A screen shot of the Social: IRL website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider Codero ( www.codero.com ) announced on Wednesday it is sponsoring the upcoming Social Business Summit and Strategy Workshop ( www.socialirl.com/social-business-summit/ ). The move comes a week after Codero introduced a few new green measures , such as donating of office furniture to the Salvation Army in Phoenix, implementing more energy-conscious power supplies in place for all its servers, and participating in the Plant-a-Tree program.

A screen shot of the Social: IRL website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider Codero ( www.codero.com ) announced on Wednesday it is sponsoring the upcoming Social Business Summit and Strategy Workshop ( www.socialirl.com/social-business-summit/ ). The move comes a week after Codero introduced a few new green measures , such as donating of office furniture to the Salvation Army in Phoenix, implementing more energy-conscious power supplies in place for all its servers, and participating in the Plant-a-Tree program. Produced by Social: IRL, the event will be held April 26 at the Embassy Suites, Kansas City International Airport

A screenshot of a video describing the Mozy service features, at the comapny’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Online backup service firm Mozy ( www.mozy.com ) announced this week that it had successfully completed the SAS 70 and ISO 27001 certifications, both of them serving as validations for the company’s standards around data security. The SAS 70 certification is the popular auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, verifying that an organization has been through an audit of its control objectives and activities.

A diagram from NaviSite’s website illustrates the security of its NaviCloud framework (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider NaviSite ( www.navisite.com ) announced on Thursday that it has achieved the Cisco Advanced Managed Services Certification that recognizes NaviSite’s investment in the ITIL ( www.itil-officialsite.com ) processes to provide high-quality managed services. This news comes a month after NaviSite announced that IT solutions and software firm International Turnkey Systems deployed NaviSite’s managed cloud services . As a partner, NaviSite says it “has made an investment in a network operations center and has demonstrated the ability to support two customers, validated via an independent audit.” “This achievement represents an important milestone in the development and roll out of our cloud-based services,” R

AusRegistry International announced this month it has won a lucrative contract with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Sultanate of Oman to operate software services for the .OM Omani country code Top Level Domain. AusRegistry International is particularly pleased with the new Oman contract as it puts them in the position as a market leader in the region and complements similar projects currently underway in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

AusRegistry International announced this month it has won a lucrative contract with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Sultanate of Oman to operate software services for the .OM Omani country code Top Level Domain. AusRegistry International is particularly pleased with the new Oman contract as it puts them in the position as a market leader in the region and complements similar projects currently underway in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This is in addition to its consulting work for South Africa’s .ZA ccTLD, the largest in Africa

Hosting Reviews – UNITED KINGDOM – Sophisticated cyber-attacks like last year’s stuxnet worm grab the headlines and trigger massive investment in anti-virus software but the chief threat to data center security today remains ‘physical’ according to Alex Rabbetts of Norwich-based colocation specialists, Sentry42. “Over half of the data security breaches in the UK this year will be the result of direct physical attack or theft from the data center. The reality of our day-to-day enemy is not the international cyber terrorist gangs – it is more likely to be a disgruntled employee or petty criminal breaking in and stealing to order.” “The lesson for data owners is clear – security needs to be professionally managed and this often means having it hosted in a specialist facility which has invested in substantial physical security.

Web Hosting News – HOUSTON – R1Soft, developer of Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) backup and disaster recovery software for servers in the Cloud, today revealed details regarding its upcoming appearance at WorldHostingDays (WHD) 2011. Set to run from March 22 through March 25 in Germany, WHD is one of the most prominent conferences and trade shows for the worldwide hosting industry. As a Gold Partner, R1Soft will be on hand to exhibit its CDP products and company vice president David Wartell will headline a hosting session on Tuesday, March 22.

An artist rendering of the Nuremberg facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Hetzner Online AG ( www.hetzner.de ) announced last week its plans to open a new 430,000 square foot data center park in Nuremberg, Germany. According to the press release, the first two units of the facility will house up to 30,000 servers that will be available by the end of the year. Hetzner Online says its expansion in Nuremberg is due to the site having the potential capacity for over 100,000 servers to meet future demand

An artist rendering of the Nuremberg facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider Hetzner Online AG ( www.hetzner.de ) announced last week its plans to open a new 430,000 square foot data center park in Nuremberg, Germany.