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    1. Rackspace Gets $2.5 Million Texas Job Training Grant with Alamo Colleges

      Rackspace Gets $2.5 Million Texas Job Training Grant with Alamo Colleges

      February 8, 2013 -- At a news conference held today in Austin, Texas, managed and cloud hosting giant Rackspace Hosting announced that, in partnership with Alamo Colleges to win a $2.5 million Skills Development Fund grant from the Texas state government’s Workforce Commission, that will be used to provide job training for 1,000 new workers, and current Rackspace employees, in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio, Texas.Keep on reading: Rackspace Gets $2.5 Million Texas Job Training Grant with Alamo Colleges

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    2. Selling a Cloud Services Portfolio, with Stephanie Rowan of Parallels

      Selling a Cloud Services Portfolio, with Stephanie Rowan of Parallels

      February 6, 2013 -- Continuing the trend of delivering information and insight into SMB purchasing decisions and cloud services demand, Parallels senior manager of market development Stephanie Rowan delivered a talk Wednesday morning providing hosting providers and other Parallels service provider partners with some ideas around creating an effective cloud services portfolio.Keep on reading: Selling a Cloud Services Portfolio, with Stephanie Rowan of Parallels

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    3. RightScale’s 2013 Cloud Vision has a Role for Managed Service Providers

      RightScale’s 2013 Cloud Vision has a Role for Managed Service Providers

      February 1, 2013 -- Cloud orchestration software firm RightScale shared its predictions for the cloud in 2013 with the WHIR recently, including some ideas about the role to be played by hosts and managed service providers.Keep on reading: RightScale’s 2013 Cloud Vision has a Role for Managed Service Providers

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    4. DreamHost Cloud Storage Service DreamObjects Launches, Undercuts Amazon S3

      DreamHost Cloud Storage Service DreamObjects Launches, Undercuts Amazon S3

      January 29, 2013 -- Hosting provider DreamHost announced on Tuesday that its DreamObjects object storage cloud is now generally available, emphasizing the fact that the service is priced cheaper than the base-level per-gig cost for Amazon’s market-leading S3 cloud storage service, at 7 cents per gig.Keep on reading: DreamHost Cloud Storage Service DreamObjects Launches, Undercuts Amazon S3

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    5. Web Host Web.com Holding Small Business Marketing Forums in 25 Markets

      Web Host Web.com Holding Small Business Marketing Forums in 25 Markets

      January 21, 2012 -- Mass market web hosting provider Web.com has a new tactic for winning small business hosting customers, planning a series of 25 events in locations around the US, to provide small businesses with hands-on help with building and marketing a presence online.Keep on reading: Web Host Web.com Holding Small Business Marketing Forums in 25 Markets

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    6. French Dedicated and Cloud Host OVH Opens Massive Green Data Center in Montreal

      French Dedicated and Cloud Host OVH Opens Massive Green Data Center in Montreal

      January 16, 2013 -- France-based dedicated and cloud hosting provider OVH announced this week that it is expanding its footprint into North America with a new “green” data center in Montreal, Canada, which the company says has the capacity for 360,000 physical servers. Keep on reading: French Dedicated and Cloud Host OVH Opens Massive Green Data Center in Montreal

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    7. PlusServer Launches Unmetered.com Hosting Service for Streaming, Download

      PlusServer Launches Unmetered.com Hosting Service for Streaming, Download

      January 8, 2012 -- German web hosting provider Intergenia announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new hosting brand designed around the demands for high-bandwidth streaming and download services, offering customizable server packages with high-capacity unmetered bandwidth allotments.Keep on reading: PlusServer Launches Unmetered.com Hosting Service for Streaming, Download

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    8. Managed Host INetU Acquired by BV Investment Partners

      Managed Host INetU Acquired by BV Investment Partners

      January 8, 2013 -- Managed hosting provider INetU announced on Tuesday that a majority share in the company has been acquired by private equity firm BV Investment Partners in a recapitalization deal conducted in partnership with Dev Chanchani, INetU’s founder and chief executive.Keep on reading: Managed Host INetU Acquired by BV Investment Partners

