August 16, 2011 — Web hosting provider PEER 1 Hosting announced on Tuesday that it has opened an office in Bulgaria to improve its EMEA customer service. According to the press release, PEER 1’s location in Bulgaria has ten monitoring and quality assurance professionals to provide 24×7 customer service.

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.”

August 8, 2011 — Mike Zobitz, director of sales at SingleHop, started his presentation “In Your Customer’s Shoes: World-Class Hosting Sales Techniques” at HostingCon 2011 by asking the audience words they associate with sales. Words like commission and lies came up. Zobitz says that a lot of times sales people are equated with liars, but he says effective sales techniques involve the “brutal truth.”

August 8, 2011 — Tom Millitzer, president of NCC International and WHIR blogger, spoke about 2011 mergers and acquisitions in his presentation on Monday afternoon at HostingCon 2011. The presentation started with a few technical glitches, but overall he spoke about the recent acquisitions in the hosting space.

July 22, 2011 — Web hosting provider SharkTec Hosting announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its hosting services to Brazil. According to the press release, the first step of this expansion will be opening a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that will open in the third quarter of 2011.

Flexiant Releases IPv6 Ready Cloud Platform Web Hosting – Livingston, UK – Flexiant, an independent cloud platform provider and software and services company, today announced a major upgrade release with the launch of its production ready cloud platform Extility 1.3. Today’s release includes the launch of IPv6 support marking Flexiant as the first cloud software provider in Europe to announce full commercial support for IPv6. Extility 1.3’s small foot-print install feature means data centre operators can pilot a cloud offering with relatively little investment in time or capital before developing this deployment into a fully-fledged cloud platform for their customers

Website Hosting – CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, is proud to announce that its CTO, Jeff Biggs, will be speaking at the national Data Center Users’ Group conference, held Apr