A diagram from Cotendo illustrating how its Cloudlet CDN module distributes business logic (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network operator and site-acceleration service provider Cotendo ( www.cotendo.com ) announced on Monday that it has launched Cloutlet, which the company calls the first high-performance, CDN-integrated cloud application environment. According to Cotendo, the patent-pending Cloudlet platform moves business logic to the cloud, and can reduce origin-server calls by up to 90 percent. It delivers content customized by device, user, location or other contextual cues for optimized handling of mobile applications.

A diagram from Cotendo illustrating how its Cloudlet CDN module distributes business logic (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network operator and site-acceleration service provider Cotendo ( www.cotendo.com ) announced on Monday that it has launched Cloutlet, which the company calls the first high-performance, CDN-integrated cloud application environment. According to Cotendo, the patent-pending Cloudlet platform moves business logic to the cloud, and can reduce origin-server calls by up to 90 percent. It delivers content customized by device, user, location or other contextual cues for optimized handling of mobile applications

via Adge: What Groupon Means for Grandma’s Coupons Traditional Players Valassis, SmartSource, Others Monitor Digital Darling’s Success, Bottom-line Effects Groupon never set out to take over the traditional couponing space. Nor is it discernibly taking any business yet from the leaders in national newspaper-distributed coupon books — Valassis Communications or News Corp.’s SmartSource. But there’s something about spurning a $6 billion takeout offer from Google and spawning rumors of an initial public offering priced at $25 billion that gets people’s attention

Scality’s Brad King delivers an afternoon session on Thursday (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) —  The final session I attended at this year’s WorldHostingDays was delivered by Brad King, of Scalty, and entitled, “Cloud Storage: Threat or Opportunity?” a look at a more specific sub-set of the ubiquitous cloud discussions taking place around the show. He began with a discussion of a few of the key charateristics of cloud storage, saying it’s like a bank, in some ways (keep this safe for me, and then give it back), and it’s like a brain (remember this, and recall this).

Scality’s Brad King delivers an afternoon session on Thursday (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) —  The final session I attended at this year’s WorldHostingDays was delivered by Brad King, of Scalty, and entitled, “Cloud Storage: Threat or Opportunity?” a look at a more specific sub-set of the ubiquitous cloud discussions taking place around the show. He began with a discussion of a few of the key charateristics of cloud storage, saying it’s like a bank, in some ways (keep this safe for me, and then give it back), and it’s like a brain (remember this, and recall this). One of the interesting things about cloud storage is that it’s a variation on storage, as opposed to an entirely new way of doing things.

Digital Realty Trust pre-builds and inventories multiple configuration options for a customized data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust ( www.digitalrealtytrust.com ) announced last week it has unveiled an updated version its POD Architecture, which offers a new methodology to designing and building raised-floor data center space using a modular approach. The new design and construction approach speeds up delivery, advances energy efficiency, maximizes reliability and lowers costs for Digital Realty’s customers.

Inside Latisys’ data center in Chicago (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and colocation provider Latisys ( www.latisys.com ) announced on Tuesday it has introduced a new data center as a service offering designed for large enterprises and service providers that have significant requirements for high-density data center power, cooling and capacity. This new DCaaS offering provides about 250 kilowatts to 2 megawatts of high density power as well as N+1 cooling and the ability to scale to meet the growing needs of these enterprises in data centers built for the future. Unlike the traditional wholesale data center’s model of a triple net lease, which requires companies to lease space at a data center facility and then potentially invest capital and additional personnel to run operations, Latisys’ DCaaS offering delivers colocation under a service contract