Business web hosting can make or break an Internet-based business. When a company depends on its website for sales, downtime or slow loading web pages can seriously affect profits.

Hosting News – McLean, VA – ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed hosting for enterprises worldwide, today announced it has named Internet/telecom industry marketing executive Fritz Stolzenbach to lead its expanded marketing department.  In this position, Stolzenbach is responsible for all of ServInt’s marketing, corporate communications and business development activities. For the past 25 years, Stolzenbach has served a variety of enterprises in the Internet and telecommunications industries, including Intelsat, Hughes Network Systems, Spacenet and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative.  He has been integrally involved in the rollout of a wide range of consumer- and business-facing broadband and multimedia technologies, including DIRECTV, HughesNet broadband services, and the Connexstar family of satellite Internet terminals.

An image of Fritz Stolzenbach, ServInt’s new vice president of marketing (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider ServInt ( www.servint.com ) announced on Tuesday it has named Fritz Stolzenbach the company’s new vice president of marketing. The announcement follows a series of recent appointments by ServInt, including Kevin Nicastro to director of engineering , Brian Loomis to director of provisioning , and Mike Witty to director of network compliance .

Google Insists It Didn’t ‘Sell Out’ with Net Neutrality Plan Amid a storm of opposition from consumer groups and some Internet-based companies for its joint proposal with Verizon Wireless on how to handle Net neutrality, Google is now defending its position.

Users Will Dump PC, Head For Cloud: Pew Research Center Cloud computing will eclipse the traditional desktop by the end of this decade as a majority of people will use the Internet for applications and accessing information, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. By 2010, the majority of computer users will be using Internet-based applications and devices such as smartphones instead of general purpose PCs as their primary means of accessing IT, according to 71 percent of the respondents to a survey by the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit research center. ..

Data from 1400 consumers and 390 small firms reveals that online trading has made interesting social and business impacts.   Most Britons have become more demanding shoppers as a result

Microsoft Plans To Beat Google In The Cloud Microsoft’s Office strategy focuses on consistency: providing the same document view across on-premises, Internet-based, and mobile platforms. And while Google Docs puts a singular, simple focus on real-time online document sharing, Microsoft offers a portfolio of products–feature rich but also complicated–for different kinds of collaboration. Not surprisingly, Kurt DelBene, senior VP of Microsoft’s Office group, doesn’t give an inch on competing in pure cloud deployments, touting Office’s ubiquity and familiarity and the fact that it will offer PC- and cloud-based apps