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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority announced on Tuesday that Canadian Internet users have registered one million .ca domain names, which illustrates the country’s strong Internet presence and the popularity of Canadian websites. The one-millionth dot-ca domain name, krauslaw.ca, was registered by Brent Krause of Calgary, Alberta who is using the domain for a website that [...]
Telecommunications provider AT&T announced on Wednesday that it has launched new Web hosting and website design solutions, which expressly target the small to medium-size business market to assist them increase operations more cost-effectively. The new services comprise building new websites for companies or improving present websites. AT&T says that it will also help businesses trade [...]
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. [...]
The well known Internet host and domain name provider, Go Daddy, has just launched a promotion allowing webmasters to register international domains. This promotion is called the “Internationalised Domain Name Service,” and it will provide the ability for customers to obtain a domain name using their own local language. With the international domain service, it [...]
