Dave Leonard, SVP of data center operations at ViaWest (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced on Thursday that the grand opening ceremony for its Portland, Oregon data center are scheduled for May 12.  According to the press release, Hillsboro II is the company’s second data center investment in the region. “ViaWest continually invests in its data centers, technology, and people,” Roy Dimoff, chairman and CEO of ViaWest said in a statement. “We are very excited to expand both our investment and our local involvement in the Portland area.”  ViaWest says it owns and operaties 21 data centers including Hillsboro II

Dave Leonard, SVP of data center operations at ViaWest (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider ViaWest ( www.viawest.com ) announced on Thursday that the grand opening ceremony for its Portland, Oregon data center are scheduled for May 12.  According to the press release, Hillsboro II is the company’s second data center investment in the region. “ViaWest continually invests in its data centers, technology, and people,” Roy Dimoff, chairman and CEO of ViaWest said in a statement. “We are very excited to expand both our investment and our local involvement in the Portland area.”  ViaWest says it owns and operaties 21 data centers including Hillsboro II

The UK2 Group, which includes Web hosting brands such as VPS.NET and 100TB, is now under new management. Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) and it’s management team have bought a 47million ($77M USD) stake in the established Web hosting and cloud services provider.

04|15|2011 7:34 pm EDT .XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registries – 1 Comment Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry , the zone is currently propagating. While a number of registrars have already been taking pre-registrations, the actual timeline for the launch has not yet been published.

A map from AboveNet’s website shows its connectivity in the New Jersey area (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Connectivity solutions provider AboveNet ( www.above.net ) announced on Wednesday that it has provided fiber connectivity into DuPont Fabros Technology ( www.dft.com ) wholesale data center in New Jersey. AboveNet is already connected to its facilities in Northern Virgnia and Chicago, and is currently in the process of building out to its latest development in Santa Clara, California. According to the press release, AboveNet used DFT’s “underground and secure 3-level conduit bank system” to deploy equipment at DFT’s NJ1 data center, establishing an IP and Metro Ethernet POP.

A screenshot of a video describing the Mozy service features, at the comapny’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Online backup service firm Mozy ( www.mozy.com ) announced this week that it had successfully completed the SAS 70 and ISO 27001 certifications, both of them serving as validations for the company’s standards around data security. The SAS 70 certification is the popular auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, verifying that an organization has been through an audit of its control objectives and activities.

A screenshot from Intermedia’s website shows its email interface (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Intermedia ( www.intermedia.net ) announced on Thursday that compliance templates for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act are now available as part of its email encryption service.  According to the government website , the act protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information and sets national standards for the security of electronic protected health information. Intermedia says healthcare firms can use its templates to encrypt protected health information, or “any personal health information that can be linked to a specific individual and includes any part of the patient’s medical record or payment history.” This additional feature has been introduced recently after Intermedia partnered with Mozy to create a new online backup service for small- and medium-sized enterprises.