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 [...]
The domain name Bond.com went up for auction on Thursday for a reserve price of $1 million. Consistent with reports on Computer Weekly, with the publicity surrounding the latest Bond movie, titled “Quantum of Solace,” and the opening of the Ian Fleming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum on Wednesday, it is thought that the [...]
Hitachi Group announced on Thursday it is commemorating next week’s Earth Day by expanding its green data center in Yokohama, Japan. The new wing will present technological enhancements that are part of the company’s general CoolCenter50 project, which aims to decrease power consumption in Hitachi’s Yokohama and Okayama facility by 50 percent in five years. [...]
Web hosting provider Future Hosting announced on Thursday it has joined data recovery solutions provider R1Soft’s Hosting Partner Program. The affiliation will provide the Web host with better access to sales and marketing resources. Released in January, Future Protect is a bespoke adapted data protection service that enables users to tap into Future Hosting’s geographically [...]
Web hosting provider LeaseWeb announced on Thursday that it is set to reorganize its global hosting network after installing two Cisco CRS-1s for approximately $2.4 million. The company says the two Cisco CRS-1s will make the network infrastructure more hierarchical and scalable and allow LeaseWeb to enlarge its hosting network to a capability of 1900 [...]
Online DVD rental website Netflix suffered major technical troubles Monday, leading to an outage of more than 11 hours. The website was unreachable to its 7.5 million subscribers from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST, said company spokesman Steve Swasey. Even though Netflix did not indicate the facts of the technical problems, the company said [...]
Dedicated hosting provider The Planet and telecommunications provider NTT America announced on Monday that The Planet will offer its more than 22,000 customer’s access to IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol. The companies have started developing the project, and The Planet anticipates announcing availability later this year. Launched in 2001, IPv6 provides a major enhancement over [...]
Web hosting provider PEER 1 Networks announced on Thursday that its customer service at its Atlanta, Georgia facility remained unaffected during last weekend’s tornado and severe storms. The company says it preserved its 100 percent uptime pledge to customers during the terrible Atlanta weather, as its data center staff put into practice the company’s strategic [...]
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has launched a feature absolute release candidate of Microsoft Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization software being offered with different versions of Windows Server 2008. A beta of Hyper-V was included with Windows Server 2008 when it publicly launched last month at Microsoft’s largest enterprise product launch, Heroes Happen Here, but [...]
DedicatedNOW one of the countless hosting providers operating under the rather indistinguishable description of “managed hosting,” announced on Tuesday that it had introduced Virtual Cluster, an offering based on the rather young utility computing model. Specifically, DedicatedNOW’s Virtual Cluster will be built via the AppLogic utility computing platform developed by 3Tera. DedicatedNOW says its own [...]
Utility hosting services provider Layered Technologies announced on Monday it has named John Faulkner the company’s chief financial officer. The announcement comes after last month’s appointment of John Pozadzides to the position of chief marketing officer. Faulkner will report to company CEO Jack Finlayson, where he will supervise all financial planning, management and reporting. He [...]
Customer feedback management provider RatePoint and Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign announced on Monday that VeriSign will incorporate RatePoint’s online reputation management and customer feedback platform as a value-added offering for customers to purchase as part of VeriSign’s retail SSL certificate. This latest agreement illustrates VeriSign’s pledge to assisting online businesses develop consumer assurance and [...]
Managed hosting provider NaviSite announced on Thursday it is offering a new integrated solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Exchange Windows Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, NaviSite’s integrated solution addresses the growing requirement for competent interoperability, especially among mid-market enterprises. With this growing need, Microsoft addresses interoperability [...]
Last week, Brazil’s largest media portal and Internet company UOL announced that it had purchased Web hosting and dedicated server provider Digiweb, making UOL the country’s third-largest provider of Web hosting services. The company’s announcement didn’t stipulate a Digiweb, although it appears that rather than the very large Irish hosting provider, or the very small [...]
