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Interconnection Solutions Firms Neutral Tandem/Tinet Rebrand as Inteliquent

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 8:43 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — Interconnection and interoperability solutions provider Inteliquent announced on Tuesday it has formally rebranded Neutral Tandem and Tinet as Inteliquent. As a result, the company’s shares is now trading under its new name and stock ticker symbol, IQNT. Its common stock CUSIP number remains the same and will not change [...]

NGINX Introduces Commercial Support for Open Source Web Server

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 7:43 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — Open source web server NGINX announced on Tuesday it is now offering commercial support options for companies using its open source web server, marking its first commercial offering. Designed for small, medium or large-scale commercial web installations, the commercial support services are delivered by the original creators and developers [...]

Web Host SingleHop Donates $10,000 to Kentucky Medical Children’s Camp

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 7:39 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — Web hosting provider SingleHop announced on Tuesday that it recently donated $10,000 to Kentucky medical camp The Center for Courageous Kids. The year-round camp, located in Scottsville, Kentucky, provides a camping experience for children with life-threatening illnesses that usually would not be able to attend camp due to the [...]

Web Host HostGator Offers BaseKit Website Builder through its Control Panel

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 6:06 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — Web hosting provider HostGator announced on Tuesday that it now offers online website builder BaseKit to its small and mid-size business customers. With BaseKit, users can choose from more than 100 professionally designed templates, all of which are customizable through HTML, and use their BaseKit-based website to host an [...]

Hosting Provider Datapipe Names Chief Financial Officer

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 4:51 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — Web hosting provider Datapipe announced on Tueday it has named Jim Holtzman as chief financial officer, where he will oversee the company’s finance, accounting and investor relations functions. The appointment comes at a time of significant growth for the company, having just surpassed its growth for the previous two [...]

Q&A: DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson Discusses Outages and their Impact

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 4:14 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — In an email Q&A with the WHIR, DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson talked about how the company is working to maintain customer relationships, and its plans to avoid a similar incident in the future. From Transcom ISP, post Q&A: DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson Discusses Outages and their Impact Transcom Divisions [...]

High Cloud Storage Demand Allows AWS to Lower Amazon S3 Prices

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 4:14 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — Cloud provider Amazon Web Services has lowered the prices on its storage solution Amazon S3, according to a blog post on Monday. At the end of 2011, Amazon S3 hosted 762 billion objects, and processed more than 500,000 requests per second, and the decrease in storage prices reflects the [...]

Web Host Hostway Launches Networking Tool for Hybrid Cloud Hosting

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 3:29 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — – Web hosting provider Hostway announced on Tuesday it has launched FlexLink, which offers an individual, private VLAN connection to enable users to deploy hybrid cloud solutions for increased security. The hybrid cloud solutions will allow a company to combine Hostway’s managed public cloud infrastructure solution, FlexCloud, with managed [...]

VMware Simplifies Service Provider Cloud Delivery with vCloud Integration Manager

Posted by on February 7, 2012 at 3:18 pm

Print PDF February 7, 2012 — Virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider VMware announced on Tuesday that it has launched VMware vCloud Integration Manager for service providers automate the delivery and operations of clouds based on VMware vCloud Director. VMware says its new software will help service providers quickly create and deploy cloud service offerings as [...]

Colocation Firm Online Tech Hosts Online Backup Provider Cogitate

Posted by on February 6, 2012 at 9:57 pm

Print PDF February 6, 2012 — Colocation firm Online Tech announced on Monday that it will provide colocation services for online backup services provider Cogitate. This news comes a month after Online Tech completed a fiber optic build-out between its Ann Arbor and mid-Michigan data centers. From Transcom ISP, post Colocation Firm Online Tech Hosts [...]