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The team at HostReview is proud to announce the opening of beta version of the fully redesigned web site to the public. We believe that the new format of presenting content and interacting with you, our readers, will create a more vibrant online community, dedicated to web hosting and internet technology issues.
Yahoo! GeoCities, the free web site service offering tools for early Internet surfers to publish their own web pages, closed its doors.
In the 1990s, when most hosting options were extremely expensive, GeoCities gave anyone the opportunity to build a custom web page for free and secure a small amount of virtual storage to keep their pictures and documents. Indeed, GeoCities’s free hosting space was the home for thousands of personal web pages and became perhaps the most significant virtual museum in the recent history.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft launched its Windows 7. This new windows operating system was developed more than 1.5 years ago. It is faster and much better than its predecessors, Windows XP and the little-loved Windows Vista, which seriously damaged the company’s reputation.
Vista turned into one of Microsoft's biggest lapses. The operating system that was initially pitched as a revolutionary evolution in computing, failed to gain the consumers after it became clear that Vista was sluggish, with poor security features and didn't work well with third-party software.
CA and VMware announced the results of a sponsored study investigating the impact of data centers virtualization. The study, conducted by the IT Process Institute (ITPI) in December 2008, identifies specific procedures and controls that should be considered to reduce risk as organizations virtualize business-critical systems and when production virtualization objectives beyond server consolidation evolve to high availability, disaster recovery, and dynamic resource management scenarios.
In the coming days the team at HostReview is planning to open up a preview of the new,fully revamped HostReview web site, and to gather your valuable feedback. But before its launch, we wanted to give you a little more background on this move.
HostReview has provided insights on the hosting industry for over ten years, since its launch in 1998. As web hosting is a rapidly shifting technology and understanding all the types of web hosting services is not an easy task, now the website is being updated to respond to all these changes and to suit the visitors' expectations:
HostReview had an opportunity to speak with Cameron Bahar, founder and CTO of cloud storage start-up ParaScale. In the interview, he discusses the market for cloud storage solutions, the current trends and the future of cloud computing, and much more.
Would you tell us a few words about yourself and your professional background? How long have you been involved in the cloud computing space?
On Monday, Microsoft introduced the new Office 2010 and Office Web Apps.
Google’s browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS obviously put a lot of pressure on Microsoft urging it to come up with something new. Microsoft responded to these challenges with the introduction of its Microsoft Office 2010, which is a free, web based version of Microsoft office.
HostReview very recently had an opportunity to speak with Mr. Horstmann, and asked him a few questions pertaining to his insights, and relevant to where our industry appears to be headed.
Which web hosting companies and related businesses operate the largest number of servers? Rackspace announced they had hit the 50,000 mark recently, and DatacenterKnowledge took the opportunity to determine who is in the same league. Three web hosting companies lead the pack: 1&1 Internet (55,000), Rackspace (50,038), and The Planet (48,500). They are followed by Akamai Technologies, OVH, SBC Communications, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and SoftLayer.
Sources are reporting that IBM is planning to acquire Sun, its rival in the computer server and software markets. According to the NYTimes, the price is nearly $7 billion. The merger will create a corporate entity, which owns some of the most recognizable software and hardware brands in the hosting and IT industries.
