Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Joins Tumblr, Kickstarter, and SoundCloud to Host SXSW Meet-Up Blogs: CO2 Impact on Datacenters News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web host FireHost ( www.firehost.com ) has closed its first initial infusion of capital totaling $2 million, raised to help the company quickly expand its IT, sales and marketing team and build out it’s infrastructure in order to meet tremendous demand.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Joins Tumblr, Kickstarter, and SoundCloud to Host SXSW Meet-Up Blogs: CO2 Impact on Datacenters News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A massive data center in North Lanarkshire, Scotland has been approved by the local council, despite the mounting controversy surrounding the build.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Joins Tumblr, Kickstarter, and SoundCloud to Host SXSW Meet-Up Blogs: CO2 Impact on Datacenters News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — During Austin’s South by Southwest ( www.SXSW.com ) Interactive Conference, a Saturday night Tumblr ( www.tumblr.com ) event will draw together many web entrepreneurs and professionals in what is quickly becoming an important event for online industries. IT hosting provider The Planet ( www.theplanet.com ) will be the title sponsor of March 13, meet-up at Emo’s Austin, one of the city’s premier music venues, beginning at 6:30 pm

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Joins Tumblr, Kickstarter, and SoundCloud to Host SXSW Meet-Up Blogs: CO2 Impact on Datacenters News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microsoft revealed this week plans to lower its data center budget from $500 million per project to $250 million or less, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . Kevin Timmons, head of Microsoft’s data center operations team, says the company is currently on track to “reduce costs by 50 percent or more in the next-generation builds”. The announcement comes a week after the company unveiled its container-powered cloud services vision , where CEO Steve Ballmer said “when it comes to the cloud, we are all in.” Driven by the company’s container-based data center design, the goal is to build its data center network to be “incredibly scalable at awesome cost effectiveness,” says Timmons

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Joins Tumblr, Kickstarter, and SoundCloud to Host SXSW Meet-Up Blogs: CO2 Impact on Datacenters News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Despite a continuing slowdown in new customer acquisition and slower growth in the existing customer base, UK-based domain name and Internet-related services provider Group NBT ( www.groupnbt.com ) has reported that its half-year revenue for the period ending December 31, 2009 was £21.69 million ($32.6 million) — up 13 percent from the same period last year. Despite the slowdown, partly a result of higher levels of cancellations (some due to insolvencies particularly among smaller customers), the level of recurring revenue in the business remains high and this provides a stable platform on which to build, NBT reported Thursday.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Joins Tumblr, Kickstarter, and SoundCloud to Host SXSW Meet-Up Blogs: CO2 Impact on Datacenters News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Software developer CloudLinux Inc. ( www.cloudlinux.com ) announced that virtual private server hosting provider VPS.NET will begin to offer CloudLinux as one of the standard Linux operating systems on all of its elastic and instantly scalable cloud hosting offerings. Making its debut at Parallels Summit 2010 ( www.parallels.com/summit ), CloudLinux is the first Linux–based, commercially supported operating system optimized for shared hosting providers and data centers .

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Joins Tumblr, Kickstarter, and SoundCloud to Host SXSW Meet-Up Blogs: CO2 Impact on Datacenters News: Controversial Scottish Data Center Build Moves Forward (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing business management software suite vendor NetSuite Inc. ( www.netsuite.com ) plans to make its cloud computing enterprise resource planning suite available in the Google Apps Marketplace ( www.google.com/appsmarketplace ), Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services. According to its Wednesday announcement, NetSuite’s cloud-based ERP suite enables users to run their key back-office operations and financial business processes — including accounting, inventory and supply chain, order management and business intelligence — with a single, comprehensive SaaS application.