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news Best Practices for CC TLDs in your Product Strategy, with epag

March 18, 2010 -- In a bit of an extension of what was covered in the day’s last keynote – presented by InternetX – this somewhat more intimate hosting session covered business practices for hosting providers selling country-code domains, presented by Alexander Schwertner of epag, a domain registrar based in Germany.

news Cloud 2.0: a Vision on the Next Generation of Cloud Products

March 18, 2010 -- At WebhostingDay 2010, serial entrepreneur Kristof De Spiegeleer presented his vision of what's wrong in data center and storage, and it all boils down to simplicity. Active in the space since 1985, and now as chairman of Amplidata and Racktivity, and director of SUN Microsystems Cloud Strategy, "15 years later and not much has changed," a contentious statement, considering the crowd.

news Command Your Data - Open Source Drives SaaS and Cloud Computing: WHD Panel Discussion

March 18, 2010 -- Rafael Laguna de la Vera, CEO of Open-Xchange, a business-class open source collaboration software developer, presented a discussion on the opportunities of open source SaaS and cloud computing, which not only explored the history of the development of computing paradigms, but the direction of "the cloud" as it reaches maturity.

news The New Face of Hosting, According to Microsoft’s John Zanni

March 17, 2010 -- Wednesday’s third keynote session at WebhostingDay was “The New Face of Hosting,” presented by John Zanni, general manager for the worldwide software plus services industry at Microsoft’s communications sector.

news Relocating Businesses to Luxembourg, Parental Controls with GateSecure

March 17, 2010 -- The next morning presentation of WebhostingDay 2010 began with a presentation by Tom Kettels, a senior ICT advisor for Luxembourg for ICT.

news Multi-core processing and scalability for hosting environments

March 17, 2010 -- With its 12-core processors set to be released by the end of the month, AMD is promoting its multi-core processing and scalability for use in hosting environments.

news Making the Cloud a Profitable Reality with Serguei Beloussov

March 17, 2010 -- You’d probably assume that there was some overlap between the message in this presentation and the message presented generally at the Parallels Summit held at the end of February. And you’d be correct to assume that – there was quite a lot of overlap – but that’s the nature of Parallels’ message these days, and it is an interesting message.

news Following the Recession, CIOs Plan to Move Forward With Upgrades, Other Initiatives: Report

March 17, 2010 -- Technology executives forced to shelve projects during the worst economic recession since the Great Depression are signaling a readiness to make critical IT investments according to new survey of Canadian CIOs.

news Q&A: Jeremy Hartley on the EU Code of Conduct Data Centre Efficiency

March 12, 2010 -- In an email Q&A with the WHIR, Jeremy Hartley, head of Dataracks and eCool Solutions, gives us a primer on the EU's new voluntary commitment, and explains why European data center managers should consider getting on-board.

news Cisco May Begin Selling Containerized Data Centers

March 12, 2010 -- Cisco Systems may soon join competitors IBM, SGI, and Sun in the lucrative market of containerized data centers, according to a report by Information Week.

news NaviSite Moves Away from Colo to Focus on Cloud Hosting

March 12, 2010 -- Data center operator NaviSite unveiled this week that it is shifting its focus away from colocation as it makes a move toward hosting, managed services and cloud computing services, according to a report by Data Center Dynamics.

news Cloud Computing and Asterisk Conferences To Happen Next Month at IT360 Conference & Expo

March 9, 2010 -- Cloud Computing Conference, and the Asterisk and Open Telephony Conference will be held concurrently with the IT360 Conference & Expo, scheduled for April 7 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Canada's most populous city.

news AFCOM Hosts Data Center World 2010 Expo and Media

March 8, 2010 -- Data center organization and event organizer AFCOM announced on Monday it is hosting Data Center World 2010 Expo and Media, held March 7 to 11 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville.

news Consonus and Hi-Tech Transportation Relocate ESL's 200 Servers in 12 hrs

March 4, 2010 -- Hosting and colocation services provider Consonus has announced that it relocated more than 200 servers and other data center devices for ESL Federal Credit Union, one of the largest credit unions in the country, beating its deadline and resuming its normal operations sooner than expected.

news CDN Firm Aflexi Launches Bandwidth Marketplace: FlexiMart

March 2, 2010 -- Content delivery network software developer and management solutions provider Aflexi has launched its FlexiMart platform, which lets web hosts easily buy, sell and trade bandwidth instantly.

news Q&A: Dan Ushman, SingleHop

March 1, 2010 -- In an email interview with the WHIR, Dan Ushman, co-founder and vice president of SingleHop talks about the company's new Tandem reseller program.

news Data Center Growth in Latin America Will Cause Shortage: BroadGroup Study

March 1, 2010 -- IT consulting firm BroadGroup announced on Monday it has released a new report that forecasts a 61 percent growth in data center space across seven key Latin American markets by 2014.

news Parallels Summit 2010 - Day 3 Session: Using Mac OS X Server for Hosted Services

February 24, 2010 -- Apple's Nader Nafissi presented "Using Mac OS X Server for hosted services," where he outlined Apple's server solutions to a somewhat skeptical croud. 

news Parallels Summit 2010 - Day 3 Session: Generating new revenue streams with Unified Comms

February 24, 2010 -- The first Business session of the afternoon came from a high-profile panel, moderated by Tier 1 Research analyst Philbert Shih.

news Parallels Summit 2010 - Day 3 Session: Unified communications -- now for hosters

February 24, 2010 -- "Everyone needs email and groupware, what could go wrong?" asks Unison Technologies CMO Rurik Bradbury. Apparently a lot.