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.”

A screen shot of SherWeb’s front page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Email and collaboration hosted solutions provider SherWeb ( www.sherweb.com ) announced on Monday it has acquired hosted email provider DNAmail ( www.dnamail.com ). The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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.

Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante prepare to deliver their report Wednesday afternoon (WEB HOST INDSUTRY REVIEW) — In the first session in the afternoon marketing track Wednesday at the Parallels Summit, Josh Beil and Eugenio Ferrante presented the results of a study of approximately 600 SMBs, conducted in an effort to gain some insight into their spending on cloud services. They found that US SMBs spend about $8.6 billion annually in cloud services, including $4.9 billion in hosted infrastructure, $2.3 billion in web hosting, $600 million in hosted email and $800 million in Hosted PBX (which seems to be a particular area of new focus for Paralllels)

Web Hosting News – ThinkGrid, the world’s first platform vendor enabling real IT services from the cloud, today announced a new partnership with MigrationWiz designed to accelerate adoption of cloud services. Resellers that offer ThinkGrid’s cloud based Hosted Exchange service can now significantly reduce costs associated with migration from on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft Small Business Server to the cloud. Traditional approaches to Exchange migration typically require resellers to visit a customer’s premises and manually perform the migration

A diagram illustrating the features of GoGrid’s enterprise-grade hosted private cloud solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting provider GoGrid ( www.gogrid.com ) announced on Wednesday it has introduced an enterprise-grade hosted private cloud solution ( http://privatecloud.gogrid.com ), which offers the capabilities of its public cloud in a completely dedicated and secure environment. The solution can be delivered without any hardware procurement or resource sharing, converts capital expenditures to operating expenses, ensuring that infrastructure components can be deployed in a self-service, pay-as-you-go model, and ultimately providing scalable programmatic infrastructure as a service. GoGrid’s solution is a hosted and managed environment that runs on dedicated hardware for each enterprise.

4PSA’s VoipNow communications software platform is designed to deliver voice, video, user presence, faxing, instant messaging and email groupware as a unified solution either hosted and on-premises. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing and unified communications software technology firm 4PSA ( www.4psa.com ) has become a full member of the SIP Forum ( www.sipforum.org ), the non-profit organization devoted to advancing the adoption of the Session Initiation Protocol.