PacketExchange starts services with New York Telx

PacketExchange, provider of private network services with internet economics, has announced the availability of its global network at Telx’s 60 Hudson Street Facility in New York City.
PacketExchange allows existing customers of the Telx facility to connect directly to their trading partners and access networks around the world.
It uses the PacketExchange private infrastructure, as […]

ukeasily taken offline at Manchester data center

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 operated by UK […]

Wood chips power Rackspace ‘Green’ Data Centre

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 to […]

RatePoint Adds Email Marketing Tools

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 partner […]

.Org Domain Price to Climb 10 Percent

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 from […]

Data Center Head Departing Cisco

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.
Ullal is […]

Facebook Raises $100M for Servers

Facebook, the rapidly expanding social networking phenomenon, purportedly raised a supplementary $100 million in funding this week, that will be used to purchase additional hardware to support the service’s expansion.
The company has previously said the whole amount of the new money will be used to obtain servers, to assist in accommodating the rapidly mounting numbers […]

Layered Tech Adds Hosting Packages

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 new […]

Frontpages Extends Hosting Management

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 disk […]

Hyperspin Improves Reseller API

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 company’s method […]

Leeds Carnegie scores website makeover with RedDot

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 to […]

Wapple Zest Bring Functionality Between Print & Mobiles

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 […]

American Idol Online Votes Tallied By Rackspace

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 noticed, […]

New Version Of Wapple Canvas Released

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 […]

Leeds University Looks To RedDot For CMS

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 be […]

The new Avid VideoRAID SR and ST

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 […]

BurstNET offline from maintenance issues

A major infrastructure upgrade on BurstNET’s network has led to unscheduled downtime, with the network still inaccessible at the time of writing.
While BurstNET had notified customers of the replacement of core routers and an upgrade of Philadelphia POP, expectations of “momentary periods of higher than normal latency” appears to be optimistic.
The company had scheduled a […]

BlueSquare network suffers power outage

BlueSquare, the UK network based in Berkshire, has suffered a serious power outage, bringing down its entire network.
Back-up generators failed to compensate, resulting in a significant number of UK hosting providers, or providers with UK interests based in BlueSquare, going offline.
Both BS and BS2 appear to be affected.
Webhosting providers known to have been affected include […]

Search Engine Opts for HostMySite

Online advertising and services company eZanga announced on Thursday that it has joined with Web hosting provider HostMySite and content delivery network provider Panther Express to progress its online services and search engine offering.
EZanga’s CEO says that it determined to partner with these companies because eZanga wanted to proffer a much faster website for its […]

Fasthosts Goes Offline Again

UK Web hosting provider Fasthosts Internet faced a key outage early on Tuesday, leaving many of its dedicated servers offline for at least up to eight hours.
According to reports by The Register, websites and services hosted by Fasthosts went offline in the early hours of the morning, making this the last straw for many dissatisfied […]

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