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by Liam Eagle
February 3, 2012 — One of the leading developers of storage hypervisor software is Virsto Software, whose flagship product VM-centric storage hypervisor software is used by thousands of hosting providers and end users today.
by Nicole Henderson
February 2, 2012 — In an email Q&A with the WHIR, NTT America senior director, corporate marketing communications Christopher Davis, talks about NTT Com’s plans for Asia and why it only acquired a 74 percent stake in Netmagic.
by Liam Eagle - Tuesday, January 31, 2012
January 31, 2012 — Having acquired the domain name of the notoriously litigious Righthaven, the operators of Swiss web hosting company OrtCloud enlisted several notable US copyright and first amendment lawyers in its efforts to create a new hosting business with a “spineful” mandate to treat take-down notices and other legal threats with healthy skepticism.
by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, January 25, 2012
January 24, 2011 — Two out of the three past acquisitions by cloud services firm GlobalOne have been of Australia-based companies, signaling an opportunity for growth in the Asia Pacific region for cloud providers, a market that CEO David Northington says is hungry for cloud services.
by Justin Lee - Friday, January 20, 2012
January 20, 2012 — Earlier this month, cloud and web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting appointed Suaad Sait in the company’s newly created position of chief marketing officer. Suaad is a technology marketing veteran of more than 20 years, serving in various marketing roles at Reachforce, Pervasive, Ventix, Liaison Technology and DAZEL.
by Nicole Henderson - Thursday, January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012 — In an interview with the WHIR, technical support manager for DreamHost Brian Hill says email support has proved to be the most effective for DreamHost’s customer base, and that transparency is critical to keeping its customers happy.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, January 17, 2012
January 17, 2012 — The WHIR caught up with Save Hosting co-founder and ServInt chief operating officer Christian Dawson to talk about progress on SOPA and PIPA. In an email interview, Dawson talks about a web host’s role in politics and outlines the next steps in the anti-SOPA/anti-PIPA movement.
by Justin Lee - Monday, January 16, 2012
January 16, 2012 — After more than seven years of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will finally expand the domain name server beyond its current 22 available generic top-level domains when it begins accepting applications for new gTLDs on April 12. Last week, ICANN kicked off the long-awaited application process by opening registration via the TLD Application System. Applicants who correctly answer the 50 questions detailed in the Applicant Guidebook and pay the $185,000 fee will be able to register a gTLD of their choice.
by Justin Lee - Friday, January 13, 2012
January 13, 2012 — or many resellers, the domain aftermarket is a surprisingly untapped market from which they could earn additional revenue. Perhaps one of the leading reasons why some resellers do not include listings for premium domains among their standard domain search results is because they have doubts that any customer would be willing to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to register a single domain.
by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, January 11, 2012
January 11, 2012 — About 24 hours after a hacker claimed to have access to its system, GlobalSign temporarily stopped issuing certificates on September 6, 2011. GlobalSign wasted no time investigating the claims with help from external security investigation firm Fox-IT.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, January 3, 2012
January 3, 2012 — With a new year comes the desire to make change, and when it comes to web hosting, former VP of research at Tier1 Research and CTO of monitoring firm ScienceLogic Antonio Piraino says that hosting providers will need to make some serious improvements to keep up with where the industry is headed in 2012.
by - Friday, December 30, 2011
December 30, 2011 — The year brought along its share of high-profile appointments at some of the largest companies in the hosting and IT industry, including Rackspace, Parallels, Terremark, and Savvis.
