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Application Hosting Not For Everyone

Resellers should take a hard, honest look at their businesses before jumping headfirst into the application hosting market, according to Traver Gruen-Kennedy, chairman of the recently-formed Application Service Provider (ASP) Industry Consortium.n “Don’t fool yourself,” he told VARBusiness during a consortium meeting here at PC Expo. “It’s a different business.” n To succeed in the …Read More

Red Hat Announces Summit Speakers

March 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source software developer Red Hat, Inc. (redhat.com) announced on Wednesday the headlining speakers for their first annual Red Hat Summit 2005. The conference will be held in New Orleans from June 1-3 and joins various members of the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners.

34 Vendors Port Apps to Solaris 10

March 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced on Monday that a total of 34 software vendors, including Lenovo, Ulticom, Veraz Networks and VoiceGenie, have agreed to port a variety of telecom applications to the Solaris 10 operating system.

Netspoke Picks Rodopi Software

March 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Rodopi (rodopi.com), a developer of back-end software automation for Internet service and Web hosting providers, announced on Wednesday that Web and audio conferencing service provider Netspoke has selected Rodopi’s OSS telephony services for international and domestic customer billing.

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.

Postini Opens Two New Data Centers

March 7, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email security and management provider Postini (postini.com) announced on Friday it has opened two new data centers in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands, providing Europe with additional processing facilities for an enhanced local, enterprise-level security.

1&1 Offers Discount Web Design

February 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet Inc. (1and1.com) announced on Thursday it is offering free discount vouchers for Website Pros’ professional Web design services.

Bank of America Chooses VeriSign

February 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — VeriSign (verisign.com), a provider of Internet infrastructure services, said on Thursday that the Bank of America has selected the VeriSign Unified Authentication solution to support its two-factor authentication platform.

Radiant Adds Two New Board Members

February 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet service and Web hosting provider Radiant Communications (radiant.net) announced earlier this week that Wendy Porter and Don Calder have joined its board of directors, replacing outgoing members Marc Bouchard and Omaya Elguindi, who have resigned.

Speedera Unveils App Hosting Platform

February 16, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery service provider Speedera Networks (speedera.com) announced on Tuesday that it had introduced FlexComputing, a platform that provides distributed application hosting.