Interxion Raises $278M in Senior Notes

February 3, 2010 -- European data center operator Interxion announced on Tuesday it has raised about $278 million (€200 million) through a sale of senior secured notes.

TelecityGroup Opens New Data Center in Paris

January 28, 2010 -- European data center operator TelecityGroup announced on Thursday it has opened its new Paris data center.

Intermedia Offers First Hosted Exchange 2010 in UK

January 26, 2010 -- UK hosted Exchange provider Intermedia announced on Tuesday it has extended its hosted Exchange 2010 service to the UK market.

Q&A: Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global on Iceland Data Center

January 25, 2009 -- In an email interview with the WHIR, Lisa Rhodes, vice president of marketing and sales at Verne Global, discusses the company’s recently announced 430,600-square-foot data center complex project in Iceland.

Tieto Begins Constructing $25M Finland Data Center

January 25, 2010 -- Data center operator Tieto announced on Monday it is building a new, energy efficient data center in Espoo, Finland to meet the increasing demand for IT operating services.

Comodo, Deutsche Post Com Announce Partnership

January 25, 2010 -- Through a partnership with certificate authority Comodo, Deutsche Post Com GmbH, a wholly owned communications services subsidiary of Germany's postal services provider Deutsche Post, will now be offering a range of digital certificates to its customers.

WebhostingDay 2010 Opens Registration

January 25, 2010 -- Event organizer Intergenia AG announced on Monday that it has opened visitor registration for WebhostingDay 2010, a major Web hosting conference and exhibition.

Q&A: Kevin Dean, Interxion

January 22, 2010 -- In an email interview with the WHIR, Kevin Dean discusses his recent appointment as Interxion's senior vice president marketing and chief marketing officer and how he will contribute to the future growth of Interxion.

The European view on our Industry - let's get started

Posted on 2010-01-21

Do you want to know what the Europeans think about the international hosting business? Then follow me on my new blog on theWHIR.com. I am Soeren von Varchmin, VP Sales at ePages. I´ve been working in the hosting business for over 10 years now a

Bulgarian Web Host Debuts New European Cloud Hosting Brand, Cloud.bg

January 20, 2010 -- Bulgaria's longest running web host, FColor.bg, has launched Cloud.bg, a fully featured cloud hosting service that runs popular web hosting control panel cPanel/WHM.

XO, Hibernia to Expand TransAtlantic and US Networks

January 19, 2010 -- Telecommunications provider XO Communications announced on Tuesday it will partner with network carrier Hibernia Atlantic to offer high-capacity circuits throughout the US and Europe.

ScaleUp's Christian Hacker Becomes First 3Tera-Certified Cloud Operator in Europe

January 18, 2010 -- European, cloud computing and data center solutions provider ScaleUp Technologies has announced that one of its lead developers, Christian Hacker, is the first person in Europe to be certified under the Certified Cloud Operator program, recently introduced by 3Tera.

Verne Global to Build Data Center in Iceland

January 18, 2010 -- Wholesale data center developer Verne Global recently announced it is constructing the first international data center in Iceland, where it is converting a former NATO command center into a data center.

Parody Site Takedown Sparks Web Hosting Debate

January 15, 2009 -- Raising questions about its international reputation, Canada used strong-arm tactics last month to shut down two government-critical parody websites that posed as authentic Environment Canada sites, an action that inadvertently took down 4,500 unrelated sites in the process.

Cobweb Solutions Partners with Dubai's Media Solutions, Enters the MENA Region

January 14, 2010 -- Entering the Middle East and North Africa region, UK-based hosted Microsoft services provider Cobweb Solutions has partnered with local IT consultancy Media Solutions of Dubai, UAE, to gain extensive regional and local knowledge of the outsourcing industry and provide this market with outsourced IT solutions and services.

BroadGroup Opens Nominations for DCE 2010 Awards

January 14, 2010 -- IT services consultancy group BroadGroup announced on Thursday it has opened the nominations for the awards categories for the 6th Data Centres Europe 2010.

