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Liam Eagle

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Registered 2006-10-25 | 5 year member

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Web Host Industry Review

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Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements.

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Yahoo Employs the Power of Information with Small Business “Advisor” Site

February 10 – 2012 — Yahoo Small Business is taking the “trusted advisor” principle a step farther these days with the development of its Yahoo Small Business Advisor site, an information portal that puts the advisory role before even the service provider relationship.

Web Host Datapipe Says 2011 Growth Surpassed 09 and 10 Combined

February 1, 2012 — Web hosting provider Datapipe announced this week that it saw a rate of growth during 2011 that surpassed the company’s growth for the previous two years combined, even after having doubled its 2009 growth during 2010, and all of it in spite of difficult economic conditions.

Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community

February 1, 2012 — A really interesting Monday post by Joe Brockmeier on ReadWriteWeb points out that open source giant Red Hat, while it declined to participate in the community around open source cloud computing platform OpenStack, citing problems with the governance model and, later, reservations about the activity of participants, has been quietly contributing to the project.

SoftLayer Launches Flex Images Public Beta for Customers

February 1, 2012 — Web hosting provider SoftLayer announced on Wednesday that it has made its Flex Images offering available to all its customers in a public beta, enabling them to capture, store and replicate images of cloud or dedicated servers and deploy those images in either environment.

Web Host Bay Area Systems Launches Virtual Server Solutions

February 1, 2012 — San Francisco-based Web hosting and IT consulting provider Bay Area Systems announced on Wednesday that it will be offering “green” virtual server solutions beginning February 1, providing customers with savings on cost and energy consumption.

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