Rackspace Ranked as Top IT Services Employer Again

Rackspace (www.rackspace.co.uk), the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry today announces that it has been voted as the 30th best place to work and once again the highest ranking IT Services company, in the prestigious Sunday Times 100 Best Companies Awards.
Commended for its continued focus on employee engagement, Rackspace has [...]

UKFast launches new DNS platform

After over a year in development, UKFast, the UK’s Best Hosting Provider, has unveiled its new DNS platform.
Launched this month and superceding the original SafeDNS, this version represents a new phase in DNS management.
Providing full administrative privileges to the user, the server control panel offers the freedom to control what web domains you host and [...]

Half of web desigers use unlicensed software

A startling number of web professionals are using unlicensed or pirated software to create websites, according to research released today by Fasthosts Internet Ltd, (www.fasthosts.co.uk), a leading web hosting provider.
The poll of 500 web designers(1) conducted with .NET magazine (www.netmag.co.uk) found that more than half of web designers and developers admit to having [...]

ADACOR installs Suzuki after-sales-solution at Interxion data centre

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that ADACOR Hosting GmbH has installed a new online after-sales support system for Suzuki International Europe GmbH in one of Interxion’s highly secure data centres in Frankfurt.
The newly developed online portal ensures the efficient management of European warranties for Suzuki dealers and distributors.
Hosting [...]

€12 Million Construction of Interxion Data Centre employs 90

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that StructureTone has been appointed and has commenced the construction of Interxion’s new €12 million data centre in Dublin.
Employing 90 construction workers over the initial construction phase, the data centre is due for completion and will be ready for customer installations in early [...]

Webfusion acquires hosting assets of XCalibre Communications

Web hosting specialist, Webfusion, has acquired the hosting assets of XCalibre Communications to strengthen its entry level managed hosting business.
The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, will enable Webfusion to extend its offering and provide XCalibre customers with access to a variety of products, along with 24×7 support.
The remaining XCalibre business will transfer [...]

Tripwire new VWire

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 also [...]

New Small Business Shared Hosting Solution

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 executive [...]

Data centres continue to expand despite recession

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 data [...]

Value Reseller new web hosting services

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 [...]

Security expert too much of a risk for web hosters

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 said [...]

Kentico working with Intermedia’s hosting

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 [...]

Alabama Hosting takes aim at small business

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 [...]

Rackspace floating on a Cloud

Tech firms interested in cloud computing have continued to grow in strength and acquisitions despite the recession.
In fact, many companies that are now household names have invested in cloud services [...]

New South Wales hosting centre

IT workers who are out of a job in South Wales, may be interested to hear that the global group, Logicalis, is creating thirty more ICT jobs as it nears the completion of its new regional headquarters near Cardiff in Nantgarw.
The new location will support a UK centre that can provide broadband networking from a [...]

Major hack-attack at Vaserv

Hackers attacked Vaserv.com, a UK web hosting provider, late on Sunday evening deleting data from as many as 100,000 websites.
According to the website of the ISP, the company is trying to restore as much data as possible and the webpage shows the continuing index log of updates to allow affected customers to see if their [...]

Microsoft free hosting with Web Deployment Tool

Microsoft has recently commissioned a new trial period of its new platform, with the option of hosting projects without any charge if a certain set of technologies from the software creator are utilized including: Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Release 1, ASP.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1, and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1.
Joshi R Vishal a visual [...]

SAFI takes over 24/7 Hosting

SAFI Technologies recently bought 24/7 Hosting, its fourth webhosting acquisition in just two years.
Tim Johnson, the managing director of SAFI, stated that the client base of 24/7 Hosting is similar to SAFI Technologies making it easy for them to transfer clients into the current infrastructure.
SAFI intends to comfortably support about 200 medium to small companies [...]

Datacenters afraid of new green rules

Digital Realty Trust has just announced plans to lease a second Turn-Key Datacentre to IBM for additional space purposes at Digital Realty Trust’s facility in Paris.
News of the expansion comes at a time when Digital Realty Trust itself reports that most datacenters across the UK are fearful of expansion given new ‘green’ government regulations.
According to [...]

Alcatel and Cisco laud NextiraOne

NextiraOne has had a busy week of collecting industry “awards”, as both Cisco and Alcatel have given the European firm their in-house accolades.
More acknowledgements of competency than genuine awards, both presentations recognise the contributions made by NextiraOne in the communications arena.
The Cisco accreditation is titled Advanced Data Centre Networking Infrastructure Specialisation.
Claiming to be number [...]

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