Lamar Smith to remove controversial DNS blocking stipulation from SOPA

Author of the highly debated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), has agreed to remove a controversial section in the bill that blocks foreign websites accused of infringing copyrights or committing acts of Piracy, the

Don’t Be Fooled: Leahy Is NOT Removing DNS Blocking Provisions, Merely Delaying Them
We’ve already written about Senator Leahy’s decision to delay the implementation of DNS blocking in PIPA. Unfortunately, despite the clear words in the announcement, it appears that Leahy’s staff is going around suggesting to the press that this

Lamar Smith Follows Leahy’s Steps With Plans To Delay DNS Implementation In SOPA
Well this is hardly a surprise given the trial balloons floated on Wednesday and Senator Leahy’s announcement yesterday, but Rep. Lamar Smith has now said that, like Leahy, he wants to delay the implementation of DNS blocking within SOPA until

New Sandia DNSSEC Visualization Tool Simplifies DNS Security for IT Managers
The progress has been slow and painful, but network managers for government sites on the Internet are on their way to implementing Domain Name System Security Extensions, which is a system for providing authenticated Domain Name System information for IP

BRIEF: BNI Java Chapter will meet this morning [El Paso Times, Texas]

(El Paso Times (TX) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 21–The BNI Java Chapter will have its networking meeting today. Speakers will be Terry Vargas, owner of Rapid Refill; and Randy Mitchell, owner of Paul Davis Emergency Services. The event

Bad code plagues business applications, especially Java ones
A new study examining 365 million lines of code in 745 applications identifies bad coding practices that affect security, performance and uptime, with Java Enterprise Edition applications having the greatest number of problems. Cast Software, which makes

JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment
Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment makes it easy to deploy a web application

Web Host 1&1 Reveals Top 10 Sectors Launching a Website in Past Months

1&1 Internet Ltd., a global leader amongst Web hosting providers, today revealed interesting results from its launch campaign for 1&1 MyWebsite – an easy online application that creates an attractive and highly-tailored business website in minutes….

Juniper Networks Announces The Date And Webcast Information Of Upcoming Investor Event For December 2011
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced the company will present at the Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference on Thursday, December 8, 2011 beginning at 8:15 a.m. PST (Pacific Standard Time).This…

Free Online Event For Service Providers To Discuss Criteria For Selecting Email Platform
Open-Xchange CEO, Rafael Laguna, will join market research firm Radicati Group and a panel of email platform experts to discuss key trends in the evolution of email platforms.The free web conference, ‘Email Platforms for Service Providers’ (http://www.radicati.com/?p=7845)…

Web Hosting Provider Easyspace Launches 7 Day Countdown To .XXX General Availability
Easyspace, one of the UK’s largest web hosting companies, is urging customers to ‘get in quick’ if they want to secure the .XXX top level domain before it goes on general sale a week from today. The General Availability phase for the new adult top…

8×8 Makes Cloud Computing Accessible to All Businesses With New Windows Cloud Server Hosting Solution
8×8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), provider of innovative cloud communications and computing solutions, today announced the availability of its new Windows Cloud Server hosting solution. Now, businesses of all sizes on Windows-based networks have a cost-effective,…

Virtual Internet’s VI Cloud Hosting Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud Powered Validation
Virtual Internet, a leading provider of high availability hosting solutions for mission critical websites and applications, today announced that its VI Cloud Hosting public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers…

Growth in Cloud Doubles iomart Group Pre-Tax Profits
iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), the cloud computing and managed hosting services company, has reported a rise in both revenue and pre-tax profits in its half yearly results.The Group announced a 36% growth in revenue to £15.4m (H1 2011: £11.4m) and an…

SunGard Availability Services and University of Texas at Austin Partner To Create Cloud Computing Research

SunGard Availability Services today announced a partnership with the University of Texas at Austin to create a Cloud Computing Research Center. Through the partnership, SunGard and UT Austin will jointly identify relevant and unsolved research problems…

Varonis Joins the NetApp Alliance Partner Program
Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, today announced that it has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. The collaboration between Varonis and NetApp provides enterprises worldwide with an integrated…

Windstream To Open Downtown Rochester Office
Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) announced today it plans to open an office in Rochester’s Midtown Project site that can accommodate up to 335 employees following the completion of its acquisition of PAETEC Holding Corp. Additionally, Windstream also announced…

