August 8, 2011 — In the fourth session of the Technology and Operations track, Jim Curry, GM of Rackspace Cloud Builders, delivered his presentation, “Unlocking the Cloud — The Case for Open Standards”. Curry first gave a brief introduction to OpenStack, which is a next generation cloud operating system that transforms data centers into pools of resources.

Occasionally, a web hosting company can stir up controversy. With the latest debate over Anti-Gay extremists and their right to free speech, some web hosts such as BlueHost have made a stand

A screen shot of NetBenefit’s PCI compliance page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider NetBenefit ( www.netbenefit.com ) announced on Tuesday it has attained Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance following a detailed audit of its hosting environment by qualified security assessor, CNS.

A screenshot of Alert Logic’s log manager (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Log management, intrusion detection and cloud security solutions provider Alert Logic ( www.alertlogic.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has added IPv6 networking support to its Threat Manager solution and ActiveWatch managed service.  This news closely follows Alert Logic’s Monday announceme nt that it has proposed CloudLog as an informational request for comment to the standards track of the IETF. Alert Logic says this support enables customers to migrate to IPv6 networks with confidence that security is being monitored.

A screenshot of Alert Logic’s log manager (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Log management, intrusion detection and cloud security solutions provider Alert Logic ( www.alertlogic.com ) announced on Wednesday that it has added IPv6 networking support to its Threat Manager solution and ActiveWatch managed service.  This news closely follows Alert Logic’s Monday announceme nt that it has proposed CloudLog as an informational request for comment to the standards track of the IETF. Alert Logic says this support enables customers to migrate to IPv6 networks with confidence that security is being monitored. According to Alert Logic, IPv6 networks “brings a host of new security challenges” and enterprises are unsure if “existing security solutions can effectively protect their networks against IPv6-based attacks.” “Availability of IP address space has been deemed a business continuity issue by our service provider partners,” Urvish Vashi, vice president of marketing at Alert Logic said in a statement.

A screenshot of Alert Logic’s log manager (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Online security firm Alert Logic ( www.alertlogic.com ) announced on Monday that it has proposed CloudLog as an informational request for comment to the standards track of the Internet Engineering Task Force ( www.ietf.org ). CloudLog will define specifications for logging information to determine how many users share hardware and what their identities and roles are. “Alert Logic has a long history of helping cloud and hosting service providers address the challenges of security and compliance,” Misha Govshteyn, VP of technology and service provider solutions at Alert Logic said in a statement.

A screen capture of AWS’ page for its new Simple Email Service (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Amazon Web Services ( http://aws.amazon.com ) announced on Tuesday it has added to its cloud offerings with the launch a new hosted bulk email service ( http://aws.amazon.com/ses ). Simple Email Service expands on the company’s Elastic Cloud Computing and Simple Storage Service services