Houston colocation provider and Central Texas business continuity campus, broadened its colocation offering and announced the groundbreaking of a new 50,000 square foot data center in North Houston, to be open for customer installation in early July. The data center will maintain fault tolerant 2N power and cooling, 24×7 security, […]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 8th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Rackspace Hosting is […]
Bruce Knooihuizen, chief financial officer of Rackspace Hosting today announced his intention to retire from the company. Knooihuizen, 55, joined Rackspace as CFO in 2008. He helped take the company public on the New York Stock Exchange, built a strong finance team, and helped put Rackspace on a solid financial […]
BT Community Web Kit a free service for charities or not for profit community groups to build a web site. As part of BT Community Web Kit you’ll receive: Free website hosting Free website addresses The choice of 8 templates with five or 15 colour themes depending on the template […]
Remote Backup Systems, founders of the online backup industry and developers of the RBackup and Mercury OEM Online Backup platforms today announced the release of its latest software upgrade, RBackup Version 11.2.4, now available as a self-hosted commercial online backup solution for MSPs, VARs and other service providers. On its […]
Zeus Technology, the only pure software-based application traffic management (Application Delivery Controller) company, announces today the appointment of Jim Darragh as its new CEO. In his new role, Darragh will be responsible for continuing to develop Zeus’ market leading position within the Virtualization and Cloud markets as the only pure […]
Open-Xchange announced today the availability of a completely redeveloped connector that enables users of its open source Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration server to use Microsoft Outlook as the client software. The Open-Xchange alternative to the more expensive Microsoft Exchange server integrates e-mail, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware […]
Amazon has bought a 240,000 sq ft former Tesco warehouse in Greenhills Industrial Estate, Dublin to set up a new datacenter . According to web reports, Amazon will use the site to house the European arm of its EC2 cloud computing services. Amazon Web Servicesalready opened a facility in Dublin […]
Operators face a challenge to efficiently and cost-effectively address the increasing demand for video services alongside the forces of mobility, cloud and machine-to-machine connections. Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) envisions the “networked society” where everything that benefits from a connection will have one. To achieve this, networks need to be more scalable, […]
Microsoft Corp. today promoted Senior Vice President Satya Nadella to president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business. “We’re already making strong traction across our Server and Tools Business by embracing cloud services,” said Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. “Satya has deep experience in both our server business and online […]
Savvis, Inc. a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, and Bharti airtel Limited, a leading global telecommunications company, announced today the two have joined forces to launch a major new strategic managed hosting and cloud computing initiative in India. The agreement will expand access to […]
Rackspace® Hosting, announced its acquisition of Cloudkick™, the creator of award-winning web applications for easy and efficient cloud-server management. Cloudkick offers what amounts to a cockpit for navigating complex cloud environments, with all the information and controls in one elegant, convenient panel to help developers and system administrators deploy and […]