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Data Storage: It's Time to Grow Up

There are two types of data living in the data center: transactional data and reference data. Transactional is dynamic and evolving; reference is mostly static. Application policies can immediately ascertain whether data will be static or transactional, and the most efficient ways of storing each type are very different. But IT managers continue to manage …Read More

OpenTech Buys Continuity Technology

March 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — OpenTech Sytems (opentechsystems.com), a developer of storage management and disaster recovery solutions, announced late last week that it had acquired business continuity technology from Implementation and Consulting Services (ics-corporate.com). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

OLM Downtime Caused by Hardware Failure

February 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to posts on a Usenet newsgroup, a shared hosting server at Web hosting provider OLM (olm.net) went down on the morning of February 8 in an outage that affected some sites for as long as 28 hours.

TJR Networks Discounts Web Hosting

January 6, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — New Zealand-based Web services company TJR Networks (tjrnetworks.com) launched on Tuesday, announcing a 25 percent discount on all of its hosting plans.

MySQL Server Crash Brings Down Omnis

December 7, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a post on the Omnis Networks (omnis.com) user support forum Saturday night, a system administrator for the California-based Web hosting provider confirmed that a multiple hard drive failure caused its MySQL server to crash, reportedly causing a failure that brought down the Web sites of a significant number of Omnis customers.

Register.com Launches Data Backup Tool

November 22, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domain name registrar Register.com, Inc (register.com) announced on Monday that it is preparing to launch Register.com Data Backup Service, an automated backup tool catered to small organizations and individual users.

Vispa Offers a Free Month of Hosting

November 5, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Vispa (vispa.net) announced on Thursday that it has re-introduced its suite of five shared Web hosting packages with a free 30-day trial.

Web Host Verio Offers Backup Solution

October 19, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Verio (verio.com) announced on Tuesday that it has launched its Remote Backup managed storage solution for organizations with data in local, branch office and remote locations.

Webhostgear Introduces Cpanel Script

September 17, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Webhostgear.com (webhostgear.com), a Web hosting tutorial and resource portal, announced on Thursday that it is offering a free FTP backup script for servers running on the cPanel (cpanel.net) automation system.

Unocal Picks SBC Data Center Hosting

September 1, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications and Web hosting provider SBC Communications Inc. (sbc.com) announced last week that it has signed a contract to manage data applications for Unocal Corporation, a US-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company.