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Dotster Launches Web Hosting Solution - 📅 - Dotster Inc. (dotster.com 👉 Total Reviews: 40
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), a leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar, announced on Wednesday the launch of HostLane (hostlane.com -> dotster.com), a full-featured Web hosting service specializing in shared and managed hosting plans.





"Domain names and Web hosting go hand in hand. For more than two years, Dotster has excelled at registering domains for hundreds of thousands of customers, and we're very excited to finally introduce our own Web hosting solution, HostLane, to ...
Ensim's Delivers Record Number Of Linux-based Web Hosting Appliances In First Quarter - 📅 - Ensim Corporation, an automated hosting solutions provider, today announced a record breaking first quarter, along with new pricing for one of its product lines. During the first calendar quarter of 2002, Ensim (ensim.com) surpassed the mark for 7,000 WEBppliance hosting appliances shipped with Rackshack, Compaq, and Tera-Byte.



Leveraging its growing installed base, the company also announced the availability of WEBppliance 3.0 for Linux for managing up to 100 domains per ...
Dell Releases New Modular Servers - 📅 - Dell today unveiled its new servers, including a modular system that packages the performance of six servers in the space of one to simplify and lower the costs of enterprise computing for its customers.



The Dell PowerEdge 1655MC is comprised of high-performance server ?blades? to accommodate up to six servers with two Intel Pentium III processors in a single enclosure. Offering increased density and simplified server management, the new design is ideal for consolidation, ...
Streaming Media Corp. Acquires Navisite's Streaming Media Group - 📅 - Streaming Media Corporation (smc.net), a provider of streaming technology
and solutions, said today it had acquired Navisite's Streaming Media Group,
which provides Internet multimedia services managed from its own delivery
platform.



Under the agreement, SMC will purchase NaviSite's StreamOS technology
platform and certain related assets. SMC said it would integrate the sales,
client services, technology and management teams of Navisite's Streaming
Media Group in to its ...
WorldCom Cuts 3,700 U.S. Jobs - 📅 - Global communications firm WorldCom said yesterday it would cut 3,700 jobs in the United States, or six per cent of it U.S. workforce, in an effort to meet its growth targets.

"The reduction is being taken to better align its costs with its projected 2002 revenue guidance of mid-single digit growth - guidance given in February 2002," the company said in a release.

WorldCom said employees affected by the cuts would be offered severance packages "relative to their duration of ...
Tier 1 Releases Hosting Directory, Data Center Report - 📅 - Tier 1 Research (tier1research.com), a research and consulting firm focused on the Internet infrastructure software and services industry, announced the release of two new reports on Wednesday, a hosting services directory report, and a study of data center utilization levels.



The 27-page data center supply and utilization report, entitled ?Infrastructure Bible v2.0C: Where Has All the Space Gone?? says Tier 1, is an in-depth look at supply and utilization of Internet data center ...
ICANN Convenes Redemption Grace Period Technical Steering Group - 📅 - In February, ICANN posted a proposal
for establishment of a "Redemption Grace Period" to create
a safety net to protect registrants against inadvertently deleted domain
names in the generic top-level domains, such as .com, .biz, .info, and
.net. Under the proposal, deleted names would be placed in a hold status
for a ...
WorldCom to Lay Off 10% of Staff: Report - 📅 - Global communications firm WorldCom (wcom.com) will lay off up to 10% of its staff by as early as today, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal.



WorldCom, the second-largest long-distance phone company in the United States and a major Internet communications company, has struggled in recent months under the telecommunications downturn. The company provides a full range of products and services that range from long distance to Web hosting.

The ...
Rackshack Signs Deal With Compaq, Purchases Webhostingtalk.com - 📅 - Computer giant Compaq Corp. said today it had signed a three-year, $20 million agreement with RackShack (rackshack.net), a subsidiary of Everyones Internet, to equip the company's data centers with ProLiant servers for Linux-based Web hosting solutions.



The new RackShack solution will run the Linux operating system and Ensim's WEBppliance automation platform. Under the agreement, RackShack will immediately deploy approximately 1,000 ProLiant DL320 servers and purchase an ...
directNIC.com Introduces SiteCreator - 📅 - directNIC.com, a leading provider of domain registration and Web hosting services, announced on Tuesday the launch of its new SiteCreator service, designed to supply users with customized Web sites from a large collection of online templates.





The SiteCreator (sitecreator.directnic.com) solution, says directNIC offers a variety of customizeable templates based on specific categories of content and four separate color schemes for each template. With the means to preview a ...