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by Liam Eagle - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Web hosting provider LiquidWeb announced on Tuesday that it has added solid state drives to its Smart Servers line of products, publishing research showing I/O speeds for the virtualized servers that “significantly outperform market standards.”
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Web hosting company SherWeb announced on Tuesday it has doubled the commissions in its affiliate marketing program. Affiliates will now be paid 200 percent of the first month’s value of each sale for every new referral they make.
by Liam Eagle - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Data center operator Online Tech said on Tuesday that its Ann Arbor, Michigan data center was the first such facility in the state to receive the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR certification, which indicates that the data center is in the top 25 percent of facilities nationwide for energy efficiency.
by Liam Eagle - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Distributed database technology company Basho the sponsor of the NoSQL open-source database Riak announced on Tuesday that it has launched Riak CS, a cloud storage platform that can be used to build a service similar in function (and compatible in API) to Amazon’s S3, positioning it, in part, as a tool for hosting service providers.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider StrataScale announced on Tuesday it has named industry veteran James A. Fanella its president. He will report to StrataScale co-founder Yatish Mishra, who continue to serve as CEO.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Data center operator CoreLink Data Centers announced on Tuesday it has completed its review of controls and procedures to meet the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule.
by Liam Eagle - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Cloud computing software maker Hexagrid announced this week that Las Vegas-based data center company Cobalt Solutions has built out a cloud-based disaster recovery offering using Hexagrid’s infrastructure as a service cloud technology.
by Justin Lee - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012 — Market research company Gartner released a new research on Monday that shows that while there continues to be a high interest in data center services, the market structure, dynamics and maturity differ drastically across the world.
by Liam Eagle - Monday, March 26, 2012
Cloud storage software firm Gladinet announced on Monday that it has launched version 4.0 of its cloud storage software, designed to enable the creation of hybrid cloud environments using public cloud storage services such as Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage, and creates a new private label cloud storage opportunity for service providers.
by Justin Lee - Monday, March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012 — With just over a month left until Office Live Small Business users will be required to move over to Office 365, many companies using the cloud service for email and web hosting are complaining the process is too complicated and that Microsoft is not providing much in the way of support to ease this transition.
by Justin Lee - Monday, March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012 — Web hosting company Green House Data announced on Monday it has expanded its cloud infrastructure to the West Coast with the addition of a secondary cloud location in Beaverton, Oregon.
by Liam Eagle - Monday, March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012 — Microsoft said Monday that it had executed a carefully-planned federal warrant on Friday, raiding web hosting facilities in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Lombard, Illinois, seizing servers and 800 domain names in an action aimed at shutting down the Zeus and SpyEye botnets.
