June 26, 2009 – There was a wide range of creative sales and promotions for the week ending June 26, including discounts in areas of web hosting including reseller hosting, online backup, web hosting tutorials, disaster recovery, and domains.
Updates from June, 2009
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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup
Web Hosting News
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ICANN Confirms Beckstrom's CEO Appointment
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June 26, 2009 — Confirming previous speculation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced on Friday it has named former US cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom its new CEO and president.
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Researcher Declares China Spam Crisis
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June 26, 2009 — The widespread availability of “bulletproof” hosting in China has made that country a haven for spammers, according to a blog post by University of Alabama researcher Gary Warner, referenced in a Friday article by PC World.
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BTR Uses Parallels Containers For Hosted Desktop
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June 26, 2009 — IT and business experience services provider BTR Associates has selected Virtualization and automation software provider Parallels’ operating system-level server virtualization software, Virtuozzo Containers, to help it deploy and manage its hosted virtual desktop offerings, which delivers machines on a network an operating system, applications and data on-demand from centrally managed servers.
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Tata and Telx Sign Colocation Partnership
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June 26, 2009 — Indian telecommunications giant Tata Communications announced on Friday it has signed a global agreement with data center provider Telx, where Tata will offer Telx customers complete colocation services in North America, India, EMEA and APAC.
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Michael Jackson's Death Triggers Online Spike
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June 26, 2009 — Internet users around the world flooded news sites and social media networks Thursday in an effort to confirm early reports of pop icon Michael Jackson’s death, triggering massive availability issues.
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i/o Data Centers Opens its Phoenix ONE Data Center
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June 26, 2009 — Data center solutions provider i/o Data Centers has officially opened its 538,000 square-foot Phoenix ONE data center, making it, reportedly, the largest commercially available data center in the US, with an area equivalent to nine football fields.
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Court Absolves Pirate Bay Trial Judge of Bias
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June 26, 2009 – A Swedish appeals court has ruled that the judge who sentenced four men to prison for operating free file-sharing site The Pirate Bay made the decision without bias despite his membership in several copyright protection organizations.
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Former Cyberchief Rumored to Head ICANN
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June 25, 2009 — Internet governing body ICANN is on the verge of announcing the new president and CEO, and some industry insiders point to Rod Beckstrom, the former US cybersecurity chief for the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Yahoo Reveals Data Center Efficiency Details
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June 25, 2009 — Among other major data center builders, Google and Microsoft, that have been known to maintain secrecy over their data center efficiency, the most secretive of them all, Yahoo, has revealed a number of innovations in cooling design and energy efficiency ratings, and they fall in the same ball park as its rivals, according to a Data Center Knowledge report.
