The GSA’s new Apps.gov initiative is designed to provide storage, virtualization, and Web hosting solutions to all levels of government in the US. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Infrastructure services provider Eyak Technology ( www.eyaktek.com ) and its enterprise IaaS provider partner Horizon Data Center Solutions ( www.horizondcs.com ) have been awarded a five year, competitively bid contract from the US General Services Administration ( www.gsa.gov ) to provide a suite of virtualized services for the Federal Government Cloud initiative. According to EyakTek’s recent announcement, the awarded Blanket Purchase Agreement, which simplifies the task of obtaining new products and services, is “the culmination of the government’s mandate to move Federal computing to the cloud.” The BPA will let government agencies procure virtualized machines, hosting and storage, through the Apps.Gov portal, which fulfills the government’s mission to move to more efficient, less capital intensive computing solutions

Information Technology Provider Chosen to Manage and Enhance Web Support and Hosting Services for the Agency Intranet and Internet ROCKVILLE, Md.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– GlobalNet Services, Inc ., a premier information technology provider for businesses and the Federal government, today announced that the company was awarded a $53 million contract by the U.S.

File-Sharing Site LimeWire Shut Down by Federal Court The lime has dried up. On Tuesday, music file-sharing site LimeWire was ordered shut down by a federal court

Get Ready to Kiss IPv4 Goodbye: Q&A With ICSA Labs’ Guy Snyder, Part 1 Pressure to implement IPv6 is coming from both public and private sectors.

Web Host News – Rockville, MD – GlobalNet Services, Inc., a premier information technology provider for businesses and the federal government, today announced that through its existing relationship with Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, government agencies can now obtain hosted services off of the GlobalNet Services GSA Schedule.

Apps.gov to add storage, virtualization and Web hosting services Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings will support moves to cloud computing By Rutrell Yasin Oct 20, 2010 Government agencies will soon have access to storage, virtualization and Web hosting applications via Apps.gov , the General Service Administration’s cloud-based storefront, government officials said yesterday. Vendors that are awarded an infrastructure-as-a-service contract will provide federal, state, local and tribal agencies with cloud storage, virtual machines and Web hosting to support an ongoing expansion of cloud computing capabilities across government.

THE WEB HOST at the centre of yesterday’s Bittorrent tracker website outages has confirmed that it was not conducted by an ex-employee. As The INQUIRER reported , the downtime of Reality Check Network’s (RCN) servers due to corruption of the master boot records (MBR) had resulted in the shuttering of numerous Bittorrent tracker websites. It led to RCN’s CEO, Moisey Uretsky, pointing the finger of blame towards an ex-employee who had worked at the firm for three years and had “intimate knowledge” of the internal setup.

Facts Appeal court decision Comment On April 27 2010 the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court ruled on the liability of web hosting providers under German copyright law in a decision which has attracted considerable attention in the media sector. Facts The plaintiff, a German film distributor, had filed for a preliminary injunction against a provider of web hosting services to stop the reproduction and dissemination of illegal copies of a film for which the plaintiff held the exclusive distribution rights. The Dusseldorf District Court confirmed the preliminary injunction, ordering the defendant to block copyright-protected films on its servers

A chart that depicts the number of data centers by federal agency (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Obama administration sent out a memo earlier this month that plans to establish concrete goals for its federal government data center consolidation initiative, according to a report by InformationWeek.com .

Fed Study: 85 Percent Of Agencies Still Not Using CyberScope CyberScope is supposed to be the federal government’s new standard tool for continuous security monitoring.