Dedicated hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) has recently added new mid-range, high-performance and Ready-To-Go servers to its product portfolio, as well as Foundry's new ServerIron Global Server Load Balancer products that operate at gigabit speeds and beyond.
Urvish Vashi, The Planet's director of product management, commented: "Fast, flexible and reliable is always the name of...
On September 25, 2007, registry operator VeriSign (verisign.com) has reached significant milestones and is on track to expand and diversify the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure by ten-fold by 2010.
When VeriSign announced the Project Titan initiative in February, it focused on expanding VeriSign's critical infrastructure in scale, location and investment in new engineering,...
Canadian Web hosting and collocation provider PEER 1 (peer1.net) has newly deployed EMC storage area network platforms across all of its managed dedicated hosting data center operations in Atlanta, Georgia, Miami, Florida and Fremont, California.
The EMC platform provides state-of-the-art technology to optimize PEER 1's data backup solution, providing managed dedicated hosting customers with...
Recently, web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com) conducted a survey which reveals that environmental responsibility is a growing concern for hosting customers. The survey shows 62 percent of respondents are concerned and either looking for ways to cut the impact their company has on the environment or actively addressing the issue.
Among the results were 52 percent of...
Server automation and virtualization provider SWsoft (swsoft.com) pubicized on September 24, 2007, that telecom providers are implementing software from SWsoft to help them deliver automated hosting services, reduce infrastructure costs and offer new services.
Telecom carriers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa such as KPN (The Netherlands), Swisscom (Switzerland), Telecom Italia,...
FusionXHost (fusionxhost.com), a web hosting provider, has signed a new partnership with IT management software provider SmarterTools (smartertools.com) on September 24, 2007, enabling FusionXHost to distribute SmarterTools software as an authorized reseller through its fxhstore.com (fxhstore.com) Web site. FusionXHost is now able to offer customers competitive prices on the entire line of...
On September 24, 2007, web hosting provider Cable & Wireless (cw.com) has won a EUR 400,000 contract to provide managed hosting for Gala Networks Europe (galacoral.co.uk) at its Dublin, Ireland data center. The initial two year contract includes building, hosting, management and network connectivity for GNE's European online gaming platform.
GNE is part of the Japan-headquartered Gala...
Web hosting provider Globat (globat.com) has newly acquired virtually all assets of web hosting provider CompleteHostingSolutions.com (completehostingsolutions.com).
Globat CEO, Ben R. Neuman, said: "CompleteHostingSolutions.com brings to the table unique features that have made them one of the fastest-growing Web hosting companies. With services such as complete access to cron and...
Web hosting provider DiscountASP.NET (discountasp.net) has newly re-packaged and re-launched the latest Microsoft Windows 2008 Server and Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 beta-hosting program with the addition of .NET Framework 3.5 hosting.
.NET Framework 3.5 expands on the previous versions with language integrated query and new tools for developers to simplify building applications...
Lately, domain name marketplace Afternic (afternic.com) has simplified its home page design.
The NameMedia (namemedia.com) subsidiary said the new design focuses on featured listings and domain auctions that are ending soon as well as draws attention to the benefits of Afternic and drives users towards registering or signing into their account.
The company previous site displayed five sets of...