Domain & Hosting News
A map of Zayo Group’s national network (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation provider Zayo ( www.zayo.com ) announced on Tuesday it has expanded its fiber network in the Dallas metro area. The company has added five major carrier hotel and data center facilities to its network and extended its footprint to eight new local switching offices. The move comes just three months after Zayo expanded its Memphis fiber-to-the-tower network into Northern Mississippi.
A screen shot of Rolling Stone magazine’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center and colocation services provider New York Internet ( www.nyi.cnet ) announced on Wednesday that Rolling Stone Magazine ( www.rollingstone.com ) has signed a contract with NYI to support the relaunch of its website. NYI recently achieved SSAE 16 compliance at its two main data centers at 100 William Street in NYC and 999 Frontier Road in New Jersey.
A screen shot of KnownHost’s VPS plans (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider KnownHost ( www.knownhost.com ) announced on Monday it has reached a significant milestone in building its 11,111th virtual private server. The announcement closely follows a major upgrade to all of its VPS and hybrid servers, including increased memory, more disk space and higher bandwidth. All of KnownHost’s VPS and hybrid servers are powered by Parallels and include full root access, managed cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin, are housed out of KnownHost’s Texas or California data centers, and feature RAID-10 failover systems.
A screen shot of KnownHost’s VPS plans (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider KnownHost ( www.knownhost.com ) announced on Monday it has reached a significant milestone in building its 11,111th virtual private server. The announcement closely follows a major upgrade to all of its VPS and hybrid servers, including increased memory, more disk space and higher bandwidth. All of KnownHost’s VPS and hybrid servers are powered by Parallels and include full root access, managed cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin, are housed out of KnownHost’s Texas or California data centers, and feature RAID-10 failover systems. The Web hosting provider says that most of its customers are “enjoying the increased resources for the same investment, providing better performance and the ability to grow.” The firm also doubled the bandwidth on all existing dedicated servers
An artist sketch of Digital Realty Trust’s 365 Main Street property (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud hosting provider GoGrid ( www.gogrid.com ) announced on Monday it has its third data center expansion in six months with the extension of its platform into Digital Realty Trust’s ( www.digitalrealtytrust.com ) 365 Main Street property. The move comes a month after GoGrid announced its plans to open its new European data center in the summer
Lanham Napier: Expecting a cloud burst. Could the cloud computing consolidation wave engulf Rackspace (RAX) ? Not if CEO Lanham Napier has any thing to say about it.
I have to say that I agree 100% with what Simon posted on his blog today about blogger conflicts of interest (not really about the other stuff). You should recognize who is advertising on what blogs and know that even if the writer tries to be unbiased, it’s really not that easy. I try to do my best to disclose any conflicts, but readers should be aware that in such a small industry, conflicts are everywhere and are difficult to avoid
Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:42pm EST * Q4 EPS $0.10, in line with Wall Street * Q4 rev $214.7 mln vs est $210.6 mln * Says CFO Bruce Knooihuizen plans to retire (Adds CFO retirement) Feb 10 (Reuters) – Web hosting company Rackspace Hosting Inc posted fourth-quarter revenue that beat Wall Street expectations, and said its chief financial officer plans to resign. Rackspace said Chief Financial Officer Bruce Knooihuizen announced his intent to retire but that he would remain with the company until a replacement has been found. The company said it will conduct an extensive internal and external search for Knooihuizen’s replacement
An image of NASDAQ trading wall (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — NASDAQ OMX Group ( www.nasdaqomx.com ), the company that owns the NASDAQ stock market system confirmed on Saturday that its network was repeatedly breached by hackers.
