A screen shot of Symplified’s front page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud security provider Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) announced last week it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance ( www.cloudsecurityalliance.org ), a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing. The move comes a couple weeks after Symplified’s partnership with open source cloud computing provider Cloud.com , which combines Symplified and Cloud.com CloudStack to enable users to deliver identity and access management security and integration capabilities. The organization provides education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing

A screen shot of Symplified’s front page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud security provider Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) announced last week it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance ( www.cloudsecurityalliance.org ), a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The opening session in the main forum on Thursday was delivered by Bhavin Turakhia of Reseller Club. He dispensed with the not-a-sales-pitch pretense and straight-up pitched a product, but it was a fairly interesting offer, judging by the questions that followed the pitch. While Directi offers all kinds of services for hosting providers, he dove right into describing a new offering from the company, called Chat.pw for domains, an instant messaging platform built from the ground up for hosting providers and their customers

Website Hosting News – Austin, TX – Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center outsourcing and colocation services, announces that its master-planned Texas 1 facility, opening June 2011, will fully support High Performance Computing (HPC) requirements. This next-generation data center includes the design, staff and facility infrastructure to meet the complex needs of HPC customers

A screen shot of R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data protection software developer R1Soft ( www.r1soft.com ) announced on Friday it has released CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition , the company’s flagship product in its line of backup software for hosting and Cloud infrastructure. The move comes just over a year after the release of CDP Server 3.0 Standard Edition , which offers users high-performance CDP backups on a single server without the need of a dedicated backup server

A diagram that shows GoGrid’s configuration for its hybrid cloud infrastructure (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting provider GoGrid ( www.gogrid.com ) announced on Thursday it plans to expand to Europe with the opening of a new data center in the summer of 2011. The announcement comes on the heels of the recent expansion of GoGrid’s hybrid cloud capabilities at its two data centers. The move reflects the company’s global expansion strategy to accommodate growing demand for cloud computing outside of the US GoGrid’s regional presence.

A map of Voxel’s global points of presence (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud and managed hosting provider Voxel ( www.voxel.net ) announced on Tuesday that it has raised its first capital from outside investors and has appointed Raul K. Martynek as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Voxel’s founder and CEO since 1999, Raj Dutt, will become the company’s first CTO