Web Hosting News – London – ControlCircle, the leading datacentre and managed services provider, today introduced a rapid deployment Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation service for both SMEs and global organisations. ControlCircle offers a scalable, fully-managed and integrated DDoS service to protect organisations of all sizes and profiles from malicious cyber-attacks that are designed disrupt or disable Internet-facing services. “Integrating network-wide intelligence and carrier-class threat management capabilities, ControlCircle’s DDoS mitigation solution offers the market one of the most intriguing propositions in the cyber-threat domain

Web Hosting News – Phoenix, AZ – Phoenix NAP®, a next generation datacenter and network access point, today announced it is a SAS 70 Type II certified facility, following the completion of a successful audit by independent agency Security and Control LLC.

Web Hosting News – London – ControlCircle, the leading datacentre and managed services provider, today introduced a rapid deployment Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation service for both SMEs and global organisations. ControlCircle offers a scalable, fully-managed and integrated DDoS service to protect organisations of all sizes and profiles from malicious cyber-attacks that are designed disrupt or disable Internet-facing services. “Integrating network-wide intelligence and carrier-class threat management capabilities, ControlCircle’s DDoS mitigation solution offers the market one of the most intriguing propositions in the cyber-threat domain

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

Web Hosting News – London, UK – Managed hosting provider NetBenefit has attained PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance following a detailed audit of its hosting environment by Qualified Security Assessor, CNS. The security standard, which was introduced by the major five card brands to combat fraud asks all merchants to secure their processes, systems, policies and procedures at every step of the payment card process to protect against the risk of cyber criminals accessing sensitive customer data, and requires rigorous compliance and assessment. For NetBenefit the PCI accreditation marks the end of a comprehensive project to attain high security in payment standards across its managed hosting facilities and enables it to provide merchants with a purpose built hosting environment that will meet the stringent requirements of the Standards Council

Web Hosting News – Cupertino, CA – Cloud.com, sponsor of the open source cloud computing software project CloudStack™, and Puppet Labs, an open source configuration management and automation company, will host a “Build a Cloud Day” workshop on March 25, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Web Hosting News – REDWOOD CITY, CA & PARIS — Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX), a leading provider of global data center services, today announced that it is constructing a fourth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in the Paris metropolitan area. The new data center (PA4), scheduled 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.

Web Hosting News – SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced expanded functionality of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Starting today, AWS has broadened an enterprise’s networking options with Amazon VPC by letting them specify which of their Amazon VPC resources they wish to make directly accessible to the Internet and which they do not.

Website Hosting News – Cupertino, CA – Cloud.com, a leader in open source cloud computing software, today announced Profitability.net, a data center and provider of innovative collocation and cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions, is using Cloud.com CloudStack™ to build, deploy and manage Appica®, a full suite of private and public cloud services. Appica provides ground-breaking public and private cloud services and storage services, allowing enterprises to add server instances as needed, manage storage capacity, and gain access to enterprise features that will improve the performance of business applications.

Website Hosting News – NEW YORK, NY — NYI, a New York City-based, mission-critical data services provider, today announced IPv6 corporate compliance, the company’s latest milestone in its aggressive campaign to support World IPv6 Day, June 8, 2011.