Web Host SoftLayer and RightScale Team Up to Accelerate Management of Workloads Across Cloud Infrastructures
SoftLayer Technologies, the innovation leader in cloud, dedicated, and managed hosting solutions, and RightScale, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management,today announced that the companies are developing the ability to manage and deploy SoftLayer…

Rservers Announces Fully-Managed Backups Featuring R1Soft’s Enterprise-Class CDP Software
Rservers, a managed solutions provider announced the addition of a fully-managed backup service featuring R1Soft’s all-new industrial strength Continuous Data Protection (CDP) 3.0 technology. With this new premium offering, Rservers clients including…

Best Server Backup Strategies By Handy Backup Acquire Social Significance

Novosoft, a company specializing in software development and IT consultancy, reported that Handy Backup Server, a utility for network workstation backup, tends to become notably more common among socially oriented companies. Among the most recent partnerships…

SKGOLD Hosting Announces Launch of SEO-Enabled Web Hosting Powered By Attracta
SKGOLD Hosting announces the launch of SEO-enabled web hosting powered by Attracta’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools. These tools are now incorporated into SKGOLD’s web hosting control panel (cPanel) and are extremely user-friendly. Customers…

Novosoft Presents Backup to Amazon S3 among Cloud Storage Features of Office Backup

Novosoft, an acclaimed provider of software solutions for home and business data backup, announced that Office Backup, the automatic backup software known for being powerful yet clear-cut, now supports backup to Amazon S3. With the functionality for…

Enhancements on Web Host Codero.com Make Choosing Hosting Package Easier
With ease of navigation in mind, Codero revamped its website enhancing functionality and comfort for the shopping experience. The site is now more product-focused so visitors can find the information they need faster when selecting their hosting infrastructure.The…

Managed Hosting Provider Peak 10 Positioned For Continued Growth By Expanding Management Team
Peak 10 Inc., a managed services and cloud provider with world-class data centers, announced today the expansion of its management team. Over the past few months the company has added new executive positions and promoted several of its longtime, rock…

North Plains Chooses Web Host Layered Tech To Host TeleScope OnDemand Digital Asset Management Solution
Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading global provider of compliant hosting, managed dedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing services, today announced that North Plains, LLC (North Plains) has chosen Layered Tech’s…

Spanish Web Hoster Acens Partners with Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange, the leading supplier of business-class email for cloud providers, today announced an agreement with Acens, one of Spain’s largest web hosting service providers, to bring cloud-based business email and collaboration capabilities.Acens will…

Web Hosting Provider Memset Announces Hitched.co.uk Moves Its Hosting Back To The UK
Hitched.co.uk, the UK’s most popular wedding website, has today announced that it is moving its website hosting back to the UK after having hosted it in the US for the past 12 years.Hitched.co.uk, which every month is visited by about 300,000 unique…

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer to Offer Microsoft WebMatrix to Its Customers
SoftLayer Technologies, an innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed hosting, today announced that the company is making the Microsoft WebMatrix development platform available to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 users. WebMatrix is an all-inclusive,…

i/o Taps IT Industry Leader As New Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

i/o Data Centers, the leading provider of digital energy technology, today announced the appointment of Anthony J. D’Ambrosi in the newly created global role of Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Mr. D’Ambrosi is responsible for driving the company’s…

Managed Hosting Provider Layered Technologies Extends Complete Compliance Offering into Dallas and Chicago Data Centers

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading global provider of compliant hosting, managed dedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing services, is expanding its PCI Compliant footprint by further hardening its already highly…

Web Hosting Provider Cirrus Tech Provides Business Class Email and Collaboration Services
Cirrus Tech has announced the availability of Open-Xchange webmail and groupware services available to new and existing clients. Earlier this year, Cirrus Tech had partnered up with Open-Xchange to offer clients with a low-cost business class email solution.Open-Xchange…

Web Hosting Provider Virtual Internet Launches ‘On-Demand’ Virtual Data Centers

Virtual Internet has announced a new cloud package called Virtual Data Centers which allow IT managers to virtualise their infrastructure “on-demand” via the Internet.The new self-service package allows managers to slice and dice…

R1Soft to Demo Cloud Backup Software at Parallels Summit 2011
On location in Orlando, Florida for the 2011 Parallels Summit, R1Soft, developer of backup and disaster recovery software for Windows and Linux servers in the Cloud, will exhibit for the first time its Continuous Data Protection (CDP) 3.0 Enterprise…

Montenegro To Host Opening of 2011 Web Fest .ME Registry to Sponsor 4th Annual Conference & Contest Honoring Web Innovations
The .ME Registry is proud to announce that Montenegro will host the opening of the 2011 Web Fest, South Eastern Europe’s largest Internet conference. The event, sponsored this year by the .ME Registry, opens Sept. 22 and remains open through November….

