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Chinese Gov't Shuts Down Video Sites
October 31, 2008 -- The regulating body of China's Internet policy called for the shutdown of 10 online video websites on Tuesday, and warned 17 others, as it resumes its aggressive stance against such sites after a fairly relaxed summer.
UptimeSpy Offers Free Monitoring
October 30, 2008 -- New test and measurement provider UptimeSpy has launched a free, full-featured, geographic website monitoring service, offering monitoring from eight node locations around the world, which it calls an industry first.
Zimbra Adds Hosted College Mail
October 28, 2008 -- Open source messaging and collaboration software developer Zimbra has announced educational institutions will now have access to its Zimbra Collaboration Suite without having to manage on-premise software and hardware.
Verio Revamps ViaVerio Program
October 28, 2008 -- Managed hosting provider Verio announced on Tuesday it has launched its newly revamped viaVerio channel partner program and partner website, ViaVerio.
CDNs Support Web TV Ventures
October 23, 2008 -- In a rather higher-than-usual volume of content delivery network news, online service provider Internap Network Services was the latest CDN to announce its newest partnership with Beautiful Stranger.TV.
OpenXchange Goes Massively Mobile
October 17, 2008 -- A new collaboration has brought open-source, collaboration capability to more than 1.5 billion mobile handsets, providing push email and cloud-based mobile synchronization as a Software as a Service offering.
The Planet Warns of Security Breach
October 17, 2008 -- Dedicated and managed hosting provider The Planet issued a notice to customers Thursday, informing them of a security breach the company had detected, and recommending certain steps customers could take to protect their accounts from further compromise.
Q&A: Con Zwinkels, LeaseWeb
October 17, 2008 -- In an email interview with the WHIR, LeaseWeb managing director Con Zwinkels discusses his company's "green" practices through its EvoSwitch data center, as well as the environmentally friendly efforts of the hosting and data center industries at large.
US Govt. Looks At DNSSEC Proposals
October 15, 2008 -- Likely spurred by domain name system flaws found earlier this year by security researcher Dan Kaminsky, the US government is taking on the task of securing DNS flaws and is calling on civilians for on DNSSEC implementation advice.
Ensim to Demo Unify 2.5 at Conference
October 8, 2008 -- Hosting software provider Ensim announced on Wednesday it will be demonstrating its Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition, Version 2.5 platform at TechMentor Conference, held October 13 to 17 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
Rack-Soft Offers 4PSA Clean Server 4
October 6, 2008 -- Server and data center software developer Rack-Soft announced on Monday it has launched 4PSA Clean Server 4, a 4Grid technology-based email and file system antivirus for Plesk servers.
PEER 1 Launches Partner Network
October 2, 2008 -- Web hosting provider PEER 1 Network Enterprises announced on Thursday it has launched the PEER 1 Partner Network, an integrated referral and reseller program aimed at web developers, system integrators and IT consultants.
SoftLayer Adds Storage Features
September 22, 2008 -- On-demand data center service provider SoftLayer Technologies has expanded its StorageLayer storage and backup service with features providing geographic replication via iSCSI storage and EVault online disk backup.
CBTS Launches Cloud Solution
September 19, 2008 -- Data center and managed services provider CBTS announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new utility computing service to help customers provision and manage virtual Windows and Linux servers in a cloud computing environment.
Rack-Soft Launches Customer Portal
September 17, 2008 -- Server and data center software developer Rack-Soft announced on Wednesday it has launched the 4PSA Clients Area 3, its new customer management portal integrated into the company website.
1&1 Launches Affiliate Web Portal
September 16, 2008 -- Web hosting provider 1&1 Internet announced on Tuesday it has launched a web portal for the Affiliate Sales Program which integrates more resources.
BlackMesh Sees Record Growth
September 15, 2008 -- BlackMesh, a company that has recently joined KEMP Technologies' VARMaster Partner Program, announced on Monday it is exceeding growth projections for 2008 with over 30 percent revenue increase in the first half of the year.
Messaging Solutions Resells Ensim
September 15, 2008 -- Web hosting software provider Ensim, and email and instant messaging compliance provider Messaging Solutions announced on Monday that they have entered into a reseller partnership.
Raritan Updates Data Center Software
September 10, 2008 -- UK IT management solutions provider Raritan has released updates to its CommandCenter Secure Gateway data center management software that promise to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying virtualization technologies
The Web Host Industry Week in Review
August 29, 2008 -- One of the interesting trends in this week's hosting news was the issuance of data from a selection of surveys, with some of the more significant news of the week coming from more one-off events.
Estonia Hosts Georgian Websites
August 27, 2008 -- According to reports on Tuesday, the government of Estonia is temporarily hosting two of Georgia's key websites to protect them from hackers.
Microsoft Iowa Data Center Details
August 22, 2008 -- First announced in July, Microsoft has revealed new details about its Iowa data center plan, announcing it will be located in West Des Moines and cost $500 million to build.
SingleHop Signs New Customers
August 21, 2008 -- Managed dedicated hosting provider SingleHop announced on Thursday it has signed web hosting providers, Sphere Web Hosting and TigerServers, as customers.
Hotel Uses Terremark Cloud Platform
August 20, 2008 -- Terremark Worldwide announced on Wednesday that Preferred Hotel Group will use Terremark's Enterprise Cloud services to meet the disaster recovery needs of its mission-critical applications, including its online reservation system.
SingleHop Harpertown Servers Sellout
August 15, 2008 -- Chicago-based managed hosting provider SingleHop has announced its new Supercharged Harpertown server series sold out in less than 48 hours of their release.
Bitrix Adds New Media Player
August 13, 2008 -- Content management system developer Bitrix has announced a powerful new Media Player addition to its Bitrix Site Manager, letting users embed an unlimited number of video streams into their Web sites.
IronScale Fully Automates Hosting
August 13, 2008 -- StrataScale has announced its new IronScale product is the first fully-automated managed server hosting environment in the world, offering automated provisioning and management of servers, security, storage and networks.
SingleHop to Launch CDN Service
August 11, 2008 -- Web hosting provider SingleHop announced on Monday it plans to launch IP Cast, a new content delivery network offering on Labor Day.
Terremark Becomes SAP Partner
August 7, 2008 -- Data center operator and hosting provider Terremark Worldwide announced on Thursday it has become an SAP hosting partner.
Perimeter eSecurity Names CFO
August 5, 2008 -- IT security solutions provider Perimeter eSecurity announced on Tuesday it has named Lou Kerner to the position of chief financial officer.
SingleHop Scans For Dirty IPs
August 1, 2008 -- Managed dedicated hosting company SingleHop has addressed the industry-specific problem of allocating "dirty" IP addresses to customers, an often avoided but widespread problem.
OutlookToday Deploys ProvisorSP
July 30th, 2008 -- Hosted application and provisioning solutions provider Abridean has announced that Outlook Today has deployed Abridean's ProvisorSP to manage its hosted messaging and collaboration services.
