Month of February, 2009
Google now provides users of its suite of hosted applications with a way to quickly check the status of Google Apps services. The new Google Apps Status Dashboard tells you whether a given Apps service is down for everyone, or just for you. A very timely launch by Google, after a couple of hours of Gmail outage nearly caused an online panic yesterday.
This week Rackspace Hosting unveiled a free online tool, which helps businesses estimate their carbon footprint. The carbon calculator takes into account all aspects of operation--commute, shipping, number of servers, etc. Developed in copperation with Native Energy--an international provider of carbon offsets and emission reductions, the service is the latest addition to Rackspace's Greenspace initiative, which promotes green technology in the data center and energy efficiency.
In this exclusive interview, we talk to David Preston, Marketing Development Manager of Awardspace.
Please tell us about yourself and your position in the company.
I am Marketing Development Manager for Awardspace.com and have been working for the company for over 2 years now. I am responsible for the marketing strategy of all services and work on the business development with close cooperation with our CEO Dimitar Dimitrov. Apart from my current position I also have 10 years of experience in the field of sales and marketing mainly in the field of online business.
Today Microsoft and Red Hat announced a visualization interoperability deal. Red Hat is the most popular open source brand on the server and a leading Linux distro; Microsoft needs no introduction. The two companies will cooperate based on an open set of standards, and stay away from restrictive patents--the detail that is said to have torpedoed Novell with the open-source community.
Recent news publications and industry events have revealed important details about IBM's cloud platform. IBM's Blue Cloud Initiative has enlisted new clients and will partner with Juniper to develop new technology for its 13 global cloud centers.
Mr. Steve Hall, from the Furniture Depot in Louisville, KY, is the winner in DevStart's Annual Awards Poll giveaway. He voted in the Web Hosting Category of our Readers' Choice Award, and selected SiteGround as his web hosting company of choice. His number was selected by a random number generator.
From the first computers, to ARPANET, to today's web -- this video tracks the early history of the Internet. Excellent narration and stylish minimal graphics. Video after the jump.
What's one of the newest trends in Web hosting? Full-featured Website creation and hosting solutions that downplay the need for separatedesign and hosting functions altogether.
In the beginning, there was the command line. And then Amazon Web Services's EC2 solution could be configured and controlled using a number of in-house and third-party GUI (Graphical User Interface) tools. Enter the free browser add-on Elastic Fox, the commercially distributed applications RightScale and Elastra, and finally, Amazon's own AWS (Amazon Web Services) Management Console.
