Web Host News – COLUMBIA, Md. – Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), the creator of Snort® and a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced plans to add support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Sourcefire’s enterprise IPS portfolio. Sourcefire also announced it has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), further extending the company’s strategy to deliver heterogeneous hypervisor support to customers.

The OVA is an organization founded by Red Hat, IBM, HP and Intel to foster the adoption of the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, upon which Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is based.

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Web Host News – REDWOOD CITY, CA — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced plans to construct a third International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in the Seattle metropolitan area. The new data center will further extend Platform Equinix™ to meet strong demand for premium interconnection and data center services in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest region from network and cloud service providers, and content and digital media companies.

The new Seattle IBX will be adjacent to Equinix’s existing SE2 data center and to the Westin Building, a premier telecommunication hub and carrier hotel located in downtown Seattle. The proximity and direct fiber connectivity to both locations will facilitate customer interconnections and provide access to a wide range of networks and carriers. Adding approximately 51,000 square feet of data center space and capacity for more than 1,000 cabinet equivalents, the new IBX will significantly expand Equinix’s presence in the Seattle market to better meet customer demand. Equinix will invest approximately $60 million to build the new IBX data center, which is estimated to open in Q1 2013.

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Web Host News – JACKSONVILLE, FL – Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, today announced a marketing agreement with Regus, the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces. Web.com will offer priority access and promotional pricing for Web.com’s eWorksXL! website design product and Company Facebook Pages to Regus’ nearly one million customers, and in return, Web.com’s nearly one million customers will have access to Regus’ 1,200 business centers worldwide as part of the company’s Businessworld Gold membership program.

“To be successful today, small businesses require the flexibility and reach of solutions that are tailor-fit to their needs,” said David Brown, chairman and chief executive officer of Web.com, “Our do-it-for-me website design services deliver optimal visibility in this era of local online search, and they are a perfect match for Regus’ office solutions which allow individuals and companies to work however, wherever, and whenever they need to.”

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Web Host News – Jersey City, N.J. – Datapipe, a global provider of Managed IT Services and Cloud Computing, today announced a strategic partnership with Shanghai Data Solution Co., Ltd. (SDS), a leading provider of data center and network services in China.

The partnership enables Datapipe and SDS to offer a unique combination of services to multinational companies in China, as well as Chinese enterprises overseas. SDS owns and operates fully redundant Tier 4 grade data center facilities with one of the few premier carrier neutral network platforms in China. SDS possesses a full complement of IDC, ISP and ICP licenses to operate such services in China. Datapipe is a trusted provider of IT outsourcing services for mission critical applications, with a strong presence in the US, Europe and Asia.

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Web Host News – San Jose, CA – Fortune Data Centers, which provides premium wholesale data center space for corporate customers, announced today that the company is expanding beyond Silicon Valley to the Portland area of Oregon.

“Oregon has no sales tax and, in the Enterprise Zones, no business property tax,” said Jill Miles, national recruitment officer, Business Oregon. “This constitutes a large savings for capital intensive businesses like data centers, which buy expensive IT equipment and then must replace it regularly.”

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Web Host News – EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – Business executives seeking to explore cloud computing solutions are invited and encouraged to attend a complimentary seminar on one of two days in November: November 16th at the Radisson Hotel in Roseville, Minnesota, or November 17th at VISI in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

VISI and Kraus Anderson Construction Company are co-sponsoring the seminar, entitled The Role of Cloud Computing In Your Data Center Strategy. The seminar is designed to provide business executives with valuable information regarding cloud computing. Topics include the “must knows” of cloud computing, public versus private clouds, and identifying how — and whether — to incorporate cloud computing into their own technology strategy.

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Web Host News – Toronto, ON ─ myhosting.com has announced that it has launched a series of updates to its shared web hosting plans, offering new names and enhanced features for both its Linux and Windows Hosting product lines.

The Basic Web hosting plan, based on the CentOS Linux platform, has been rebranded as the Personal Website hosting plan, highlighting its popularity for personal uses such as blogging, WordPress hosting as well as Personal and Small Business use. Included with the new package a $25 credit for Bing and Yahoo! Search advertising, as well as a $25 Google Adwords credit, for a total of $50 in advertising credits.

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Web Host News – Colorado Springs, Colo and Fremont, Calif. – Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that it is providing bandwidth and connectivity solutions to Data102, Southern Colorado’s leading colocation provider.

The new relationship will improve Data102’s bandwidth, reliability and congestion management capabilities when delivering next-generation IP access services. It will also give Data102’s customers access to Hurricane Electric’s rich global network.

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Web Host News – COLOGNE, Germany – Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, will demo an exclusive preview of its next-generation web-based communication software to attendees at its third annual Summit, on November 4, in Cologne, Germany.

While built on existing server architecture, the next version of Open-Xchange Server (scheduled for launch in the second half of 2012) features a redesigned web-based interface, which works the way users do without the disruption of moving from one part of an application to another. It will also improve compatibility with smart phones and tablet PCs — used more and more for mobile access to emails, contacts and calendars.

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Web Host News – Durham, NC – A Small Orange, a shared, reseller, VPS, and dedicated web hosting company with offices in Atlanta and Durham, NC, announced a strategic partnership with Spring Metrics, a leading provider of conversion analytics software.

A Small Orange recognized that their customers needed a better way to track online conversions, such as ecommerce sales, lead form submissions, and document downloads. After considerable research, they realized that most analytics providers were either too hard to use, too expensive, or both. “Spring Metrics is different- their conversion tracking solution is both easy to use, yet remarkably powerful,” noted Doug Hanna, CEO of A Small Orange.

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