Roland Sars, BackupAgent director of sales and marketing (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the first session of the afternoon held at Europa-Park’s Magic Cinema, Roland Sars, BackupAgent ( www.backupagent.com ) director of sales and marketing discussed the importance of backup and storage solutions. Titled “The Cloud backup opportunity”, the presentation kicked off with a brief background on BackupAgent. He also highlighted the evolution of hosting providers into cloud service providers.

Roland Sars, BackupAgent director of sales and marketing (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the first session of the afternoon held at Europa-Park’s Magic Cinema, Roland Sars, BackupAgent ( www.backupagent.com ) director of sales and marketing discussed the importance of backup and storage solutions.

The last allocation of IPv4 addresses from the central pool to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) occurred Thursday in a symbolic ceremony hosted by ICANN in Miami along with the Number Resources Organization (NRO), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Society. The allocation of the remaining five blocks of IPv4 addresses were allocated to the five RIRs. The allocation of the final IPv4 addresses is analogous to the last crates of a product leaving a manufacturing warehouse and going to the regional stores or distributions centres, where they can still be distributed to the public.

A screen shot of Network SI’s managed hosting page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT security Enforce Technology ( www.enforcechnology.com ) announced on Wednesday it has acquired the business assets of fallen managed and hosting services SME reseller Network SI ( www.networksi.co.uk ) in a pre-pack deal. West Midlands-based Network SI was forced to sell its hosting and managed services unit after it encountered financial difficulties. The company called on RSM Tenon ( www.rsmtenon.com ) to find potential buyers for the company

A screen shot of Network SI’s managed hosting page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT security Enforce Technology ( www.enforcechnology.com ) announced on Wednesday it has acquired the business assets of fallen managed and hosting services SME reseller Network SI ( www.networksi.co.uk ) in a pre-pack deal. West Midlands-based Network SI was forced to sell its hosting and managed services unit after it encountered financial difficulties. The company called on RSM Tenon ( www.rsmtenon.com ) to find potential buyers for the company

The last blocks of IPv4 addresses are likely to be allocated to regional registries “within the next few weeks”, Vint Cerf, formerly chair of ICANN and now Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, has said its time to act and adopt IPv6.

Amazon Buy Out LoveFilm.com Thursday, January 20, 2011, 9:54:25 AM It was announced this morning that Amazon (AMZN) had purchased the remaining shares in online video rental company LoveFilm . Amazon already had a significant stake in LoveFilm but decided that the company’s aggressive expansion across Europe made buying the remaining stakes an appealing proposition. So appealing, that it reportedly cost Amazon around £200million to by the 58% remainder