Domain.com, a global leader in domain registration and web hosting solutions, today announces the Domain.com “Next Great Idea” challenge launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, which kicks off this weekend with a 24-hour Hackathon, has solidified itself as the tech industry’s hottest event for launching new cutting edge startups.
New availability for virtual machines in the cloud was announced by web hosting provider eApps on Wednesday. The expansion was made possible by a new presence representing 183 thousand square feet of currently operational space in Richmond, Virginia at a data center campus managed by Quality Technology Services.
A new solution providing for cloud infrastructure was unveiled by top web host and domain registrar Go Daddy on Tuesday. Called Cloud Servers, the offering provides the company’s clients with bandwidth accounting for 100 gigabytes on a monthly basis.
Among the platform’s primary features are load balancing, unlimited firewalls, server scaling, storage, backups and more. Go Daddy appears to be angling the solution to compete with similar offerings from Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.
Discussing the matter in a press release, Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman emphasized that it was his company’s goal to “help businesses grow through our cost-effective, reliable, feature-rich products.” Adelman also referred to the offering as a “Go Daddy innovation that takes the complexity out of a complicated technology, yet gives users a substantial range of sophistication.”
There is little doubt that cloud computing will be how most companies handle their data for the foreseeable future. Benefits of the cloud, like almost infinite scalability and on-demand access to resources, outweigh disadvantages that come with handing your data over to someone else to manage. A company still pondering whether to take advantage of cloud computing should realize that competitors have probably already made the switch, and are offering a better product to their customers as a result.
Of course, creating a cloud-based solution is a lot more complicated than most people realize. Before you embark on your journey into cloud computing, it’s best to build a foundation of knowledge about what the cloud can do for you, and what you need to know before you make the switch.
With Earth Day just around the corner and energy efficiency still firmly on the minds of business owners, TurnKey Internet — http://www.turnkeyinternet.net/media — has taken a proactive energy conservation role by purchasing and operating its own state-of-the-art datacenter featuring an array of technologies that ensure an environmentally friendly approach to web- and cloud-hosting services.
GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced the GoGrid Big Data Solution, a new offering based on a hybrid infrastructure architecture that combines the best of cloud computing with single-tenant infrastructure components—all managed through the GoGrid management portal. This solution provides businesses with maximum flexibility, choice, performance, and control. GoGrid’s new Big Data Solution is built to support high-performance analytic jobs and can be used for applications that leverage NoSQL solutions like Hadoop to serve up content via app servers.
IT Europa and Angel Business Communications announced today that they will jointly be staging the first Outsourcing, Hosting and Co-location conference on 23 May 2012 in London. The event, which is being staged in association with the Datacentre Alliance (DCA) will bring together leading hardware and software vendors, hosting providers, telecommunications companies, mobile operators and web services providers involved in the provision of Outsourcing, Hosting and Co-location services with directors and senior executives of major organisations looking to examine new forms of IT provision.
DNS Made Easy, the world leader in enterprise IP Anycast DNS services, has just finished the first phase of their expansion to their San Jose, California point of presence (PoP). The upgrade continues DNS Made Easy’s commitment to maintaining the largest dedicated IP Anycast DNS Network in the in world. The planned expansion was part of DNS Made Easy’s fifth generation network.
Pacnet announced today it has been selected by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) as a Founding Member of the HKEx Hosting Services Ecosystem. Pacnet will provide high-speed, low-latency connectivity to support customers of the stock exchange’s new hosting services in its new data center in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate.
As part of HKEx’s Hosting Services Founding Members Program, Pacnet will participate in the early set-up of the hosting ecosystem at HKEx’s Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), before its launch later this year.
Movie industry association wants data retained indefinitely, but hosting company says it’s too expensive. Meanwhile, questions rise over why Anonymous launched retaliatory attack–and who paid for it.
The music, movies, and other data uploaded to cyberlocker website Megaupload before it was shut down may soon be deleted.
According to court documents filed Tuesday, Carpathia Hosting requested an emergency action “to protect it from undue expense and burden resulting from the continued storage of 1,103 computer servers containing 25 petabytes (25 million gigabytes) of data, which were used to provide services to Megaupload.”
Peak Hosting, the industry leader in dedicated, managed hosting services and private cloud computing, today announced the release of a case study conducted by Dell Inc. and featuring the Peak Inside™, an industry-first out-of-band remote management solution.
HostUCan.com, an industry leading web hosting review and search site, today announced the release of web hosting news publishing service to all web hosts.
VPS.NET, a leading provider of public clouds, is excited to announce the opening of 7 new fantastic locations for new and existing customers. VPS.NET is opening new clouds in San Jose, Dallas, Washington DC within the US. Manchester, Paris, Frankfurt in the EU and Singapore in the Far East combined with its 6 existing locations. The introduction of these new locations allows customers the opportunity to utilize VPS.NET in a number of different fashions including, targeting local customers, content distribution, and minimizing data loss risk.
VPS.NET now has the largest number of locations of any public cloud provider offer 13 total locations providing both Windows and Linux cloud hosting out of each location.
InMotion Hosting, a leading web hosting and domain registration company, today announced the release of new virtual private server (VPS hosting) products with enhanced specifications. The company also announced that it was upgrading all current VPS customers to the new products at no charge, giving them double the dedicated memory and 50% more transfer bandwidth than with their previous products.
The new products, the VPS-1000, VPS-2000 and VPS-3000, come standard with a full cPanel/WHM license, enterprise-class Linux OS (CentOS), RAID 10 high-performance data storage and redundant high-speed network connection. They also include burstable memory, which allows the VPS to occasionally exceed its dedicated RAM usage during peak traffic periods.
Following the rapid growth of demand for the company’s web hosting services, virtual private server (VPS hosting) plans, and dedicated server solutions, JaguarPC announced today a number of network infrastructure upgrades designed to meet the ever-increasing service needs of its customers. Spanning both the back-end and front-end capabilities of the JaguarPC hosting network, these new changes bring JaguarPC web hosting plans to a higher standard than ever.
“It doesn’t matter if you choose a shared web hosting plan or a reseller hosting service – web hosting that is inaccessible or slow can turn visitors and customers away,” says Greg Landis, CEO at JaguarPC. “We owe it to our customers to make sure that their web presence is always available, and to ensure continuous availability, we must provide the best network for the job. That’s why we review our network setup regularly, and that’s why we’ve chosen a range of upgrades focused on both speed and reliability.”
