Web Host Macquarie Names Data Center Manager

March 11, 2010 -- Australian web hosting provider Macquarie Hosting announced on Thursday it has named Dinusha Koggalahewa as the company's new date center facilities manager.

DRT to Bid on Aussie Data Center Consolidation Project

January 18, 2010 -- Data center real estate firm Digital Realty Trust is bidding on a large data center consolidation project by government of Australian state New South Wales, according to a report by Australian IT.

WesTrac Picks IBM Modular Data Center for Australian Site

January 7, 2009 -- Last month, IBM, which has designed and built more data centers than any company in the world, said it had been chosen by industrial machinery supplier WesTrac Pty Ltd to design and implement a Portable Modular Data Center solution to provide a flexible, cost-effective data center that would meet its immediate business needs, but also support future IT growth.

Web Host Bulletproof Taps Former Hostworks Director

December 21, 2009 -- Australian web hosting provider Bulletproof Networks announced last week that it had appointed hosting industry veteran Klaus Bartosch as a strategic advisor to its board and management team.

Equinix Sydney Data Center Houses PIPE International

December 8, 2009 -- Data center operator Equinix announced on Tuesday that PIPE International has selected Equinix as a key interconnect provider for its new PIPE Pacific Cable undersea cable.

Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - Nov 27, 2009

November 27, 2009 -- As November draws to a close and the holiday shopping season reaches a heated fervor, web hosting firms are rallying to offer web hosting services when customers -- especially online retailers -- need them most. Among the deals announced this week are PEER 1's e-commerce hosting discount, Blacknight's cheaper domains, HostV's disk space double, and Internode's business-class broadband discount.

Fujitsu Looks to Build New Data Center in Sydney

November 6, 2009 -- IT services provider Fujitsu announced this week it is currently scouting areas of Western Sydney, Australia for a location with sufficient power to build a new data center.

Australian Web Host SwiftNAP Intros New Reseller Hosting Service

November 2, 2009 -- Australian-based web host SwiftNAP has announced its new reseller service. Powered by cPanel, SwiftNAP new reseller hosting plans include a 100-percent email uptime and dedicated MySQL servers with abuse control.

Macquarie Telecom to Invest in Tasmanian Network with Government Help

September 24, 2009 -- Enabled by the Government's initiative to build a National Broadband Network with the island state, Australian carrier Macquarie Telecom is investing in a new data network in Tasmania involving the construction of a seven kilometer fiber optic link between Aurora Energy's Cambridge data center and Midway Point.

ThinkGrid Adds Sydney Points of Presence to Fuel Asia-Pacific Expansion

September 17, 2009 -- As part of its continued program of international expansion, cloud-based IT services provider ThinkGrid has established new points of presence in Sydney, Australia, which is known as the country's technology hub and is a key centre for Internet distribution and ICT services exports in the country.

Macquarie Upgrades Data Center Network Core

September 1, 2009 -- Australian web hosting provider Macquarie Hosting announced on Tuesday it has upgraded its entire data center network core.

Macquarie to Host Australian eHealth Services

July 28, 2009 -- The web hosting division of Australia's Macquarie Telecom, Macquarie Hosting, has signed a three year, $1 million deal with Healthways Australia, to host its Internet-based suite of health and wellness resources to help Australians measure their current health, assess risks and prevent future health problems.

ICANN Update: The Polarizing Issue of New gTLDs

Posted on 2009-06-26

In my last post I discussed some of the planned proposals for new domain name extensions that had emerged here in Sydney. Although on the surface new domain name extensions are very exciting, the notion of potentially introducing hundreds of new gTLD

Hostworks Increases Order Book to $45M

May 8, 2009 -- Managed hosting provider Hostworks announced on Thursday it reported the financial records for the first half-year since it was acquired by Broadcast Australia in March 2008.

Macquarie Backs Australian Payment Gateway

April 21, 2009 -- Web hosting provider Macquarie Hosting has signed a three-year, million dollar deal with Australian electronic payment gateway provider eWAY to provide eWAY secure, fully-managed hosting to underpin the payments of many online merchants.

Hostworks Founder Marty Gauvin Moves On

April 1, 2009 -- A decade after founding managed hosting provider Hostworks, Australian entrepreneur Marty Gauvin has left the company after successfully overseeing its acquisition by Broadcast Australia.

