Cloud hosting company VPS.NET announced a new full range of semi-managed applications including favorites such as WordPress, Drupal & SugarCRM. These are all hosted on VPS.NET cloud infrastructure. VPS.NET look after the OS so you can use the application without worrying about the infrastructure. All of VPS.NET applications can be installed from our Application Marketplace at https://control.vps.net/apps. included for free: Free ... Read More
CentOS Linux 6.0 has been released. CentOS-6.0 is based on the upstream release EL 6.0 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. There are some important changes to this release compared with the previous versions of CentOS and it is highly recommended to read the Release Notes at ... Read More
Juniper Networks announced two key appointments to its operations team. Bask Iyer has been appointed as senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) and Martin J. Garvin has been appointed senior vice president of manufacturing operations. Iyer joins Juniper Networks from Honeywell, where he most recently served as company-wide CIO and a member of the leadership team driving its IT vision, strategy and operating plan. Garvin ... Read More
UK based web hosting company Heart Internet has announced a major revamp of their web hosting accounts, at no extra cost to their customers. Previously capped at 20GB of space, 100 MySQL databases and 60GB of bandwidth usage per month, their Home Pro web hosting account has now been upgraded to include unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited MySQL databases. Additionally, users of their Business Pro web hosting account can ... Read More
Strato, Europe’s second largest web hosting and applications provider, is celebrating five years of doing business in the UK by offering the site builder WebStarter free of charge for five months. WebStarter is designed for individuals, clubs and business startups who want to build their first website, e.g. a jewellery designer working from home, a sports team, or a student union. No technical skills are required for the homepage ... Read More
Rackspace Hosting has been selected by pizza delivery expert Domino’s Pizza to provide them with RackConnect(TM), an integrated cloud hosting and dedicated managed hosting service. The service will give Domino’s a scalable and cost-effective platform that will support the execution of the company’s ambitious growth strategy. With over 660 stores, Domino’s is one of the largest pizza delivery companies in the UK and ... Read More
ViaWest, one of the largest privately held data center and managed service providers in North America, announced the grand opening of its twenty-second data center facility, Synergy Park, located in Richardson, Texas. Grand opening ceremonies will take place July 19-20. With the addition of Synergy Park, ViaWest owns and operates 22 data centers with 500,000 square feet of raised floor space, 110,000 of which resides in the Dallas area. ... Read More
Savvis, Inc. has won the Cloud Services Award from BroadGroup at the Data Centres Europe 2011 Awards, held in London. An independent panel of experts in the data centre industry selected Savvis for this prestigious award for its Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Centre cloud service. The award recognises Savvis’ leadership and achievement within the enterprise market by providing a viable platform for mission-critical enterprise ... Read More
Virtual Internet (www.VI.net), a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions for mission critical websites and applications, today announced the launch of its referral program that rewards participating partners for referring clients to Virtual Internet (www.vi.net/partner). “Our program is designed to make it simple and straightforward to enhance your business with Virtual Internet,” says Patrick McCarthy, ... Read More
DreamHost, a global full-service web hosting company, has selected Simon Anderson as its Chief Executive Officer. Simon is the first person to fill the CEO role in a full-time capacity at DreamHost in the company’s thirteen-year history. DreamHost co-founder Josh Jones will step down from his interim CEO position to become an advisor to Simon alongside DreamHost’s three other co-founders, Dallas Kashuba, Michael Rodriguez, and ... Read More
StratoGen has reported an 82% growth in private cloud deployments in the 2nd quarter as organisations focused on moving their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. Despite the recent high profile outages of some cloud providers, IT managers are pushing forward with ever more ambitious migration projects. Mark Lewis, Business Development Manager said “Business confidence in the cloud has far exceeded our expectations in recent months. ... Read More
