August 25, 2011 — Data center operator Quality Technology Services announced on Thursday it has appointed Rick Henson to serve as the company’s vice president of security and Matt Tyndall as executive vice president of development.

August 17, 2011 — Cloud hosting provider Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday that it has launched AWS GovCloud, designed to enable US government agencies to move sensitive workloads to the cloud while meeting regulatory and compliance requirements. AWS says its new region offers the same level of security as other AWS regions and supports AWS security controls like HIPAA, FISMA, FIPS 140-2, SAS 70, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS Level 1.

Parts of a status message posted to Sony’s PlayStation blog (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Technology giant Sony said on Monday that a five-day outage affecting its PlayStation Network, the online service connected to the company’s PlayStation 3 video game console was the company’s own doing – a dramatic move in an attempt to protect user data, following the discovery of an intrusion.

CMather and Bendigo Web Hosting, the small business web developer based in Australia, now provides its web designing services to the entire Australian continent and has expanded its services and business directory to over 18 countries. Bendigo, Victoria (PRWEB) April 21, 2011 CMather and Bendigo Web Hosting, the small business web developer based in Australia, now provides its web designing services to the entire Australian continent and has expanded its services and business directory to over 18 countries. “It is not enough to have a good business idea

A screenshot shows some of BurstNET’s dedicated server offerings in its LA facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider BurstNET Technologies ( www.burst.net ) announced on Tuesday that it will expand into the US West Coast marketplace with the availability of its dedicated hosting in Los Angeles, California.  “The demand for our services in other locations to be expanded to dedicated hosting, particularly in Los Angeles, has been significant,” Shawn M. Arcus, CEO of BurstNET said in a statement.

Salt Lake City, UT (Vocus/PRWEB) April 04, 2011 DeclareMedia has created a way for web hosting companies to get more clients by using their new local multiple internet directories. Companies that use DeclareMedia and get a listing in their local directory can get it for free

The sign-in page and SSL certificate for Hotmail, one of the services targeted in the attack (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports published Monday, a lone Iranian hacker has claimed responsibility for the Last week’s SSL certificate hack that targeted several major online communications tools, including Hotmail, Skype, Gmail and others.