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LotusLive iNotes from IBM goes live
IBM has released a web-based version of Lotus Notes called LotusLive iNotes. The product comes with direct competition to Hotmail and Google Apps. The company thinks recent Google outages will help its marketing efforts to win attention of some of the customers.
NaviSite opens new data center in Charlotte
Managed hosting provider NaviSite has opened a new data center in Charlotte. The company now operates 16 data centers located in the United States and United Kingdom, with a total cumulative area exceeding 223,000 square feet.
DataSite Orlando gets an investment boost
DataSite Orlando has signed a contract with a large corporation that remained confidential that will involve in latter investing over $26 million into mechanical and electrical infrastructure upgrades of the data center.
AIT router failure takes web host offline for hours
A web hosting provider Advanced Internet Technologies has experienced a router failure and went offline yesterday. FTP services, hosted sites, and email servers are some of the services that are not accessible. Customers reported in Twitter that some of them have not received service for over six hours. According to the “system status page”, the […]
Digital Realty Trust buys two DCs for $44.3 million
Two California-based data centers have been acquired by a wholesale data center operator Digial Realty Trust. The company paid $44.3 million for both DCs located at 444 Toyama Drive facility in Sunnyvale and 1525 Comstock Street in Santa Clara. The size of each data center is approximately 42,000 square feet.
Google implements free cooling technology in Belgium DC
Google has followed Microsoft in implementing free cooling technology in their Belgium data center. Windows-maker relies mostly on free cooling (when a DC relies on outside air 95% of the time, and saving water and power) in its Dublin data center location.
Sedo acquires ParkingPanel
The online domain marketplace Sedo has purchased ParkingPanel, a domain monetizing service provider. ParkingPanel was launched three years ago and it caters primarily to individuals with large domain portfolios. ParkingPanel customers will be merged into the existing Sedo framework, according to sources, and will gain access to Sedo’s advanced monetization engine.
This week in hosting
This week in hosting saw continued news on hot topics such as improved security measures, the ever-popular “greening” of the industry and the confirmation of a long-circulated rumor concerning the merging of two giants in the domain services industry.
Horizon Data opens second DC after first reaches its capacity
A second Dallas-based data center was opened by Horizon Data Center Solutions. Company’s first 25,000 square feet data center in Dallas reached its capacity approximately two months ago. Additionally, several thousand square feet has already been leased in the second data center, which is of the same size as Horizon Data’s first DC.
Microsoft’s 100-dollar license offer to small businesses
Microsoft has launched a program called WebsiteSpark. Designed to assist businesses with less than 10 employees, it provides qualified web professionals with design and development software licenses for a low $100 fee. Microsoft expects between 15,000 to 25,000 companies to take advantage of this offer.
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