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.

Hosting Toolbox – MIAMI – Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced the addition of new levels of support and an innovative new storage pricing model for users of its vCloud Express offering. The company also updated its pricing model for virtual machines leveraging large amounts of memory, processing and storage resources.

Don Klein spoke to the WHIR via email about Modius’s new monitoring tool (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As data centers are increasingly pressured to improve their energy efficiency, operators and owners are required to provide comprehensive reports on power usage and the energy efficiency of their equipment. Data center monitoring solutions provider Modius ( www.modius.com ) recently developed a new data center monitoring system that addresses this need, giving data center operators the ability to enforce client bill back for energy expenses.

A screen shot of a promo video featuring SunGard’s Melissa McCoy (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider SunGard Availability Services ( www.sungardas.com ) announced on Wednesday it has expanded its business partner program with the addition of the SunGard’s enterprise cloud services to the channel program ( www.sungardas.com/Partners ). SunGard’s partners can now tap into the cloud computing market by offering SunGard’s fully managed, infrastructure as a service platform. Launched in February , SunGard’s enterprise cloud services provide managed compute, network, storage and security resources that can be customized to meet end-user needs

A photo of Brian Johnston, QTS chief technology officer (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Colocation and managed hosting provider Quality Technology Services ( www.qualitytech.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has made several appointments. The company has named Brian Johnston chief technology officer and named Thomas Greason the new position of executive vice president of enterprise sales. These appointments come a week after QTS announced that its lenders ING Capital and Caterpillar Financial Services have increased the capacity of its revolving credit by $45 million, for a total of $170 million.

A diagram from NaviSite’s website illustrates the security of its NaviCloud framework (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Thursday that it has achieved the Cisco Advanced Managed Services Certification that recognizes NaviSite’s investment in the ITIL ( www.itil-officialsite.com ) processes to provide high-quality managed services. This news comes a month after NaviSite announced that IT solutions and software firm International Turnkey Systems deployed NaviSite’s managed cloud services . As a partner, NaviSite says it “has made an investment in a network operations center and has demonstrated the ability to support two customers, validated via an independent audit.” “This achievement represents an important milestone in the development and roll out of our cloud-based services,” R

Hosting Reviews – FORT COLLINS, CO – HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced the opening of a state-of-the-art research facility in Fort Collins, Colo., in which the company will advance sustainable data center technologies. The new facility will expand on HP’s Converged Infrastructure architecture by developing technologies to eliminate IT sprawl, increase energy efficiency and reduce power consumption to help clients minimize their carbon footprint and reinvest cost savings into business innovation. Built in collaboration with HP Labs, the company’s central research facility, the 50,000 square-foot site will enable HP to explore new strategies for reducing the environmental impact of next-generation data centers.

Hosting Reviews – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, a supplier of open source business-class email and groupware, today announced additional usability enhancements and flexibility, plus enhanced mobile support for smartphones. Open-Xchange users can now choose whether new windows open in a new tab or in a new browser pop-up screen. A new space-saving compact panel is especially useful for tablet users and for those using Open-Xchange on smaller screens

Hosting Reviews – COLUMBIA, MD – Fortress International Group (Other OTC: FIGI), a provider of consulting and engineering, construction management and 24/7/365 site services for mission-critical facilities, today announced that its subsidiary, Total Site Solutions (TSS) has been selected as part of a team for the planning, design and construction Administration for the State of Montana’s new Enterprise System Services Center sites in Helena and Miles City, Montana.

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