an Amazon.com data center in Virginia on Thursday and Friday. The effects of the service interruption were widespread because Amazon is a major provider of data center hosting for the fast-emerging market of cloud computing services. That meant thousands of smaller companies were depending on Amazon to run their website operations, store their business data and even keep track of their email service.

Web Hosting – Austin, TX – Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center outsourcing and colocation services, announces participation at two upcoming energy events in April 2011, SPE Digital Energy Conference and Exhibition and Alliance Expo. Data Foundry will be showcasing its premium data center and disaster recovery solutions for the energy industry.

Austin, TX, April 01, 2011 —(PR.com)— Green web hosting provider, Green Host It, Inc., announced that it will be exhibiting at the Austin GoGreen conference to be held at the Austin Convention Center, April 6. The move comes a week before the one year anniversary of the web host and underscores the company’s commitment to businesses and environmentally friendly green practices. Additionally, Green Host It is offering a $25 discount for all attendees that enter coupon code GHI upon registering for the convention

Austin, TX, April 01, 2011 –( PR.com )– Green web hosting provider, Green Host It, Inc., announced that it will be exhibiting at the Austin GoGreen conference to be held at the Austin Convention Center, April 6. The move comes a week before the one year anniversary of the web host and underscores the company’s commitment to businesses and environmentally friendly green practices. Additionally, Green Host It is offering a $25 discount for all attendees that enter coupon code GHI upon registering for the convention

An aerial shot of CyrusOne’s North Dallas colocation facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Data center operator CyrusOne ( www.cyrusone.com ) announced on Monday that it is expanding with a new 72,000 square foot data center in Austin, Texas.  Two weeks ago, CyrusOne made its first move into the European market with a 10,000 square foot data center in London, UK. Last week, the WHIR delved into the construction of colocation firm Data Foundry’s data center campus in Austin, Texas. The 250,000 square foot data center, the first facility in its Data Ranch, will open in June 2011

A photo from Data Foundry’s blog documents Texas 1 construction (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation and data center operator Data Foundry ( www.datafoundry.com ) announced on Tuesday that JPMorgan Chase Bank ( www.jpmorganchase.com ) is the sole lender for the company’s Texas 1 data center that is currently being built. According to the company, the debt financing from Chase covers construction and completion costs of Phase 1 of the facility, which includes 130,000 square feet of data center space. Data Foundry documents the construction of its Texas 1 facility on its data center construction blog

Web Hosting News – Austin, TX – Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation and disaster recovery services, announces today that Ignite 360, a Software as a Service (SaaS) and business IT services provider, has selected Data Foundry’s premium Austin data center for colocation and Internet connectivity supporting its mission critical production servers and Cloud architecture. Ignite 360 utilizes Data Foundry’s data center for secure colocation and blended Internet bandwidth connectivity to support its core infrastructure for Cloud Storage and SaaS Hosting.  “The Software as a Service market has experienced double-digit growth in recent years,” states Shane Menking, President of Data Foundry. “Our colocation and carrier-neutral offerings are designed to meet the demanding requirements of this sector and offer flexible, customized configurations to support applications and services on demand.” “Since our software and application portfolios are deployed to our clients via the Internet, it is imperative that our core network and systems reside in a fully redundant facility to ensure 100% uptime and maximum availability,” states Jason C