A number of ccTLD registries have announced internet awards within their own countries that aim to foster and advance use of the internet. Those announcing awards in recent weeks are the Australian and New Zealand regulatory bodies (auDA and InternetNZ) and the Irish (IEDR) and Dutch (SIDN) registries. For Australians and New Zealanders, auDA and InternetNZ have announced the 2011 Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards (ANZIAs). The ANZIAs are open to businesses, organisations and individuals across all sectors that use the Internet to develop innovative and creative ways to reach customers, provide a service or improve the online experiences of Australians and New Zealanders. ANZIA winners receive recognition as industry leaders, receive public and industry exposure, and gain positive media coverage and networking opportunities. Eligible entrants are also in the running for a $2500 cash prize. Entries are invited in six categories: Security and privacy Internet access & digital skills Innovation Information Diversity IPv6. For Irish internet users, the IE Domain Registry is the headline sponsor for this year’s Dot IE Net Visionary Awards. The Net Visionary Awards, now in their 13th year, are the only online awards run and voted on by the Internet industry in Ireland. Potential award winning businesses can be nominated in 14 categories which have been carefully selected to reflect the prolific business use of the Internet in Ireland. And in the Netherlands, there is the second annual SIDN Internet Awards ceremony that will take place on 10 November 2011 during the Jubilee Congress that SIDN is organising in Zaandam to mark twenty-five years of the .NL domain. The Internet Awards aim to reward individuals, businesses and other organisations in the Netherlands for the contributions that they make to economic, social and/or personal aspects of the information society. Three of the five award categories – ‘Government and citizens in dialogue’, ‘The power of the network’ and ‘A secure internet’ – are the same as in 2010. The award category ‘The internet and the environment’ has been redefined slightly and renamed ‘Internet and sustainability’. Finally there is a new category for 2011, ‘Knowledge transfer in the digital world’, reflecting the value of knowledge sharing and enrichment via the internet. For further information on each of the awards, see: ANZIAs for Australians and New Zealanders here . IIA & Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Awards 2011 here (nominations are now closed, however bookings can be made for the awards ceremony on 30 September) SIDN Internet Awards here .

Web Hosting – DALLAS, TX — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in on-demand Cloud and Dedicated hosting, today announced the availability of MICRON RealSSD™ P300 solid state drives (SSDs) in 50GB, 100GB, and 200GB capacities. The new SSDs provide reliable and secure enterprise-class storage ideal for high-performance and data-intensive applications, such as databases requiring fast read/write performance. “From the day we added the first SSDs to our portfolio of hardware solutions, customer response has been exceptional.

Web Hosting – DALLAS, TX — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in on-demand Cloud and Dedicated hosting, today announced the availability of MICRON RealSSD™ P300 solid state drives (SSDs) in 50GB, 100GB, and 200GB capacities. The new SSDs provide reliable and secure enterprise-class storage ideal for high-performance and data-intensive applications, such as databases requiring fast read/write performance

Web Hosting – DALLAS, TX — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovative hosting provider of Cloud, Dedicated, and integrated environments, today announced the launch of its Technology Partners Marketplace, a showcase for current SoftLayer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) customers’ products and technologies. The Marketplace is designed to connect these customers with the rest of SoftLayer’s community of over 26,000 customers.  At launch, featured partners include App First , Mollom , StandingCloud , and Migration Box , with more to be added soon. “The SoftLayer customer community includes a vibrant group of startup and established software and technology-product companies,” said Paul Ford, Vice President Community Development.

Hosting Toolbox – MIAMI – Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced the addition of new levels of support and an innovative new storage pricing model for users of its vCloud Express offering. The company also updated its pricing model for virtual machines leveraging large amounts of memory, processing and storage resources.

A chart from Terremark’s website shows the new pricing model for vCloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Cloud hosting provider Terremark ( www.terremark.com ) announced on Thursday that it has launched a new level of support as well as a new pricing model for users of its vCloud Express. Terremark says it has also updated its pricing model for virtual machines. This announcement comes almost a month after Terremark won Cisco Partner Summit regional award for United States Service Provider Cloud Offering of the Year .

Hosting Toolbox – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in on-demand Cloud and Dedicated hosting, announced it will be the first hosting provider to offer servers featuring Intel® Xeon® 1200 Series processors. The 1200 series is part of Intel’s next-generation Sandy Bridge processor family, delivering rich new features ideal for powering cloud applications, virtualized computing, content streaming, and more. Key benefits of the new servers include: – Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) – New Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (256 bit) – Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 – 8MB L3 CPU Cache – Intel Hyper-Threading – Data Center Manageability Interface “We’re proud to offer our customers the latest, most advanced Intel processors on the first day they are publicly available,” said Sam Fleitman, SoftLayer Chief Operations Officer.