A screenshot of ECS Webhosting’s live customer chat support from its website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – SSL certificate provider GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.com ) announced on Thursday that German Web host ECS Webhosting ( www.ecs-webhosting.de ) has become a Gold level GlobalSign Partner.

A screenshot of ECS Webhosting’s live customer chat support from its website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – SSL certificate provider GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.com ) announced on Thursday that German Web host ECS Webhosting ( www.ecs-webhosting.de ) has become a Gold level GlobalSign Partner.

A map showing all of iWeb’s data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web host iWeb ( www.iweb.com ) announced on Tuesday that its iWeb-CO data center has received the SAS 70 Type II certification. Located in Montreal, the 29,000 square foot data center is one of four iWeb facilities and is designated for colocation hosting

A map showing all of iWeb’s data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web host iWeb ( www.iweb.com ) announced on Tuesday that its iWeb-CO data center has received the SAS 70 Type II certification.

CrowdDirector is a vendor-neutral, rules-based content delivery load balancing service that helps publishers dynamically optimize content delivery across multiple CDNs, clouds and network resources. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — To help organizations choose their best option in the crowded and competitive content delivery network marketplace, content delivery solutions developer 3Crowd Technologies ( www.3crowd.com ) has created a certification program designed to help CDNs differentiate their services through integration with 3Crowd’s CrowdDirector platform.

CrowdDirector is a vendor-neutral, rules-based content delivery load balancing service that helps publishers dynamically optimize content delivery across multiple CDNs, clouds and network resources. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — To help organizations choose their best option in the crowded and competitive content delivery network marketplace, content delivery solutions developer 3Crowd Technologies ( www.3crowd.com ) has created a certification program designed to help CDNs differentiate their services through integration with 3Crowd’s CrowdDirector platform. CrowdDirector launched in July as a vendor-neutral, rules-based content delivery load balancing service, which helps publishers dynamically optimize content delivery across multiple CDNs, clouds and network resources

The GSA’s new Apps.gov initiative is designed to provide storage, virtualization, and Web hosting solutions to all levels of government in the US. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to make cloud solutions more easily available to government agencies, the US General Services Administration ( www.gsa.gov ) has awarded 11 companies a five-year, government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement to make Infrastructure as a Service solutions available to all levels of government through the gateway “Apps.gov”. Accoridng to the GSA’s announcement this week, Apps.gov will feature storage, virtualization, and Web hosting solutions several vendors to support federal, state, local, and tribal governments.

Web Host News – PHOENIX, AZ – i/o Data Centers (“i/o”) today announced that it has been awarded The Uptime Institute’s Tier III Certification for Design Documents for the first phase of the Company’s Phoenix data center. This data center is the largest commercially available data center in the United States to achieve Tier III design certification from the Uptime Institute. In making the announcement, George D.

i/o Data Centers’ new modular data center solution, i/o ANYWHERE (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Phoenix, Arizona-based data center operator i/o Data Centers ( www.iodatacenters.com ) announced this week that it had been awarded The Uptime Institute’s Tier III Certification for Design Documents for the first phase of its Phoenix data center. According to i/o its facility is the largest commercially available data center in the US to achieve the Tier III designation.

Apps.gov to add storage, virtualization and Web hosting services Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings will support moves to cloud computing By Rutrell Yasin Oct 20, 2010 Government agencies will soon have access to storage, virtualization and Web hosting applications via Apps.gov , the General Service Administration’s cloud-based storefront, government officials said yesterday. Vendors that are awarded an infrastructure-as-a-service contract will provide federal, state, local and tribal agencies with cloud storage, virtual machines and Web hosting to support an ongoing expansion of cloud computing capabilities across government.