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Loudcloud Serves Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe - 📅 - Managed services provider Loudcloud (loudcloud.com -> hostinger.com) announced on Wednesday that Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe (sonybiz.net), a provider of business communications solutions across Europe, has chosen Loudcloud to support its new digital asset management service.



The services, says Loudcloud, will be hosted using Loudcloud's suite of managed services and powered by the company's Opsware automation technology. The service is designed to allow Sony customers to register, ...
ICANN Board Accepts Contributions to Facilitate At-Large Organizing Efforts - 📅 - On April 22, 2002, ICANN's Board approved
a resolution via teleconference authorizing the acceptance of contributions
to fund staff support "for the creation and nurturing of At-Large
mechanisms for meaningful, self-organizing informed participation in ICANN
by a full range of Internet users." Recognizing initial fundraising
...
Covad Introduces Enhanced SLAs for Business Customers - 📅 - Broadband services provider Covad Communications (Covad.com -> gtt.net) today introduced Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for business customers in its direct and wholesale distribution channels.



The agreements provide a 30-day guarantee for the installation of business-class lines, along with additional guarantees for reliability, service and support. The agreements are effective immediately for both its direct and ISP customers.

Under the guarantees provided by Covad, the ...
Collapse of Bandwidth Prices May Be Nearing End: Report - 📅 - The dramatic price collapse of bandwidth, caused by the infamous "bandwidth glut," may be nearing an end, according to a new report from research firm TeleGeography (telegeography.com).



The new report, titled "Terrestrial Bandwidth 2002," confirms that the supply of city-to-city bandwidth still exceeds actual needs. According to TeleGeography, more than
6.5 terabits of lit capacity now traverse London, for example - four times more than the combined bandwidth requirements ...
webMethods Releases White Paper on Web Services in Finance Industry - 📅 - Integration software provider webMethods (webmethods.com) said yesterday it had recently issued a white paper that outlined practical methods to plan and deploy Web services to solve business problems in the financial services industry.



The paper, titled "Enterprise Web Services in the Financial Services Industry: Driving New Integration Solutions," presents six scenarios that use Web services spanning the four main segments of the financial services industry: retail ...
Williams Communications files for Chapter 11 - 📅 - Williams Communications Group (williamscommunications.com) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday, in a bid to restructure its debt. The company amassed $5.9 billion in debt constructing a 33,000-mile fiber-optic network that transmits video, voice and data signals throughout the continental United States.



In a statement, the company revealed that it filed for voluntary bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. ...
ZixIt Provides Email Security to ASP Fetter Logic - 📅 - Secure messaging solution provider ZixIt Corp. (zixit.com) announced on Tuesday that it has formed an agreement to provide Fetter Logic Inc. (fetterlogic.com), an ASP focused on the financial services industry, the means to supply its customers with ZixIt's ZixVPM secure messaging solution.





The Zix Virtual Private Messenger, says the company, is a network-based email encryption service allowing users to send private electronic communications to other users of the service ...
Speedera to Provide Streaming Services to Playboy.com - 📅 - Internet content delivery firm Speedera (speedera.com) said today that Playboy.com, a subsidiary of Playboy Enterprises Inc., had selected Speedera to provide secure streaming services to end users worldwide.



"Playboy.com represents one of the premier brands on the Internet today," said Ajit Gupta, CEO of Speedera. "We are pleased to have yet another global operation entrust their streaming needs to us. Our Secure Streaming service offers clear ROI advantages to providers of ...
Radware Opens US Production Facility - 📅 - Application switching firm Radware (radware.com) today announced the opening of its US production facility in order to meet customer demand.



The company, which serves mission critical applications for companies in several markets, including Web hosting, manufacturing and finance, said the opening of a new facility was necessary because of increased company growth and quicker time to market requirements.

"We are finding that the requested interval from date of order ...
MSP Association Members Adopt SMQI Standards - 📅 - The Management Service Provider Association (mspassociation.org), an industry consortium working to define and promote quality of service in the Internet delivery of IT functions, announced on Monday that four of its members have implemented the practices outlined in the Service Quality Management Initiative (SMQI) launched in January 2002 by the MSP Association.





According to the MSP Association, Web hosting provider Center 7, monitoring and management service provider ...