The WHIR's web hosting industry feature reports offers in-depth analysis of the web hosting industry and comprehensive interviews.
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.
by Nicole Henderson - Friday, December 30, 2011
December 30, 2011 — It seems that many web hosting providers did not publicly announce their stance on the Stop Piracy Act until this week, while Go Daddy was dealing with the aftermath of its decision to support the bill – a decision it quickly retracted after its customers furious response.
by - Thursday, December 29, 2011
December 29, 2011 — If there was one singular trend we saw in 2011 as far as mergers and acquisitions go it was that large investment companies making significant investments in the hosting space. Leading this group is the year’s most talked about investment: domain registrar and hosting provider Go Daddy selling a majority stake of the company to financial partners, KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures.
by - Tuesday, December 27, 2011
December 27, 2011 — The past couple of years has seen HP hard at work developing new services and solutions under its cloud computing division. The company has integrated its HP CloudSystem with Alcatel-Lucent to provide networking solutions for service providers, in addition to HP CloudAgile Service Provider program, HP CloudSystem Matrix 7.0, HP Cloud Protection program, and HP Enterprise Cloud Services–Compute.
by Nicole Henderson - Thursday, December 22, 2011
December 22, 2011 — After spending nearly ten years at Namesco and Dada.pro, Michael Follett quietly made the transition to senior product manager for managed hosting at Webfusion in November through an update on his LinkedIn page and Twitter. Bringing extensive experience in managed dedicated hosting and product management, Follett says the transition has been smooth to his new role at Host Europe-owned Webfusion.
by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, December 21, 2011
December 21, 2011 — Web host Go Daddy plans to advertise its cloud-based offerings in 2012 with the Pussycat Dolls, and recently rang in the holiday season with a performance by Kid Rock at an “All-American” party attended by 5,000 guests. The company’s offbeat culture is one of its trademarks, but it’s something you might expect to be a casualty of the acquisition that closed last week.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, December 20, 2011
December 20, 2011 — Information security and compliance solutions provider Trustwave says authentication is key for companies looking to keep information on a public network safe, and two-factor authentication features an extra layer of security to verify users identity when accessing a network from a different location.
by Nicole Henderson - Monday, December 19, 2011
December 19, 2011 — While Facebook and LinkedIn are led by interaction with people, social content sharing platform PaperShare is led by content. The platform allows users to join the network for free, upload as much content as they want (ranging from blog posts to audio files to whitepapers) and follow and connect with other users, as well as companies on the site.
by - Friday, December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011 — The rapid growth of cloud technology has created the need for a marketplace where developers and providers are able to resell cloud services to enterprises and businesses.
