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PEER 1 Migrates Servers to Portsmouth Data Centre

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) - PEER 1 Hosting, the global online IT hosting provider, has today revealed the successful migration of over 1,600 devices and over 120TB of SAN data, to its recently opened green data centre in Portsmouth. To ensure success, the company moved no more than 60 physical devices in any one night, [...] Continue reading

SpamExperts Expands Integration And Partnership With Parallels

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – SpamExperts (www.spamexperts.com), the leading provider of e-mail security products from the Netherlands, today announced that they have expanded their integration and partnership with Parallels by becoming part of Parallels Automation for Cloud Marketplace (PACM). The announcement was made in Orlando today during Parallels Summit 2012, an event that attracts [...] Continue reading

SoftCom Raises $5M, Plans VPS Investment

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – Cloud solutions provider SoftCom, the company behind popular web host myhosting.com revealed on Thursday that it had worked with Canadian banks in a debt financing process that earned the company $5 million dollars. To make the move possible, the company partnered with accountancy firm Deloitte. SoftCom intends to invest [...] Continue reading

CloudLinux Releases Virtualized File System

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – CloudLinux, Inc., today released CafeFS 3, the industry’s only virtualized file system for shared hosters that cages each customer within its own virtualized file system. The announcement was made in Orlando today during Parallels Summit 2012, an event that attracts a global audience of over 1,200 leading participants from [...] Continue reading

With Acquisition, Rackspace Invests in SharePoint

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – On Thursday, web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting made a considerable investment in SharePoint by acquiring a company that specializes in the area. SharePoint consulting company SharePoint911 becomes part of Rackspace, providing the hosting provider with services that include administrator support, site planning and design, project management and more. The [...] Continue reading

45% of European IT Decision Makers View Security and SLAs as Cloud Barriers

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) –  INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the results of its cloud computing survey, which found that 45% of European IT decision makers view a lack of security and service level agreements (SLAs) as top concerns for moving to [...] Continue reading

FortressITX Extends Sales and Customer Service Hours

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) – The FortressITX family of companies, a premium IT outsourcing services provider, announced an extension of sales and customer service hours, expanded from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. until 8 p.m. The addition of this extra shift comes on the heels of the group’s decision to expand [...] Continue reading

OnApp Expands U.S. Presence With New Office, Strategic Hires

(Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine) - OnApp, the leading innovator in cloud and CDN software, announced today that it is expanding its U.S. presence to support its rapidly growing North American business. The expansion includes a new office in Utah and key strategic hires across the States. OnApp also plans to grow its U.S. support staff [...] Continue reading