Switch Media Uses Macquarie to Host Video

March 3, 2009 -- The web hosting division of Australian and Asia Pacific telecom Macquarie Telecom, Macquarie Hosting, has signed a complex business hosting deal with leading Australian digital communications specialist The Switch Media Group, to provide it the fully-managed, high availability hosting solution required to support Switch Media's mission critical video-on-demand and video content management applications, which support customers including Walt Disney, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and a number of Australian political parties.

Broadgroup Reports on AU, NZ Facilities

February 6, 2009 -- IT services consultancy firm BroadGroup announced on Friday it has issued a new and updated report on the Australia and New Zealand Data Center markets which shows significant market growth over the past 24 months, but suggests that new build plans are slowing down when compared to other markets.

Yahoo! OzHosting Launches SEO Service

March 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Destra's (destra.com) Yahoo! (yahoo.com) co-branded Web hosting subsidiary OzHosting.com (ozhosting.com) announced on Monday the launch of Searchability, its new search engine optimization service.

SWsoft Unveils Virtuozzo 2.6.1 for Linux

February 15, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting automation software developer SWsoft (sw-soft.com) will announce the availability of Virtuozzo 2.6.1 for Linux Tuesday at LinuxWorld in Boston.

Scalix Launches Partner Network

January 31, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Linux email solution Scalix Corporation (scalix.com) announced on Monday that it had introduced the Scalix Partner Network, a global initiative that will team the company with resellers to offer successful Scalix customer deployments.

ISP Panix Domain Name Hijacked

January 18, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports released Monday, New York-based Internet service provider Panix.com was working to recover its domain name, after what appeared to be a hijacking disrupted the company's email services.

Verio Europe to Host Rally Web Site

January 14, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- NTT Communications subsidiary Verio Europe (verio.com) announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with the Subaru World Rally Team to host the team's Web site. Verio will also become a technology partner for the Subaru World Rally Team, providing the team with Internet infrastructure, managed security services and high performance online solutions at swrt.com.

Proposed Aussie Bill Restricts ISPs

December 3, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, Australian Internet service providers will face restrictions similar to those faced by US ISPs under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if legislation tabled in the Australian Senate this week is approved.

Virtuozzo Given IBM ServerProven Status

November 15, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting software developer SWsoft (sw-soft.com) announced on Monday that its server virtualization product Virtuozzo has been awarded IBM's ServerProven validation for IBM eServer xSeries servers.

ModernGigabyte Combats Suspensions

August 12, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- ModernGigabyte ( moderngigabyte.com), a Web hosting solutions provider, announced on Thursday it is expanding its offerings at www.modernauthorize.com in response to several of its customers' gateways being suspended.

WebCentral Founders Selling Shares

July 26, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The founders and three largest shareholders of Australian Web hosting provider WebCentral (webcentral.com.au) will sell their shares, worth AU $18 million, to technology company FTR Holdings (ftrholdings.com.au), according to a report by ZDNet.

SSL Server Attacks Loom, Says Netcraft

July 23, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Scanning on the Internet for servers running secure socket layer technology has been particularly high in the last week, suggesting that hackers could be profiling targets for future attacks, according to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com).

UN Proposes Legislation to Combat Spam

July 8, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The United Nations has joined the war against unsolicited commercial email, otherwise known as spam.

Web Site Pushes .xxx Top-level Domain

June 11, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Child protection advocate Mary Conyers' Web site Protecteverychild.org (protecteverychild.org) is pushing the movement to create a separate .xxx domain for Web sites that feature adult content. Protecteverychild.org, with members in 39 US states as well as in Puerto Rico, Zambia, Israel, China, Canada, and Australia, has received grassroots support from a number of child advocacy groups as well as the US Internet Crime Task Force. Adult entertainment giant Vivid Video has also endorsed the idea.

Spam Now Makes Up Two-Thirds of Email

May 26, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Spam continues to saturate the market with the increase in junk mail. Last month, spam made up for more than two-thirds of the 840 million emails scanned by filtering firm MessageLabs (messagelabs.com), according to UK site The Register.

Speedera Picked for Content Delivery

Direct Response Technologies said it required an outsourced solution that was scalable and capable of moving a high volume of traffic. The company also did not want to manage or build out any new IT infrastructure and required extended geographical reach for its clients in Europe, Australia and the United States.