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Vantage CEO Jim Trout in front of the first building at the Santa Clara campus (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Wholesale data center operator Vantage Data Centers ( www.vantagedatacenters.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has completed construction of the first of three buildings at its campus in Santa Clara, California.  This announcement comes less than a week after the company appointed a new VP of marketing, Greg Ness, and a new director of operations, Tony Giampolo. According to the company, its Santa Clara campus has three buildings with 37 megawatts of IT power capacity and delivers “the industry’s best PUE at 1.20.” This rating translates to an average of $370,000 savings per year over regular data centers

Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier told Forbes that the company has no plans of selling (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A Sunday post on the Forbes blog quotes Lanham Napier, CEO of hosting provider Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) as saying the company is “not for sale,” in the wake of some speculation around further consolidation in the hosting business. The interview was conducted last week, in the context of the recent acquisitions of Terremark, by Verizon, and of NaviSite, by Time Warner Cable, which accelerated the pace of consolidation in the data center and hosting market, and certainly fueled some speculation about further acquisitions, with Rackspace being one of the attractive operations in that market. With speculation related to a possible acquisition (though not to a specific rumor) driving Rackspace shares upward somewhat following those deals, a Kaufman Bros analyst lowered his rating on the company , warning that the shares, while still good, might be temporarily over-valued

Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier told Forbes that the company has no plans of selling (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A Sunday post on the Forbes blog quotes Lanham Napier, CEO of hosting provider Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) as saying the company is “not for sale,” in the wake of some speculation around further consolidation in the hosting business. The interview was conducted last week, in the context of the recent acquisitions of Terremark, by Verizon, and of NaviSite, by Time Warner Cable, which accelerated the pace of consolidation in the data center and hosting market, and certainly fueled some speculation about further acquisitions, with Rackspace being one of the attractive operations in that market. With speculation related to a possible acquisition (though not to a specific rumor) driving Rackspace shares upward somewhat following those deals, a Kaufman Bros analyst lowered his rating on the company , warning that the shares, while still good, might be temporarily over-valued.

An image from Yahoo Finance, showing Rackspace’s stock performance over the last six months (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In its fourth quarter earnings report, released this week, managed hosting provider Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) revealed that its chief financial officer Bruce Knooihuizen plans to retire, though he says he will stay with the company until a replacement has been found. The company said it would conduct an extensive internal and external search to replace the 55-year-old Knooihuizen, who joined the company as CFO in 2008. In its report for the period from October to December of 2010, Rackspace reported $13.5 million in earnings, or 10 cents per share, down from $30.2 million and 24 cents per share a year ago.

Renesys’ graph of globally reachable Egyptian Networks for February 2011 Every Friday, WHIR editor in chief Liam Eagle assembles some notes on stories from the web hosting industry this week that you might have missed or that might, for one reason or another, be worth revisiting. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Just like last week, this week’s biggest news was a mixture of political and policy news from both North America and abroad, and acquisition news from within the hosting industry. And, like last week, much of that news came later in the week.

An image from Yahoo Finance, showing the performance of Rackpace stock this week (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — An analyst at investment advisors Kaufman Bros. lowered his rating on the stock of publicly-traded hosting company Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) Thursday, citing the recent acquisitions of several other hosting properties as having driven the stock price too high. Following the acquisition of Terremark Worldwide last week , by Verizon Communications, and of NaviSite earlier this week , by Time Warner Cable, Kaufman analyst Ben Abramovitz cut his rating from “buy” to “hold” on Rackspace, maintaining his price target of $35.