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.

DH Capital managing director Adam Lewis and vice president Michael Kramer were appointed in October (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hosting, Internet infrastructure and communications investment banking firm DH Capital ( www.dhcapital.com ) announced on Thursday that it has named Aleetalynn Schenesky-Stronge vice president. This appointment follows the appointment of Adam Lewis to managing director and Michael Kramer to vice president in October 2010 . According to the press release, Schenesky-Stronge has more than 10 years of experience in the finance and Internet infrastructure industries

Web Hosting News – CHICAGO – Trustwave, a leading provider of information security and compliance solutions, has released its Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) semiannual report, which finds an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and determined that there was a lack of properly implemented anti-automation defenses to ensure application availability during such attacks. DDoS as an attack vector and notable trend for the second half of 2010 was successful in disrupting commerce and bringing down websites of large businesses and associations.

Website Hosting News – LONDON – Virtual Internet (VI) – one of UK’s leading providers of business-class web hosting solutions –announced they have achieved VMware Enterprise Partner status.  Virtual Internet has been a partner with the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure VMware for years by now.

LONDON, England Mar. 04, 2011 | Virtual Internet Hot on the heels of winning ISO 9001 & 27001 certification, Virtual Internet is aggressively winning market share with new low-priced colocation bundles offering some of the best data allocation rates in the United Kingdom

Mayor Bloomberg at new consolidated data center in downtown Brooklyn (Photo Credit: Edward Reed) (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A new 18,000 square-foot data center in downtown Brooklyn opened Monday, which is designed to consolidate the technology infrastructure of 19 agencies over the next year and that of more than 40 agencies over the next five years. The facility’s opening comes just a couples weeks after the Obama administration issued its 2012 federal budget proposa l where it asserted that data center consolidation and cloud computing will play a significant role in curbing IT costs.

Web Hosting News – LONDON – Virtual Internet has announced a new cloud package called Virtual Data Centers which allow IT managers to virtualize their infrastructure “on-demand” via the Internet. The new self-service package allows managers to slice and dice a minimum of 10GB (or more) of physical disk space and/or physical memory into multiple configurations at will.