On August 27, 2007, web hosting provider CirtexHosting (cirtexhosting.com) publicized that it has upgraded its plan structure. The changes are designed to enable the company to serve a wider variety of customers and sustain a higher level of service.
With the new structure, entry-level shared plans now start at $2.99 a month when prepaid for 24 months and CirtexHosting's professional plan,...
Recently, managed data center service provider DataBank (databank.com) is expanding its data center footprint in Dallas, Texas. The company will be constructing a new 36,000 square-foot data center in the former Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The facility is scheduled to open in early October.
The new data center will feature a 24-inch raised floor and three megawatts of initial UPS power...
Server automation and virtualization solutions provider Ensim (ensim.com) recently proclaimed that Francois Depayras, vice president of sales and marketing for Ensim, will participate in the "Unified Communications Overview" panel at TMC's Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO West 2007 (itexpo.com).
Depayras will present on September 10 at the Internet Telephony Conference &...
Approximately 1.6 million customers from job-search portal Monster.com (monster.com) were the victims of computer viruses aimed at stealing their names, addresses and bank account numbers this past weekend. Lately, researchers at security software provider Symantec tracked the situation when they noticed a malicious code in Eastern Europe harvesting email addresses stolen from Monster.com. The...
Google's blogging service Blogger (blogger.com) was offline for an hour early August 22, 2007, starting around 7 a.m. PDT after experiencing performance problems, reported Web analytics firm Netcraft (netcraft.com). The search engine giant reported on its Blogger status page (status.blogger.com) that both Blogger and Blog*Spot had encountered an unexpected outage.
As one of the oldest and...
Web hosting tools provider Freewebs (freewebs.com) has recently launched a new what-you-see-is-what-you-get site building tool, enabling users to choose from over 300 templates and build and edit on the same screen, watching their sites come to life in real time. Users will be able to create and shift column width and location, split paragraphs, add and wrap text around photos as well as have...
Hostway (hostway.com), a domain registrar and web hosting provider, publicized on August 23, 2007 that it is offering a 50 percent discount on .info domain names and 20 percent discount on .mobi domain names for the first year of registration. Hostway customers can now register a .info domain name for $3.98 for the first year of registration and $19 for one year of .mobi registration.
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Complex hosting provider RagingWire Enterprise Solutions (ragingwire.com) pronounced on August 23, 2007 that it has expanded its Sacramento, California data center facility, which is available immediately. RagingWire has added 46,000 square feet of high-density floor space to its already existing California facility and the new phase is engineered to provide 200 watts per square foot edge-to-edge...
On August 23, 2007, security on-demand provider Perimeter eSecurity (perimeterusa.com) has formed a business combination with e-messaging services provider USA.NET (usa.net). Goldman Sachs has also followed-up its initial investment of $50 million from two weeks ago by providing equity financing along with Bessemer Ventures and the Stripes Group.
"For many years businesses needed huge IT...
DataPipe (datapipe.com), a managed hosting services provider, announced on August 22, 2007 that it is expanding to Shanghai, China as part of the company's regional expansion in Asia. DataPipe delivers a complete suite of managed services, helping companies realize the true value of their technology assets by enhancing their ROI by enabling them to broaden their IT resources on demand...