M5 Hosting, a worldwide leader in customized, high performance Linux and BSD dedicated server hosting solutions, today introduced its new Managed Firewall Cluster service, a next-generation enterprise security solution immediately available to the company’s dedicated server clients.
Hosting.com said human error was responsible for a data center power outage that left more than 1,100 customers without service. The downtime occurred as the company was conducting preventive maintenance on a UPS system in the company’s data center in Newark, Del.
“An incorrect breaker operation sequence executed by the servicing vendor caused a shutdown of the UPS plant resulting in loss of critical power to one data center suite within the facility,” said Hosting.com CEO Art Zeile in a statement. “This was not a failure of any critical power system or backup power system and is entirely a result of human error.”
Canadian Web Hosting has announced an upgrade to their CA Private Cloud utilizing VMware today. The new enterprise-class private cloud service combines technologies from a range of industry leading security and hardware providers like Juniper and Dell with virtualization leader VMware to provide the most reliable and secure hosted Private Cloud solution in the market today. Customers are now able to build an online solution that is completely hardware independent and is ideal for customers concerned about the possible risks associated with public clouds.
Web hosting provider eUKhost announced on Monday that it has updated its virtual private server plans to offer auto-scalable CPU and RAM.
While this feature is available with all three of its VPS plans, bustable CPU and RAM is an add-on feature that customers have to pay an extra monthly fee to use. Customers can add burstable resources starting at $15/month.
San Antonio-based Rackspace Hosting Inc. announced that it was named the 2012 Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year.
The award is given to the company that demonstrates innovation and commitment that engages with Microsoft, according to a news release. Rackspace current offerings include hosted and dedicated Exchange and Sharepoint and Windows and SQL in the Rackspace cloud.
The hosting and cloud computing company was chosen from about 3,000 entrants worldwide.
“This marks the fourth time we’ve received this honor, which underscores Rackspace’s dedication to helping customers meet their changing business needs by delivering cutting edge products and services built on Microsoft technologies,” said Christopher Rajiah, vice president of worldwide channel sales at Rackspace.
AtomicVPS, Ltd. launched its long-awaited premium Cloud Hosting service today by kicking off a Free Open Beta period and unveiling its new website and brand. Built with high-performance Enterprise Class hardware and the OnApp platform, the AtomicVPS Cloud was designed to be scalable, fault tolerant, and self-healing; providing an exceptional level of reliability and redundancy. Additionally, in combination with a strong focus on customer care and the “Anytime Money Back Guarantee,” the service AtomicVPS is offering is unparalleled in the hosting industry.
ZNet Technologies, one of leading website hosting and domain name provider, has announced that it is now an ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) accredited domain name registrar.
PacificHost, a leading provider of Linux-Based cPanel hosting solutions for social media websites, announced a partnership with Soholaunch; a provider of website creation and ecommerce software. The partnership gives PacificHost distribution rights to offer the brand new, Soholaunch Ultra Website Builder.
The partnership allows PacificHost to offer the popular website builder as an optional feature, available for all PacificHost customers. After several months of collaboration, an exclusive integration was developed which allows customers to seamlessly use the Soholaunch Website Builder without ever having to leave the PacificHost website.
Building upon their relationship announced in April 2012, VPS.NET and Standing Cloud will present a pair of joint webinars for IT managers. The webinars will assist in easing the burden of application deployment in the work place. By using VPS.NET and Standing Cloud, SOHO and SME IT managers can automatically deploy applications from the Standing Cloud market place, including more than 100 options commonly business applications. Users also have the option to choose from 13 different datacenter locations that best fit their needs.
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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.
