FORTRUST Announces Data Center Partnership with Consonus

February 4, 2010 -- Data center and colocation services provider FORTRUST has partnered with data center hosting and managed IT services provider Consonus to enable both company's customers to use both providers' data center and colocation facilities for geographically diverse disaster recovery and business continuity options.

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MSPAlliance Preps MSPWorld Las Vegas

October 29, 2009 -- The international association of managed service providers, MSPAlliance, announced on Thursday it will host MSPWorld Las Vegas, a conference for managed IT service providers on November 12 to 13 at The Venetian.

Horizon Data Center Solutions Opens Second Dallas Data Center

September 25, 2009 -- Data center services provider Horizon Data Center Solutions has opened a second Dallas data center that will deliver everything from colocation to managed services and hosting, which is taking on new clients.

Inside Hosted Solutions' New Managed Offerings

September 18, 2009 -- In a move towards shedding its former "hosting-only" business model, Hosted Solutions greatly expanded its suite of application hosting and management solutions this week to include support for a full range of business applications.

Clearview Opens New Data Center in Central Texas

September 16, 2009 -- Clearview Managed Services announced on Wednesday it has completed construction on its a new 43,000-square-foot data center in Waco, Texas.

Savvis Presents Q1 Earnings, New CFO

April 30, 2009 -- As overseer of the company's finance, legal, corporate development and investor relations, Greg Freiberg was introduced to investors at IT services provider Savvis' first earnings announcement since Freiberg took on the role of senior vice president and chief financial officer last week.

Horizon Buys Mareechi to Grow ASP Division

April 22, 2009 -- Bolstering its managed services, Dallas-based Horizon Data Center Solutions has bought application service provider Mareechi, which has provided outsourced IT services to more than 100 clients world-wide for nearly a decade.

M3, Azaleos Merge to Form National MSP

March 17, 2009 -- Venture-backed M3 Technology Group and managed services provider Azaleos announced on Tuesday they are merging to form a national managed services provider.

Video Interview with Eduardo Villa of Hosting Panama

Posted on 2009-01-12

Although offshore hosting is a term that unfortunately still makes people think of questionable business activity and unreliable service, as with this recent case reported by The Register about offshore hosting provider HavenCo spontaneously going of

Video Interview with Vinay Nagpal, Tata Communications

Posted on 2008-11-26

With the almost 100 subsidiaries in industries as diverse as tea and steel, Tata Communications' hosting services are becoming a major world-wide player with more than one million square feet of data center and colocation facilities worldwide.

WHIR TV Interviews Vinay Nagpal TATA Communication

  November 24, 2008 - TATA Communications' Director of Product Management sits down with WHIR TV Host Anastasia Tubanos to discuss TATA Communication's services.  

WHIR TV Interviews Lance Crosby of SoftLayer

October 29, 2008 -- WHIR TV's Anastasia Tubanos sits down to chat with SoftLayer's Chairman and CEO to discuss the company's virtualization and cloud initiatives.

SWsoft Hosting Summit Interview with Blake Nelson

June 13, 2007 -- WHIR TV chats to Blake Nelson, director of solution sales at Absolute Performance.

Video Interview with Margie Backhaus from Equinix

December 10, 2005 -- WHIR TV interviews Margie Backhaus, Chief Business Officer at Equinix.

TeleCity Picks MSI for Backup

March 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- TeleCity (telecity.com), a provider of colocation, Web hosting and data center services, announced on Thursday that it had renewed and expanded its agreement with Managed Storage International (msiservice.com), enabling it to provide data protection services to its customers in Europe.

TechSpace Buys E-commerce Gateway

March 15, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and IT infrastructure services provider TechSpace (techspace.com) announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the Web hosting, dedicated server and colocation customers of E-commerce Gateway. California-based TechSpace picks up 21,000 business-class user accounts and over 500 Web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

NYC Connect Names VP of Sales

March 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- New-York-based data center operator NYC Connect (nyc-connect.com) announced late last week that it had named Joseph C. Kiaer to the position of vice president of sales and business development. Kiaer will be responsible for expanding the carriers and connectivity of the company's meet me rooms in addition to its enterprise data centers.

NEDS Introduces Site Safe Data Backup

March 2, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- New England Data Services (neds.com), a provider of managed services, infrastructure management and Web hosting, announced on Tuesday that it had released Site-Safe, its proprietary data backup and recovery process.

The Planet Offers Red Hat Linux 4

March 1, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) said on Monday that it is the first Web host to offer Red Hat (redhat.com) Enterprise Linux 4. The company says the new platform will provide enterprise customers with higher security and performance benefits, in addition to the cost benefits of open source solutions.

Peak 10 Hosts Disaster Recovery Seminar

February 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center and managed services provider Peak 10 (peak10.com) announced on Thursday it will host an educational Web seminar on disaster recovery and business continuity online February 24, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. The Web seminar will discuss the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions as well as their availability and affordability to small and medium-sized businesses.

Sun, EDS Renew Strategic Partnership

February 3, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) and EDS (eds.com) announced on Wednesday that they are in the midst of negotiating a new eight-year managed services contract that will see EDS migrate Sun's data centers to the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform, its global delivery system. The two companies also announced that they have entered an agreement to jointly deliver IT and utility computing services based on Sun's Solaris 10 operating system to large enterprise customers.

Peak 10 Expands Data Center

February 2, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center and managed services provider Peak 10 (peak10.com) announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its Raleigh data center to facilitate the company's growth in the Research Triangle region and provide additional redundancy options for Peak 10's customers across the globe.

VeriCenter Appoints Support Director

January 28, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT infrastructure and managed services firm VeriCenter Inc. (vericenter.com) announced on Thursday that it has appointed Kwesi Ames its director of support engineering.

The Planet Deploys Spirus Gateway

January 27, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com) said on Wednesday that it has deployed the Spirus email gateway in order to prevent spam, viruses and attacks against its hosted email servers.

OANDA Extends ServerVault Web Hosting

January 20, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hosted application provider ServerVault Corp. (servervault.com) announced on Tuesday that currency exchange market OANDA has increased its ServerVault managed services, in an effort to help distribute OANDA's online currency trading and information products and services to domestic and foreign clients.

NCsoft Picks Redbus Colocation

January 19, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed services provider Redbus Interhouse Germany (interhouse.net) said on Wednesday that it had been chosen by video game developer NCsoft (plaync.com) to provide colocation and business continuity services for its online gamers in Europe.

VanillaSoft Picks VeriCenter Hosting

January 13, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center operator VeriCenter (vericenter.com) announced on Thursday that it has signed an agreement with sales force automation firm VanillaSoft to provide enterprise hosting and managed services.

The Planet Balances Load with Zeus

January 11, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Texas-based Web host The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Tuesday that it has forged a partnership with application traffic management solution provider Zeus Technology (zeus.com), setting out to improve the reliability and performance of customer networks through load balancing.

The Planet Sets Up 500 Game Servers

December 7, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed Web hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Monday that it deployed 500 servers in just five hours for Pandemic Studios, creators of Star Wars Battlefront and other popular games. The 500 servers were installed, configured and delivered at the rate of one every 36 seconds using The Planet's proprietary automated provisioning system.

Softshare Picks Redbus Web Hosting

December 6, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Colocation and managed service provider Redbus Interhouse (Netherlands) (interhouse.net) announced on Monday that it had been selected by US based e-commerce solution provider Softshare to host core e-commerce services as part of its European expansion.

OLM Adds New Web Hosting Plans

December 1, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider OLM.net (olm.net) announced on Tuesday that it has launched its newly designed corporate Web site with improved navigation and usability.