Domain & Hosting News
A diagram illustrating the different VMware vCloud components (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud computing company PeakColo ( www.peakcolo.com ) announced on Monday it has achieved the VMware vCloud Powered designation for its cloud service offerings. The move comes a week after PeakColo joined the Partner Program for Service Providers operated by storage solutions vendor NetApp.
Reading, UK 19th April 2011: Cloud and Managed Hosting expert, DediPower, has achieved significant cost savings for London-based integrated agency DCH, which manages and directs international communications requirements for more than 20 high-profile clients, including Nikon, D-Link, Invisalign, Fullers, Discovery Foods, MG, and The Football League. By moving to DediPowers virtualised Private Cloud hosting platform, DCH has achieved a 40% saving on previous hosting expenditure and gained three times more capacity and 100% availability. It has reduced infrastructure from 10 to 4 servers with a subsequent reduction in associated operating and energy costs
Web Hosting – PHOENIX & LOUISVILLE, CO – Zayo, a provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure, has partnered with Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6 network and leading Internet backbone and colocation provider, to provide IPv6 connectivity at highly economical rates.
An image of The Benaroya Company’s South Hill North Data Center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The Benaroya Company ( www.benaroya.com ) announced on Tuesday that its South Hill North Data Center ( http://www.southhilldatacenter.com/SouthDataCenter.aspx ) in Puyallup, Washington has earned the Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council’s LEED program ( www.usgbc.org/LEED ) for the design, construction and operation of energy efficient buildings. The facility joins only a handful of data centers around the country to earn the upper-tier certification, including IBM’s Raleigh, North Carolina data center , Sabey Data Centers’ Intergate.Columbia facility in East Wenatchee, Washington , and eBay’s flagship data center in Salt Lake City . South Hill’s commissioned data center delivers 56,605 square feet of raised floor space, robust critical infrastructure scalable up to 260 watts per square foot, uninterruptable low cost power and energy efficiency for extremely low total operating cost. Additionally, South Hill utilizes clean energy in the form of wind and hydroelectric power. “South Hill Data Center is very attractive both fiscally and environmentally,” says Larry Benaroya of The Benaroya Company, which developed and owns South Hill
An image of The Benaroya Company’s South Hill North Data Center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The Benaroya Company ( www.benaroya.com ) announced on Tuesday that its South Hill North Data Center ( http://www.southhilldatacenter.com/SouthDataCenter.aspx ) in Puyallup, Washington has earned the Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council’s LEED program ( www.usgbc.org/LEED ) for the design, construction and operation of energy efficient buildings. The facility joins only a handful of data centers around the country to earn the upper-tier certification, including IBM’s Raleigh, North Carolina data center , Sabey Data Centers’ Intergate.Columbia facility in East Wenatchee, Washington , and eBay’s flagship data center in Salt Lake City .
Hosting Toolbox – CHICAGO – Trustwave, a leading global certificate authority and issuer of SSL certificates and online identities, has partnered with Tucows’ wholesale Internet division, OpenSRS, to deliver Trustwave SSL products and secure site seals to OpenSRS resellers and their customers. OpenSRS manages over ten million domain names and millions of mailboxes for a network of over 11,000 web hosts, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other resellers around the world
Hosting Toolbox – NEW YORK, NY – Telx®, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with CoreLink Data Centers, a national provider of state-of-the-art data center hosting facilities and services for the management of mission-critical business applications. The alliance augments both providers’ existing service footprints and allows colocation customers of Telx and CoreLink to seamlessly expand presence in key U.S.
Hosting Toolbox – ARMONK, N.Y. – IBM (NYSE: IBM) has joined more than 45 leading cloud organizations to form the new Cloud Standards Customer Council, which is managed by OMG®.
An illustration from a whitepaper on CSC’s website shows the structure of its CloudIAM (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Business technology solutions and services provider CSC ( www.csc.com ) announced this week that it has partnered with cloud security firm Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) to build a cloud-based identity and access management solution, CloudIAM. CSC says this solution addresses the challenges faced by government and commercial enterprises who are transitioning applications to the cloud. According to the press release, CloudAIM has several features to ease cloud adoption including controlling access to applications based on individual employee functions, providing automated on-boarding and off-boarding and the ability to efficiently respond to requests for detailed access logs to meet compliance requirements
