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Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft, Amazon Cloud Executives

November 15, 2011 — Web hosting provider Savvis announced on Tuesday that it has named James R. Parker as senior vice president, Americas sales, and Daniel Patton as vice president and general manager of cloud services. Parker joins Savvis from Microsoft where he held a senior sales position, according to the press release. Patton previously ran the Americas sales team for Amazon Web Services.

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How Datapipe Kept AWS-Powered Cloud Customers Up During Amazon’s April Outage

June 8, 2011 — For Datapipe, whose Managed Cloud solution is a unique kind of managed front-end for the more basic AWS services, the Amazon outage was an opportunity to make good on its promise of providing the kind of engineering, monitoring and management that would render this kind of disruption irrelevant from an end-user standpoint.

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Web Host Coeus Blue Joins AWS Solution Provider Program

May 30, 2011 – Managed hosting provider Coeus Blue announced last week that it has joined Amazon Web Services Solution Provider Program to provide cloud hosting solutions for e-commerce websites. Built on Amazon EC2, Coeus Blue focuses its services on e-commerce sites. In November 2010, Coeus Blue launched its infrastructure scaling solution for e-commerce sites of small and medium businesses. The company also provides consulting services and load testing.

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Amazon Web Services Offers Customers On-Demand Red Hat Enterprise Linux

May 9, 2011 — Open source software developer Red Hat announced on Thursday that it has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. This partnership will enable customers to bring their own licenses to AWS and easily purchase supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux via AWS’ Elastic Compute Cloud.

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Most Data Centers Operational After Massive Earthquake in Japan

March 11, 2011 – An 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan Friday afternoon, causing concern for web hosts who have set up data centers in Tokyo to meet demand for cloud computing services, according to a report by ZDNet. While it is still unclear how data centers have been affected, ZDNet Japan has been posting the availability as the information becomes available.

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Amazon AWS Unveils Plans to Add Oracle 11g to Cloud Hosting Services

February 2, 2011 – Cloud services provider Amazon Web Services announced on Tuesday its plans to add the Oracle 11g database to its web hosting services this year. The company says this addition will enable users “to perform relational tasks and development work on an on-demand hourly basis.”

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Cloud Hosting Provider Amazon Web Services Lowers Pricing on Support Plans by 50 Percent

January 7, 2011 – Cloud provider Amazon Web Services announced on Thursday that it has lowered pricing by 50 percent  on all of its support plans and it has added two new support plans, bronze and platinum.

Amazon Web Services Could Have Big Impact on Traditional Hosting: Report

August 6, 2010 — Following a number of high-profile hosting deals, Amazon Web Services could be well on its way to successfully tapping into the traditional Web hosting market, according to a top technology blog.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Access Logging

May 7, 2009 — Amazon Web Service’s content delivery service, Amazon CloudFront, now has access logging capabilities, letting users record detailed activity records of every request delivered through Amazon’s content delivery network.

Rock Star Sues Web Hosts Over Video

March 9, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, the lead singer for the rock band Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst, has filed suit against ten Web site operators, almost all Web hosting and Internet service providers, for allegedly hosting footage of him in a homemade sex tape.