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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?

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.

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.

Ever looking for insightful views on the topics of internet technology and business, HostReview conducted an exclusive head-to-head interview with executives from two major web hosting companies. Our topic was web hosting trends 2009: what does the year hold for the web hosting industry and its clients? We talk to John Lee, Senior Vice President of Small Business Hosting, with Hostway, and Urvish Vashi, General Manager, Dedicated Hosting, with The Planet. Both companies have strong, and well deserved, presence in our Annual Web Hosting Awards listings.

1&1 Internet recently launched a new green data center in Lexena, Kansas. The new facility provides space for 40,000 servers and makes it possible to have equal latency for both the East and West coasts by being in the middle of major traffic areas. The company said Kansas City is one of the safest locations to have a data center because the risk of black/brownouts is minimal. 1&1 will also be purchasing purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)to match the electricity used at the datacenter.
We talk to Mr. Thorsten Ziegler, Head of 1&1's new U.S. Data Center.

The Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers (AIHSP) launched at this year's HostingCon in Chicago. Its purpose was announced as "serving the shared interests of providers and vendors in the Web hosting and Internet services industry." In a video interview, Paul Hirsch, president of the AIHSP Founding Committee, provides more insight about the organization.
Video after the jump.

Recently Rackspace announced the results of their second annual green technology customer survey, the completion of an energy-efficient data center, a second annual GreenDay for employees, and an expanded partnership with NativeEnergy to reduce the company’s carbon footprint. We talk to Mr. John Engates, CTO, Rackspace Hosting, about the company's latest green hosting initiatives.

Recently, Layered Technologies announced that the company became the first hosting provider to launch dedicated servers running Microsoft Windows 2008 and Hyper-V. In this exclusive interview, we talk to Mr. Todd Abrams, COO & President of the company, about the challenges and promises of virtualization technology.

HostReview: How long have you been in the webhosting business?

Con Zwinkels:We now manage more than 11,000 servers and I started with only one in 1997. Many of our clients from those early years still use our services to their full satisfaction.