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.

Hosting Reviews – REDMOND, WA — Microsoft Corp. today released its global “SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011,” which investigates how cloud computing will impact small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the next three years. The research finds that 39 percent of SMBs expect to be paying for one or more cloud services within three years, an increase of 34 percent from the current 29 percent.

A map of Equinix’s data center footprint in France (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Equinix ( www.equinix.com ) announced on Tuesday it is constructing a fourth International Business Exchange data center in the Paris metropolitan area. The new data center, which is set to open in the third quarter of 2012, will further extend Platform Equinix in Europe to meet strong demand for premium interconnection and colocation services in Paris and across the region

A diagram illustrating Scality RING, which features a distributed storage model (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage provider Scality ( www,scality.com ) announced on Tuesday it has secured Series B round of funding led by IdInvest Partners ( www.idinvest-partners.com ), formerly AGF Private Equity, to secure an additional $7 million. With the new funding, Scality will complement its San Francisco headquarters with an East Coast sales and services office in New York

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Hosting News – CUPERTINO, CA — Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the launch of its new Zend Center of Excellence (CoE) program, creating new opportunities for PHP solution developers to extend their global reach and competitiveness while meeting enterprise requirements to augment IT staff with PHP expertise. Under the program, Zend Solution Partners that are equipped to develop and provide enterprise customers with innovative and productive applications using Zend software and PHP best practices will be eligible to earn a Zend CoE designation.  Zend marked the launch of this new program by naming OSSCube as its first Zend CoE, serving enterprise customers in the United States, the U.K. and India.

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