Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM ( www.ibm.com ) said on Friday it will meet with Texas state officials in an effort to work out a resolution to an ongoing dispute in its data center consolidation and privatization contract with the state’s IT department. According to the terms of the 7 1/2 year, $863 million contract, which was signed in 2006, IBM was to consolidate Texas state agencies’ 27 IT operations into two new IBM-operated data centers

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The European Union ( www.europa.eu ) has chosen Flexiant’s ( www.flexiant.com ) cloud platform, FlexiScale, as the infrastructure foundation for a €9 million euro (about $11.9 million) Seventh Framework Programme (known as FP7) to enable the transition of mobile applications to the cloud. Conducted under the EU’s FP7 for research and technological development, the “4CaaSt” project will create a standards-based Platform as a Service platform that is not specific to one cloud provider or one technology. Ensuring uniformity of standards and protocols across the industry, 4CaaSt will help contribute to an ecosystem where applications from different providers can be tailored to different users, mashed up and traded together

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — European Cloud computing provider ScaleUp Technologies ( www.scaleupcloud.com ) announced on Friday it has appointed Scott Sanchez as privacy and security officer. One of Sanchez’s key responsibilities is in leading and developing ScaleUp’s Security Advisory Council, which will take input from end users around privacy and security issues. Comprised of customers and partners, Security Advisory Council will help guide the company’s security investments and focus

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom ( www.deutschetelekom.com ) announced on Friday it has named four new key executives.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The New York Stock Exchange ( www.nyse.com ) will open its massive trading data center in Mahwah, New Jersey next week before Monday’s opening bell, according to a report by The Record . The exchange group first announced it would be building the data center last September . Parent company NYSE Euronext says it plans to start  trading 19 stocks on servers “matching engines” housed inside the 400,000-square-foot data center, located along Route 17.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Following a number of high-profile hosting deals, Amazon Web Services ( aws.amazon.com ) could be well on its way to successfully tapping into the traditional Web hosting market, according to a top technology blog. After talking with AWS product management and developer relations vice president Adam Selipsky, influential blogger Om Malik wrote that Amazon may be “suddenly (and perhaps unintentionally) find[ing] itself competing with thousands of Web hosts.” Founder of the GigaOM Network, where he is currently a senior writer, Malik notes that AWS could very well threaten major web hosts such as RackSpace (www.rackspace.com) and The Planet ( www.theplanet.com ), which is in the process of merging with Web host SoftLayer ( www.softlayer.com ). Selipsky told Malik that AWS in being used by Newsweek and PBS’s network to host their websites.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal Blogs: Video Interview with Steve Lesem of Mezeo Software News: Cloud Platform FlexiScale to Provide Basis for EU’s €9M FP7 Initiative News: Cloud Firm ScaleUp Names Privacy and Security Officer News: Pentagon Spokesperson Asks WikiLeaks to Remove Classified War Documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The New York Stock Exchange ( www.nyse.com ) will open its massive trading data center in Mahwah, New Jersey next week before Monday’s opening bell, according to a report by The Record . The exchange group first announced it would be building the data center last September . Parent company NYSE Euronext says it plans to start  trading 19 stocks on servers “matching engines” housed inside the 400,000-square-foot data center, located along Route 17

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Web Host News – San Antonio, TX – Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX) today announced the launch of OpenStack™, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code that powers its Cloud

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Mezeo Launches Program to Expand Mezeo-Based Cloud Storage Solutions News: PowerDNN Expands into UK with Manchester Data Center News: AT&T to Sell Japanese Unit to IIJ for $100M News: Flexiant Launches Version 2 of Cloud Platform FlexiScale News: CSC Names VP of Technology and Consumer Group (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Software developer Flexiant ( www.flexiant.com ) has completed the bottom-up re-write of its public cloud platform with the launch of FlexiScale 2.0, which lets users grow their installations from one server to a thousand servers in just seconds. According to Flexiant’s Wednesday announcement, FlexiScale 2.0 gives start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses the flexibility to manage streaming video, social networking, Software as a Service, and a wealth of other applications.  Supporting Windows Server and all common versions of Linux, FlexiScale 2.0 lets customers run as many virtual dedicated servers as they want on a pay-as-you-go basis, and they can be based upon either an OS or appliance images from Flexiant’s own library, a custom image, or a clone of an existing customer server

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Mezeo Launches Program to Expand Mezeo-Based Cloud Storage Solutions News: PowerDNN Expands into UK with Manchester Data Center News: AT&T to Sell Japanese Unit to IIJ for $100M News: Flexiant Launches Version 2 of Cloud Platform FlexiScale News: CSC Names VP of Technology and Consumer Group (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — DotNetNuke hosting services provider PowerDNN ( www.powerdnn.com ) announced on Tuesday it has expanded into a data center in Manchester, England.