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October 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- web hosting provider Aplus.Net announced on Tuesday it has named Rod Siemers the company's chief financial officer.

October 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM announced it has launched new cloud-enabled services to help companies more easily adopt cloud computing models for the purposes of better managing data, lowering operational costs and simplifying collaboration across the enterprise.

October 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Inter-dealer broker ICAP will expand its premium connectivity "i-Cross" service to the 24 megawatt London-Slough internet Business Exchange data centre operated Equinix, delivering premium service to customers by the end of the year.

October 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Technology giant IBM announced on Friday it plans to build a new data center at its Greenock, Scotland facility to provide colocation services to medium-sized organizations.

October 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- web hosting provider iWeb Group announced on Tuesday it has made key changes in the company's management structure.

October 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Load balancer and application delivery controller provider KEMP Technologies has announced it has received a passing grade for its products deployed in schools from kindergarten to university, delivering secure and reliable web services.

October 7, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT management software provider CA has launched its Data Center Automation Manager r11.2, which promises to increase data center responsiveness, performance and cost-effectiveness by providing intelligent resources management.

Pasadena, California - (The Hosting News) - October 7, 2008 - ASP.net hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET, has introduced Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 on its Windows 2008 hosting platform. Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing at DiscountASP.NET noted, ''Delivering on our goal to provide customers with maximum control over their hosting environment, we now offer a powerful URL Rewrite feature on our Windows 2008 hosting platform. We are sure that this feature will be a popular tool, especially in enabling search engine friendly URLs for dynamic applications.'' The URL Rewrite Module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for manipulating requested URLs before they are processed by the web server. This module can make rewriting decisions based on server variables and HTTP headers, and can also handle logic that use regular expressions. In addition, the new module can perform redirects, send custom responses, and abort requests. As a Microsoft G

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 7, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has added Global Server Load Balancing to its portfolio of on-demand data center solutions. Providing customers with a highly redundant fail-over solution that also helps decrease the distance between content and its final destination, the solution is designed to improve service reliability and content delivery. Jacob Linscott, Director of Information Systems at SoftLayer noted, ''This is the power of our seamless infrastructure and geographic diversity intertwined. Regardless of their size or business, any of our customers can use it to improve their availability and performance. We are proud to continually find more ways to leverage our unique advantages to create industry-leading, enterprise-class services.'' The Global Server Load Balancing service stores content and applications in a cluster of s

Ann Arbor, Michigan - (The Hosting News) - October 7, 2008 - web hosting provider, A2 Hosting, has debuted the launch of its FutureServe Green Hosting, designed to protect and improve ecological conditions for current and future generations. A2 Hosting applies a number of global protection practices in everyday actions. According to the company, FutureServe isn't just about providing carbon neutral hosting solutions to help the fight against global warming and climate change. FutureServe Green Hosting can be broken down into three distinct, but interrelated divisions. These divisions are: A2 Hosting's Carbon Offsets Employee Eco Protection Practices Hosting Equipment Energy Reduction In association with the United State's leading carbon reduction and offset organization, Carbonfund.org, A2 Hosting is strongly committed to offsetting its server emissions. The objective of its Carbon offsets is to balance its web servers' release of carbon dioxide by using a