A screenshot of the Cloudfoundry.org site, the home for the Cloud Foundry community (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Virtualization and cloud computing software developer VMware ( www.vmware.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has released a new open source platform for building cloud-based application development environments, along the lines of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, or Google’s App Engine, in an apparent effort to create the standard service providers will use to create platform-as-a-service clouds that compete with those services. VMware’s Cloud Foundry project, as the code base is called, was launched by the company today at a live event led by CEO Paul Maritz, and attended by thousands of developers, with a long list of speakers. VMware says Cloud Foundry is the company’s first ever major open source project

FiberCloud’s three Washington-based data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider FiberCloud ( www.fibercloud.com ) announced on Monday it has launched new online backup software to increase its disaster recovery and data protection solutions. FiberCloud is adding the new online backup software, which includes Windows, Mac OS X workstations, and Linux and Windows Server backup, as an expansion of its existing backup and recovery solutions. Along with FiberCloud Online Backup, FiberCloud provides the tools needed for a comprehensive data backup and disaster recovery plan.

A screen shot of SolarVPS’ front page, featuring VPS packages (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Managed VPS hosting provider SolarVPS ( www.solarvps.com ) announced on Monday it has added new VPS nodes in Dallas, Los Angeles and Clifton, New Jersey. Driven by high-performance dual Intel Xeon Quadcore 5500 series CPUs, the new nodes include 48GB DDR3 RAM and Western Digital RAID-edition drives using RAID10 for optimum performance. Solar’s virtual private servers are powered by Parallels Virtuozzo.

An image from the FiberMedia website, illustrating some of the company’s infrastructure offerings (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator FiberMedia ( www.fibermedia.net ) announced on Thursday that it has successfully launched its Managed Cloud platform, including the product’s first significant customer deployment in support of a multi-national financial services firm. The company says the new product’s launch comes just after FiberMedia announced major upgrades to its data center facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey and Westchester, New York.

A screen shot of GigeNETCloud’s interface (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Cloud server hosting provider GigeNETCloud ( www.gigenetcloud.com ) announced on Monday it is set to launch version 3 of its GigeNETCloud cloud server hosting solution. In addition to the upcoming release of version 3.0, GigeNETCloud says it has been adding more features, increased reliability and new white label reseller panel.

A screen shot of Microsoft’s volume licensing page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Microsoft ( www.microsoft.com ) announced on Thursday at the Microsoft Hosting Summit in Bellevue, Washington that it is making several enhancements to its Microsoft Services Provider Licensing Agreement program. The company has introduced a new volume licensing plan that will make it easier for customers to move over to the cloud.

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A screenshot of Mozilla’s add-on website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source organization Mozilla ( www.mozilla.org ) regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld . Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website. Late last year, a database of 44,000 inactive Mozilla usernames and passwords was publicly disclosed by Mozilla.  According to the report, on March 15 attackers used a valid username and password to acquire nine SSL certificates from a Comodo certificate reseller

A screen shot of Microsoft’s security advisory concerning fake SSL certificates (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- IT security provider Comodo ( www.comodo.com ) revealed this week that a Registration Authority located in Southern Europe was hacked, leading to nine rogue SSL certificates on seven domains.