October 29, 2010 — Forbes recently announced its listing of the Top 100 Best Small Companies in America, which saw appearances by Rackspace Hosting and a handful of other IT companies.
Updates from October, 2010
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Four IT Firms Make Forbes Top 100 Best Small Companies List
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Colocation Firm CoreXchange Names New Sales Executive
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October 29, 2010 — Colocation and managed services provider CoreXchange announced on Thursday that Susan Dobbs has joined the company’s team of sales professionals.
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Afilias JO Registry Demonstrate Arabic-Language Email
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October 29, 2010 — Internet infrastructure provider Afilias reported this week that it is, in partnership with the National Information Technology Center of Jordan, producing the first public demonstration of an email message between two internationalized email addresses in the Arabic language, using Afilias’s new IDN email technology and the IDN TLD from the .jo registry.
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Intel and IT End-Users Launch Open Data Center Alliance
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October 29, 2010 — Intel and several other large IT end-users announced on Wednesday they have formed the Open Data Center Alliance, a new industry group that seeks to “resolve key IT challenges and fulfill cloud infrastructure needs into the future by creating an open, vendor-agnostic Usage Model Roadmap.” As the technical advisor for the organization, Intel will which has an initial membership comprised of 70 companies.
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BackupAgent Says On-Demand Online Backup Service Reduces Churn Increases ARPU
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October 28, 2010 — At the Thursday Parallels EMEA Partner Forum in London, BackupAgent chief technology officer and co-founder Robbert van Geldrop said that his company can be an ideal partner for delivering online backup, which is an essential service for many (if not most or all) businesses whose data of any sort is valuable.
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Web Host Savvis to Provide Cloud Services for GSA Cloud Storefront
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October 28, 2010 — Savvis Federal Systems, a subsidiary of Savvis, announced on Thursday it has been awarded a contract by the US General Services Administration to provide cloud computing to federal, state, local and tribal government organizations.
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Neutral Tandem Launches New Control Panel for Ethernet Exchange
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October 28, 2010 — Interconnection services provider Neutral Tandem announced on Thursday it has launched its new, custom-developed online Web portal.
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Microsoft Exec Says Partnership is Key in Creating All-In-One IT Solutions
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October 28, 2010 — Bernie Franckel, who heads Microsoft’s partner hosting and cloud sales in the UK, said at Parallels EMEA Partner Forum in London that we’re currently in a period where businesses can get greater value out of their IT infrastructure, and where companies without capital, nor expertise, will be able to have their own IT services.
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Data Storage Corporation Names Executive Vice President
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October 28, 2010 — Data recovery and storage provider Data Storage Corporation announced on Wednesday it has appointed Peter Briggs the company’s executive vice president.
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Nimsoft Offers Survey to Assess Businesses IT Monitoring Readiness
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October 28, 2010 — Providing a quick way for clients to assess their readiness for monitoring cloud environments, unified monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft has launched a new online diagnostic tool. It also has added support for Cisco’s latest automated blade-server system infrastructure platform, Unified Computing System.
