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 screenshot of Datacentres 2011 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – European data center forum Datacentres 2011 ( www.datacentres.com ) announced on Wednesday that it will host more than 70 international expert speakers at the event in May. The event in Nice, France, on May 5-6, will include debates, panels, workshops and training.  According to the press release, the content of the event will include data center and cloud technologies, colocation models, investment, leadership and strategy.

Web Hosting – On Friday, April 15, 2011, Cisco will host a live Internet TV broadcast and Q&A session featuring Rebecca Jacoby, Cisco’s chief information officer, and John Manville, the company’s vice president of IT, to coincide with the grand opening of Cisco’s newest green data center in Texas. The Cisco executives will explain how the new green data center — a key part of Cisco’s overall IT global data center strategy — supports its internal private cloud and promotes energy efficiency

Hosting Reviews – Santa Clara, CA – Vantage Data Centers will be hosting the “Smart Data Center Revolution” at its $300 million Santa Clara data center campus to celebrate the largest LEED platinum candidacy campus in the U.S. and to discuss the commercial viability of a much-needed, fundamental shift in the data center industry towards improved energy and operating efficiency.

On 12-13 May 2011, ICANN and its gTLD registration services providers will meet in Munich, Germany, the organisation announced this week. ICANN supports these regional events as they are a chance for their staff and representatives from gTLD registries and ICANN-accredited registrars to meet informally to discuss topics important to our industry and business relationships

An image from the website for Microsoft’s Hosting Summit 2011, which takes place this week (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a study issued on Friday by software giant Microsoft ( www.microsoft.com ) 39 percent of small and medium-sized businesses expect to be paying for cloud services within the next three years, compared to the 29 percent that are doing so right now.

ICANN launched its Registrar Data Escrow (RDE) program in November 2007 in order to help protect domain name registrants in the event of the failure or de-accreditation of their registrars.