UK managed services provider Claranet (uk.clara.net) has expanded into Global Switch 2, offering Claranet's clients increased space, speed and security. Claranet's second suite at Global Switch's (globalswitch.com) latest London Docklands location has opened after a 15 month design and build project, which drew on the company's experience in managing customer collocation.
Claranet's network...
Data center operator and managed services provider Peak 10 (peak10.com) on September 6, 2007 has been selected by Continuous Health (continuoushealth.com) to host and manage its complex information technology infrastructure out of its new Atlanta, Georgia data center facility. Peak 10 recently made a strategic expansion into an eighth market by acquiring a 33,000 square foot data center in...
On September 6, 2007, a US federal judge has ruled against certain parts of the revised USA Patriot Act on Thursday saying that investigators must have court approval before ordering Internet service providers to turn over records without telling their customers.
According to the Globe and Mail, US District Judge Victor Marrero said the rewritten Patriot Act goes against important constitutional...
A recent survey of Network World (networkworld.com) readers revealed that many enterprises fail to apply some of the most basic security policies for protecting virtual servers.
Out of 707 respondents, 36 percent - 250 readers - said they realize virtualization carries an increased security risk, but only slightly more than half have deployed firewalls and segmented critical...
Software as a service provider OpSource (opsource.net) lately pronounced that Salesforce.com's (salesforce.com) AppExchange ISV partners can now cut their time to market by 33 percent by deploying OpSource On-Demand for Web application delivery.
Accelerating the certification process for partners by one third enables them to more quickly bring SaaS solutions to market through the...
The World Association of Domain Name Developers announced on September 4, 2007 that T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 (targetedtraffic.com/miami_show.html), a conference series dedicated to the domain industry, is set to take place from October 9 to 13. The event will be held at the Westin Diplomat hotel in Hollywood, Florida.
The WADND strives to bring together domain owners, search engine companies,...
Web hosting provider SpiralHosting (spiralhosting.com) re-launched its reseller hosting packages this week. The new packages include more than twice the disk space and 50 percent more bandwidth than its previous reseller offering.
"Spiral's new scalable reseller packages include all the features required to run a successful Web hosting business," said spokesperson Peter...
THUS (thus.co.uk), an UK-based telecommunications provider, launched Demon Virtual Server, a hosted virtual server solution, on September 3, 2007. The service is aimed at companies that have outgrown their shared Web hosting solutions but aren't quite ready to move on to a full, dedicated server. Through Demon Virtual Server's control center, users can install their own software, configure and...
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (iol.unh.edu) has newly developed a multi-vendor top-down 10GbE test bed to support testing and demonstration of high-level business and other 10GbE-capable applications such as financial databases, storage arrays and computer clusters.
The test bed reportedly offers multi-vendor compatibility for emerging 10GbE technologies and will reveal...
On September 5, 2007, dedicated hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) publicized that it is offering a free setup promotion across its range of server offerings for 72 hours. As part of the free setup campaign, a portion of each new server sale will be donated to the American Heart Association as part of its annual Heart Walk.
The promotion, which began yesterday at noon CST and runs...
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UK managed services provider Claranet (uk.clara.net) has expanded into Global Switch 2, offering Claranet's clients increased space, speed and security. Claranet's second suite at Global Switch's (globalswitch.com) latest London Docklands location has opened after a 15 month design and build project, which drew on the company's experience in managing customer collocation.
Claranet's network...
Data center operator and managed services provider Peak 10 (peak10.com) on September 6, 2007 has been selected by Continuous Health (continuoushealth.com) to host and manage its complex information technology infrastructure out of its new Atlanta, Georgia data center facility. Peak 10 recently made a strategic expansion into an eighth market by acquiring a 33,000 square foot data center in...
Software as a service provider OpSource (opsource.net) lately pronounced that Salesforce.com's (salesforce.com) AppExchange ISV partners can now cut their time to market by 33 percent by deploying OpSource On-Demand for Web application delivery.
Accelerating the certification process for partners by one third enables them to more quickly bring SaaS solutions to market through the...
The World Association of Domain Name Developers announced on September 4, 2007 that T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 (targetedtraffic.com/miami_show.html), a conference series dedicated to the domain industry, is set to take place from October 9 to 13. The event will be held at the Westin Diplomat hotel in Hollywood, Florida.
The WADND strives to bring together domain owners, search engine companies,...
Web hosting provider SpiralHosting (spiralhosting.com) re-launched its reseller hosting packages this week. The new packages include more than twice the disk space and 50 percent more bandwidth than its previous reseller offering.
"Spiral's new scalable reseller packages include all the features required to run a successful Web hosting business," said spokesperson Peter...
THUS (thus.co.uk), an UK-based telecommunications provider, launched Demon Virtual Server, a hosted virtual server solution, on September 3, 2007. The service is aimed at companies that have outgrown their shared Web hosting solutions but aren't quite ready to move on to a full, dedicated server. Through Demon Virtual Server's control center, users can install their own software, configure and...
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (iol.unh.edu) has newly developed a multi-vendor top-down 10GbE test bed to support testing and demonstration of high-level business and other 10GbE-capable applications such as financial databases, storage arrays and computer clusters.
The test bed reportedly offers multi-vendor compatibility for emerging 10GbE technologies and will reveal...
On September 5, 2007, dedicated hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) publicized that it is offering a free setup promotion across its range of server offerings for 72 hours. As part of the free setup campaign, a portion of each new server sale will be donated to the American Heart Association as part of its annual Heart Walk.
The promotion, which began yesterday at noon CST and runs...