Zeus Technology (zeus.com), a traffic management software provider, has signed a new partnership with IT infrastructure solutions provider Intercept IT (intercept-it.com) on 23 July 2007. Intercept IT will offer the entire Zeus Technology product line, including Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager, ZXTM Load Balancer, ZXTM Virtual Appliance, ZXTM Virtual Desktop Broker and ZXTM Global Load Balancer,...
An explosion in San Francisco, California on 24 July 2007 knocked out power to about 51,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers including data center provider 365 Main's (365main.com) facility.
PG&E said the blast and outage occurred at about 1:45 p.m. PDT and electricity flickered on and off as many as five times in downtown office buildings before power was fully restored at about 4...
At HostingCon 2007, SitePal (sitepal.com/hostingpartners), an avatar technology provider, on July 24 announced that it is offering a new hosting partners program that offers a simple and effective way to acquire, retain and up-sell SMB customers.
The SitePal speaking character platform from Oddcast (oddcast.com) is a personalization and conversion tool that is easy for SMBs to understand and...
Fasthosts Internet (fasthosts.co.uk), an UK Web hosting provider, has recently managed to keep at least hundreds of thousands of Web sites online after local power supply outages. As part of the company's business continuity plan, Fasthosts' technicians worked the past 48 hours to ensure that the company's data center was kept running and its 300,000 customers' Web sites remained online.
During...
Of late, a software and consulting company LogicBoxes (logicboxes.com) has released the Super Discounts Month that will include a month-long promo of discounts ending on August 24. LogicBoxes partners will be able to purchase Web and email hosting packages for $1.29 and $0.27 respectively. They can also get a further discount on the packages based on their sales volume during the Super Discounts...
Search engine provider Google (google.com) is hosting potentially copyrighted videos, including recent full-length movies and concerts as well as broadcast and cable TV programs on Google Video, a nonprofit group is charging, including such new release movies as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Live Free or Die Hard and Sicko.
The potentially copyrighted videos were discovered by...
ComponentOne (componentone.com), a developer of .NET components, publicized on 23 July 2007 that it had entered into a partner agreement with managed hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com) in order to increase exposure for both companies while adding new value for ComponentOne's current clients.
The ComponentOne’'s flagship Studio Enterprise product accelerates visual...
On July 23, 2007, Microsoft (microsoft.com) announced at HostingCon 2007 (hostingcon.com/2007) its comprehensive strategy for enabling hosting providers to be successful in the world of software plus services. The strategy includes providing the next-generation hosting platform, delivering applications ready for hosting and driving growth through tight integration with Microsoft's extensive...
Network Appliance (networkappliance.com), a storage and data management solutions provider, recently declared that it will send two of its representatives to speak at the upcoming IDG Next Generation Data Center Conference (ngdcexpo.com). The event, held August 6 to 9 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, will discuss issues concerning power consumption and data security in the data...
Web solutions provider Network Solutions (networksolutions.com), along with search engine provider Google (google.com), will offer a Webinar entitled "Discover a New Audience with Pay-Per-Click" on July 26 at 2 p.m. EDT.
The Webinar will be moderated by Lara Mehanna from the online marketing team at Network Solutions, and Lauren Frandsen of Google AdWords. Aimed at business owners who...