Hosting Reviews – Cupertino, CA – Cloud.com, a provider of open source cloud computing software, today announced that KT, Korea’s largest landline operator and mobile service provider, has selected its flagship technology, CloudStack™, as the foundation for its new public cloud offering, KT ucloud.

A screenshot from Cloud.com’s website of the CloudStack dashboard (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open source cloud computing provider Cloud.com ( www.cloud.com ) and cloud security firm Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) announced on Wednesday a partnership to combine Symplified and Cloud.com CloudStack to enable users to deliver identity and access management security and integration capabilities. According to the announcement, this partnership will provide service providers with single sign-on capabilities to “increase end-user satisfaction and reduce management costs.” The solution is designed for “larger organizations” according to the partners

A screenshot from Cloud.com’s website of the CloudStack dashboard (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open source cloud computing provider Cloud.com ( www.cloud.com ) and cloud security firm Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) announced on Wednesday a partnership to combine Symplified and Cloud.com CloudStack to enable users to deliver identity and access management security and integration capabilities. According to the announcement, this partnership will provide service providers with single sign-on capabilities to “increase end-user satisfaction and reduce management costs.” The solution is designed for “larger organizations” according to the partners.

Web Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange announced today tighter integration with the latest industry-standard control panel Parallels Plesk Panel 10.1, enabling hosting customers and resellers to choose their favorite WebMail application.

Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Following a successful pilot project, U.K.-based managed cloud services company iomart Group will migrate over 300,000 customer e-mail accounts to the Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration platform, providing end users with a more feature-rich service. In addition, iomart’s customers will be able to upgrade to advanced groupware features and mobility support in Open-Xchange – providing the company with additional value-added services. iomart Group is one of the U.K.‘s largest providers of managed hosting and cloud services.

Microsoft Want To Prevent ‘App Store’ Trademark Thursday, January 13, 2011, 9:24:55 AM It was revealed this week that Microsoft (MSFT) is filing a dispute regarding Apple’s (AAPL) claim over the ‘App Store’ trademark. Apple initially applied for a licence over the phrase in 2008, meaning it has taken Microsoft over 2 years to contact the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and ask them to rebut the request. Although Microsoft already has run its own applications store, called Microsoft Marketplace, since 2009, they are now claiming that the term ‘app store’ it too general to be trademarked.

Olivier Sanche at the construction of an eBay data center, from Dave Ohara’s Green Data Center blog (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Sad news from the data center world this weekend, as according to several reports published Monday, Olivier Sanche, the head of Apple’s data center team and well-known industry figure, passed away over the Thanksgiving weekend. Sanche, who was 41 years old, suffered a heart attack, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge