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HP Wins Government Data Center Contract - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - The Defense Logistics Agency (http://www.dla.mil), a government agency that provides supply support, technical, and logistics services to the US military services and several federal civilian agencies, announced last Friday that it has selected Hewlett-Packard (http://www.hp.com) to migrate and host its Enterprise Data Center program. The EDC is an IT initiative designed to help DLA fulfill its mission to manage the logistics supply chain and better serve its customers.



HP will be helping the DLA ...

Web Host Inflow Plans Educational Forum - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - The Portland-based operations of Web hosting provider Inflow (http://www.inflow.com) announced on Monday it will host an educational forum on the topic of "Making the Grade in Web-Based Training" Tuesday, September 14th at the Inflow-Portland office. Registration begins at 5 p.m., with the program to follow at 6 p.m.



Web-based training experts from Nike Corporation and Kaiser Permanente will discuss how their companies are using Web-based training to maximum effectiveness. Specific ...

EMI Music Picks Rackspace Web Hosting - 📅 Sep 13, 2004 - Web hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com 👉 Total Reviews: 16
🙌 Average Rating: 3.3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 12
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Monday that it has signed a multi-year agreement with EMI Music North America. Under the deal, Rackspace's Windows hosting division Intensive Hosting (http://www.intensive.com) will host EMI's Blue Note, Capitol Records and Virgin Records' North American Web sites.



EMI says it wanted to consolidate its infrastructure from its multiple data center locations to a single service provider. The company chose ...

C I Host to Open San Jose Data Center - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Web hosting provider C I Host (cihost.com 👉 Total Reviews: 17
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 17
👈 Official Responses: 0) announced on Thursday that it will open its fourth data center, a 10,000 square-foot facility in San Jose, California, in November. The Texas-based host said the new facility will extend its foothold in the North American colocation market.



"Many of our customers house their equipment in at least two of our data centers for redundancy and geographic content distribution," says Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "We have received ...

DataPipe Scales Gas Buddy Web Hosting - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Web hosting provider DataPipe (datapipe.com) said it scaled operations recently to accommodate high traffic related to its client, GasBuddy.com. The heavily publicized Gas Buddy, which calls itself the ultimate portal for local gas price information, has real-time updated information on everything fuel related.



Users enter their zip codes to find the range of gas prices available in the area and the cheapest provider, compiled by thousands of volunteer gas price spotters ...

The webhost industry: week review - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - While there was plenty of interesting Web hosting news, even in this shortened week, the most prominent trend did not come from the Web hosting business itself, but from the market of products and services that surrounds Web hosting, as this week saw developments in the markets for domain registration, SSL security and hosting related software and hardware.

SSL security certificate specialist FreeSSL said on Tuesday that it would sell its 128-bit StarterSSL certificates for a ...

Yahoo! to Host Apprentice Web Site - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Internet portal and Web hosting provide Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) reportedly said late last week that it has entered into a deal to produce, host and sell advertising for the official Web site of NBC's "The Apprentice."



The agreement is with Mark Barnett Productions, the company responsible for producing The Apprentice. The deal runs for the second and third seasons of the show. The second season debuted last Thursday evening and the Yahoo!-hosted site went live earlier the same ...

Peak 10 Prepares for Hurricane Ivan - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Data center operator and managed Web hosting provider Peak 10 (peak10.com 👉 Total Reviews: 2
🙌 Average Rating: 6 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 0) said on Friday that it has successfully implemented a full-scale emergency management plan for Hurricane Ivan, which devastated Grenada and Barbados earlier this week and may hit the Florida Keys.



According to Peak 10, its emergency plan ensures five key functions. They include guarantees to work with customers to ensure disaster recovery plans are in place, provision of a secure facility, ...

Microsoft Releasing Virtual Server 2005 - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) is set to roll out Virtual Server 2005 next week, according to a report by Internet News, offering both a standard and enterprise edition of the virtualization software.



Virtualization software helps consolidate server deployments by allowing multiple instances of an operating system to run on a single server, with each instance or partition created by the software running exactly like a single standalone machine.

Virtualization software is ...

Spiderhost Withstands Hurricane - 📅 Sep 10, 2004 - Florida-based Web hosting provider Spiderhost (Spiderhost.com) announced on Friday that the company's data center remained online with power and connectivity at 100 percent capacity during and after Hurricane Frances last weekend. This marks the second catastrophic event that the Spiderhost data center has been able to withstand without sacrificing a second of uptime for its customers.



"We are extremely pleased that our customers were able to avoid any downtime as a result of ...