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Hosting.com Plans 30k Square-Foot Denver Data Center
July 2, 2009 -- Managed hosting and colocation solutions provider Hosting.com plans to open a a 13,000 square foot corporate office complex and a 30,000 square foot data center in the Denver metro area by late August, providing multiple layers of connectivity, redundancy, and security.
NSA Plans 1M Square-Foot Utah Data Center
July 2, 2009 -- The National Security Agency has revealed plans to build a 1-million-square-foot data center at Fort Williams in Utah, which borders Salt Lake and Tooele counties, according to a report by the Salt Lake Tribune.
42U Offers Data Center Energy Savings Calculator
July 2, 2009 -- Data center efficiency solutions provider 42U announced on Thursday it has launched a free, interactive Data Center Energy Savings Calculator to help data center managers quantify the energy, cost, and CO2 savings possible through efficiency efforts.
3FN Shutdown Costs Adult Affiliate Operator $5K a Day
July 2, 2009 -- After the US Federal Trade Commission effectively pulled the plug on web host 3FN in early June for alleged distributor of spam, child pornography, and other illegal content, a mid-size Spanish pornography company that operates affiliate programs said the shutdown has cost its legitimate business $5,000 a day.
Data Center Pulse Reaches 1,000 Members
July 2, 2009 -- Non-profit data center organization Data Center Pulse announced on Thursday it has enrolled its 1,000th member.
Web Host Value Reseller Acquires LogicSupport
July 2, 2009 -- Little more than a week following its acquisition of Javascript Zoom, private-label reseller web hosting services provider Value Reseller has added another key piece to its reseller hosting offering by buying LogicSupport, which provides white-label, outsourced technical support, administration and management services exclusively for web hosts.
NTT America Names Two Executives
July 2, 2009 -- Telecommunications provider NTT America announced on Thursday it has appointed Michael Wheeler the company's vice president of the global IP network business unit.
Datapipe Tops Netcraft's June Hosting Site Uptime List
July 2, 2009 -- Responding to each and every request from Netcraft's performance collector without fail for the entire month, managed services provider DataPipe had the most reliable hosting company site in the Internet security and analytics provider's monthly survey.
Web Host Fasthosts Names New CEO
July 2, 2009 -- UK web hosting provider Fasthosts Internet announced on Wednesday it has named Andy Burton the company's new CEO of Fasthosts Internet, as well as of the company's subsidiary in the US.
GoDaddy.com Launches New SEO Tool
July 2, 2009 -- Giving its customers more of a chance to complete with the more than 200 million websites in existence, domain registrar web host Go Daddy has released "Search Engine Visibility," a new search engine optimization tool that walks users through a step-by-step process to make their website search engine friendly, not only making a search engine more likely to index the entire site, but also to help the website rise in search engine rankings.
SEO Hosting Network Extends Services to Web Hosts
July 1, 2009 -- Offering geographically targeted hosting, the SEO Hosting Network has opened its services to web hosting companies worldwide, offering geographically distributed IP addresses to their clients for search engine optimization purposes, and participate in supplying local nodes for its network as an additional revenue stream.
Parallels to Tour Europe in EMEA Partner Roadshow
July 1, 2009 -- Spreading cloud computing awareness and knowledge, virtualization and automation software provider Parallels will be presenting a series of European hosting events, where it will connect with current and prospective partners, presenting networking and education opportunities leading to new revenue streams.
LeaseWeb Adds 7 Internet Exchanges to European Network
July 1, 2009 -- Hosting provider LeaseWeb, is adding seven new Internet exchange points in Europe to this worldwide hosting network, improving LeaseWeb's routing of Internet traffic within its European hosting network by exchanging Internet traffic with other providers via peering instead of having to purchase transit traffic from telecom carriers.
Griffin Internet Announces Four New Hires
July 1, 2009 -- In an effort to deliver new and better products to reseller partners, Internet services provider Griffin Internet has today announced four new significant new hires including new engineering division head Bob Lowndes, who has more than two decades of industry experience.
BackupAgent Launches Tiered Partner Program
July 1, 2009 -- Online backup and recovery software provider BackupAgent has launched a new program for resellers, offering them higher partner status and new ways to boost sales as they generate more sales and acquire more knowledge of its data loss protection products.
CoreSite Adds 20,000 Square Feet to Chicago Data Center
June 30, 2009 -- Colocation and peering provider CoreSite, which was known as CRG West as little as a week ago, has completed 20,000 square feet of space at the company's downtown Chicago data center, which now offers 2 Megawatts of power.
Energy Dept Offers Green Data Center Training
June 30, 2009 -- The US Department of Energy announced on Tuesday it is developing through its Save Energy Now program several training certificate programs for data center end users that will focus on improving data center energy efficiency.
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July 1, 2009
An email Q&A with Logicworks' president and COO Ken Ziegler, who discusses the company's new Private Cloud service, which offers an affordable storage solution for small and medium sized business customers.
Paglo Adds Log Analysis to IT Intelligence
June 30, 2009
IT management SaaS company Paglo announced on Tuesday that it has made a major addition to its product line with the launch of Paglo Logs, providing automatic cloud storage and instant search for log files.
June 19, 2009
An email Q&A with Concentric's senior product manager Gary Ellis, who discusses the company's new service Concentric Managed Backup, an affordable storage solution designed for small and medium sized businesses.
Intermedia First to Host Exchange 2010 Beta
June 17, 2009
Giving businesses the opportunity to try out the beta of Exchange 2010 as a hosted service, Intermedia has become the first hosting provider to offer Microsoft's latest collaboration suite as a hosted service.
Dasient Launches Website Malware Monitoring
June 16, 2009
With the launch of its Web Anti-Malware service this week, security startup Dasient addressed what several of the company’s founders describe as a growing problem in the proliferation of harmful software. And it is seeking the partnership of hosting providers in distributing its solution.
Noise Filter: Iranian Election Dispute
June 16, 2009
Since the arrival of the hotly disputed results of Iran’s presidential election arrived on Friday – in which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to have defeated reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi – demonstrations, both pro-government and dissenting, and both peaceful and violent, have taken place across the country’s capital of Tehran and elsewhere, with that dissent being echoed online.
June 12, 2009
In the first of a series of cloud computing announcements it plans to make over the coming months, Computer Sciences Corp. launched a few key services this week, designed to help businesses and public sector organizations build and manage their cloud computing environments.
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