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  • A Look at Virsto Software’s Storage Hypervisor Solutions
    February 3, 2012 -- One of the leading developers of storage hypervisor software is Virsto Software, whose flagship product VM-centric storage hypervisor software is used by thousands of hosting providers and end users today.
  • Q&A: Christopher Davis of NTT discusses Netmagic Acquisition
    February 2, 2012 -- In an email Q&A with the WHIR, NTT America senior director, corporate marketing communications Christopher Davis, talks about NTT Com’s plans for Asia and why it only acquired a 74 percent stake in Netmagic.
  • Lawyers for Repurposed Righthaven Discuss the “Spineful” Hosting Idea
    January 31, 2012 -- Having acquired the domain name of the notoriously litigious Righthaven, the operators of Swiss web hosting company OrtCloud enlisted several notable US copyright and first amendment lawyers in its efforts to create a new hosting business with a “spineful” mandate to treat take-down notices and other legal threats with healthy skepticism.
  • GlobalOne CEO David Northington Discusses Weblinc Acquisition
    January 24, 2011 -- Two out of the three past acquisitions by cloud services firm GlobalOne have been of Australia-based companies, signaling an opportunity for growth in the Asia Pacific region for cloud providers, a market that CEO David Northington says is hungry for cloud services.
  • Q&A: Rackspace’s Suaad Sait Discusses His New Role as Chief Marketing Officer
    January 20, 2012 -- Earlier this month, cloud and web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting appointed Suaad Sait in the company's newly created position of chief marketing officer. Suaad is a technology marketing veteran of more than 20 years, serving in various marketing roles at Reachforce, Pervasive, Ventix, Liaison Technology and DAZEL.
  • A Look Inside DreamHost’s Email-Focused Technical Support
    January 19, 2012 -- In an interview with the WHIR, technical support manager for DreamHost Brian Hill says email support has proved to be the most effective for DreamHost's customer base, and that transparency is critical to keeping its customers happy.
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Monday Demo: Veeam’s Backup & Replication Software

by Liam Eagle - Monday, January 30, 2012

Today’s WHIR TV video is the first installment of an ongoing weekly series we’re calling WHIR Demos, or “Monday Demos.” It’s straightforward to the point that I might not actually have to go any further than the name, but just for the sake of being thorough, I’ll explain. Every week, on Monday, we’re going to …Read More

Google+ Business Pages – Implications for Search Marketing

by Hartland Ross - Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Internet marketing world has been all abuzz over Google the last few months. First with the launch of its latest foray into social media – Google Plus. And now, most recently, with the opening up of Google+ pages for business, the latest in Internet marketing solutions from the search giant. It’s a well known …Read More

WHIR TV: Houston Networking Event – November 2011

by Liam Eagle - Thursday, January 19, 2012

Back in November, the WHIR headed down to Houston, Texas to a great little spot called Hughes’ Hangar, for our final WHIR Networking Event of 2011. Houston’s a bit of a hotbed for hosting technology, which always makes for a good turnout at an event there. A great time was had by all (that I …Read More

WHIR Networking Events return to the City of Angels

by WHIR Happenings - Tuesday, January 17, 2012

This Thursday marks our fourth annual return to the “City of Angels” for WHIR Networking Event Los Angeles 2012 (hosted in Hollywood, to be exact). We hope you will RSVP to join us from 7-10pm at Cafe Entourage on Vine Street. There are some excellent door prizes to be won by our sponsors, in addition …Read More

WHIR TV: Our WHIR Networking event in Washington DC

by Liam Eagle - Saturday, January 7, 2012

In October, the WHIR headed to Josephine Lounge in Washington, DC for another of our WHIR Networking Events, the same venue as several past WHIR events in the capital. At the event, which was a great time, I had the opportunity to interview a few of our sponsors, who offered some insight into some of …Read More

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