Andy Makeham, CEO of K3 Managed Services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK managed hosting firm K3 Managed Services ( www.k3btg.com ) announced on Thursday it has acquired a unit of business management software firm FD Systems ( www.fdsystems.co.uk ) for $1.9 (£1.25) million. K3 has bought a division of FD Systems which supplies the Sage Line 200 suite of business management software to small and medium-sized firms. With products ranging from integrated back office, operations, CRM, ecommerce and supply chain management, FD Systems has annual revenues of $3.6 million and profits of $771,400

A chart explaining HP’s cloud automation approach (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — HP Enterprise Services UK ( www.hp.com ) announced on Tuesday that energy firm BP International ( www.bp.com ) has signed a five-year outsourcing services agreement that is worth over $400 million. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will deliver consistent global data center services that lets BP to standardize and consolidate its hosting services and use innovative technologies such as cloud computing. HP said it currently provides data center services to BP’s European data centers in the UK

TopHosts.com News Brief [21-12-10] — Energy giant BP International has awarded a $400 million Web hosting and data center service contract to Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ).

With IANA allocating four /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses to the Regional Internet Registries on 30 November, there are now only seven /8s remaining in IANA free pool of IPv4 addresses, or 2.73 per cent of the original total. This means there are only two /8 blocks remaining to be allocated in the normal distribution method as when the pool reaches five /8 blocks, these will be allocated to the RIRs.

Google.com giving away 10,000 free Google TV units Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 8:58:25 AM Google has started to give away 10,000 of its Google TV units. But to get your hand on one you need to live in the US and be an app developer. So far 3000 units have been handed out and will continue with the remaining 7000 over the next few weeks.

With 94.5% of IPv4 addresses already allocated and the remaining 5.5% expected to be allocated by mid-2011, a panel of industry experts, including John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN, explained that IPv6 is the only path to continued Internet growth at a recent NTIA IPv6 workshop. The panellists also agreed that IPv6 is necessary for all future efforts around cloud computing, smart grid, mobility, and the Internet of Things. To read the full news release from ARIN, with all findings and deliverables, see below.

Lawrence Strickling, assistant secretary for communications and information at the Department of Commerce. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With IPv4 addresses expected to run out by next year, the Obama administration is urging Internet and telecom companies deploy the new IPv6 addressing system sooner rather than later

Lawrence Strickling, assistant secretary for communications and information at the Department of Commerce. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With IPv4 addresses expected to run out by next year, the Obama administration is urging Internet and telecom companies deploy the new IPv6 addressing system sooner rather than later. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( www.ntia.doc.gov ) is holding a workshop on September 28 to discuss the importance of IPv6 to the US internet economy

Scottsdale, AZ, August 27, 2010 –( PR.com )– VoxDomains.com Registrar is now offering Web Hosting powered by Grid Technology, for all U.S. plans, at the same price as traditional shared hosting

The recent ICANN meeting held in Brussels was judged a success by Minds + Machines’ Antony Van Couvering, whose company is likely to be behind applications for several new generic Top Level Domains when ICANN eventually begins taking applications. Van Couvering writes that the recent meeting “may become known as the meeting where the dust finally began to settle. Long-standing issues were settled, compromises were reached, no-one complained too much about the latest version of the Applicant Guidebook, and the Board stood by its project plan dates, even scheduling a Board retreat to solve remaining issues