WHIR editor Liam Eagle presents at a WHIR Networking Event in Los Angeles (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — iNET Interactive ( www.inetinteractive.com ) announced today that Liam Eagle, editor in chief of prominent industry news and analysis publication for the hosted services industry, the Web Host Industry Review ( www.thewhir.com ), has been named co-chair of HostingCon 2011 ( www.hostingcon.com ), the premier conference and tradeshow for the hosted services industry. In this new role, Mr

A sceenshot of a Ruby tutorial on its website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Bytemark Hosting ( www.bytemark.co.uk ) announced on Monday that it will sponsor this year’s Scottish Ruby Conference ( www.scottishrubyconference.com ). The annual conference for Ruby programmers and developers will be held from April 7 to 9 in Edinburgh at the Royal College of Physicians.

A diagram showing how Heroku’s platform as a service works (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Cloud computing firm Salesforce.com ( www.salesforce.com ) has plans to add 100,000 square feet of colocation space next year, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. Salesforce.com discussed the plans at the DataCenterDynamics New York conference on Thursday.

All adult industry professionals and supporters of the adult entertainment community are being encouraged to protest against the proposed .XXX sTLD (sponsored Top Level Domain) at the ICANN meeting in San Francisco next week. In the final of five articles written by Diane Duke, Executive Director of the Free Speech Coalition, in which Duke has called .XXX “all bullshit” in each article, Duke has called for a protest on Thursday 17 March from 12:30 to 14:00. Given the domain name industry’s interest in scantily clad women, such as the DOMAINfest Global conference that has included a visit to the Playboy Mansion as part of the conference activities for the past three years, the protest is sure to attract a lot of attention and camera-wielding attendees.

LuxCloud COO Lorenz Meis (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In his SaaS presentation “The SaaS Business Enablement Platform”, LuxCloud COO Lorenz Meis explored the lucrative market of SaaS platforms.

Parallels president of marketing and alliances Jack Zubarev (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The first keynote on Thursday morning at the Parallels Summit was delivered by Jack Zubarev, whose session promised a look at the Parallels product roadmap. He began by offering a bit of an analogy, looking at the technology of electricity, and pointing to the fact that it took 124 years from its invention to the time the last direct current device was turned off (in 2007)

Renée Bergeron, VP of managed services and cloud computing at Ingram Micro (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the last keynote before lunch, Renée Bergeron, VP of managed services and cloud computing at Ingram Micro discussed how providers can lead and supply the IT channel with cloud solutions in her presentation, “Clarity of Vision in a Cloudy World”. She started by listing the reasons to move to the cloud, an argument that anyone who is attending this conference is probably already aware of. These benefits include business agility, cost efficiency, leverage core competencies and IT resources to focus on innovation, disaster and business continuity, and being a part of a green initiative