Internet Service Provider Zen Internet is Awarded Which? Recommended Broadband Provider Once Again
Zen Internet, one of the UK’s leading independent Internet Service Providers (ISP), has been awarded Recommended Broadband Provider status by Which? topping the satisfaction tables once again.Zen’s Recommended Broadband Provider status revealed five…

Web Hosting Provider iWeb’s First Quarter Marked by Growth and Investment
iWeb (TSXV: IWB), a global provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, today released its financial results for the first quarter (Q1) of its fiscal 2011, quarter ended December 31, 2010.First Quarter Highlights: – 17% increase in revenues,…

Total Server Solutions Joins with EWD Hosting and Colo
Technical services provider Total Server Solutions, has announced it has joined forces with EWD Hosting and Colo@ in a merger. Total Server Solutions is a technical support, managed server, and managed support corporation with many years of experience…

Web Hosting Provider UK2 Launch Cloud Hosting
UK2 have started 2011 by launching a very impressive cloud hosting platform. This powerful cloud based infrastructure means that a number of improvements & upgrades have been made to the hosting packages across UK2′s product suite. Cloud hosting…

Managed Hosting Provider Peak 10 Among First to Complete Company-wide SSAE 16 Audit
Peak 10 Inc., a managed services company with world-class data centers, is pleased to announce it has successfully completed a company-wide audit of its data center and managed services operations. The audit was performed by Brightline Certified Public…

HOB Debuts Latest Version of Java-Based RDP Client for Windows Terminal Servers at RSA Conference 2011 – PR Inside

today announced the debut of its HOBLink JWT : (Java Windows Terminal) client — version 3.3. HOBLink was founded in New Jersey in April 2000 and is currently headquartered in Hawthorne, NY. HOB GmbH & Co. KG is a mid-sized German software enterprise

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DriveLetterView, Manage Windows Drive Letters – Ghacks Technology News
DriveLetterview is compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 to Windows 7 including the server variants that have been released in that time.

Windows Phone 7 Upgrade, Online Video Viewing and Jeopardy Challenge – ABC News
Microsoft says it hopes to connect phones running on its Windows Phone 7 software to the Xbox The other human, Ken Jennings, had $2,000. Watson was far from perfect – after Jennings gave a wrong answer, the computer gave the same incorrect response.

Technical Support Analyst – Windows, Exchange, Active Directory – Silicon.com
The company servers run on Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 – Strong interpersonal and customer service skills – Strong written and oral communication skills – Awareness of security considerations – Ability to follow defined processes – Experience using MS

Microsoft Case Study: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise – LUKoil Baltija R – Microsoft Case Study
The company’s data center was located in the basement of the head office in Riga. Here, nine rack-mounted servers, running either the Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 operating system, supported the company’s operations. “It was a simple

myGPcloud Launches Windows Mobile Application – TMCnet
“We’re very excited to support new and innovative offerings from our ERP partners, and Rose Business Solutions continues to lead the way with this new Windows Phone 7 application Rose Business Solutions. Since 2000, it has hosted systems for small

Server Cloning Software Helps Transfer and Protect Data on Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 – TMCnet
NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — EASEUS Todo Backup, the award-winning and cost-effective server backup and disaster recovery solution for the Windows environment, now features hard disk/partition clone capability to simplify the

Acer unveils tablets to run Windows, Android – IDG NEWS
Configurations running Windows and Android will be offered Initially, it will offer 8 million songs, 2,000 movies and 1,500 music videos, as well as some games and applications. With these devices, Acer is seeking to take a bite out of the tablet

Microsoft ISA 2000 Server buy cheap – PRLog (free press release)
Built for the Windows 2000 platform, ISA Server provides secure and fast Internet connectivity with powerful integrated management tools. ISA Server can provide value to information technology managers, network administrators and information- security

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