Web Host News – SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace®, the service leader in cloud computing and a TechStars sponsor, welcomes TechStars Cloud, the first thematic accelerator to focus on cloud technologies to San Antonio. The call for applications for the first round of startups is now open until November 2, 2011. Chosen applicants from around the country will live in San Antonio from January to April 2012 and receive free office space at the Weston Center, where Rackspace got its start. The new startups will bring with them innovation, jobs and startups to Central Texas.

“TechStars is one of America’s top accelerator programs. We are thrilled to have their newest accelerator focused exclusively on cloud startups right here in San Antonio, the home of Rackspace and the birthplace of Openstack, one of the world’s most popular open source cloud projects,” said Graham Weston, chairman of Rackspace.

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Web Host News – Austin, TX – Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center outsourcing, secure colocation and disaster recovery solutions, marks its 17th anniversary with the grand opening of Texas 1 on October 20, 2011. Guests have been invited to celebrate this milestone during a special celebration including food, music and tours of Texas 1, the company’s flagship data center.

Founded in 1994, Data Foundry started out as the first Internet Service Provider in San Antonio and one of the first 50 Internet Service Providers in the United States. Seventeen years later, the company boasts one of the most redundant, connected, and secure data center and disaster recovery solution in Texas. The purpose-built, 250,000 square foot carrier-neutral data center is the first colocation facility on the 40-acre master-planned Data Ranch data center development in Austin.

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Web Host News – Palo Alto, CA and Fremont, CA — Cloudera Inc., the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, and SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today jointly announced that their companies have signed an agreement for SGI to distribute Cloudera software pre-installed on SGI® Hadoop Clusters. SGI, which recently set a world record performance benchmark for Terasort data processing and analysis leveraging Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and is a member of the Cloudera Connect Partner Program, will resell and offer level one support for Cloudera software and services – including Cloudera University training courses – to its customers. The relationship will also enable the two companies to jointly build, sell and deploy integrated, high performance Apache Hadoop-based commercial solutions.

Apache Hadoop is a powerful and disruptive open source technology that addresses the economic, flexibility and scalability issues surrounding massive amounts of enterprise data and enables actionable insights to be derived from structured and unstructured data sets. Hadoop, which forms the infrastructure foundation of many of the world’s leading social media companies, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, has rapidly become a leading solution to the new challenges generated by Big Data.

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Web Host News – SAN MATEO, CA — NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that it has partnered with CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA), a leading IT management and security software and solutions company, elevating NetSuite’s Two-Factor Authentication security for its customers. This new solution extends and strengthens the NetSuite Two-Factor Authentication security component with enterprise-proven technology based on CA Arcot WebFort®, CA Technologies’ versatile authentication solution that supports a wide range of authentication methods. It democratizes the advanced security infrastructure that’s used by some of the world’s largest organizations by using the cloud. The solution, available immediately, delivers enterprise-grade security as a service across ERP, CRM, Ecommerce and PSA. For more information about NetSuite technology partnerships, please visit http://www.netsuite.com/portal/partners/main.shtml.

Usernames and passwords are the most common way for users to authenticate to web applications and portals. Unfortunately they are often a critical, weak link and can fail to satisfy many industry best practices or regulatory guidelines for protecting identities and data. Organizations need to protect all of their users with a strong, cost-effective method of authentication, especially when it involves confidential, proprietary or regulated data. Multi-factor authentication helps reduce the risk of identity theft and online fraud by requiring the second factor to access Web resources.

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Web Host News – United Kingdom – iomart Hosting, one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting, today announced that its iomart public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), iomart Hosting provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

Sarah Haran, managing director of iomart Hosting, said: “iomart Hosting specialises in high availability, fully managed cloud solutions and we quickly realised that to provide market leading solutions we needed industry-leading leading hypervisor and management technology.”

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Web Host News – PALO ALTO, CA — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations™ and the introduction of new VMware vFabric Application Management™ and VMware IT Business Management suites, VMware will help customers amplify the value of their virtual environments and achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing.

