Archive for April 17th, 2007

Web 2.0 Expo: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Keynote (WebProNews)

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Bezos takes the stage. Intro remarks: all about Amazon Web Services, which is exhibiting here. The roster includes SQS, Mechanical Turk, S3, EC2. I still like Amazon for books. Is that so wrong? His gist: you can use web services to scale backend operations like hosting at a fraction of the cost of building it yourself. And ultimately, what Bezos is reminding …

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WireNine Introduces Semi-Dedicated Hosting Plan (Web Host Directory)

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

WireNine.com ( www.wirenine.com ), a privately owned provider of Linux-based shared, reseller and dedicated cPanel web hosting, announced today it has introduced a Semi-Dedicated hosting plan, offering customers elements of both Shared and Dedicated hosting in an affordable environment.

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Host Depot to Power Hosting Services with Ensim Pro (Web Host Directory)

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Ensim, the leading supplier of service enablement and automation software for hosted IP and application services, today announced that Host Depot, a preferred full web services provider that provides integrated e-commerce and web solutions for small, medium and large businesses, has selected Ensim Pro X as its automation control panel of choice for its hosting solutions.

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Xanadu Servers Celebrates One Year, Introduces Virtuozzo-Powered VPS Web Hosting (TopHosts.com)

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

April 17, 2007 – (TopHosts News Brief) – Xanadu Servers, Inc. announced today it’s one year anniversary. To celebrate, the company will now offer SWSoft Virtuozzo-powered Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting plans.

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Rackspace Announces Short-Term Web Hosting for Online Advertising (TopHosts.com)

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

April 17, 2007 – Rackspace® Managed Hosting, a leading global provider of managed hosting services, today announced the launch of Short-term Hosting, an on-demand hosting service designed to meet the growing need for short-term, campaign-based websites.

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Web Hosting Leaders Sponsor Cruise During HostingCon ‘07 (TopHosts.com)

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

TopHosts.Com and FastServers.Net invite Web hosting industry professionals to register for the Networking Cruise to be held on Tuesday, July 24th during HostingCon 2007 at Navy Pier in Chicago.

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Social Facebook Website, Upgrades Design

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Palo Alto, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - April 17, 2007 - Social utility portal, Facebook, has debuted new messaging functionality and redesigned its website to simplify navigation, launching more than 47,000 network portal pages to aggregate information. [...]

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SAVVIS Powers Reuters Web 2.0 Network

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - April 17, 2007 - IT infrastructure services for business applications, SAVVIS, has inked a five-year agreement with multimedia news organization, Reuters.com, to provide a platform for a next-generation Web 2.0 media web site. The partnership is [...]

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The Planet Unveils IT Report

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - April 17, 2007 - Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using hosted IT services, achieve stronger business benefits from their IT investments, and are typically more satisfied than those managed in-house, according to a new study [...]

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SWsoft Selected by LocaWeb

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Sao Paulo, Brazil - (The Hosting News) - April 17, 2007 - Server automation virtualization firm, SWsoft, has been chosen by Brazilian web hosting provider, LocaWeb, to power its launch of Virtual Private Server (VPS) services, using SWsoft’s Virtuozzo software. Gilberto Mautner, Vice President of [...]

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