A video still from the company’s website shows its new managed data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Telecommunications infrastructure provider US Signal ( www.ussignalcom.com ) announced on Tuesday its plans to add a cloud-based managed data center to offer its managed services portfolio by the end of the second quarter. According to the press release, adding a managed data center makes the company one of the first service providers in the Midwest to enable customers to build virtual private cloud environments. US Signal says its managed data center is built with dedicated resource pools to host virtual private servers accessible through US Signal Wide Area Networks.

A video still from the company’s website shows its new managed data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Telecommunications infrastructure provider US Signal ( www.ussignalcom.com ) announced on Tuesday its plans to add a cloud-based managed data center to offer its managed services portfolio by the end of the second quarter. According to the press release, adding a managed data center makes the company one of the first service providers in the Midwest to enable customers to build virtual private cloud environments

Hosting Toolbox – ST. LOUIS – Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced details about its cloud-focused global Savvis Alliances Program for channel partners

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

A screen shot of the Global Data Center Outsourcing Market 2010-2014 contents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT industry research group Infiniti Research ( www.infiniti-research.com ) announced on Wednesday it has released a new report titled “Global Data Center Outsourcing Market 2010-2014″.

Alexander Picker of Red Hat delivers a Tuesday afternoon session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In one of the first set of afternoon sessions Tuesday at WorldHostingDays, Christopher Benecke of Magirus and Alexander Picker of Red Hat set out to describe the “data center of the future,” by introducing their OpenV solution, an IT infrastructure bundle that includes technology from EMC and Cisco, along with Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solution. This post is going to be a little light on content, just as a result of the fact that the session was a little heavy on technical specs. All things you can easily look up at the company’s website, www.open-v3.com .

Alexander Picker of Red Hat delivers a Tuesday afternoon session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In one of the first set of afternoon sessions Tuesday at WorldHostingDays, Christopher Benecke of Magirus and Alexander Picker of Red Hat set out to describe the “data center of the future,” by introducing their OpenV solution, an IT infrastructure bundle that includes technology from EMC and Cisco, along with Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solution. This post is going to be a little light on content, just as a result of the fact that the session was a little heavy on technical specs. All things you can easily look up at the company’s website, www.open-v3.com .

A map of Terremark’s data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Cloud services provider Terremark ( www.terremark.com ) announced on Monday that it has won the Cisco Partner Summit regional award for United States Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year. The annual channel partner conference was held in New Orleans on March 1.  “Cisco works diligently with all of its channel partners, and it is an honor to announce Terremark as a Cisco Partner Summit award recipient,” Jim Sherriff, senior vice president, US and Canada Partner Organization at Cisco said in a statement. “The Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year Award presented to Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud recognizes its performance and expertise as a Cisco channel partner in 2010.” The awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global, according to Cisco.

SunGard Availability Services VP of product management Rob Walters discusses the company’s new enterprise cloud services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — While many managed service providers are partnering with third-party infrastructure companies to help introduce cloud solutions, some MSPs are taking on the daunting task of building out their own cloud solutions. One such MSP is SunGard Availability Services ( www.sungardas.com ), which recently introduced its Enterprise Cloud Services to the North American market . SunGard’s new Enterprise Cloud Services is powered by Vblock technology from VMware, Cisco and EMC.

A diagram of the many functions of OpSource’s new hybrid services, App Ops and Tech Ops (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud and managed hosting provider OpSource ( www.opsource.net ) announced this week it is now bundling hardware-based security and networking with its Cloud Servers.