September 2, 2011 — Internet backbone and colocation provider Hurricane Electric announced on Friday that it is partnering with Internet Society Hong Kong to launch the first IPv6 Certification Program in Asia. According to the press release, it will be the first non-English global IPv6 certification program since it will be conducted in Chinese.

A screen shot of AICPA’s SSAE 16 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider NationalNet ( www.nationalnet.com ) announced on Tuesday it is in the process of attaining Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 certification.

A screen shot of AICPA’s SSAE 16 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider NationalNet ( www.nationalnet.com ) announced on Tuesday it is in the process of attaining Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16 certification. INetU Managed Hosting announced earlier this year it achieved compliance with SSAE 16 , five months in advance.

The chart plotting the performance of applications tested in the most VB 100 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Security and trust company Comodo ( www.comodo.com ) announced this week that its Comodo Internet Security product has earned the VB 100 certification, based on the ability of the product to recognize malware as it is intended. The VB 100 certification is a security product certification issued by the Virus Bulletin publication. Conducted monthly, the VB 100 test allows those products to display the certification seal if they deflect 100 percent of malware currently listed as “in the wild,” while displaying no false positives, using an out-of-the-box configuration.

April 14th, 2011 By: THN News ( The Hosting News ) – Webhost.US.Com, a leading Web Hosting provider and member of the Webhost.UK.Net Group, has successfully launched their own cloud infrastructure. Webhost.US.Com have started 2011 by launching a very impressive Cloud Hosting platform.

An image of The Benaroya Company’s South Hill North Data Center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The Benaroya Company ( www.benaroya.com ) announced on Tuesday that its South Hill North Data Center ( http://www.southhilldatacenter.com/SouthDataCenter.aspx ) in Puyallup, Washington has earned the Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council’s LEED program ( www.usgbc.org/LEED ) for the design, construction and operation of energy efficient buildings. The facility joins only a handful of data centers around the country to earn the upper-tier certification, including IBM’s Raleigh, North Carolina data center , Sabey Data Centers’ Intergate.Columbia facility in East Wenatchee, Washington , and eBay’s flagship data center in Salt Lake City . South Hill’s commissioned data center delivers 56,605 square feet of raised floor space, robust critical infrastructure scalable up to 260 watts per square foot, uninterruptable low cost power and energy efficiency for extremely low total operating cost.  Additionally, South Hill utilizes clean energy in the form of wind and hydroelectric power.  “South Hill Data Center is very attractive both fiscally and environmentally,” says Larry Benaroya  of The Benaroya Company, which developed and owns South Hill

A diagram from NaviSite’s website illustrates the security of its NaviCloud framework (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Thursday that it has achieved the Cisco Advanced Managed Services Certification that recognizes NaviSite’s investment in the ITIL ( www.itil-officialsite.com ) processes to provide high-quality managed services. This news comes a month after NaviSite announced that IT solutions and software firm International Turnkey Systems deployed NaviSite’s managed cloud services . As a partner, NaviSite says it “has made an investment in a network operations center and has demonstrated the ability to support two customers, validated via an independent audit.” “This achievement represents an important milestone in the development and roll out of our cloud-based services,” R