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November 3, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports over the weekend, a power failure at Verizon in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, left thousands unable to access their websites on Saturday after the provider's generator failed to kick in.

November 3, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Known as one of the first companies to successfully offer Software as a Service, Salesforce has unveiled Force.com Sites, which will allow customers to run their Web sites on salesforce.com's existing cloud infrastructure.

November 3, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- web hosting provider Network Solutions announced on Monday it has added hosting support for open source programming framework Ruby on Rails Application Manager.

November 3, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- internet solutions provider Sitestar announced on Monday it has purchased the Internet related assets of DONOBi Internet Services, which offers dial-up, DSL, high-speed fiber optic internet, web hosting and colocation services.

November 03, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hewlett-Packard's Green Business Technology initiative is upholding its environmentally friendly reputation with additions to its Thermal Logic portfolio, which include power-capping server technologies and energy-efficiency services.

November 3, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Online software and hardware retailer Softchoice has added ENERGY STAR search functionality to its online store, making it the first of its kind to compare IT hardware based on energy efficiency.

November 3, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Gartner Research says there is an increasing need for data center managers to update their facilities or they run the risk of doubling their energy costs between 2005 and 2011, according to reports by PC World.

San Antonio, Texas - (The Hosting News) - November 3, 2008 - Hosting services provider, Rackspace, has awarded this year's winner of The Fanati honors, the company's outstanding customer service award, honoring the one customer that has best demonstrated excellent customer centricity. Graham Weston, Chairman of Rackspace remarked, ''As the home of Fanatical Support, we wanted to know how our customers approach customer service in their respective industries. As a company whose mission is to become one of the world's greatest service companies and which is a two-time winner of the American Business Awards' 'Best Customer Service Organization,' we believe we are experts on customer service. Through the nomination process, we saw many of our own customers that take a similar approach to customer service and we're glad to be able to recognize the one that stood out the most.'' Pangea Foundation delivers Impact Visualization On Demand(TM) to nonprofits of all sizes. As an industr

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - November 3, 2008 - Shared, reseller, colocated, dedicated and VPS hosting solutions firm, ServerPoint, has added Time Warner as a network backbone provider, with multiple gigabytes of additional bandwidth capacity. Erik Johnson, CTO at ServerPoint remarked, ''Redundancy and reliability remain a top priority as our company grows, and we see it as strategically important to ensure our datacenter is widely connected and capable of hosting the next generation of Web applications. Time Warner is an important addition that we have been planning for a number of months, and is among a series of new backbones we are adding.'' The addition of Time Warner ultimately provides additional redundancy and ensures greater reliability of ServerPoint's network. Redundancy is important for enterprise datacenters to help guarantee robust performance in the event of an outage of a single or multiple backbone providers. ServerPoint now

San Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - November 3, 2008 - Compliance, disaster recovery and data protection solutions firm, SonaSafe, has developed an Email Archiving Solution, designed to enable customer regulatory compliance and eDiscovery requirement satisfaction. Sonasoft Corp.'s new Email Archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange server, was developed as an affordable and easy to use solution specifically designed for addressing the pain points of SMB customers. Email has been growing at the rate of 40% every year and managing emails has become very complex. Microsoft Exchange Server is not only being used as an email server, it is also being used as document repository and management system. Businesses are being increasingly asked to retrieve emails during litigation. Also Companies need to comply with regulatory compliance requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA. According to Sarbanes-Oxley, public companies must keep all documents and communications for s