Web Hosting – DALLAS, TX — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in on-demand Cloud and Dedicated hosting, today announced the availability of MICRON RealSSD™ P300 solid state drives (SSDs) in 50GB, 100GB, and 200GB capacities. The new SSDs provide reliable and secure enterprise-class storage ideal for high-performance and data-intensive applications, such as databases requiring fast read/write performance. “From the day we added the first SSDs to our portfolio of hardware solutions, customer response has been exceptional.

Once upon a time, cloud hosting technology was reserved for large companies and corporations.

An illustration, from the Rackspace website, of Cloud Load Balancers in operation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed and cloud hosting provider Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has introduced its Cloud Load Balancers offering, a software-based, utility-priced load balancing product designed for use with its cloud hosting products, as well as its dedicated and managed server offerings. In private beta since Novmeber of 2010, and public beta since February of this year, Cloud Load Balancers, says Rackspace, is designed to alleviate the barriers to entry and architectural complexity associated with using third-party open source software load balancers. Based on that lengthy beta period, says Jerry Schwartz, enterprise services product manager at Rackspace, in an interview with the WHIR, the company incorporated a great deal of customer feedback into the development of its Cloud Load Balancers

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A video still from YouTube shows David Powell, VP of managed services, discussing cloud computing as an IBM partner (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider TekLinks ( www.teklinks.com ) recently announced that it has opened its third data center.

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 screen shot of SoftLayer’s Technology Partners Marketplace (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies ( www.softlayer.com ) announced on Tuesday it has launched the Technology Partners Marketplace ( www.softlayer.com/marketplace ). The new marketplace showcases current SoftLayer software as a service and independent software vendor customers’ products and technologies.

A screen shot of the 6SigmaRoomLite interface (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Data center management software firm Future Facilities ( www.futurefacilities.com ) announced on Friday it has released version 6.1 of its 6SigmaDC data center design and operations software suite. Dubbed 6SigmaRoomLite, the data center simulation tool offers a clear and accurate view of conceptual design and environmental issues in critical facilities and data centers, says Future Facilities.

A screen shot of the 6SigmaRoomLite interface (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Data center management software firm Future Facilities ( www.futurefacilities.com ) announced on Friday it has released version 6.1 of its 6SigmaDC data center design and operations software suite. Dubbed 6SigmaRoomLite, the data center simulation tool offers a clear and accurate view of conceptual design and environmental issues in critical facilities and data centers, says Future Facilities.

Hosting Toolbox – San Francisco, CA – IBM today announced next generation cloud services and technology advances for clients moving key enterprise business processes into production cloud environments to innovate, reduce costs and increase agility. To accelerate the shift from experimentation, development and assessment to full scale enterprise deployment of cloud, IBM is building out its existing cloud portfolio with IBM SmartCloud, its next-generation, enterprise cloud technologies and services offerings for private, public and hybrid clouds based on IBM hardware, software, services and best practices. As part of this announcement, IBM is demonstrating a next-generation, enterprise cloud service delivery platform currently piloting with key clients and available later this year.