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.

Fortrust Ups Data Center Investment

October 20, 2008 -- Data center services provider Fortrust has completed its $30 million Denver data center expansion project bringing its colocation capacity to more than 48,000 square feet, upping its total investment to more than $100 million.

PEER 1 Offers Absolute Monitoring

October 15, 2008 -- PEER 1 Network Enterprises and application performance management service provider Absolute Performance, announced on Wednesday that they have partnered to offer a range of advanced monitoring solutions to PEER 1's customers.

Cirrus Tech Adds Exchange, SharePoint

October 10, 2008 -- Canadian web hosting provider Cirrus Tech announced on Friday it will soon expand its hosted offerings to include Hosted Exchange and SharePoint Services.

Ike Ups Disaster Readiness Interest

September 23, 2008 -- Hosting companies are now analyzing the impact of Hurricane Ike, which landed in Texas two weekends ago, inflicting an estimated $27 billion in damages in the US alone, and dousing the high-tech hotbed with wind and water.

Intel Approves Air Economizers

September 19, 2008 -- Challenging the current industry assumption that data center air economizers are only useful when outside air is cool, Intel has released the results of an experiment showing that air economizers can work in hot climates.

SoftLayer Adopts Citrix's C3

September 17, 2008 -- Web hosting and on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer announced it will use and offer the new Citrix Cloud Center (or C3) solution from Citrix Systems as a key part of its cloud computing strategy.

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.

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.

AMC Moves Into Manhattan

September 3, 2008 -- Managed services provider Atlantic Metro Communications has acquired data center space at one of New York City's newest premier carrier hotels raising its footprint to 12 points of presence and five fully interconnected data centers.

Aventure Offers Cloud Control Panel

August 28, 2008 -- UK web hosting provider Aventure Host announced on Wednesday it has launched its new cloud control panel for managed cloud customers.

RichardsoNEyres Issues Green Study

August 26, 2008 -- Data center infrastructure provider RichardsoNEyres announced on Tuesday it released new research that reveal that many data center operators are not taking green issues seriously enough and are adopting a do-it-yourself approach.

Q&A: Mosso Uptime Chief Bruce Runyan

August 21, 2008 -- An email conversation with Bruce Runyan, the newly appointed chief uptime officer at Mosso, on the subject of his unusual job title and his vision for the company's cloud computing offering.

Yahoo! Reveals Shareholder Vote Error

August 6, 2008 -- Search engine provider Yahoo! reported on Wednesday that the shareholder votes were miscounted at last week's general meeting.

HostingCon 2008 - The OpenSRS Booth and Tucows New Brand Strategy

Posted on 2008-07-28

On my most recent peek at the budding exhibit hall, I noticed an exceedingly colorful display I hadn't seen before. It turned out to be the in-construction Tucows booth or, in this case, the OpenSRS booth - a bit of a monument to the big branding mov

RagingWire Offers Green Power

July 15, 2008 -- Data center operator and hosting provider RagingWire announced on Tuesday it has launched a new program designed to give customers the option of using 100 percent green power from renewable sources to power their high density equipment.

Switzerland Tops World in Spam

July 11, 2008 -- Switzerland has former front-runner exceeded Hong Kong as the most spammed country last month, according to security vendor MessageLabs.

London Data Center Take-Up Down

July 7, 2008 -- Contrary to what seemed to have been a busy year for London's data center sector, a real estate adviser says that corporations have selected London for only 4 percent of Europe's overall data center space in the first quarter of 2008.

Carpathia Opens Virginia Facility

June 25, 2008 -- Managed hosting provider Carpathia Hosting announced on Tuesday it has added over 20,000 square feet of raised floor, Tier III data center space at its Blue Ridge Data Center.

NetSol Pushes ICANN to Adopt Fee

June 20, 2008 -- Network Solutions announced on Friday it is supporting ICANN's stipulation to applying the non-refundable 20 cent per-transaction ICANN fee to domain names deleted during the Add Grace Period.

Firefox 3 Surpasses 8m Downloads

June 18, 2008 -- Despite the rather tumultuous on goings of Tuesday's Download Day, which resulted in its website going periodically offline throughout the day, Mozilla still managed to set a new world record for the most downloads over 24 hours.

ServInt Announces Green Initiative

June 17, 2008 -- Web hosting provider ServInt announced on Tuesday its "green" initiative of providing climate-positive hosting solutions by deploying multiple green methodologies to help customers operate with minimal environmental impact.

Switch Builds SuperNAP Facility

May 27, 2008 -- Switch Communications Group recently revealed it is building a new 400,000 square foot data center in Las Vegas, dubbed SuperNAP.

Oracle to Build Utah Data Center

May 23, 2008 -- According to reports, software developer Oracle announced on Monday it is building a new data center in West Jordan, Utah to support its growing online operations.

Rackspace Builds Green UK Facility

May 20, 2008 -- Web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting announced on Tuesday it has built a carbon neutral data center in Slough, Berkshire, UK.

Parallels Summit 2008 officially kicks off

Posted on 2008-05-19

As I mentioned last week theWHIR team is in attendance at the 3rd Annual Parallels Summit 2008. The event is taking place at the lovely Art Deco Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The day began promptly at 8am with a bit of a line up at the reg

Comcast Considers Capping Transfer

May 8, 2008 -- According to reports appearing on telecommunications message boards Wednesday, US telco giant Comcast may be considering placing transfer limits on its Internet subscriber accounts.

Web Hosting Mergers and Acquisitions - March 2008

Posted on 2008-04-29

I was going through my files --- then again and again ---- March was a slow month…but April will be better – at least my firm did three.

Bond.com Asks for $1 Million

April 18, 2008 -- The domain name Bond.com went up for auction on Thursday for a reserve price of $1 million.

SingleHop Offers New Server Line

April 17, 2008 -- Managed dedicated server provider SingleHop announced on Thursday it has launched a new line of servers called the PARAMOUNT series, designed for any size of business and supported by its most robust managed support package.

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.

Telx Names Product Development VP

April 14, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications provider Telx (www.telx.com) announced on Monday it has named Rose Klimovich the company's VP of product development.