Summit signage in the surreal surroundings of the Gaylord Palms With the opening keynote and session tracks set to start this Wednesday, the Parallels Summit 2011 ( www.parallels.com/summit/ ) kicked off Tuesday with a few lead-up events at the Gaylord Palms hotel and conference center in Orlando, Florida.

A screen shot of SCALE 9X-2011 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Codero ( www.codero.com ) announced on Tuesday that it will be at the Southern California Linux Expo 9X-2011 ( www.socallinuxexpo.org ) at the end of February to discuss the company’s upcoming launch of its cloud hosting offering. The annual event is being held at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel from February 25 through February 27. According to the press release, SCALE is a community run Linux and open-source conference in its ninth year

A screen shot of UK2’s front page, featuring its new cloud hosting plans (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK Web hosting provider UK2 ( www.uk2.net ) announced on Monday it has launched a new cloud hosting platform. The company says it has made many improvements and upgrades to the hosting packages across its product suite. As a result, UK2 is currently offering Cloud Sites from £23.95 per month, Reseller Cloud from £59.95 per month and VPS Cloud packages from £9.95 per month.

Hosting News – Cupertino, CA – Cloud.com, an open source cloud computing software company, will host a “Build a Cloud Day” workshop on February 25, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel

Hosting News – REGENSBURG – SANTA MONICA – More than 600 Internet experts from over 30 countries are getting together at DOMAINfest Global in Santa Monica (Los Angeles, USA) from February 1 – 4, 2011. InterNetX will be present at this international branch event as a gold sponsor. Alongside interactive workshops, live domain auctions and podium discussions with branch experts, the PITCHfest Contest, an entrepreneur competition for young talent with innovative online business ideas, will also be taking place again

Hosting company DediPower is to provide full web-hosting for The BRIT Awards 2011 with MasterCard for a second year. DediPower is using its partnership with The BRIT Awards to demonstrate its services and its new Content Delivery Network. The hosting company supported the full digital re-launch of the event last year and will offer the same services for 2011 but with ‘efficiency improvements’ using its virtualised cloud solution

A screen shot of the BRIT Awards 2011 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK Web hosting provider DediPower ( www.dedipower.com ) announced on Thursday is providing full hosting for The BRIT Awards 2011 ( www.brits.co.uk ) with MasterCard, following its successful support of the event’s full digital relaunch in 2010.

Polargy founder and president Cary Frame holds a Drop Away Panels in a video demonstration of the product. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center airflow solutions firm Polargy ( www.polargy.com ) has released a solution that opens up hot and cold aisle containment systems in the event of a fire, allowing fire-suppression systems to operate without obstruction. According to PolarPlex’s Monday announcement, its translucent overhead Drop Away Panels for hot and cold aisle containment systems are now generally available, enabling data center managers to implement hot and cold aisle containment without disrupting existing fire-suppression systems or sacrificing visibility

Polargy founder and president Cary Frame holds a Drop Away Panels in a video demonstration of the product.

VMware exec: Cloud computing is a certainty “I do believe that as developers, we cannot fail to consider the importance of this. The economic drivers are simply too profound.