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    9. Data Center Audit Standards: A Look at SAS 70, SSAE 16, SOC 2, and SOC 3

      Data Center Audit Standards: A Look at SAS 70, SSAE 16, SOC 2, and SOC 3

      January 3, 2012 -- A look at the SSAE 16, SOC 2 and SOC 3 data center audit standards, and how they are employed by data center operators to monitor internal processes, ensure security, and present information to customers.Keep on reading: Data Center Audit Standards: A Look at SAS 70, SSAE 16, SOC 2, and SOC 3

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    10. Cloud, Managed Host ViaWest Partners with Denver Startup Incubator Galvanize

      Cloud, Managed Host ViaWest Partners with Denver Startup Incubator Galvanize

      December 19, 2012 -- Furthering a recent and growing trend of hosting and cloud providers getting involved with local startup programs, cloud and managed hosting provider ViaWest announced its sponsorship for Galvanize, a local startup program based in Denver, Colorado this week.Keep on reading: Cloud, Managed Host ViaWest Partners with Denver Startup Incubator Galvanize

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    11. Weekend Reading: Top Web Hosting Stories from the Week of December 10-14, 2012

      Weekend Reading: Top Web Hosting Stories from the Week of December 10-14, 2012

      December 15, 2012 -- This week saw plenty of signifigant web hosting news, including a major new domain registrar (along with some unrelated service interruptions) from the same company and, perhaps most notably, the conclusion of a long search for a new Go Daddy CEO with the appointment of Blake Irving. We also posted a few really interesting features, so don't miss those.Keep on reading: Weekend Reading: Top Web Hosting Stories from the Week of December 10-14, 2012

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    12. 365 Main Completes Acquisition of 16 Equinix Data Centers, Adds to Management Team

      365 Main Completes Acquisition of 16 Equinix Data Centers, Adds to Management Team

      December 13, 2012 -- Data center operator 365 Main announced on Thursday that it has completed the acquisition of 16 data centers, in the US from Equinix, marking the return of 365 Main to the data center business.Keep on reading: 365 Main Completes Acquisition of 16 Equinix Data Centers, Adds to Management Team

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    13. Open Source Hosting – Challenges and Opportunities for Service Providers

      Open Source Hosting – Challenges and Opportunities for Service Providers

      December 10, 2012 -- Open source technology has always been a part of the DNA of the hosting business, but with hosting providers making new decisions around cloud platforms, the open source hosting discussion is as relevant as ever.Keep on reading: Open Source Hosting – Challenges and Opportunities for Service Providers

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    14. SoftLayer Launches Big Data Solution with 10Gen and MongoDB

      SoftLayer Launches Big Data Solution with 10Gen and MongoDB

      December 4, 2012 -- Hosting and cloud infrastructure provider SoftLayer announced on Tuesday that it has launched a new “big data” solution, in partnership with 10Gen, built around that company’s best practices for deployment , and on SoftLayer’s Bare Metal Cloud hardware.Keep on reading: SoftLayer Launches Big Data Solution with 10Gen and MongoDB

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    15. Datapipe Offers Cloud Services Dashboard via Newvem Partnership

      Datapipe Offers Cloud Services Dashboard via Newvem Partnership

      December 3, 2012 -- Web hosting and cloud hosting provider Datapipe announced last week that it has enhanced its cloud services, delivered via a partnership with Amazon Web Services, through a new partnership with Newvem, a company focused on delivering analytics to customers of AWS cloud services.Keep on reading: Datapipe Offers Cloud Services Dashboard via Newvem Partnership

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    16. Black Lotus DDoS Protection Service Human Behavior Analysis Running on OnApp

      Black Lotus DDoS Protection Service Human Behavior Analysis Running on OnApp
      December 2, 2012 -- Cloud hosting software firm OnApp revealed late last week, in one of a series of videos profiling specific customer relationships, that the new Black Lotus DDoS protection service known as Human Behavior Analysis was operating on the OnApp cloud hosting software – an interesting intersection of two technologies powering many solutions hosting service providers are offering their own clientele.Keep on reading: Black Lotus DDoS Protection Service Human Behavior Analysis Running on OnApp
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