A screen shot of Go Daddy’s jobs page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Go Daddy ( www.godaddy.com ) announced on Wednesday it now has more than 3,000 people and is looking to hire at least 350 more in the weeks ahead. A majority of Go Daddy’s employees work in the company’s Customer Care centers, all based in the US

A screen shot of Go Daddy’s jobs page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Go Daddy ( www.godaddy.com ) announced on Wednesday it now has more than 3,000 people and is looking to hire at least 350 more in the weeks ahead. A majority of Go Daddy’s employees work in the company’s Customer Care centers, all based in the US.

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The carrier hotel at 111 8th Ave in New York, acquired by Google from Digital Realty Trust (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center construction was in full swing throughout 2010, as companies scrambled to meet the rapidly growing infrastructure demands of enterprises around the world. There was a noticeable increase in data center buildouts and expansions, particularly when compared to 2009 — the year the recession really started taking its toll across all industry sectors, bringing many data center projects to a standstill

An image of the 111 8th Ave building in Manhattan, provided by Digital Realty Trust (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Google ( www.google.com ) has signed a contract to acquire 111 8th Avenue in Manhattan, according to a report released Friday by the Wall Street Journal .

Iomart, the Scottish web-hosting and data storage company, has more than doubled its interim pre-tax profits on the back of what it described as shift in customer behaviour towards cloud computing networks. AIM-listed Iomart, which has its headquarters in Glasgow, also said it had grown both the “size and quality” of its customer base and said that it had experienced a “paradigm shift … to the cloud”

Google’s new data center in Goose Creek, South Carolina (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Google ( www.google.com ) announced on Wednesday it is currently building two new data centers in the Carolinas, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . The company says the new data centers will meet its growing server needs.