Hosting Reviews – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, a supplier of open source business-class email and groupware, today announced additional usability enhancements and flexibility, plus enhanced mobile support for smartphones. Open-Xchange users can now choose whether new windows open in a new tab or in a new browser pop-up screen. A new space-saving compact panel is especially useful for tablet users and for those using Open-Xchange on smaller screens

Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are actively infecting computers. The kits offer several kinds of exploits, or sequences of codes that can take advantage of software vulnerabilities in order to deliver malware. Researchers from Seculert have found that at least a couple of these kits — Incognito 2.0 and Bomba — offer their own Web hosting as well as a Web-based management interface.

A diagram of Nirvanix hNodes infrastructure (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage provider Nirvanix ( www.nirvanix.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched a new program that provides its customers currently storing data in its Node 3 data center in Japan with the option of moving their data to one of its other data centers for free. Customers can move their data to any other locations in the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Networ, either on a temporary or full-time basis

A screen shot of Hosting 4 Less’ HonshuQuake.com website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Hosting 4 Less ( www.hosting4less.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched a new website, www.HonshuQuake.com, dedicated to providing relief to the victims of the recent Japanese earthquake and Tsunami. Last Friday, Japan experienced a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Honshu, which immediately triggered a major tsunami.

A screen shot of Hosting 4 Less’ HonshuQuake.com website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Hosting 4 Less ( www.hosting4less.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched a new website, www.HonshuQuake.com, dedicated to providing relief to the victims of the recent Japanese earthquake and Tsunami. Last Friday, Japan experienced a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Honshu, which immediately triggered a major tsunami. The two disasters have devastated the country, resulting in 5,321 deaths, 2,383 injured, and 9,329 missing people, as well as tens of billions in damages

A map of Equinix’s data centers across the Asia Pacific, including Japan facilities (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Equinix ( www.equinix.com ) announced on Tuesday that its two data centers in Tokyo, TY1 and TY2, are operating under normal conditions, following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last Friday. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami has reportedly affected some data centers in the region.

An image of Amazon’s data center in Japan (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – An 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan Friday afternoon, causing concern for web hosts who have set up data centers in Tokyo to meet demand for cloud computing services, according to a report by ZDNet . While it is still unclear how data centers have been affected, ZDNet Japan has been posting the availability as the information becomes available

Web Hosting News – SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the launch of its new Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, the fifth Region in which the company has deployed its global cloud computing platform. Japan-based businesses and global companies with customers in Japan can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. Starting today, AWS is also offering support in Japanese for any customer with a Japanese language preference

Hitachi has announced through a partnership with the Japanese GMO Registry that they will be applying for the generic Top Level Domain .HITACHI when ICANN begins accepting applications, possibly later this year. The announcement sees Hitachi joining fellow Japanese company Canon who announced in March 2010 they will be applying for the .CANON gTLD and becomes only the second company to publicly announce they will be applying for their gTLD

Page Speed Automatic is a complementary optimization service to Cotendo’s existing Dynamic Site Acceleration service (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network and site acceleration services provider Contendo ( www.contendo.com ) announced on Wednesday it has signed a reseller agreement and formed a strategic partnership with data transfer and media storage service firm Wam!Net Japan ( www.sumitomocorp.co.jp ). Wam!Net Japan — the joint venture between Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s largest trading companies and NTT Communications ( www.ntt.com ), a Japanese telecom — will be able to provide its customers with Contendo’s integrated suite of acceleration services, according to Contendo.  The acceleration services include: static and dynamic content acceleration, SSL offloading, advanced DNS, intelligent load balancing, 24×7 performance monitoring, real-time content and cache updates, and SEO analytics