“As IT organizations are implementing private and hybrid clouds, traditional management approaches associated with physical distributed systems and siloed management disciplines just aren’t capable of keeping up with the pace and scale of modern IT operations,” said Boaz Chalamish, senior vice president and general manager, enterprise management at VMware. “VMware’s management solutions will deliver a new approach that takes advantage of cloud infrastructure, is focused on eliminating IT complexity rather than orchestrating it, and will support IT’s ability to act as a broker of services to the businesses it serves.”

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Web Host News – DALLAS - SoftLayer® Technologies, the innovation leader in cloud, dedicated, and managed hosting solutions, today announced a partnership with OS Nexus and the launch of QuantaStor™ Storage Servers. The offering provides dedicated mass storage appliances with exceptional cost-effectiveness, control, and scalability. It is ideal for a range of high performance storage solutions (including private cloud storage), eliminating CAPEX requirements that often hinder deployments.

QuantaStor Storage Servers offer the OS NEXUS QuantaStor Storage Appliance OS, the industry’s first virtual storage solution designed for global manageability, on SoftLayer Mass Storage dedicated servers. The SAN (iSCSI) + NAS (NFS) storage system delivers advanced storage features including, thin-provisioning, and remote-replication. These capabilities make it ideally suited for a broad set of applications including VM application deployments, virtual desktops, as well as web and application servers.

“When you need massive storage, having the right amount is just one part of the equation,” said Nathan Day, Chief Scientist for SoftLayer. “The more storage you have, the more you need location independence, global access, and robust tools to manage it. The QuantaStor Storage Server provides the perfect combination of performance economics, scalability and manageability that our customers deserve.”

“Data storage requirements will grow 4400% over 9 years according to IDC, and budgets are tight,” said Steven Umbehocker, CEO and Founder of OS NEXUS. “The use of virtual machine technology has driven down application deployment costs. We are thrilled to partner with SoftLayer, the leader in cloud infrastructure services, to deliver the same economics for storage.”

Additional features of the solution include:

• Hard Disk or Solid State Drive support
• Powerful storage management through an easy interface
• iSCSI support for 1GbE and 10GbE Client support for Windows XP, 7, 2003 Server, 2008 Server; VMware ESX/ESXi; Windows Hyper-V; Macintosh OS X; XenServer 5.x; and Linux (all major distributions, open-iSCSI, and hardware initiators)
• NFSv3 and NFSv4 support
• Thin Provisioning/Over Provisioning to allocate volumes without having to dedicate storage until needed

QuantaStor Mass Storage Servers start priced at $1,039/month for up to 12 drives and $1,139/month for up to 24 drives. Visit softlayer.com/dedicated/specialty-mass-storage to order. Continue reading “SoftLayer Launches QuantaStor Storage Servers” »

Web Host News – Southampton – PEER 1 Hosting, the global IT hosting provider, today opens its new 5,372m2 green data center in Portsmouth. The facility in Langstone Technology Park, Portsmouth offers businesses across London and the South East scalable managed hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation services in one of the greenest data centers in the country.

Within easy reach of London, the center has a staggering 11MVA of available power, room for 20,000 servers, and provides a direct connection to PEER 1 Hosting’s 10Gb fibre backbone network.

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Web Host News – Boston, MA – FatCow Hosting, a leader in web hosting services, domain registration and related marketing services for individuals and small businesses, is proudly supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month by donating a portion of the proceeds from every new hosting signup in October to the Breast Cancer Division of the American Cancer Society.

“This cause means a lot to our staff members,” explains Paul Bukhovko, Marketing Manager for FatCow. “Many of us have had our lives personally impacted by breast cancer, and we want to do everything we can to raise awareness and hopefully find a cure. Every year, when we plan our calendar, we already know what we’re doing in October. It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and FatCow will be a part of it.”

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Web Host News – West Chester, Ohio – Web Host industry Review (WHIR), the leading media outlet for the web hosting and hosted services industry, announced today its North American networking event schedule for 2012. The WHIR Networking events are free-to-attend, professional events that bring together hosting providers and vendors for an evening of casual networking in a high-class lounge environment.

The WHIR Networking events enable hosted services executives and decision makers to network with new and existing business partners, and build upon key business connections started at HostingCon, the hosting industry’s annual conference and trade show in North America. The WHIR also announced the expansion of the networking events to major European cities in May 2012.

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