Troy, NY (Vocus/PRWEB) - Web hosting and dedicated service provider, ActiveHost Data Center Services, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner of advanced Microsoft-based shared, Virtual Private Server (VPS) and dedicated server hosting solutions, announced today the renewal of their partnership with SmarterTools Inc. SmarterTools Inc. is a developer of information technology management software that helps businesses communicate, measure and support operations worldwide.

Troy, NY (Vocus/PRWEB) March 20, 2011 Web hosting and dedicated service provider, ActiveHost Data Center Services, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner of advanced Microsoft-based shared, Virtual Private Server (VPS) and dedicated server hosting solutions, announced today the renewal of their partnership with SmarterTools Inc.

A domain name dispute involving the New Zealand postal service and the telephone listings service Yellow Pages in New Zealand has gained some attention in the country and has now been settled. The dispute involved the Yellow Pages accused of registering websites and Google search terms in an attempt to divert internet traffic away from its rival Auckland directory, Localist, owned by the New Zealand Post, and which will be launched later this year, reports BusinessDay.co.nz. According to the report, “the state-owned enterprise says the matter has been resolved on commercial terms and Yellow Pages has agreed to transfer ownership of the contested domain names, which are variations on the name Localist, to NZ Post.” Another report, in Computerworld, notes “Yellow registered several URLs close to localist’s name, including localists.co.nz and locallist.org.nz.”

The Austrian registry, nic.at, announced at the annual Domain Pulse meeting on Friday that they will introduce DNSSEC late in 2011 following its introduction 12 months ago by the Swiss registry at the 2010 Domain Pulse and its planned introduction on 31 May 2011 by the German registry.

The Austrian registry, nic.at, announced at the annual Domain Pulse meeting on Friday that they will introduce DNSSEC late in 2011 following its introduction 12 months ago by the Swiss registry at the 2010 Domain Pulse and its planned introduction on 31 May 2011 by the German registry. But in a survey among members of the German internet industry association eco, there was resistance among a small but significant group of companies to take it up. Speaking on happenings among the registries, Richard Wein, General Manager of nic.at said they were currently in the planning stages for enabling DNSSEC for .AT and will make it available at the end of the year.

Web Hosting News – New York, NY –  NTT America, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, and a global infrastructure services provider, today announced the integration of VMware’s vCloud Director virtualization software  into NTT Communications’ enterprise cloud hosting offerings.   NTT Communications is one of the first infrastructure hosting providers in the world to launch a hosted cloud solution based on VMware’s vCloud Director, enabling organizations of all sizes to capitalize on the advantages of utility-based cloud computing.  NTT America engineers and product development personal will be on hand to showcase these technologies at the 2011 VMware Partner Exchange on February 7-10, 2011, at the Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. First announced at VMware’s VMworld in August 2010, NTT America’s engineering staff has developed and deployed both multi-tenant and private cloud infrastructure, which provides customers with available and scalable access to the underlying compute resources that make up a virtual data center.

DNSSEC Testbed Concluded Successfully – Launch of Extended DNS Protocol Scheduled for 31 May 2011 [news release] DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) shall improve security for .de domains too in the future. This is the result of the broad-based test phase that ended with today’s concluding meeting. “DNSSEC has successfully passed the operative phase in the testbed,” says DENIC’s CEO, Sabine Dolderer.