September 2, 2011 — SEO host SEO Web Hosting announced on Thursday that it has named Josh Ward general manager. SEO Web Hosting has offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Durham, North Carolina, and provides hosting across multiple IP ranges using multiple name servers, according to its website. It provides colocation, bandwidth, dedicated servers, and managed services out of data centers in Nevada, Silicon Valley, Philadelphia and the UK.

September 2, 2011 — European colocation Interxion Holdings announced on Thursday that its London, UK data center is reducing its carbon footprint by signing up to 100 percent renewable energy from UK provider SmartestEnergy. Last month, Interxion announced it is building a data center in the Paris metropolitan area, whose first phase will be operational in the second quarter of 2012.

September 2, 2011 — Non-profit organization New Zealand Computer Society announced on Thursday its plans for the development of a Cloud Computing Code of Practice to inform the public about cloud computing issues. This announcement comes a day after New Zealand web hosting provider FlexiHost launched a NZ domain lookup and registration mobile app.

September 2, 2011 — Governmental IT services provider GTSI announced on Thursday it has appointed Jim Sweeney to chief technology officer of the company. GTSI provides a range of technology solutions and professional services in the areas of software development, data center, networking, collaboration, security, and cloud computing to federal, state, and local government.

August 25, 2011 — UK-based cloud infrastructure provider Flexiant announced on Thursday that it has partnered with platform as a service provider Standing Cloud to launch “Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant.” The integration of Flexiant’s Extility cloud platform with Standing Cloud’s application layer will simplify the deployment and management of cloud applications, according to the press release.

August 25, 2011 — A San Antonio court sentenced a former Rackspace sales employee to two years of probation Thursday for defrauding the company out of $64,174, according to a report by MySanAntonio.com. The defendant, David John Whitman, pleaded guilty back in May to two counts of wire fraud, admitting that he submitted fake service orders with the intent of earning higher commissions.

August 25, 2011 — Web hosting provider Datapipe announced on Thursday it has completed SSAE 16 audits for its data centers in San Jose and Somerset One and Somerset Two in New Jersey. The move comes a week after Datapipe was chosen to provide payment processing technology provider App55 with a PCI compliant hosting solution.