A photo of Eric Hanselman, The 451 Group’s new research director (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – IT analyst company The 451 Group ( www.451group.com ) announced last week it has appointed IT industry veteran Eric Hanselman the organization’s new research director for networking technology and related areas.

A photo of Eric Hanselman, The 451 Group’s new research director (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – IT analyst company The 451 Group ( www.451group.com ) announced last week it has appointed IT industry veteran Eric Hanselman the organization’s new research director for networking technology and related areas. In this role, Hanselman will lead The 451 Group’s networks practice, with responsibility for extending and increasing the value delivered by the firm in this critical arena. “Eric brings to us an extensive, hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the development and application of a range of foundational enterprise technologies, including networking, virtualization, security and semiconductors,” says Martin V

RU-CENTER, the Russian Network Information Center, has launched RUCLID (Russian Cultural and Linguistic Internet Domains), an initiative for the introduction of top level domains intended for cultural and linguistic communities living in Russia. RU-CENTER believes RUCLID will help local communities better express their culture and languages on the Internet. Any top-level domain introduced as a part of RUCLID will be strictly associated with a particular community

A screenshot of VoipNow’s control panel (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud solutions provider 4PSA ( www.4psa.com ) announced last week it has released VoipNow Cloud Instance, a solution that bundles high-performance infrastructure with the company’s VoipNow Unified Communications Platform. VoipNow Cloud Instance is designed for service providers that choose to deploy Unified Communications and want to base their offering on flexible services. The release comes the same week as the introduction of the licensing program for its VoipNow Platform

The Obama administration is “seeking to give authoritarian regimes more power to impose censorship on the Web” through giving them more powers through organisations such as ICANN, says an editorial in the right-leaning Washington Times. The editorial says that “as the influence of the Internet has grown, ICANN has come under increasing scrutiny for foreign governments seeking more control over the system.” It is also a view that is espoused on many right-wing blogs and comments under articles in the right-wing press. The editorial says that the “Bush administration time and again rebuffed these power-sharing proposals” while in “October 2009 the Obama administration concluded an agreement with ICANN that increased international input on Internet governance.

VeriSign’s graph of the total domain name registrations during the fourth quarter of 2010 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign ( www.verisign.com ) announced on Monday it has issued the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, which saw the global base of Internet domain names increase by nearly 3.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. The fourth quarter of 2010 closed with a base of 205.3 million domain name registrations across all top level domains, or a 1.7 percent increase over the third quarter. Meanwhile, registrations have grown by 12.1 million, or 6.3 percent year over year.

Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov delivers the Wednesday Keynote, in which he announced the company’s new CEO (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov delivered one of the opening keynotes Wednesday at the Parallels Summit, jumping immediately into a kind of state-of-the-union for cloud service providers, and concluding with some big news for the company – a big new product and a new CEO. He started at the top, looking at Amazon, the market-defining cloud vendor

The company is touting time and money savings as key drivers, and said that Amazon RDS could cut the time needed to provision such a system from days to minutes. AWS will manage ongoing maintenance, such as updating and backing up databases, and will provide a dashboard view of operations allowing businesses to scale up computing and storage capacities with ease, the firm said. AWS already offers the MySQL database to customers, but explained that the introduction of Oracle 11g will let IT teams streamline database administration, and give developers more time to spend on applications, as opposed to maintaining and scaling systems.

A diagram on IX Web Hosting’s website that describes the nature of the cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider IX Web Hosting ( www.ixwebhosting.com ) announced on Thursday it has officially launched its cloud platform to the market with the introduction of both public and private cloud hosting plans.

A diagram on IX Hosting’s website that describes the nature of the cloud (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider IX Web Hosting ( www.ixwebhosting.com ) announced on Thursday it has officially launched its cloud platform to the market with the introduction of both public and private cloud hosting plans. These plans introduce greater scalability and reliability for IX Web Hosting by using a true cloud infrastructure. IX Web Hosting says it hopes the new cloud plans will help to significantly grow this sector of its business within the next six months