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by Nicole Henderson
February 10, 2012 — In the week ending February 10, 2012, there were a few promotions carried over from last week as well as one love-themed promotion just in time for Valentine’s Day. Action Web Group launched its Sweetheart Special, Asphosting.com.au is offering a 20 percent discount on its reseller hosting plans, WestHost is continuing to offer .CO domains at a discounted rate and A2 Hosting offers its Core VPS Hosting package for $1.
by Justin Lee
February 10, 2012 — Bandwidth connectivity solutions provider AboveNet announced on Tuesday it has named Michael Tighe its new vice president of marketing. AboveNet’s private optical network delivers network and IP services in and among some of the largest hosting providers and data center operators in the US and European markets.
by Justin Lee - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — – Open source web content management provider DotNetNuke announced on Friday it has launched its newly redesigned DotNetNuke Store, intended for developers to purchase modules, skins, and application extensions for the DotNetNuke platform.
by Liam Eagle - Friday, February 10, 2012
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 - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — Managed web server provider SevenL Networks has attained the 7L.com domain name for an undisclosed amount from a private owner to rebrand its company. According to the press release, negotiations were prolonged as it was hard to reach an agreement on the price of the domain with the previous owner.
by Justin Lee - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — – IT services firm Verne Global announced this week it has officially opened its first data center in Reykjanesbær, formerly a US Naval Air Station, just west of Reykjavik, Iceland. The 1,640 square foot data center, whose cost is estimated at $700 million, sits on 45 acres of land.
by Nicole Henderson - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — Cloud and managed hosting provider iomart announced on Thursday that it has carried out a group-wide virtualization for UK government office supply provider office2office. According to the press release, prior to this, o2o’s IT was focused on a single set of offices and one server room in Norwich.
by Justin Lee - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — Data center operator Telx announced has announced new details about its upcoming flagship 215,000-square-foot, three-story data center at 2 Peekay Drive in Clifton, New Jersey, which is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2012.
by Nicole Henderson - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — Web hosting provider ZNet Technologies announced on Friday that it has released a new website WHMCSExtras to offer web hosts WHMCS addons. ZNet says WHMCSExtras focuses on enhancing the WHMCS billing platform with four Admin area addons, including a renewal addon, upsell addon, partner addon and client profile addon.
by Justin Lee - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — An Iowa state economic development official said Thursday that the state is competing with Nebraska for a $1.2 billion data center project dubbed “Project Edge”. The company hopes to break ground in May, with an initial first phase investment of $500 million.
by Nicole Henderson - Friday, February 10, 2012
February 10, 2012 — Telecommunications provider Cincinnati Bell announced on Friday its plans to restructure or acquire financing for its data center division, operated by colocation firm CyrusOne. Cincinnati Bell acquired CyrusOne in June 2010 for $525 million to bolster its data center and colocation business. In 2011, CyrusOne generated revenues of approximately $185 million.
by Nicole Henderson - Thursday, February 9, 2012
February 9, 2012 — Web analytics firm Netcraft released the results of its February 2012 web server survey this week, and while Apache has gained the most hostnames, nginx was the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month.
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