Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: SoftLayer and Cloudkick Partner to Help Customers Manage Cloud Computing Instances News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet ( www.1and1.com ) announced late last week that it had partnered with Zoho Corp ( www.zoho.com ), makers of the Zoho online collaboration and productivity business applications. According to the announcement, the goal of the partnership is to make “cloud solutions” available to small and medium sized business, as well as private users of other United Internet properties, Web.de and GMX.com.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: SoftLayer and Cloudkick Partner to Help Customers Manage Cloud Computing Instances News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Layered Technologies ( www.layeredtech.com ) announced late last week that it had introduced a new cloud storage solution called LT Depot, powered by the Mezeo ( www.mezeo.com ) cloud storage platform.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: SoftLayer and Cloudkick Partner to Help Customers Manage Cloud Computing Instances News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Layered Technologies ( www.layeredtech.com ) announced late last week that it had introduced a new cloud storage solution called LT Depot, powered by the Mezeo ( www.mezeo.com ) cloud storage platform. According to Layered Tech, the new service will provide customers with the ability to create scalable storage for applications without significant up-front spending. Cloud storage has been one of the best-realized manifestations of the trend toward cloud computing, partly based on the simplicity and success of Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service, and partly because of the simplicity and affordability of cloud computing as a product – there being a lot of overlap between those two ideas.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: SoftLayer and Cloudkick Partner to Help Customers Manage Cloud Computing Instances News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Offering significant performance and energy efficiency increases over previous generations, technology provider HP ( www.hp.com ) has launched three HP ProLiant G7 server platforms, all featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors. The new line includes the HP ProLiant DL165 G7 and HP ProLiant DL385 G7 rack-optimized servers, as well as the HP ProLiant SL165z G7 scale-out “skinless” server. According to its Monday announcement, HP ProLiant G7 servers deliver a 23:1 consolidation ratio and increase operational efficiencies — so much so that the company said that an upgrade from a ProLiant DL380 G4 to the DL385 G7 will pay for itself in as little as two months.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips News: Web Host 1&1 and Zoho Partner for Online Office (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several announcements made this month, web hosting provider HostICan ( www.hostican.com ) is in the midst of making $1 million in upgrades to its network, increasing transport capacity and smoothing the transition to IPv6.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips News: Web Host 1&1 and Zoho Partner for Online Office (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Following comprehensive testing by technology provider Brocade ( www.brocade.com ), digital optical networking systems provider Infinera ( www.infinera.com ) has announced that its ATN metro edge platform has achieved Brocade Data Center Ready status, reflecting its end-to-end SAN interoperability. According to its Monday announcement, Infinera’s 1G and 2G Fibre Channel was certified following testing conducted at the Brocade Data Center Ready labs. The state-of-the-art facilities support end-to-end interoperability and performance testing of SAN products in multi-vendor and large fabric environments

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips News: Web Host 1&1 and Zoho Partner for Online Office (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Irish web hosting provider Dediserve ( www.dediserve.com ) announced on Monday that it had secured an investment of roughly $1.34 million, an injection of funding the company says will fund its “aggressive” 2010 plan for expansion via acquisition in Ireland and in Europe, as well as an increase in staff and new data center sites. Dediserve, a privately owned company, said it acquired the funding from a private investment group. It plans to use the money to fund the expansion plan, which is intended to address a growing customer base, both in Ireland and internationally

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips News: Web Host 1&1 and Zoho Partner for Online Office (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Chicago-based dedicated and managed web hosting provider SingleHop ( www.singlehop.com ) has announced today two key hires to its sales organization, new channel program manager Michael Crosse, and sales director Jim Tremmel. According to SingleHop’s Monday announcement, both new team members are industry veterans with 15 years combined experience in the hosting field. With extensive experience in developing special programs to meet client, partner, and reseller needs, Mike Crosse is coming to SingleHop as the latest step in a career that has included roles at James Tower Hosting and Hostway Corporation as a business development executive and channel sales manager

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host Layered Tech Offers Mezeo-Powered Cloud Storage News: HP Unveils Latest ProLiant Servers Featuring AMD Opteron 6100 Series Chips News: Web Host 1&1 and Zoho Partner for Online Office (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and cloud hosting services provider Hostway Corporation ( www.hostway.com ) has closed a $110 million debt and equity financing deal with a consortium of investors to support its continued growth plan.  Led by Veronis Suhler Stevenson ( www.vss.com ) along with Fortress Capital, Regiment Capital and Phoenix Life, the transaction is meant to position Hostway as the leading provider in the quickly growing online services market.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: BroadGroup to Host Data Centre Strategies Middle East 2010 News: KEMP Technologies Unveils Latest Load Balancing Solution News: Web Host SingleHop Launches Tandem Reseller Program News: GreenGeeks.com Chosen as the Official Drupal Web Host “For Dummies” News: DRT Completes POD Architecture Contract with First Customer February 10, 2010 — Web hosting provider SingleHop ( www.singlehop.com ) announced on Wednesday it has launched a new reseller program called Tandem ( http://tandem.singlehop.com ). The announcement comes a week after competitor The Planet announced it had made several enhancements to its own reseller program. The Tandem reseller platform is designed to provide resellers complete scalability, control, and flexibility in their offerings by taking advantage of all of SingleHop’s partnerships and technologies