Web Hosting News – Englewood, CO – Latisys, a leading provider of colocation, managed hosting, managed services and disaster recovery solutions, today announced it has been awarded a $3.4 million contract by State of Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) to provide data center colocation services that include multi-site failover redundancy, multi-layered security and rich network connectivity.

CMS provides a broad range of programs and services to other Illinois state agencies and to the general public, ranging from procurement and IT expertise to personnel and benefits for management of many properties around Illinois. CMS helps ensure that state agencies serve the people of Illinois efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Web Hosting News – MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire VeriSign’s (Nasdaq: VRSN) identity and authentication business, which includes the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services, the VeriSign Trust Services and the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service.  The combination of VeriSign’s security products, services and recognition as the most trusted brand online and Symantec’s leading security solutions and widespread distribution will enable Symantec to deliver on its vision of a world where people have simple and secure access to their information from anywhere.

“With the anonymity of the Internet and the evolving threat landscape, people and organizations are struggling to maintain confidence in the security of their interactions, information and identities online.  At the same time, people’s personal and professional lives have converged and they want to use their various digital devices to access information wherever they are without jeopardizing their privacy,” said Enrique Salem, president and CEO, Symantec.  “At the same time, IT is faced with the challenge of giving users the appropriate access, while ensuring that corporate data is not at risk. We believe the solution to this dilemma lies in the ubiquity of identity-based security.  With the combined products and reach from Symantec and VeriSign, we are poised to drive the adoption of identity security as the means to provide simple and secure access to anything from anywhere, to prevent identity fraud and to make online experiences more user-friendly and hassle-free.”
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Web Hosting News – Princeton, NJ – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announces the availability of LVE Wrappers™, tools that let the server owner control the exact CPU usage for individual users and applications. LVE Wrappers are based on CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology that allows the administrator to control CPU usage on a server at the tenant or application level. LVE Wrappers allow the server owner to control resources for each application they run which gives them greater flexibility and stability out of the overall server infrastructure. The software is available to all CloudLinux subscribers.

The release of these innovative tools is further demonstration of Cloud Linux’s promise to help service providers increase stability and control of the server environment for more efficient and profitable operations. CloudLinux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a specific process or customer. LVE isolate specific hardware resources in a lightweight container and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant.
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Web Hosting News – JERSEY CITY, NJ - Datapipe, a leading provider of managed hosting and IT services, announced today that they are sponsoring Startup 2010: The Mobile Revolution. Startup 2010 is a one-day conference and business plan competition co-hosted by Silicon Alley Insider and New York University’s Stern School of Business. On May 20, 10 startups will compete for the grand prize which includes $5,000 in managed hosting services from Datapipe.

“Building partnerships with exceptional service providers is critical in the early stages of a startup. We’re thrilled that Datapipe is offering $5,000 of managed hosting to the winner of Startup 2010,” said Julie Hansen, Publisher and COO for Business Insider. “Datapipe’s industry leading hosting service should position the winner of Startup 2010 for success, just as it has for Business Insider,” Hansen added. Continue reading “Datapipe to Provide Managed Hosting for Startup 2010 Winner” »

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Web Hosting News – SAN JOSE, CA - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced its intent to acquire privately held CoreOptics Inc., a designer of digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for high-speed optical networking applications. Based in San Jose, with the majority of its employee base in Nuremberg and Gerlingen, Germany, CoreOptics will enable Cisco to equip service provider customers with highly advanced 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) transmission technology to scale their networks to meet the demands of rapidly growing Internet Protocol traffic driven by video, mobility and cloud services. According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index research, global IP traffic will increase fivefold from 2008 to 2013 with a 40 percent compound annual growth rate.

“With this acquisition, Cisco reinforces its commitment to continue to invest in its core networking business and to deliver IP next-generation networks at 100 Gbps and beyond,” said Surya Panditi, vice president and general manager, Cisco’s Service Provider Access and Transport Technology Group. “We are focused on continuing to deliver an industry-leading portfolio of routing, switching and optical transport systems that enable our service provider customers to better address the ever-present business challenge of managing tight capital and operating budgets while accommodating the tremendous growth in network traffic.” Continue reading “Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire CoreOptics” »

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Web Hosting News – BERGEN, Norway — At the fourth annual Microsoft Worldwide Government Solutions Forum in Bergen, Norway, Joel Cherkis, general manager for Applied Innovation in Public Sector at Microsoft Corp., outlined how the company’s Citizen Services Platform (CSP) and partner ecosystem will take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud-based solutions to give citizens — digital natives and newcomers — broad choices in how, where and when they access government services and to boost government efficiency.

“People expect a government that responds, acts and communicates with their digital lives,” Cherkis said. “Microsoft and our partners are helping provide government technology like CSP to empower citizens to have a continued conversation with their governments and empower governments to provide a proactive response.” Continue reading “Microsoft and eGovernment Partners Take Citizen Services to the Cloud” »

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Web Hosting News – Andover, MA - Server application virtualization pioneer, AppZero, today announced the availability of the AppZero Release 4.5 Virtual Application Appliance (VAA) Suite, enabling groups of virtualized server applications to be “scooped and moved” across datacenter and cloud environments without requiring any operating system component. This automates and makes the process of moving multi-application workloads fast, easy and reliable, providing enterprises with an on-demand approach for running server-side apps when and where they want.

The AppZero Enterprise Suite is built on AppZero’s patent-pending Cloud Container Isolation Technology™ that encapsulates a server application and all of its dependencies, but with zero operating system (OS) component. The VAA, freed from any OS encumbrance, can move seamlessly from data center to, and among, clouds and back across both physical and virtual servers.
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Web Hosting News – Vancouver, Canada – Hosting Controller, developer of leading automation solution for shared and enterprise hosting announces the release of HCnix a Linux/Unix based web hosting control panel.

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Web Hosting News – PALO ALTO, CA - HP (NYSE:HPQ) today presented new research from HP Labs, the company’s central research arm, showing how the manure output of cows and the heat output of data centers can be combined to create an economically and environmentally sustainable operation.

In a research paper presented at the ASME International Conference on Energy Sustainability in Phoenix, Ariz., the HP researchers explain how a farm of 10,000 dairy cows could fulfill the power requirements of a 1-megawatt (MW) data center – the equivalent of a medium-sized data center – with power left over to support other needs on the farm.
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Web Hosting News – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange announced the availability of Open-Xchange Advanced Server Edition as a lower cost alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint for educational institutions, public administrations and small- and medium-size businesses.

Open-Xchange Advanced Server Edition combines the leading open-source groupware with the Debian-based enterprise Linux Univention Corporate Server. The integrated directory services and web-based graphical administration interface significantly reduces administrative costs — user rights/permissions, groups, and resources can be easily, centrally managed.
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