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by Liam Eagle
February 10 – 2012 — Yahoo Small Business is taking the “trusted advisor” principle a step farther these days with the development of its Yahoo Small Business Advisor site, an information portal that puts the advisory role before even the service provider relationship.
by Nicole Henderson
February 9, 2012 — CenterBeam executive vice president, North American Solution Center and chief customer officer Anthony Hardt says in a phone interview with the WHIR that the company aims to continuously improve through its feedback from customers, but also from its employees.
by Justin Lee - Wednesday, February 8, 2012
February 8, 2012 — Julie Samuels, a laywer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation talks to the WHIR about the organization’s work to help legitimate Megaupload users recover data lost when the company’s servers were seized last month.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, February 7, 2012
February 7, 2012 — In an email Q&A with the WHIR, DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson talked about how the company is working to maintain customer relationships, and its plans to avoid a similar incident in the future.
by Justin Lee - Monday, February 6, 2012
February 6, 2012 — With more than 15 million domains available in its marketplace, Sedo is, by far, the largest domain resale marketplace operator in the world. The company recently teamed up with domain registrar and hosting provider Go Daddy to greatly expand the SedoMLS partner network.
by Justin Lee - Friday, February 3, 2012
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 - Thursday, February 2, 2012
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.
