Web Host News – LONDON, UK - Telehouse and Teraco Data Environments today announced that their strategic alliance has been extended to include dedicated data center space in Teraco’s new carrier neutral facility in Johannesburg.  As with Cape Town, which was opened in December last year, the space will be opened under the Telehouse brand and operated, supported and maintained by Teraco to Telehouse’s stringent global operating standards.

Lex van Wyk, managing director of Teraco comments: ‘We are delighted to formally welcome Telehouse in Johannesburg. Telehouse is one of the best names in the data center and colocation market and we are able to bring them into our data center at an important time for both our companies and also for the South African market in general’.
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Web Host News – Cyberweb - Domain Database recently launched the largest domain information database on the Internet – DomainDB.com. With over 87 million domains worldwide, this service is now available for Internet domain databases all around the world, and is now offering unique domain information such as the domain relations.

One of the great new features about DomainDB is that end users can now comment about any domain. Once detailed information on a particular domain is found, users can post comments regarding that domain on DomainDB.com.
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Web Host News – FREMONT, CA - Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that its Director of IPv6 Strategy, Martin Levy, will speak on an IPv6 panel at FOSE 2010, the most comprehensive expo and conference for government information technology professionals.

On Wednesday, March 24th, Martin Levy will be featured on an afternoon panel entitled “A Strategic Approach to the USG IPv6 Roadmap.” Martin will join other distinguished IPv6 experts including John Curran, President and CEO, American Registry of Internet Numbers, and the mostly government audience to share information on how agencies should strategically plan and implement IPv6 migration.
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Web Host News – PALO ALTO, CA — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud today announced it is offering its VMware vSphere Essentials product package at up to 50% off the list price* through June 15, 2010.

With a low up-front investment, vSphere Essentials delivers enterprise-class virtualization capabilities that enable small offices to consolidate and manage application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs.  Through this promotion, VMware will offer SMBs award-winning virtualization starting at less than $500.
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Web Host News – Jerusalem, Israel - Minicom Advanced Systems, a leading developer of IT & KVM remote access and management solutions, welcomes Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS), a provider of high-tech enclosures for the mobilization, operation, environmental protection, and security of electronic equipment. The Data Center Alliance, formed with Minicom, Wright Line, ServerTechnology, Uptime Devices and Digi International fills the information gap in the marketplace by providing a centralized, comprehensive source for building successful IT infrastructures.

“The data center industry needs to undergo a major transformation over the next 10 years to significantly reduce its carbon footprint,” said Bill Stockwell, CEO of EMS. “We are proud to be part of the Data Center Alliance, which is dedicated to offering IT leaders the most comprehensive solutions for their current and future data center needs.”
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Web Host News – VANCOUVER, BC - PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), operating as PEER 1 Hosting , today announced it has acquired Atlanta based VIA Net.Works USA, Inc., a privately held subsidiary of Clara.Net Holdings Ltd. in an all-cash transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed.

VIA Networks USA is a provider of primarily dedicated and managed hosting solutions built around the Microsoft platform for small and medium sized businesses.  During calendar year 2009, VIA Networks USA generated approximately USD$2 million in revenue and an operating loss for the year.
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Web Host News – MADISON, WI / EDEN PRAIRIE, MN - Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., parent company to TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) today announced it has acquired VISI Incorporated (VISI), Minnesota’s largest locally-owned data center services and managed hosting provider.  TDS, headquartered in Madison, Wis. will have oversight and management responsibility for the acquisition.

VISI, headquartered in the Twin Cities, provides a wide range of information technology solutions, including: managed hosting, co-location and cloud-computing services to businesses of all sizes, from technology start-ups to large enterprises.  TDS markets communications services to business and residential customers in 30 states, including Minnesota.
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Web Host News – United Kingdom - The managed hosting and cloud computing services company, will be taking an active part in both events by giving revellers the opportunity to get ‘fresh and fruity’ on the night by offering a selection of smoothies and fruit drinks to anyone who tweets their order during the event.

The company is providing smoothies on demand at the London Twestival (Cable Club) and supplying a Twestival Fruit punch at the Glasgow Event (Lansdowne Bar). The five managed hosting themed smoothies on offer in London include the On Demand Orange, Cool Cranberry Cloud, Berry Burstin’ Bandwidth, Hot Hosting Hootch & the iSoothie. A member of the iomart Hosting marketing team will attempt to attend both events on the same night, personally delivering messages of support and goodwill from the organisers of one Twestival to the other.
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Web Host News – London – Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services company, today announced that Onboard Retail Solutions® has signed a three year contract with Attenda to manage the multi-tenanted infrastructure for its SaaS application delivery.

Onboard Retail Solution is part of the BOM Group, a specialist software developer and IT solutions provider for police forces, government departments, onboard retailers and other large enterprises. Onboard Retail Solutions provides onboard retail technology solutions for the airline, rail and ferry industries, with a mission to help airlines, train operators and ferry companies to dramatically increase ancillary revenue by combining technology solutions with retail knowhow, to streamline the onboard retailing process.
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Web Host News – HOUSTON - The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced the availability of the Dell PowerEdge R710 server, equipped with the Intel® Xeon® X5600 series processor and now the most powerful server in the company’s fleet. The next-generation processor, built on the new Westmere microarchitecture, offers significantly enriched performance and security. Built with six cores, the new 32 nanometer processor operates at speeds up to 2.80GHz, with 12MB of cache, a 1333MHz memory bus, and enabled with turbo- and hyper-threading.

The new processor also delivers two new security features – Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel AES-NI) and Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT). These new technologies enable faster encryption and decryption performance for more secure transactions and virtualized environments.
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