Tripwire has announced that VWire, a virtualisation management solution, will now have support for monitoring and VMware vSphere, allowing connections to be easily seen between configuration changes, critical events, and managers who made changes to the system. Now administrators in the virtual world can also use vWire to monitor, automate, and manage vSphere environments while [...]
Interxion, which supplies carrier neutral data centres across Europe, and LBi, the largest digital agency in Europe, have announced this week that they have formed a partnership allowing Interxion to host some of the critical data centre infrastructure components of LBi. The new partnership is aimed at allowing LBi to offer more managed services to [...]
ORCS Web, a specialist company that provides Windows based hosting solutions, announced on Thursday that it can now offer businesses a Small Business Shared Hosting Solution. Although the company has offered similar solutions to small business clients in the past, the new package is more cost effective and practical for its clients. President and chief [...]
IBM Corporation showed off its new microprocessor at the Hot Chips Conference this week, which boasts a lot of strength with a 45nm chop and an eight core standard. Advanced Micro Devices also debuted its 12 core Magny-Cours device which is based on the x86 based systems market that makes use of a multi-chip module. [...]
Lenovo announced Tuesday that they will soon enter the digital world market by releasing four desktops and one laptop, out of which two can be counted as home theatre PCs and servers. Two of the units that stand out among the line up are the IdeaCentre Q700 which is a home theatre PC that may [...]
Even in the face of the economic recession the data centre sector is still managing to grow at a steady rate, proving that the need for infrastructure that can guarantee performance will always be in high demand. According to a survey from CommScope, 32% of all the organizations that were surveyed plan to build new [...]
University of California San Diego students and professors have developed software that may allow data centres to function as a single network with a two layer data centre network fabric instead of the typical three layer fabric system. The new software is titled Portland and will work with any hardware that is currently in existence [...]
Value Reseller is set to launch new web hosting services that are designed for both new web hosts and those with experience. In order to signify the launch of the new product line, the private reseller of web hosting services is also set to debut a new website template. For those who are new to [...]
Kevin Mitnick is having a hard time finding someone to host his webpages. The computer hacker turned security consultant has been released from the web hosting firm he subscribed to, as too large a security threat. Mitnick is often a target for security attacks, given his status as a somewhat deviant turned security cop. Mitnick [...]
ElasticHosts Ltd has announced the launch of its UK service provider infrastructure in the UK, with the intention of pursuing businesses who are looking for simpler cloud services than Amazon can provide. The company plans to market its cloud server service, based on small scale web hosting solutions and for those who want on demand [...]
Attenda Limited announced that it will open a third UK Data Centre today, to meet the increasing client demand that continues to grow despite the effects that other businesses have felt due to the recession. During the second quarter of this year, Attenda already showed that the company was performing better than its counterparts in [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 office building [...]
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 time to [...]
Digital Realty Trust has entered into a new lease agreement for Turn-Key DatacentreSM with Capgemini outsourcing, consulting, and technology company. As part of the agreement Capgemini will open a new datacentre in France on a Digital Realty Trust property this summer. Senior Vice President of International Operations of Digital Realty Trust, Bernard Geoghegan, said that [...]
