Apr, 2016 : vCloud Launched by LeaseWeb in Asian Market

📅 Apr 22, 2016 - Insightly Received $25 Million Investment - Insightly, a cloud-based customer relationship management company, recently received a $25 million investment to bring their series C round of funding to a total of $40 million. The investment included Scott Bommer of SAB Capital with other investors including Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Emergence Capital Partners and Sozo Ventures.

Insightly is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was originally established in 2009. They offer solutions including bringing together project management tools and CRM data on the ...

📅 Apr 21, 2016 - Intel Recently Announced They will be Downsizing - Intel, a PC chipmaker has announced a major downsizing they will go through due to the downtrend of PC sales. They will be laying off about 11% of the total number of employees by the middle of next year. This announcement comes after they lost about 5,000 staff members at the beginning of 2014 due to downsizing. The company is expected to save about $750 million from the layoffs and will be restructuring.

Intel was established in 1968 and its' head offices are found in Santa Clara, California. The company creates processing chips for PCs. The downsizing will mean as many as 12,000 people will be laid off and the company will be refocusing on cloud computing and IoT ...

📅 Apr 21, 2016 - Mark Thiele Decides to Join Cloud Startup - Mark Thiele, a very well-known data center guru, has decided to join Apcera, a cloud technology startup. He was the executive vice president of ecosystem development for Switch, which is responsible for some of the largest data center campuses in the world.

Along with joining Apcera, Thiele is the founder and president of Data Center Pulse, which is a non-profit in charge of promoting the use of the best practices between companies and data center ...

📅 Apr 22, 2016 - 5 Reasons Web Hosting Companies Should Use Social Media - Think the web hosting industry doesn't need social media?

You might be wrong about that. Although most of the web hosting industry is content to operate quietly, drawing in new customers here and there, you want to grow your business and start creating buzz online. Getting on social media is the way to do it.

Here are 5 reasons web hosting companies should use social media.

1. Connects you with new leads

There's no better way to connect with new leads than through social media! This is where your audience is already hanging out. Go to the networks they prefer most–that could be Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.–and engage in meaningful discussions with them. Don't just promote and post ...

📅 Apr 22, 2016 - Microsoft Makes Up with Customers with a Full Year of Office 365 - Many of Microsoft's customers were impacted by the changes to their free cloud storage availability. In an effort to make up with those clients, Microsoft has offered any impacted customers one year of Office 365 free of charge. This was sent out in an email to customers recently.

The company had reduced the storage for OneDrive from 15 GB to 5 GB free las year. The decision was later reversed, but some customers were still impacted. The free Office 365 subscription comes with 1 TB of OneDrive ...

📅 Apr 22, 2016 - HostingCon Accepting Exhibitor Applications - via HostingCon

If you're in the web hosting industry, this upcoming event might interest you.

HostingCon, taking place July 24-27 in New Orleans this year, is accepting Exhibitors for the event. HostingCon attracts technology and web hosting executives as well as small business owners each year.

Last year, they reported more than 150 Exhibitors and attendees from more than 45 countries around the world. This year, they expect to break those records. You can find more information about signing up for HostingCon 2016 ...