Hosting News

Renton, Washington - (The Hosting News) - May 8, 2008 - Server virtualization firm, Parallels' Virtuozzo Containers, have been chosen to power managed hosting provider, Liquid Web's new Microsoft Windows virtual private server (VPS) offering.

New York, New York - (The Hosting News) - May 8, 2008 - Web hosting provider, ResellerChoice, in response to demands from clients for better east coast geographic diversity, has expanded its New York City data center.

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - May 8, 2008 - Dedicated Hosting Reviews organization, Top 10 Dedicated Server Hosting, providing information to clients, consultancy and training to web hosting providers and end users, has issued a call for entries in connection with its 2008 Dedicated Hosting Award Program.

Madison, Wisconsin - (The Hosting News) - May 8, 2008 - Automated rich media communications technology firm, Sonic Foundry, Inc.'s Mediasite solution, has been honored with the USDLA Award, for its innovation.

Last week. Professor Diane Zorn, a professor at New York University, won the highest accolades at the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) National Conference, with the USDLA Excellence in Teaching for Online Distance Learning award for Sonic Foundry's webcasting platform.

Toronto, Canada - (The Hosting News) - May 7, 2008 - Web hosting company specializing in small and medium business support, Hostopia, will acquire certain hosting customer assets, of the Tucows Retail Service Group.

Cupertino, California - (The Hosting News) - May 7, 2008 - Internet hosting service provider, i9Biz, has chosen to utilize Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attack technology, from GigaFin Networks, in an effort to preserve server performance.

i9Biz has installed FlowLine 500 network analysis and remediation appliances from GigaFin after an extensive competitive evaluation to determine the most reliable, stable and cost-effective solution.

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 7, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has opened a new data center location in the Washington D.C. area.

The addition of this facility increases the company's total capacity to 45,000 servers throughout their facilities located in Dallas, Seattle, and now D.C.

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - May 7, 2008 - Owner and manager of corporate datacenters and Internet gateways, Digital Realty Trust, Inc., has reported strong leasing results for the first quarter of 2008.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - May 6, 2008 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet, has unveiled six new promotions for May, including savings of up to 26 percent on its two Check Point solutions, as the company's first-ever firewall discount.

Linda-a-Velha, Portugal - (The Hosting News) - May 6, 2008 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, has been selected by dedicated server, virtual service, colocation, and local internet access provider, NFSi Telecom.

NFSi has joined R1Soft's Hosting Partner Program, and will deploy the R1Soft's Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solution.