Edgecast Networks Expands Global Capacity with New POPs in Singapore and Paris

January 14, 2010 -- In a major upgrade to its global network, content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks is adding two new strategic points of presence, Singapore and Paris.

New Video on WHIR tv - Interview with Amarjyoti Krishnan of Bobcares

Posted on 2010-01-13

Today's video features Amarjyoti Krishnan of Bobcares. WHIR tv caught up with him at the Parallel's EMEA Roadshow stop in Amsterdam. Bobcares has been a solid webhosting support company for years now and it's no surprise that they're expanding into t

Interview with Amarjyoti Krishnan of Bobcares

January 13, 2010 -- WHIR tv interviews Amarjyoti Krishnan of Bobcares at the Parallels EMEA Roadshow in Amsterdamn.

UK Web Host Webfusion Launches New VPS Plans

January 7, 2010 -- UK Web hosting provider Webfusion announced on Wednesday it has launched its new virtual private server packages.

Interxion Names Senior VP Marketing and CMO

January 6, 2010 -- European carrier-neutral data center operator Interxion announced on Wednesday it has named Kevin Dean as senior vice president marketing and chief marketing officer.

Web Host Heart Internet Launches White Label iPhone Control Panel for Resellers

January 4, 2010 -- Specializing in reseller hosting, UK web host, Heart Internet, has announced the launch of its white label iPhone control panel for resellers, letting its resellers use their iPhone to manage client's domain names and all their web hosting accounts, including adding brand new hosting accounts.

Web Hosting Year in Review: Data Center Construction

December 29, 2009 -- There were many high-profile data center builds announced this year, but five data center projects in particular stood out, both in size and financial investment.

Energ-IT Project Demonstrates Data Center Power Efficiency Practices

December 21, 2009 -- With the goal of finding ways to reduce power consumption in data centers, the Energ-IT project has created a test data centre that switches from a traditional IT infrastructure into a virtualized one in order to determine benchmarks on green savings as well as to identify a set of actions that can be applied to the data center as it moves to a virtualized infrastructure.

Reported Fasthosts Outage Hits Email Users

December 18, 2009 -- According to a report published Thursday in The Register, a network performance issue affected the services of the email customers of UK-based web host Fasthosts Thursday, for approximately two hours.

Tech Data Belgium Enters SaaS Market Using Parallels Automation

December 17, 2009 -- European technology distributor Tech Data Belgium has launched Fusyx, its foray into the Software as a Service market, offering a complete set of small and medium-sized business services based on Parallels Automation software.

Study Shows Security Largest Barrier to Cloud Adoption

December 16, 2009 -- Telecommunications provider Colt Telecom Group announced on Wednesday that it has commissioned research firm Portio to conduct study on its behalf which revealed that 68 percent of European CIOs and IT decision-makers say security fears prevent them from adopting cloud computing services.

Interxion Lends Its Design and Operation Expertise to Dutch Media Hub

December 16, 2009 -- Carrier-neutral European data center operator Interxion has become a partner of the Dutch Media Hub industry initiative and will provide expertise in the design and operation of critical server environments for media aggregation and dissemination in support of the Dutch Media Hub's goals.

EvoSwitch Facility Ups Energy Savings Rate to 50 Percent

December 15, 2009 -- European data center operator EvoSwitch announced on Tuesday it has lowered the average Power Usage Effectiveness of its data center from 1.6 in 2008 to 1.5 in 2009.

Connectivity Provider Hibernia Atlantic Acquires Transport Services Provider MediaXstream

December 15, 2009 -- In an effort to build greater network solutions for worldwide media companies, transatlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider Hibernia Atlantic has acquired MediaXstream, a leading provider of high-quality transport and managed network services for the media production and broadcast industries.

Interxion Dublin Data Center Buildout Employs 90

December 14, 2009 -- European data center operator Interxion announced on Monday that it has hired construction firm StructureTone to build its new €12 million data center in Dublin.

Web Hosting's All Star Team

October 2009 The October 2009 issue features our polling results to determine our Web Hosting All Star Team.