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SoftLayer® is a Finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award

June 18th, 2010

Web Host Forum – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies®, the innovative on-demand data center services provider, announced today it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s North America 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the world North American business region. The Red Herring editorial team selected [...]

Steadfast Networks Opens New Data Center in Manhattan, New York

June 18th, 2010

Web Host Forum – Chicago, IL – Steadfast Networks, a leading Chicago based dedicated server hosting provider, announced today the opening of its newest data center in Manhattan, New York. With its recent acquisition of The New York NOC hosting company, Steadfast Networks is opening the Manhattan data center to provide highly flexible and affordable [...]

Savvis Completes Acquisition of Fusepoint

June 18th, 2010

Web Host Forum – ST. LOUIS – Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVVS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Fusepoint, Inc., a leading independent provider of managed IT and colocation services to enterprises in Canada. Fusepoint, a portfolio company of M/C Venture [...]

Afilias Extends Managed DNS Services with FlexDNS Platform and API

June 18th, 2010

Web Host Forum – DUBLIN – Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced the expansion of its Managed DNS services with the availability of its new FlexDNSSM Platform. The FlexDNS Platform now provides Afilias’ DNS customers with three different options for managing their DNS over Afilias’ network: A Web-based portal, AXFR (DNS zone [...]

Web.com Announces Agreement to Acquire Register.com

June 18th, 2010

Web.com, Inc., a web services provider, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Register.com, an ICANN accredited domain registrar. Under the terms of the agreement disclosed by the company, which is subject to standard closing conditions, it will pay $135 million and will finance the purchase through a combination of cash [...]

34SP.com Partners with UK Grid

June 18th, 2010

34SP.com, a web hosting company, yesterday announced the launch of its third data center buildout in partnership with UK Grid, a customer focused provider of data center space and network services. The company avers that the data center is the third provisioned by it with existing data center space in London and Manchester. According to [...]

Storm Internet Announces the Launch of ASP.NET 4.0

June 18th, 2010

Storm Internet, a web hosting company, yesterday announced the launch of ASP.NET 4.0; becoming one of the first hosting companies in the industry to offer ASP.NET 4.0 as part of their Microsoft hosting platforms. The company says that Microsoft’s ASP.NET 4.0 is the latest release of Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework and allows developers to create dynamic [...]

ZNet Technologies Private Limited Launches zneti.com

June 18th, 2010

ZNET Technologies Private Limited (formerly ZNET India), a web hosting and IT infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its international website www.zneti.com in its forward-facing efforts to expand its service horizons in a competitive global web hosting marketplace. The company mentions that the new website would cater exclusively to international customers and deliver a [...]

Netcraft Survey Shows VeriSign Leads SSL Market With 44.4 Percent Unit Share

June 17th, 2010

Web Host Forum – MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, leads the global SSL marketplace with a 44.4 percent share, according to the latest Netcraft survey of publicly facing SSL Certificates on the Internet. The June Netcraft survey includes the most comprehensive [...]

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