13 May 2010, London: More and more frequently, imitations of well-known domains are misused for various, sometimes criminal, activities. The target of the masterminds is primarily companies, and the effect on the victims’ image is often tremendous and can lead to a loss of customer trust.

Web Host News – MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today released a new report aimed at helping online businesses and other enterprises protect themselves against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

Court gives preliminary OK to $4M consumer settlement in Heartland case A federal court in Texas has given preliminary approval to a $4 million settlement of a consumer class-action lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems Inc.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Expanded SoftLayer Network Powers UK2Group’s 100TB.com News: Go Daddy Donates $100K to Help Nashville Flood Victims News: ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For “Big Data” News: BT Expands Data Center in Singapore News: Engate Granted New Patents for Preemptive, Connection-level Botnet and Email Security (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK2 Group’s ( www.uk2group.com ) new hosting service, 100TB ( www.100TB.com ), is using the automated infrastructure services of on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies ( www.softlayer.com ), which recently expanded its network.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Expanded SoftLayer Network Powers UK2Group’s 100TB.com News: Go Daddy Donates $100K to Help Nashville Flood Victims News: ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For “Big Data” News: BT Expands Data Center in Singapore News: Engate Granted New Patents for Preemptive, Connection-level Botnet and Email Security (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain registrar and web hosting provider Go Daddy ( www.godaddy.com ) announced on Monday it will donate $100,000 to help victims of the Nashville floods. After seeing an amateur video about Nashville’s devastating floods, CEO Bob Parsons sent out a Tweet, pledging a $100,000 donation.   Go Daddy is working to contact Nashville’s Salvation Army today to officially arrange the donation for Tuesday

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Expanded SoftLayer Network Powers UK2Group’s 100TB.com News: Go Daddy Donates $100K to Help Nashville Flood Victims News: ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For “Big Data” News: BT Expands Data Center in Singapore News: Engate Granted New Patents for Preemptive, Connection-level Botnet and Email Security (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Midas Medici Group Holdings ( www.midasmedici.com ) announced on Monday it will acquire managed IT services provider Consonus Technologies ( www.consonus.com ) in an all-stock transaction. Consonus will merge with UtiliPoint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Midas. As a result, Consonus shareholders will receive 4,963,939 shares of Midas common stock.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Expanded SoftLayer Network Powers UK2Group’s 100TB.com News: Go Daddy Donates $100K to Help Nashville Flood Victims News: ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For “Big Data” News: BT Expands Data Center in Singapore News: Engate Granted New Patents for Preemptive, Connection-level Botnet and Email Security (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — To meet the ever-expanding wealth of data bombarding today’s organizations, cloud storage software solutions developer ParaScale ( www.parascale.com ) has added advanced features for large-scale data analysis and management with the latest release of its cloud storage platform. According to its Monday announcement, ParaScale’s Cloud Storage 2.5 software, currently available in beta, provides advanced cloud scale data security, protection and accessibility, as well as features to efficiently address “big data” requirements by enabling data services and application integration directly onto storage nodes. Enterprise Strategy Group ( www.enterprisestrategygroup.com ) senior analyst Terri McClure notes that quickly growing data volume is “driving a need for storage that can manage and process large data sets more efficiently and intelligently.”  “The challenge is that the bottleneck has shifted to the network,” McClure said in a statement

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Expanded SoftLayer Network Powers UK2Group’s 100TB.com News: Go Daddy Donates $100K to Help Nashville Flood Victims News: ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For “Big Data” News: BT Expands Data Center in Singapore News: Engate Granted New Patents for Preemptive, Connection-level Botnet and Email Security (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider BT ( www.btplc.com ) announced on Monday it will be expanding its data center, BT Radianz Proximity Solution hosting services, in Singapore. The data center is managed and operated by StarHub, BT’s telecom partner for access services in Singapore. The new facility doubles both its floor space and available power

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Expanded SoftLayer Network Powers UK2Group’s 100TB.com News: Go Daddy Donates $100K to Help Nashville Flood Victims News: ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For “Big Data” News: BT Expands Data Center in Singapore News: Engate Granted New Patents for Preemptive, Connection-level Botnet and Email Security (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Midas Medici Group Holdings ( www.midasmedici.com ) announced on Monday it will acquire managed IT services provider Consonus Technologies ( www.consonus.com ) in an all-stock transaction. Consonus will merge with UtiliPoint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Midas. As a result, Consonus shareholders will receive 4,963,939 shares of Midas common stock.

Agatha Poon, research manager for global cloud computing for Tier1 Research. Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Expanded SoftLayer Network Powers UK2Group’s 100TB.com News: Go Daddy Donates $100K to Help Nashville Flood Victims News: ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For “Big Data” News: BT Expands Data Center in Singapore News: Engate Granted New Patents for Preemptive, Connection-level Botnet and Email Security (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT research and advisory firm Tier1 Research ( www.tier1research.com ) announced on Monday it has named Agatha Poon as research manager for global cloud computing and Douglas Toombs as senior analyst of managed services and cloud computing.