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Sprint-Nextel Severs Link With Cogent
October 31, 2008 -- Amidst litigation hearings, a heated dispute between carriers Cogent and Sprint-Nextel boiled over this week when Sprint-Nextel severed its Internet connection to Cogent Thursday afternoon.
Equinix Launches New Corporate Brand
October 27, 2008 -- Data center operator Equinix announced on Monday it has launched a new corporate brand initiative that coincides with its 10th anniversary and expanding global operations.
Rackspace, ZeroLag Most Reliable: Poll
October 24, 2008 -- Hosting companies Rackspace and ZeroLag Communications have been found to have the most reliable home pages in the industry for the month of September, having been the only two sites that responded to each request made by Netcraft.
Hosting Sales And Promos Round-up
October 24, 2008 -- Much of this week's sales and promotion news centered around giving premium products or services away for free (like HostV's free backup service) or for a reduced cost (like the Planet's 25 percent off server sale).
Tata Offers Managed Security Service
October 24, 2008 -- According to several reports on Friday, India-based telecommunications giant Tata Communications has partnered with unified threat management solutions provider Fortinet to launch virtualized UTM to its customers in India.
MobiSiteGalore Gets Innovation Nod
October 23, 2008 -- Mobile website creation tool MobiSiteGalore which is the first product of its kind to work entirely on a mobile phone has been named "Most Innovative Enterprise Mobile Internet Application" runner-up at an industry trade show.
CWIE Out, Alpha Red Done?
October 10, 2008 -- CWIE Holdings, which reported on Monday that it would acquire hosting company Alpha Red, said Thursday that the deal would not go through as planned.
IBM to Open Scotland Colo Facility
October 7, 2008 -- Technology giant IBM announced on Friday it plans to build a new data center at its Greenock, Scotland facility to provide colocation services to medium-sized organizations.
CWIE Buys Embattled Alpha Red
October 6, 2008 -- CWIE Holdings Company Inc. confirmed on Monday that it had agreed to acquire hosting company Alpha Red, a deal that has reportedly been in discussion since Friday.
AboveNet Connects More Data Centers
September 30, 2008 -- Fiber-optic connectivity solutions provider AboveNet has invested half-a-million dollars this past quarter on data center connections with its network to provide high-bandwidth interconnectivity to more than 300 data centers.
1&1 Opens Lenexa Data Center
October 1, 2008 -- Web hosting provider 1&1 has turned a former warehouse in Lenexa, a Kansas suburb, into a state-of-the-art data center able to withstand Kansas's infamous tornadoes.
SolidSpace Unveils New Services, Site
September 30, 2008 -- Web hosting provider SolidSpace made several announcements this week, starting with the unveiling of its new website.
iWeb Opens New Montreal Office
September 26, 2008 -- Web hosting provider iWeb announced on Friday it has opened on Wednesday its head office on Nuns' Island area of Montreal, Canada.
Telx Expands SF Colocation Space
September 10, 2008 -- Data center operator Telx announced on Tuesday it has acquired an additional 6,000 square feet of fully conditioned colocation space at the Digital Realty Trust facility on 200 Paul Street in San Francisco.
mobiSiteGalore Offers Mobile Builder
September 9, 2008 -- Akmin's mobiSiteGalore announced on Tuesday it has launched its mobiSiteGalore Build-with-Mobile, which the company says is the world's first mobile website builder that enables users to build a mobile website using their mobile phone.
HE August's Most Reliable Hosting Site
September 9, 2008 -- Internet backbone and colocation provider Hurricane Electric is the most reliable hosting company site for August 2008 according to UK research and security firm Netcraft.
Terremark Expands Platform to Europe
August 25, 2008 -- Data center operator and hosting provider Terremark Worldwide announced on Monday it has expanded deployment of its Infinistructure utility-computing platform to its facilities in Madrid and Amsterdam.
Check Point to Offer Free ForceField
August 11, 2008 -- Security vendor Check Point Software will give away free full versions of its ZoneAlarm ForceField for a 24-hour period starting 9 am eastern time, Tuesday, August 12.
DNS Loophole Details Leaked
July 25, 2008 -- IOActive director of penetration testing Dan Kaminsky advises immediate patching following the accidental leak of specific technical details of a domain name service flaw he discovered earlier in the month, eWeek reports.
Peak 10, tw telecom Deliver Ethernet
July 24, 2008 -- Managed solutions provider tw telecom and data center operator Peak 10 have announced an expansion of a mutli-million dollar agreement, enabling tw telecom to deliver ethernet services through Peak 10's Cincinnati data center.
Netriplex Expands Data Center By Half
July 17, 2008 -- North Carolina-based hosting services provider Netriplex is expanding its Asheville data center by 50 percent in a effort to offer greater emergency support including temporary office space for clients in case of disasters.
Check Point Issues Fix for MS Patch
July 11, 2008 -- Security vendor Check Point Software has issued a fix, via its website, for its Zonealarm personal firewall products that revives Internet connections affected by a Microsoft security patch released earlier this week.
Barak Hosting Offers Remote Backup
July 7, 2008 -- Web design and hosting provider Barak Hosting announced on Monday it has introduced its new remote backup service.
Smartbunker to Host SAP as a Service
July 2, 2008 -- SAP AG (sap.com) partner Intalec Partnership LLP (intalec.com) will be migrating its SAP ASP installation to managed web host Smartbunker (smartbunker.com), to essentially offer 'SAP as a Service.'
BT Vows to Disconnect Downloaders
June 26, 2008 -- UK broadband giant BT is starting to threaten to cut the Internet connection of customers who are illegally downloading copyright music over peer-to-peer networks, according to a report on The Register.
Akamai Reports State of the Internet
May 30, 2008 -- Content delivery network operator Akamai Technologies announced on Wednesday that it had issued the first installment of its "State of the Internet" report.
RMI Completes Data Center Expansion
May 1, 2008 -- Web-based transportation and logistics solutions provider RMI announced on Tuesday that it has completed its $2.5 million data center expansion project.
ResellerChoice Expands with Peer 1
April 30, 2008 -- Web hosting provider ResellerChoice announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its New York City "data center" to offer better geographic diversity for its customers on the east coast.
Alentus Acquires Two Web Hosts
April 23, 2008 -- Web hosting provider Alentus, which is owned by Web hosting equity firm EnActen, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Linux-based Web hosting providers Website Source and SpeedFox.
VISI Attains MS Gold Partner Status
April 23, 2008 -- Managed hosting provider VISI announced on Tuesday that it has attainted Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with a competency in advanced infrastructure solutions.
VISI to Build $18m Minnesota Facility
April 15, 2008 -- Managed hosting provider VISI announced on Tuesday it will build an $18 to 19 million Tier 3 data center in Duluth, Minnesota to provide colocation and managed hosting services to the area.
Webhosting Day Focuses on the New
March 13, 2007 -- Webhosting Day began Wednesday at the Phantasialand amusement park near Cologne, Germany, with most of the program going according to schedule, despite the added pressure of several hundred more attendees than anticipated.
