Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 13, 2010 News: Q&A: Imad Mouline, CTO of Compuware Division Gomez News: Dell Denies Keeping Evidence Related to AIT Lawsuit News: Spam Volume Grows 10 Percent from May to July: eleven Email Security Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Computer manufacturer Dell ( www.dell.com ) has denied allegations made by Web hosting provider AIT ( www.ait.com ) that it was withholding evidence tied to the hosting provider’s ongoing legal case, which acuses Dell of knowingly selling defective computers, according to report by ComputerWorld .

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 13, 2010 News: Q&A: Imad Mouline, CTO of Compuware Division Gomez News: Dell Denies Keeping Evidence Related to AIT Lawsuit News: Spam Volume Grows 10 Percent from May to July: eleven Email Security Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After stagnating for the first part of the the year, the volume of spam rose by 10 percent from May to July, according to the latest email security report from German email security specialist eleven ( www.eleven.de ). According to the report released Thursday, the increase can be traced mainly to casino spam, which more than doubled its share of total spam in July, rising from 7.2 percent to 16.2 percent. As recently as May, casino spam had accounted for only three percent of the total volume.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 13, 2010 News: Q&A: Imad Mouline, CTO of Compuware Division Gomez News: Dell Denies Keeping Evidence Related to AIT Lawsuit News: Spam Volume Grows 10 Percent from May to July: eleven Email Security Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com ) announced via its blog earlier this week it released a study that provided a series of statistics on business email usage. The study compared email usage by state and region, highlighting key findings including oddest email hours, and which state is prone to have the healthiest work life balance. The data was compiled based on Rackspace business email usage trends in the United States.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 13, 2010 News: Q&A: Imad Mouline, CTO of Compuware Division Gomez News: Dell Denies Keeping Evidence Related to AIT Lawsuit News: Spam Volume Grows 10 Percent from May to July: eleven Email Security Report (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com ) announced via its blog earlier this week it released a study that provided a series of statistics on business email usage. The study compared email usage by state and region, highlighting key findings including oddest email hours, and which state is prone to have the healthiest work life balance

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Experienced Microsoft Executive Birger Steen to Become President of Parallels News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – August 6 News: Q&A: Dan Ephraim, Digital Realty Trust News: IBM Defends its Performance in TX Data Center Deal (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM ( www.ibm.com ) said on Friday it will meet with Texas state officials in an effort to work out a resolution to an ongoing dispute in its data center consolidation and privatization contract with the state’s IT department. According to the terms of the 7 1/2 year, $863 million contract, which was signed in 2006, IBM was to consolidate Texas state agencies’ 27 IT operations into two new IBM-operated data centers. The company was expected to migrate the agencies’ servers to IBM by December 2009, however, the DIR claimed that IBM had only completed less than 12 percent of the task at the time of the deadline

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – July 30, 2010 News: Web Host Peer 1 Wins Capgemini Colocation Contract News: BurstNET Announces IPV6 Enabled Web Hosting News: Rebel Networks Launches Hosted Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Service News: TelecityGroup Awarded the Carbon Trust Standard for Its Operations Across the UK (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian-based hosting provider Peer 1 Hosting ( www.peer1.com ) announced on Thursday that it had signed a multi-year colocation agreement with consulting and technology outsourcing firm Capgemini Canada Inc. According to the deal, Capgemini will take roughly one full Performance Optimized Data Center at the company’s recently-launched flagship facility in northeast Toronto – a POD is the design unit the company uses to build out the facility

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – July 16, 2010 News: Liquidware Labs Software to Facilitate Dell’s Virtual Desktop Deployments News: Web Host Fasthosts Intros New Virtual Servers Range News: Q&A: David Fullen, NA Sales Director of TIE Commerce, on Content Syndication News: EU Chooses Flexiant Technology for the Test Bed in its €7M Cloud Computing Initiative (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As desktop virtualization quickly emerges a means to empower the latest workforces, Dell Services has made a strategic partnership with Liquidware Labs ( www.liquidwarelabs.com ) to simplify and accelerate customer migrations to virtualized desktops within customer environments both on-site and in the cloud. According to Dell’s announcement this week, Liquidware Labs will provide virtual desktop assessment software as well as migration and monitoring tools to enable Dell Services to transition tens of thousands of customer desktops into virtual desktop environments.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – July 9, 2010 News: Q&A: Strangeloop President Joshua Bixby On Site Optimization News: Savvis Secures $625M Credit Loan News: SiteGround Launches New WordPress Theme News: BlackSun Announces Edmonton Indy Car Sponsorship (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider Savvis ( www.savvis.net ) announced on Friday it has secured a raise of about $625 million, consisting of a $550 million term loan and a $75 million revolving credit facility. Savvis says it will use the proceeds from this to repay its debt, including repurchase of about $345 million in outstanding securities and a repayment of $150 million under its revolving credit loan.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – July 9, 2010 News: Q&A: Strangeloop President Joshua Bixby On Site Optimization News: Savvis Secures $625M Credit Loan News: SiteGround Launches New WordPress Theme News: BlackSun Announces Edmonton Indy Car Sponsorship (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider Savvis ( www.savvis.net ) announced on Friday it has secured a raise of about $625 million, consisting of a $550 million term loan and a $75 million revolving credit facility. Savvis says it will use the proceeds from this to repay its debt, including repurchase of about $345 million in outstanding securities and a repayment of $150 million under its revolving credit loan. Additionally, the company says it will use any remaining proceeds for “general corporate purposes.” The Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding will lead the credit arrangement, while Credit Suisse Securities and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey will act as additional arrangers and book-runners.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Domain Registrar Tucows Donates freddiemercury.com to Legendary Rock Star’s Estate News: Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – June 25, 2010 News: ICANN Board Approves Chinese Language Internationalized Domain Names News: Port80 Software Launches ServerDefender Application Security Tool (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Windows IIS server software developer Port80 Software ( www.port80software.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has launched ServerDefender VP, a web application security tool for Windows servers. In the press release announcing the new product, Port80 says the web application security process is neither automatic nor static, and it requires tools that can discover application vulnerabilities, deploy security policies fit to the application and defend it with the strictest possible set of generic controls. The company says ServerDefender VP provides a tool for defending servers against SQL injection and cross-site scripting, among other malicious attacks, and also delivers easy-to-use site status reports and attack information.