Graham Crich of VMware delivers a main forum session (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The first Thursday afternoon session in the main forum was delivered by Graham Crich of VMware, who set out to talk about the cloud market in the next few years, and specifically how the role of service providers is going to change. He showed a chart illustrating which individuals within organizations tend to be blockers or advocates toward moving to the cloud. One of the interesting things it illustrated was that IT managers are commonly advocates for the cloud, where they were more commonly blockers for more traditional outsourcing to hosting providers.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The final Tuesday morning keynote at WorldHostingDays this week in Germany was delivered by Hyder Ali, the hosting industry director for the communications sector at Microsoft. He began by saying that Microsoft itself is in the midst of a critical transformation from a company that sold desktop software to a company whose services are hosted.

Website Hosting News – Redwood City, CA – Racktivity, a pioneer in the development of next-generation data center power distribution and energy management solutions, today announced the availability of its new next generation EnergySwitchTM ES1008 Power Distribution Unit (PDU) solution for energy and environmental management within data centers. Racktivity’s ES1008 gives data center professionals real-time, true RMS measurement capability, predictive analysis and individual power-port level switching capability, all at the industry’s lowest energy consumption available in a PDU device.

Website Hosting News – Cupertino, CA – Cloud.com, a leader in open source cloud computing software, today announced that Logicworks, a leading provider of enterprise hosting and cloud solutions, is using the company’s flagship product, CloudStack™, for its public cloud offering, infiniCloud. Launched in December 2010, infiniCloud is an innovative on-demand cloud computing service for mission-critical industries like software as a service (SaaS) and media where scalability, availability, security and performance are critical.

McKinsey and Company Principal Darren Pleasance presents a keynote Wednesday (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Following a quick welcoming note by John Zanni, a somewhat recent addition to Parallels, the opening Keynote Wednesday morning at the Parallels Summit was delivered by Darren Pleasance, a principal at McKinsey & Company. As a researcher dealing with the cloud computing space, Pleasance’s presentation was driven by statistics

.COM Price Rise by UK2.net – Still the Cheapest On the Market Monday, February 14, 2011, 12:28:00 PM UK2.net announce this week that their .COM domain name price is due to rise to the very low price of £6.99 / year. The price rise will be implemented on 17th February 2011 and is due to a change at their domain registrar – Verisign– in 2010

Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the results of its 2010/Q4 2010 Domain Market Study which reveals domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. As of the end of Q4 2010, Sedo’s global marketplace now hosts over 18 million domain names and produced $101,438,953 in total sales for 2010, putting Sedo over the $100 million dollar mark for the very first time. Since 2009, the total annual sales increased to over $2.5 million, marking the largest annual sales growth for Sedo to date.

Hosting News – VANCOUVER – PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, announced today the company has begun build out on a 50,000 square foot green datacenter in Portsmouth, UK.

Hosting News – Schenectady, NY – AYKsolutions, a leading provider of web hosting solutions and unmetered servers , announced today their partnership with Secured Servers, an Arizona-based leader in dedicated server hosting, to offer comprehensive, cost-effective dedicated hosting solutions specifically configured for AYKsolutions customers. The new partnership enables AYKsolutions the ability to offer innovative, high performance dedicated server hosting solutions to all AYKsolutions customers

01|14|2011 4:41 pm EDT GoDaddy Issues Close to 50% of all Net New SSL Certificates by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registrars – 0 Comments According to a report issued by Netcraft Ltd ., a leading industry analyst, Go Daddy now issues approximately 50 percent of net new SSL certificates.  The report also cited “strong progress” for Go Daddy’s Extended Validation SSL certificates, which more than doubled in market share over the past year, rising from 4.2 percent to 9 percent.