A mass of Digg postings and a few hastily assembled blogs served to point out a server migration gone wrong last week, as Hostway customers reported that their Web sites had been down for days during a scheduled move. Hostway, which acquired Affinity Internet in April, had planned to move more than 3,700 servers from Affinity's hosting facility in Miami to a Hostway data center in Tampa, Florida....
On August 7, 2007, data center products provider Rackable Systems (rackable.com) launched the next generation of the company's RapidScale clustered storage appliances and its new OmniStor SE3016 system. The new generation of Rackable Systems Eco-Logical storage products features high efficiency, low power consumption and smart design to optimize price performance per watt in even the most complex...
On August 7, 2007, Comodo (comodo.com), an IT security solutions provider, announced that shopping cart software provider Early Impact (earlyimpact.com) has joined the Comodo reseller program. Early Impact will begin offering Comodo's SSL certificates to its e-merchant clients. And as a Comodo reseller, Early Impact customers will have access to a wide range of Comodo products and solutions....
Peak 10 (peak10.com), a data center operator and managed hosting provider, lately hosted an exeCConnect (theexecconnect.com) luncheon at its Raleigh, North Carolina data center. The luncheon was attended by area executives and featured a presentation by LendingTree chief information officer, Scott Guilfoyle, entitled "Success Breeds Need: Challenges, Opportunities and Visions for Building a...
Peak 10 (peak10.com), a data center operator and managed hosting provider, hosted the live July 26 Web cast "Virtualization for Business: Implementing an Effective Strategy for Primary and Secondary Sites." The Web cast examined what virtualization is and its many benefits, as well as the applications of the technology in primary and secondary sites on dedicated as well as shared...
Verio (verio.com), a managed hosting provider, is now an Advanced Partner in the Red Hat Hosting Program (redhat.com), enabling Verio to offer competitive products and pricing to customers for its Linux-based Web hosting solutions, including the virtual private server and the managed private server.
The Red Hat Hosting Program is designed to meet the specific needs of Web hosts with partner...
An IT security solutions provider Comodo (comodo.com) on 2nd August 2007 publicized that the commissioner's Office of Carroll County, Maryland, has chosen Comodo's EV SSL certificate to verify its Web site identity, helping to protect taxpayers and residents' sensitive information during online transactions.
The commissioner's office will use EV SSL on its Web site in order to heighten its...
Optical network system provider Infinera (infinera.com) pronounced that cable company Cox Communications (cox.com) has recently selected an Infinera Digital Optical Network for its national transport network. The 12,000-mile Cox national build extends from coast to coast and is designed to enable Cox to offer services including voice, video, data, and wireless to residential and business...
WebHost Automation (webhostautomation.com), a web hosting control panel provider, has newly released a new module that enables Web hosts to offer Microsoft Exchange hosting services via a third party. By partnering with Microsoft's Hosted Exchange reseller groupSPARK (groupspark.com), and developing a support module to facilitate the process, Helm users will no longer need to have their own...
Last week, digital media sharing and social networking platform DigitalPost Interactive (dglp.com) has selected web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com) as the hosting provider for its two web properties, TheFamilyPost.com and WebsitesForHeroes.com.
Rackspace provides an extra layer of security and reliability by providing a 100 percent network uptime guarantee and...