August 9, 2011 — The opening keynote at HostingCon 2011 was delivered by Simon Wardley, a researcher at CSC’s Leading Edge Forum, who sought to provide a real understanding of how cloud computing could impact the hosted services market, in a presentation called “Situation Normal, Everything Must Change.”

Serchen Interactive Extend Relationship with AT&T Monday, March 07, 2011, 9:58:28 AM (7th March 2011) – Advertising specialists and Hosted Services Marketplace world leaders, Serchen Interactive , have announced their extended relationship with communications and hosting services experts AT&T .

March 3rd, 2011 : Rich Miller The Web Host Industry Review has been acquired by iNET Interactive , which will add the hosting industry publication to a business portfolio that also includes the WebHostingTalk forum and HostingCon trade show.

The January 2011 issue of WHIR magazine; the annual Hottest Hosts directory The WHIR joins Web Hosting Talk and HostingCon to Form Three Complementary Media Properties under a Single Umbrella (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — iNET Interactive ( www.inetinteractive.com ) has announced today the acquisition of the Web Host Industry Review ( www.thewhir.com ), the leading news and analysis source for the hosted services industry. For more than ten years, theWHIR.com has provided its readers with daily industry news, feature coverage, expert opinion and analysis.

A screen shot of XETA Technologies’ website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and data center operator PAETEC Holding ( www.paetec.com )  announced on Wednesday it will acquire XETA Technologies ( www.xeta.com ) for about $61 million.

Iomart, the Scottish web-hosting and data storage company, has more than doubled its interim pre-tax profits on the back of what it described as shift in customer behaviour towards cloud computing networks. AIM-listed Iomart, which has its headquarters in Glasgow, also said it had grown both the “size and quality” of its customer base and said that it had experienced a “paradigm shift … to the cloud”

Web Hosting News – The news that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is extending its’ remit to cover the online realm has been broadly welcomed by the Cloud Industry Forum. It means that online marketing and ads will, from 1 March 2011, be subject to the same strict advertising rules as traditional media. The Committee of Advertising Practice’s code for non-broadcast advertising, sales promotion and direct mail is to apply to all marketing communication on companies’ websites and via social media platforms.