Web Host 8×8 Names Director of Federal Sales

| August 31, 2011

Related Topics: appointments, cloud computing, 8×8, government and regulation, vance raeside (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — web hosting and telecommunications provider 8×8 (www.8×8.com) announced on Wednesday that it has named Vance Raeside director of federal sales. In this position, Raeside is responsible for overseeing sales activity with federal, state and local government agencies, according to [...]

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WikiLeaks Website Hit by Cyber Attack

| August 31, 2011

Related Topics: security, controversy, hackers, wikileaks (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — WikiLeaks said its website (www.wikileaks.org) was attacked late Tuesday evening in the midst of the whistleblower website releasing thousands of unpublished US diplomatic cables. The website was previously hit with a denial-of-service attack back in November while prepatring to release more than 250,000 classified [...]

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Australian Telecom Telstra Partners with Accenture to Launch Cloud Innovation Lab

| August 31, 2011

Related Topics: new products, partnerships, cloud computing, accenture, telstra, australia (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Australian telecommunications provider Telstra (www.telstra.com.au) and US-based technology consulting firm Accenture (www.accenture.com) announced on Monday that they will launch a new Product Innovation Lab in Melbourne to develop cloud computing solutions for Australia and New Zealand customers. Telstra and Accenture [...]

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Global Crossing Deploys New Dedicated Internet Access Ports for Web Host SoftLayer

| August 30, 2011

Related Topics: partnerships, telecommunications, global crossing, softlayer, data centers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) announced on Tuesday that IP solutions provider Global Crossing (www.globalcrossing.com) has deployed 14 new 10 Gbps dedicated Internet access ports. This announcement comes a month after SoftLayer expanded the storage options for CloudLayer Computing Instances [...]

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Cloud Cruiser Offers General Availability of Cost Management Solutions Enterprise Suite

| August 30, 2011

Related Topics: new products, partnerships, cloud computing, cloud cruiser (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud cost management solution provider Cloud Cruiser (www.cloudcruiser.com) announced on Tuesday it is now offering the general availability of its enterprise suite of cloud cost management solutions for private, hybrid and public cloud computing infrastructures. The move comes a couple weeks [...]

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