Archive for July, 2010

UK ISP TalkTalk Found Monitoring User Activity Without Notification

In the development of what the company described as “some really exciting new security and parental control services,” UK Internet service provider TalkTalk (www.talktalk.co.uk) was caught monitoring customers’ online activities without their knowledge.
According to a Tuesday report from eWeek Europe, TalkTalk customers discovered [...]

Enterprise-Grade Virtualization Management Now Available for Xen and KVM

Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp. The open source version of ConVirt has been available for more than three years and is broadly deployed and well-tested in real-world data [...]

SiteGround Selects The Planet Server Cloud

The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that one of its largest reseller partners – SiteGround (http://www.siteground.com) – has selected the company’s Server Cloud as the new standard for its [...]

BlackSun Inc. places first in Edomonton Indy

In the ranks of some other well known sponsors, Canadian Web hosting company BlackSun (www.blacksun.ca) arrived in first place in the qualifying sessions at the Honda Edmonton Indy event on July 24.

The car sponsored by BlackSun belongs to Team Moore Racing (www.teammooreracing.com), which was driven by James Hinchcliffe in the [...]

The Future of Cloud Service Delivery is in Automation According to Parallels CEO

Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov today outlined the future of Cloud service delivery by announcing the launch of Parallels Automation 5.0 (PA5.0) in his keynote presentation at HostingCon 2010.
The announcement introduced new key features in Parallels Automation 5.0, including [...]

Managed Hosting Provider DediPower Launches Robust Public Cloud and Sets New Service Levels For The Enterprise

The Launch of DediPower’s new Public Cloud signals a step-change for managed hosting. Providing the fast-roll-out and shared economies expected from Cloud infrastructure, it raises the bar on the typical ‘commodity’ based Public Cloud services currently flooding the market.
DediPower is committed to delivering Public Cloud that uses only [...]

Live .CO Domain Registrations are Now Being Accepted By Web Hosting Provider LCN.com

Leading domain registrar, LCN.com, is now taking live registrations for the new .CO domain name. In what is billed as the most important new domain launch of the past 25 years, the .CO domain is now available to register by the general public.
Prior to 7pm [...]

Fasthosts Launches Online Storage Service

Fasthosts Internet Ltd., a web hosting provider, today launched a new online storage solution especially designed for archiving valuable business data. The company states that priced from only GBP 19.99/month+VAT, the service provides secure off-site storage space within a UK data center. The service is designed for [...]

Digiweb Selects Cloudmark’s CloudFilter Solution to Protect Customers from Spam

Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging infrastructure and security solutions, today announced that its hosted and managed messaging security solution, CloudFilter™, [...]