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Q&A: Sedo’s Simonetta Batteiger Discusses Partnership with Go Daddy

Justin Lee — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:06:38 +0000

February 6, 2012 -- With more than 15 million domains available in its marketplace, Sedo is, by far, the largest domain resale marketplace operator in the world. The company recently teamed up with domain registrar and hosting provider Go Daddy to greatly expand the SedoMLS partner network.

Q&A: Rackspace’s Suaad Sait Discusses His New Role as Chief Marketing Officer

Justin Lee — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:53:32 +0000

January 20, 2012 -- Earlier this month, cloud and web hosting provider Rackspace Hosting appointed Suaad Sait in the company's newly created position of chief marketing officer. Suaad is a technology marketing veteran of more than 20 years, serving in various marketing roles at Reachforce, Pervasive, Ventix, Liaison Technology and DAZEL.

Q&A: HP's Frances Guida and Eric Clark Discuss New Cloud Solutions

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:08:25 +0000

December 27, 2011 -- The past couple of years has seen HP hard at work developing new services and solutions under its cloud computing division. The company has integrated its HP CloudSystem with Alcatel-Lucent to provide networking solutions for service providers, in addition to HP CloudAgile Service Provider program, HP CloudSystem Matrix 7.0, HP Cloud Protection program, and HP Enterprise Cloud Services–Compute.

Q&A: Webfusion's Michael Follett Discusses His Senior Product Manager Role

Nicole Henderson — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:34:22 +0000

December 22, 2011 -- After spending nearly ten years at Namesco and Dada.pro, Michael Follett quietly made the transition to senior product manager for managed hosting at Webfusion in November through an update on his LinkedIn page and Twitter. Bringing extensive experience in managed dedicated hosting and product management, Follett says the transition has been smooth to his new role at Host Europe-owned Webfusion.

Q&A: Jamcracker’s Steve Crawford Discusses Cloud Services Aggregator Platform

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:04:58 +0000

December 16, 2011 -- The rapid growth of cloud technology has created the need for a marketplace where developers and providers are able to resell cloud services to enterprises and businesses.

Q&A: NGINX's Andrey Alexeev Discusses The Open Source Web Server

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:08:29 +0000

October 13, 2011 -- With major players Apache and Microsoft's IIS dominating the web server market with a combined share of nearly 80 percent, the rise of open source developer NGINX to become the third most popular web server is certainly intriguing.

Cloud Host ElasticHosts Updates its ElasticStack Cloud Platform Tool

Nicole Henderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:57:42 +0000

July 28, 2011 -- ElasticStack released version 2 of its cloud software platform on Thursday, addressing both scalability and hardware cost, which the company says makes it a good solution for web hosting providers looking to compete with Amazon EC2 or Rackspace cloud servers.

Q&A: GoGrid's Michael Sheehan and Mario Olivarez

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:24:52 +0000

January 12, 2011 -- The hybrid cloud model is becoming increasingly popular as many Web hosts are offering it as a standalone service among their existing portfolio of cloud and managed hosting products.

WHIR TV Interviews Shane Menking of Data Foundry

pjhile — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000

August 3, 2010 — Data Foundry president and chief financial officer Shane Menking talks to WHIR TV about breaking ground on the company’s 40 acre Data Ranch campus in Austin, Texas, August 3.

WHIR tv Interviews Hostway and Attracta

pjhile — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000

June 4, 2010 — Hostway co-founder and VP John Lee and Attracta VP Troy McCasland sit down with WHIR tv to discuss a partnership that will see Hostway distribute Attracta’s website SEO optimization tools to its customers, via a opt-out bundling approach.