May 24, 2012 — Enterprise cloud storage provider Box unveiled some new features on Thursday, including more mobile security features for Android, and centralized management view for IT admins.

May 24, 2012 — Web host 123-reg announced via its status blog that it was hit by a large scale DDoS attack on Wednesday morning. This news comes a day after web hosting control panel WHMCS was hit by a DDoS and social engineering attack.

May 24, 2012 — Cloud and mobile testing provider SOASTA and cloud application performance management provider New Relic announced on Thursday they have partnered and integrated New Relic’s application performance management solution on SOASTA’s CloudTest platform.

May 24, 2012 — Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Thursday that it is sponsoring the Indianapolis 500 broadcast on Sunday. This will be the sixth consecutive Indy 500 that Go Daddy has sponsored.

May 24, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider Cloud9 Real Time announced on Thursday it will host Cloud Summit 2012 at San Diego’s Paradise Point on November 8th and 9th.

May 24, 2012 — Cloud hosting and managed hosting provider Cbeyond announced on Thursday it has named Tim Myers its vice president of cloud engineering and development, a role in which he lead the design, architecture, engineering and development of Cbeyond cloud solutions including cloud PBX, cloud servers and applications.

May 24, 2012 — Swedish web hosting provider Loopia has shutdown a parody site created by Greenpeace, mocking a website of the Finnish oil company Neste Oil.

May 24, 2012 — Cloud infrastructure provider Cloud Provider USA announced on Thursday it has launched an all solid state drives on-demand cloud solution, which provides high performance cloud solutions and gives users the ability to quickly create their own all SSD server.

May 23, 2012 — With just two weeks until the World IPv6 Launch, organizations and individuals from all sectors of the Internet industry are announcing plans to add permanent IPv6 support in time for the launch.

May 23, 2012 — Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has launched its Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure startup incubator program in India. Its Bangalore office will serve as one of the four global locations of the program that will provide startups in the cloud, Internet and mobile space with resources.

May 24, 2012 — Web host 123-reg announced via its status blog that it was hit by a large scale DDoS attack on Wednesday morning. This news comes a day after web hosting control panel WHMCS was hit by a DDoS and social engineering attack.

May 23, 2012 — Acquisitions within the web hosting space can be a complicated process, requiring careful analysis and consideration. And while web hosting companies can certainly learn from looking at successful acquisitions in a comparable market, there is no all-encompassing formula that can be applied to future deals.

May 23, 2012 — Web host ServInt announced on Tuesday night at the Web Host Industry Review networking event that it is now taking orders for hosting services in its new data center in Amsterdam.

May 22, 2012 — Web and cloud hosting provider Savvis announced on Tuesday it has named Donald Badoux to managing director of Savvis Germany, who will be based in Savvis’ new German headquarters in the heart of the financial services district in Frankfurt.

May 18, 2012 — Data center operator Equinix announced on Friday it will acquire European colocation and internnection services carrier ancotel, which adds a 6,890 square foot data center in Frankfurt, Germany to Equinix’s already massive footprint.

Go Daddy has become an official partner of England’s Test match grounds for the 2012 cricket season, following its sponsorship of the UK coverage of IPL cricket on ITV4.

May 16, 2012 — European web hosting company Host Europe Group announced on Wednesday it has acquired Mesh Digital, which develops the back-end technology for domain registration. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed in the press release.

May 15, 2012 — UK web hosting company and data center operator The Bunker announced on Tuesday it has named Philip Bindley the company’s chief technology officer.

May 15, 2012 — Depending on the event it’s serving, an online event ticket marketplace, acting as a middleman for buyers and sellers, can process thousands of transactions a minute. An event that is high in demand can attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the website simultaneously.

May 15, 2012 — UK web hosting provider Six Degrees Group announced on Tuesday that it has completed the acquisitions of two London-based managed hosting and cloud providers.