August 16, 2011 — Cloud security provider Gazzang announced on Tuesday that managed web hosting company FireHost will offer Gazzang ezNcrypt to its customers. FireHost recently joined the Cloud Security Alliance to evolve security measures for cloud environments.

July 22, 2011 — IT services provider CSC announced on Friday it has named IT and telecom industry veteran Narendra Nayak the head of its newly-formed sales efforts focused on the Indian domestic market. The announcement comes a few months after CSC partnered with cloud security firm Symplified to build a cloud-based identity and access management solution, CloudIAM.

Web Hosting – Ann Arbor, Michigan – Continuing with their commitment to offering educational cloud computing webinars and seminars, Online Tech will host a free webinar “Controlling the Cloud” on Tuesday, April 12th at 2pm. David Barton, Principal of UHY Advisors, will lead the presentation that will explore the unique risks associated with cloud computing and provide suggestions for addressing them.

A screen shot of Symplified’s front page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud security provider Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) announced last week it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance ( www.cloudsecurityalliance.org ), a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The afternoon’s first keynote presentation after lunch came from none other than Frank Bunn, senior manager EMEA of communications service providers at Symantec ( www.symantec.com ). Bunn started his presentation with an argument in semantics (pun definitely intended), suggesting that confidence is perhaps a better term for security when discussing the cloud seeing as it relates to giving peace of mind for end-users

Web Hosting News – HERNDON, VA – XO Communications (OTCBB: XOHO) today announced the launch of its new cloud-based security solution that offers businesses the ability to more quickly and cost-effectively deploy and manage comprehensive network security capabilities across their enterprise networks. As a cloud-based service, XO Enterprise Cloud Security delivers robust network security capabilities for enterprises without requiring them to purchase premise-based equipment

Website Hosting News – East Sussex, UK – Cloud hosting company StratoGen today launched a range of security features designed to enhance cloud security and help prevent malicious attacks. The new service called SharpLock is free and available exclusively on StratoGen’s VMware hosting service. SharpLock acts as an additional firewall to protect administrator access to your cloud hosting account using a range of sophisticated security measures