A core responsibility of the Executive Council (EC), under the APNIC Bylaws, is to ensure that APNIC’s strategies meet the dynamic Internet environment. The APNIC Member and Stakeholder Survey is a key tool in that process, which the EC commissions every 2 years, to help us to understand the needs of the APNIC Community, and to set strategic direction accordingly. The Survey also provides APNIC with valuable information on the performance of the APNIC Secretariat and the objectives it needs to meet over the coming period. In February 2011, APNIC released the results of latest survey, which was conducted by Professor Ang Peng Hwa of the Singapore Internet Research Centre (SIRC). The EC has released its response to the 2011 Member and Stakeholder Survey. This APNIC announcement was sourced from: www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/survey-ec-response

Timmons speaks at a Port of Quincy event relating to data center tax breaks (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a move that has been referred to alternately as “poaching,” “stealing” and “snagging,” Apple reportedly hired Microsoft’s data center general manager Kevin Timmons yesterday, to an unspecified position, though one generally expected to closely related to the company’s near-complete 500,000 square-foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina. In a post on his Green Data Center Blog, breaking the news that Timmons was leaving Microsoft for Apple , Dave Ohara observed that perhaps the most interesting point was the fact that the most scarce resource in the data center business was not power or cooling, but talent at the executive level. “It is such a small world in data centers and especially smaller for the executive rank,” wrote Ohara, “information flows as recruiters call and others want opinions on various candidates and companies to work for.  Besides the executives, senior data center design engineers are heavily recruited.” Timmons leaves the same post at Microsoft that Data Center GM Mike Manos left several years ago to work at Digital Realty Trust

layered technologies Greatresponder.com -2011-03-11- Layered Technologies (Layered Tech) , one of the well-known web hosting provider worldwide, names Brad Hokamp as the new president following the lead of the company found, Todd Abrams. Hokamp will now lead the company’s product management, business development, marketing and sales and the customer service initiatives. Abrams will now step down to acquire the executive VP of business development and strategic alliances position

Robert Doherty, chief financial officer at FiberMedia (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator FiberMedia (www.fibermedia.net) announced on Wednesday it has named Robert Doherty the company’s chief financial officer. This is the second major appointment the company has announced this year, following last month’s appointment of John Panzica to senior vice president of sales

A screen shot of Core Services’ consulting page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Oracle-based hosting provider Core Services ( www.coreservices.com ) announced on Monday it has named Barry Brown as its new vice president of consulting. The appointment comes nearly a year after the company opened a new 50,000 square foot data center in Somerset, New Jersey

Java conflicts brew between Oracle and JCP insiders Oracle’s handling of the JCP (Java Community Process) is under fire from some insiders, who do not see a level playing field in Java technology standardization.

Ray Ozzie to leave Microsoft Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect and the executive responsible for pushing the company into the cloud, plans to step down, Microsoft said on Monday. Ozzie is retiring from Microsoft and has no immediate plans following his departure, CEO Steve Ballmer wrote in a memo to employees that the company posted on its Web site