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.

Jeff Moss, ICANN’s Vice President and Chief Security Officer, told the Black Hat Technical Security conference in Las Vegas that now is the time for corporations and organizations to embrace DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions). “If you only call us after the house is on fire, you have very few options,” Moss told the conference in emphasizing the need for business to prioritize online security, including adoption of DNSSEC. “If you don’t have a corporate policy or strategy to sign your zone, you should,” said Moss, who is the founder of the Black Hat conference. “You’re not only going to be helping your own organization, you’re going to be helping the rest of the Internet.” DNSSEC helps to assure that Internet users end up at the Internet site to which they intended to navigate and minimizes the ability of cyber-criminals to misdirect them to bogus sites. Moss called the adoption of DNSSEC by the vast majority of the Internet’s top-level domains (TLDs) a “foundational upgrade” for the Internet. “Once we get enough critical mass with signed zones then the whole Internet starts to the get the benefit of this technology,” said Moss. Moss was named ICANN’s Chief Security Officer in April. Throughout his career, the self-proclaimed hacker of more than of 20 years has used his skills and understanding of the hacking community and its methods to help organizations secure their global networks. He currently serves as a member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. ### To download a high resolution pictures of Jeff Moss go here: www.flickr.com/photos/icann/5658860869/sizes/l/in/photostream/ www.flickr.com/photos/icann/5659434198/sizes/l/in/photostream/ To learn more about DNSSEC go here: www.icann.org/en/announcements/dnssec-qaa-09oct08-en.htm This ICANN news release was sourced from: www.icann.org/en/news/releases/release-03aug11-en.pdf

Go Daddy, the world’s largest registrar, has entered into a partnership with a trio of private equity firms in a deal that values the company at $ 2.25 billion. The purchase by KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures includes assumption of the company’s debt according to an announcement on Friday afternoon US time and will see Bob Parsons, founder and chief executive officer, keeping a minority stake in the company. “What these guys see is a company with a lot more potential internationally and more potential to make partnerships and acquisitions,” Bob Parsons, the company’s chief executive and founder, said. “They’ll help us finance and they’ll help us recruit talent.” KKR, Silver Lake and TCV are aiming to benefit from growth of the Internet, using Go Daddy’s predictable revenue stream and 9.3 million global customers from 48 million domain names to expand and pay down debt taken on to finance the transactions. “I’ve always said we would make a move like this when the right deal with the right partners could help us do the right thing for our customers and our employees,” said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. “This is it! We are partnering with KKR, Silver Lake and TCV because of their technology expertise, their understanding of Web based businesses and because their values align with ours. We believe, together, we will take the company to the next level, especially when it comes to accelerating international growth.” “We’re just at the beginning of the Internet in terms of all the additional services a registry can sell to companies,” said Lou Kerner, managing director of the private-shares group at Wedbush Securities Inc. in New York, before the announcement. “Go Daddy is powerfully positioned for future growth as it continues to innovate and add to its truly unique platform of cloud-based software and services, said Greg Mondre, Managing Director, of Silver Lake. “At the same time, we plan to maintain and augment all of the attributes that have made Go Daddy a clear market leader today, including world class customer support and competitive pricing for its 9.3 million customers.” Go Daddy is growing rapidly, not just in domain names but also web hosting and SSL certificates, with sales growing by 25 per cent to $947 million from 2009 to 2010, and the company projects its figure for 2011 to be $1.1 billion. “In Go Daddy, we are pleased to be partnering with a high-growth market leader and an outstanding team,” said Herald Chen, head of KKR’s software and Internet effort. “Building on Go Daddy’s exceptional customer service and loyal customer base, we believe there is significant opportunity to expand the current portfolio of products and services as well as accelerate growth internationally.”

Web Hosting – SAN JOSE, CA – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new green data center in Allen, Texas, with an architecture deploying Cisco’s entire data center technology portfolio spanning computing, switching, and data storage access to support Cisco’s internal private cloud and deliver Information Technology (IT) as a service. The new data center demonstrates the value of a network-based approach through improved resilience, performance and use of resources, while delivering IT services such as video, mobility, security, and collaboration to Cisco employees, customers, partners, and other constituents.

Web Hosting – SANTA CLARA, CA – Vantage Data Centers, an innovative wholesale data center operator backed by the largest U.S. technology-based private equity firm, today announced the start of construction on V2 Santa Clara. V2 is the second building housed within the Vantage Santa Clara Campus and will provide data center modules designed to scale the facility from 9 to 18 MWs, allowing customers to immediately request more power without any additional construction, moving of equipment or service disruption

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.

Web Hosting – SANTA CLARA, CA – Vantage Data Centers, an innovative wholesale data center operator backed by the largest U.S. technology-based private equity firm, today announced the start of construction on V2 Santa Clara.