An image of IBM’s LEED Gold-certified cloud data center in Raleigh, North Carolina (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM ( www.ibm.com ) announced on Monday it has invested $38 million in a new IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore. The announcement comes a couple months after IBM revealed it would be collaborating with China-based Range Technology Development to build the largest cloud computing data center in Asia, located in China’s Hebei province. The new facility will extend IBM’s globally via its integrated cloud delivery network with centers in Germany, Canada and the United States.

An image of IBM’s LEED Gold-certified cloud data center in Raleigh, North Carolina (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM ( www.ibm.com ) announced on Monday it has invested $38 million in a new IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore. The announcement comes a couple months after IBM revealed it would be collaborating with China-based Range Technology Development to build the largest cloud computing data center in Asia, located in China’s Hebei province. The new facility will extend IBM’s globally via its integrated cloud delivery network with centers in Germany, Canada and the United States.

A graph taken from Renesys’ website which shows Egypt’s sudden Internet downtime (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Egypt’s Internet access was completely cut just after midnight Friday morning, according to a report by the Associated Press . Internet security firm Renesys reported that Egypt’s four main ISPs – Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr — all went offline, almost simultaneously, around 12:34 a.m. Friday

An image of IBM’s LEED Gold-certified cloud data center in Raleigh, North Carolina (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM ( www.ibm.com ) announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with China-based Range Technology Developmen to build a cloud computing data center in Langfang City in Hebei province. The 6.2 million square foot data center will be the largest cloud computing center in Asia, says IBM.

An image of IBM’s LEED Gold-certified cloud data center in Raleigh, North Carolina (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM ( www.ibm.com ) announced on Tuesday it is collaborating with China-based Range Technology Developmen to build a cloud computing data center in Langfang City in Hebei province. The 6.2 million square foot data center will be the largest cloud computing center in Asia, says IBM

A screen shot of Joyent’s SmartMachines offered as part of SmartDataCenter 6 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud solutions provider Joyent ( www.joyent.com ) announced on Wednesday it has launched SmartDataCenter 6 ( www.joyent.com/software/smartdatacenter ), the newest version of its cloud operating system.

A screenshot of Host1Plus Mandarin-language website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK Web hosting provider Host1Plus ( www.host1plus.com ) announced on Friday that it has expanded its operations to China with colocation in Singapore and a new Chinese version of its website.

A screenshot of Host1Plus Mandarin-language website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK Web hosting provider Host1Plus ( www.host1plus.com ) announced on Friday that it has expanded its operations to China with colocation in Singapore and a new Chinese version of its website.

Developments over the last 12 months in the Chinese and Hong Kong ccTLDs are outlined in this article by lawyers from the Hong Kong-based law firm Mayer Brown JSM. The article also gives a quick overview of the new measures and policies adopted by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) and Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited (HKIRC)

Stolen ITunes Accounts for Sale in China Thursday, January 06, 2011, 11:31:22 AM After thousands of ITunes users had their accounts hacked back in July last year, Apple promised to step up its security. However, 6 months on ITunes users have once again found themselves victims of fraudulent activity as a reported 50,000 accounts have been compromised.