Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Inside Armorize’s HackAlert 3.0 Anti-Malware Tool News: Softlayer’s “Build Your Own Cloud” Service Delivers Custom-Configured Cloud Servers News: iWeb Ranks 31st on Profit100 List News: Savvis Symphony Helps Configure Enterprise-Class Virtual Private Data Centers in the Cloud Blogs: Updated Interview with Lou Honick (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — On-demand data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies ( www.softlayer.com ) has launched “Build Your Own Cloud,” a new addition to its CloudLayer family of cloud services, which lets customers create customized cloud servers to gain greater application performance, cost efficiency, and availability. According to SoftLayer’s announcement, BYOC lets users customize CPU, RAM, and storage configurations

Web Hosting News – BOSTON – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, today announced the expansion of their virtualization collaboration with the integration of Cisco Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) technology with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Boston – June 17, 2010 Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Google, Microsoft Report Hostname Gains in Netcraft’s June 2010 Web Server Survey News: Cloud Computing World Series Awards Announces Short List News: Level 3 Connects Fiber Optic Network to Tech Vault News: Cisco to Announce Data Center 3.0 Strategy (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Cloud Computing World Forum has announced the shortlist of entrants for its Cloud Computing World Series Awards 2010, which take place in London on June 29. The 10 Cloud Computing World Series Awards will be presented at the Olympia Conference Centre on the evening of June 29. According to show director Mark Johnstone, the quality of this year’s entries was extremely high, making it all the more difficult to arrive at a shortlist.

Ballmer Says Apple’s iPad Is Just A PC At Heart When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer looks at the iPad, he doesnt see a new category of device, just a different PC form factor. On Thursday at the Wall Street Journal’s D8 conference, Ballmer said people are going to continue using PCs in even greater numbers than they are today, in what amounted to a response to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ assertion earlier this week that tablets and smartphones are going to relegate PCs to the computing sidelines

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Virtuon Colocates at CoreLink Data Centers News: Web Host Hostway Names Executive VP and GM News: Verizon to Build 30K Square Foot Data Center in Texas News: Colocation America Announces Business-Class Dedicated Servers News: LinMin Supports Long Term Support Edition of Ubuntu (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Verizon Wireless ( www.verizonwireless.com ) announced on Tuesday it will build a new 30,000 square foot data center in the Lubbock Business Park in Lubbock, Texas. The facility will be consructed on the nine acres site as part of a $30 million capital investment in Lubbock by Verizon Wireless, says Lee Maschmann, executive director for networks in Verizon’s Central Texas region. The announcement comes just a couple weeks after parent company Verizon enhanced its global, on-demand Computing as a Service offering , which provides business customers with more control and flexibility over their computing environments.

Web Hosting News – LISLE, Ill. – Univa UD, a leading provider of cloud management software, today announced the extension of UniCloud into The Rackspace Cloud, making it possible for companies to access and manage Rackspace’s cloud and hosting services as an extension to their internal computing infrastructure.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host Logicworks Hires Rick Ellenberger As New CEO News: Verizon’s On-Demand Cloud Computing Solution Adds Server Cloning, Increases Flexibility News: eBillingHub to Use Rackspace Managed Private Cloud News: Web Host The Planet Adds Intel Xeon 7550-based Server to Portfolio (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Based on customer demand, US telecom Verizon ( www.verizon.com ) has enhanced its global, on-demand Computing as a Service offering (known as CaaS), providing business customers with better control and flexibility over their computing environments. According to its Thursday announcement, CaaS clients now have access to server cloning, application and operating system expansion, and expanded networking flexibility. Server cloning gives IT administrators the option to customize the configuration of a CaaS virtual server and then create a golden, or reference, server image, eliminating the need to manually create the same server image multiple times and lets them rapidly deploy server clones supporting the same corporate application

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host Logicworks Hires Rick Ellenberger As New CEO News: Verizon’s On-Demand Cloud Computing Solution Adds Server Cloning, Increases Flexibility News: eBillingHub to Use Rackspace Managed Private Cloud News: Web Host The Planet Adds Intel Xeon 7550-based Server to Portfolio (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Based on customer demand, US telecom Verizon ( www.verizon.com ) has enhanced its global, on-demand Computing as a Service offering (known as CaaS), providing business customers with better control and flexibility over their computing environments. According to its Thursday announcement, CaaS clients now have access to server cloning, application and operating system expansion, and expanded networking flexibility. Server cloning gives IT administrators the option to customize the configuration of a CaaS virtual server and then create a golden, or reference, server image, eliminating the need to manually create the same server image multiple times and lets them rapidly deploy server clones supporting the same corporate application

DALLASMarch 29, 2010SoftLayer Technologies, a global provider of on-demand data center, hosting, and cloud services has announced a partnership with Cloudkick to help customers manage and monitor their CloudLayer Computing Instances and resources. Cloudkick allows customers to manage cloud-hosted resources through a variety of unified tools. Cloudkicks unique management offering will allow SoftLayer customers to easily mange and monitor numerous resources, regardless of setup, through one easy-to-use dashboard.

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c61090/saascloud_computi) has announced the addition of the “SaaS/Cloud Computing: Media Monitor” newsfeed to their offering. When SaaS/Cloud Computing news breaks, we get it fast – so you can deliver fresh business intelligence.