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BT to Expand Staff, Data Centers and Products in Latin America

October 3, 2011 — BT will invest heavily in its Latin America market, with the goal of doubling its business in key countries over the next three years. The company said it will recruit 250 new staff members, increase professional services capabilities, open three new centers of excellence and implement a wide range of network and customer service improvements.

BT Expands Data Center in Singapore

May 10, 2010 — Telecommunications provider BT announced on Monday it will be expanding its data center, BT Radianz Proximity Solution hosting services, in Singapore.

NetApp Backs BT's New Virtual Data Center

October 30, 2009 — Data storage provider NetApp announced on Friday it will provide the storage infrastructure to support telecommunications provider BT’s new virtual data center.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup

July 24, 2009 — There were a handful of web hosting sales and promotions for the week ending July 24, most of which were geared toward shared hosting clients such as British Telecom’s starter hosting discount, Gossimer’s stripping of its shared hosting restrictions, and Cirrus Tech’s addition of Parallels’ latest control panel for their shared clients, as well as resellers.

BT to Launch Virtual Data Center

June 19, 2009 — After an “unacceptable performance” which resulted in the company losing nearly $2 billion in cost overruns on large customer projects, UK telecommunications and hosting provider BT revealed that it will launch a new virtual data center service designed for large businesses and public sector organizations.

eLINIA To Virtualize The National Trust

May 1, 2009 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Breaking with antiquated tradition, the National Trust, a charity that helps preserve and present more than 300 historic houses and gardens, and 49 industrial sites in the UK, will be provided disaster recovery and managed, virtualized infrastructure services from managed hosting provider eLINIA (www.elinia.com).

eLINIA Resells BT Network Services

November 4, 2008 — Welsh managed hosting provider eLINIA has partnered with UK broadband provider BT enabling eLINIA to offer network services including VPN and broadband connectivity, alongside its core hosting packages.

VIA NET.WORKS Looking for Financing

March 18, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider VIA NET.WORKS (vianetworks.com) said on Friday that it is working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in an attempt to obtain new financing to address what the company says is an “urgent” liquidity problem.

Tornado Merges with Web Host Novara.ie

March 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Irish Web hosting provider Novara.ie (novara.ie) announced on Wednesday that it had merged with Tornado Dedicated Servers (tornado.ie), effective immediately. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

UK Registrar Leaves Customers Stranded

March 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The pending status of Cambridge-based registrar Firevision (firevision.net) has left thousands of UK domain owners stranded, according to reports released this week. Several customers have vented their frustrations on Internet message boards about their inability to buy, move, update and renew domains names through the company.