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October 23, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center operator Equinix announced on Wednesday plans to build two new data centers in London and Singapore.

October 23, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In support of its new cloud hosting strategy, Rackspace Hosting has acquired virtual private server provider Slicehost and cloud storage provider Jungle Disk, further extending the company's technology and services to cloud hosting.

October 23, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Having officially exited its beta period, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2), has entered development again, releaseing the first public beta of EC2 running Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server.

October 23, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The co-founder and chief architect of Sun Microsystems, Andreas von Bechtolsheim, is leaving the company to become chairman and chief development officer of Arista Networks, a Silicon Valley start-up that builds Ethernet switches.

October 23, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Discount Web host and registrar Go Daddy reports its Hosting Connection service averages more than 1,000 daily Web application installations including ones for photo albums, blogs and content management platforms.

October 23, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Data center operator and hosting provider RagingWire Enterprise Solutions announced on Thursday it has successfully completed the SAS 70 Type II audit for the fifth consecutive year.

October 23, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Online solutions provider Future Hosting has partnered with web site monitoring firm Pingdom to offer proactive server monitoring for managed virtual private servers customers.

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - October 23, 2008 - Provider of end-to-end web hosting solutions, Landis Holdings, in order to enhance customer service levels, increase product lines, maximize resources and provide new service offerings, has acquired web hosting solutions firm, Hosting Zoom. The deal also includes Reseller Zoom and modVPS, divisions of Hosting Zoom. Customers of Hosting Zoom will see immediate benefits with no impact on their hosting plans. Greg Landis, President of Landing Holdings remarked, ''We are proud to welcome the users of Hosting Zoom, Reseller Zoom and modVPS to the family. There will be zero impact to how existing customers conduct their business. We want to simply turn our focus inwards and look to invest in increasing support and development personnel immediately. JaguarPC and Hosting Zoom are already profitable so the goals are simple moving forward, leave what works alone and bring extra equipment online now in anticipa

Pakefield, United Kindgom - (The Hosting News) - October 23, 2008 - Web hosting services provider, EZPZ Hosting, has introduced the world's first carbon negative web hosting services, enabling customers to reduce the carbon footprint beyond neutral. EZPZ has taken the lead in this sector to become the world's first web hosting company to achieve Planet Positive status. Daniel Butcher, Director of EZPZ Hosting remarked, ''The obligation of corporate citizenship has been the driving force in our decision to become Planet Positive. We wanted to provide a green web hosting service to clients who not only wanted to receive robust web hosting services but also who want to make a meaningful contribution to our planet.'' Planet Positive is a global environmental mark of achievement, signifying that a business is taking active steps to reduce its impact on climate change. EZPZ has measured the carbon footprint of its business, made a commitment to reduce it on a

Saint Germain en Laye, France - (The Hosting News) - October 23, 2008 - Collaborative infrastructure and web hosting user provisioning and access control software provider, Ensim Corporation, has entered into a reseller partnership, with French-based messaging specialist, Solutions-Exchange. Under the terms of the agreement, Solutions-Exchange will sell and support Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition to its enterprise customer base in France. Patrice Russ, CEO of Solutions-Exchange noted, ''Messaging has become such an integral form of communication for almost any business, and our customers have come to lean on us a knowledgeable resource and specialist in this area. For this reason, we hold our vendors to the highest technology and business standards and are pleased to say that Ensim has met these standards with its Unify product by delivering the functionality and value that our customers have come to expect.'' Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition self-installs in less than one