Archive for February, 2012

Equinix & Rightscale Team Up on Cloud Management

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Equinix & Rightscale Team Up on Cloud Management (The Hosting News) – Companies in the service provider industry along with entities in corporate IT are the focus of a new cloud solution following a partnership of cloud management provider RightScale and data center company Equinix. Announced on Tuesday, the plan allows companies to consolidate management [...]

Security Firm Alert Logic Acquires Armorlogic for Web Application Firewall Solution

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Security Firm Alert Logic Acquires Armorlogic for Web Application Firewall Solution February 22, 2012 — Security as a service cloud provider Alert Logic announced on Wednesday that it has completed the acquisition of web application security solutions developer Armorlogic. Alert Logic says with this acquisition it will combine the blocking capabilities of Armorlogic Profense WAF [...]

Advanced Web Offers DNS Alternative

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Advanced Web Offers DNS Alternative (The Hosting News) – Advanced Web, a Virginia-based systems engineering firm, is now offering DNS architecture services that will give web hosting companies and data centers an alternative to high-priced appliance devices. Advanced Web touts low project costs as the primary benefit of their DNS platform development services, with savings [...]

Digital Realty Makes $123M Data Center Move

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Digital Realty Makes 3M Data Center Move (The Hosting News) – The Dallas, Texas area may be better known for its vibrant downtown and the region of the country that’s home to the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys. However, something perhaps less discussed is the area’s importance to the tech industry. On Monday, top global [...]

Web Hosting Talk Insider – I admit it – I’m a geek

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Web Hosting Talk Insider – I admit it – I’m a geek I admit it – I’m a geek Admitting you’re a geek is the first step towards protecting your geekdom. I thought I had written about the voltage spike hitting our home about a month ago. But since I don’t see mention of it [...]

Security Companies Examine Views on Compromised Sites

Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Security Companies Examine Views on Compromised Sites (The Hosting News) – A recently released report from two companies is providing some unique insight from website owners who have faced the wrath of Internet hackers in the past. In the report titled “Compromised Websites: An Owner’s Perspective,” security solution providers StopBadware and Commontouch teamed up to [...]

Online Privacy Takes Center Stage in Consumer Rights Bill

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Online Privacy Takes Center Stage in Consumer Rights Bill (The Hosting News) – The United States Congress could soon take on the issue of online privacy rights following the White House’s introduction of a blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” on Thursday. The White House said the goal is to “improve consumers’ privacy protections [...]

Webair FusionCloud Provides Performance

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Webair FusionCloud Provides Performance (The Hosting News) – Webair (www.webair.com) continues to evolve its industry leading cloud hosting technology by providing the fastest disk speeds possible in the Cloud through a new partnership with Fusion-io (NYSE:FIO).  Backed by state of the art Fusion ioMemory, Webair has deployed Cloud hosting infrastructure that provides 100 times the [...]

Windows Hosting Provider EnterHost Names Marketing Director

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Windows Hosting Provider EnterHost Names Marketing Director February 22, 2012 — Web hosting provider EnterHost announced earlier this month it has named Courtney Crummel Summers as its new marketing director. She was most recently senior account executive for Fort Worth-based advertising agency Concussion. Download this or Read Full Story go to Source Justin Lee

cPanel Acquires Siteocity.com to Increase User Testing

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

cPanel Acquires Siteocity.com to Increase User Testing (The Hosting News) - On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, cPanel, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Hostbed, L.L.C., has acquired Siteocity.com, a small hosting solutions provider. The purchase will provide cPanel with a direct platform for real-world testing of its products. Siteocity.com will continue to operate under its current name. [...]