A grand opening ceremony will take place today for Liquid Web’s new D3 data center in Lansing, Michigan. The $80 million facility is 90,000 square feet, designed to support company’s new propriety cloud computing product. D3 is the first cloud computing data center in the state of Michigan.
Wired Real Estate Group will host a series of seminars with colocation, cloud, and data center executives who will share their insights for achieving reliable and cost-manageable infrastructure. Among participating companies are such names as CBS Interactive, MySpace, and Facebook. WiredRE provides free global colocation and data center listing service.
Earlier this week I wrote that web hosting firms needed to embrace the idea of cloud computing in order to stay competitive, citing the recent announcement of Chrome OS and Google’s general sway over internet trends in general. But what about the downsides of cloud hosting?
With Google’s recent announcement of their upcoming Chrome operating system, the idea of cloud computing has taken center-stage within the technology industry in general and the hosting industry in particular. Don’t be fooled; cloud computing is not a new idea and many companies, including Google, have long been encouraging users to work remotely via applications […]
1-800-HOSTING is now a supporter of the Open Cloud Manifesto. The goal is to position all cloud service providers within generally acceptable standards and keep it open.
TweetPhoto, an image application provider that lets users of social media website share photos through Twitter, has selected Could Files and Cloud Sites to support its photo sharing site. It is expected to get large traffic and the Rackspace Cloud approach makes an attractive solution to support the site. TweetPhoto was launched in beta mode […]
Toronto-based web hosting services provider UptimeHost announced that it has chosen LiteSpeed Technologies‘ Web Server as the platform for its “Clustered Cloud”, which out performed the Apache web server.
A beta trial of VPS.net has been launched by the UK2 Group. VPS.net is a cloud system for virtual private environment that is built on RAID 10 storage area network. Customers can customize the package by purchasing nodes, where each node provides 256MB RAM, 10GB SAN storage, 200MHz dedicated CPU and 200GB/month bandwidth.
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