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2Feb/120

Host Virtual Expands Cloud Service in TelecityGroup London Data Center

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. Read more...

1Feb/120

Cloud Host ScaleXtreme Launches Cloud Service Provider Program

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. Read more...

29Jan/120

Cloud Storage Firm IceWeb Offers Customers Five Minute Set-Up Guarantee

January 27, 2012 -- Cloud storage provider IceWEB announced on Thursday that it has launched what it calls the "IceTIME Guarantee" that promises customers a setup time of five minutes or less for any of its unified data storage appliances. IceWEB says it can take hours to setup similar systems provided by larger vendors. To support its claim, IceWEb is sending a Netbook laptop preconfigured with IceWEB's setup wizard with every order at no additional cost. Read more...

29Jan/120

Monitoring Firm LabTech Software Launches Cloud Delivery Option

January 27, 2012 -- Remote monitoring and management solution provider LabTech Software announced on Monday that it has launched LabTech Cloud, a cloud-based software as a service option for managed service providers.This announcement comes a month after email hosting provider Reflexion Networks integrated LabTech's monitoring and management solution with its suite of email services. Read more...

27Jan/120

Cloud Platform Abiquo Wins Claranet Virtual Data Center

January 27, 2012 -- Cloud services firm Abiquo announced on Tuesday that managed hosting provider Claranet has selected Abiquo's enterprise cloud to power its recently launched virtual data center service. Claranet launched its virtual data center in November 2011. Read more...

26Jan/120

Cloud Storage Firm Mozy Launches Stash File Sync Tool in Beta

January 26, 2012 -- Cloud storage provider Mozy announced on Wednesday that it has launched the beta version of a tool called Stash, an extension of its existing MozyHome online backup service. Read more...

25Jan/120

AWS Storage Gateway Connects On-Premise Appliances to the Cloud

January 25, 2012 -- In a long post on the Amazon Web Services blog Wednesday, Amazon launched the AWS Storage Gateway service, a tool for connecting on-premise software appliances with its cloud storage services, making its cloud products more accessible to users currently dealing entirely (or mostly) with on-premise IT. Read more...

13Jan/120

IBM Acquires Cloud Management Software Firm Platform Computing

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM announced on Monday it has completed the acquisition of Platform Computing, a Toronto-based cluster, grid and cloud management software for distributed computing environments. The financial terms were not disclosed in the press release. This is the second cloud management software company IBM has acquired in a week, following last week's acquisition of Green Hat, a software quality and testing solutions for the cloud and other environments. The company first announced in October that it would acquire Platform Computing, whose software helps clients create, integrate and manage shared computing environments that are used in compute- and data-intensive applications such as simulations, computer modeling and analytics. Read more...

11Jan/120

ATT Joins OpenStack Launches Mobile Developer Cloud Service

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- US telecommunications provider AT&T is the first telecom service provider to join open source cloud organization OpenStack, according to an announcement on Monday. OpenStack chief stacker and VP corporate development at Rackspace Jim Curry spoke at the AT&T Developers Summit at CES in Las Vegas Monday. Curry said AT&T's support will help drive OpenStack forward, according to a report by PCWorld. "We’ve been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function within OpenStack, focused on transactional task management," John Donovan, AT&T's chief technology officer said in a blog post. "We’re housing our OpenStack capabilities on dedicated infrastructure in three AT&T data centers today, with locations in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey. We plan to more than double the number of our centers with open-source capabilities in 2012." Read more...

8Jan/120

Server Manufacturer Super Micro Computer Opens Cloud Hub in Taiwan

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- US-based server manufacturer Super Micro Computer announced on Friday it has opened a new science and technology park in Taoyuan County, northern Taiwan. The company said it has invested $100 million in the new cloud hub, which will create 3,000 jobs. As Super Micro's systems integration and operations center in Asia, the center will serve as the company’s logistics and operation base for the Asia-Pacific region, according to the InvesTaiwan Service Center under the Executive Yuan. Read more...