April 28, 2011 – Cloud hosting provider Connectria announced on Thursday it is offering a trade-up program for those Amazon cloud customers who are displeased with their service.
Updates from April, 2011
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Web Host Connectria Offers Amazon EC2 Trade-Up Program
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DiscountASPNET Extends Hosted Team Foundation Server to Europe
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April 28, 2011 — Hosting and SaaS solutions provider DiscountASP.NET reported on Thursday that it is extending its hosted Team Foundation Server SaaS offering to Europe, delivered from a data center based in the UK.
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Verizon Develops New Metric to Measure its Carbon Efficiency
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April 28, 2011 – Telecommunications provider Verizon announced on Thursday it has developed a new metric for measuring carbon efficiency, which will allow the company to accurately quantify the impact of all of its green initiatives.
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Cloud Storage Firm Caringo Names Storage Veteran Its Marketing Head
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April 28, 2011 — Cloud storage technology firm Caringo announced this week that it had appointed industry veteran Adrian J. Hererra, formerly of cloud storage technology firm Nirvanix, as its senior director of marketing.
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HP Wins 25 Billion NASA Cloud Services Contract
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April 28, 2011 — IT services giant HP announced on Thursday that its enterprise services unit has been awarded a $2.5 billion services contract with NASA. In the fixed price deal, HP will provide end-user desktop services and devices that will “increase NASA’s efficiency and allow its employees to more easily collaborate in a secure computing environment”.
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Cloud Host Rackspace Extends Cloud Files CDN with CNAMES Support
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April 27, 2011 — Cloud hosting provider Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) announced today that, through a partnership with content delivery network operator Akamai (www.akamai.com), it has expanded the functions of its Cloud Files cloud storage offering by adding CDN support for CNAMES.
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Web Host Codero Launches Disaster Recovery Services
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April 27, 2011 — Web hosting provider Codero announced on Wednesday that it has launche a new service around developing customized off-site disaster recovery solutions, including design, deployment and management functions.
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Web Host Site5 Adds New Option to Host in Australia
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April 27, 2011 — Web hosting provider Site5 announced on Tuesday via its company blog that it has added a new data center location of Sydney, Australia.
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Web Host HostPapa Donates 10000 Trees in Earth Day Campaign
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April 27, 2011 — Web hosting provider HostPapa Green Web Hosting announced on Wednesday it has donated 10,000 trees to school children in Africa, Haiti and North America in celebration of last week’s Earth Day.
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FBIs Coreflood Botnet Seizure a Success So Far Reports
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April 27, 2011 — According to a post appearing on Wired’s excellent Threat Level security blog this week, the FBI’s new approach to taking down the enormous Coreflood botnet earlier this month has seen some success, with the Department of Justice reporting a significant drop in pings from the botnet since the takedown effort began.
