Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Atlantic Metro, Data Center NYC Group Open $100M NYC Data Center News: Web Hosting Talk to Launch Cloud Performance Benchmarking Site News: Twitter to Open Data Center in Salt Lake City Area News: NTT Com to Open Data Centers in Vietnam and Singapore News: Peak 10 to Enhance its High-Performance Network with Addition of 10Gb Port (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Stemming from the need for objective information on competing cloud services, Web Host The Planet ( www.theplanet.com ) and Web hosting community site Web Hosting Talk ( www.webhostingtalk.com ) have announced the beta development of a free, online cloud benchmarking tool to help businesses more easily select a cloud provider. According to The Planet’s announcement late last week, “Bench the Cloud” ( www.benchthecloud.com ) provides visibility into the performance of cloud or virtualized server platforms, and provides standardized performance feedback and comparisons

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Atlantic Metro, Data Center NYC Group Open $100M NYC Data Center News: Web Hosting Talk to Launch Cloud Performance Benchmarking Site News: Twitter to Open Data Center in Salt Lake City Area News: NTT Com to Open Data Centers in Vietnam and Singapore News: Peak 10 to Enhance its High-Performance Network with Addition of 10Gb Port (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microblogging site Twitter ( www.twitter.com ) announced last week it will move its current data center service with NTT America to its own, custom-built data center somwhere in the Salt Lake City area later this year in an effort to improve its service. Twitter said the new facility will provide it with “a much larger footprint in a building designed specifically around [its] unique power and cooling needs,” while housing “a mixed-vendor environment for servers running open source OS and applications”. The company first revealed it would move to a new data center at the company’s Chirp developer conference back in April, however, it did not specify at the time whether it would be operating its own data center or leasing space at a wholesale data center.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Atlantic Metro, Data Center NYC Group Open $100M NYC Data Center News: Web Hosting Talk to Launch Cloud Performance Benchmarking Site News: Twitter to Open Data Center in Salt Lake City Area News: NTT Com to Open Data Centers in Vietnam and Singapore News: Peak 10 to Enhance its High-Performance Network with Addition of 10Gb Port (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed services provider Peak 10 ( www.peak10.com ) will be adding a 10Gb port from communications service provider XO Communications ( www.xo.com ) to its already robust network. Peak 10 offers a wide range of IT services including virtualization, managed hosting, and cloud-based services all provided through its cost-efficient and reliable platform

Apple’s Leaky Vietnamese Connection Why so many Apple leaks from Vietnam? Once again, the Vietnamese blog Tinhte has revealed what could be a real-deal upcoming Apple product.

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While you may not be in the position of selling web hosting in China, recent events may have an effect on whether or not Western companies will be able to do any business there at all.