A screenshot of the Web Desktop’s “app grid” navigation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With the explosion of cloud technologies moving the industry forward, and with companies increasingly developing applications in the cloud, hosting providers, and the services that deal with the hosting business, are looking for new ways to use the cloud in distributing or supporting their services. Messaging and collaboration provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) is just one of the many companies embracing the cloud

“A new paper on ownership rights in IPv4 addresses has been drafted,” writes Milton Mueller who writes his critique of the paper on the Internet Governance Project blog. The paper Mueller reviews is by Author Ernesto Rubi, a J.D. candidate at Florida International University School of Law

Cloud computing underwhelms PHP developers While technology vendors continue to pound home the message of cloud computing, PHP developers Tuesday viewed the concept as overhyped and were not in agreement on its benefits. Developers at the ZendCon 2010 PHP conference in Santa, Clara, Calif., heard Zend Technologies CEO Andi Gutmans tout the company’s cloud computing plans, which involve developing Zend PHP Cloud Platform

Trust No One, Monitor Everyone? The so-called Zero Trust model for security proposed by Forrester Research earlier this month has revived debate about the way organizations secure their networks.

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Cloud Computing Moving Behind Hype To Real-World Use Midsize and larger enterprises are already deploying cloud computing, sometimes openly and sometimes on the sly, as the concept of working in the cloud is starting to move beyond the hype stage. Cloud computing is still in its early stages, but adoption of the technology is coming fast, according to a panel on cloud computing held at the Nth Generation Technical Symposium, a three-day customer event held this week by Nth Generation, a San Diego-based solution provider. IT managers from nearly 200 midsize and larger enterprise customers, mainly from Southern California, interacted with a panel of executives from six vendors working with solution providers to build cloud infrastructures

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Level 3 Increases Metro Connectivity in Dublin With the Linking of 5 Area Data Centers News: PEER 1 Hosting Launches Microsoft Hosted Exchange Packages in the UK News: Equinix Opens Washington DC Data Center, Plans Singapore Expansion News: Q&A: Rob Tyree, VegasNAP News: Swedish Pirate Party Offers Web Hosting for WikiLeaks (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian researcher group GreenStar Network ( www.greenstarnetwork.com ) is working towards reducing the rising carbon emissions created by data centers worldwide through green powered technology. The two-year project is funded by the Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education, which strives to resolve the IT industry’s growing energy crisis. While computers and servers currently account for two to eight percent of the world’s total energy consumption, the rapid growth of the IT industry could potentially bring this figure up to 20 percent in some countries by 2020