Cisco TrustSec Fibre Channel Link Encryption
July 30, 2009
Cisco is now targeting customers that have high data security concerns and requirements, with its new encryption solution: The TrustSec Fibre Channel Link Encryption, which is hardware based.
Cisco announced the introduction of the solution on Monday as one of four enhancements that it plans to launch when it deploys open system SANs and IBM system [...]
Kentico working with Intermedia’s hosting
July 29, 2009
Kentico, a content management vendor, and Intermedia, a software service provider, have partnered up to give customers access to a turnkey solution to the CMS platform developed by Kentico.
The solution allows CMS platform users to run the platform on Intermedia’s hosting platform without previous technical experience.
Kentico stated on Monday that the new partnership [...]
FatCow using thin energy supply
July 24, 2009
FatCow, a webhosting provider, announced yesterday that it has bought wind generated energy certificates from Community Energy to help reduce the amount of electricity that it currently needs to run data centres and offices.
The company plans to purchase 4,412,000KWHS of wind generated RECs each year with a volume that is equitable to the output of [...]
Online Tech sells web hosting division to IGD
July 22, 2009
Online Tech, a data centre operator, announced yesterday that it sold its web hosting division to IGD solutions, which is a full service company that offers development, hosting, and website design products for small-midsized businesses.
The news comes soon after Online Tech launched a new data storage solution online known as the OTVault, that can backup [...]
Interxion expands London Data centre
July 21, 2009
Interxion announced yesterday that it has completed the building of its latest project, the London City data centre expansion.
At the close of the project the 1,250m² data centre of equipped space was extended by approximately another 400m².
The new facility also has a 2N configuration cooling infrastructure and a 13megawatt redundant power supply making it [...]
Alabama Hosting takes aim at small business
July 20, 2009
Alabama Hosting LLC has announced its newest project, alabamahosting.net, which is aimed at offering a wide variety of web hosting solutions for small business applications.
It will also provide custom web design packages, search engine optimization solutions, domain registration, maintenance plans, and e-commerce solutions.
CEO of Alabama Hosting LLC, Terry Schimscher, stated that the company [...]
Hosting.com moving to new datacenter
July 3, 2009
Hosting.com is currently moving its headquarters from Kentucky into the metro area of Denver, after it was purchased by the Denver hosting company HostMySite.com.
The newly merged companies will operate out of 900 S Broadway in Denver, which is a building that is being redeveloped by the Lionstone Group of Houston.
Previously the [...]
Rackspace Datacentre goes down after car crash
July 2, 2009
Due to a loss in power in the afternoon yesterday, many Rackspace Hosting hosted websites went down for approximately 45 minutes.
Rackspace reported that it was having an electrical issue at its Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) data centre at 4:30 Eastern time.
Although power was back in place by 5pm, it took the company [...]