Christmas is gone but the show goes on
Christmas! It’s one of those holidays I can’t wait to get here. Anticipation can build for months. But I’m pretty happy when it’s over. Now it’s year’s end and time to reflect on how this year went and plan on making 2012 even better than the rest!……….(Read More…)
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Security research firm McAfee predicts that cyberattacks involving political motivation or notoriety will become major threats in 2012, according to a report released Wednesday.
McAfee’s 2012 Threat Predictions report finds that mobile banking, “legal” spam and virtual currency will make headlines in the new year.
“Many of the threats that will become prominent in 2012 have already been looming under the radar in 2011,” Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs said in a statement. “Over the past year, the general public has become more aware of some of these risks, such as threats to critical infrastructure or the impact of hacktivism as they gain international media attention. In the meantime, we continue to see cybercriminals improving their toolkits and malware and are ready to make a significant impact in 2012.”
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK cloud hosting provider iomart Hosting announced last week it has provided a virtualized platform to help Misys consolidate its IT infrastructure in the UK.
The move comes a few months after iomart completed the second phase of its expansion at its Spectrum House, Maidenhead, UK data center.
Misys delivers application software and services for banking, treasury and capital markets. The company reviewed its hosting services this year and decided to partner with iomart Hosting.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting control panel creator cPanel announced this week it has launched the latest version of its Apache configuration script EasyApache.
The move comes a couple weeks after cPanel began integrating goMobi mobile website builder via its platform.
Version 3.8.2 has many improvements over the previous version including added support for mod_ruid2, a module that allows for increased PHP speed.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –Web hosting provider KnownHost announced last week that it is offering its managed VPS and hybrid server customers a free upgrade to increase RAM and bandwidth.
This announcement comes about a week after KnownHost expanded its VPS offerings to a New Jersey data center.
“Our customers have told us they look forward to the upgrades each year, so we have made it an annual tradition,” Justin Sauers, CEO of KnownHost said in a statement. “There is no change in price for these upgrades and we’re committed to showing our customers that we appreciate their business.”
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Networking hardware manufacturer Cisco announced last week it has expanded its Cisco CloudVerse and Cloud applications into the Nigerian market, enabling organizations to build, manage and connect public, private and hybrid clouds.
Cisco said CloudVerse enables businesses to improve agility, enhance security, and offer a dynamic, assured experience.
“Until now, cloud technology resided in silos, making it harder to build and manage clouds, and to interconnect multiple clouds, posing critical challenges for many organizations,” said Said Rechchad, acting general manager of Cisco Nigeria. “Cisco uniquely enables the world of many clouds connecting people, communities and organizations with an assured cloud user experience for the next-generation Internet. We are very pleased that many of the world’s leading businesses and service providers are adopting Cisco CloudVerse as the foundation of their cloud strategies, and we look forward to partnering closely with each of them on their journey to a world of many clouds.”
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider JaguarPC announced on Wednesday it has deployed the CloudLinux operating system to further improve server stability.
The move comes a few months after JaguarPC began including the new Softaculous auto-installer suite with its web hosting accounts, providing customers with access to more than 175 popular open source scripts.
Working alongside the policies and practices that JaguarPC already has in place, the deployment of this new operating system designed for use in shared hosting environments provides customers with peace of mind that their web presence is in good hands.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center energy management provider Schneider Electric announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the intellectual property and software behind the Viridity EnergyCenter 2.0 platform, a DCIM management software.
This acquisition comes a month after Schneider Electric named Olivier Delepine its VP of the UAE and Gulf countries for APC by Schneider Electric.
According to the press release, the software enables the auto-discovery of IT assets to optimize capacity utilization. Schneider Electric says it will use this investment to improve the StruxureWare for Data Center Operations DCIM suite.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider PromptSpace announced over the weekend that it has launched its shared hosting platform.
PromptSpace says its shared hosting is available in three packages, personal, professional and enterprise, designed for small and mid-size enterprise customers.
According to the press release, in the past two years PromptSpace has grown from an Indian service provider to a provider with data centers in Kansas, Los Angeles, Dallas in the US and Kent in the UK.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation provider CyrusOne announced on Tuesday it is building a data center in San Antonio, located in the Westover Hills business park.
The new data center will complete CyrusOne’s Texas expansion plans to have data center facilities in the four major commercial markets in the state.
The move comes a month after the company acquired a 175,000-square-foot data center site in Houston.