UK webhost ukeasily, a trading name for Port9 Ltd, has gone offline along with all of its customer accounts. Company representatives of ukeasily/Port9 appear to be unreachable on their phone support number. The company’s servers at the Greenheys datacenter went offline around 15:30 on Friday, taking down Port9′s own websites. The Greenheys data center is [...]
Rackspace Hosting, provider of IT hosting services, has announced that it has begun installing equipment in its new ‘green’ data centre, which will be powered by renewable energy sources. The data centre, in Slough, Berkshire, will draw power from a local combined heat and power plant that uses wood chips, waste paper and fibre fuel [...]
After a series of new customer announcements, customer feedback management provider, RatePoint (ratepoint.com), has announced a revision to its offers, initiating a novel email marketing feature it says enables businesses to easily design and execute email campaigns within the RatePoint platform. RatePoint declares the new email functionality will facilitate RatePoint members, for instance recent RatePoint [...]
Consistent with reports released this week, Public Interest Registry (pir.org), the company that manages the .org domain, is planning to elevate prices for .org domains by 10 percent this year. In a moderately succinct letter sent to ICANN (icann.org) earlier this month, PIR CEO Alexa Raad says the company proposes to raise its wholesale rates [...]
The world’s principal networking hardware builder, Cisco (cisco.net), reported on Monday that the leader of its data center division was leaving after 15 years with the company. Jayshree Ullal, who initially joined the company with its purchase of Crescendo Communications in 1993, said in a posting to the company’s blog that she would be leaving. [...]
On-demand infrastructure hosting provider, Layered Technologies, detailed on Monday an additional range of new offerings to supplement its selection of dedicated server hosting plans. The packages comprise new HP servers configured with Quad-Core AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors and the option to provision up to 12 hot swappable hard drives. Layered Tech says the [...]
Dedicated and hosting provider, Frontpages, has expanded the list of options of management services it offers to provide its dedicated customers with a more managed solution, through the launch of a product it calls “Total Care Support.” Total Care, says Frontpages, provides 24-hour hardware monitoring and alerting, and monthly reports on critical hardware thresholds, including [...]
Website monitoring supplier, Hyperspin Internet Services, announced that it has upgraded the application programming interface for its reseller platform to maintain external payment systems. Hyperspin states that the upgrade will allow resellers to acknowledge and process online payments through practically every payment gateway or system. Providing superior flexibility in payment processors appears to be the [...]
Leeds Metropolitan University has turned to RedDot, Open Text’s web solutions group, to roll out its Content Management System (CMS) for new partners, Leeds Carnegie rugby club. Using RedDot’s CMS, the Leeds Carnegie’s editorial team will now be able to control and manage content on their website, eliminating the need to outsource its website management [...]
Wapple are the creators behind some of the world’s leading mobile internet site-building software. What they have come up with now, is a means of including interactivity for mobile phones with printed text. To do this, Wapple have created Wapple Canvas Zest, which allows users to easily create at data matrix code, or a QR [...]
AKQA is one of the world’s leading suppliers of interactive marketing and digital solutions and have built a name for themselves by focusing on providing uniquely tailored experiences to all of their clients. The company is well aware that all good marketing campaigns have the ability to either make an impact and get a brand [...]
A brand new version of the mobile internet site builder, Wapple Canvas, has been released. The new platform is intended to build on its award-winning predecessor, and bring a new heightened degree of accessibility and functionality. The new version of Wapple is also being released with an entourage of Wapple Expansion packs, which add a [...]
After partnering up with Leeds Carnegie rugby club, Leeds Metropolitan University has looked to Open Text’s web solutions company, RedDot, to implement their new Content Management System (CMS). RedDot is currently the number one independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The up-side in the use of RedDot’s CMS, is that there will no longer [...]
Avid Technology is launching its high-performance, next-generation storage disk arrays. The Avid VideoRAID SR and the Avid® VideoRAID® ST systems, are intended to provide a combination of cost-effective Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, aka SATA, drive technology, and confidence boosting, fail-safe data protection to provide a viable back up against a disk drive failure, as well [...]
