February 3, 2012 -- Cloud computing solutions and managed IT service provider Claris Networks announced on Friday it has named Walt Robinson as senior vice president of corporate development. He will be located in the company's Chattanooga, Tennessee branch office, and he will service the surrounding region. Robinson brings more than 25 years of broad marketing, finance and corporate strategy experience to the role. He will be responsible for driving Claris' medium and large enterprise client strategies.

February 3, 2012 -- In the week leading up to the Superbowl, web hosting provider Brain Host has launched its "50-Yard Line Big Game" Special for half off its one-year hosting package. Web hosting provider WestHost has launched a .CO domain discount, A2 Hosting is offering a VPS hosting special and Action Web Group is offering a February special for ten percent off hosting.

February 2, 2012 -- Vancouver-based web hosting provider 4GoodHosting announced on Wednesday that it has officially launched its new website builder application designed for creating mobile websites. 4GoodHosting says its new Mobile Website Builder features a three-step intuitive wizard that uses a WYSIWYG interface.

February 2, 2012 -- loud hosting provider Host Virtual announced on Wednesday it is expanding its Cloud Service in London, UK. Located in the London Docklands, the expansion into Telecity Sovereign House provides a premier, Tier 3 carrier class hotel as the basis for the Host Virtual service.

iNET Interactive is seeking a highly skilled, self-motivated DevOps Administrator on location at our Cincinnati headquarters. Candidates should have strong technical abilities, an eye for detail, and a knack for producing efficient, automated, and scalable processes in a high-availability, high-performance production environment. This position will serve as the link between system administration, software development, and quality management.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or Information Systems (or equivalent experience) with 5 years of experience as a Unix/Linux Systems Admin/Engineer in a high-availability, high-performance clustered environment. Includes patch management, server clustering (Database, Application and Web), backup management, performance tuning / audits
• Experience with system monitoring, including log aggregation/processing and data collection/trending
• Proficiency in security management, including security audits, maintaining PCI compliance, attack prevention and mitigation
• Experience with infrastructure architecture, including automation, documentation, creating/maintaining virtualized environments (Both production and development)
• Familiarity with supporting database servers (MySQL and MSSQL Server experience a huge plus) in a high-availability, high-performance clustered environment
• PHP or other programming experience highly desired but not required. PHP gurus welcome!
• Ability to aid in building and implementing quality assurance tests and procedures
• Passionate about building a DevOps culture
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Technologies We Use

• Linux / CentOS
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• Memcache
• Git
• NFS
• Postfix / Qmail
• WordPress
• vBulletin
• CakePHP
• Zend Guardian
• Rsync / Rsnapshot
• Splunk (Log aggregation)
• Urchin (Log processing)

Bonus Skills Desired

• Puppet/Chef
• Varnish
• ElasticSearch / Solr

Qualified candidates should contact Aaron Forgue

February 2, 2012 -- With 845 million users, and more than half of users logging in everyday, Facebook has provided some insight into how much it costs to run its infrastructure through the release of its IPO filing on Wednesday. Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in its infrastructure, comprised of its own data centers in Oregon, North Carolina and Sweden, and leased facilities in California and Virginia, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.

February 1, 2012 -- Web hosting provider Datapipe announced this week that it saw a rate of growth during 2011 that surpassed the company’s growth for the previous two years combined, even after having doubled its 2009 growth during 2010, and all of it in spite of difficult economic conditions.

February 1, 2012 -- Service management software provider ConnectWise announced on Tuesday that it has added a library of technology certification prep courses to assist its partners in employee recruitment, training and development through its partners-only resource site ConnectWise University.

January 31, 2012 -- Cloud services provider ScaleXtreme announced on Tuesday it has launched the Cloud Service Provider Program to help its customers easily deploy and manage cloud installations. With the integration, any service provider building public or private cloud offerings with VMware vCloud, Citrix CloudStack or OpenStack platforms can sign up and offer their customers a free ScaleXtreme Xpress account to manage their servers.

January 31, 2012 -- Having acquired the domain name of the notoriously litigious Righthaven, the operators of Swiss web hosting company OrtCloud enlisted several notable US copyright and first amendment lawyers in its efforts to create a new hosting business with a “spineful” mandate to treat take-down notices and other legal threats with healthy skepticism.