IOMART, the Scottish web-hosting and data storage company, yesterday said it has recently signed four contracts worth £1.8 million on the increasing demand for cloud computing services, writes Mark Smith. AIM-listed Iomart, which has its headquarters in Glasgow, also said it was now closing between 30 and 40 new orders per month from both new and existing customers. Cloud computing is internet-based computing resources – such as storage, email and other services – provided to computers and other devices on demand, much like the electricity grid

A screenshot of GMG Radio’s website, one of iomart’s new customers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Managed hosting and cloud computing services provider iomart Group ( www.iomart.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has recently won contracts worth $2.9 million.  This announcement comes a month following the company’s migration of over 300,000 customer email accounts to the Open-Xchange platform.

There was a man who lived by the side of the road and sold hot dogs. He was hard of hearing, so he had no radio. He had trouble with his eyes, so he read no newspaper.

SoftLayer® Takes Stage with Dean Guitars for NAMM JAM Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 4:38:09 AM SoftLayer Technologies® , the world’s largest hosting provider, is proud to cosponsor the Dean Guitars 2nd Annual NAMM Jam, Friday, January 14 at the Grove of Anaheim. The excusive concert will feature legendary rock band MEGADETH and super group HELLYEAH , and be one of the hottest tickets during the 2011 North American Music Merchants (NAMM) Show in Anaheim. “We are excited to be part of what will be a fantastic night of live entertainment,” said Lance Crosby , CEO of SoftLayer.

Defenders of Wikileaks.org knock out PayPal and MasterCard Wednesday, December 08, 2010, 10:36:02 AM The war over Wikileaks.org is well under way and has claimed its first high profile victims in the forms of PayPal and MasterCard. It was announced yesterday that ‘hactivists’ 4chan had vowed to defend Wikileaks by ‘taking down’ any of the sites who first turned its back on Julian Assange and his organisation.

Web Hosting News – Seattle, WA – Adhost Internet, one of the Seattle region’s leading providers of server colocation, dedicated servers and cloud hosting, finished construction of its third data center in downtown Seattle – just in time for the upcoming stormy winter forecasted for western Washington. “Businesses continue to seek secure data centers with redundant Internet connections, power and cooling for their servers storing critical, sensitive data,” said Will Riffle, Adhost President and CEO.

Fisher Plaza West Building in Seattle, where Adhost’s third data center is located (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and colocation provider Adhost Internet ( www.adhost.com ) announced on Monday it has completed construction of its third data center in downtown Seattle. The new Adhost West 2 data center is located adjacent to the company’s second data center, which opened in 2007. Both are housed in Seattle’s Fisher Plaza, a Northwest telecommunications hub where other telecommunication and Internet companies are located including KOMO 4 Television, Fisher Radio, AT&T, AboveNet, Time Warner Telecom, MCI, and Verizon.