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by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, April 18, 2012
April 18, 2012 — Web hosting provider SiteGround announced on Tuesday its plans to offer shared hosting servers in the Netherlands, its first location outside of the US. SiteGround will officially launch the Amsterdam location at the end of this week, aligning the announcement with Joomla!Days Netherlands.
by Nicole Henderson - Wednesday, April 18, 2012
April 18, 2012 — Website builder BaseKit has partnered with many web hosts at this point, including HostGator and more recently providing the platform for UK web host Heart Internet’s website building tool SiteDesigner. On Wednesday, it announced that it has established its first partnership in South Africa, a completely new market for the four-year-old technology company.
by Justin Lee - Wednesday, April 18, 2012
April 18, 2012 — Cloud storage services provider Nirvanix announced on Tuesday it has doubled its cloud storage capacity in the Dallas area through an agreement with colocation provider CyrusOne.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — Web hosting company SoftLayer announced on Tuesday it is now offering a new high-performance computing cloud-enabled solution consisting of servers powered by NVIDIA’s graphics processing units.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — Web hosting provider Go Daddy announced on Tuesday that it has installed more than two million WordPress websites with its application installer called Hosting Connection.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — IT communications provider XO Communications announced on Tuesday it has rebranded its corporate identity with a new logo, tagline and mandate that reflects its focus on providing the best customer experience.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — Web hosting provider Hostway announced on Tuesday that it has released its FlexCloud API for potential resellers of Hyper-V cloud services as well as for organizations that want to connect Microsoft Hyper-V private clouds with a public cloud. The API is apparently the first one to support Hyper-V deployments.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 16, 2012 — Web hosting company Peak 10 announced on Monday it has opened its second enterprise-class data center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — Web hosting co-op May First/People Link has complied with a request from the FBI to search a server it believes to be the source of three bomb threats to the University of Pittsburgh, a report on Tuesday by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — Web hosting and clocation provider Colocation America announced last week it has extended its channel partnership program to develop strategic alliances in various industries and to expand its ability to expand its service offerings.
by Nicole Henderson - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — Cloud computing and web hosting provider ViaWest announced on Tuesday that it has been named a top workplace by the Denver Post. According to the press release, the 2012 Top Workplaces list recognizes organizations that provide employees with a “great place to work, inspire its employee base and take an ethical approach to meeting customers’ needs.”
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 — Cloud and CDN provider OnApp announced on Tuesday it has released OnApp Cloud 2.3.2, its cloud platform for service providers and enterprises, which includes free Anycast DNS service.
