Cyrus One Expands Dallas Data Centre

An announcement by collocation provider Cyrus One to expand its already existing data centre in Lewisville, Dallas from 80000 square feet by adding another 81000 square feet. This comes in the wake of previous announcements which Cyrus One made to expand its centre in Houston by adding to it another 25000 square feet. The centre in Houston was already a humongous 125000 square feet in size. Once this is completed, Cyrus One would be the owner of 5 facilities in Texas covering a total area of 31000 square feet.

IBM Launches Cloud Division, Strategy

IBM decided to take up the challenge against its cloud competitors by announcing the development of its cloud division on Wednesday. It further announced the initiation of a new cohesive cloud computing strategy.

IBM has decided to tie up with Amazon Web Services to offer to clients its innovative cloud software with new strategies such as “pay as you go” program. This plan will help clients to access knowledge and software in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Environment. This is not a new development for IBM as its past business partnerships show that it had made a $ 300 million investment for the development of 13 cloud computing centers in the month of November in 2008.

VERIO Partner Summit

Renowned web hosting provider held their annual viaVerio partner summit in March, from the 15th-17th, 2009. The summit will be organized at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia.

The basic aim of this summit will be to address the huge number of participants in the company reseller program and will help them by giving headers to grow their business in stringent economic conditions. The company also disclosed the primary topics which are going to be discussed which include search engine optimization, lead generation, virtual private servers and managed private servers.

Right Servers Deploys App-Logic Based Grid

3Tera- a leading grid hosting software developer on the global front, announced that Right Servers, a Canadian hosting provider has launched a new grid-based hosting service using 3Tera’s AppLogic cloud computing platform.

The aforementioned product will help Right Servers to offer a variety of services, including among them grid-based virtual private servers. The development of cloud computing was primarily done by 3Tera and it since then become a popular concept with technology executives and IT managers all over the globe. AppLogic is one of the best avenues which one can utilize for building cloud computing but apart from this, there are a lot of other options as well.

Afilias Launches Managed DNS Service

One of the leading names in the domain registry industry, Afilias announced the entry of one of its products in the market on Tuesday. It is a managed DNS service which is available for commercial purposes. Though the company is entering an already crowded market, it is doing so with a product which is very well developed, evident from the fact that it supports 15 registries. Furthermore, it also confirmed that Afilias provides support to more than 14 million domain names and has been in this business for a period spanning 8 years. The .me registry which forms a constituent part of Afilias’s product recently crossed the 200000 mark.