(The Hosting News) – Competing cloud services could be on the way from two top industry leaders. On Thursday, a report from tech site GigaOM signaled that both Microsoft and Google were readying cloud services similar to Amazon’s Elastic Compute, a solution that provides web-scaling to applicati...

(The Hosting News) - Genious Communications (www.genious.net) is the first company to bring cloud hosting to Morocco with a new range of cloud and CDN services powered by OnApp software. Genious launched in 2003 and is the only ICANN accredited hosting provider in North Africa. Like many hosts, Ge...

(The Hosting News) - Company announces additional energy efficiency enhancements in compliance with its Green Program. Key Highlights: QTS announces the upcoming construction of solar power installation at its Richmond and Atlanta Data Centers. Anticipated solar power improvements will provide a...

(The Hosting News) – Domain.com, a global leader in domain registration and web hosting solutions, today announces the Domain.com “Next Great Idea” challenge launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, which kicks off this weekend with a 24-hour Hackathon, ha...

(The Hosting News) – Ireland’s number one domain registrar and hosting company also have the best business blog in Ireland. Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) took home the award for Best Business Blog at last night’s second annual Irish Social Media Awards (http://www.socialmediaaward...

One of the major concerns IT professionals often express regarding cloud computing is that their data is left in the hands the cloud service provider, often without any manageable offsite backup solution. Furthermore, some cloud providers rely on proprietary technology that prevents users from trans...

(The Hosting News) – NASA is planning to step away from its work with OpenStack, according to a recent report from data center news site DatacenterDynamics.com. The space agency developed the open source cloud IaaS alongside Rackspace Hosting. Open source cloud software available through OpenStack...

(The Hosting News) – Phoenix NAP®, a full service data center, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP), announced today that Yahoo Serious, LLC, a prominent back-end IT services provider, has selected the data center for its hosting needs. Th...

(The Hosting News) – Cirrus Tech Ltd., a Canadian web hosting company specializing in shared, VPS and cloud hosting services, announces the launch of its latest offering – Windows® Server Cloud Virtual Machine (VM) Hosting. Their VM plans are designed for users looking for a bare-metal...