House websites moving to Drupal platform Open-source conetent management system to host 520 sites By Alice Lipowicz Jan 11, 2011 The House is moving its 520 websites to the Drupal open-source platform and the 93 freshmen members will get the new platform first. A flexible Drupal hosting platform is now the preferred Web hosting environment for House websites, according to a Sources Sought notice posted online recently by Dan Strodel, chief administrative officer of the House. Drupal is an open-source software that can operate websites and is compatible with a number of Web 2.0 and social networking applications

With cloud services now so ubiquitous and easy to use, could companies be overlooking the legal implications of such a major shift in their business? Photograph: Dave & Les Jacobs/Getty Images/Cultura RF From Gmail and Flickr to Marks & Spencer and Mothercare, you would be hard-pushed to find a consumer or business in the UK that does not rely on at least one cloud-based service. An umbrella term for outsourced technology services, such as email and web hosting, cloud computing allows businesses to outsource a crucial but highly specialised part of their operation to a specialist firm

The conceptional site plan for the Utah Data Center, taken from US Army Corps of Engineers website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — National Security Administration has broken ground on its $1.2 billion data center in Utah. First announced in July 2009 , the facility is being constructed by a joint venture team led by DPR Construction , Big-D Construction and Balfour Beatty Construction.

The conceptional site plan for the Utah Data Center, taken from US Army Corps of Engineers website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — National Security Administration has broken ground on its $1.2 billion data center in Utah. First announced in July 2009 , the facility is being constructed by a joint venture team led by DPR Construction , Big-D Construction and Balfour Beatty Construction

In recent weeks WikiLeaks has been targeted by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks , had its hosting service shutdown, been bounced off of Amazon hosting, had its funding through PayPal, MasterCard and other sources shut down, and its leader arrested on sexual assault-related charges. The fact that WikiLeaks remains stubbornly and defiantly online holds some lessons for other sites when it comes to resilience and survivability. Contrast WikiLeaks with Tumblr or Comcast–both of which experienced severe, prolonged outages in the past week.

A diagram showing the many services offered under the C-VIP (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK cloud hosting provider Commensus ( www.commensus.com ) announced on Friday it has launched a new channel program for its Commensus Virtual Infrastructure Platform. The C-VIP solution provides an outsourced solution to help users meet increased demands for hosting, disaster recovery, business continuity, data backup, data storage and virtualization. The introduction of the new partner program is a significant move for Comensus after operating under a direct sales model for the last three years

A diagram showing the many services offered under the C-VIP (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK cloud hosting provider Commensus ( www.commensus.com ) announced on Friday it has launched a new channel program for its Commensus Virtual Infrastructure Platform. The C-VIP solution provides an outsourced solution to help users meet increased demands for hosting, disaster recovery, business continuity, data backup, data storage and virtualization. The introduction of the new partner program is a significant move for Comensus after operating under a direct sales model for the last three years.

An image from the CableGate site, showing some of the distribution of data among the documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Always-controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks was reportedly hit with a denial-of-service attack Sunday night, as it prepared for another large-scale release of classified US government documents. The major news from WikiLeaks on Monday, of course, lay in the content of the documents being released, as the site published thousands of classified US State Department documents, communications with embassies around the world.

Richard Ramlall, SVP of corporate development and chief communications officer at Primus (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and telecommunications provider Primus Telecommunications Group ( www.primus.com ) announced on Wednesday it has named Richard Ramlall senior vice president of corporate development and chief communications officer. In this role, he will be responsible for corporate development and investor and public relations.

Web Hosting News – Washington – Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that its Director of IPv6 Strategy, Martin Levy, will speak at the Digital Government Institute’s Government IPv6: What to Expect in 2011 conference on November 10th at 1:00 PM.  The conference will be held in the Polaris Room of the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. from 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM.