MYOB Buys Aussie's SmartyHost / Australian accounting and small business application provider MYOB (myob.com.au) announced on Wednesday it has acquired web hosting provider SmartyHost (smartyhost.com.au), further building on its expansion into the web hosting and Internet marketing services field.
Earlier this year, MYOB launched its web hosting services following its acquisition of web hosting provider Ilisys in Februar ...
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IBM to Build 13 DR Centers / IBM (ibm.com) announced on Wednesday that it will be investing $300 million this year to build 13 "cloud computing" data centers, with a particular focus on providing disaster recovery services to its global customer base.
The technology giant says it will be building the facilities in 10 countries, including China, Japan, Turkey, Poland, France and the US.According to reports on Data Center ...
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Firefox 3 Rejects Self-Signed SSLs / While expired and self-signed SSL certificates may have warrented yellow flags in Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer, the latest Firefox will scare away users from SSL-carrying sites unless they are certified by a third party, causing controversy as users are blocked from popular sites like Google and LinkedIn.
Reported by BetaNews (betanews.com) and other sources, Modzilla began cracking down ...
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Momentum Buys BroadSpire Division / Canadian managed hosting and colocation services provider Momentum Advanced Solutions (momentum.com) announced on Wednesday it has acquired the IT hosting division of web hosting provider BroadSpire (broadspire.com).
Momentum purchased the IT hosting business for $2.66 million before transaction costs with $1.7 million in cash on closing and the remaining balance in a note payable over 24 mon ...
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ICANN to Hold Auctions for Disputes / International Internet regulation body ICANN (icann.org) announced this week that it will handle any disagreements over who wins the right to new generic top level domains by auction.
The organization said that it will hold auctions in the event that two organizations competing for the right to a gTLD are tied on other fronts.In June, ICANN said that it would put an end to the number restrict ...
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3PAR Stores Demand Media's Data / Web 2.0 social media company Demand Media (demandmedia.com) has chosen utility storage provider 3PAR (3par.com) to support its rapidly growing social media business by providing flexible infrastructure, storage scalability and capacity utilization over the data lifecycle.
According to 3PAR's announcement Tuesday, Demand Media has deployed multiple 3PAR InServ Storage Servers, paired with 3PAR ...
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