Hosting News – Fremont, Calif. - TELADATA, leading IT and telecommunication consulting firm, announced a call for speakers today for the fourth annual Technology Convergence Conference, to take place on February 2, 2012. The day-long event will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center and will offer presenters the opportunity to interact with over 600 IT and Facilities professionals on a host of industry topics and features several break out sessions throughout. Presenter applications are currently being accepted.

The conference is credited with bringing technology professionals together to exchange ideas and best practices about the latest in Data Centers, Telecommunications, Building Management Systems, Audiovisual, Networking and Security. This year’s keynote speaker, Navy Captain Mike Abrashoff, gave a pinch-hit speech describing his experience leading a US Navy destroyer crew to achieving the highest award offered by the Navy for performance. Among past TCC participants, are industry experts from enterprises such as Yahoo!, Robert Half International, Sun Microsystems, and eBay. Continue reading “TELADATA Announces Call for Speakers for 2012 Technology Convergence Conference” »

Hosting News – Montreal, Quebec — iWeb Group Inc. (TSXV: IWB) (“iWeb”), a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, announces today the completion of its previously-announced amalgamation (the “Amalgamation”) under a merger agreement with 7807201 Canada Inc. and 7807210 Canada Inc., two corporations controlled directly or indirectly by Novacap Technologies III, L.P., Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and an investment vehicle affiliated with Bank Street Capital Partners and certain of their affiliates.

iWeb’s common shares are being delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange.
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Hosting News – PALO ALTO, Calif. — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware vFabric™ 5, an integrated application platform for virtual and cloud environments.  Combining the market-leading Spring development framework for Java and the latest generation of  vFabric application services, vFabric 5 will provide the core application platform for building, deploying and running modern applications.  vFabric 5 introduces for the first time a flexible packaging and licensing model that will allow enterprises to purchase application infrastructure software based on virtual machines, rather than physical hardware CPUs, and to pay only for the licenses in use. This model will eliminate the decades old need for organizations to purchase excess software in anticipation of peak loads, incurring significant costs and allowing software licenses to sit dormant outside of peak periods. The model in vFabric 5 more closely aligns to cloud computing models that directly link the cost of software with use, consumption and value delivered to the organization.

“Cloud computing is reshaping not just how IT resources are consumed by the business, but how those resources are purchased, licensed and delivered,” said Tod Nielsen, President, Application Platform, VMware. “While application infrastructure technologies have advanced to meet the needs of today’s enterprise, to date, the business models have remained rigid and out of date. With the introduction of VMware vFabric 5, VMware will inextricably link the cost of application infrastructure software to volume utilized by the organization and the value delivered back to the business, helping all organizations advance further toward a cloud environment.”
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Hosting News – Harrogate, UK - Leading cloud services provider, InTechnology has today announced its plans to open a brand new, next generation data centre in Reading early next year. The new facility will boast energy-efficient technology and equipment and provide reliable, secure and affordable hosting outside London.

InTechnology chose Reading as the location for its newest data centre to offer organisations an alternative to hosting their data in London, away from the capital’s higher risk of power outages and terrorists threats. Continue reading “InTechnology Unveils Next Generation Data Center” »

Hosting News – PALO ALTO, CA - HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s largest internet hosting providers, has implemented HP ProLiant server technology in its data centers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, as well as at its newest facility in Virginia.

The new servers deliver increased performance and capacity to support rapid business growth.
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Hosting News -Los Angeles, CA – PacificHost, a leading provider of Linux-based, cPanel hosting solutions, announced earlier today a strategic move to the FastFiber Network™ owned and managed by dedicated hosting provider ServerBeach and its parents company, PEER 1 Hosting. The move intends to increase PacificHost’s position in the market and expand for future growth.

PacificHost recently moved all of its outsourced dedicated hosting to ServerBeach in order to provide a faster and more stable online hosting platform for it’s customers–in addition to furthering the company’s plans to offer cloud hosting services in the near future. This move included a migration of all of PacificHost’s shared, reseller and VPS hosting solutions to ServerBeach. Continue reading “PacificHost moves dedicated hosting to Peer1 FastFiber Network” »

Hosting News – WINTER PARK, FL – Highwinds®, a leader in content delivery, network and cloud-based IP services, today announced that Mike Padula Jr. has joined the company as senior vice president of global sales, Content Delivery and Network Services.  Padula has nearly two decades of senior management experience in the technology space, and a proven track record in sales and channel development for some of the world’s most recognized telecoms.  He will be instrumental in driving global sales growth for Highwinds’ portfolio of solutions for CDN, network and cloud-based IP services.

“Mike Padula is a welcome addition to our fast-paced and successful executive team,” said Steve Liddell, president of Content Delivery and Network Services for Highwinds.  “Mike exemplifies all the attributes we need to build great relationships with our customers and to continue to grow our sales team.  He’s an accomplished visionary leader and is passionate about what we do, making him the ideal choice for our next stage of growth.” Continue reading “Telecom Veteran Joins Highwinds Global Sales” »

Hosting News – CUPERTINO, Calif. - Cloud.com, a provider of open source cloud computing software, along with its partners Zenoss and BitNami, announced the results of a comprehensive cloud computing survey conducted to determine the key IT objectives and inhibitors for cloud adoption. The survey was conducted by polling members of the communities that surround each company’s popular open source projects (BitNami, CloudStack and Zenoss Core). A summary of the report is available for download here. Survey respondents included more than 500 IT professionals, 40 percent of whom were CTOs, architects and IT managers from a wide-range of organizations including government, education and enterprises.

“There is an unprecedented amount of interest around cloud computing but as with any nascent technology, industry users and solution providers are still coming to grips with the benefits and deployment options for cloud computing,” said Mark Hinkle, vice president of community, Cloud.com. “The survey findings help identify the needs of organizations and their preferences for deploying virtual infrastructure so we can develop solutions that best suit the needs of cloud computing users.”
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Hosting News – ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Online Tech announced that it has achieved SSAE 16 Type II certification for its Ann Arbor and Mid-Michigan data centers. SSAE 16 is the 2nd generation data center audit standard that is replacing the older SAS 70 audit standard.

UHY LLP has completed its SSAE 16 audit on both data centers as of February 28th, 2011 and delivered the audit report to Online Tech’s Board of Directors on May 13th. The company was found to be fully compliant. The report is available to Online Tech clients to provide evidence they are hosted is a highly secure, tightly controlled data center.
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Hosting News – PHOENIX, AZ - Phoenix NAP®, a next generation datacenter and network access point, announced today it has procured a credit facility from Bank of America to fuel the next phase of build-out at the datacenter, and future expansion.

“Bank of America Merrill Lynch is pleased to help Phoenix NAP meet the increased demand from their customers and support the company’s impressive growth,” said Norm Butler, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Middle Market Banking executive for Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
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