Farmingdale, New York – (The Hosting News) – May 22, 2008 – A new guide from green datacenter resource management firm, AFCO Systems, is designed to assist IT managers in understanding and reacting to EPA recommendations for datacenter power efficiency. In a report to Congress last summer, the EPA highlighted the critical usage of energy [...]
London, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – May 22, 2008 – Rackspace Managed Hosting, has begun installing equipment in its new green data center, designed to be powered by renewable energy sources, drawing power from a local combined heat and power plant. Using wood chips, waste paper and fibre fuel to generate electricity, hot [...]
Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – May 14, 2008 – Shared, reseller, dedicated and managed web hosting solutions firm, Crucial Paradigm, will be one of the first hosting providers to adopt the new Windows Server 2008 platform, through its Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting plan offering. Aaron Weller, Director of Crucial Paradigm noted, ”With [...]
Pearl River, New York – (The Hosting News) – May 14, 2008 – Web hosting firm, Easy CGI, has added two new dedicated Windows VPS plans, each with two terabytes of bandwidth, to its service portfolio. As a Microsoft partner, Easy CGI is increasing their number of dedicated server plans to five. The range of [...]
Cupertino, California – (The Hosting News) – May 7, 2008 – Internet hosting service provider, i9Biz, has chosen to utilize Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attack technology, from GigaFin Networks, in an effort to preserve server performance. i9Biz has installed FlowLine 500 network analysis and remediation appliances from GigaFin after an extensive competitive evaluation to determine the [...]
Toronto, Canada – (The Hosting News) – May 7, 2008 – Web hosting company specializing in small and medium business support, Hostopia, will acquire certain hosting customer assets, of the Tucows Retail Service Group. The companies have signed a definitive agreement for Hostopia to purchase customer assets including approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain.com [...]
Denver, Colorado – (The Hosting News) – May 1, 2008 – The Green Grid organization, dedicated to accelerating the growth of energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, has issued a Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). The Green Grid’s agreement [...]
Glasgow, United Kingdom – (The Hosting News) – May 1, 2008 – Web hosting and managed services company, iomart, has been selected by the Censorit Internet gaming safety service, to handle the company’s managed hosting. Censorit provides a safe surfing experience for children using WiFi enabled gaming consoles such as Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Sony [...]