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.

Lloyd’s Development Capital ( LDC ), the private equity arm of Lloyd’s Trustee Savings Bank, the third largest bank in the U.K. (and state-backed) announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in leading web hosting provider UK2Group . The equity group paid a total of $77 million for its majority stake in partnership with the current management team

LONDON, April 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — – Research Reveals Business Uptake, Benefits and Barriers – Iconnyx Urges Industry to Share Best Practice Examples Small businesses are using cloud predominantly for storage (67%) and web site hosting (56%) according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, the managed IT and web hosting company. Research of over 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical SMB applications, followed by business continuity and CRM (both 39%). The majority of SMBs who had implemented a cloud infrastructure reported spending 10-30 percent of their working day in the cloud (44%)

Small businesses are using cloud predominantly for storage (67 percent) and web site hosting (56 percent) according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, an managed IT and web hosting company. Research of more than 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical small to medium-size business (SMB) applications, followed by business continuity and CRM (both 39 percent). The majority of SMBs who had implemented a cloud infrastructure reported spending 10-30 percent of their working day in the cloud (44 percent), according to survey results

Web Hosting – DALLAS, TX — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in on-demand Cloud and Dedicated hosting, today announced the availability of MICRON RealSSD™ P300 solid state drives (SSDs) in 50GB, 100GB, and 200GB capacities. The new SSDs provide reliable and secure enterprise-class storage ideal for high-performance and data-intensive applications, such as databases requiring fast read/write performance. “From the day we added the first SSDs to our portfolio of hardware solutions, customer response has been exceptional.

An illustration, from the Rackspace website, of Cloud Load Balancers in operation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed and cloud hosting provider Rackspace ( www.rackspace.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has introduced its Cloud Load Balancers offering, a software-based, utility-priced load balancing product designed for use with its cloud hosting products, as well as its dedicated and managed server offerings. In private beta since Novmeber of 2010, and public beta since February of this year, Cloud Load Balancers, says Rackspace, is designed to alleviate the barriers to entry and architectural complexity associated with using third-party open source software load balancers. Based on that lengthy beta period, says Jerry Schwartz, enterprise services product manager at Rackspace, in an interview with the WHIR, the company incorporated a great deal of customer feedback into the development of its Cloud Load Balancers

Web Hosting – DALLAS, TX — SoftLayer Technologies® , the innovation leader in on-demand Cloud and Dedicated hosting, today announced the availability of MICRON RealSSD™ P300 solid state drives (SSDs) in 50GB, 100GB, and 200GB capacities. The new SSDs provide reliable and secure enterprise-class storage ideal for high-performance and data-intensive applications, such as databases requiring fast read/write performance

An image of MICRON RealSSD P300 solid state drives (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies ( www.softlayer.com ) announced on Thursday that it has launched MICRON RealSSD P300 solid state drives.  According to the press release, the new SSDs are available in 50GB, 100GB and 200GB capacities and provide secure enterprise-class storage for high-performance applications. Last week, SoftLayer launched its Technology Partners Marketplace to showcase current SoftLayer SaaS and independent software vendor customers’ products and technologies