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News Roundup: HostingCon 2011
August 10th, 2011 : Rich Miller
HostingCon 2011 is underway in San Diego, and this year's event is reportedly the largest yet. Here's a review of some of the news highlights thus far: Read More
Did The Web Just Grow By 100 Million Sites?
August 5th, 2011 : Rich Miller
One of the leading benchmarks of Internet growth has shown a huge change this month. The monthly Netcraft Web Server Survey for August detected 463 million sites, an increase of more than 104 million sites from the July survey. That's a one-month gain of about 29 percent. Read More
Web.com Buys Network Solutions
August 3rd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Can a roll-up of marquee brands from the early days of the Web remain relevant in the age of cloud computing and social media? Web.com today said it would acquire hosting and domain provider Network Solutions in a deal valued at about $560 million. Read More
Telco Buying Spree Continues as Windstream Acquires PAETEC
August 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller
Telecom companies continue to buy larger data center operations. Today Windstream Corp. said it will acquire telecom and data center service provider PAETEC Holding Corp. in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $2.3 billion. Read More
Go Daddy Launches Cloud Hosting Plans
July 27th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Domain registrar Go Daddy today is officially launching its 4th Generation Web hosting (4GH), which uses a cloud environment to offer improved performance to its 9.4 million customers. Read More
Investment Firms Acquire Go Daddy
July 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller
Go Daddy said today that it a definitive agreement to "receive a strategic investment and enter into a partnership" with KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). Other accounts say the domain and hosting company was acquired by the investors for $2.25 billion. Read More
Dimension Data Acquires OpSource
June 30th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Dimension Data has acquired enterprise cloud specialist OpSource, which will become part of a new Cloud Solutions Business Unit at Dimension Data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More
Go Daddy & The Power of Uncloudy Infrastructure
June 27th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Amid growing enthusiasm for cloud computing, reports of a $2 billion buyout offer for Go Daddy provides a reminder of the enduring value of uncloudy infrastructure and hosting services. Read More
Cloud News: Hostway, Citrix, Fujitsu, Nimsoft
June 22nd, 2011 : John Rath
Hostway expands Tampa facility with FlexCloud, Citrix invests in Core Mobile Networks, Fujitsu announces Engineering Cloud, Nimsoft selected by Denovo. Read More