March 28, 2011 – Managed hosting and data center provider Peak 10 announced on Tuesday that it has been recognized for the third consecutive year by the annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
Updates from March, 2011
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Web Host Peak 10 Wins Stevie for Customer Service Manager of the Year
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Web Host Intermedia Partners with Mozy for New Online Backup Service
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March 28, 2011 – Web hosting provider Intermedia announced last week that it has partnered with Mozy to create a new online backup service for small- and medium-sized enterprises. The new service will launch this week and is the company’s first “foray into backup” according to a report by Information Week.
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Lone Iranian Hacker Claims Responsibility for SSL Breach
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March 28, 2011 — According to several reports published Monday, a lone Iranian hacker has claimed responsibility for the Last week’s SSL certificate hack that targeted several major online communications tools, including Hotmail, Skype, Gmail and others. The hacker reportedly backed up the claim in a post on the document-sharing site Pastebin.
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SMB Adoption of Cloud Services on the Rise Microsoft Study
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March 28, 2011 — According to a study issued on Friday by software giant Microsoft 39 percent of small and medium-sized businesses expect to be paying for cloud services within the next three years, compared to the 29 percent that are doing so right now. Microsoft says the report, titled “SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011,” was outlines an opportunity for hosting service providers to benefit from selling cloud services into the SMB market.
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Mozilla Regrets Silence Over Stolen SSL Certificates
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March 28, 2011 – Open-source organization Mozilla regrets keeping mum about stolen SSL certificates last week, according to a report Friday by Computerworld. Hackers stole certificates from some of the Internet’s largest sites, including Google, Skype, Microsoft, Yahoo and its own add-on website.
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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup - March 25 2011
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March 25, 2011 – The first official week of spring ended with several web hosting promotions. The week ending on March 25, 2011, offered a discount on web hosting plans by Advanced Internet Technologies, coupons for Demowolf tutorials, a special offer on IndSoft.net domains and Easyspace has extended its 40 percent discount on .mobi domains.
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Web Host Codero Launches Cloud Beta
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March 25, 2011 – Web hosting provider Codero announced on Tuesday that it has launched its cloud hosting beta at “competitive” prices for the monthly and hourly billing terms.
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Symantec SSL Certificates Used by 70 Percent of Websites on Alexa Netcraft Survey
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March 25, 2011 – SSL certificate provider Symantec announced on Friday that its SSL certificates are found on more than 70 percent of the Internet’s top 1,000 websites, according to the March 2011 Alexa Netcraft Index.
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Indian Web Host ZNet Becomes Parallels Gold Partner
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March 25, 2011 – Parallels announced on Friday that Indian Web host ZNet has becomes a Gold Partner of the company. With this partnership, ZNet will provide shared web hosting and virtual private servers to businesses in India using Parallels Plesk Panel 10 and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.
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Cloud Host Voxel Raises 55 Million in Series A Funding Round
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March 25, 2011 – Cloud hosting provider Voxel announced on Thursday that it has completed a Series A $5.5 million capital raise led by Seaport Capital. This announcement follows Voxel’s appointment of Stephen Callahan to senior vice president of sales and marketing. According to the press release, this additional funding will provide Voxel with “capital to support increased sales activities and accelerate the deployment” of its solutions.
